A School district in San Diego has come under fire for providing a curriculum that teaches young students about nine genders and 30 sexual orientations.
Furious parents objected to a slideshow featured on the San Diego Unified Schools (SDUS) website entitled ‘LGBTQIA+ Terms you should know’.
Resources outlined definitions for nine gender identities including transgender, non-binary, genderfluid and agender and included graphic slides showcasing more than 30 ‘LGBTQ Youth Sexual Orientations’ including graysexual, queer, asexual and pansexual.
The Mail Online reports:SDUS is the second largest district in California and services more than 121,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade.
It is unclear what grade level the slide show was presented to but the SDUS website states LGBTQIA+ education begins in elementary school.
Parental rights group Defending Education slammed the SDUS as, ‘another example of ideological capture in K-12’.
‘Education is not compatible with a district that believes or even entertains the idea that there are 9 different gender identities and 28 sexual orientations,’ the organization’s senior director of communications, Erika Sanzi, told the Washington Times.
‘This lunacy must end or trust will be lost forever.’
The 28 figure referenced by the group refers to sexualities outside heterosexual and homosexual.
Defending Education describe themselves as a ‘a national grassroots organization working to restore schools at all levels from activists imposing harmful agenda’.
They pride themselves on opposing ‘indoctrination’ in the classroom, per their website. According to the San Diego Unified School district website, LGBTQIA-inclusive curriculum starts as young as elementary school.
SDSU explains on its website that it begins teaching about sexual identity and gender to counteract harmful stereotypes.
‘At a very young age, children have been introduced to information about LGBTQIA+ people, which is often based on misinformation and negative stereotypes,’ the school board states in another curriculum packet.
The packet aimed at kids was titled: ‘It’s Lit Jr: A culturally relevant curriculum module rooted in social justice and common core standards.’