Posted on 09/10/2015 11:26:49 AM PDT by wagglebee
NEW YORK CITY, September 10, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – The world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books is heavily promoting a pro-transgender book designed for students as young as third grade.
The Scholastic Corporation has sent school teachers and librarians 10,000 copies of the book, entitled George, which was written by self-described "queer activist" Alex Gino. In the children's book, Gino tells a story of a 10-year-old boy who doesn't feel like a boy, so he tells people he's really "Melissa."
Scholastic's website says the target audience for the transgender book is elementary children from 3rd to 7th grade.
Gino creates a sympathetic conflict to draw the young reader in by telling of a class play on Charlotte's Web. The book reads, "George really, really, REALLY wants to play Charlotte. But the teacher says she [meaning George] can't even try out for the part...because she [George] is a boy."
NPR, in an interview with Scholastic editorial director David Levithan, who is also a gay activist, explained the reason Scholastic sent out thousands of copies is to "prove that a book about a transgender 10-year-old could appeal to a mass market."
Scholastic was able to make the book The Hunger Games a massive success by using the same promotional strategy of sending out thousands of copies.
Scholastic also took Gino to major book fairs to promote the transgender message. "My hope is that it be in every library in the country, that kids be able to get their hands on it," Gino told Kirkus Reviews.
Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council says the book will confuse impressionable children. "It's challenging enough for normal children to navigate and come to terms with their gender, identity, what it means to be male or female," he said, according to CBN. "Things like this are only going to create greater confusion, add greater confusion to the struggles that in the ordinary course of things most children will have."
Sprigg criticized Scholastic's promotion, telling CBN that pro-transgender books are not compassionate toward struggling children. He said children with gender issues who read such books may be affirmed in their confusion and avoid receiving helpful treatment.
"It may plant ideas in the minds of those who are struggling," Sprigg said. "Research shows ... that most children who struggle with gender identity issues actually have those issues resolved before adulthood, and do not change their gender identity from their biological sex at birth," he explained.
Richard Robinson has been president of Scholastic since 1974, chief executive officer since 1975, and chairman of the board since 1982. His father, M.R. Robinson, founded Scholastic in Pittsburgh in 1920.
It has nothing to do with appeal, it's about furthering an agenda.
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Parents should yank their kids out of school before they become indoctrinated! A lot is at stake. They are our nation’s future.
David Levithan is a pedophile. The FBI needs to check his computer for little boy porn. I guarantee its full of it.
I'm not big on conspiracy theories, but what in the HELL is a "gay activist" doing as the editorial (i.e., content) director of a company that puts out children's books for schools???? Just happened into that vocation? I think not.
There are a lot of people involved in this insanity. I don’t know if it is an ideology that has taken hold of people’s minds or what it is.
Welcome to GAY NORTH KOREA !
These people have infiltrated education for just this reason. We should not be surprised.
“Parents should yank their kids out of school before they become indoctrinated! “
Sue them into municipal bankruptcy first, then pull them out.
This is going to be spread around among little kids, they will be dumbfounded by what they hear and they will not be able to handle it. This will spread more gender confusion among children but I guess that is what the GLBT want—more people like them—more power for them.
Sounds very prudent and reasonable. These concepts are too advanced for 2nd graders. {/sarc}
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Do you think Obama’s justice department is going to check into a gay activist for kiddie porn?
Brain washing....
LBGT is a virus; on it’s own, it cannot replicate. It must migrate to a new host in order to reproduce. And that is how it is perpetuated, by recruiting the young before they have established a normal heterosexual bias. Looks like they have decided to get a head start on the process.
No sooner than they would look on 0bama’s computer for child porn.
Talk about inmates running the asylum!
David Levithan (born September 7, 1972) is an American young-adult fiction author and editor.[1] His first book, Boy Meets Boy, was published by Knopf Books for Young Readers in 2003.[1] He has written numerous works featuring strong male gay characters, most notably Boy Meets Boy and Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List.[2]
At 19, Levithan received an internship at Scholastic Corporation where he began working on the The Baby-sitters Club series. Levithan still works for Scholastic as an editorial director. Levithan is also the founding editor of PUSH, a young-adult imprint of Scholastic Press focusing on new voices and new authors.[1] PUSH publishes edgier material for young adults and is where Patricia McCormick got her start with 2002’s Cut.[3]
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