WaPo reporter claims state Dept of Ed telling teachers how to push pro-trans on 1st-graders is NOT "policy," just "guidance"

Unless you've been off-planet for the last six months, you've probably heard that dozens of school boards have instructed teachers to teach children in kindergarten thru 3rd grade that boys may not really be boys after all.  And that girls may not really be girls.

Oh wait, the liberal Dems who run the Washington Post are here to set us straight:  The Post claims school boards haven't actually *ordered* teachers to teach this.  Instead, says the Post, dumb conservative parents just *think* school boards ordered this.  

Sure enough, the Post's Aaron Blake absolutely assured conservatives--not by claiming the schools aren't teaching kids below age 8 about the joys of going tranny, but by claiming that teaching exactly this isn't official school-board policy.

Under the headline “Conservative media oversell New Jersey’s guidelines for teaching gender,” Blake noted that "official guidelines" for public-school teachers for educating children on sexual and gender identity and expression, contained on one school district's website, were NOT actually stating a "policy."

Included in those "guidelines" were these clearly approved lines for teachers in discussing gender:
“You might feel like you are a boy, you might feel like you are a girl.  You might feel like you’re a boy even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘girl’ parts. You might feel like you’re a girl even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘boy’ parts.  And you might not feel like you’re a boy or a girl, but you’re a little bit of both.”

Again, these are captioned by the school district--aimed at teachers of first-graders--as "guidelines."

So leftist apologist Blake eagerly defended the school district, writing:  

“Repeatedly, Fox News and others have framed this as something amounting to actual school curriculum.  But the school district [says] that’s not the case — that these were just sample materials that the district shared as it reviews the state guidelines.”

Got it, citizen?  These guidelines--"sample materials that the district shared as it reviews state guidelines"--aren’t “actual school curriculum.”  Just “sample materials that the [school]district “shared”!

Blake helpfully included a quote from the school district's highly-paid superintendent, Raymond González, who offered this simple explanation: 

“The cited sample plans were part of a website that was included as a link to illustrate the type of possible resources for school districts shared by the N.J. Department of Education. We have said repeatedly that these are resources only and that they are not state-mandated.”

See the difference, deplorables? The fact that teachers were given "guidance" telling them how to tell first-graders that just having "what some people might tell you are ‘boy parts'” doesn't make you a boy" (etc) was right from the state Department of Education does NOT mean it's official policy.  Hahaha!  How could anyone be naive enough to think that, eh?  They’re just “possible resources for school districts”!

It's also worth noting that as soon as parents noticed this so-called "guidance," the state Department of Education quickly deleted the "guidelines" and the link on its website.  Of course since according to the Washington Post these were merely "guidelines" instead of policy, why would the DoE quickly remove 'em, eh?

Couldn't be because they got caught and wanted to quickly make the evidence vanish, eh?

Oh sure, it may *look* like official state policy, but it's just--how did the Post try to trivialize it?  Oh yeah: “Conservative media *oversell* New Jersey’s guidelines for teaching gender.” Not policy at all, you just misunderstood.

Actually it’s exactly what it seems.  And as we keep seeing again and again (as with Disney's zoom meeting), the Left and the WP are trying to make you think they're not doing what they're actually doing.

In another month they'll be defending it as a "vital part of K-12 education," and demonizing anyone who objects to it.

Source: The Federalist