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Washington Schools Push Gender Ideology on Kindergarteners

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The following article was adapted from a segment of The Ari Hoffman Show. Listen weekdays 3-6 PM Pacific on 570 KVI, KVI.com the KVI app, and wherever you get your podcasts.

A recent report from the Department of Health and Human Services is shining a spotlight on what children are being taught in Washington classrooms, and parents may be shocked to learn how early gender ideology is introduced.

The Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction has outlined its Health Education Core Ideas, mapping out what students should learn each year, starting in kindergarten. Under the section on “Self-Identity,” the framework introduces concepts of gender expression and identity that many parents assumed were reserved for later grades.

According to the state’s plan:

  • Kindergarten: Students are expected to “understand there are many ways to express gender” and be able to “identify their own gender and name at least three gender identities.”
  • 1st Grade: Students should be able to “explain that there are many ways to express gender.”
  • 2nd Grade: Lessons expand to teaching that there is “a range of gender roles and expression,” while stressing the importance of respect for others’ gender expression.
  • 3rd Grade: The curriculum emphasizes that “gender roles can vary considerably” and reinforces respect for gender identity.
  • 4th Grade: Students are taught to identify how family and friends “influence ideas regarding gender roles, identity, and expression,” and they are introduced to the definition of “sexual orientation.”
  • 5th Grade: Lessons focus on how “media, society, and culture influence ideas regarding gender roles and identity” and encourage students to identify “trusted adults” to discuss gender and sexual orientation—though parents are often notably absent from that list.

Critics argue this curriculum amounts to ideological indoctrination rather than education. Why are kindergarteners being asked to name three gender identities when biology has already given them two? At that age, kids are pretending to be Luke Skywalker or playing with Pokémon cards, not debating gender theory.

Parents are particularly alarmed at the way the program appears to undermine family influence. By 4th and 5th grade, the curriculum explicitly shifts authority to “trusted adults” in schools, rather than parents, on matters of gender and sexuality. Additionally, parents cannot opt out of much of the material because it is woven into the curriculum.

The timing of this push coincides with growing national debate over school mandates and parental rights. Political figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have been openly critical of these policies, drawing the ire of Democrats who see their control over health and education policy slipping away. They’re mad because RFK Jr. and the Trump administration are exposing what they really wan, control over you and your kids.

Parents across Washington are left asking: should issues as complex as gender identity and sexual orientation be introduced to children before they’ve even mastered reading, writing, and math? Or is this yet another example of ideological priorities being pushed ahead of academic fundamentals?

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