Seattle Public Schools has developed a set of “K–5 Gender Book Kit Lessons” for classroom use that includes a kindergarten lesson to introduce students to progressive ideas about the malleable nature of gender identity.
The lesson features a picture book titled “Introducing Teddy,” a story about a teddy bear named Thomas who decides he wants to be Tilly, a girl teddy bear. The video component of the lesson is narrated by Brennon Ham, a Seattle Public School health education specialist, who uses the pronouns he, she, and they.
Ham highlights five words kindergartners should focus on throughout the lesson: acceptance, compassion, gender, …
