{"id":1827638,"date":"2023-01-29T09:05:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T14:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1827638"},"modified":"2023-01-29T09:10:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T14:10:10","slug":"wisconsin-school-district-holds-weeklong-gender-identity-and-sexual-orientation-lesson-for-elementary-school-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-school-district-holds-weeklong-gender-identity-and-sexual-orientation-lesson-for-elementary-school-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin School District Holds Weeklong Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Lesson for Elementary School Kids"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fwisconsin-school-district-holds-weeklong-gender-identity-and-sexual-orientation-lesson-for-elementary-school-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=1827638&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-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/original_MadisonMetropolitan_SchoolDistrict.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/wisconsin-teachers-prioritize-meeting-black-students\">The\u00a0Madison Metropolitan School District<\/a> (MMSD)\u00a0in <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/wisconsin-school-district-bans-teachers-from-displaying-blm-pride-symbols\">Wisconsin<\/a> will dedicate a week in their upcoming year to teach elementary school kids, from <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/trans-activists-behind-new-sex-ed-curriculum-for-wisconsin-kindergarteners\">Kindergarten<\/a> up to grade five, about gender identity and sexual orientation with lessons created by LGBT activists from the\u00a0Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRCF).<\/p>\n<p>According to an email obtained by the<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/01\/24\/madison-metropolitan-school-district-gender-identity-lesson\/\"> Daily Caller News Foundation<\/a>,\u00a0&#8220;The goal is for students to understand the difference between gender, <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/wisconsin-school-celebrates-fine-arts-week-with-drag-performance-by-french-teacher\/\">sexual orientation<\/a> and sex assigned at birth. Students are NOT being asked to share their specific identities for each of these components, rather just acknowledging that they exist and are different and how to show respect for all identities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The program is part of\u00a0HRCF&#8217;s &#8220;Health and Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Lessons,&#8221; a portion of their &#8220;Welcoming Schools&#8221; project to create more &#8220;gender inclusive schools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The week-long campaign will include &#8220;read-alouds&#8221; and &#8220;classroom discussions&#8221;\u00a0surrounding gender identity, sex assigned at birth and sexual orientation, before concluding with a &#8220;rainbow day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The email encourages families to watch an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FkYB_hV46NY\">introductory video<\/a> that explains what the school district is teaching and why.<\/p>\n<p>The video features a &#8220;gender snowperson&#8221; who explains that\u00a0gender identity comes from the brain and is &#8220;who you know you are,&#8221; whereas\u00a0sexual orientation comes from the heart and is &#8220;who you know you love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The video describes sex, sexual orientation,\u00a0gender identity, and gender expression as part of a &#8220;continuum,&#8221; or a spectrum.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Students from kindergarten through the third grade will learn about sexual orientation based on &#8220;who they love,&#8221; emphasizing that &#8220;anyone can love anyone,&#8221; while grades four and five will learn the definitions of gay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual and asexual, the video explains.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are students in our schools with different gender identities,&#8221; the video stated. &#8220;We have at MMSD many elementary school students who identify as cisgender, as transgender, as nonbinary and the whole spectrum of identities. And if we aren&#8217;t talking and teaching about these different identities, students don&#8217;t see themselves and they don&#8217;t feel like they belong in our schools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The school district published a video in 2019 of elementary school kids &#8220;c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3ETCQ7O0D3A\">oming out<\/a>&#8221; and giving their pronouns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD)\u00a0in Wisconsin will dedicate a week in their upcoming year to teach elementary school kids, from Kindergarten up to grade five, about gender identity and sexual orientation with lessons created by LGBT activists from the\u00a0Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRCF). According to an email obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation,\u00a0&#8220;The goal &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1827641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[4810,6485,4685,7325,6280,4247,5510,16870,3924,4859,16871,4124],"class_list":["post-1827638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-district","tag-elementary","tag-gender","tag-holds","tag-identity","tag-kids","tag-lesson","tag-orientation","tag-school","tag-sexual","tag-weeklong","tag-wisconsin"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827638","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1827638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1827641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1827638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1827638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1827638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}