Kindergartners are among those at Hillside Elementary School who are learning to "describe characters of different identities" like cisgender, transgender, and non-binary.
Word got out about the gender identity class when a copy of the course started to circulate on social media. According to Fox, it is meant to promote "inclusion."
Jason McGuire of the New York Families Foundation says this is consistent with the State Board of Regents' expansion of affirming transgenderism to all students, approved in June of 2023, and he thinks it should outrage parents.
"It's been kind of a tone-deaf response to the recent election," he tells AFN.
Voters across the country, including in New York, have been rejecting just how radical the transgender movement has become. Even though the new Trump administration may improve things on the federal level, McGuire expects the state level will get worse.
"What often happens with states like New York and California and other places that tend to be more blue, that pendulum will swing," he notes. "When the federal government moves in a more positive direction for conservatives across the country, there's a backlash in deeper blue states."
He insists parents must be involved in their children's lives.
"They cannot expect the school systems of today are what they were back in the '50s and '60s, and they have to be engaged," says McGuire. "These schools are coming for their kids, and so parents of New York had better buckle up if they're in public ed. and really ought to be considering other educational options for their kids."
In other areas of the country, however, McGuire expects to see a wave of parental empowerment.
