BACKLASH - Tennessee bill allowing parents to opt children out of LGBTQ-related curriculum passes state legislature

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[–]julesburm1891 27 insightful - 3 fun27 insightful - 2 fun28 insightful - 3 fun -  (8 children)

To be fair, if I had children and was told they had mandatory LGBT+ curriculum at school, I’d also want to opt my kids out at this point.

[–]SerpensInferna 20 insightful - 3 fun20 insightful - 2 fun21 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

I agree, I would absolutely flip my shit if I had a school-aged child.

[–]julesburm1891 19 insightful - 3 fun19 insightful - 2 fun20 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah. Because you know it’s not going to be “LGB people exist and that’s fine.” It’s going to be “you like comic books and playing sports so it turns out you’re actually a boy, Emily.”

I’d wager even most progressives don’t want that crammed down their kids’ throats.

[–]SerpensInferna 18 insightful - 3 fun18 insightful - 2 fun19 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

That's absolutely the thing - it's no longer the LGBT movement we knew, that had acceptable, reasonable, and measurable goals. It is now quite literally indoctrination into nonsensical gender ideology with constantly moving goal posts. No child should be exposed to that madness.

After observing the trans "community" for several years online, one of the things that strikes me is how they actively recruit. It's rarely an "it's okay to be who you are", it's far more often an aggressive persuasion campaign. These are not mentally healthy people.

[–]ItsBondageTime 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ive read that trans people usually have other mental disorders

[–]BEB[S] 20 insightful - 2 fun20 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

California is teaching some crazy gender stuff to its school kids, stuff that even liberal parents are probably going to reject.

I do think that the Tennessee and Arizona bills might be a preventative measure to stop the type of gender ideology that California is teaching gaining a foothold in their states.

[–]latuspodSuper Straight 11 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I have actually been contemplating homeschooling my kids, and probably would start doing so of the SOGI 123(Sexual Proentatoon and Gender Identity) curriculum gets adopted into my kids schools. It was in pilot phase in my province, I am hoping the one good thing about the conservative government is the dropping of that nonsense.

[–]Femaleisnthateful 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Which province are you in? I'm in Ontario, and actively concerned about gender ideology in schools, since it seems to be enacted covertly.

[–]latuspodSuper Straight 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm in Alberta, the SOGI curriculum was/is in pilot mode in a few Edmonton and Calgary schools. It is in full effect in Ontario and BC past time i looked into it. And it all has been very covert.

[–]pacsatonifil 18 insightful - 3 fun18 insightful - 2 fun19 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I would opt out of a TQ curriculum and I am a proud liberal homo

[–]BEB[S] 18 insightful - 2 fun18 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I think that what many Americans who don't have minor or college-aged children (i.e., a lot of homosexual people) don't realize is how much gender ideology is being pushed in schools across the US. So to them this bill seems directed at LGB as well as TQ+

And while I do think that some of the backlash is directed at LGB, American kids in school districts across the country are being indoctrinated pre-Kindergarten + into thinking their biological sex is fluid, and having a penis doesn't mean someone is a boy, etc.

So parents across the political spectrum approve of some of these bills even though they themselves are LGB-supportive, because it's the only way to save their kids from gender ideology.

Drop the T - these bills are only going to continue and going to gain popularity because, again, parents want to save their children from gender ideology.

[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

There is little doubt I would also not be comfortable with having a child be subjected to whatever “LGBTQ” miseducation activists are pushing for in schools. Anything that lumps gay people in with the blue-haired heterosexual queers of today and thinks that gay people are sufficiently represented by that or whatever other letter of the alphabet soup is full of shit. I’m cool with kids learning at an age appropriate level that some people like and form relationships with members of the same sex and that your life is not over it that’s you, you will meet people like you and some of us have done cool things, and when older that some of us have different considerations when it comes to health, sex, and family planning. But what do we need beyond that? I don’t want any moral value ascribed to anyone’s sexual orientation.