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Bob McCoskrie
There are so many ‘LGBT’-focused days, campaigns and flags during the year that it may be easier to mark the days when it’s not being showcased. But following on quickly from Pink Shirt Day is the next one being targeted at children – Pride Week. We warn you about the activities, messaging and books being used to sexualise and confuse your children. There’s nothing to be proud about when you’re sexualising children.
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There are so many LGBT-focused days, campaigns and flags during the year that it may be easier to mark the days when it’s not being showcased.
But following on quickly from Pink Shirt Day is the next one being targeted at children. For a whole week. Maybe it’s time to take your children on a “field trip” for the week.
For those who are still not ‘bowing at the cultural altar’, there is now Schools’ Pride Week Aotearoa for NZ schools being held in a couple of weeks (17th-21st June), overseen by the radical and government-funded charity InsideOUT but promoted by the Ministry of Education.
“Pride” is a political movement which has been marketed as a demonstration of ‘inclusion and diversity’, but it has nothing to do with inclusion and tolerance. It reeks of intolerance and exclusion. It has become the main method use by the aggressive lobbying groups and cultural evangelists who are targeting schools and children with radical and extreme sexuality and gender ideology in the name of “LGBTQIA+++”.
While many adults in society now choose to attend “Pride” events, children should not be exposed to such political and moral indoctrination by their schools.
Be prepared for “Pride Week” by finding out in advance what activities your children will be given. As in previous years, InsideOUT will be providing schools with worksheets, lesson plans, and activity ideas, library books, flags etc so keep an eye on their website. Be prepared to withdraw your children from any lessons or activities of concern to you.
It’s also important to note that InsideOUT and RainbowYouth are heavily funded by the Government, and the resources are endorsed by the Ministry of Education.
So here’s the promo
Although the Instagram page looks slightly – darker?
Here’s what your kids are being indoctrinated with. A section on Terminology for high school
Endosex A term describing a person who has sex characteristics (ie. genitals, gonads) that would have them classified as male or female at birth; a person who does not have variations of sex characteristics.
Interphobia Discrimination against intersex people, or those with variations in sex characteristics. This may include making negative remarks about a person’s sex characteristics such as body hair or chest.
I can totally relate to that one!
Sex assigned at birth (SAAB), sex designated at birth (SDAB) A phrase used to recognise a person’s sex assigned/designated based on their external anatomy at birth.
Apparently they’re different with different labels. Who knew?
Cisnormativity – A framework of understanding gender that…..
May have fallen asleep at this point
Demiboy A person who is partially, but not fully, a tane/boy/man.
Demigirl A person who is partially, but not fully, a wahine/girl/woman.
Biphobia Discrimination against bisexual people or bisexuality. This may include negative stereotyping or denying the existence of bisexual people. Biphobia can be perpetuated by people who identify either within or outside of rainbow communities.
Bisexual Commonly understood to mean ‘attracted to men and women’. A more accurate and inclusive definition is a person who is sexually attracted to people of more than one gender, or their own and other genders. Bisexual people can have differing levels of attraction for different genders.
Demisexual A term describing someone who does not experience sexual or physical attraction to another person until they have formed an emotional or romantic connection with that person.
So that’s for high schools – But let’s look at Primary schools and the resources recommended to teachers – which is where it gets really disturbing – and interestingly InsideOut think that people may be concerned about the brainwashing and indoctrination at such an early age! Ya think? Another word that some people use for it is grooming.
Rainbow Inclusion at School
Some young kids already know they are transgender, or nonbinary, or just ‘different somehow’.Sometimes people think that we at InsideOUT Kaaro are trying to label kids and make them grow up too fast. Five year old Sam might grow into being Samuel or Samantha, and might fall in love with a woman or a man or neither.
Yes – five year olds.
And then some activities for primary age
Make a pride-themed mural somewhere in your school. Make age-appropriate rainbow themed crafts together as a class. Pick a rainbow book title. Have a rainbow themed shared lunch or morning tea with rainbow fruit kebabs
raise awareness about LGBTQIA+ issues in your school. Mufti pride day and donate to InsideOUT Kaaro or another rainbow organisation. Out on the Shelves rainbow reading campaign. different pride flags and hide them throughout your school.
Actually there’s quite a gaggle of pride flags eh – growing by the day – so it would take a few years to find them all in the school grounds.
