Tales from the School Board – Here We Go Again! Part 1

The Subtitle that’s driving this: “Tolerance is fine but acceptance is the goal.”

Title IX simply reads:

Title IX simply reads: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.” That’s all...One doubts that the members of Congress who drafted Title IX intended to produce what Harvard Law School professors Jacob Gersen and Jeannie Suk have called ”bureaucratic sex creep,” 

Subtitle spoken by Gilford District Superintendent Kirk Beitler during the School Board meeting on Feb 3, 2025 when Gilford High School Principal Anthony Sperazzo announced a new “LGBT/Straight ‘Safe Space'” club to be called “Prism” starting soon.

Sidenote: and whom also stated that monies to support the club wouldn’t happen for 4 years – gosh, I just wonder why that delay (spoiler – Prez elections.

So it is clear, even with the recent announcements via Trump’s Executive Orders killing off DEI and any Federal funding and US Judiciary’s rulings against the Biden Administration to permanently ensconce such into Government and Society, the Gilford School District is just aching to keep on going with both.

I had that Beitler was going to go off-Agenda based on a tip and I decided to testify with with the following during the first Public Comment time to tell the School Board they now had to get rid of Policy JBAB – Transgender and Non-Conforming – which I have fought for the last five years. It deliberately is oriented toward transgenderism as shown by the first line of the Policy (and following):

The Gilford School District policy requires that all programs, activities, and employment
practices be free from discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

This is now verboten. During my testimony during the first Public Comment period, I demanded if any of them had actually kept up with current events and had they read at least the E.O.s? And if they haven’t, and ignore them, I was going to rat them out so as to force removal of their Federal funding (even if filtered through the State).

To show that they were out of compliance and had to now bring their Policies up to date or risk that funding, I spoke about:

• Brought up the two recent Court decisions that threw out the Obama/Biden attempts to change Title IX discrimination from biological sex to “gender identity”
  • U.S. District Court Judge Terry Doughty (Louisiana) threw it out “This case demonstrates the abuse of power by executive federal agencies in the rulemaking process,”
  • Chief Judge Danny C. Reeves of the Kentucky district court “Expanding the meaning of ‘on the basis of sex’ to include ‘gender identity’ turns Title IX on its head.”
• Three of Trump Executive Orders (a fourth came out afterwards) that told the Executive Branch agencies to stop all DEI and transgender activities and to deny any funding to any entity practicing either:
  • Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling
  • Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government
  • Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports
  • Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation

Of course, they know all about HB1205, the NH bill that made it illegal to allow boys to play on girls teams – they ignored it at the time.

My audio testimony is here:

It was needful that someone was willing to demand that the School Board “Follow the Law“.

The Obama/Biden Administration goal was back in 2021 was to supplant “sex”, an objective Truth, that was embedded in Congressional law (Title IX and elsewhere), by equivocating “sex” and “gender identity” via “Guidance” and “Dear Colleague” Letters as well as just baldly changing the wording of the Title IX by Executive Branch fiat. Which, as you know, isn’t how things work in our Constitutional Republic.

Those two judicial decisions cut that off at the knees and now being out of Power, will not be recast in the future (well, for quite some time at the least).

Their desired result of disregarding the immutable biological differences set at conception and pronouncing that, henceforth, that any person’s “identity” is completely malleable from day to day (or even hour to hour) created an educational, religious, and moral morass in support of their attempt to divide families (take control of the childred of parents) and upset basic Societal norms. That chaos was to be the norm to whatever you think you are – individualism taken to its illogical conclusion.

Which meant, at the next few higher levels, that if their aim of “no Objective Truth” was reached – then anything labeled as Government Truth can be anything it wants and no one could argue against anything – everything is relative based on what *I* think. But I have digressed once again.

Well, after I had my go at things, Beitler “broke” the agenda and announced that because of a Letter he had to receive, the Board had to “emergency revoke and replace” a couple of Policies in which gender identity had been cemented in.

I’ll cover that in Part 2.

Below are quick summaries of the Doughty and Reeve judicial decisions that rebuffed the Biden attempts to rewrite Law on their own accord and let it be known that those rewrites had no value.

Also are the relevant parts of the “Working at the speed of Trump” Executive Orders were issued right and soon after his inauguration dealing with denying Federal funding to those entities that are still hellbent on subjecting anyone, especially children, to these Cultural Marxist philosophies.

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Once the Biden Title IX arbitrary rewrites were announced, the lawsuits started immediately. As I said above, two recent decisions (June 2024 and last month) reversed what the Biden / Obama retreads tried to accomplish (emphasis mine): Quick Summaries of the two Judicial decisions:

• …U.S. District Court Judge Terry Doughty (Louisiana) issued a preliminary injunction in a related case in June. Doughty, based in Louisiana, argued the Biden administration’s changes violated the separation of powers and were inconsistent with Title IX’s original intent. He stated that the law “was written and intended to protect biological women from discrimination.” Doughty also rejected the administration’s reliance on the Supreme Court’s 2020 Bostock v. Clayton County decision, which expanded sex discrimination protections to include transgender identity in employment law under Title VII. He noted that Bostock does not extend to Title IX, and federal courts remain divided on whether it applies to education law. He called the rewrite a “threat to democracy” and an “abuse of power.” “The separation of powers and system of checks and balances exist in this country for a reason.”
• Chief Judge Danny C. Reeves of the Kentucky district court, appointed by President George W. Bush, criticized the administration’s attempt to reinterpret Title IX. “It is abundantly clear that discrimination on the basis of sex means discrimination on the basis of being a male or female,” Reeves wrote. “Expanding the meaning of ‘on the basis of sex’ to include ‘gender identity’ turns Title IX on its head.”

