{"id":1436223,"date":"2022-04-13T19:14:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T23:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1436223"},"modified":"2022-04-13T19:14:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T23:14:55","slug":"university-event-pushes-children-picking-their-gender-they-know-what-feels-good-to-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/university-event-pushes-children-picking-their-gender-they-know-what-feels-good-to-them\/","title":{"rendered":"University Event Pushes Children Picking Their Gender: They\u00a0\u2018Know What Feels Good to Them\u2019"},"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%2Funiversity-event-pushes-children-picking-their-gender-they-know-what-feels-good-to-them%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=1436223&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2019\/02\/Transgender-child.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Academia\u2019s promotion of teaching children that they can select their \u201cgender\u201d regardless of their biological sex continues at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, including calling the Texas law that protects minors from life-altering treatment \u201cabhorrent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The school held an event on Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31 that it described this way: \u201cAdolescence is a tender time full of profound self-discovery. Coming into your own is complicated enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The event was titled: \u201cAdvocacy &#038; Allyship: Supporting Transgender Youth\u201d and was organized with the\u00a0Clark-Fox Policy Institute\u00a0of Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Campus Reform reported on the event, which included on a panel a \u201ctransgender child\u201d identified as as girl living as a boy who picked the name Myles. The panel discussed \u201chow teachers can address \u2018anti-trans legislation,\u2019 intersectionality of transgender hardships, children \u2018explor[ing]\u2019 gender identity, and medical procedures for \u2018pre-pubertal\u2019 children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Campus Reform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/article?id=19352\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere are systemic efforts underway across our country right now to deprive trans youth of their rights and ability to compete in sports, to access medical and mental health care, and to fully and authentically participate in their schools and communities,\u201d the moderator, Kelly Strock, said. Strock is the author of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kellystorck.com\/book\">Gender Identity Workbook for Kids<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To \u201ccounteract\u201d such laws, panelist Jess Jones proposed teachers \u201chave, like a pride flag in your classroom, or any folks could add their pronoun to their email signature, or wear, like a little pin that has your pronoun.\u201d Jones, owner of\u00a0Jess Jones Education &#038; Consulting,\u00a0describes himself as \u201ca white, queer, non-binary, neurodivergent, transgender human.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones additionally proposed creating policy based on young people\u2019s \u201cability to define for themselves who they are,\u201d stating that adults need to listen to students because children \u201cknow what feels good to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Strock said children becoming \u201ctransgender\u201d is \u201cliving out in the light\u201d and referred to younger children as \u201clittles\u201d who can pick their gender identity \u201caround the age of two.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Strock recommended that children should be allowed to \u201cplay dress up,\u201d and to \u201cplay with boys toys, or girls toys, and just let them do what they\u2019re gonna do,\u201d so they can explore \u201cgender expression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor prepubertal children, we provide them with resources to establish care with therapists,\u201d Christopher Lewis, director of Differences of Sex Development Clinic at Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, said in the report.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Penny Starr on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PennyStarrDC\">Twitter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academia\u2019s promotion of teaching children that they can select their \u201cgender\u201d regardless of their biological sex continues at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, including calling the Texas law that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1436223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}