Republican state Senator Janae Shamp blasted the content as ‘groomer garbage’
Some Arizona Republicans are furious with the University of Arizona’s nursing school after slides from a lesson plan instructing doctoral students on ways to discuss gender identity with patients as young as three years old went viral last week.
“I’m absolutely sickened that this institution of higher learning is perpetuating the lie that a person’s gender is based off feelings and not their God-given biological sex established upon conception,” GOP state Sen. Janae Shamp said, according to a press release issued Friday.
“This is completely groomer garbage that strives to confuse our kids in an effort to cater to the evil that is being accepted by today’s society. As a nurse, I am so disheartened that the next generation of nurses are being hijacked of their capabilities to deliver ethical care,” she continued.
One of the slides, shared in a post on X by the right-wing profile Libs of TikTok, is labeled “What to ask – Ages 3 to 13” during wellness checks.
The slide reads: “Some kids feel like a girl on the inside, some kids feel like a boy on the inside, and some kids feel like neither, both, or someone else. What about you? How do you feel on the inside? There’s no right or wrong answer.”
Libs of TikTok’s post amassed over 2.2 million views, over 2,000 comments, and 12,000 reposts as of Tuesday.
Arizona state Sen. Ken Bennett, another Republican, weighed in on the lesson plan, calling it lawmakers’ jobs to halt the “extremist agenda” targeting minors in a “predatory fashion.”
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