School District
Halts Decision on Planned Parenthood LGBT-Inclusive Sex Ed Curriculum
by Dr. Susan Berry 3 Jul 2017
School officials
in the Spokane, Washington school district have halted a vote on a Planned
Parenthood-designed middle school sex education curriculum that includes teaching children about LGBTQ sexuality and gender ideology.
The curriculum, titled Get
Real, teaches children about LGBTQ issues and terminology, and
meets the state of Washington’s new sex education requirements. The program was
developed by Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts (PPLM) and published by ETR.
Get Real is a Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE)
program that assumes young people will be sexually active.
In Grade 6, the Get Real curriculum says it
introduces students to the “key Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) skills”
they will supposedly need to be able to discuss sexual relationships and how to
avoid pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.
According to the program’s table of contents, in Grade 7,
students also discuss sexual identity and “examine the myths and facts about
sexual orientation.” They also learn how to use a condom and review the use of
hormonal contraception, including emergency contraception after sexual
intercourse.
In Grade 8, one of the Get Real activities is a
presentation by someone who is living with HIV, and students are asked to write
a thank-you letter to the speaker.
In a press release in 2014, Planned Parenthood announced
that Get Real “helps kids wait until they are older to have sex.”
“We are extremely proud the research shows our Get
Real curriculum works,” said Jen Slonaker, vice president of education
and training at PPLM. “Among students who received Get Real,
16% fewer boys and 15% fewer girls had sex compared to their peers who did not
take Get Real.”
While Planned Parenthood touts the program has a focus on
abstinence from sex and parental involvement, the abortion giant’s many other
endeavors have been inconsistent with those stated aims.
For example, in 2014 – the same year Planned Parenthood
boasted about its Get Real sex education program – when asked if
“promiscuity is a bad thing,” the organization responded,
“There’s no standard definition of what it means.”
Planned Parenthood continued its explanation by defending
promiscuous women:
Unfortunately some “promiscuous” women are judged in a
negative way by society. But “promiscuous” men are more accepted in society,
which is totally unfair.
Why do I keep putting “promiscuous” in quotes? Because
there’s no standard definition of what it means. Some people might think that a
person is promiscuous if he or she is involved with multiple sexual partners at
the same time. Other people think a person is promiscuous if they have a
certain number of partners over the course of a few years or longer. And for
some people, promiscuity doesn’t necessarily mean having sex – to them, a
person who goes on a lot of dates or makes out with a lot of people might be
“promiscuous,” too.
So “promiscuity” is a word that can refer to a whole
variety of different sexual behaviors. But in general, it’s a word that’s used
to judge or shame people. And, again, it’s a term that’s most often directed at
women.
Since the number of sexual partners you’ve had doesn’t
say anything about your character, your morals, or your personality – or about
anything at all really– there’s nothing bad or unhealthy about having a big
number of sexual partners.
Pro-life organization Live Action also produced a video in
2014 that highlights Planned Parenthood’s normalization of Bondage, Discipline,
Sadism, Masochism (BDSM) for young people.
Similarly, in 2015, Alliance Defending Freedom prepared
a summary of Planned Parenthood’s history of failing to report child sexual
abuse.
More recently, in April Planned Parenthood released a
video titled How to Tell Someone You Have an STD, in which the group
minimizes the significance of sexually transmitted diseases.
“So, you’ve got an STD,” the narrator begins in the
video. “Guess what? So do lots of other people. Half of all people will get an
STD at some point in their life. Seriously. Not kidding – half. It’s OK.”
The narrator then goes on to say that “sex lives aren’t
over” because someone has an STD, and encourages the young person with an STD
to tell his “casual hook up” about his infection.
“Telling someone you have an STD might seem scary, but
it’s important that you do,” the narrator says. “You can totally do this. It
might be tempting to avoid a tough conversation with an ex or casual hook up.”
The video then switches to a scene in which a young man
is texting his gay hook up partner about the fact he has chlamydia.
When the topic is herpes, the video depicts a lesbian
hook up. One of them stops the sexual activity and tells her partner she has
herpes and says, “It’s not a big deal.”
“Honestly the worst part about having herpes is listening
to everybody talk about it like it’s the plague,” she continues. “Most of us
who actually have it know that it’s not that bad.”
Ryan Bomberger, president of pro-life educational group
the Radiance Foundation, writes
at Townhall about why Planned Parenthood should not be invited into
public schools:
Our nation is facing an STD epidemic. The 18
percent failure rate of condoms is alarming. Birth control
pills, shots, implants, rings, and IUDs don’t prevent STDs at
all. Abstinence is the only 100 percent effective way to
avoid STDs, HIV, HPV and unintended pregnancy. Should a business that profits
from selling abortions, birth control and STD treatments be teaching our teens
that there’s nothing wrong with promiscuity?
