{"id":1489090,"date":"2022-05-23T21:44:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T01:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1489090"},"modified":"2022-05-24T00:34:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T04:34:05","slug":"report-state-farm-backs-down-on-donating-transgender-books-for-five-year-olds-to-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-state-farm-backs-down-on-donating-transgender-books-for-five-year-olds-to-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: State Farm Backs Down On Donating Transgender Books For Five-Year-Olds To Schools"},"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%2Freport-state-farm-backs-down-on-donating-transgender-books-for-five-year-olds-to-schools%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=1489090&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--><p>State Farm is backing down Monday after outrage over its plan to donate books promoting transgenderism\u00a0to schools and public libraries for children as young as five years old.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cState Farm\u2019s support of a philanthropic program, GenderCool, has been the subject of news and customer inquiries,\u201d reads\u00a0a May 23 email from Victor Terry, State Farm\u2019s chief diversity officer, to State Farm agents, according to the popular Twitter account @LibsofTikTok, which often breaks news on cultural issues.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateFarm?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@StateFarm<\/a> sent out a mass email to their staff today stating \u201cwe will no longer support that program\u201d after they were exposed for supporting a project to push LGBTQ books into schools.<br \/>\nA source tells me \u201cthe agents were really upset when we found out.\u201d W <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/55P1QJ0oLa\">pic.twitter.com\/55P1QJ0oLa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1528876946792230912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1528876946792230912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/p>\n<p>The program was intended to promote \u201cinclusivity,\u201d but State Farm will no longer support it, Terry wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConversations about gender and identity should happen at home with parents,\u201d reads Terry\u2019s email. \u201cWe don\u2019t support required curriculum in schools on this topic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will no longer support that program,\u201d State Farm\u2019s chief diversity officer continued. \u201cWe will continued to explore how we can support organizations that provide tools and resources that align with our commitment to diversity and inclusion.\u201d The company also said it supports organizations \u201cproviding resources for parents to have these conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Monday, news broke that the car insurance company encouraged its Florida agents to volunteer to receive books about gender identity and donate them to their community schools or public libraries by the end of April. The three books \u2014 \u201cA Kids Book About Being Transgender,\u201d \u201cA Kids Book About Being Non-Binary,\u201d and \u201cA Kids Book About Being Inclusive\u201d \u2014\u00a0are intended for kindergarten and above.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe project\u2019s goal is to increase representation of LGBTQ+ books and support our communities in having challenging, important and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Farm is backing down Monday after outrage over its plan to donate books promoting transgenderism\u00a0to schools and public libraries for children as young as five years old. \u201cState Farm\u2019s support of a philanthropic program, GenderCool, has been the subject of news and customer inquiries,\u201d reads\u00a0a May 23 email from Victor Terry, State Farm\u2019s chief &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":1489095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489090","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\/1489090","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\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1489095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}