California Family Council–
Concerned and outraged parents showed up in droves at a recent Encinitas Union School District (EUSD) board meeting to protest using the district’s “Kinderbuddy program” to teach kids to be accepting of transgenderism and homosexuality without parental knowledge or consent. A video posted to social media on May 8th revealed an LGBTQ book titled “My Shadow is Pink” and an accompanying video were being used to encourage elementary school students in kindergarten to “explore” their gender identity through a coloring exercise.
This issue came to light when a fifth grader came home and told his parents “he was upset about being made to sit through a video presentation of ‘My Shadow Is Pink,’ with a 5-year-old kindergarten buddy,” who he was paired with as part of the school’s “kinderbuddy” mentorship program. The read-along video describes a young boy who observes that his father’s “shadow” is blue, but his own shadow is pink and likes to wear dresses and dance, instead of partaking in usual “blue” activities. The boy laments that his shadow is not blue like his dad’s and brother’s, but chooses to wear a dress on his first day of school anyway.
The book continues to chronicle the boy’s experience as he tries to transform into a girl because his “shadow is pink.” It also describes little girls “whose shadows like girls,” introducing the concept of lesbianism to five-year-olds, possibly for the first time, behind their parents’ backs.
After the students watched the video, they were required to complete a coloring exercise in which they colored their own shadow. At the end of the book, the father tells his son, “It’s not just your shadow, it’s your innermost you.” Thus, the young students are allowed to choose whatever color they want to represent their gender identity, their “innermost you,” irrespective of biological reality. Continue reading…
