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Originally Posted by unsunghero
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No, people are possible of anything, it’s just not widespread in either case (terrorist parents or crazy propagandist teachers). And I don’t believe the conservative’s arguments that pornographic and gender-confusing material are being pushed by every public school. I don’t even believe that CRT is being pushed by many teachers because, for one, history really only pertains to a history or social studies class. Why the F would a math teacher be teaching CRT? And two, I just don’t think it is as common as conservatives are claiming. But I am not claiming to know everything about what schools are doing
I can only speak anecdotally, but like I said kids identifying as gender confused, non-binary, and trans is exploding and parents are incorrectly assuming they are getting these “ideas” from school. From actually taking to the kids who identify this way, yes it does seem to have a fad element and appears that is very likely to be just a phase for many of them, but the parents are wrong that the kids are getting it from their teachers. From the mouths of the kids, it spreads among friend groups. One kid hears about a friend identifying as trans or non-binary and they start doing the same. I’m assuming the original is probably getting it from online
Out of the hundreds of LGBT (call me old school but I stop the letters there), I have yet to have a kid mention they read about being non-binary or trans in a school book. And these are naive kids, they wouldn’t have the conceptualization to keep this info from adults for political purposes obviously
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I think it mainly depends on the region. I don't think many conservatives think it's happening everywhere (though some are definitely overstating it), I think most are more concerned about the trajectory it's heading, even if it's only happening in a handful of schools in super liberal cities currently. The characterization of these parents by the media is what really gets me.