Education Politics: Gender Ideology Lessons On the Rise in Some Schools

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : The National Sex Education Standards group has called teaching about "gender identity" as "one of seven essential topics, alongside puberty, consent, sexual orientation, and other subjects," according to the Washington Post.NSES's gender ideology standards for K-12 students include, by the end of the fifth grade, being able to "describe the role hormones play in the physical, social, cognitive, and emotional changes during adolescence and the potential role of hormone blockers on young people who identify as transgender."
49% :Even earlier, though, by the end of second grade, students should be able to "define gender, gender identity, and gender-role stereotypes" and "discuss the range of ways people express their gender and how gender-role stereotypes may limit behavior."

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