{"id":2016179,"date":"2023-08-29T22:13:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T02:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-pays-nonprofit-encouraging-kids-to-identify-as-foxgender-teaching-schools-to-hide-it\/"},"modified":"2023-08-29T22:15:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T02:15:37","slug":"california-pays-nonprofit-encouraging-kids-to-identify-as-foxgender-teaching-schools-to-hide-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-pays-nonprofit-encouraging-kids-to-identify-as-foxgender-teaching-schools-to-hide-it\/","title":{"rendered":"California funds nonprofit promoting &#8216;foxgender&#8217; identity, instructing schools to conceal it."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fcalifornia-pays-nonprofit-encouraging-kids-to-identify-as-foxgender-teaching-schools-to-hide-it%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=2016179&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--><h2>The \u2062State of California Funds Grant to Promote Bizarre Genders and Hide it from Parents<\/h2>\n<p>The state of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/california\">California<\/a> has recently awarded a nine-year grant to an organization that encourages students\u200d to explore a wide range of unique genders, including unconventional identities like &#8220;foxgender.&#8221; What&#8217;s more concerning is that this group also teaches school districts how to keep this information hidden from parents.<\/p>\n<p>The California Department of Public Health has allocated a total of \u200d$2.3 million to \u2062a nonprofit called Gender Spectrum. Their activities involve developing strategies to incorporate \u2064gender diversity into school practices. This information was uncovered\u200b by the watchdog group OpenTheBooks.<\/p>\n<p>The grant&#8217;s purpose is for Gender\u2063 Spectrum to \u2062conduct a thorough evaluation of\u200c the effectiveness of its programs. One of these \u2062programs includes the \u2062creation \u200cof a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openthebooks.com\/assets\/1\/6\/8.23_Fillable_Student_Gender_Support_Plan_2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">six-page\u2063 form<\/a> for students \u2062to submit their preferred pronouns to school districts. It also asks whether school staff\u2063 should conceal \u200dthe use \u200cof these pronouns\u200d from parents.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s not always \u2064the case that caregivers are supportive of their child\u2019s gender, their gender journey, in that case, if parents are not\u2064 supportive or if the child is not out,\u2062 that\u2019s not necessarily someone who will be part of the gender support \u200cteam,&#8221; said Director of \u2064Training Carla Pena at the group\u2019s annual Gender Spectrum Family Conference last year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During the\u2064 conference, Naomi Cruz, the manager of family and educational programming, delivered a\u2063 presentation titled &#8220;Intro to\u200d Neoidentities\u200c and Neopronouns.&#8221; The presentation introduced pronouns that describe gender \u2063as a personal, aesthetic, synesthetic, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-awards-grant-to-nonprofit-encouraging-kids-to-identify-as-foxgender-teaching-schools-to-hide-it\/\" title=\"California grants funds to nonprofit promoting 'Foxgender' identity and instructing schools to conceal it.\">head-space oriented experience<\/a>. These pronouns include\u2063 &#8220;noun genders&#8221; like \u2063&#8221;foxgender,&#8221; &#8220;moongender,&#8221; and &#8220;rockgender,&#8221; as well as &#8220;emojiself pronouns&#8221; such as &#8220;:)self.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Our youth are becoming more and more independent regarding their self-expression. Instead of trying to \u2062fit into premade boxes, they\u2019re using their\u200d unique identities \u2063and forms of expression to create terminology to describe\u2062 themselves,&#8221; the\u200d presentation stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The presentation also emphasized that youth are on a &#8220;gender journey&#8221; and that their\u200b genders may change over time. However, \u200cparents should affirm these identities unless they appropriate a racial, ethnic, religious, or disability\u200c group they do\u2062 not belong to. In such cases, parents are encouraged to suggest alternative terms or pronouns that hold personal\u2062 meaning without appropriating closed identities and pronouns.<\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear why youth do not \u200dneed permission from foxes before appropriating their identities.<\/p>\n<p>Although Gender Spectrum aims to expand its programs nationwide, it appears that the organization\u2064 has <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230709131754\/https:\/\/www.genderspectrum.org\/work\/conference-and-symposium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">taken down its website<\/a> after attracting attention.<\/p>\n<p>OpenTheBooks discovered that California previously granted $1.1 million to Gender\u2063 Spectrum for a pilot project between 2017 and 2022. \u2064The grant\u200d was extended \u2064until\u2064 2026, with the fee doubled last year.