K-12 Teachers In Texas Are Urged To Take This LGBTQIA+ Training on Taxpayers Dime

The Austin Independent School District in Texas urged k-12 teachers to attend a training seminar on “how to create supportive learning environments for LGBTQIA+” students as young as five at taxpayer expense. The course materials instruct teachers to define gender identity as “one’s authentic identity” and the “innermost concept of self as male, female, neither or both.”

The training documents offer teachers an example on how to respond to a girl who is confused about her sexuality and gender identity.

“A 14-year-old youth, who recently asked to be called Ronnie not Veronica, discloses to you a desire to go by ‘they’ pronouns,” a slide in the training presentation states. “Ronnie wants to cut their hair short but isn’t sure how their parents will react, making them feel anxious. Ronnie is also stressed because while they have been dating Julie and ‘came out as a lesbian’ in 7th grade, they have started to have feelings for Ted, who identifies as male, and this is confusing for them.”

The course includes a “gender questionnaire,” that asks, “What is a boy?”, “What is a girl?”, “How do you know?” Another slide encourages teachers to describe their own gender identity…. (Excerpt from The Gateway Pundit)