Building a border wall between parents and their own children is not sufficient for leftist propagandists in California. Now that they’ve built what they hope is an impenetrable wall, they have taken one more step into the abyss of sexual disorder into which they are sacrificing children to appease “trans” cultists.
A month ago, parents of a fifth-grade student in the Encinitas Unified School District (EUSD) learned that their school had presented controversial leftist material in the form of a picture book on cross-sex impersonation to fifth graders without parental knowledge or consent. They also learned that the school had then instructed those fifth graders to watch a video narration of the picture book and do an activity on it with their kindergarten “buddies”/mentees in the school’s “Kinderbuddies” program.
Propaganda is so much more effective when delivered by cool buddies than stodgy old teachers.
The book, freely chosen by a school leftist to use with five-year-olds, is titled My Shadow is Pink and was inspired by Australian author and illustrator Scott Stuart’s own young son who likes to wear girly Kimonos and sparkly dresses. This is public knowledge because, like so many parents of cross-sex impersonating children these days, Stuart egregiously exploits his son on social media.
The story, intended for “3-7-year- olds,” is about a little boy who likes ponies, princesses, and wearing girls’ dresses. Unlike his father’s blue shadow, the little boy’s shadow is pink. His shadow is a symbol for his internal reality, a point made explicit in the story.
Upon arrival at school on the first day of kindergarten wearing a dress, the little boy feels sad because he now stands out not just from his father and brothers but also from his peers in kindergarten. So, his big, burly father starts cross-dressing to make him feel better, and then tells the little boy about family members with inner selves that they’ve had to “disguise,” including a girl who “likes girls.”
His father encourages him to “stand up” with his shadow and “yell ‘THIS IS ME!’” And then he tells his five-year-old son that some people will not love him, suggesting without saying that disapproval of cross-sex impersonation equates to absence of love or hatred. The book ends with the little boy’s father commanding him to put on his dress, and together the little boy and his father, both wearing dresses, walk back to school.
Carlos Encinas’ son told his father about the event because he was troubled that kindergartners were being exposed to such material and that he had been asked to be part of the propaganda session. What a remarkably corrupt time we live in when an eleven-year-old boy demonstrates more wisdom than school leaders.
Encinas contacted the teacher whose response was almost as troubling as the book. According to the video Encinas posted on Instagram, the teacher said it was just an activity about colors and shadows and that it had nothing to do with gender identification.
You be the judge. Do you think this book is just about colors?
Interestingly, the book is described everywhere it’s sold as “touch[ing] on the subjects of gender identity, self acceptance, equality and diversity. Inspired by the author’s own little boy, the main character likes princesses, fairies and things ‘not for boys.’”
Nowhere is it described as being about colors or shadows per se. The teacher engaged in what the left calls disinformation. In other words, the teacher lied in order to escape consequences for attempting to indoctrinate children on a topic no kindergartner or fifth grader should have any knowledge.
Stuart’s Instagram account is almost exclusively dedicated to undermining the view that it’s good to encourage children to identify as the sex they are. And he posts photo after photo, video after video of his young son wearing feminine attire.
As I have written, today’s culture—including public schools—condemns “gender stereotypes,” but rarely will you encounter the dissenting view, which is that sex-based conventions, particularly regarding dress, can serve an important and good function.
Nor will you hear that the hostility to sex-based conventions prevalent today in Western societies is a sentiment shaped by a set of socially constructed and culturally imposed leftist assumptions.
Those who feel antipathy for all sex-based conventions promote one set of assumptions while never acknowledging that their beliefs about such conventions are socially constructed and arguable.
Society ought not have overly rigid or inappropriate sex-based conventions (e.g., that women can’t or shouldn’t be pilots), but social conventions that reflect and reinforce sexual differentiation are individual and societal goods. It is a good thing for societies to acknowledge and reinforce identification with one’s objective, immutable sex via sex-based conventions.
All societies throughout history have had such conventions, particularly regarding dress. While the specifics of sex-based clothing styles look different in various parts of the world and throughout history, the existence of sex-based clothing styles is universal. Sex-based conventions, particularly in dress, emerge organically.
Sex-based conventions do more than merely help us distinguish males from females. Rather, they reflect, affirm, and reinforce the good of sexual differentiation. Sex-based conventions help children develop a sense of true sexual identity through membership in a sex-based group.
And for those who believe God knows more than “trans”-cultists about sex and clothing, there’s this:
A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God. (Deut. 22:5)
Now we have publicly funded schools preaching the controversial leftist belief that cross-dressing is good and healthy, and that the only loving response to someone’s rejection of their biological sex is approval—beliefs that are tethered to the superstition that there is an immaterial, gendered essence floating around in the penumbras formed by emanations of human desire.
The book My Shadow is Pink is a sinister, dark book. It’s sinister and dark because it advances body and soul-destroying lies through gentle words and bright colors.