San Diego Schools Gender Extremism | City Journal
San Diego Unified is the latest school district to adopt the principles of academic queer theory and translate them into K-12 pedagogy, with the ultimate goal of dismantling heteronormativity and promoting a constellation of new sexual identities, such as genderqueer, non-binary, pansexual, and two-spirit.
I have obtained a range of publicly accessible documents from San Diego Unified that reveal the district s new ideology. The materials follow the basic premise of queer theory: white Europeans created a false gender binary and used the categories of male and female to dominate racial and sexual minorities. A San Diego Unified training for facilitators of LGBTQ student groups argues that this system of heteronormativity forces students to conform to these norms: they are assigned a sex at birth, pressed into the identities of man and woman, and expected to have heterosexual relationships culminating in marriage (and kids). This gender binary, however, is arbitrary, socially constructed, and harmful. It is, in the words of the presentation, a limited system [that] excludes and oppresses trans, nonbinary, intersex, and gender-nonconforming people.
Oh dear. I’m glad I don’t have any kids in San Diego public schools. This is the most urbanized part of San Diego County, so it doesn’t include us out chere in the county. But still, many, many parents in the city will not be happy about this.