"Gender Queer" included on teachers' union summer reading list
The book includes graphic depictions of sex acts and pedophilia
The nation’s largest teachers’ union has included the controversial, highly graphic illustrated book “Gender Queer” in its recommended summer reading list for teachers.
The National Education Association (NEA) included the memoir, written by Maia Kobabe, under the “banned books” section of its “Great Summer Reads for Educators” list. Fox News also reported that the list included the book “White Fragility,” a staple of popular critical race theory narratives that argues that white Americans generally try to evade taking responsibility for racial inequality.
The graphic novel has indeed captured national attention on more than one occasion for its highly sexualized content and imagery, which includes illustrations of the author engaged in sex acts and masturbation as well as a drawing of a pedophilic sex act between an adult man and a boy.
Kobabe and her supporters have always argued that the book is necessary to highlight the experiences of “gender queer” youth.
Incredibly, Kobabe has said that the book is “a lot less explicit than it could be.”
"The topic of gender touches on identity… and it touches on sexuality," the author told NPR in January, as noted by Fox. "And it’s hard to fully explain I think what like how a gender identity can impact every facet of life as an adult without touching at least a little bit on sexuality. And I wanted to at least not to like shy away from that."
Link: Largest Teachers’ Union in US Includes “Gender Queer” In Summer Reading List
The US State Department set aside the funds to “sensitize” employees in Indian workplaces to transgenderism.
The Christian Post reports that an overview of the grant reveals that $49,813 was set aside for the Indian-based company YR Gaitonde Medical, Educational and Research Foundation.
The funds are intended to "sensitize employees of corporate entities in Hyderabad and Chennai toward transgender persons in their workforce, adopt inclusive policies, and create a safe and nurturing environment.”
The State Department saw fit to allocate funds for such an end to further "the achievement of US foreign policy goals and objectives, advance national interests, and enhance national security by informing and influencing foreign publics."
A spokesperson for the department told the Post that it is committed to supporting a "wide range of strategic programs around the world that seek to advance the foreign policy priority of reducing discrimination and violence and promoting inclusion."
The Biden administration has been quite vocally committed to furthering transgender ideology at home, and it appears to be just as committed to doing so abroad, by the looks of it.
Link: Biden Admin Allocates $50K to Promote Transgender Ideology in India
Last week, Arkansas Governor Sarah Sanders, a devout Christian, posted pictures of a colorful chalk drawing her children had made outside their residence, the governor’s mansion.
The beautiful depiction of a cross in a stained-glass style couldn’t have possibly been more innocent, yet to the Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, it apparently constituted an unconstitutional government endorsement for religion.
After proud mother Sanders posted the pictures of the chalk drawing to social media, she was issued a letter from the secularists which claimed that her children’s chalk art was an “impermissible message that those who do not share the favored faith are unwelcome and will be treated differently.”
“When fighting to defend church-state separation, we must always reject Christian nationalism. Two days ago, Sarah Huckabee Sanders posted a photo of a Latin cross at the entrance of the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion. We sent her a letter to explain why this is a problem,” the group wrote on Twitter.
Sanders’ answer was simple: no.
Confirming she had received their letter, the governor wrote on Twitter, “I will not erase the beautiful cross my kids drew in chalk on the driveway of the Governor’s Mansion or remove my post on social media, and I will not now or ever hide that I am a Christian.”
“I will not now or ever hide that I am a Christian, saved by Christ,” she explained further in a letter to the group. “In Arkansas, we stand up to bullying liberals. We won’t let you power-wash our kids’ chalk drawings off our front steps. We won’t let you tear down Christmas decorations and stomp our tradition into the dirt. We don’t live our lives in fear of strongly worded letters coming down from Washington.”
Not sure when pornography became ok in any area of life but especially not with our kids.