Christopher Rufo, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute | Realchrisrufo/Facebook
Christopher Rufo, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute | Realchrisrufo/Facebook
The Evanston-Skokie School District 65 has adopted a "radical gender curriculum" for prekindergarten through third grade.
"SCOOP: The Evanston/Skokie School District has adopted a radical gender curriculum that encourages PK-3 students to celebrate the transgender flag, break the 'gender binary’ established by white "colonizers," and experiment with neo-pronouns such as ‘ze,' ‘zir,’ and ‘tree,’" Chris Rufo, a senior fellow and director of the initiative on critical race theory at the Manhattan Institute, posted on Twitter.
The school curriculum has been called radical for its curriculum that advocates teaching young children about transgenderism and LGBT lifestyles including lessons regarding the rainbow flag in which young children are asked to identify their sexuality by picking a color of the flag. Under that curriculum, 4-year-olds are taught sexual education and gender indignity, 5-year-olds are provided lessons on transgender identity. First graders are provided instruction on pronouns including "she," "tree," "they," "he," "her," "him," "them," "ze," and "zir." Older students are told white Europeans imposed a "Western and Christian ideological framework" on minorities.
"In pre-kindergarten, the children are taught an "introduction" to the rainbow and transgender flags," Rufo also tweeted. "Teachers then provide the basic concepts of gender identity, explaining that "we call people with more than one gender or no gender, non-binary or queer."
Rufo wrote on the "radical gender curriculum" in City Journal.
"Queer theory has made its way into public school curriculums for children as young as four. This development should be subject to robust political debate, not denial and dismissal from the political Left," Rufo wrote.
Rufo is also the founder and director of Battlefront, a public policy research center, and a former executive director at the Documentary Foundation, where "America Lost" was one of the films he directed for PBS.
The Evanston-Skokie School District 65 oversees the education of 7,894 students.
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