The San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) is reportedly teaching this to young children to stop students as early as kindergarten from "name-calling and using anti-gay and anti-trans slurs."
"At a very young age, children have already been introduced to information about LGBTQIA+ people, which is often based on misinformation and negative stereotypes," says the FAQ guide for educators and families from the district's Equity and Belonging website, which uses LGBTQ activist materials.
The LGBTQIA+ Terminology-Student Panel Welcome slides, for example, talk about nine different gender identities. There is also a slide about "dead naming" and another from The Trevor Project that lists 28 "LGBTQ Youth Sexual Orientations" like "aegosexual," "queer demisexual," "heteroflexible," and "semi-sexual."
"California schools have been pushing this radical gender and sexual ideology for a long time," notes Greg Burt of the California Family Council. "It's coming out of the state capitol, so seeing it actually implemented in San Diego is not surprising."
He says parents across the state were raising alarms about this "age-inappropriate content" long before this particular story broke.
"What's different now is that we just had the Supreme Court clearly affirm that parents have a right to opt their children out," Burt relays.
In Mahmoud v. Taylor out of Maryland, the Supreme Court said parents have the right to opt their kids out of any performances that are interfering with their ability to pass along their religious values to their own children.
Burt says that includes "all of this craziness about unlimited genders and sexual orientations."
SDUSD, which threatens to sanction teachers for refusing to use students' preferred names and pronouns, claims it can continue exposing children to these mature and disputed concepts because it is "not trying to change the religious beliefs or ideologies of any person" but rather "to change how we respond to the most vulnerable populations that we serve."
