The assault on the family continues.
Schools in Melbourne, Australia, are being pressured to stop using words like “mum” and “dad” and instead adopt more “gender-inclusive” language in order to make campuses more welcoming to the LGBT crowd.
The push is part of the #SpeakingUpSpeaksVolumes campaign by the North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network.
The proposals the network is sending to schools include using gender-neutral pronouns, unisex bathrooms, and flying rainbow flags.
Additionally, the campaign suggests replacing “mum” and “dad” with “parent,” along with words like “boyfriend” and “girlfriend” with partner. The Daily Mail noted:
The campaign used material from Proud2Play and VicHealth which included strategies for schools and sports — including non-gendered teams and the use of rainbow flags.
Parents were also being asked to question others about what pronouns they used.
In a statement on Monday, the North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network said the campaign was not about mandating the use of pronouns or terms like mum and dad.
‘To be very clear, the #speakingupspeaksvolumes campaign….is focused on addressing the very serious impacts that bullying and discrimination has on LGBTIQ+ people, children, and young people in particular,’ it said.
Chris Carter, CEO of the Melbourne Primary Health Network, said that every child deserves to feel safe in school and that there is “no place for hurtful, disrespectful or discriminatory behaviour.”
One mother who described her child as “gender not sure” was supportive of the recommendations. “There needs to always be obvious support and prevention so kids like Jax don’t have their confidence derailed,” she told the newspaper.
Colin Bourke, head of the Elevation Secondary College in Craigieburn, blasted “homophobia” as “really detrimental to our student culture” and said that schools are currently taking inclusivity measures that include “gender non-specific bathrooms and taking down some of the boys and girls signs.”
The New American’s Alex Newman wrote extensively about the ways in which the left is indoctrinating children in schools with propaganda that makes them question traditional societal norms and the nuclear family.
He explains how decades of injecting pro-gay teachings into classrooms paved the way for the normalization of homosexuality:
During the previous generation, using similarly manipulative tactics, government schools began preparing children to accept the homosexual agenda, including homosexual “marriage.” By the mid-1990s, teachers across America were introducing children as young as first grade to propaganda such as the film It’s Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School, produced by two lesbians. In one scene, a homosexual teacher encourages children to imagine themselves as judges considering the supposedly discriminatory “ban” on homosexuals who “love each other” being “married.” The goal: guide children to the pre-determined correct attitudes. It worked.
Young minds are easily shaped. The socialists understand this. That’s why they have always made it their aim to gain control of the schools. American Communist Party leader William Z. Foster wrote: “Among the elementary measures the American Soviet government will adopt to further the cultural revolution are the following; the schools, colleges and universities will be coordinated and grouped under the National Department of Education and its state and local branches.”
We can see the power of indoctrination by means of the schools and entertainment media in how rapidly the notion of transgenderism is taking hold among the youth. According to the CDC, two percent of youth are “transgender.”
While many conservatives appear to have ceded the ground in the culture war to the Left on the issue of gay “marriage,” the political Right looks determined to hold the line on transgenderism.
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson’s recent decision to veto a bill from the state legislature outlawing the chemical castration of minors by banning doctors from prescribing puberty blockers to children met with widespread outrage from the Right. The Arkansas legislature ultimately overrode the governor’s veto.
Additionally, banning men from competing in women’s sports under the guise of “transgenderism” has become a popular issue among Republicans to the point that even South Dakota Goverrnor Kristi Noem (R), who is well-liked on the Right, took a severe public-relations beating when she sent the Women’s Fairness in Sports bill, which bars men from competing in women’s sports in public schools, back to the legislature.
Is the tide at last turning against the anti-family cultural marxists?
