San Diego schools want to ditch ‘gender binary’ they claim dominates racial, sexual minorities
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San Diego schools want to indoctrinate students to ditch 'gender binary' and, instead, use woke terms like ‘genderqueer.’ ‘non-binary’ and ‘pansexual.'
Christopher F. Rufo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. Sign up for his newsletter here.
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."