Sheri Few, who leads United States Parents Involved in Education, tells AFN the textbook publishers are two of the biggest names in the business, Scholastic and Pearson.
“We hear so much today about gender, transgenderism and gender ideology,” she says, “but the thing is, the Left made up this term ‘gender.’”
The words “sex” and “gender” are technically interchangeable for male and female, but the term “gender” was captured by homosexual and transgender activists.
According to an online article by Planned Parenthood, the word sex is a “label” to identify male or female. The word gender is “more complex,” because it’s a “social and legal status, and set of expectations from society, about behaviors, characteristics, and thoughts.”
Human Rights Campaign, the homosexual lobbying group, provides an online glossary of terms that include “gender expression,” “gender identity,” “gender non-conforming,” and “genderqueer.”
In the glossary, written for schools and their students, “birth assignment” is substituted for the word sex.
Butcher rips Scholastic and 'Resource Guide'
Jonathan Butcher, an education expert at The Heritage Foundation, blasted Scholastic in a Daily Signal op-ed published earlier this month. He said the publishing giant offers a “Resource Guide” with its own glossary of made-up activist words. Those words include “agender,” a person who says he or she doesn’t claim a gender, and “allocishet,” which defines a person who is “privileged” because of their gender.
Butcher writes that Pearson “quietly removed” much of its online gender-related material in 2023, after a Heritage Foundation report exposed it, but Scholastic is still marketing its materials to schools.
"In my opinion,” says Few, “these books ought to be labeled fiction, and they need to be rejected by parents and school board members because they're not teaching children the truth.”
In Butcher’s article, the Heritage expert says concerned parents and teachers can ask the school district’s curriculum coordinator if Scholastic’s gender-related materials are being purchased.
Since it is the public school boards that approve the purchases, they should be urged to reject any gender-based materials for the classrooms, he says.