Last year, the state of Washington
released new health
and physical education standards that promote gender fluid and transgender
ideology throughout grades K-12. A “core idea” in the standards is that children
in kindergarten need to “understand there are many ways to express gender.”
The standards name “self-identity” as a topic
of the “core idea” of the K-12 curriculum, and define gender as a “social
construct based on emotional, behavioral, and cultural characteristics attached
to a person’s assigned biological sex.”
The Washington standards are based on the Whole
School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) Model, which supposedly aims
to “improve each child’s cognitive, physical, social, and emotional
development.”
The state’s superintendent’s office says the state
utilized the National Sexuality Education Standards, K-12 (NSES) as a
resource for the new standards.
Advisory members of the NSES include Robert McGarry,
Ed.D., director of training and curriculum development of the Gay, Lesbian and
Straight Education Network (GLSEN); Monica Rodriguez, MS, president of the
Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS);
Jennifer Heitel Yakush, public policy director of SIECUS; and Leslie M. Kantor,
MPH, director of national education initiatives of Planned Parenthood
Federation of America.
GLSEN was founded by gay
activist and former Obama administration “Safe Schools Czar,” Kevin Jennings.
According to its website, GLSEN says its goal is to
“ensure that every member of every school community is valued and respected
regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.” The
activist organization also states it seeks to build a “global movement.”
In December of 2015, Planned Parenthood announced that it
was working with GLSEN, the Human Rights Campaign, and SIECUS for
LGBT-inclusive sex education programs in schools:
Leftwing organization SIECUS expressed its anger earlier
this month when President Donald Trump appointed Valerie
Huber, an abstinence sex education advocate, to the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS).
“The Trump Administration continues to demonstrate their
complete disregard and disdain for science and human rights with the
appointment of an individual who has an ethically questionable history and ties
to anti-LGBTQ advocates in a leadership position within HHS,” said Chitra
Panjabi, SIECUS president and CEO, adding:
Valerie Huber pushed a religiously motivated agenda to
promote false and misleading information about sexual health and deny young
people the education and skills they need to lead healthy lives. The people
served by the programs within the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary deserve
more than a science-denialist who has built a career on perpetuating fear,
shame, and stigma of sexuality for our nation’s young people.
Huber’s appointment came just weeks after the release of
Trump’s Fiscal year 2018 budget, which, Ascend, the organization Huber
previously led, says, calls for “a dramatic change in federal sex
education policy.”
Trump’s budget proposes maintaining funding for Sexual
Risk Avoidance (SRA) education – a public health term Huber prefers over
“abstinence” –and eliminating the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPP), a
CSE approach that was initiated early on in the Obama administration.
In his proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2017, former
President Barack Obama eliminated all funding for abstinence education.
Upon Huber’s appointment, Planned Parenthood – which receives
federal grants for teaching sex education in schools – tweeted its disapproval:
Last year, more than 60 leaders expressed concern
about the mental health of American children forced to cope with the former
Obama administration’s transgender bathroom policy, which was recently reversed by the
Trump administration and sent back to the states.
Among those concerned was the American College of
Pediatricians, which has asserted that gender ideology is harmful to
children and that, by promoting gender fluidity, the Obama administration was
complicit in masking serious mental health issues in children.
The College says:
No one is born with a gender. Everyone is born with a
biological sex. Gender (an awareness and sense of oneself as male or female) is
a sociological and psychological concept; not an objective biological one…
A person’s belief that he or she is something they are
not is, at best, a sign of confused thinking. When an otherwise healthy
biological boy believes he is a girl, or an otherwise healthy biological girl
believes she is a boy, an objective psychological problem exists that lies in
the mind not the body, and it should be treated as such. These children suffer
from gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria (GD), formerly listed as Gender
Identity Disorder (GID), is a recognized mental disorder in the most recent
edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric
Association (DSM-V)…
“According to the DSM-V, as many as 98% of gender
confused boys and 88% of gender confused girls eventually accept their
biological sex after naturally passing through puberty,” the College asserts.
“Conditioning children into believing that a lifetime of chemical and surgical
impersonation of the opposite sex is normal and healthful is child abuse.”
Similarly, Youth Trans Critical Professionals –
a group of self-described “left-leaning, open-minded, and pro-gay rights”
professionals – say it is
risky to affirm young people who claim to be transgender and provide them with
hormonal and surgical treatments to change their bodies.