QSA – queer straight alliance –
yes all the intermediate age kids determine which team they’re in – queer or straight – and then form an alliance – sort of like a Rotary Club or Lions Club maybe.
rainbow movie screening. Bake sale and donate the proceeds to InsideOUT Kaaro or another rainbow organisation.
best flag design or pride themed artwork.
Not more flags!
Now they refer schools through to Sparklers. I hadn’t actually heard of Sparklers. But it was developed in response to the impacts of the Canterbury earthquakes on kids but it has expanded throughout NZ
– and while much of it is excellent, activists like InsideOut have grabbed hold of it. Very subtly. And this is why parents need to be awake!
On the page that has an interactive game called Common Ground, it has this – remember it’s for primary kids.
You could also ask: What is ‘gender’? Can they think of any celebrities who encourage us to be kind to others, and to be who we really are? (Harry Styles, Lady Gaga, Pink, Taylor Swift).
Just in case you don’t know who Harry Styles is
But then there’s more suggested questions – and this subtle one at the end underlined
You think everyone is either a boy or a girl.
And then
Depending on your tamariki, you may want to broaden their understanding of gender minority identities. E.g. Lots of people think everyone is either a boy or a girl, but actually some wonderful people are born between boy and girl (just under 2% of people are intersex). Some boys realise: Actually I’m a girl! and some girls realise: Actually I’m a boy! (transgender), and some are in the middle (non binary). There’s no pressure to cover all of LGBTQIA+ in one go! But if your school community does include students who identify as trans, some positive, strengths-based korero can be a good way to broaden tamariki understanding and acceptance.
And then Sparklers has this sheet
a reminder that sexuality and gender are two different things.
As the saying goes: “never assume”. If your 4-year-old ‘girl’ says “I’m a boy!” or your 14-year-old tells you “I’m lesbian” take a deep breath and try to put your judgments and worries to one side
Actually I just noticed the paragraph up the top right
Generally a person’s sexuality emerges around puberty whereas their gender emerges around three years of age.
3 years of age. Sparklers sadly has definitely gone down woke avenue and is dangerous for children. Check if your school uses it.
Now there’s also the Pride Week Out on the Shelves. Recommended books
Books by genre – the usual categories
By identity – aromantic, asexual, bisexual, gay, indigiqueer, intersectional, pansexual, rainbow & faith – I’ll come back to that one
Remember this is for children as young as 5 – primary school
Let’s check the picture books – so these ones are very attractive for very young children
Grandad’s camper – Grandad’s stories of his travels and adventures with his husband Gramps
Things in the Sea are Touching Me – When a small child goes to the seaside with her Mum and Ma
Uncle Bobby’s Wedding – Uncle Bobby is going to be getting married to his boyfriend Jamie
I’m Not a Girl – Nobody seems to understand that Hannah is not a girl. a stroke of courage might be just what Hannah needs to finally show the world who he really is.
My Shadow is Purple – This story considers gender beyond binary in a vibrant spectrum of colour.
Did I tell you this is for primary age?
Believe it or not it does get worse with the written books for primary age.
This Is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us – The first LGBTQA+ anthology – one of the stories is about a tween girl navigating a crush on her friend’s mum.
The Every Body Book –
When babies are born, one of the first questions people ask is whether the baby is a boy or a girl. They are actually asking about the biological sex of the baby. Biological sex is assigned or labelled, when babies are born, based on the visible parts they have.
Alice Austen Lived Here – Sam is very in touch with their own queer identity. They’re nonbinary, and their best friend, TJ, is nonbinary as well. Sam’s family is very cool with it… as long as Sam remembers that nonbinary kids are also required to clean their rooms, do their homework, and try not to antagonize their teachers too much.
OK that’s enough of that. That is certainly not age appropriate – but that applies to most of the stuff coming out of InsideOut
But we’ve gotta check the Rainbow & Faith section given the theological prowess of the church of InsideOut
A Church for all –celebrates a Sunday morning at an inclusive church that embraces all people regardless of age, class, race, gender identity, and sexual orientation.
Ironically the rainbow flags aren’t the pride ones. I think they miscounted the number of colours
The God Box – Manuel is the first openly gay teen Paul has ever met, and yet he says he’s also a committed Christian. Talking to Manuel makes Paul reconsider thoughts he has kept hidden, and listening to Manuel’s interpretation of Biblical passages on homosexuality causes Paul to reevaluate everything he believed. A thought-provoking exploration of what it means to be both religious and gay.
