Advocates for Youth is a curriculum used in various states.
In this lesson, which is labeled as a first-grade lesson, students learn about gender identity. At one point, the teacher is instructed to say something like this…
“Identity starts with an I. That’s how you can remember it. ‘I’ feel, ‘I’ know. 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. You might feel like you’re a boy even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘girl’ parts. You might feel like you’re a girl even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘boy’ parts. 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!”
We will highlight other lessons in the coming days.
