Just too much going on, and I’ve fallen behind, again, on putting education stuff up that I think is important. So, here’s a few more snippets, some reformating, emphasis mine/
Transgender Activists Manipulate Parents With Suicide Threats:
“Do you want a dead daughter or a live son?” This question, which is really a threat, is the central tenet of the campaign selling gender ideology to parents.
Parents are often told that they are putting their gender-nonconforming child at risk of suicide if they don’t medically “transition” him or her to appear as the opposite sex or at least treat their child as the sex he or she chooses. The child then internalizes this information and believes that suicide is an inevitable outcome without transition, as opposed to an unhealthy response to internal distress. The pernicious assumption behind this horrific question is that parents do not have the best interest of their children at heart and that the “experts” know better. Nothing could be further from the truth.
…Misguided advocates for so-called transition procedures may be familiar with the suicide-centered activist slogans that populate their social media feed and the materials distributed by the many professional associations captured by this ideology, but they definitely haven’t done the research to familiarize themselves with the irreversible damage that so many young people experience after transitioning to appear as the opposite sex.
That damage can include, according to a list compiled at The Federalist, “loss of bone density, increased risk of blood clots, premature brain aging and increased aggression, reduced capacity
…A recent analysis by Jay Greene of The Heritage Foundation found that “existing literature on this topic suffers from a series of weaknesses that prevent researchers from being able to draw credible causal conclusions about a relationship between medical interventions and suicide.” (The Daily Signal is the news and analysis site of The Heritage Foundation.)
I participated in a recent event discussing Greene’s conclusion that it is possible that “increasing minors’ access to cross-sex interventions is associated with a significant increase in the adolescent suicide rate.” The findings suggest that the “gender-affirming” policies and standards of care put in place in the name of protecting children from suicide must be reevaluated.
New Study, Experts Debunk Trans Activists’ Child Suicide Claims in Puberty Blocker Debate
…A panel of experts spoke on the dangers posed by that “either/or” dichotomy at an event, “The Effect of Access to Puberty Blockers and Cross-Sex Hormones on Youth Suicide Rates,” at The Heritage Foundation on Tuesday. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)
The speakers discussed the significance of Heritage’s newly released, breakthrough study “Puberty Blockers, Cross-Sex Hormones, and Youth Suicide,” which examined the increased rate of youth suicide in states that allow gender-dysphoric minors to take cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers without parental consent.
The study’s findings on suicide rates among gender-dysphoric youths run counter to the narrative of the transgender activists.
…Gentles said that one of the most concerning aspects of the study’s findings is how the parents’ role in their child’s life is being usurped by medical, educational, and governmental institutions that actively conceal children’s health information from parents.
“Parents know that a risky regimen of puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries won’t bring their children the peace and joy they so desperately crave,” Gentles said. She added that the individuals making experimental but irreversible medical decisions for children in place of parents have insufficient knowledge to intervene.
Heritage’s study contradicts the narrative that “gender-affirming care” is necessary and “lifesaving” in many circumstances, finding that “increasing minors’ access to cross-sex interventions is associated with a significant increase in the adolescent suicide rate.”
…The Heritage study released Monday found that 2020 saw 1.6 more suicides per 100,000 residents ages 12 to 23 in states that allow minors access to puberty blockers and other gender-reassignment procedures without parental consent. (The Daily Signal is Heritage’s multimedia news organization.)…
California Lawyers Train Teachers to Deceive Parents While Grooming Children
This story is a prime example showing why the label “groomer” is accurate. Public school teachers in Ventura County, California, received advice from a law firm to help them deceive parents of children who are experiencing symptoms of gender dysphoria or confusion about their sexuality.
Gender LCBQ published a blog post on Substack detailing the presentation the lawyers gave to the educators:
In November of 2021, the Ventura County Office of Education hosted a webinar over Zoom for area public school educators on “the legal and practical considerations for ‘affirming’ the identities of transgender and ‘gender diverse’ students” in school. This webinar offers a rare peek into how county offices of education in California are training staff on student gender changes. This webinar was comprehensive, lasting three hours, with 94 slides in the presentation.
The attorneys giving the webinar gave teachers a myriad of suggestions on how they can encourage young students to embrace a new gender identity without their parents finding out. Some of these include:
Encouraged to give students “get to know you” forms at the start of the school year to elicit students to declare their personal pronouns.
