'Grooming': The ubiquitous buzzword in LGBTQ school debate

in kindergarten through third grade. While doing so, he railed against"liberal politicians" and activists who fought against the law, saying,"They support sexualizing kids in kindergarten."

The use of the term is an attempt to distort the goal of teachers “who are being intentional about expressing their acceptance of LGBTQ people, or perhaps sharing their own stories ... so that all students can know that they have representation within the school,” said Casey Pick, a senior fellow for advocacy and government affairs at the Trevor Project, a nonprofit that provides support services for LGBTQ youth.

“What’s the difference between a teacher, a librarian putting one of these books on the desk of a student, or a guy in a white van pulling up when school lets out, saying, ‘Come around kids, let me read you this book?’” Rich asked last month. “What’s the difference between those two scenarios? There is a difference. They can run away from the van.”

DeSantis and other conservative politicians and parents who have criticized schools' use of books with sexually explicit material argue that parents, not teachers, should be broaching such subjects with their children. These groups"are really coming from this idea that sexual orientation gender identity is something that’s being imposed upon kids,” Oakley said. “It comes from just a really fundamentally wrong position about where a person’s LGBTQ identity comes from.”

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