{"id":1282539,"date":"2022-02-08T16:38:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T21:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1282539"},"modified":"2022-02-08T16:38:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T21:38:16","slug":"angie-craig-takes-to-house-floor-to-read-childrens-book-on-gender-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/angie-craig-takes-to-house-floor-to-read-childrens-book-on-gender-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Angie Craig Takes to House Floor To Read Children\u2019s Book on Gender Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fangie-craig-takes-to-house-floor-to-read-childrens-book-on-gender-transition%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1282539&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Book was produced by Dem congresswoman&#8217;s wife <\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-08-at-3.27.22-PM-736x440-1.png\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"denied:data:image\/gif;base64, R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-08-at-3.27.22-PM-736x440.png 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-08-at-3.27.22-PM-1024x612.png 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-08-at-3.27.22-PM-768x459.png 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-08-at-3.27.22-PM-1536x918.png 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-08-at-3.27.22-PM-1400x836.png 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tRep. Angie Craig (D., Minn.) \/ YouTube\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/haley-strack\/\" title=\"Posts by Haley Strack\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Haley Strack<\/a> \u2022 February 8, 2022 4:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Democratic congresswoman Angie Craig (Minn.) took to the House floor to read in full a radical children&#8217;s book on a young girl&#8217;s gender transition that was put out by her own wife.<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota lawmaker used her allotted five minutes of speaking time to read <em>Calvin<\/em>, a children&#8217;s book produced by the Human Rights Campaign&#8217;s Welcoming Schools <a href=\"https:\/\/welcomingschools.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">program<\/a>, which is directed by Craig&#8217;s wife Cheryl Greene. The book, suggested by HRC for kindergarten students, encourages children to explore gender transition and reject biological sex.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s critically important to make sure that transgender and nonbinary youth not only feel supported but valued and affirmed for who they are,&#8221; Craig said before reading from the book. She made no mention in the floor speech of her wife&#8217;s connection to the book.<\/p>\n<p>The HRC&#8217;s&nbsp;Welcoming Schools program creates training, lesson plans, and book lists that &#8220;introduce the youngest readers to gender identity and transition.&#8221; In Calvin, a young girl reveals her identity as &#8220;a boy in my heart and in my brain,&#8221; and her parents buy her swim trunks and &#8220;handsome&#8221; back-to-school clothes that make her feel more comfortable. Calvin&#8217;s father explains that &#8220;being transgender means other people think you&#8217;re one gender but inside you know you are a different one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The stated goal of the book, according to the program&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/hrc-prod-requests.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/welcoming-schools\/documents\/WS-Lesson-Calvin-Time-for-Me.pdf?mtime=20211028172004&amp;focal=none\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lesson plan<\/a> for Calvin, is to &#8220;help students understand what it means to be transgender using developmentally appropriate language for younger students&#8221; and &#8220;increase student understanding of ally behavior.&#8221;<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Wednesday marked the third time the congresswoman has promoted the program on the House floor\u2014Craig also delivered book readings in February 2021 and in February 2020 for HRC&#8217;s annual day to support transgender youth.<\/p>\n<p>Craig has previously read titles off the Welcoming Schools book list, including <em>When Aidan Became a Brother<\/em>, a story about a gender confused big sister-turned-brother, and <em>They, She, He Easy as ABC<\/em>, a children&#8217;s guide to inclusive pronouns.<\/p>\n<p>The program&#8217;s recommended reading for preschoolers is <em>The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish<\/em>, a nursery rhyme book written by Lil Miss Hot Mess, a founder of the Drag Queen Story Hour initiative.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the best ways for schools to create a welcoming environment for students and families is through children\u2019s literature,&#8221; Greene, the congresswoman&#8217;s wife, said in January 2021. &#8220;Inclusive books provide students with both mirrors to affirm their own identities and windows into lives that are different from theirs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Craig, first elected in 2018, narrowly beat her Republican challenger in 2020. Her seat in Minnesota&#8217;s Second Congressional District will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrcc.org\/2021\/11\/03\/nrcc-expands-offensive-map-announces-13-new-targets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.nrcc.org\/2021\/11\/03\/nrcc-expands-offensive-map-announces-13-new-targets\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1644433896106000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2u9os6EWDv7bIbyQw14XBz\">hotly contested<\/a> this November, as Democrat approval ratings plummet across the country.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2018 midterms, HRC spent $26 million in support of Democrats like Craig to &#8220;pull the emergency brake on the hateful anti-LGBTQ agenda of the Trump-Pence administration.&#8221; The campaign deployed 4,200 volunteers to register more than 30,000 new voters.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Book was produced by Dem congresswoman&#8217;s wife   Rep. 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