Encouraged to stop the use of gendered words like “mom and dad” and instead use gender-neutral terms like “parents” in the name of inclusivity.
Told that parents have the right to opt their children out of comprehensive sex education, but the opt out does not apply to LGBT-inclusive curriculum if it is taught outside of sex education.
Instructed that students have a right to privacy that trumps a parent’s right to know.
The lawyers also told educators that if they did not wish to obtain parents’ consent for their children to change their name or gender, they should refrain from keeping written records of discussions between the school and students. This is because parents have a right to view these documents.
…Another piece of advice from the attorneys suggested schools issue two different ID cards, one with the student’s legal name and another with their chosen name. This would allow them to trick their parents into believing nothing is going on. They also told educators they can use the child’s regular name when they send out mass emails to the families, and then change it back to their chosen name afterward.
Again, the entire purpose of the training was to help teachers cut parents out of the equation when it comes to instruction on sexuality and gender identity. The Gender Support Plan, in particular, when kept from the parents is a prime example of state-sponsored grooming. Sure, the teachers are not trying to have sexual relations with the students, but they are certainly grooming them to identify as transgender without their parents finding out. It is likely one of the reasons why there has been a 4,000 percent increase in young girls deciding to become transgender boys….
Colorado Mom Eviscerates School for Trying to Secretly Groom Her Daughter
… In the latest episode of “Progressives Are Full of Bovine Excrement,” a Colorado mom made headlines when she called out her 12-year-old daughter’s school for trying to push transgender identity on her child without her knowledge. Erin Lee says her child was “invited to an art club at school, only later to find it was a Gender and Sexualities Alliance about queer and transgender identity…When we picked her up from that program after school, we could see on her face that something was incredibly wrong,” she told New American magazine, Fox News Digital reported.
“It wasn’t art club, it was GSA, or Gender and Sexuality [Alliance] is what they’re calling it now,” she added.
The report continued:
The Poudre School District in Fort Collins, Colorado where Lee’s daughter attended school told Fox News in a statement that GSAs were “established as safe spaces for members of the LGBTQIA+ community, allies, and any individual to come together with the goals of ensuring inclusivity, safety, and support. Discussions in GSAs may be confidential given that they can sometimes be sensitive in nature (i.e. a student may be “out” with specific friends but not with the community at large.)”
Can you say “keeping secrets from Mom and Dad with help from school staff”?
During the interview, Lee said her daughter’s homeroom teacher “invited her to stay after school for art club.” Lee gave her permission, but explained that “when she arrived in the classroom that day, she very quickly learned that it was actually GSA club.” They had invited an outside speaker to address the children in attendance.
…“She explained to my daughter that if she is not 100% comfortable in her female body, then she’s transgender,” Lee said. “She then told the kids that parents aren’t safe, and that it’s OK to lie to them about where they are in order to attend this meeting.”
Can you say “CRT (Critical Race Theory)? While Transgender Evangelism has taken the news top spot, CRT is still there under the surface:
New Jersey Parent Sues School for Curriculum That Allegedly Discriminates Against White Students
A parent is suing their child’s school district and its individual administrators in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, for teaching an educational curriculum that allegedly promotes “anti-racism” and discriminates against white students, according to legal documents.
The parent, listed as B.L. for privacy, is suing Mountain Lakes School District for certain parts of its curriculum put in place since the murder of George Floyd in 2020 that allegedly teach “racial political ideology” and create a “hostile educational environment” for white students, according to the lawsuit filed on June 6.
White students, and particularly one student listed as J.L. for privacy, have been allegedly discriminated against because of race, the lawsuit says.
Former Mountain Lakes High School Principal Frank Sanchez allegedly sent an email and a pamphlet to parents in June 2020 that said there was “institutionalized racism” within the school district, according to legal documents. Sanchez allegedly called the pamphlet a “curriculum post” he planned to refine by adding articles for parents on how to address “the lack of equity in America.”
Sanchez also allegedly encouraged students with a “call to arms” to attend Black Lives Matter protests, the suit claimed. White students, the suit said, were allegedly being taught about their “roles in perpetuating racism” and when the plaintiff brought concerns to the school, they were allegedly ignored.
