Hartford High School released its March newsletter sent out to all of the students and parents in the district. The monthly newsletter offers insight into a few of the key things the school is doing or focusing on that month ranging from special recognition to other in-house features concerning student options to purportedly enhance learning. This issue includes recognizing a one act play making it to state, the student council blood drive and music team entrants to the state competition. The last third of the newsletter focused on Transgender Visibility Day (March 31st) and made claims regarding both the Trump administration’s recent Executive Decision to “Keep Men Out of Women’s Sports” which is the will of roughly 70% of Americans, as well as unfounded claims stating essentially there are no scientifically proven differences between young men and women, but rather the real grievance is sexism and racism.
Transgender “women” athletes (teenage boys or men) have been raising concerns for female students and parents throughout the country with the questions of fairness and safety for biological girls/women. Riding in on the cultural Marxist panoply of issues from race to sexual orientation schools have been inundated with cultural issues taking precedence over basic academia. As a result American students are being forced to think about race, sex and class struggles in virtually every area of their education rather than simply learning the essentials – reading, writing, arithmetic and science.
Virtually all American students have seen a steady decline in foundational learning skills with some statistics beyond comprehension. A recent report out of Illinois shows zero of the students in thirty of its schools can read at grade level, despite Illinois spending near the top per student. Vermont per student spending is number four in the country projecting to $26,974 in 2025 (up from $24,608 in 2022). The national average per student is $15,633. Chicago Public Schools district (CPS) ranks near the very top per student at over $29,000 despite the dismal failure in reading.
This is why the conversation around transgender athletes and social issues predominating student culture should be of foremost concern for taxpayers and parents. Clearly more spending does not make up for less emphasis on core subjects which disadvantages students’ learning. Just like less testosterone doesn’t make up for biological realities that disadvantage young women in sports.
The newsletter states:
“Trans athletes have been a major focus in the media, specifically the idea that trans women have an unfair advantage in sports. This belief is couched in the notion that women athletes are inherently inferior to men, which is both scientifically unfounded and rooted in sexism. Claims that trans athletes threaten fairness or make women less safe are based on misinformation, not credible evidence.”
This statement is classic gaslighting. Why do I say that? I happen to be a professional in the science of athletic training. The settled biological science of men versus women includes the following “credible evidence”: men have greater cardiac output, lung capacity, bone density, muscle mass, tendon thickness, mechanical advantages, potential strength and absolute strength. Women are also more easily injured because they have wider hips, which is why the number one injury in all of sport is the female knee, which explains the safety issue all the more. Sport is largely about physical prowess to produce speed, power, strength and agility, all of which teenage boys and men can achieve at significantly higher levels than their sexual counterparts. However one doesn’t need to be an expert to know women are inherently inferior to men in virtually every sport, thus proving biological difference, especially those funded through the high school.
A simple look into the records of Vermont male high school athletes versus female makes it plain. Every category of competition in track and field shows boys outdistance girls by comfortable margins, and it’s not even close. This is the definition of superior to inferior athletes. The new world Marxist’s would have you believe otherwise.
However if looking at the numbers doesn’t compel you, watch these transgender athletes absolutely crushing the girls they’re competing against.
- Girl volleyball player paralyzed with brain damage by trans spiked ball.
- Trans UFC fighter cracks skulls of multiple women.
- Trans track athlete in Oregon beats girls by record time and distance.
But it’s worse than that. Transgenderism is a recognized mental illness which means these policies are putting mentally unstable boys into close contact with girls. The results? Here are just a few instances of transgender bullies beating up on smaller girls in schools.
- Transgender athlete attacks fellow Maine student on bus.
- 12 year old girl describes trans student “hit list” to school board.
- Transgender student attacks smaller girl from behind.
- Towering transgender student assaults two smaller girls.
The images in those videos should horrify every parent in Hartford and put every teacher and administrator on notice, especially Principal Nelson Fogg and Equity Coordinator Julia Lau who promoted this propaganda.
Principal Nelson Fogg can be reached at foggn@hartfordschools.net
Equity Coordinator Julia Lau can be reached at lauj@hartfordschools.net
