The Difference Between Indoctrinating and Educating Kids
How Grown-Ups Are Training Kids to Lie, Obey, and Be Confused About Gender
Don’t teach them that truth is hate.
Don’t teach them that politeness means pretending.
Don’t teach them to lie — for you.
It’s not okay to train children out of their natural, evolutionarily developed ability to recognize sex.
Knowing who is male and who is female is as instinctive as recognizing height, age, or race — it’s a basic human skill rooted in material reality.
We don’t teach children to use inaccurate words just because someone “prefers” them. Naming what they see and know to be true isn’t rude — it’s a safeguarding reflex.
Just like we teach children not to blindly trust a man claiming to be a police officer without a uniform or badge, we should never teach them to ignore the obvious.
“I saw a big man in a dress follow my sister into the washroom” means something very different than “a woman went into the washroom behind my sister.”
Males cannot become females. Females cannot become males. They can only mimic the opposite sex — to greater or lesser degrees.
Calling a man a man — regardless of how he identifies — is not hateful.
Men and women are free to present themselves however they wish.
But they cannot — and must not — compel others to deny reality for their sake.
Telling the truth is not cruelty.
It is not a slur.
And it is never wrong.
Yes, ideally, children shouldn’t point or call out others carelessly — but naming what they see is part of healthy development. Social tact comes with age.
What’s not natural is preemptively teaching young children how to respond to hypothetical situations where someone looks like one sex but says they’re the other.
For example: telling a child, “Some people look like boys but are actually girls inside,” or “If someone says they’re the opposite sex, believe them and respect their pronouns.”
These aren’t neutral lessons — they’re ideological scripts.
They train children to override their instincts, replacing reality with confusion and obedience.
And that’s not just confusing — it’s dangerous.
Undermining a child’s ability to recognize sex and speak honestly about what they see weakens their natural defense system.
Safeguarding begins with telling the truth.
Encouraging kids to analyze clothing, hairstyles, or stereotypes to guess someone’s “gender identity” is unnecessary, confusing — and deeply sexist.
Children should not be taught to lie — especially not to protect adult feelings.
That’s just one of many things we mean when we say:
Leave the kids alone.
Teaching the Truth About Trans
Being transgender means someone doesn’t feel good about being the sex they are — like a male who wants to live how he imagines he would have, had he been born female.
It’s something real people do, often very seriously, based on personal beliefs about identity.
But it’s different to say they are the opposite sex — or that sex can change.
That isn’t true.
That is ideology.
An ideology is a belief system — something people treat as truth, even when it goes against observable reality.
It expects obedience, discourages questions, and punishes dissent.
Telling children that people can change sex, or are the opposite sex just because they say so, is not education.
It’s indoctrination.
And no child should be forced to lie, stay silent, or surrender their instincts to protect someone else’s beliefs — especially an adult’s.
What Do People Mean When They Say Children are Being Indoctrinated?
Indoctrination is the process of teaching someone to accept a set of beliefs without question — often by discouraging critical thinking or presenting only one side of an issue.
This includes statements like:
“Everyone has a gender identity,” or
“We are assigned a gender at birth.”
There is no biological basis for “gender identity.” It’s a theoretical and ideological concept — not an established scientific fact.
Many people reject the idea entirely, including evolutionary biologists, psychologists, physicians, feminists or simply ordinary people who aren’t convinced that identity can mismatch the body it stems from.
Others object on spiritual or religious grounds, including most major faith traditions that hold there are only two sexes — male and female — and that these are unchangeable.
Popular opinion — even among professionals — is not the same as consensus and consensus is not the same as truth.
Presenting “gender identity” to children as a universal truth — especially without acknowledging that it’s widely contested — is a textbook example of indoctrination.
Example: “We are assigned a gender at birth”
This is a deliberate reframing of biological reality (sex) into a subjective ideological claim:
In reality, babies are observed and recorded as male or female based on physical characteristics — not “assigned” a gender like it’s a guess.
Teaching that doctors “assign” a gender implies sex is arbitrary, and that “gender identity” is the real truth — which is not a scientific position.
Presenting this as fact, without room for question or clarification, is indoctrination.
What Does Indoctrination Look Like?
It often includes:
Repetition of scripted phrases like “trans women are women” or “using preferred pronouns is the right thing to do” or “trans rights are human rights”
Emotional pressure to conform
Shame or punishment for disagreement
Withholding other perspectives entirely
Unlike education, which encourages exploration and questions, indoctrination demands obedience, especially to language and phrases.
Teaching children that they must lie about what they see, suppress their instincts, and submit to compelled speech “out of respect”— isn’t education. It’s submission training.
You can call it inclusivity.
You can call it progress.
But it’s still a lie.
No child should grow up believing that describing reality is hate.
The difference between education and indoctrination is simple:
Education invites questions. Indoctrination punishes them.
If we care about truth, about child safety, and about real understanding,
we have to stop teaching kids to deny what’s right in front of them.
Unfortunately, you want adults to explain Trans to children. Trans doesn't exist. Teach them it's a corporate lie intended to fool people into buying expensive drugs and surgery. Never use pronouns. Never validate the illusion that 'Trans' is real.
“Affirming” a classmate’s “gender identity” is also deeply harmful to him or her, increasing the chances of them ending up in the hands of “gender affirming” medical quacks. And it facilitates destruction of children’s right to sex-based privacy and female-only sports. See https://caroldansereau.substack.com/p/affirming-trans-identities-is-harmful