“Our concern is with medical transition for children and
youth,” say Youth Trans Critical Professionals on their website. “We feel that
unnecessary surgeries and/or hormonal treatments which have not been proven
safe in the long-term represent significant risks for young people.”
“Policies that encourage — either directly or indirectly
— such medical treatment for young people who may not be able to evaluate the
risks and benefits are highly suspect, in our opinion,” says the
organization, which is composed of psychologists, social workers, doctors, and
other professionals.
The professionals express “alarm” that, because of the current
trendiness of being transgendered, many young people have decided they are a
member of the opposite sex simply as a result of “binges” on social media
sites. They describe a process of transgender activists recruiting these young
people for their “cult.”
“There is evidence that vulnerable young people are being
actively recruited and coached on such sites to believe that they are trans,”
the professionals say.
Despite such potential mental health problems associated
with gender confusion, children who claim to be the opposite sex are no longer
legally permitted to see a therapist to engage in “conversion therapy” in some
states. Youth Trans Critical Professionals sees such state prohibitions as
dangerous since they may block the process of critical thinking and evaluation
of the young person regarding the reasons why he or she desires to become a
transgender member of the opposite sex.
“While the sentiment behind this legislation is laudable,
in some cases, it is being interpreted to mean that therapists cannot explore
gender identity with a youth who is professing to be trans,” argue the
professionals. “This would mean we can’t ask why; we can’t explore underlying
mental health issues; we can’t consider the symbolic nature of the gender
dysphoria; and we can’t look at possible confounding issues such as social
media use or social contagion.”
The Get Real sex education curriculum was expected
to replace the Spokane school district’s current human growth and development
program, reports
the Union-Bulletin. The Spokane Public Schools board was scheduled to
vote on the issue last Wednesday, but one of the 15 members of the Human Growth
and Development Citizen Advisory Committee rescinded support of the Planned
Parenthood curriculum.
Additionally, two other committee members were not
present for the vote, said Pastor John Repsold, who plans to vote against the
new curriculum. Repsold added he believes the delayed vote is a strategy “to
assuage a little bit of angst that’s in the community about this.”
The Human Growth committee is expected to reconvene in
the fall and review the Get Real curriculum again.
“PPFA (Planned Parenthood Federation of America)
perpetuates the need for their ‘services,’” writes Bomberger. “They target our
young, and public schools are more than willing to expose students to the
medical malfeasance. Our teens deserve much better protection than this.”
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Cecile Richards
is the president of the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America, and was a grant overseer for the Turner Foundation.
Note: Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Planned Parenthood Federation of
America, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a friend of Michael Douglas, was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society, and a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), the People for the
American Way, the Sundance Institute,
the Robin Hood Foundation, the Harlem Children's Zone, and the International Rescue Committee.
Jessica Tuchman Mathews was the president of
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), is a
director at the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think
tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United States in war)
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Michael Douglas
is a director at the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), and a friend of George Soros.
Ted
Turner is a co-chairman for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), a member of Kappa Sigma, and the chairman for the Turner Foundation.
Michael E. Lowry
is a member of Kappa Sigma, and was
the Washington state government
governor.
Washington
state government is the government for the State of Washington.
Cecile Richards
was a grant overseer for the Turner
Foundation, and is the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Sam
Nunn is a co-chairman & CEO for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), and Michelle
Nunn’s father.
Michelle Nunn is
Sam Nunn’s daughter, and was a board
member for Be the Change.
Kevin Jennings
was the president & CEO for Be the
Change, an assistant deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of Education, the founder & executive director
for the Gay, Lesbian and Straight
Education Network, and is an executive director for the Arcus Foundation.
Arcus Foundation
was a funder for the Planned Parenthood
Federation of America.
Cecile Richards
is the president of the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America, the president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, was a grant overseer for the Turner Foundation, and the founder
& president of America Votes.
Planned
Parenthood Action Fund is a national partner with America Votes.
National
Education Association is a national partner with America Votes.
Reg
Weaver was the president of the National
Education Association, and is a director at the People for the American Way.
People
for the American Way is a national partner with America Votes.
Margery Tabankin
is a director at the People for the
American Way, and the treasurer for the Barbra Streisand Foundation.
Barbra
Streisand Foundation was a funder for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Norman
Lear is a director at the People for
the American Way, and married to Lyn
Davis Lear.
Lyn Davis Lear
is married to Norman Lear, a trustee
at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
and a trustee at the Sundance Institute.
Barbra Streisand
was a trustee at
the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
and is the founder of the Barbra
Streisand Foundation.
