GOP congressman drafting bill requiring schools to tell parents if kids being taught ‘gender identity’

FIRST ON FOX: A New Jersey Republican is drafting federal laws that may require colleges to inform mother and father if their kids are being taught about “gender id and sexual orientation.”

Following stories that the Backyard State can be requiring second graders to be taught about gender identity-related subjects, Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., introduced on Friday that he can be introducing the invoice.

“As a substitute of educating our second graders about math, science, and studying, Governor Murphy and the state of New Jersey are threatening the protection and safety of our faculty kids,” Van Drew stated in a press launch first obtained by Fox Information Digital.

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“Whereas each little one ought to go to high school and really feel accepted and cozy, we shouldn’t be compromising the protection of our younger kids by permitting a baby to make use of any restroom or altering room no matter their precise gender,” he continued. “The entire nation noticed late final yr the horrible occasion that happened in Loudoun County, Virginia, the place a lady was sexually assaulted within the lady’s restroom by a boy who wearing women’ clothes.”

Van Drew stated that it is the job of legislators “to guard our constituents and the American folks” and blasted New Jersey for “doing simply the alternative.”

“These kids are younger,” Van Drew stated. “They’re involved with bettering their studying and writing. Not studying about gender id and sexual orientation.”

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has confronted criticism from Republicans for his schooling insurance policies. 
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The Republican congressman, a former Democrat, stated that folks are rightfully “outraged” and that the state’s “insurance policies and steerage are forcing mother and father out of the equation regarding their kid’s schooling and is authorities overreach at its most interesting.”

Van Drew stated that folks “should have a say in what their kids study at school” and that he “would wager that doesn’t embrace educating six-, seven-, and eight-year-olds about sexual orientation” earlier than blasting the state insurance policies as “outrageous,” “unbelievable” and “simply improper.”

“In response to those radical insurance policies being put forth by the state of New Jersey, I’m drafting a federal response by introducing laws that may require mother and father to learn of any classroom dialogue regarding gender id and sexual orientation,” the congressman stated.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy pauses throughout his COVID-19 replace on the Battle Memorial in Trenton Friday, Feb. 5, 2021.
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“This laws would require written consent by mother and father and if a faculty who receives federal schooling funding fails to take action, they’ll lose that federal funding,” he continued. “This insanity should come to an finish, and we should shield our nation’s kids and shield mother and father proper to make selections relating to their kids’s schooling.”

Van Drew’s announcement comes as New Jersey strikes to implement the state’s new, extra strong intercourse schooling pointers this fall.

The requirements listed “efficiency expectations” for second graders, which embrace discussing “the vary of the way folks specific their gender and the way gender function stereotypes might restrict conduct.”

Educators within the Backyard State are getting ready to hold out the educating requirements, which had been established in 2020 however not required to be enacted till September 2022.

One college district within the state distributed pattern lesson plans indicating first graders might be taught they will have “boy elements” however “really feel like” a lady.