The Sexualization of Children
Who should decide when and how to discuss issues like sex and gender with young children? Just a decade ago, this was thought to be the sole purview of parents. But that is no longer the case. Why is this shift happening, and who’s behind it? Karol Markowicz addresses these important questions.
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At what age is it appropriate for grammar school teachers to discuss issues like sex and gender with their students? Should it be done with kids as young as pre-K? Second grade? Fifth?
Even a decade ago, the most common answer would have been “never.” These are simply not appropriate subjects for young children. If for some reason they did have to be raised, it would be the parents’ job, not the teachers’.
Today it’s much different.
Now these are pressing questions and very much on the minds of parents. They are part of what the media calls “the Culture War.” But parents didn’t start this war. The war has been waged on us. Until recently, we had no idea it was even happening. Now it’s hand-to-hand combat—school boards vs. mom and dad.
It’s not clear who’s winning.
Starting in September 2022, New Jersey first-graders will learn about gender identity under new sex education guidelines.
A sample lesson plan reads as follows: “You might feel like you’re a boy even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘girl’ parts. You might feel like you’re a girl even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘boy’ parts. And you might not feel like you’re a boy or a girl, but you’re a little bit of both. No matter how you feel, you’re perfectly normal!”
Yes, Junior might be struggling with his fractions, but, never fear, he’s rock solid on his preferred pronouns.
The Evanston–Skokie School District 65 in Illinois has adopted a new “LGBTQ+ Equity Week” curriculum that will teach kids in Pre-K and Kindergarten about people who have more than one gender or no gender at all. Kids in first grade can pick their own pronouns, including ze, zir, and tree, and are told they can switch pronouns any time they wish. All “feelings” are respected all the time. Third graders, generally around 8 years old, are also encouraged to overcome their prejudice that gender is binary.
Parents have mounted a counterattack. Our deep concern that our children are being prematurely sexualized and thus confused about their identity is manifest in Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act. Its text plainly states that discussion of sexual orientation is out of bounds. This piece of legislation, which now has counterparts in several other states, has, in turn, been mocked by Progressives.
Setting aside the appropriateness of teaching small children that their gender is malleable or that kids designating “tree” as their preferred pronoun is okay, Progressives say the Florida law is “unnecessary.” Why? Because, these progressives claim, these lessons aren’t actually taught. They are a figment of the parents’ imagination.
Some figment.
But if this is all just a fevered dream on the right, then opponents of these bills are caught in their own circular logic. If these topics aren’t taught in schools, then why is the bill controversial? Florida would be legislating against nothing.
But that’s not what’s happening.
Recently, in the Glendale Unified School District in California, parents confronted their school board after they learned that a third-grade teacher had shown their kids videos for Gay Pride Month that included nudity and discussions of sexual arousal.
A decade ago, this teacher would have been chased out of town with pitchforks—metaphorically speaking. Today it’s “controversial.”
The purpose of the Florida law is to stop this sort of “education.” Activists and their media allies say the Florida bill stigmatizes kids who are not heterosexual or have gay parents. Never mind that being straight is also a sexual orientation. The point is any classroom discussion about sex and gender identity should be off the table.
It’s not surprising parents want to protect their small children from inappropriate lessons that have nothing to do with what school is supposed to be about—you know, quaint notions like reading, writing, and arithmetic. What’s surprising is that it’s even an issue at all.
Why is this madness—and what is it, if not madness—even happening? And who’s behind it? It’s not like there was a crying demand from seven-year-old boys to identify themselves as a girl or as a boy and a girl.
These questions are not easy to answer. The sudden eruption of madness is never easily explained. But this much is not in doubt:
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Wow. Did you eat the Wara Wara no Mi? Because that is a heck of a lot of strawmen.
Ah yes, because this “sexualizes” children. They sure know what sexualization means.
After 8 seconds: the correct answer is 5. Goodbye!
I sincerely hope America turns back to a strict, heterosexual nation where everybody knows exactly what women are, and that there are ONLY 2 genders: male and female.❤💘💓💝🙏
For people that go to church, you really think everything is about sex when it's just surface level stuff.
The bill is controversial because it bans the mention of gender, which in turn bans children who have decided that they want to look and dress like the opposite of their birth sex. Some of us are old enough to remember when there was a fear of allowing POC children into white schools. People were told it was the dumbing down of white children, and fear was used in that propaganda too. Conservatives are supposed to be in support of freedom, not the arbiters of squashing freedom.
