They could have easily made this a book about boys for boys, focusing on how boys should be kind to each other, especially in vulnerable and private spaces like the bathroom. They could have taught a valuable (and universally understood) lesson about how boys and girls can wear whatever they want, and that there’s no one way to be a boy or a girl. But that’s not how this ideology works. The Hoffmans don’t want to find a solution; they want to disrupt society, and they’re using children to do it.
I concur with your assessment of this book. Children are poorly served by those who lead them to repudiate their personal biological reality and engage in behavior driven by the desire to exist in a delusion amounting to mental illness. No good comes of this and there is no credible evidence to support it.
The irony of the politicization of the body positivity movement being the same people who press kids on disliking their genitals AND DNA! I gotta respect China for their tremendous success at brainwashing so many NPCs.
"When [their teacher] asks them to stand near the picture that looks like them, the kids naturally divide themselves by biological sex. She could have stopped the lesson right then and given Jacob’s male classmates a lesson about kindness. Instead, she introduces deception and confusion into the conversation and makes it about femininity and masculinity, implying they can’t tell whether someone is a boy or a girl." You've gone right to the heart of the matter, Savvy, as always. *This* is why the lawsuits; this is why the opt-outs; this is why the backlash. Because trans activists and allies (like the authors) both excuse and perpetrate actual unkindness and bigotry in their zealous attempts to proselytize.
One other gripe -- since we're so academically abysmal in the United States, couldn't this time spent confusing kids be used to clarify their reading, writing and math skills?
As an adult I get confused reading this propaganda. I can only imagine what it's like for small children, especially since they are so innately wired to want to please their teacher.
This review honestly sent chills down my spine. The deliberate manipulation of the children is so abhorrent. That does not mean one cannot feel sympathy and kindness towards the children who had negative experiences. Why does modern society wish to eliminate the innocence of children?
The Supreme Court’s ruling in Taylor v. Mahmoud was absolutely correct! I’d like to thank Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett for standing for religious freedom and protecting our children! I want to be crystal clear, I support LGBT civil rights and same-sex marriage 100% and I bare no ill will toward Trans, nonbinary and intersex people. But this book and its message is disgusting and disturbing! “Jacob’s Room to Choose” is complete garbage and should be pulled from all school curriculums. The Hoffmans are not teaching tolerance but rather pushing a dangerous agenda and they know it. They just pretend to not understand why this got them in hot water.
It’s because they are advocating for the complete abolition of sex differences in any way, shape or form. No! That is complete nonsense and will help no one including LGBT people. Biological sex is a thing and will always stay the same even if you have a sex-change operation. Sophie is a masculine girl and Jacob is an effeminate boy. Period. End of story. They are NOT “gender-nonconforming.” Here’s how they should’ve done their book.
Teach kids to be accepting of the significant minority of boys and girls who don’t fit traditional gender stereotypes or norms. Don’t insist their is no difference between boys and girls and kids can choose their gender. Also, the teacher should’ve acknowledged the existence and importance of biological sex while stating one needn’t dress or look a certain way to be a boy or girl. Most boys will dress in traditionally masculine clothing and have traditionally masculine interests but there are some who don’t and they should be accepted, ditto with girls who don’t have traditionally feminine clothing or interests.
When it comes to bathrooms, don’t ever advocate for the end of same-sex bathrooms. This is both dangerous and destructive. Instead, the authors should’ve advocated for the inclusion of gender-neutral bathrooms for Trans, non-binary and intersex individuals alongside same-sex bathrooms for males and females. Also, black women are NOT obligated to support Trans rights. Also, what do we mean by Trans rights? Transgender people having civil rights and anti-discrimination protections. I think we can all agree that is proper. But if we mean Trans people should be able to use any bathroom they want, compete in women’s sports or kids should be able to get gender-affirming care, then no. Black women are NOT emotional support animals for LGBT people!
There is NO comparison between the struggle for Civil Rights for African-Americans and the kind of stuff their calling “LGBT rights” or “Trans rights” today. None whatsoever. Woke leftists and liberals need to stop conflating the two. These Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Muslim families had every right to opt their kids out of this harmful curriculum. It is a violation of the religious freedom to do so. Our country is changing so much for the better, sanity is returning more and more everyday and this Supreme Court ruling is proof of that!
The Hoffman's are either narcissists or A&W level thickheads. The only reason so many people explicitly or indirectly defend or agree with their behavior is partisanship/politics and/or the secular cult of Marxist social sciences. Take cult and politics out and we're back to the margins and actual mental healthcare, where it should be.
