"A lot of Americans have kids in public schools," writes Eduwonk Andrew Rotherham. "They want normal." They don't want sexualized lessons or material in elementary school.
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If the Democrats can’t parse out the genuinely censorious or racist (eg banning books about the struggle for civil rights) from parents who don’t want their kids seeing pictures of blowjobs at school they are playing with fire and will continue to struggle.
Most American aren't transphobes, he writes, but they don't think transgender girls (that is persons with penises who feel female) should play on girls' teams. If you tell them there is no physical difference between a teen-age male body and a female body, they feel "gaslit." For good reason.
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