California’s ‘First Partner’ One-Ups Maryland Schools’ LGBTQ-Themed Storybooks

The group of parents who sued the Montgomery County Board of Education in Maryland over its refusal to allow parents of elementary school children to opt out of classes with LGBTQ-themed storybooks, argue that the school system cannot require children to sit through lessons involving the books if their family has religious objections, the New York Post reported. It’s a clear First Amendment issue.

California has its own First Amendment issue, and ours involves California Governor Gavin Newsom’s wife, “First Partner” Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s non-profit, The Representation Project, which raises money from a who’s who of the governor’s backers and state vendors, feeding young public school kids a steady diet of “gender justice,” LGBTQ-themed books, website addresses of porn sites, radical gender and sexuality messages, and the “genderbread” person.

The Montgomery County, Maryland case is actually more devious than at first blush. LGBTQ books were originally presented in Health and Safety classes, where parents could opt-out. Many parents objected to the sexually-charged, trans-themed and gender questioning books, and acted on the opt-out. So school officials moved the books to English classes where parental opt-out was not allowed, and kids as young as age 3 were exposed to these books.

Thus, the lawsuit, which accuses district officials and many teachers of deliberately sexually grooming very young children, as well as manipulating very young children into questioning their gender.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett “expressed concerns that the LGBTQ-laced classroom instructions aren’t merely trying to expose students to different ideas, but are about trying to impress upon students that ‘this is the right view of the world’ and ‘how you should think about things.’”

California can one-up Maryland

California Governor Gavin Newsom’s wife, “First Partner” Jennifer Siebel Newsom, has been “advancing ‘gender justice’ through her charitable nonprofit The Representation Project, Open the Books reported in 2023. According to tax documents the organization is ‘committed to building a thriving and inclusive society through films, education, and social activism.’”

Jennifer Siebel Newsom solicited state vendors and the governor’s campaign donors for large gifts to her charity, The Representation Project, the Globe reported in California’s First Lady Produces ‘Gender Justice’ Films, Sells to State Public Schools. Just a little conflict of interest? That is what is known as “behest payments,” according to the California Fair Political Practices Commission.

Siebel Newsom has released four films advocating gender justice. The films are leased for screenings to individuals, corporations, and schools, and come with their own lesson plans. Schools spend between $49-$599 to screen these movies to children, we reported.

With her Governor husband, who would dare deny her solicitations?

So the governor’s wife has been pushing “gender justice” in California’s public schools. What makes Seibel Newsom any different than the Maryland school officials pushing LGBTQ-themed storybooks on young kids in public school who are a captive audience.

Who’s watching? 2.6 million California students in 5,000 schools.

“Auditors at OpenTheBooks.com watched Newsom’s movies and read the lesson plans. What we found was, at times, shocking: sexually explicit images, political boosterism, and something called ‘The Genderbread Person.’”

The Globe watched the Misrepresentation Middle School movie as well. It’s a documentary, but it hammers strong feminist and gender justice messages for school kids ages 11-14:

• Women as sex objects
• Women/girls “in a disempowered position”
• Few female protagonists in movies
• women/girls portrayed as only seeking men, husbands, marriage, pregnancy
• boys should be trained to not be “hyper masculine” or “misogynistic”
• Middle school children are served images of upside-down strippers with little left to the imagination
• the “genderbread person,” who aims to show children how biological sex, “gender expression,” “sexual attraction,” and “gender identity” exist on a spectrum, which can be mixed and matched.

The movie is not age appropriate for Middle Schoolers, and really should not have any place in school curriculum. It is pure trans and gender propaganda.

More from The Globe 2023 article:

Open the Books moved on to Siebel Newsom’s film The Mask You Live In, which features the website addresses of porn sites including Porn Hub, MassiveCams, BDSM.XXX, and Brazzers.com. The pornographic images displayed in the film are tagged with descriptions such as “domination,” “face fuck,” “kinky couples,” and “…dirty brunettes.”

“Siebel Newsom included images of naked or mostly naked women being slapped, handcuffed, and brutalized in pornographic videos. The pictures are graphic even when blurred. Screenshots of those scenes can be found HERE (VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED).” The movie claims it will show “how we, as a society, can raise a healthier generation of boys and young men,” and will help “shape the national conversation around healthy masculinity.”

Open the Books also exposes lesson plans from The Representation Project which promote radical gender and sexuality messages.

While kindergarteners are spared the genderbread person in their curriculum, they are offered similar lessons on “gender identity,” introducing genders other than “boy” and “girl.” It’s not California’s finest hour.

Maryland Case

Fox reports that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch grilled the lawyer for the  Maryland school district about “‘Pride Puppy!’ a 32-page book that tells the story of a family celebrating Pride Day when their dog gets lost in the parade and the effort to reunite the pup with his loved ones.”

“The rhyming alphabet book, which was described as ‘affirming and inclusive’ by its publisher, allows readers to spot items starting with each of the letters of the alphabet while offering ‘a joyful glimpse of a Pride parade and the vibrant community that celebrates this day each year.’”

And just as with Seibel Newsom’s gender justice movies, “the book was previously used in the district’s pre-kindergarten curriculum.”

The attorney for the Montgomery County Public Schools argued with Justice Gorsuch about the content – because the left cannot be honest about just how sexual the content is, and how manipulative it is. The books being read to young school children cannot be read aloud on radio or television without violating the FCC’s broadcast rules. What is being taught as sex ed to California school children ironically cannot be discussed on television or radio. The Federal Communications Commission’s Obscene, Indecent and Profane Broadcasts rules state, “Federal law prohibits obscene, indecent and profane content from being broadcast on the radio or TV.” 

Every parent should be outraged at the teachers and schools district officials pushing the many books that graphically describe sexual acts and include illustrations.

This goes back to 2019 when parents were so outraged that the California State Board of Education approved highly controversial changes to the state’s health and sex education framework including teaching children about bondage, anal sex, pederasty, sex trafficking, sexual orientation and transgender and non-conforming students. Many parents ran for school boards across the state to get a handle on the sexual garbage being peddled to their kids, the Globe reported.

Notably, California has the nation’s lowest literacy rate, yet the “First Partner” and the radicalized California State Board of Education is focused on teaching inappropriate sexuality to young children.

Part II of this betrayal is the Devious New California Law that Prohibits Libraries from ‘Banning’ Pornographic Library Books. The purpose is not to protect your kids from pornographic library books, but to prevent the pornographic library books from being banned.

The attitude of the elite in this country was decisively expressed by Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in the Montgomery County schools case:

“I guess I’m struggling to see how it burdens a parent’s religious exercise if the school teaches something that the parent disagrees with,” she added. “You have a choice. You don’t have to send your kid to that school. You can put them in another situation. You can homeschool them. How is it a burden on the parent if they have the option to send their kid elsewhere?”

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson sent her kids to a private school.