The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School. Say no more.
Music from another world – change the rules not yourself
A closeted lesbian, strict Christian high school, San Francisco, antigay fervour in America reaches a frightening new pitch – apparently
But what did surprise me is how many books are based on the Muslim faith, including Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen and another book about a 17-year-old trying her hardest to live up to her conservative Muslim parents’ expectations. So to our Muslim families – they’re after your children also.
There’s about 5 recommended.
Now you might think that InsideOut are only obsessed with gender and sexuality. Think again.
Free Palestine! Stop the genocide. (I think Chloe wrote this one)
We are dismayed by the cynical weaponisation of the queer liberation struggle by the Israeli state and its supporters to undermine solidarity with the people of Palestine. As rainbow people resisting a global genocidal movement against our transgender whanau, we refuse to be complicit in the pinkwashing of the genocide in Gaza.
The 54th parliament of the settler colony of NZ has officially opened
Down the bottom
The promises in the coalition agreement reflect the violent, ongoing presence of colonisation in Aotearoa
We will continue to fight for a Te Tiriti led Aotearoa
They condemn everything they can find – including the rolling back of their darling RSE curriculum – but basically they condemn all the other reactionary policies in the coalition agreement, We must fight….
The intersection of white supremacy, settler colonialism and racial capitalism.
And at the bottom – it’s land back. It’s free Palestine.
Does the current government know about this? Does Chris Luxon and Erica Standford the Minister of Education know about these views by a group they heavily fund to indoctrinate our kids/ Does Winston Peters and David Seymour know?
This is a charity that is clearly out of its lane – but of course, the Charities Registration Board won’t care because at least they’re not talking about traditional marriage and the importance of mums and dads. Noooo way. They’re safe.
Just finally – this is not just an InsideOut event. It’s being pushed very strongly by the Ministry of Education.
Here’s last year’s promotion and the Education Gazette promoting it
Why is celebrating Schools’ Pride Week Aotearoa important? Up to 20 per cent of learners in Aotearoa identify as members of the Rainbow community
20% of children at all our schools are LGBTQIA++++ ?
The Youth2000 series which surveys up to 9,000 secondary school students each time – in their 2019 survey they report 10.4% of young people identified as takatapui and /or rainbow.
But here’s the key. This is only secondary age.
The number in primary schools would be minimal – and therefore the 20% figure made up by the Ministry of Education would be way tinier when related to all “learners in Aotearoa”.
They’re trying to suck you in. They’re trying to fool you. They’re making stuff up to push a narrative. This is the Ministry of Education.
This year – Ministry of Education website
How can your school get involved? Organise Schools’ Pride Week activities in your school. Participate in the Out on the Shelves Campaign Month.
Best Wedding Ever – School Journal, Level 3, November 2022 (primary age) Levi’s dads are getting married, but he has other things on his mind.
Break-up Day – School Journal, Level 4, May 2021 by transgender author Kyle Mewburn which chronicles his discovery in year 8 that nobody realised he was actually a girl and was in the wrong body – “a girl in a boy-shaped box”.
So PARENTS: What can you do?
First thing to do is to read our Parent Guide at ParentGuide.nz. It contains important information including:
* what are the legal rights of parents / caregivers
* what is the relevant law that parents should understand and quote when corresponding with their child’s school
Contact your school and see whether they are observing “Schools Pride Week Aotearoa 2024”. Many schools won’t be because they’re rightly more focused on teaching and educating, and focusing on all students rather than their sexuality and gender identity.
88% of schools had nothing to do with it last year – but check!
If they are observing it, find out how they will be observing it, and is it optional. Will there be any pressure on students to participate in activities specifically related to it. Will outside groups such as RainbowYouth or InsideOUT be in the school during the week.
If you have any concerns, keep your children at home for the week.
Your role is so crucial. I would suggest that no longer can you trust the Ministry of Education. When you combine their support of InsideOut and the content in that with support for Pride Week and Pink Shirt Day, it’s fair to say that the Ministry of Education is hostile towards your children’s welfare. Some people would almost accuse them of a level of grooming.
‘Hoping for the best’ is no longer an option. Let’s not leave the door open for our children to be taught about sexuality and gender theory by the voices of people whose agendas and values don’t align with ours.
There is no pride in sexualising our children.
