{"id":1490061,"date":"2022-05-24T13:46:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T17:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1490061"},"modified":"2022-05-24T13:47:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T17:47:30","slug":"state-farm-backpedals-on-lgbt-book-distribution-to-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-farm-backpedals-on-lgbt-book-distribution-to-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"State Farm Backpedals on LGBT Book Distribution to Kids"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fstate-farm-backpedals-on-lgbt-book-distribution-to-kids%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=1490061&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><\/div>\n<p>State Farm has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/state-farm-abandons-lgbtq-childrens-book-program-after-whistleblower-email-leak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">backpedaled on a plan to distribute LGBT-themed books<\/a> to children through community centers, libraries, and school teachers after a whistleblower revealed the insurance company was working with a transgender advocacy group.<\/p>\n<p>GenderCool, a <a href=\"https:\/\/gendercool.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">self-described<\/a> &#8220;youth-led movement&#8221; committed to telling the stories of &#8220;transgender and non-binary youth who are thriving,&#8221; wanted to enlist hundreds of State Farm agents and volunteers to &#8220;help diversify classroom, community center, and library bookshelves with a collection of books \u2026 to increase representation of LGBTQ+ books and support our communities in having challenging, important and empowering conversations with children Age 5+,&#8221; according to an email revealed by Consumers&#8217; Research. Facing backlash, Chief Diversity Officer Victor Terry announced State Farm &#8220;will no longer support&#8221; the LGBT curricula push, saying &#8220;conversations about gender and identity should happen at home with parents&#8221; and that the company doesn&#8217;t &#8220;support required curriculum in schools on this topic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as states are enacting laws to ban puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and sex-reassignment surgeries for minors. Republican-led legislatures in Arizona and Arkansas have passed such legislation, and nearly 15 other states are considering similar bills. The White House, by contrast, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/florida-health-dept-slams-biden-admin-for-injecting-political-ideology-into-the-health-of-our-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has promoted<\/a> the so-called gender-affirming treatments, with former press secretary Jen Psaki in April referring to the procedures as &#8220;life-saving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Studies from LGBT groups defending the controversial treatments\u2014and cited by the Biden administration\u2014have been underwritten by the manufacturers of puberty blocking drugs, the\u00a0<em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/white-house-pushes-puberty-blockers-for-trans-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> in April.<\/p>\n<p>The books, which include the titles\u00a0<em>Being Transgender<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Inclusive<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Non-Binary<\/em>, feature transgender children who use a variety of pronouns to identify themselves and describe gender as mutable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you&#8217;re born, a doctor looks at you and says, \u2018It&#8217;s a boy!&#8217; or \u2018It&#8217;s a girl!&#8217; based on your body,&#8221; an excerpt from\u00a0<em>Non-Binary<\/em> quoted by\u00a0<em>National Review<\/em> reads. &#8220;But gender isn&#8217;t that simple. You see, when I was born, the doctor said, \u2018It&#8217;s a boy!&#8217; But . . . this wasn&#8217;t true.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Farm has backpedaled on a plan to distribute LGBT-themed books to children through community centers, libraries, and school teachers after a whistleblower revealed the insurance company was working with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"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-1490061","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\/1490061","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\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490061\/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=1490061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}