In its continuing quest to transform the mission of America’s schools from educating to indoctrinating the next generation, the National Education Association (NEA) has created a new web page aimed at encouraging teachers to specifically inject LGBTQ+ content into the public school classrooms of children around the nation.
Last month, the NEA added a page to its website featuring “LGBTQ+ Book Recommendations” for teachers and an official “Pronoun Guide,” advising teachers to use gender-neutral pronouns like “ze,” “zim,” “Zir” and “Zirself” when referring to students.
The guide further informs teachers that addressing someone by an incorrect pronoun can make them feel “unsafe”—or worse, “misgendered.”
Next, the website helpfully provides a list of LGBTQ+ book recommendations NEA members can use to introduce sexualized content to their students. This list provides books for all ages, including numerous picture books that were given an “elementary” rating for young children.
These illustrated children’s books include titles such as Ho’onani: Hula Warrior, the story of a nonbinary hula-performing child who is neither a “boy” nor “girl”; Julian is a Mermaid, a tale about a young boy who identifies as a mermaid and dresses in women’s clothes.
Just this past Monday, the NEA also added the controversial book Gender Queer to a recommended reading list for its educators, advertising it as a “banned book” despite controversy stemming from the book’s graphic cartoon sexual illustrations that attempt to appeal to kids.
NEA supplies educators with additional “resources” on these books from organizations like Gender Spectrum, which attempts to recategorize basic facts in the gender debate as “myths”, such as “There are only two genders” and “Children are too young to know their gender.”
Finally, NEA’s webpage directs teachers to seek resources from controversial LGBTQ+ organizations it deems as “partners” such as GLSEN, which has been recently outed for encouraging educators to hide student’s gender transitions from their parents.
The union responded to criticism of GLSEN by doubling down on its partnership with the group, dismissing all criticisms as “lies from right-wing extremists.”
The union also promotes a partnership with The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ organization that last year was exposed for hosting sexually explicit chat rooms connecting children with trans adults.
This radical classroom instruction is becoming more common, coming as it does alongside a nationwide wave of parent protests against schools forcing LGBTQ+ topics on their children. Earlier this month, parents erupted in protest in Glendale, Calif., opposing a school board resolution to officially deem June as LGBTQ+ Pride Month.
On the same day in Maryland, parents protested against the Montgomery County School District’s policy to end the parental right to have their children opt out of reading books promoting LGBTQ+ ideology.
Given the growing prevalence of this issue many teachers are joining concerned parents in wondering what they can do to prevent this sexualized indoctrination of young children.
The answer is clear: With the help of the Freedom Foundation, unions like NEA must be held to account for their political and cultural extremism.
Teachers across America must not only be informed of their union’s divisive advocacy, but aided in their ability to leave unions that are more interested in pushing a radical agenda than improving the wages, hours, and working conditions of its members.
As long as large and powerful teachers’ unions like NEA prioritize pushing a political agenda over promoting results for teachers and students, the Freedom Foundation will continue to help members of the public to fight back against partisan union overreach, not only by informing teachers of their constitutional right to freedom of speech, but by helping to make this dream of freedom a reality.
