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Should school children be taught about trans people, is teaching about us propaganda encouraging “our lifestyle?”

Boulder Valley school board to consider complaint over transgender lessons
Daily Camera
By Amy Bounds
April 22, 2019

Boulder Valley School District is facing its first formal challenge to how schools support and teach about transgender and gender diverse students.

Superior Elementary families upset about a school presentation held in response to bullying of a transgender student, along with how the school and district handled their concerns, are asking the school board to intervene.

Superintendent Rob Anderson previously denied the complaint.

The Boulder Valley board is set to decide at its Tuesday meeting whether to hear the formal complaint, after postponing the decision at the previous meeting to allow more time to read the materials.

The anonymous complaint, filed in November by a family with three Superior Elementary students and supported by nine more families, was prompted by a performance for first through fifth graders by Phoenix, a transgender choir.

In November, Phoenix performed "Raven's True Self," an original musical about a transgender raven with a lesson on "being seen for who you are on the inside rather than how you are perceived on the outside," according to the choir.

The whole thing started with an incident of bullying against a trans student…

District officials said the performance and video lesson were in response to ongoing incidents of bullying and intolerance of a transgender student who has since left the school because of the bullying. Parents were allowed to opt out.

So the trans student was forced out of the school because of bullying which is against Colorado law. LGBTQ Nation said this about the case,

A Colorado elementary school is under fire from conservatives upset over a scheduled presentation focusing on inclusivity and compassion.
[…]
“This is fairly typical in the Boulder Valley School District, to have our students learn about inclusivity and about compassion to other people and their differences,” said Randy Barber, Chief Communications Officer for the school district, to Denver’s CBS affiliate.
[…]
Complainants also asked for "a mediation session with district officials and the principal regarding being more tolerant and inclusive of families of faith."

It seem to me that conservatives want only to live in their lily-white world and not to have to think about anything… trans people just taxes their head too much, the conservatives just want the world to go back to the days of “Dick and Jane” when everything was simple… “Oh look, see Spot, see Jane.”

In an article in Science Alert about the differences between liberals and conservatives they write that,

7. Holding conservative views seems to make people more resistant to change and help them explain inequality.
A 2003 review of decades of research on conservative people suggested that their social views can help satisfy "psychological needs" to make sense of the world and manage uncertainty and fear.

"People embrace political conservatism (at least in part) because it serves to reduce fear, anxiety, and uncertainty; to avoid change, disruption, and ambiguity; and to explain, order, and justify inequality among groups and individuals," the researchers said.

We shakeup their world.