Radical Gender Theory Comes to the Heartland | City Journal
Springfield Public Schools, the largest public school district in Missouri, has adopted a radical gender-theory training program that encourages teachers to believe that gender is a universe and to affirm sexual identities such as non-binary, pansexual, and polyamorous.
Last year, I reported on Springfield Public Schools critical race theory training program, which required teachers to locate themselves on an oppression matrix and watch a video of George Floyd s last words. But according to new documents obtained by the Southeastern Legal Foundation as part of a civil rights lawsuit, the district s left-wing training program was not limited to racial ideology: administrators were simultaneously promoting the principles of radical gender theory to school employees.
The training program followed the basic narrative of academic-style gender theory: Western societies have created a heteronormative system that marginalizes racial and sexual minorities. To start, presenters led district employees in a land acknowledgement censuring white settlers for conquering North America. As we begin our training, we want to acknowledge and honor the Native and Indigenous Peoples whose land we currently gather on. Springfield Public Schools is built on ancestral territory of the Osage, Delaware and Kickapoo Nations and Peoples, the statement read. In doing social justice work, it is important we acknowledge the dark history and violence against Native and Indigenous People across the world. In this work, we are committed to promoting, supporting and affirming all communities, especially those that are marginalized.
It is indeed a dark history. And it came right after a lot of other dark history.