Celebrating Pride may look like a message of acceptance. But what happens when children are encouraged to question their God-given gender and search for a new identity?
This article examines how Pride messaging, social media, technology, and educational influences can shape children’s understanding of identity and sexual behavior—and contrasts those messages with what Scripture teaches about our identity and how we should honor God with our sexuality.
What PRIDE communicates about identity
PRIDE history - Is pride a good thing?
Pride has different meanings, some are positive and some are negative.
As an illustration, we can work very hard to achieve a goal which gives us a sense of pride and confidence in our accomplishment. Therefore, this is an example of pride in a good sense.
But what about Pride that celebrates sexuality that departs from biology and our God-given identity?
Is this a good sense of pride? Are children being harmed by Pride ideology?
First of all let’s look at Pride history and what the PRIDE acronym stands for?The word ‘PRIDE’ was originally an acronym, just like LGBT, that stood for: Personal Rights In Defense and Education. This organization started in 1966 to fight for equal rights for LGBTQ+ people in California.
In the past, the acronym PRIDE had very different goals than it does today. The history of the LGBT movement can be read here. Milestones in the American Gay Rights Movement.
After reading those milestones, you will probably agree, there were some grievances that needed to be addressed. Furthermore, everyone should be treated with dignity and respect regardless of their differing beliefs.
“While the movement began by addressing legitimate concerns about discrimination and equal treatment, its message has expanded considerably. So, what does Pride represent today, and what are children being taught through that message?”
What is the modern movement of Pride and their ideology?
These days, the movement PRIDE is better known as LGBTQQIP2SAA. It looks very, very different from the beginning and the goals of the movement have escalated. (more on that later.)
The expanded acronym stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, queer, intersex, pansexual, two-spirit (2S), androgynous and asexual.
I want to point out that there at least 72 other genders people can now ‘choose’ to identify as depending on their feelings. A list of those genders with definitions can be found at the link HERE. This it what PRIDE encourages with their “Be Yourself” banner in the featured image of this post.
Is this helpful or causing confusion for children to be taught this ideology?
“This brings us to one of the most significant questions surrounding today’s gender discussion: Is gender something we receive from God, or something we can define for ourselves?”
How Children encounter these messages about identity
Can your identity be neither male nor female?
According to our creator we are male and female Genesis 1:27
However, PRIDE says you can choose your gender depending on your feelings regardless of your biology.
According to a Medicinenet.com article What is gender identity? this is the new reality:
Gender, according to the LGBTQ etc. is not regarded as a binary concept where one can either be a male or a female.
It has emerged as a continuum or spectrum where one can identify themselves as any of the gender identities.
The term gender identity means how a person identifies themselves concerning their gender. It may be regardless of their anatomy or genetics. Thus, a person may identify themselves as male, female, none, both, or some other category independent of their genitals.
The idea is to make everyone feel comfortable in their skin irrespective of what gender they were assigned at birth.
From the beginning of time, people understood that gender ‘was determined’ at birth based on genitals; it was ‘not assigned’.
But where are children encountering these ideas? The classroom is one place, but it is not the only one. Social media and technology have dramatically increased children’s exposure to competing ideas about identity.
Confused Children seek New Identity when Influenced by Social Media & Technology
Dr. Erwin Lutzer states this in his book, We will Not Be Silenced:
In 2004, Pew Research polls began to see a dramatic change in the beliefs and values of Americans. Why the change? According to Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, Apple’s iPhone was released in 2004 along with social media apps, Facebook and Twitter. Google bought YouTube and Amazon released their Kindle e-reader. More that 1 billion people were now accessing the Internet. Thus, he says, technology facilitated cultural change more quickly than anyone could have imagined.
How repeated messages can influence a child's understanding of self
Confused children seek new identity after Indoctrination.
- the process of repeating an idea or belief to someone until they accept it without criticism or question:
- religious/political/ideological indoctrination
Children's educational environments which promote PRIDE ideology confuses their identity
“If these ideas are being repeated to children, we need to ask a practical question: What LGBT ideologies are children actually being exposed to in educational settings?”
Generally speaking, many, if not all, of the following teaching activities are happening in schools in Canada and the US. Parents need to be very aware of this.
- Children, at the earliest age, in daycare, pre-school, kindergarten, in library drag story times are being shown pictures and read stories of families consisting of 2 moms, 2 dads, in order to normalize these unions and destroy any concept of the traditional family. Sample titles here.
- One Book with inappropriate topic material and images for Kindergarten to grade 3, example: It’s Perfectly Normal. Sample pages here
- There is the gender unicorn that teaches children that they can be one of many genders, on a spectrum of many genders and depending on their gender, who they could be attracted to.
- Children, as in the images of this post, are encouraged to “Be Yourself” but they are given such mixed and confusing messages that they do not even know who they are. The best outcome for all children is to embrace the body they were born with.
