Transgender Ideology in Schools: State Education Policies Indoctrinate Students

It seems every day that another school unfurls a “Young Trans Joy” banner on school grounds, another library shelves a book delineating the tenets of gender theory, another district hosts a drag event for children, and another teacher mistakes the lectern for a pulpit. Each story raises the question: Just how pervasive is gender ideology in schools?

Perhaps conservative media are merely nutpicking, finding the most egregious examples of a small phenomenon and misrepresenting them as the norm. Even if a social media account, such as Libs of TikTok, profiled an activist teacher every day since the onset of the pandemic, that would total just a thousand teachers — out of America’s 3 million teachers. There will always be some number of kooks, cranks, and other screwballs holding conspiratorial views and exhibiting outlandish behavior.

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Daniel Buck

Daniel Buck is a research fellow and the director of the Conservative Education Reform Network at the American Enterprise Institute.

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It seems every day that another school unfurls a “Young Trans Joy” banner on school grounds, another library shelves a book delineating the tenets of gender theory, another district hosts a drag event for children, and another teacher mistakes the lectern for a pulpit. Each story raises the question: Just how pervasive is gender ideology in schools?

Perhaps conservative media are merely nutpicking, finding the most egregious examples of a small phenomenon and misrepresenting them as the norm. Even if a social media account, such as Libs of TikTok, profiled an activist teacher every day since the onset of the pandemic, that would total just a thousand teachers — out of America’s 3 million teachers. There will always be some number of kooks, cranks, and other screwballs holding conspiratorial views and exhibiting outlandish behavior.