A NYC elementary school has opened to teach ‘gender identity’ lessons to preschoolers

A New York City elementary school has been accused of teaching kindergarteners a gender identity class after a copy of the lesson began circulating on social media.

Hillside Elementary School, part of the Hastings-on-Hudson Union Free District, has been teaching a “gender curriculum” to elementary school children in an effort to promote “inclusion” in the school, according to a description of the course reviewed by Fox News. Digital.

The lesson includes showing preschoolers pictures of other children used to “introduce vocabulary to describe different characters,” including teaching them the words “cisgender, transgender, and non-binary,” according to a message to parents about the curriculum.

“Our gender curriculum focuses on Hillside respect and aims to foster conversations about gender identity. Students will learn and discuss that there’s a lot you can’t tell about a person just by looking at them,” this kindergarten-level lesson. the description reads.

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“Students will look at pictures of children and talk about what they see and what they think they know about the children in the pictures. Using what they see, we will take the opportunity to introduce vocabulary that describes different characters,” the school writes.

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The “identity” taught to children includes discussing “the gender and pronouns you use,” and that “as we learn and grow, the words we use to describe our gender can also evolve,” as explained by the school.

When asked by Fox News Digital about the curriculum, the Hastings-on-Hudson Union Free District’s communications team said the curriculum has been in place for several years and is based on “Hillside’s core values ​​of respect and promoting the dignity of all students.”

“One 30-minute sex lesson is taught in each classroom once a year. Classes are led by a certified teacher, following a specific set of lessons designed to help students appreciate the full diversity of their classmates,” Superintendent William S. McKersie said in a message to teachers and parents. “Courses were created in accordance with the NYS Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework,” he wrote. The school noted that the curriculum does not address sex or sexuality education.

The school district said that while they usually have lessons posted publicly online, the description of the sex lesson has been removed from the website since the virus emerged.

LibsofTikTok, a social media account known for posting content aimed at calling out the far left, sent a copy of the message to parents, which quickly received millions of views.

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“Our children can’t read or write or understand history, yet the indoctrination of sexism to young people continues,” New York City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino said in a statement on the revised curriculum. “This will not stop until these people face real consequences.”

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Kemberlee Kaye, the managing editor of Critical Race Training in Education, a website that allows viewers to see which schools have been identified as using critical race theory, responded with an X to “get your kids out of public schools.”