For some years now many parents in the US and elsewhere have been wary of the various novel educational programs dedicated to gender identity. Their concerns that new notion of gender being a perceptive, rather than biological, characteristic was misleading and potentially damaging to their children were mocked by the "woke" crowd.
But now it is taking shape in New Jersey and it looks concerning for sure:
Starting in September, New Jersey first-graders will learn about gender identity under new sex education guidelines. Parents received sample lesson plans at a Westfield Board of Education meeting in February; one read, “You might feel like you’re a boy even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘girl’ parts. You might feel like you’re a girl even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘boy’ parts. And you might not feel like you’re a boy or a girl, but you’re a little bit of both. No matter how you feel, you’re perfectly normal!”
I really have little to add. Just to illustrate the anomaly of the above allow me to rewrite the above from the perspective of an individual imagining themselves to be a dog:
“You might feel like you’re a dog even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘human’ parts. You might feel like you’re a dog even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘human’ parts. And you might not feel like you’re a dog or a human, but you’re a little bit of both. No matter how you feel, you’re perfectly normal!”
Sounds crazy? Well, it is. Because if you are born a girl you will never be a fully functional male, not any more than you would ever turn into a dog if you happened to have been born a human. But if I were say that as a teacher in many of today's America's classrooms I would likely not keep that job for long because that would be closing the window into unreality the systems encourages children to climb into.
In a free society, as an adult you are free to perceive reality any way you see fit so long as you don't practice violence against others. But isn't it a travesty to mislead our children into accepting unreality as the norm?
References
NJ gender identity lessons for first-graders prove parents were right to worry
Karol Markowicz, New York Post, 10 April 2022