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Jesus Christ I just thought 5th grade was too young. I think your reading my comment a little too deep.
No, I'm really not.
Because I guarantee that you have no issue with cis-heteronormative fairy tales being told to kids, nor cis-heteronormative gender stereotypes enforced on them, from significantly younger than the 5th grade. I also guarantee that you don't give a shit about how those who aren't cis or hetero are impacted by only ever learning about those who are.
You're only clutching your "think of the children!!1" pearls now because you've been socialised to other trans and gay people and to believe that their entire existence revolves around the act of sex, so in your mind teaching kids about gender (something we all have an experience of, even if we conclude we don't have one, and are aware of from as early as infancy) is the equivalent of somehow exposing them to porn or some other "immorality" (when the book literally just teaches kids about accepting others).
So you can keep telling yourself whatever you like to make yourself feel better, but the reality is that you are buying in to, and actively perpetuating, transphobia and homophobia.
Most of these discussions don't really get into the details of it. It isn't like a 5th grade teacher is going to go into exactly how the surgery and hormon injects work. It is a pretty top level PG rated discussion. I agree if that strawman was happening it would be if nothing else very strange.
There is a difference between telling a kid that two guys can marry and showing a kid a hardcore gay porno.