Conservatives Are Really Scared Of This Purple ‘Gender Unicorn’

Conservatives are getting very upset over the news that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools made recommendations to staff so they can better understand Title IX obligations and prevent bullying of trans students.

As part of that bigger effort to help staff members better respect students’ gender identity, Trans Student Educational Resources (TSER) — an organization whose mission is to create a “trans-friendly education system” — distributed a “gender unicorn” as an educational tool.

That didn’t sit well with conservative news outlets, which went so far as to call the unicorn graphic “the weird, drug-induced nightmares of a mentally deranged pedophile.” Franklin Graham, an American Christian evangelist, wrote on his Facebook page that using the unicorn in class is a “dangerous path” toward letting the state make decisions about morality, calling it “Communist brainwashing.”...
https://thinkprogress.org/conservatives-are-really-scared-of-this-purple-gender-unicorn-c0436d2a427a#.c67gnh9f4