The point? The LGBTQ community is hardly "marginalized," as the left would have us believe. 

In particular, it seems that so-called "transgenderism" is in the news almost daily, from articles about males beating females in female sports events to irreversible mutilation, including mastectomies and castration of confused minors; likely caused at least in part by exposure to the concept, either through social media or in public schools systems. 

This brings us to Transgender Awareness Week, which is under way as I write. Principal Orla Higgins of Averill Angiers Elementary School (in Waban, MA) said in an email obtained by The Daily Signal:

November 13th through November 19th is Transgender Awareness Week. This week helps raise the visibility about transgender people and address issues members of the community face. 

Hold the bus. 

Transgender "people"—as in "adults"—is one thing, which we'll get to. But Ms. Higgins is an elementary school principal. It doesn't take a proverbial rocket science to connect the dots, here. Moreover, the school district bars parents from opting their children out of "lessons" about gender identity and sexuality.

A document provided to parents reads:

While parents/guardians/caregivers may opt out of the health curriculum specifically related to sexual reproduction, our commitment to gender and sexuality education remains firm. Our curriculum aligns with state guidelines to promote understanding and inclusion of diverse identities and orientations.

Here's more from The Daily Signal story linked above:

[A] link provided takes parents to the website of GLAAD, a radical LGBTQ activist group that claims so-called gender-affirming care is lifesaving for young people who believe they are transgender.

Angiers Elementary teaches kindergarten through fifth grade as part of Newton Public Schools in Newton, Massachusetts, a predominantly liberal area north of Boston.

[...]

In third grade, students learn to “describe the differences between biological sex and gender identity, and explain how one’s outward behavior or appearance does not define one’s gender identity or sexual orientation.”

The standards say 8-year-olds in Massachusetts should be able to describe “a range of ways people may express their gender and that some people’s gender identity (how they think about themselves) matches others’ expectations about what their bodies look like on the outside and others do not.” 

Also, children should be able to explain “how gender identity and sexual orientation can vary in each individual,” according to the standards.

Exposing (programming) young children to this insanity is unconscionable. Particularly, without parental consent, or even knowledge that the exposure is happening in their young kids' schools. 

Yet, as we continue to see from the radicalized Democrat Party, parents, and people in general, who speak out against the insanity are chastised, labeled "transphobic" and worse, and publicly destroyed, if necessary -- as deemed by the left.

According to The Daily Signal, an individual "claiming to be a Newton parent posted anonymously in a 'Newton Community' Facebook group claiming that she asked her child’s principal for permission to opt her child out of lessons about Transgender Awareness Week, but the principal declined her request." The parent didn’t indicate which Newton school her child attends, but the Facebook group moderator confirmed she was a parent.  

Newton Public Schools’ communications office told The Daily Signal that the information posted on the Facebook group “was not accurate, as the district does not have curriculum on the topic of Transgender Awareness Week,” adding:

Transgender Awareness Week is recognized by the Human Rights Campaign as a time to acknowledge transgender people in our society. Newton Public Schools did not create this awareness week, and any mention of it was meant for informational purposes only.

Translation: We didn't create it, but boy oh boy, do we support it. In fact, we support it so much that we don't allow parents to opt their young kids out of this insane indoctrination, out of our fear that too many parents will do just that.

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Again, this is unconscionable. 

As I've said and written more times than I can remember, I have zero problems with an adult doing whatever he or she wants to do with -- or to -- his or her body. I also have zero problems with consenting adults, as long as both are cognitively capable of understanding what they're doing, doing whatever they choose to do behind closed doors.

However, I do have a serious problem with two things, here. 

First and worst, indoctrination of young children, as I said earlier, particularly without or against parental consent. Secondly, being expected by the left to not only support the rights of "trans" adults, but also to fully embrace it.That is never going to happen.