- Transgender people’s identity is not the same as their ‘assigned’ sex at birth.
- Link to a Sample of available books
Children's Identity crisis can lead to Transitioning
- Children need to be taught the terrible side effects of mutilating one’s body by removing perfectly healthy body parts. As well, children need to understand the life-long adverse health outcomes and risks of transitioning. Some of these are loss of fertility, life-long medicating and confusion in medical care when disease strikes due to higher risk they have. Medical treatment is often different for males and females. Its important to know that a male body transitioned to female is still a male body with XY chromosomes. Likewise, a female body transitioned to male is still a female body with XX chromosomes.
- Furthermore, children are not mature enough emotionally to make such huge decisions about life-long alterations to their bodies.
- It would be wise and loving to teach children that many people who transitioned have later de-transitioned back to their biological sex. However, their bodies will never be the same especially if they had irreversible surgeries.
- De-transitioners are deeply regretful of the lies they believed; that transitioning would solve their mental confusion and they would become the opposite sex.
- As a direct result of the confusion sown into the minds of children, there has been 4515% increase in girls seeking to transition to the opposite sex.
- Children need to know and trust that their sex is not changeable. A very high percentage of gender dysphoric children resolve their confusion once they have gone through puberty.
- “Teachers and classmates can add another layer of confusion when they use pronouns based on a child’s chosen identity rather than biological sex.”
- Schools increasingly weave lessons about sexuality and gender into traditional subjects.
Teaching Children About Sexual Pleasure and Encouraging Masturbation
- 4 and 5 year old children are being taught that parts of their bodies feel good when touched, (masturbation) and that they should always masturbate in private. (BC children were given homework on this.)
- By second grade, they learn that the same act can be performed with a partner. In brief, all forms of sex, as long as it is consensual, is normal and to be enjoyed.
- Boys are taught how to wear condoms and girls are taught how to put condoms on plastic replicas of male genitalia.
- They are given graphic images of various forms of characters experiencing sexual pleasure.
- Children are prisoners of this ideological teaching. They must sit through it and be insulted and intimidated if they happen to disagree. Some young people who have dared to try remove themselves from inappropriate lessons were refused.
- Children are making up pride flags and put in their
pride school march. Most, if not all, these children do not even realize what they are supporting.
pride school march. Most, if not all, these children do not even realize what they are supporting.- School libraries have pornography books for students to borrow. The text is too inappropriate to read out loud at a school board meeting ( those to try to read the text are shut down) but this same text is deemed suitable for the young people it is targeted for.
- The Pride Parade in Toronto in 2023 and 2024 had full nudity on display. Children are always there and though public nudity is unlawful, it gets overlooked – with no accountability.
God Has A Lot to Say About Human Sexuality and your identity!
In summary, I know there are gay and lesbian identifying people who do not support all of the gender ideology being foisted on children and society. However, the reality is, there are many sex activists who have a lot of power and influence who want your children to be sexually active from a very young age in deviant ways and they are pushing hard to get that to be a reality! Your child’s school is one of their very important vehicles!
The above list is just a sample of what is happening in our culture. Now lets see what God’s word has to say about the human heart and what comes from it:
And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.” (emphasis added) Mark 7:20-23 ESV
I see a number of very unacceptable outcomes in this verse, including pride and foolishness.
Sexual immorality includes heterosexual and homosexual sex. So sexual immorality is all sexual activity that is outside of God’s plan – which is between one man and one woman who are married.
Sex activists, Educational institutions, the UN and others are clearly promoting and teaching our children to accept and practice sexual activity outside of God’s good boundaries.
There is so much more to add here, however, for a very detailed post on the methods used to sexualize our children, using information from articles, curriculums, videos, teachers and other Canadian resources, please visit this post, One Million March4Children.
What can Parents, concerned citizens and Christians do?
As parents, grandparents, teachers, and concerned Christians, we cannot afford to remain unaware of the messages shaping our children’s understanding of identity.
Know what your children are being taught. Ask questions. Review school materials. Understand the messages they encounter both in the classroom and online.
Teach children God’s design. Before the culture tells them who they are, help them understand that their identity begins with their Creator. God created us male and female (Genesis 1:27), and our bodies are not mistakes to be corrected or identities to be reinvented.
Speak with truth and love. We can treat every person with dignity and respect without agreeing with every belief about sexuality or gender. We can protect children while showing compassion toward those who struggle with questions about identity.
Our children need more than a culture that simply tells them, “Be yourself.” They need adults who will help them discover who God created them to be.
So, don’t remain silent. Learn what your children are being taught, talk with them openly, teach them God’s truth, and lovingly speak up when you believe their well-being is at stake.
Thank you for taking the time to read this post!
