The California school system, in compliance with a law passed in 2023, is requiring all teachers and certificated school employees in grades seven through 12 to undergo an annual LGBTQ+ "cultural competency" training developed by activist organizations.
The ACLU, Equality California, the Trevor Project, OUT for Safe Schools, the California Teachers Association, and the California State PTA helped craft the PRISM outline.
"What it tells teachers is that traditional Christian beliefs about sexuality and gender are bigoted beliefs," relays Greg Burt of the California Family Council (CFC). "They demand that they use preferred pronouns if a kid says he's got a different gender and even instructs them that they need to withhold information from parents about their children's gender identity."
CFC learned about this from Brett Loring, an alarmed former elementary school principal who now serves as director of student services in Northern California.
"He just refused to take it," Burt reports. "It was so insulting to him. He's seeing kids at schools struggle with their gender identity, and the last thing he wants to do is tell something to kids that does them harm; he fully believes this training is actually teaching teachers to harm kids."
As teachers are forced into training that tells them they are bigots, Loring believes even those who disagree will "go along to get along" and tell kids they get to pick their gender. In an effort to prevent that, CFC is encouraging teachers, parents, and pastors to object to this blatant indoctrination.
The curriculum is mandated by the California Safe and Supportive Schools Act (AB 5 and AB 130) and was funded with $2.4 million in taxpayer dollars.
Burt calls it an LGBTQ+ "loyalty test" and a government attempt to shame people of faith in public institutions and undermine parent-child relationship.
