I have had creationist kids in my class and have huge supports to continue providing facts-based science education to them from our state, district, and school site. I have had both the ACLU on my ass to support the religious freedom of a JW family and the Schlafly's Eagle forum try to push alternative textbook adoption on us. There have been countless other minor pushbacks against teaching evolution but for my entire career I have received immediate support, mediation, and protection from these push backs against science education.

Last school year we had a mandatory district workshop that included trans shit. It is clear I have no support on this issue, and I refuse to lose my job over it. That doesn't mean I will stop teaching biology as I always have. As long as I can, I will insist on speaking about sex and not gender. Right now, that's about the only way I can think of to weasel out of keeping both camps from destroying the civil classroom environment. Meanwhile science teachers are losing support from our trusted institutions like the National Teachers Association which has now included trans issues in two consecutive issues of The Science Teacher publication. Transman Sam Long, AP Biology teacher, is making a name by providing curriculum and teacher training for trans-friendly science education.

I'm doing the best I can in a freakish time so cut me some slack and take some action spreading the word what's going on in science education. No really, people, anyone reading this and feeling it's upsetting, get the word out. Science teachers are in danger.