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Should Fifth Graders Learn What It Means to Be Transgender?
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Ben Kawaller meets an education activist who wants kids to be taught that sex is assigned and gender is a social construct.
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When most Americans hear “sex ed,” the first thing that likely springs to mind is learning about the human reproductive system and how to avoid making use of it.

That’s exactly the kind of cis-heteronormative belief—the invidious notion that, normally, people are neither transgender nor gay—the National Sex Education Standards (NSES) and its advocates ar…

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