Workers tell kids that if they are unsure about their gender they can start taking puberty blockers, which gives them more time to decide, Lebsack said. Kids want to escape from that, especially girls who are often horrified by their puberty, she added. Teaching about gender identity creates a dilemma for kids and a lot of them are “caught up in that, reasonably so, because puberty is a very awkward time,” Lebsack said. Oh, a mental health hotline.’ But they don’t understand how these mental health workers are now being trained, especially the young ones.” Puberty blockers The UK High Court ruled in December 2020 that children under the age of 16 lacked capacity to give informed consent for the use of puberty-blocking drugs. “They just assume: ‘Oh, a suicide hotline. “Kids are being reached out behind even the teachers’ back a lot of administrators and superintendents don’t even know,” Lebsack said. She did not enter that chat space but said that she had seen chat spaces where minors are mixed with adults and she thinks that it “is clearly grooming it’s an opportunity for pedophiles.” The worker who responded to her also put her in touch with a chat space for people ages 10 years to 45 years, proposed she go on puberty blockers, and gave her an option to make an appointment with the agency to explore her problem further, Lebsack said. “One of them was ‘make up your own gender,’” she said. In response, she received a message proposing 10 gender options to choose from. Lebsack sent a text message to such a number pretending that she was a child who was scared about puberty and unsure of its gender. The worker then stays in touch with the child in some schools through virtual platforms, or through text messaging, Lebsack continued, giving an example of Planned Parenthood, which may provide children with a text number to be used to talk about gender identity. “In the meantime, in California, mental health workers or somebody who’s working with the school can actually change a child’s gender category without parent permission.” If a kindergartner is concerned that his or her parents will not like their choice, the mental health worker will keep it confidential and not tell the parents about it, Lebsack said. When Lebsack asked these workers how they were trained to define children’s gender identity, they explained that they affirm whatever gender a kindergartner chooses to be and the pronoun the child wants to go by, she said. “We have a lot of young new mental health workers, counselors being added to our schools because there’s a lot of grant money coming in right now for mental health,” Lebsack told EpochTV’s “ Crossroads” program on June 16. Human Rights Campaign is a Washington-based LGBTQ advocacy organization. And you can be both genders, neither gender, gender fluid, or change as you go depending on your feelings.” When you’re born, parents or doctors just make a guess at your gender by looking at your body parts, but that doesn’t determine who you really are. “A lot of it comes from Human Rights Campaign’s Welcoming Schools that teaches kids: You can choose your gender. School districts in California have contracted with outside agencies focused on mental health, tutoring, suicide prevention, and many other topics to provide schools with sex and gender education services, said Brenda Lebsack, a teacher of 30 years and a former board member for the Orange Unified School District.
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