The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) will sponsor TransAction Day in schools across the nation Friday to promote transgenderism and "gender non-conforming" behavior.
For TransAction Day, GLSEN makes available workshops exploring the use of gender-neutral language and terminology. Students are instructed to use pronouns such as "zie" and "hir" instead of "he" or "she" and "his" or "hers." TransAction Day materials also discuss new definitions and concepts, like sexual reassignment surgery and what it means to be a drag queen.
In addition, students are encouraged to advocate for transgender issues in their schools and communities. They are urged to launch campaigns for gender-neutral or multi-gendered bathrooms, and are advised to challenge school policies, such as male-female couples at prom and gender-based colors for graduation gowns. They are also taught how to make their student clubs transgender inclusive.
Candi Cushman, education analyst for Focus on the Family Action, said GLSEN's agenda has no place whatsoever in taxpayer-funded schools that simply need to focus on the academic basics.
"Gay-activist groups like GLSEN repeatedly claim that these schoolwide events are just about making schools safe," she said. "But, if you look at the materials GLSEN is making available to students and teachers celebrating this event, you see there is a very radical, extreme agenda at play here."
Randy Thomas, executive vice president of Exodus International, has a message for parents.
"We have to be completely vigilant about what our children are being taught in schools," he told Family News in Focus. "Parents need to pay attention and raise concerns with their school districts as well as teach their children healthy, biblical role-modeling of their gender.
"Gender is not a social construct. It's a biological fact. We have men and women and that's been the case since the beginning of Creation."
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