California’s Education Department Recommends Transgender Books for Kindergarteners

California promotes LGBT topics, transgenderism, and gender ideology

• Dozens of books with such topics are promoted for use in classrooms by the state's Department of Education's recommended literature list under the topic "Gender/Sexuality."
• LGBT groups have expanded the word "queer" to encompass hundreds of different sexualities and gender identities, and those are now being taught to children in schools.

Call Me Max

• For children in kindergarten through second grade
• A book about a child who "lets his teacher know that he wants to be called by a boy's name."
• Written by Kyle Lukoff, a transgender writer.
• At the end of the book, Max declares, "being a boy isn't better than being a girl. But being myself is the best."

"Rick" is a novel about an 11-year-old boy who joins a Rainbow Spectrum club at school where he can "discover his own identity, which may just be to opt out of sex altogether."

• Rick learns about the terms "asexual," "aromantic," "graysexual" and "grayromantic," which refer to people who are occasionally attracted to people; and "demisexual" and “demiromantic” which describe those who are only romantically or sexually attracted to a person “after developing a deep connection.”
• Toward the end of the book, Rick "comes out" to his father as asexual.

New York City

• The curriculum's Independent Reading Collection contains several books that feature LGBT and gender ideology for young children
• Some of the books in the collection include "Julian is a Mermaid," "Love is Love," a story about gay relationships aimed at first graders, and "I'm Not a Girl: A Transgender Story."
• In addition, high schools have books such as "Fun Home," a graphic novel about a lesbian teenager, and the graphic memoir "Gender Queer"

Betsy McCaughey, an author and public policy expert who previously served as the lieutenant governor of New York, said the spread of such materials doesn't proportionately reflect the actual number of people who experience gender dysphoria.

• About 0.6% of the U.S. population over age 13-or about 1.6 million people-identifies as transgender, according to a June 2022 study by UCLA’s Williams Institute.
• A 2020 study by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles found that about 75% of transgender individuals manifested in about 75 years old.

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