Sex education used to be simple. Back in the day, there were just two sexes, and “gender” was something that belonged in grammar lessons, not identity politics. Today, we’re buried under a mountain of woke nonsense that’s dragging down what should be straightforward biology. The media doesn’t help either; they love to push this garbage.
I remember my own education. Mrs. Barham, a devoted biology teacher at our suburban high school, would visit us every year. She’d walk in with a black portfolio stuffed with oversized botanical posters. Among them was a plain line drawing, nothing fancy, just the kind you’d find in any old textbook. But Mrs. Barham didn’t stop there. She brought more elaborate illustrations, too—antique cross-sections of plant anatomy, delicately drawn and colored, showing the beauty in nature’s design. She loved her subject so much that she went out of her way to share it with us in a way that was more than just information.
We weren’t stupid. We knew those lessons on plant biology were stand-ins for sex ed. Long before she even began, we all knew who the pistils and stamens were in the room. There was no confusion, no second-guessing. It was clear and simple, as nature intended.
Then, there was Mr. V from the boys’ high school two blocks away. He’d drop in to add a few words to Mrs. Barham’s talks. A strapping Military man with a no-nonsense attitude, his presence alone was enough to keep the boys in line. No one dared to snicker or act out.
We didn’t need moral lessons hammered into us then. That could come later. Our first exposure to the facts of life was done with a certain grandeur, a recognition of the natural order. Even though we couldn’t articulate it at the time, our eyes could see the truth—that human bodies share the same purposeful design as every bloom in nature.
Now, let’s fast forward to today. Take those beautiful botanical prints from back then and compare them to the trash kids are getting now—the so-called “Genderbread Person.” You don’t need a Ph.D. to see the difference. The quality of mind and character has taken a nosedive.
Yikes. The #genderbread should scare us all. For obvious reasons. https://t.co/LdCnlzcZuM
— News Around The Hill (@Hillwiththenews) August 27, 2024
The Genderbread Person is nothing more than a cheap cartoon, a crude drawing that does nothing to engage the imagination or the soul of a child. It’s not just ugly; it’s damaging. It’s designed to groom kids into believing that gender is just a “social construct,” something you can pick and choose like a pair of socks. This isn’t education; it’s indoctrination. It’s a way to fill young minds with ideological nonsense that separates them from their biological reality.
Words matter. Images matter, too. And in our increasingly image-driven culture, these visuals are becoming the primary way ideas are communicated, often with devastating effects. The Genderbread Person and its cousin, the Gender Unicorn, are not just tools; they’re weapons in an ideological war. These diagrams aren’t about education; they’re about pushing a gender agenda that tells kids they can ignore biology in favor of subjective fantasy.
The Gender Unicorn, another one of these insidious tools, was rolled out by Trans Student Educational Resources (TSER), a well-funded trans-activist group. They’ve been pushing this garbage since 2014, and they’re not slowing down. Sure, there are people like Pastor Gary Yagel, who wrote a refutation of the Gender Unicorn in 2018. He talked about viewing those in the LGBTQ life through a “lens of grace.” While that’s a nice sentiment, the issue here isn’t just about differing worldviews. It’s about a fundamental relationship to reality.
Yagel’s approach, while well-meaning, misses the mark. We’re not going to win this fight by appealing to religious belief or being “understanding.” We need to argue from the facts—chromosomes, skeletal structure, brain development, the function of the endocrine system. These are irrefutable. When we talk about the beauty of God’s design, we’re speaking to deaf ears if they don’t believe in God.
What we need to remember is that in a debate, winning comes first. Understanding can come later. It’s time to scrap the sentimentality and start arguing to win. Challenge the fallacies and twisted logic of the opposition head-on. In the end, withholding sympathy might be more compassionate than wasting it on those who reject reality. We need to reclaim the truth and stop letting this ideology run amok in our schools and in our society.