I concur with your assessment of this book. Children are poorly served by those who lead them to repudiate their personal biological reality and engage in behavior driven by the desire to exist in a delusion amounting to mental illness. No good comes of this and there is no credible evidence to support it.
The irony of the politicization of the body positivity movement being the same people who press kids on disliking their genitals AND DNA! I gotta respect China for their tremendous success at brainwashing so many NPCs.
Thank you for this clear explanation of what is so wrong with this whole movement! It’s far more tearing down norms than seeking resolutions.
"When [their teacher] asks them to stand near the picture that looks like them, the kids naturally divide themselves by biological sex. She could have stopped the lesson right then and given Jacob’s male classmates a lesson about kindness. Instead, she introduces deception and confusion into the conversation and makes it about femininity and masculinity, implying they can’t tell whether someone is a boy or a girl." You've gone right to the heart of the matter, Savvy, as always. *This* is why the lawsuits; this is why the opt-outs; this is why the backlash. Because trans activists and allies (like the authors) both excuse and perpetrate actual unkindness and bigotry in their zealous attempts to proselytize.
The craziest part is that parents like these people indulge in this insanity.
One other gripe -- since we're so academically abysmal in the United States, couldn't this time spent confusing kids be used to clarify their reading, writing and math skills?
As an adult I get confused reading this propaganda. I can only imagine what it's like for small children, especially since they are so innately wired to want to please their teacher.
Keep it up Savana. It’s not just religious parents who object. It’s everyday average normal parents, too.
I believe your questions are very valid and I also believe you are 100% correct in that this book is very dangerous. This is so wrong and evil!
This review honestly sent chills down my spine. The deliberate manipulation of the children is so abhorrent. That does not mean one cannot feel sympathy and kindness towards the children who had negative experiences. Why does modern society wish to eliminate the innocence of children?
The Supreme Court’s ruling in Taylor v. Mahmoud was absolutely correct! I’d like to thank Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett for standing for religious freedom and protecting our children! I want to be crystal clear, I support LGBT civil rights and same-sex marriage 100% and I bare no ill will toward Trans, nonbinary and intersex people. But this book and its message is disgusting and disturbing! “Jacob’s Room to Choose” is complete garbage and should be pulled from all school curriculums. The Hoffmans are not teaching tolerance but rather pushing a dangerous agenda and they know it. They just pretend to not understand why this got them in hot water.
It’s because they are advocating for the complete abolition of sex differences in any way, shape or form. No! That is complete nonsense and will help no one including LGBT people. Biological sex is a thing and will always stay the same even if you have a sex-change operation. Sophie is a masculine girl and Jacob is an effeminate boy. Period. End of story. They are NOT “gender-nonconforming.” Here’s how they should’ve done their book.
Teach kids to be accepting of the significant minority of boys and girls who don’t fit traditional gender stereotypes or norms. Don’t insist their is no difference between boys and girls and kids can choose their gender. Also, the teacher should’ve acknowledged the existence and importance of biological sex while stating one needn’t dress or look a certain way to be a boy or girl. Most boys will dress in traditionally masculine clothing and have traditionally masculine interests but there are some who don’t and they should be accepted, ditto with girls who don’t have traditionally feminine clothing or interests.
When it comes to bathrooms, don’t ever advocate for the end of same-sex bathrooms. This is both dangerous and destructive. Instead, the authors should’ve advocated for the inclusion of gender-neutral bathrooms for Trans, non-binary and intersex individuals alongside same-sex bathrooms for males and females. Also, black women are NOT obligated to support Trans rights. Also, what do we mean by Trans rights? Transgender people having civil rights and anti-discrimination protections. I think we can all agree that is proper. But if we mean Trans people should be able to use any bathroom they want, compete in women’s sports or kids should be able to get gender-affirming care, then no. Black women are NOT emotional support animals for LGBT people!
There is NO comparison between the struggle for Civil Rights for African-Americans and the kind of stuff their calling “LGBT rights” or “Trans rights” today. None whatsoever. Woke leftists and liberals need to stop conflating the two. These Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Muslim families had every right to opt their kids out of this harmful curriculum. It is a violation of the religious freedom to do so. Our country is changing so much for the better, sanity is returning more and more everyday and this Supreme Court ruling is proof of that!
I completely agree with you!
The Hoffman's are either narcissists or A&W level thickheads. The only reason so many people explicitly or indirectly defend or agree with their behavior is partisanship/politics and/or the secular cult of Marxist social sciences. Take cult and politics out and we're back to the margins and actual mental healthcare, where it should be.