teaching about gender

 Ingersoll and Cook surmise that “Gender and sexuality have been at the forefront of societal debate in recent years with various legal battles concerning LGBT rights and religious liberties taking center stage”   At their very outset, these two scholars, whatever that means, are challenging the rights of the religious and insinuating that attitudes of Christians are bitter and irrational, simply because they are “religious.”  Does each person deserve the right to their own belief?  “Shifts in attitudes and gains in legal protections have served to entrench conservative religious beliefs and to perpetuate generational ‘bitter’ knowledge” We must explore what the “bitter knowledge” referred to here is in the schemas of the persons addressed by Ingersoll and Cook.  “The data demonstrate that students bring ‘bitter’ or problematic knowledge into the classroom, which serves as an obstacle to engaging in critical inquiry” Should a critical inquiry exclude religious beliefs and opinions, calling them “bitter”? What of your beliefs are bitter?  Are you sending your children off to school with problematic knowledge?  Is the word “bitter” sprinkled into our vocabulary about knowledge in an attempt to cut religious beliefs out of the picture? Ingersoll and Cook “explore how the educational technique of engaging in pedagogies of discomfort invites students to see things differently and to examine how the religious institution has shaped their beliefs and values” This approach is what is challenging your children about gender and helping them figure out what gender they are as well as assigning pronouns for them.  Let’s think about these matters and come to conclusions before religious liberties of speech and choice are dissolved. What way are your children being taught in schools as young as kindergarten and preschool? You'd better find out as you and your children are duped.