A New York City math teacher has applied to open a “genderful” grade-5-to-9 Prospect Park charter to teach kids how to “move inside and outside the bounds of masculinity and femininity” in the “evolving gender spectrum.”
The Ivy League-educated teacher, Joji Florence, “identifies as non-binary” and named the proposed Miss Major Middle after Major Griffin-Gracy, a convicted felon who “identifies as a woman.”
These men are affectionately known as trans activists, but let’s call them what they are: liars.
Schoolchildren deserve the truth.
Age-appropriate materials matter; 9-year-olds should not read the same thing as 18-year-olds.
But one thing should be the same in all classes: the reality of biological sex.
There are two sexes — male and female, determined by gamete size.
No one can change sex. Even if he tries really hard and wants it really bad.
You won’t hear this truth in any classroom in the nation’s largest school district. Why?
Department of Education Guidelines on Gender compel students and teachers to say these false things.
The guidelines insist a boy who says he is a girl is in fact a girl and should have access to girls’ bathrooms and sports teams.
The corollary is a girl who states the truth about the boy who enters her bathroom or takes her spot on a girls’ team is a bigot.
Our children must parrot these lies and learn the consequences for saying the truth out loud.
The State University of New York Charter Schools Institute should reject this proposal when it decides in June — it’s built upon lies and designed to use children to push trans activists’ agenda.
Florence says as much: “Our team envisions a genderful middle school where students are agents of justice.”
The school’s website declares teachers will “harness the power” of “community engagement” and “embed … social justice.”
Even the section dedicated to academics says the school will be “justice oriented” with a “culturally responsive curriculum.”
This school’s proponents say members of the LGBTQ community are uniquely vulnerable and need a school where they’ll be “safe.”
That’s not true.
When I walk the halls of my children’s school, I see more pride flags than American flags.
The LGBTQ agenda is the dominant narrative across not just our schools but corporate media, entertainment and higher education and endorsed by every elected politician who chants the falsehood “Trans women are women” while shouting down parents who dare to say “blasphemous” things like “Biological sex is real and immutable.”
It’s the girl who wants to play on and against an all-female sports team and not be forced to undress in front of boys who needs protection.
It’s the boy who can’t quite keep up with his peers’ and teachers’ changing pronouns who needs protection.
It’s the gay and autistic kids who need the time, space and grace to figure out their sexuality and how to exist in our world who need protection from a rapacious trans ideology that tells them they are something they’re not and offers affirmation, puberty blockers and surgeries to fix what does not need fixing.
It’s the parents who have the audacity to say “Stop lying to our children” who need protection from the speech-compelling, career-destroying, deplatforming social justice mobs.
What would it tell our children to dedicate a school to a felon and former sex worker who declares the LGBTQ acronym is wrong because “mothef–ker, the T comes first”?
I noticed a box of “I’m Not a Girl: A Transgender Story” shipped to my youngest son’s school as part of the new “inclusive” Mosaic curriculum two years ago.
It was marked for kindergarteners!
The little girl in the book prefers a short haircut, doesn’t want to wear a dress and likes to play pirate — so she’s not really a girl.
By the book’s end, she has a new haircut, new name and new identity as a boy.
The truth is so much simpler.
Some girls don’t want to wear dresses, and some boys do.
That’s OK!
Kids should be free to explore who they are, at their own pace and with a measure of privacy and freedom that will only come when teachers back off and do what they’re paid to do — teach their young charges to read, write, do math and think critically.
Maud Maron is a former president and current member of the District 2 Community Educational Council.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
