‘Biology is not bigotry’: teacher blasts bill that would force teachers to receive LGBT ‘training’
An elementary school teacher packed a powerful punch in a two-minute testimony last month against a proposed law that would require teachers to affirm homosexual, lesbian, and transgender students. Her testimony occurred during a July 10 California Senate Education Committee hearing regarding AB 493 , a measure known as “Teachers: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning pupil resources and training.” Speaking before the panel of liberal California politicians, Rachel Olsen – a 20-year veteran of the school system – referred to the training she had recently received from a program run by a contractor, Queerly Elementary. “I was told to use preferred pronouns to address students, to stop referring to students by their biological genders as boys and girls, and to teach sexual orientation and various gender identities,” said Olsen. The purpose of the training being given is to “seek to coerce teachers and students to accept and express i