Ray Skyler, a first grade teacher in Boston at Brooke Charter Schools has sparked controversy after claiming in a viral video “when babies are born, the doctor looks at them and they make a guess about whether the baby is a boy or girl based on what they look like.”
In the video, widely shared on social media, the teacher says “So something that’s really cool and unique about who I am is that I am transgender. So we touched a little bit about that at the beginning of this week in the book that Miss Hammond read, but I’m gonna give you my explanation about what it means to be transgender as well.”
“So when babies are born, the doctor looks at them and they make a guess about whether the baby is a boy or girl based on what they look like,” the teacher claims. ” Most of the time that guess is 100% correct; there are no issues whatsoever, but sometimes the doctor is wrong; the doctor makes an incorrect guess. When a doctor makes a correct guess, that’s when a person is called cisgender. When a doctor’s guess is wrong that’s when they are transgender.”
.@BrookeSchool 1st grade teacher records an “identity share” zoom call with K-2 grades where he spoke about being trans.
“When babies are born the dr looks & makes a guess on whether the baby is a boy or girl. Sometimes the dr is wrong. If they are right, the baby is cisgender” pic.twitter.com/qYGFm9B7rF
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) April 10, 2022
The teacher goes on to say “I’m a man but when I was a baby the doctors told my parents I was a girl.”
“I talk to my students about what it means to be trans all the time,” he also says.
“I’m a man but when I was a baby the doctors told my parents I was a girl”
“I talk to my students about what it means to be trans all the time”
These are 6 year old kids. pic.twitter.com/9CEOVvCdI5
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) April 11, 2022