Liberal media think gay children can feel accepted only if schools talk about sex
Zachary Faria
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Liberal media still do not understand that all children, including gay children, can feel welcome in schools without the schools teaching first graders about sex or putting pornography in classrooms.
This was made apparent in a CBS News interview of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL). After the governor defended the policies Florida pursued in schools, such as removing pornographic books and barring teachers from using class time to teach about sexual orientation or gender identity, CBS’s Norah O’Donnell remarked, “Most gay people say they knew they were gay since they were a kid. They’ve known most of their life they were gay.”
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As DeSantis noted, that observation is irrelevant. “What does that have to do with math class, or English class, or history class?” DeSantis asked. O’Donnell then asked if they “should be accepted in schools,” to which DeSantis obviously answered that everyone should be accepted in schools.
The bizarre line of thought from O’Donnell is one that runs through liberal media and the Democratic Party. If first graders are not being taught about sexual orientation, O’Donnell and others think that this somehow means they cannot be accepted. That is how liberal media run around frantically complaining about the activist-labeled “Don’t Say Gay” law or about how removing pornographic books from children’s classrooms are “book bans.”
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This all stems from liberal media’s obsession with identity and the idea that people can be defined only by their skin color, the sex they are, the sex they want to be, or the sex they want to have. O’Donnell’s framing of this matter suggests that children who know they are gay can be defined only by being gay and that, somehow, those children would not feel accepted unless elementary school teachers talk about sexual attraction when they should be teaching math.
DeSantis has the matter correct, to the point that even most Democrats who aren’t politicians agree with him. Schools are for teaching children math, science, history, and other subjects and for ingraining concepts about timeliness, cooperation, and finishing assignments. At no point in that mission is it necessary to teach 8-year-olds about sex. Anyone expecting schools to center the student experience on validating the feelings of LGBT activists vicariously through children has a broken understanding of both schools and how to help children feel accepted.