In cinemas in Norway, primary and secondary school students will be able to see the film "Listen to me", which is about, among other things, the 9-year-old boy Ali who wants to be a girl. The film addresses what it calls "confrontation with one's own attitudes", and it ends with Ali being allowed to be a girl, participate in pride and become happy.
This message is problematic, as it conveys that children know best whether they are a girl, a boy or something completely different, which is deserving of criticism. Truls addresses this and shows with examples what problems arise, and why there is strong pressure directed at Norwegian children to learn to understand gender in a completely new and unscientific way – called queer theory.
With state funds, county municipalities across the country pay for children to learn that gender is a feeling, and that they can feel like anything. When they feel it, they ARE the feeling and their new identity, something everyone must deal with. This can hardly be called culture; it is reprehensible and something parents rightly react to.