Robert Redford
is the founder & president for the Sundance
Institute, and a member of the Kappa
Sigma.
Michael E. Lowry
is a member of Kappa Sigma, and was
the Washington state government
governor.
Washington
state government is the government for the State of Washington.
Ted
Turner is a member of Kappa Sigma,
a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), and the chairman for the Turner Foundation.
Cecile Richards
was a grant overseer for the Turner
Foundation, and the founder & president of America Votes, is the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
Human
Rights Campaign is a national partner with America Votes.
Daniel
S. Loeb Family Third Point Foundation was a funder for the Human Rights Campaign, and the Robin Hood Foundation.
Daniel S. Loeb is
the president of the Daniel S. Loeb
Family Third Point Foundation, the chairman for the Success Academy Charter Schools, and supported same-sex marriage in New York.
Success Academy Charter Schools
Success Academy
Charter Schools[39] (SACS),[40]
after trustees applied for a charter in 2005,[41]
was operating in 2006 with Success Academy Harlem 1, then known as Harlem Success
Academy 1.[16]
Founders Joel Greenblatt and John Petry chose Harlem as the first community
because "many/most of the Harlem schools have underperformed for years, if
not decades."[42]
Charters have been authorized by the State University of New York (SUNY)
Charter Schools Institute,[43]
generally.[44]
Future plans include opening 30–60 schools in total[5]
or an "open-ended" number (according to Moskowitz)[45]
in 10 years,[16]
which some say may be too fast,[16]
which Moskowitz said depends primarily on "personnel",[45]
and which is subject to the State's limit or cap on how many charters may be
granted to all school organizations in total.[46]
In 2012, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg planned to ask the Success Academies to expand faster.
nstitutional
"autonomy"[47]
is "the single greatest ingredient of success",[48]
in that "in exchange for freedom"[48]
"["charters" are to] deliver student achievement results",[48]
because "[without the] freedom ... you would get the same results
district schools get", according to Moskowitz in testimony to Congress in 2010.[48]
Relevance
of poverty
Diane Ravitch said that
poverty impedes children's education.[49]
Former City schools chancellor Joel Klein said that has been discredited
by Success Academies' achievements with students from low-income families.[27][50]
Moskowitz said that Success Academies have shown that "the problem is not
the children"[51]
and that the grownups have to deliver education.[51]
In comparison with the multiservice approach of Harlem Children's Zone, Success Academy uses a single-service model: by
educating children so they can go to college, Moskowitz said "they will
get out of poverty."
Michael R.
Bloomberg was the New York (NY)
mayor, a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, a donor for the Robin
Hood Foundation, an advocate for the ONE
Campaign, and is Emma Bloomberg’s
father.
Emma Bloomberg
is Michael R. Bloomberg’s daughter,
a director at the Robin Hood Foundation,
and was the chief of staff for the Robin
Hood Foundation.
Clifford S.
Asness was a leadership council member for the Robin Hood Foundation, supported same-sex marriage in New York, and is a director at the International Rescue Committee.
International
Rescue Committee is a partner with the ONE
Campaign.
Bono
is a co-founder for the ONE Campaign,
and attended George Soros’s 2013
wedding reception.
George
Soros was married in 2013 & Bono
attended his 2013 wedding reception, the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society, and is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International
Rescue Committee, and the Robin Hood
Foundation.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Morton H. Halperin
is a senior adviser for the Open Society
Foundations, and a director at the ONE
Campaign.
International
Rescue Committee is a partner with the ONE
Campaign.
Clifford S.
Asness is a director at the International
Rescue Committee, was a leadership council member for the Robin Hood Foundation, and supported same-sex marriage in New York.
Daniel
S. Loeb Family Third Point Foundation was a funder for the Robin Hood Foundation, and Human Rights Campaign.
Daniel S. Loeb is
the president of the Daniel S. Loeb
Family Third Point Foundation, the chairman for the Success Academy Charter Schools, and supported same-sex marriage in New York.
Human
Rights Campaign is a national partner with America Votes.
What does the Q in LGBTQ stand for?
What
does the 'Q' stand for?
Q can mean either 'questioning' or 'queer,' Fred Sainz, a
spokesman for the Human Rights
Campaign, an organization that lobbies for LGBT rights,
told USA TODAY Network. Either interpretation is accepted, he said.
Cecile Richards
was the founder & president of America
Votes, a grant overseer for the Turner
Foundation, and is the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
Planned
Parenthood Action Fund is a national partner with America Votes.
National
Education Association is a national partner with America Votes.
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