Disney funds gender identity, LGBTQ curriculum in schools—and has been for 20 years

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Disney announced with pride their plans to fund 10 organizations that are based in advocacy and education around LGBTQ issues, specifically for children and teens. Among these groups receiving funding is GLSEN, which pushes gender identity and LGBTQ curriculum to schools in the US.  

GLSEN provides resources for educators toward "developing LGBTQ-inclusive classroom resources," that "promote safer school environments" by "developing lessons that avoid bias and that include positive representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people, history, and events." 

The idea is that the lessons should start in elementary school.  

Further, an LGBTQ-based curriculum should be implemented "into most content areas," and should facilitate students' own discovery of their gender identity. 

"Care should be taken to fill gaps while looking for opportunities to deepen student understanding of their world and identities," GLSEN writes. 

"LGBTQ people, history, and events can be easily inserted into most content areas. Teaching about identity at any age is valuable for students, and can be considered part of social emotional learning (SEL). Curriculum should provide students with opportunities to reflect on their own identities, including gender identity and expression, family diversity including LGBTQ-headed families, and the types of relationships they may want to build." 

GLSEN provides lessons that teachers can use to indoctrinate students into these views. Many of these lessons center on teachers drawing out students to talk about their own identities and explorations of those perceived identities. 

In early elementary, students will be taught about non-traditional family structures and gender stereotypes. 

Upper elementary brings a lesson called "Identity Flowers," which "encourages students to explore their own identities and personal experiences with race, culture, ability, family structure, religion or spirituality, and gender identity and expression encourages students to explore their own identities and personal experiences with race, culture, ability, family structure, religion or spirituality, and gender identity and expression.

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