{"id":1432324,"date":"2022-04-12T08:15:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T12:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1432324"},"modified":"2022-04-12T08:16:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T12:16:25","slug":"karol-markowicz-nj-gender-identity-lessons-for-first-graders-prove-parents-were-right-to-worry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/karol-markowicz-nj-gender-identity-lessons-for-first-graders-prove-parents-were-right-to-worry\/","title":{"rendered":"Karol Markowicz: NJ Gender Identity Lessons for First-Graders Prove Parents Were Right to Worry"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fkarol-markowicz-nj-gender-identity-lessons-for-first-graders-prove-parents-were-right-to-worry%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=1432324&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--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/karol-markowicz.png?w=76&#038;h=69&#038;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Karol Markowicz\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/karol-markowicz.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/karol-markowicz.png?w=38 38w\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>What children should be <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/30\/disney-is-boasting-about-pushing-gender-theory-to-kids\/\">taught about sex and gender,<\/a> and when, has become a hot topic across the country. But parents didn\u2019t choose this \u2014 it was forced upon them.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in September, New Jersey first-graders <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/08\/nj-kids-to-learn-about-gender-identity-under-sex-ed-curriculum\/\">will learn about gender identity<\/a> under new sex education guidelines. Parents received sample lesson plans at a Westfield Board of Education meeting in February; one read, \u201cYou might feel like you\u2019re a boy even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are \u2018girl\u2019 parts. You might feel like you\u2019re a girl even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are \u2018boy\u2019 parts. And you might not feel like you\u2019re a boy or a girl, but you\u2019re a little bit of both. No matter how you feel, you\u2019re perfectly normal!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Setting aside the appropriateness of teaching 7-year-olds that their gender is malleable, the New Jersey news comes on the heels of massive leftist outrage over the<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/28\/desantis-signs-so-called-dont-say-gay-bill-banning-gender-instruction-for-kids\/\"> Parental Rights in Education bill signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis<\/a> \u2014\u00a0a law that many on the left called \u201cunnecessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Florida law prevents instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity. And while leftist activists, and their media assistants, have targeted the bill as \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay,\u201d despite the fact that straight is also a sexual orientation, parents I have spoken to specifically point to gender lessons as the reason they support the bill.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/03\/08\/florida-dont-say-gay-bill-hurts-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Washington Post editorial board came out against the law,<\/a> of course, saying, \u201cThere is no justifiable reason for any of these measures. They are all rooted in the anachronistic belief that discussions about gender and sexuality somehow endanger children.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/new-jersey-school-children.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>Planned sex education lessons for first-graders in New Jersey will include discussions about gender identity.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Seth Wenig, File<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But there is a very justifiable reason: Parents want to protect their small children from inappropriate lessons on sexuality, whether straight or gay. More important, parents know that the idea of gender flexibility is being pushed on their ever-younger kids. The notion that it\u2019s not is pure gaslighting, and the New Jersey guidelines are just more evidence of that. <\/p>\n<p>Parents have watched society change around them to what the insane left has demanded. They know it\u2019s happening. They will fight against it being foisted on their kids.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/DeSantis-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DeSantis-1.jpg\" alt=\"The New Jersey gender-identity lessons come after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the controversial Parental Rights in Education bill.\" class=\"wp-image-21849746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/DeSantis-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/DeSantis-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/DeSantis-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The New Jersey gender identity lessons come after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the controversial Parental Rights in Education bill.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Joe Burbank\/Orlando Sentinel\/Tribune News Service via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over the weekend, a video surfaced of Dennis Prager\u2019s 2019 appearance on \u201cReal Time with Bill Maher.\u201d In it, Prager says we are being asked to accept that men can menstruate, with colleges stocking men\u2019s rooms with tampons. Maher and the rest of the panel openly mock Prager. Now we all know Prager was right.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward just three years and our health officials no longer use \u201cmother\u201d when talking about childbirth, instead defaulting to \u201cbirthing person.\u201d These aren\u2019t fringe leftists on the Berkeley campus; the Biden administration uses language like this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/biden-admin-replaces-mothers-birthing-people-maternal-health-guidance-1598343\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in its 2022 fiscal year budget<\/a> and in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/04\/13\/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-initial-actions-to-address-the-black-maternal-health-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statements purporting to address<\/a> the \u201cBlack Maternal Health Crisis.\u201d No one tell them what the word \u201cmaternal\u201d means, lest it also gets erased.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/joe-biden-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/joe-biden-13.jpg\" alt=\"Officials in the Biden administration use woke gender language like \u201cbirthing person.\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Officials in the Biden administration use woke gender language like \u201cbirthing person.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">EPA\/Yuri Gripas \/ POOL<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Liberal media outlets will pretend that it\u2019s conservatives launching a \u201cculture war,\u201d as the New York Times did Friday in The Morning newsletter by David Leonhardt and Ian Prasad Philbrick.\u00a0They wrote: \u201c\u2018The right is using trans identity among kids as the wedge,\u2019 says our colleague Emily Bazelon, who writes about legal issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Absolutely backward. The far left is using trans identity as a bulldozer; they\u2019ve run over the liberal town \u2014 and they\u2019re coming for our house.<\/p>\n<p>In her book \u201cIrreversible Damage,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/02\/26\/dad-lost-custody-after-questioning-sons-transgender-identity\/\">Abigail Shrier <\/a>laid out how schools no longer see themselves as academic institutions but places where sexual-identity politics is central to all conversations. This isn\u2019t conjecture: A program coordinator from Los Angeles Unified School District wrote Shrier, \u201cTechnically, we are an educational institution\u201d but want to be a \u201csource of social justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parents have heard this loud and clear and in so many places are pushing back. Thanks but no thanks on that social justice. We\u2019d like our educational institutions back.<\/p>\n<p><em>Twitter: @Karol<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What children should be taught about sex and gender, and when, has become a hot topic across the country. 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