Tell the Schools that it is not a choice

News Boys Art and Entertainment LGBT+ RSOL Politics Science, Technology, Health Current events Deaths It Is Not A Choice by Staff Writer - , 2021 Over the the last several months, numerous articles have have been published asserting that schools are teaching children as young as six or seven that they have a choice regarding their sexual orientation and gender identity. This is the absolute wrong information to be teaching children. Why are schools teaching information that have been scientifically demonstrated time and time again to be untrue? The mainstream scientific community and the various psychological associations have for several decades now concluded that sexual orientation and gender identity are not a conscious choice and that they can not be voluntarily changed. In the New York post, Betsy McCaughey the former Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1995 to 1998 writes, "Children — as young as 5 — are being encouraged to disregard their anatomy and choose their gender.... In school it’s cool to be anything but heterosexual." Most places in the United states and countries around the world have outlawed "conversion therapy", the discredited practice aimed at changing a person's sexual orientation or gender identity. Conversion therapy has repeatedly been likened to torture and has been linked to to depression, anxiety, drug use, homelessness, and suicide in it's recipients. Instead of teaching children that they have a choice, schools need to conveying the message that,"It's OK to be who you are, but you can't be something you are not."