The public school second-graders in New Jersey, United States, will get the lessons related to gender identity this fall under state sex education guidelines that will take effect in September.
The standards that have listed “performance expectations” for the second graders have been included while discussing “the range of ways people express their gender and how gender role stereotypes may limit behavior.”
The Educators in the Garden State are preparing to carry out the teaching standards, which were established in 2020 but do not need to be passed until September 2022.
Moreover, one school district in the state has distributed the sample lesson plans indicating the first graders could be taught they can have “boy parts” but “feel like” a girl.
The lesson plans which were given to the parents at the Westfield Board of Education’s February 22 meeting appear to be reflective of the Garden State’s new, broader sex education curriculum.
Along with this, one lesson plan, “Purple, Pink and Blue,” instructs the teachers to talk to their first graders about gender identity as well as it. The first objective is to have the students be able to define “gender, gender identity and gender role stereotypes.”
In the lesson plan, it has been stated, “Gender identity is that feeling of knowing your gender. You might feel like you are a boy. You might feel like you are a girl.”
“And you might not feel like you’re a boy or a girl, but you’re a little bit of both. No matter how you feel, you’re perfectly normal!”
In the plan, it has been mentioned, “Being a boy or a girl doesn’t have to mean you have those parts, but for most people, this is how their bodies are. Most people have a vulva and a vagina or a penis and testicles, but some people’s bodies can be different. Your body is exactly what is right for you.”
