I keep seeing LIbsOfTikTok in my Twitter feed, sharing videos posted by teachers who are advocating for pushing gender ideology in the classrooms. I used to wonder what was causing all of these teachers to sexualize children who aren’t even old enough to drive a car. It turns out that those teachers are being coached by teacher unions.

Here’s the story from ABC local news:

A new report accuses the two largest teachers unions in the United States of training educators on how to include “gender identity politics” in their curriculums and classroom practices.

The National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) together represent nearly 5 million public school teachers nationwide. In a report published Wednesday by the Defense of Freedom Institute (DFI), the two unions are accused of encouraging teachers to discuss gender identity and sexual orientation with students regardless of parents’ wishes.

The report details a July conference where AFT allegedly “coached its members on how to inject gender identity politics” into classrooms. The conference, titled the Together Educating America’s Children (TEACH) conference, was comprised of sessions on “strategies to improve teaching and learning.”

Two of the sessions included “Affirming LGBTQIA+ Identities in and out of the Classroom” and “The TGNCNB [transgender, gender nonconforming, nonbinary] Inclusive School and Classroom,” according to DFI’s report.

I’ve blogged before about how teacher unions are HUGE supporters of the Democrat party, and they are always getting involved in politics to undermine parental rights. They don’t want children to inherit a worldview from their parents.

The article notes:

At a rally earlier this year, NEA leaders called Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act “extremist,” according to DFI’s report. The Florida legislation requires, among other things, that teachers in the state refrain from discussing gender identity and sexual orientation with students in third grade and younger.

[…]Last month, NEA issued guidance on placing “inclusive symbols” in classrooms, encouraging teachers to challenge policies prohibiting Pride flags and Black Lives Matter imagery. The guidance followed the union’s inclusion of “Gender Queer” on its summer reading list, a book that has been removed from schools nationwide due to its sexually explicit contents.

When I was a young man, still in high school, I actually wanted to become an English teacher. My Dad was pushing me to go into computer science. So he enrolled me in a university course taught during evenings, by a lesbian woman. That quickly cured me of wanting to become a teacher – English departments were absolute hotbeds of progressive politics, even 25 years ago.

I did some searching around and found that there was no way I was going to be able to work without paying dues to the teacher unions, too. And I knew enough to know that the teacher unions were far left. I just didn’t want to get roped into a situation where my income was being taxed to pay for abortion and LGBT policies. So, I decided not to become a teacher. And that was a great decision.