There is a sex education bill sitting before Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker that is the most wildly irresponsible assault on common decency and common sense ever proposed; in a stealth move, it was passed by state lawmakers on the Friday of Memorial Day weekend. It has little to do with sex education as most people understand it; rather, it is a radical sex engineering bill.
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Mary Elizabeth Castle is a policy adviser with Texas Values, an Austin-based nonprofit that works to preserve and advance a culture of family values in the state. A lifelong Texas resident, she specializes in issues involving children and education.
Two years ago, it became Texas law that a person has to be 21 to buy tobacco products. Up again for consideration this year in the Lone Star State are several bills to keep anyone under the age of 21 out of strip clubs and porn shops.
So, if the Texas Legislature decides that an 18-year-old cannot be trusted with the decision to smoke and that there should be stricter standards on what age you have to be to enter a sexually explicit business, certainly it would make sense to pass a bill protecting young children from harmful and life-altering medical procedures and drugs, right?
loaded up with reading material.
On Monday, parents of kiddos in the San Diego Unified School District received an email.
The superintendent let them know of new resources coming into the system.
Per the message, nonprofit Gender Nation would be donating 2,000 “age-appropriate LGBTQ+ inclusive” books.
As reported by The Daily Wire, the missive explained that, in an effort to “empower students through inclusive stories,” the district would “now have access to more literature specifically geared towards LGBTQ+ students.”
We help communities empower and validate children with LGBTQ+ storytelling.
Libraries are sanctuaries, but they often don’t have the resources they need to serve all children equally. We started Gender Nation to help provide school libraries with LGBTQ+ affirming literature. Our supporters make this possible by helping to curate, purchase, and distribute books at no cost to those we serve.