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Doubletake

WORLD Radio

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Monica Gill just wants to be able to talk about important things with her public high school students. But a dumpster-fire of controversy over Critical Race Theory ideology, identity politics, and transgender policies erupts in Loudoun County Public Schools, and the Virginia district becomes a flashpoint for a national debate.

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0:00.0	I'm Les Silers, and this is Double Take.
0:04.3	Just a quick warning before we start.
0:06.5	This episode involves gender identity, sexual assault, and controversial school curricula.
0:12.8	Parents may want to check it out before allowing children to listen.
0:16.5	Okay. Let's get started.
0:21.6	In 2015, Monica Gill was teaching a U.S. history class at Loudoun County High School in Leesburg, Virginia.
0:28.6	The town is about 30 miles west of Washington, D.C.
0:31.6	She showed the students a documentary about the government's response to the terrorist attack in the World Trade Center. Some of the students were really upset.
0:40.3	Those terrorists weren't really Muslims, one girl said.
0:43.3	They can't call themselves Muslims.
0:45.3	Then the discussion took a strange turn.
0:47.3	One young man said,
0:49.3	Well, if they're not Muslims, then Bruce Jenner isn't a woman.
0:53.3	Not so many years earlier, If they're not Muslims, then Bruce Jenner isn't a woman.
0:57.0	Not so many years earlier, the students would have been like, what?
1:00.0	But in 2015, everybody got it.
1:04.0	Our culture takes it for granted now.
1:06.0	Individuals can define their own identities on their own terms.
1:11.5	From there, Monica says the discussion became pretty abstract.
1:14.8	Where does truth come from?
1:16.2	Do definitions and words matter?
1:18.7	When that class was ending, I just sort of closed everything off by saying to everybody,
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