OSU Targets Children and Youth with Queer Theory Ideology
Part 3: This segment will show how diverse sexuality and gender at OSU transitioned from on-campus adult-focused events and activities to child-focused groomer-like behaviors by OSU officials.
This segment will show how diverse sexuality and gender at OSU transitioned from on-campus adult-focused events and activities to child-focused groomer-like behaviors by OSU officials. Many of these officials work with or teach future school teachers, administrators, and counselors. The public needs to understand that this transition to child-focused Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Marxism at OSU occurred largely because of OSU’s fixation with DEI.
Identity Marxists present queer theory as advocacy for LGBTQ rights. It is not about rights, equality, or inclusion of lesbians, gays, or intersex people. The LGBTQA+ agenda promoted by queer theorists and activists undermines intersex people and threatens the progress made by LGB advocates in recent decades. Ben Appel writes about this in The New Homophobia, and James Lindsay provides commentary related to this issue on his New Discourses website. A recently formed organization Gays Against Groomers is one example of an increasing number of people, including gay people, who oppose the sexualization and indoctrination of children by woke activists. In March, an employee at Walt Disney wrote I Am a Gay Employee at Walt Disney World. Disney Does Not Speak For Me. And Bill Maher recently gave a monologue New Rule: Along for the Pride pointing out the absurdities of gender ideology.
Since 2003, OSU has hosted an annual Dragonfly drag show, for students to compete in drag competitions and raise money for charity. The podcast, Amplified Oklahoma published Episode 35: Dragonfly in March 2019. The episode provides information about the history of Dragonfly at OSU. Other examples of queer theory at OSU include Drag 101and Kings, Queens and In-Betweens provided by Oklahoma State Queers and Allies (OSQ&A) and the Office of Multicultural Affairs.
In 2020 OSU’s Division of Institutional Diversity launched Community Advancing Conversations to provide a monthly “dialogue series designed to enrich, enlighten and engage all members of the OSU community and advance the institution's commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.” In April 2021, the Division of Institutional Diversity broadcast Being LGBTQ in the Workplace so academic deans and university leaders could publicly discuss some of OSU’s efforts to promote queer theory in the workplace.
As part of Women’s History Month in 2021, OSU’s Division of Institutional Diversity publicized events to “commemorate women’s contributions,” including Intersections in OKC's 39th Street District: Black Women, Femininity, and (Re)Appropriation Among Drag Performers, which was hosted by OSU’s Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studiesand the Office of Multicultural Affairs.
In April 2022, the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology (CEAT) held its DEI awards banquet. In March 2022, CEAT Diversity and Inclusion promoted an event with oSTEM (out in STEM). For the event, OSU brought Samuel Brinton to campus to speak about LGBTQ+ in STEM.
On the left side of the photo is Dr. Jason Kirksey, Vice President for Institutional Diversity and Chief Diversity Officer at OSU. Dr. Paul Tikalsky, Dean, College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology at OSU, is on the right.
The Oklahoma Legislature recently appropriated $873.4 million to Oklahoma higher education for FY23. The State Regents earmarked $11.5 million of the appropriation to Oklahoma’s public colleges and universities to produce more graduates in STEM disciplines.
Brinton describes himself as the “first gender fluid person in federal government leadership.” He has been referred to as a drag queen in the media and has been public about his participation in “puppy love.”
In the information about Brinton’s presentation at OSU, the writer used “their” instead of “his” to refer to Brinton. This is an example of “preferred” or “chosen” gender pronouns. Queer Theory activists demand people use preferred gender pronouns to show respect for and allyship with queer people. In truth, Identity Marxists promote gender pronouns to compel and control the speech of nonactivists. It is an authoritarian attempt to create the appearance of acceptance by the majority.
OSU encourages Chosen Names & Pronouns and justifies doing so by stating that pronouns promote inclusion and signal allyship to transgender and gender non-conforming people on campus. The Chosen Names & Pronouns website includes resources like OSU’s Names & Pronouns 101 Navigating Gender Non-Conformity in OSU Systems, a Guide for Supporting Trans and Gender Diverse Students, and a nonbinary fact sheet because, according to OSU, “it is more important now than ever to ensure we refer to others in a respectful and welcoming manner – it’s the Cowboy Way.”
Many OSU administrators and some faculty, staff, and students include chosen pronouns in Zoom meetings, online classrooms, and email signatures, but not everyone believes or agrees with this practice. Many people find it nonsensical and avoid pronoun confrontations with Identity Marxists since they frequently use gender pronouns as a power grab and way to control the speech of others.