As a child myself, this world is indeed corrupt, kids that young shouldn't be shown pride videos that show nudity , its f***d up. Kids that young shouldn't even know what LGBTQ or whatever that is at that young, This world is truly corrupted by these gays, I see kids as young as 10 being gay as h*ll
Sorry if im saying anything bad, i just haven't let out my feelings for LGBTQ in forever, i would get hated as if im the d*v*l if i even say anything like that in public
From: your average 5th grader
To: the world
God bless you all and i hope you all will come to your god,
Bless you all🤝❤️🩹✊🙏
I teach middle school and dealing with sexual orientation and getting other students to respect their gender change is a tricky issue. I personally do not agree with using school to discuss sexuality, especially since my students are below proficient in math. I honor their requests in order to create a classroom that is inviting and a place where everyone is accepted and respected. Teaching 1st graders about sexuality when they can hardly spell their own names, read, or know what a pronoun is for that matter, is ridiculous. Maybe if elementary schools focused on learning and less on their sexuality and their self esteem, I'd actually get students ready to learn 7th grade curriculum.
Bruh, you guys literally sexualized a middle school girl for Christ’s sake! Get help!
i know that im seriously tardy to the party with this one, but this is just transphobic propaganda
its not like a 1st grader is going to know what a pronoun is, they just graduated out of diaper school a few years ago
what was the motive of posting this video? what are you trying to teach here?
As a culture abandons faith in God and His perfect design for sexuality, it paves the way for "crazy." America divorced from faith in God is a like a cut flower that will wilt and decay.
This is the direct result of letting Satan and the Communist Teacher's Unions take over our schools!!!
If need be, ALL PARENTS must join hands to protect our precious children from these MONSTERS!
I learned it in school during 5th and 6th grade. Their claim was because some kids, like the girls, were starting puberty and some started their periods. They'd ask for a parent to sign a permission slip to allow their kid to watch a video on puberty based on your gender. So all girls met in the auditorium to watch a video on puberty for girls, and boys met on a different day in the auditorium to watch a video on puberty for boys. In elementary school during 5th grade, a substitute teacher molested 7 of us, possibly more. They fired him but only from that district and clearly didn't write why because my friend and I saw him substituting at the middle school when we went to 7th grade. The middle school is run by a different district. It was heart dropping to see him walk by. We immediately told the principle and she removed him from the school.
Gay and conservative, sounds good to me!
Even though I support gay rights, I totally agree. Sodomy has no place in the classroom, there is nothing wrong with being gay. But showing mear children videos of anal sex or gender identity should be illegal. You don't want to put ideas in their head, but saying that. They shouldn't be sexualising kids either, gay OR straight! The age of consent needs to be 18, not 13, screw Romeo and Juliet law, 18 should mean 18! Gays need to be appropriate, there is nothing wrong with them, just don't force it upon others. Kids could be tough that some people are gay, but not go into any graphic details like heterosexual relations too. Kids should not be exposed to elicit sex! Trans is not normal! Trans are NOT "gay!" I'm gay and I identify as male 100% I never have sex, if I was going to have sex it would be the right way with a black woman, I just don't want to. I'm Autistic! Sex should be between 2 adults who consent, non anally, not incestuously and no bestiality, rape, scat or necrophilia and not on a period.
Even though I support gays, I don't agree that you can be in the wrong body, you're conceived your gender! Trans are NOT gay. Kids should be taught the law when it comes to sex and no-one should have sex under 18! Under age sex needs to be ousted, it's the 21's century, not the dark ages!
This video is needed !
6,000 dislikes and 7000 likes on a video that’s advocating from keeping advanced sexual topics away from children. Scary.
Parents we our proud of you
Stop meet for the new sexual agenda.
Poor world
Let's do something
Be brave
I feel like if these teachers want to teach this to their students, they should teach them at a more mature age (16, 17, and 18), but when these teachers teach this at 5 out of 10, I feel like that's where they cross the line.
I'm 16 and asexual/aromatic and I hate that adults have normalized pedophilia
one teacher really?
kids should be taught that there are same sex couples and it’s normal to like the same gender simple
If y’all want to protect children better, maybe you should abolish kids beauty pageants
Ya I'd much rather have them learn how slave benefited from slavery and how Christopher Columbus was an amazing man oh and dont let me forget we will never ever talk about Nazi Germany
According to the long traditional values of my culture, 1-3year olds are told about the 2 main genital differences but not about sexuality. 4-7 year olds are told a little about how reproduction works and they regard it with disgust, giggles, and curiosity. Preteens are told about pueberty and the complex emotional factors in human relations. Kids of all ages are sheltered from heteronormative requirements of behavior and strict gender roles. We teach them not to be assholes and that people come out all different ways. Your sexuality,once you are old enough to be aware of it,is personal and consensual. There are dangers and responsibilities in adult relationships. You can't tell other people how they have to be.
