Parents Defending Education (PDE), an organization that monitors indoctrination tactics in public schools across the country, filed a public records request to the Clarkesville-Montgomery County School System for a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) presentation given at a professional learning conference.
The presentation, titled “The World Needs More Purple People,” directs staff to—like many other DEI presentations—examine their own implicit bias, which has become a euphemism for implying that one has racist tendencies.
Instead of focusing on how to better convey teaching math, science, and English skills, the presentation emphasizes “cultural competency,” and how they can make their students feel more “safe and included.”
A chart lists white, Christian, heterosexual, middle to upper-class, able-bodied “cisgender” men as privileged.
The presentation’s list of people who are oppressed includes people of color and those with physical or mental health disabilities.
It lists under its gender and sexual orientation category for people who are oppressed women, transgenders, nonbinary, “genderqueer,” LGBT, polyamorous, asexual, and aromantic people.
People who practice any other religion than Christianity are listed as oppressed, which include the Pagan, Jewish, and Buddhist religions.
It’s an instruction manual for educators to create “a welcoming, supportive and safe environment” for LGBTQ+ students that comes from the GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network) which promotes medical gender transitioning in children.
According to PDE, GLSEN (“pronounced glisten”) has charged itself with the mission of “championing LGBTQ+ issues in K-12 education” and to “advance the transgender agenda in schools” using teacher training, school policy guides, curricula, and promoting school gender and sexuality clubs.
Though GLSEN now advocates for school safety programs, it initially began in 1990 as a support network for gay teachers founded by Kevin Jennings, a former assistant deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of Education during former President Barak Obama’s administration.
The Gender Triangle
Critics have argued that a line has been crossed that took the support of those who have been marginalized like gay and black people in the past and turned that support into forced indoctrination at the sacrifice of teaching basic math, science, and English skills.GLSEN’s “Gender Triangle Education Guide” discusses its belief that gender is not biological but a subjective expression that aligns over time.
“The more all of these aspects align, the more you may identify as CISGENDER and experience CISPRIVILEGE,” the education guide states. “For example, if you identify as a boy with bodily traits and expressions that are attributed to masculinity within your culture, then you experience privilege. Cisgender people often get to move through the world without thinking about gender, being misgendered, or feeling limited by gender stereotypes.”
Those who aren’t cisgender, the guide explains, are transgender, a person who feels tension between their biological gender and what they believe to be a separate gender identity, a belief that has opened the door to medical transitioning.
“While this development often happens on its own during puberty, this change can also be administered through medicine, such as hormone replacement therapy,” the guide states.
Working with youth, the guide explains, involves reflecting on one’s own gender and considering the privileges it carries.
In response to PDE’s request for comment, a spokesperson for the school district said, “The ENGAGE conference has a mix of content developed by the District and content developed independently by educators. Educators are not required to attend, and they select their own sessions. Since this presentation was not developed or delivered by the District, I do not have any additional information on the presentation.”
The Epoch Times contacted the school district for further comment.
