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Gender Ideology and Public Schools

• Parents Defending Education has warned parents in their new investigation of “School-Based Health Centers” (SBHC) where some SBH clinics (in some states) provide “gender-affirming” counseling and even hormones, often without permission or parental notice. More resources can be seen below.
  • Private and Public Schools including history, opt-out letters, and more!
  • Gender Identity Guidance – Departments of Education by State
• Edify’s comprehensive guide called “The Education Revolution” assists parents in navigating the education crisis and equips them with reclaiming the education system. Tune in with Theresa Farnan, Andrea Piccioti-Bayer, and more!
• RightBooks4Kids provides what books you should read with your children and which ones to avoid. They also provide book lists, podcasts, author discussions, and much more!
• BoysVsWomen.com provides analytics to show how the fastest female athletes or Olympians do not surpass the performance of high school male athletes
• Capital Resource Institute provides a 50 State FOIA template, downloadable opt-out forms, and a free toolkit for successful book removals of pornographic books in local public schools
• Book Looks provides parents with ratings of books that potentially contain objectionable content, so you can find out what’s in the book before your child does
• T² Tough Topics is an educational tool for any parent, youth minister, director religious education, or other adult who wants to provide youth or adults (13+ years old) with knowledge of complicated cultural issues, like gender identity, and practice in challenging conversations
• Parents Defending Education provides an information page on “What Parents Need to Know” which includes information on public schools and state-by-state complaints
• Courage Is A Habit issues more information about “Who is ASCA?” and the teachers behind the implementation of gender ideology in school systems, 2022
• Courage Is A Habit releases “Behind Closed Doors” to expose the ASCA’s 2022 conference, September 7, 2022
• “Sex Education in Public Schools: Sexualization of Children and LGBT Indoctrination,”  Cathy Ruse, The Family Research Council, 2020
• Tony Perkins interviews Mary Hasson on the transgender radicalization in public schools in a segment on “Rethinking Education,” Washington Watch, August 6, 2020
• “Should We Pull Our Kids Out of Public School?,” Mary Hasson and Meg Kilgannon, Family Research Council, February 5, 2019
• “Gender Uncertainty” Invades Public Schools as the Next Wave of the Pansexual Indoctrination of Society, Judith Reisman, PhD, Mary McAlister, Esq., The Reisman Institute, February 2019
• Hasson, Mary Rice and Theresa Farnan. Get Out Now: Why You Should Pull Your Child From Public School Before It’s Too Late. Regnery, 2018.
  • Catholic writers, first three chapters focus on gender ideology in schools
• “Will ‘Transgender’ Rights Drive Catholics Out of Public Schools?,” Mary Rice Hasson, Catholic Stand, March 11, 2013

Catholic Curriculum

• Sophia Press Teachers: Responding to Transgender Ideology has a wide variety of resources that include short videos on “How to Answer Tough Questions” and lesson plans for grades K-12. They also have other helpful resources such as talking points and what the culture says vs. the truth of today’s circumstances.
• Ascension Press is an organization that presents the truth and beauty of the Catholic Faith as the path to a fulfilled life and authentic happiness. They share valuable resources, create powerful media, and build communities to answer the longings of the human heart with the transformative power of the Gospel. They have TOB resources for middle schoolers.
  • Theology of the Body for Teens: Middle School Edition
• Endow, seeks to educate women toward a more profound understanding of their God-given dignity through study in small group communities of faith and friendship. They have study guides available for youth in middle and high school.
  • Study Guide for Youth
• RuahWoods, a Theology of the Body education center that develops age-appropriate curriculum promoting a Catholic vision of the person (and implicitly countering gender ideology) for educators and parents.  High school resources also can be used for teacher formation. All resources available online.
  • REVEALED: K-5 Curriculum, with lesson plans, exercise worksheets, and online training/support
  • Grade 9-12 curriculum “Called to Be More,” with 100% of resources online

Other

• Association of Christian Schools International (ASCI)
• Natural Womanhood Teen Online Fertility Education Course
  • The course includes a step-by-step approach to introduce the topic, videos, reference documents, and much more!
• Institute for Research & Evaluation
  • A new study published on the negative effects of Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE)

Articles

• Sweeney, Terence, “Assigned at Birth?” Public Discourse, 2024.
• Mering, Noelle, “7 Ways to Keep the Wokeness Out of Your Home and Away from Your Kids,” Theology of Home, 2024
• Kaminetzky, Elliot, “7 Things Every Parent Needs to Know about Gender and Child Psychology,” Serenity Parent Consulting, 2024.
• Rothwell, Jonathan, “Parenting is the Key to Adolescent Mental Health,” Institute for Family Studies, 2023.
• Garfield Jaegar, Pamela, “It’s Just Pronouns, Or Is It?” The Truthful Therapist Substack, 2024.
• Garfield Jaegar, Pamela, “Does Your Kid Really Need Therapy?,” The Truthful Therapist Substack, 2023.
• Anderson, Ryan, “Loving Those Caught in Gender Ideology: The Ethics and Metaphysics of Sexual Identity,” Christ Over All, 2023.
• Farnan, Theresa, “Our World has Lost the Catholic Understanding of Human Anthropology,” OSV, 2023.
• Hasson, Mary, “Why is a ‘Transgender’ Identity Even Plausible?” Catholic World Report, 2024.
• Winn, Stephanie, “The Breast Binding to Mastectomy Pipeline,” You Must be Some Kind of Therapist, 2023.
• Winn, Stephanie, “Signs your Daughter May Be Shooting Up Testosterone Behind your Back,” 2023.
• Winn, Stephanie, “Why It’s Helpful to Know Your Daughter’s Menstrual Cycle” 2023.
• Ramdeen, Leela, “Our Children, Our Responsibility: Building Healthy Children, Healthy Relationships, and Healthy Families for a Strong Nation: Gender Ideology from a Catholic Perspective,” 2023.
• CatholicVote’s Edify releases a clear and concise guide called “Identity Crisis: A Catholic Response to LBGT” to navigate the gender identity crisis. Read more from Ryan Anderson, Mary Hasson, and other exciting names!
• 24 Must-Read Books for Elementary School Children by CatholicVote
• 19 Must-Read Books for Middle School Children by CatholicVote

Videos

Technology

• EPPC, “Raising a Family in the Digital Age: A Technology Guide for Parents”
• Surgeon General Issues New Advistory About Effects Social Media Use Has on Youth Mental Health
  • Read the full advisory here
• Clare Morell, “Going Phone-Free at School? A Resource for Parents and Schools,” Ethics and Public Policy Center
• Alysse ElHage & Brad Wilcox, “Navigating Tech with Your Teens: What Parents Can Do,”  The Institute for Family Studies
• Madeline Narduzzi, “Popular Social Media Platform’s New AI Feature Gives ‘Advice’ to Kids about Gender Confusion,” The Daily Signal, 2023.

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