Barr: Public Schools Are Now So Hostile To Christians, They’re Unconstitutional
…The West is facing its deepest civilizational crisis since Jesus Christ resurrected, and addressing the crisis requires removing militant secularists’ monopoly on education, former U.S. attorney general William Barr told a packed Christian conference in Chicago, Ill. on Saturday.
“We are going through a fateful crisis in western civilization. This is the deepest crisis we’ve faced in my mind since Christ,” Barr said. “That’s because our whole civilization is based on the Judeo-Christian tradition and that tradition is under sustained attack by increasingly militant secular forces.”
In a reprise of a 2019 speech at Notre Dame University that met massive corporate media backlash, Barr told the audience U.S. public schools have become hostile to traditional religion while wresting control of American children’s upbringing from their parents. This is a threat to the entire Western order, Barr said, because the unique American system of self-government cannot exist without a citizenry that is committed to traditional religion.
That’s because there are only two ways to restrain people from following disordered passions, Barr said: internal restraints, which are largely provided by one’s beliefs; and external restraints, which are typically provided by government. So in order to have a limited government, Barr noted in an explicit echo of the American Founders, citizens must practice self-restraint.
Such self-restraint is primarily developed through religious devotion, he said. But religious observance, the keystone of ordered liberty in the West, has been under systematic assault by anti-religious forces Barr called an “atheocracy,” his amalgam of the words “atheist theocracy.” These anti-religious forces now control the minds of American kids due to their monopoly on U.S. education institutions…
New K-12 standards bear similarity to higher ed claims that math is racist
The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) recently published its second version of “Minnesota K–12 Academic Standards in Mathematics.” . The standards require students to “[s]olve problems connected to place, story, cultural practices, language and perspectives relevant to historical and contemporary Dakota and Anishinaabe communities.” The MDE document is a response to a 2021 Minnesota statute mandating that “[t]he commissioner [of education] must include the contributions of Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities as related to the academic standards during the review and revision of the required academic standards.”
References to the Dakota and Anishinaabe communities, which are native to Minnesota, appear nearly 300 times across the 101-page MDE document.
This document aligns with the movement in higher education to label mathematics as “racist,” which Campus Reform has covered extensively…According to Angela Morabito, former spokeswoman for Campus Reform, this course reflected a trend in several schools across the United States infusing mathematics with a “social justice” agenda.
Loudoun County Public Schools hit with lawsuit for ‘moral corruption of children,’ parental ‘violations’
The lawsuit targets Loudoun County Public Schools for policies that ‘compel’ student speech, ‘pornographic books,’ and more
The conservative America First Legal (AFL), through its Center for Legal Equality, has filed a lawsuit against Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) “for the district’s systemic and egregious moral corruption of children and its deliberate, and almost gleeful, violations of parental rights to control the upbringing of their children.”
“Parents across the country should be shocked and horrified to see a once-respected school system systematically destroyed, all because LCPS believes that it has more of a right than parents to tell a captive audience of students what they MUST believe,” America First Legal said in a press release Tuesday. “Fortunately, as we have seen, there are no parents with more courage, more fight, and more rock-solid dedication to their children than in Loudoun County, Virginia.”
Some of the policies targeted in the America First Legal lawsuit, which the group noted was “on behalf of eleven courageous parents,” include Policy 8040 and Regulation 8040, which, the group said, “compels student speech, forces young children to use bathrooms and locker rooms with members of the opposite sex, and keeps parents in the dark when their children lead a double life as a different gender during school hours.”
The lawsuit also hits LCPS for “Filling classroom libraries with books that encourage children to question their gender as early as Kindergarten; Forcing students to publicly provide their ‘pronouns’ in front of class; Making it virtually impossible for parents to remove the pornographic books available to children in LCPS libraries;
But they won’t pass a Parents’ Bill of Rights, will they?
Jayapal, Cicilline, Newman, Takano, Torres Lead Members in Introducing the Trans Bill of Rights
U.S. Representatives Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), David Cicilline (RI-01), Marie Newman (IL-03), Mark Takano (CA-41), and Ritchie Torres (NY-15) led members of Congress in introducing a Trans Bill of Rights. This resolution provides a comprehensive framework to provide protections for transgender and nonbinary people, ensuring that they are not discriminated against or persecuted for their gender identity and expression. It comes shortly after the Supreme Court gutted Roe v. Wade, stripping many of their constitutional right to choose, and as the Court seems poised and willing to take on other hard-earned constitutional rights.
