Teachers, Parents, and Teenagers Oppose Gender Ideology in Schools

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – While the nation’s largest teachers’ unions support teaching gender ideology in schools, a recent Pew Research Center report reveals more than two-thirds of teachers, parents, and teenage students state that gender identity or “gender fluidity” should not be taught in schools. In addition, many teachers and parents say the choice to opt-out of this instruction should be available.

Pew Research Center surveyed more than 2,500 K-12 public school teachers in late 2023 and found that 50 percent of those teachers said schools should not teach children about sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). An additional 14 percent of the teachers said schools should teach students that gender is determined by sex assigned at birth. Only one-third of the teachers agreed with the unions that schools should teach that a person’s “gender can be different from the sex they were assigned at birth.”

Parents and teenage students were largely in agreement. In separate Pew Research Center surveys in the Fall of 2022 and 2023 respectively, a combined 68 percent of parents and a combined 64 percent of teenagers said SOGI should not be taught in schools or students should learn that gender is determined at birth. Only 31 percent of parents and 25 percent of teenagers said gender ideology belonged in the classroom.

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