The National Education Association (NEA), the country’s biggest teachers’ union, organized a two‑day conference earlier this month to train educators in “Advancing LGBTQ+ Justice.” The event took place just months after data from the Nation’s Report Card showed record‑low scores for students in reading and math.
During the “woke” NEA gathering, participants spent time learning the intricacies of “neopronouns” and “xeopronouns.” They were also briefed on how to counter conservative “villains” and confront their own “internal oppression.”
One slide repeated the sentiment that, “When someone calls you and tells you they are transitioning, do not question them about what they are doing,” according to material obtained by the watchdog group Defending Education.
The conference’s agenda included a land acknowledgement and a sharp critique of the United States. “Oppressed people’s stories are deliberately kept out of the telling of the story of what we know as the United States of America,” a presentation slide declared. “What we now call the United States of America is still an uncomfortable, awkward, and sometimes unsafe place to be a member of the LGBTQ+ community.”
Attendees were warned that “terminology around gender, identity, and sexual orientation changes every 2 years,” while “terminology around race and ethnicity changes every 10 years.”
A PowerPoint slide broke down transgender identities into binary categories—“trans man” and “trans woman”—and non‑binary labels such as “genderqueer,” “genderfluid,” “bigender,” “demiboy,” “demigirl,” “neutrois,” and others.
The same slide cautioned that “People’s gender identity and sexual orientation can shift at different times.” Educators were also cautioned against dog‑whistle‑y terms like “homosexual,” “biological male/female,” “sex change,” “transgendered,” “sexual preference,” and “hermaphrodite.”
At one point, instructors played a video featuring Jensen Marsh, a Buddhist LGBTQ activist who uses they/them pronouns, explaining “neopronouns” such as “xe/xem/xyr,” “ey/em/eir,” and “ze/zir/zirs,” and “xeopronouns,” which include descriptors like “star/stars/starself” and “cat/cats/catself.”
Before the event, NEA distributed handouts that labeled Republicans as “villains” wielding an “arsenal of racist dog whistles” and depicted them as “mobilizing their base with a potent mix of racist and transphobic tropes.”
Teachers received training on strategies to advance the LGBTQ agenda, encouraged to “escalate their antics gradually” so the public would have time to adjust.
One exercise gave teachers thirty minutes to devise a campaign, followed by peer feedback. One draft demand read, “We demand gender affirming bathrooms in every school because all students need to feel safe and included in our school.”
The Post contacted the NEA for commentary. The union represents over 3 million educators, staff, administrators, and other school stakeholders.
“America’s teachers and students deserve better from the nation’s largest teachers’ union, an organization that likely represents many of the teachers in our own local schools, from big cities to small towns,” Defending Education senior director of strategic initiatives Paul Runko told The Post.
“Shame on the NEA for taking dues from hardworking educators and using them to push a hyper‑political agenda that does nothing to help students achieve excellence in the classroom.”
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