Executive Orders:

• Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling
  • In recent years, however, parents have witnessed schools indoctrinate their children in radical, anti-American ideologies while deliberately blocking parental oversight.
  • In many cases, innocent children are compelled to adopt identities as either victims or oppressors solely based on their skin color and other immutable characteristics.
  • In other instances, young men and women are made to question whether they were born in the wrong body and whether to view their parents and their reality as enemies to be blamed.
  • These practices not only erode critical thinking but also sow division, confusion, and distrust, which undermine the very foundations of personal identity and family unity.
  • or example, steering students toward surgical and chemical mutilation without parental consent or involvement or allowing males access to private spaces designated for females may contravene Federal laws that protect parental rights, including the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA), and sex-based equality and opportunity, including Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX).
  • Similarly, demanding acquiescence to “White Privilege” or “unconscious bias,” actually promotes racial discrimination and undermines national unity.

• • (i)   eliminating Federal funding or support for illegal and discriminatory treatment and indoctrination in K-12 schools, including based on gender ideology and discriminatory equity ideology; and
  • (ii)  protecting parental rights, pursuant to FERPA, 20 U.S.C. 1232g, and the PPRA, 20 U.S.C. 1232h, with respect to any K-12 policies or conduct implicated by the purpose and policy of this order.
  • (b)  The Ending Indoctrination Strategy submitted under subsection (a) of this section shall contain a summary and analysis of the following:
    • (i)    All Federal funding sources and streams, including grants or contracts, that directly or indirectly support or subsidize the instruction, advancement, or promotion of gender ideology or discriminatory equity ideology:
      (A)  in K-12 curriculum, instruction, programs, or activities; or 
      (B)  in K-12 teacher education, certification, licensing, employment, or training; 
      (ii)   Each agency’s process to prevent or rescind Federal funds, to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law, from being used by an ESA, SEA, LEA, elementary school, or secondary school to directly or indirectly support or subsidize the instruction, advancement, or promotion of gender ideology or discriminatory equity ideology in: 

Summary – you can do DEI and/or Transgenderism, but you will be cut off from any direct or indirect Federal Funding. Emphasis mine:

• DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
  • Across the country, ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex have increasingly used legal and other socially coercive means to permit men to self-identify as women and gain access to intimate single-sex spaces and activities designed for women, from women’s domestic abuse shelters to women’s workplace showers.  This is wrong.
  • The erasure of sex in language and policy has a corrosive impact not just on women but on the validity of the entire American system. This unhealthy road is paved by an ongoing and purposeful attack against the ordinary and longstanding use and understanding of biological and scientific terms, replacing the immutable biological reality of sex with an internal, fluid, and subjective sense of self unmoored from biological facts.  Invalidating the true and biological category of “woman” improperly transforms laws and policies designed to protect sex-based opportunities into laws and policies that undermine them, replacing longstanding, cherished legal rights and values with an identity-based, inchoate social concept.
  • It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female.
  • (b)  Each agency and all Federal employees shall enforce laws governing sex-based rights, protections, opportunities, and accommodations to protect men and women as biologically distinct sexes.
  • (g)  Federal funds shall not be used to promote gender ideology.  Each agency shall assess grant conditions and grantee preferences and ensure grant funds do not promote gender ideology.
  • (d)  Agencies shall effectuate this policy by taking appropriate action to ensure that intimate spaces designated for women, girls, or females (or for men, boys, or males) are designated by sex and not identity.

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• Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports

  • In recent years, many educational institutions and athletic associations have allowed men to compete in women’s sports.  This is demeaning, unfair, and dangerous to women and girls, and denies women and girls the equal opportunity to participate and excel in competitive sports. Moreover, under Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 (Title IX), educational institutions receiving Federal funds cannot deny women an equal opportunity to participate in sports.

  • Therefore, it is the policy of the United States to rescind all funds from educational programs that deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities, which results in the endangerment, humiliation, and silencing of women and girls and deprives them of privacy.  It shall also be the policy of the United States to oppose male competitive participation in women’s sports more broadly, as a matter of safety, fairness, dignity, and truth.
  • (ii)   take all appropriate action to affirmatively protect all-female athletic opportunities and all-female locker rooms and thereby provide the equal opportunity guaranteed by Title IX…
  • (iii)  prioritize Title IX enforcement actions against educational institutions (including athletic associations composed of or governed by such institutions) that deny female students an equal opportunity to participate in sports and athletic events by requiring them, in the women’s category, to compete with or against or to appear unclothed before males.
  • (b)  All executive departments and agencies (agencies) shall review grants to educational programs and, where appropriate, rescind funding to programs that fail to comply with the policy established in this order.