Target Corporation’s recent collaboration with K-12 education group GLSEN, has raised eyebrows. According to Fox News Digital, the partnership’s focus is on encouraging schools to adopt policies that could potentially sideline parents from their child’s gender transition process within the school premises, distribute explicit books, and weave gender ideology into every stratum of the public school curriculum.
Target stated, “GLSEN leads the movement in creating affirming… and anti-racist spaces for LGBTQIA+ students. We are proud of 10+ years of collaboration with GLSEN and continue to support their mission.” This big-box retailer also annually contributes financially to GLSEN.
GLSEN, determined to integrate gender ideology into all school subjects, provides educators with strategies to make even math lessons more “inclusive of trans and non-binary identities.” This can be accomplished by incorporating “they/them” pronouns into word problems.
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GLSEN further suggests that teachers should step in when students create surveys or graphs related to sex and gender, ensuring the ideology endorsed by GLSEN is included. “When students are creating their own surveys, if they want to include data for biological sex, teachers need to be sure they include both intersex and other as choices,” they advise.
“[A]nd if the students want to include data for gender, a variety of choices need to be included, such as agender, genderfluid, female, male, nonbinary, transman, transwoman, and other,” a lesson plan elaborated.
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Not stopping at mathematics, GLSEN also offers guidance on infusing gender ideology into science education. A teacher shared their experience, “It took me three years of teaching middle-school science before feeling comfortable enough to come out to my students as a trans man. We were starting a unit focused on how identity impacts the practice of science, including the ways that specific groups are marginalized by normative ideas. In the introduction to the unit, I shared my personal experience of… the ways that trans people are often erased by the language used by scientists and medical professionals to describe bodies, patients, and health practices.”
So far, Target Corporation has gifted at least $2.1 million to GLSEN, which offers guidance to students and school districts on how to conceal gender transitions from parents.
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#Target helps fund GLSEN – that supports child abuse (gender change w/o parent consent).
Has Target not learned from Bud Lite?
Does Target WANT to go out of business?
Shareholders losing $$ from boycotts: sue Target executives for gross mismanagement.https://t.co/Maur25hJvy
— Mo Brooks (@RepMoBrooks) May 26, 2023
Its district policy states, “[The local education agency] shall ensure that all personally identifiable and medical information relating to transgender and nonbinary students is kept confidential… Staff or educators shall not disclose any information that may reveal a student’s gender identity to others, including parents or guardian… This disclosure must be discussed with the student, prior to any action.”
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Parents from across the political spectrum have voiced their outrage over school policies that could potentially conceal their child’s gender transition. In certain instances, schools have even allegedly deceived parents.
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Jessica Tapia, a Christian teacher from California, lost her job after refusing to adhere to a district’s gender policy, which she believed would have forced her to deceive parents. She shared, “I knew immediately, like in my gut, in my heart, in my soul, that there was a decision I had to make because, you know, these two things were totally butting heads.”
Several organizations within the U.S. advocate for hiding social transitions in public schools, a viewpoint that’s gaining traction among some Democrats.
The Biden Foundation, currently defunct, once partnered with Gender Spectrum, offering “gender support plans” that could potentially help schools build a system of concealment, according to an earlier report from Fox News Digital.
A school district in Colorado has reportedly implemented such a “support plan” to discreetly handle students’ gender transitions without parents’ knowledge, as per documents reviewed by Fox News Digital.
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I’m changing my mind about @Target; it gets even worse the more you look and deserves to be boycotted. @GLSEN‘s stated objective is to inject as much of this nonsense into our schools as possible and Target openly supports them. pic.twitter.com/OFqYg9Z8cD
— Federalist Musket🇺🇸 (@Patriot_Musket) May 22, 2023
“When a student elects to transition during the school year, the school should schedule a meeting with the student and parents/guardians (provided they are involved in the process), to ascertain their desires and concerns,” the guidelines stated.
Target’s support for LGBTQ Pride, manifested through its merchandise, has incited public backlash. This caused the retailer to move their collection from prominent display in several stores, in order to avert a “Bud Light situation.” Many Target stores carry “tuck friendly” bathing suits for transgender individuals and mugs labeled “gender fluid,” among other items. The corporation has faced criticism, particularly from conservatives, over the presence of these items, especially children’s products, in their stores.
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Target’s partner for Pride Month, GLSEN, advocates for policies that would allow biological males to participate in women’s sports, a stance not broadly supported by Americans.
“Students shall be permitted to participate in all physical education, athletics, and other extracurricular activities according to their gender identity. Participation shall not be conditioned by requiring legal or medical documentation,” stated GLSEN in a sample district policy.
Moreover, GLSEN’s “Rainbow Library” provides explicit books free of charge to full-time school staff.
Among the books offered to 9th-12th graders is a title called “Beyond Magenta.” The book, which describes a 6-year-old as “sexually mature” and details explicit sexual activities, has been branded as disturbing.
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Target’s VP of Brand Management is on the Board of Directors of GLSEN- an org that provides LGBTQIA+ curriculum for K-12 teachers. Target is very proud of their partnership w GLSEN and mention it in description of kids “Pride” clothes @Heritage @conservmillen @MattWalshBlog pic.twitter.com/AsYWbwKFcg
— Helen Herndon (@helen_herndon) May 25, 2023
The book reveals, “I was sexually mature. What I mean by sexually mature is that I knew about sex. From six and up, I used to kiss other guys in my neighborhood, make out with them, and perform oral sex on them. I liked it. I used to love oral. And I touched their you-know-whats. We were really young, but that’s what we did… Guys used to hit on me – perverts – pedophiles. I’d see guys giving me a look, and it kinda creeped me out. They would touch themselves, saying, ‘Come here, sweetie.’ I ran away… By then I hated being a kid, I had a grown-up’s mind and thought I was an adult.”
In addition, GLSEN provides elementary teachers with lesson plans focusing on gender identity and pronouns.
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“As an intentionally K-12 organization, we understand the importance of beginning conversations about LGBTQ people and families in elementary school,” GLSEN explained. “[I]t is critical for elementary schools to establish a foundation of respect and understanding for all people.”
An identity lesson for young students discusses topics such as pansexuality, body size, and non-binary identities.
“Begin the lesson by telling students, ‘Today we’ll be talking about ‘identity’ which is a big word that has to do with who we are, and all the things that make us unique and special. There are lots of different pieces that fit together to make up our identity,'” GLSEN advises.
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