Tax-Funded Group Sends Anti-White, Pro-Trans Board Books to Wisconsin Daycares

A tax-funded organization sent “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Belonging Kits” to 300 daycares in Wisconsin this year that push leftist activism and expose very young children to racial hatred and queer relationships. The kits included nearly two dozen identity politics books for toddlers, “multicultural” play dough in six skin tones, a “Chilean rain stick,” and 12 “Diverse Family Structures” posters from Kaplan Early Learning Company that depict homosexual couples with children.

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The kit worth approximately $600 came from the Wisconsin Early Childhood Association (WECA), according to a daycare owner who received one, Elise Wiegert, co-owner of Little Rainbows daycare in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

At first, she was excited to receive the kit, Wiegert told The Federalist in a phone call during the naptime of the eight small children she and her husband tend. It came to her house in a heavy box approximately three feet square. She was thrilled to open and share it with the children, Wiegert said — until she previewed the books.

“I’m gonna tell you, it was shocking,” she said. “… They were not appropriate for children.”

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Another book in the kit, by Madison, Ralli, and illustrator Isabel Roxas, is titled Our Skin. It tells babies and toddlers, “A long time ago, way before you were born, a group of white people made up an idea called race. They sorted people by skin color and said that white people were better, smarter, prettier, and that they deserve more than everybody else.”

Later, it tells small children, “Racism can be a way we’ve done things for a long time, like how there aren’t as many books written about people of color.” It positively depicts people participating in a Black Lives Matter protest.

A third book in the kit, also by Madison, Ralli, and Passchier, is Together: A First Conversation about Love. It shows a man wearing a princess mermaid costume holding a little girl’s hand, a gay wedding, and multiple homosexual couples. It tells children, “not every family is loving … If someone hurts you, and anyone says it’s because that person loves you, they’re wrong.”

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This book’s section for adults claims, “Ideas about the superiority of the nuclear family are deeply connected to the origins of white supremacy, Christian hegemony, and settler colonialism.” The superiority of the nuclear family for reducing just about every life risk for children is one of the best-documented realities of social science.

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In its section for adults, the book says, “Patriarchy, cissexism, transphobia, homophobia, and the gender binary are baked into the culture of the United States and have manifestations around the world. In order to undo these systems, we must actively participate in movements for gender justice.”

The First Conversations series that includes the three books quoted above is published by Penguin Random House. The company has sued Florida for refusing to use taxpayer dollars to purchase its queer sex books for children, endangering a major revenue stream for every publisher: school and public libraries.

“Penguin Random House provides ‘antiracism’ training for employees and hosted a company-wide book discussion based upon the writings of the leftist author Ibram X. Kendi. The company opposed various state and local legislation intended to protect parental rights, girls’ sports, bathroom facilities, and gendered spaces,” notes the 1792 Exchange’s Corporate Bias Ratings.

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A nonprofit organization, WECA functions essentially as a private arm of government. To be licensed for business in Wisconsin, daycare providers in certain parts of the state must take a pre-licensing class with WECA. WECA also provides continuing education for daycare providers, who must take at least 15 hours of such training every year to maintain their state license.

WECA also distributes taxpayer-provided grants and administers food welfare. For example, its 2022 IRS 990 form says the organization distributes funding to those pursuing an early childhood career via a contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’s Child Care and Development Fund. It also administers a daycare food program funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

According to WECA’s latest annual report, 95 percent of its $32 million in annual income in 2023 came from taxpayers via state and federal grants. {snip}

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