An investigation by grassroots nonprofit Defending Education shows over 12 million students in the U.S. attend schools with policies that encourage and sometimes require teachers to keep parents in the dark about a student’s desire to change gender identity.
A Missouri public school district’s 2024 policy for transgender students, for example, claims all ages are old enough to think about gender identity, and children as young as preschool age were screened on the topic.
The North Kansas City School District document says social transitioning – which includes changing a student’s name, pronouns, clothing or gender appearance through binding or padding – are “completely reversible.”
However, parental rights nonprofit Moms for Liberty national political director and Johnson County, Kansas chapter Chair Erika Sheets can personally attest to the damage done to children from exposure to alleged gender fluidity through school curricula can only be reversed through much time and effort.
Sheets’ special-ed daughter was exposed to such gender ideology in middle school by the gender unicorn – a gender-bending cartoon figure used in some schools around the country – and struggled with feeling confused about her identity.