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;As a\u2064 result of our work, students who fall \u2064all along\u200b the \u2063gender spectrum\u2063 will see their experience recognized and\u200c affirmed in their school,&#8221; the initial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openthebooks.com\/assets\/1\/6\/8.23_16-10528_Executed_1229_1of2-3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">grant\u200b application<\/a> stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The grant application claimed that this approach would reduce mental illness among \u200cLGBTQ children, citing that \u206441.5% of transgender youth have\u2062 seriously considered \u200bsuicide. It also stated that cisgender young people would have a better understanding of gender, leading to increased comfort with their \u2064own gender expression.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about evidence\u2064 of the program&#8217;s effectiveness, the application admitted that they lacked the resources to measure its impact. However,\u200b initial findings from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-pays-nonprofit-encouraging-kids-to-identify-as-foxgender-teaching-schools-to-hide-it\/\" title=\"California funds nonprofit promoting 'foxgender' identity, instructing schools to conceal it.\">individual \u200dschools showed positive results<\/a> in \u200cterms of knowledge, intent to use gender-inclusive practices, and recognition of the importance of becoming a gender-inclusive school.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the application did not \u200cmention whether \u2062students became less suicidal as a result of the program.<\/p>\n<p>Gender Spectrum was previously involved in the \u2062creation of the &#8220;National Sex Education \u200dStandards.&#8221; These standards suggest\u200d that by second grade, students should be able to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meet-the-cdc-backed-groups-that-want-to-teach-trans-ideology-to-kindergartners\/\" title=\"Meet the CDC-Backed Groups That Want To Teach Trans Ideology to Kindergartners\">define gender identity<\/a>, and by fifth grade, they should understand the role of puberty blockers, according to \u2064OpenTheBooks.<\/p>\n<p>Despite \u200cthe higher suicide rates associated \u200cwith nontraditional\u2064 gender identities, Kim Westheimer, an official \u2064from Gender Spectrum, expressed\u200c at the 2022 conference that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youth-activists-who-lectured-dianne-feinstein-in-2019-are-back-and-now-they-say-they-wont-leave-until-she-meets-demands\/\" title=\"Youth Activists Who Lectured Dianne Feinstein In 2019 Are Back And Now They Say They Won\u2019t Leave Until She Meets Demands\">allowing young people<\/a> to\u200d explore their identities and try on new ones is a positive\u200b thing.<\/p>\n<p>OpenTheBooks \u200calso discovered that the organization \u200breceived $297,000 in coronavirus loans from the federal government.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;How many taxpayers can tolerate paying for their children to be confronted with such \u2062controversial and confusing material?&#8221; questioned Adam \u2063Andrzejewski, the founder\u2064 of OpenTheBooks, in an interview with\u200c The\u200b Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Recently, California\u200d lawmakers introduced a bill titled \u200d&#8221;Instructional materials: removing instructional materials and curriculum: diversity.&#8221; This bill aims to prevent \u2062local school boards from refusing to teach radical content, including gender materials produced by California&#8217;s Democratic \u200cGovernor Gavin Newsom&#8217;s wife. She has earned money by creating content \u2064that is later used in the state&#8217;s schools.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate incident, a Virginia mother <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/mother-of-sex-trafficked-teen-files-lawsuit-after-girl-was-held-in-boys-group-home-to-affirm-her-trans-identity\">filed a lawsuit<\/a> \u2064against a school district for \u200dfacilitating and concealing her 14-year-old child&#8217;s gender transition. The mother alleges that this led to her child being sex-trafficked to Baltimore and held captive by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-latest-arrest-its-clear-that-drag-queen-story-hour-is-a-haven-for-child-predators\/\" title=\"After Latest Arrest, It\u2019s Clear That \u2018Drag Queen Story Hour\u2019 Is A Haven For Child Predators\">registered sex offender<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California has granted a nine-year, $2.3 million award to Gender Spectrum, a nonprofit that promotes diverse gender identities like &#8220;foxgender&#8221; among students. Additionally, the organization educates school districts on ways to keep this information concealed from parents. The California Department of Public Health is responsible for this funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":2016180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/2016179","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\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}