A New York school is teaching kindergarteners gender identity as a means of promoting “inclusion,” Fox News reported.
“Our gender curriculum focuses on Hillside’s core value of respect and aims to center discussions on gender identity. The students will learn and discuss that there is a lot you can’t tell about a person by simply looking at them,” the class description says. “The students will look at pictures of children and talk about what they notice and what they think they know about the children just from the pictures. Using their observations, we will then take the opportunity to introduce vocabulary to describe characters of different identities in a developmentally appropriate way.”
Kindergarten students will learn that “identity is who you are,” such as “your gender and the pronouns you use.”
“All people should be treated with respect since there is no right or wrong way to be any gender,” another objective says.
Key vocabulary in the class includes “cisgender,” “transgender,” and “non-binary.”
The gender lesson lasts 30 minutes, Fox News noted, quoting Superintendent William S. McKersie as saying: “One 30-minute gender lesson is taught in each class one time per year. The classes are led by a certified educator, following a specific set of lessons designed to help students value the full diversity of their classmates.”
“The lessons have been created in alignment with the NYS Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework,” McKersie said.