OSU’s Chosen Name & Pronoun website also provides The Gender Unicorn handout to help people understand gender identity, gender expression, sex assigned at birth, and physical and emotional attractions.
OSU established a Chosen Name and Pronoun Working Group as part of a “recent inclusion initiative to create more inclusive environments on campus.” Members of the working group include OSU’s Registrar, an Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Student Services, students, a professor, an assistant professor and director of Diversity and Rural Advocacy Group (DRAG Lab), and an academic advisor. According to OSU, “The mission of the Chosen Name and Personal Pronoun Working Group is to identify ways to make information systems more inclusive of student identities. We understand that names and pronouns are important and that use of the wrong identifiers can cause distress.”
The Diversity and Rural Advocacy Group Laboratory – DRAG lab posted on Facebook, “Check out Dr. Koch’s “PRONOUNS! They’re important!” t-shirt! Share with us below your preferred name, pronouns, and a little bit about why pronouns are important to you.”
The DRAG Lab is a research collaborative that includes OSU’s School of Community Health Sciences, Counseling and Counseling Psychology. You can read about the faculty directing and consulting with the DRAG lab and the research opportunities the DRAG Lab provides for graduate students including researching transgender bodies, whiteness, polyamory, intersectionality, sexuality education, LGBTQ2S+ youth, non-monogamous relationships, sex workers, allyship, queer athletes, diversity education for teachers, neurodivergence, and disability. This is one example of OSU embedding queer theory in ways that will carry over into k-12 school settings by school counselors trained at OSU. These ideas and behaviors will also be pushed onto classroom teachers via professional development, training, and diversity education.
You can read about a recent OSU graduate and high school science teacher who learned from his professor, Dr. Hammer, to “see the real systemic issues around white privilege and LGBTQ rights” before graduating with his master’s in school counseling.
There are many at OSU promoting queer theory under the pretense that they are LGBTQA+ “allies.” Queer theory is Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Marxism. It is not about rights, equality, or inclusion of lesbians, gays, or intersex people. Pushing queer theory on children has nothing to do with advocating for rights, equality, or inclusion. Anyone claiming it does is misinformed, uninformed, delusional, or adults using children to make themselves feel better about their own shortcomings. Or worse they are groomers.
There are also those at OSU using their positions to push queer theory onto children by promoting it publicly and embedding it in their teaching, research, service, and extension work. For example, in 2018, an assistant professor in the College of Education and Human Sciences at OSU made the following Facebook post.
“Today begins Pride month! Over the years, I've been amazed to discover the growing amount of LGBTQ-inclusive children's literature being published that affirms and celebrates LGBTQ people and experiences. To help raise awareness of these books and their potential for use, I'm going to aim to share ONE picturebook each day. For some of my Facebook friends, they may be familiar titles. For others, they may be new. On the last day of the month, I'll share a list of blogs, resources, etc.. that list many other LGBTQ-inclusive children's books that may be of interest.
(P.S. - I am NOT seeking to start - and will not engage in - a debate about LGBTQ topics and youth. I share these books as a resource. They exist. We exist.”
The post was shared by another professor Jenn Sanders, an administrator at the time. Sanders wrote, “What a great idea! I Love it.” Several OSU personnel liked and shared the post, including Shelbie Witte, Robin Fuxa, Adrienne Sanogo, Suzii Parsons, and Erin Dyke. All these individuals are faculty or administrators in the College of Education and Human Sciences at OSU. They are directly involved in programs that train preservice teachers, including elementary school teachers. Adam Crawley is no longer at OSU but was a faculty member in reading and literacy education until 2021. Witte, Fuxa, Parsons, and Sanders currently hold positions in the reading and literacy program, teaching courses, and managing programs for OSU preservice teachers. Similar posts have been common among faculty and administrators at OSU since at least 2016.
OSU’s Office of Multicultural Affairs maintains the Trans Trunk. It takes donations to provide clothing items such as chest binders, breast forms, and packers that can be difficult for transgender youth to access. Binders restrict tissue to make breasts look flat and small, breast forms give the appearance of having breasts, and packers and packing underwear give the appearance of having male genitalia. The language on OSU’s website suggests OSU officials are using the Trans Trunk to target “youth.” The Office of Multicultural Affairs is a department within the Division of Institutional Diversity at OSU.
This has all been supported and promoted by OSU officials, many of whom work with or teach future school teachers, administrators, and counselors. This transition to child-focused Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Marxism at OSU has occurred largely because of OSU’s fixation with DEI. The next segment of this series will continue to focus on Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Marxism at OSU and will provide specific examples of how OSU officials intentionally push queer theory into rural areas and k-12 settings.