Great, thanks for the anecdotes. I have one too: at no point in my K-12 education did a teacher ever reference their personal life, their marriage or kids, let alone political hot-button issues du jour, when teaching us, and we all learned every subject just fine.

The reason why I ask if referencing sexual-related content/gender theory/gay marriage/etc. when teaching is the only way of communicating a concept to young children, is because that's the only rationale I'd be OK with. If there were any other amount of ways to communicate said concepts, without discussing their personal lives or the aforementioned topics, I'd prefer they do that instead, as would many parents in FL and elsewhere. The only reason a teacher is shoehorning these topics into instruction, especially with children too young to understand a lot of them, is to prompt an inappropriate conversation about topics that should be left to the parents. Not every parent wants their 1st grader's teacher to endorse certain lifestyles or theories like boys can be girls if they want.

Not sure if I posted this already but here's another way of looking at the idea of teachers sharing controversial things with impressionable young children.