The best way to spread a radical ideology is through children, so it's not something we can ever expect them to stop doing on their own.
Progressives by name, regressives by thought and actions.
And people wonder why there’s so many pedophiles
Reduce taxes (yes I have a plan if anyone is interested) so that a) parents have more money to put their children in private schools or hire private tutors or one parent stay home and teach the children), b) philanthropists have more money to donate to private philanthropic schools and c) public school districts have only enough money to teach BASIC mathematics and English-language communication skills.
Homeschool Your Children, America, and All The Rest of Humanity's Earth, as sa(t)an is GOING NUTS OUT HERE RIGHT NOW!!!
Okay, but if you really want to stop it, then stop child beauty pageants. Stop the catcalling. Honestly, learning that some people aren't a girl or boy, or some people like the same gender as them isn't horrible.
Never!!!! I'm sick of the sexualization of our young people. Schools are becoming a pool of vipers and reprobates 😊
Usa lgbtq in the world are evil 😢
0:37 Give me a break. Culture wars are a myth created by #TheReligiousWhite for political power.
Fundamentalist Christians' mindset "NO ONE CAN TAKE AWAY OUR RIGHT TO TAKE AWAY GAYS' RIGHTS" got punched down each time the Supreme Court ruled that a basic desire to harm gays or mark gays as inferior and undeserving of equality serves no legitimate government interest.
The most recent case was 2020's Bostock v. Clayton County. The anti-LGBT hate group Alliance Defending Freedom served as counsel for one of the appellants, and the evangelical community was cocksure it would win. It did not.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act protected gay and trans people from employment discrimination. For decades gays were banned by law from government employment, including as schoolteachers.
This current Don't-Say-Gay nonsense is gasp to keep bigotry alive and breathing.
There is NOTHING sexual about being gay. As she inexplicably stated heterosexuality is a sexual orientation too, but these hypocrites would NEVER allow a ban on classroom instruction and books about heteros and hetero parents with kids.
Freedom of speech includes the freedom to receive information, and closed-minded, big-mouthed Christians are wantonly trampling others' First Amendment rights.
so retarded that conservatives think children are Asexual, interest in sex emerges naturally and incrementally regardless of environment.
I started thinking about sex from the age of eight, even though my parents were prudish and I was at a boarding school !
Remember when parents thought Fergie’s humps song was too sexual. Now education on gender identity is too sexual. 😂
Could someone please explain to me how telling kids homosexual people exist sexualizes them?
Sure….. And gender reveal parties are not inherently sexualizing a damn baby that's not even born yet. Spoiler alert: that's really perverted to get together to celebrate a fetus's genitals.
I don't see the problem with the material. I also don't see how its "harmful" in itself as if its talking about X rated material. I just find it inappropriate because children who ARE transgender would get confused. The education system arent doctors and the child's parents. Also, this will make it harder for children who DO struggle with gender dysphoria to get help later in life because his parents are stuck to the news and politics and their bible without assessing these feelings from the child's view without gaslighting him. Its totaly counterproductive. Its not just the children who are affected but their parents too.
Close down public schools and home school, Save the Children
from this madness.
Drags don't molest children. Priests do.
This is a fact. Not debatable.
The real groomers are the ones who accuse the left of being groomers.
The biggest danger of taking a kid to a drag show is a that a christian might show up with a gun and kill dozens of innocents.
Those anti-drag fascists should be arrested for life and publicly humiliated.
We need a zero-tolerance policy for these reactionary assholes.
The same applies to sex-ed class. Sex ed, among other things, is teaching kids how to defend themselves against rapists and molesters. It's the exact opposite of grooming.
It's the people who oppose sex-ed who are groomers. These assholes should be arrested for life. We need to cleanse our society of these scumbags.
YOU CHRISTIANS AND RIGHT WINGED PEOPLE ARE THE ONLY ONES GROOMING AND SEXUALIZING CHILDREN
Omfg I don’t have children’s but I’m already stressing for them
this has got to be some of the goofiest shit i ever watched :skull:
i read communist instead of columnist
Homeschool!!!
Homeschool!!!
Homeschool!!!
okayy? school doesn't teach kids that much anyways, they're gonna get exposure from their peers whether yall like it not 🙁 nobody is going to pass thru 6th grade with 8th grade kids and be completely innocent