Re: Administrative Regulation 259 TRANSGENDER & GENDER DIVERSE STUDENTS – ENSURING EQUITY AND NONDISCRIMINATION Dear Principal ——, Superintendent —— and School Board Members, I am writing to contest Administrative Regulation 259, with which I fundamentally disagree. Advised by proponents of gender ideology, and ironically under the guise of safety, the school has chosen to drive a wedge of secrecy and distrust between students and their families.
Oh no. I am a (free) subscriber and her substack no longer appears among my subscriptions. If I had to guess, I'd imagine that her writing somehow got exposed in ways that are putting her family at risk. I know she wrote that her husband read her posts; they also had differences as to how to approach their child's situation. I appreciate her thoughts and am sorry to lose her wisdom if she must stop writing. But also: She has to put her family first, and even though I only discovered her substack a couple months ago, it's clear to me that she'll do that.
Felice, if you're reading here, please know that I am one of many who will be holding you in our hearts.
This is the response from my daughters school principal. I received this one week ago after I found out for a second year in a row my daughter is using a male name and pronouns at school. I am at a point we parents need to amend these laws that allow these strangers to keep secrets from us. They hide behind laws.
Thank you for your email. As to your inquiry regarding the records
request, it has been received and sent to Deborah, Executive
Assistant to the Superintendent, at the District office for processing.
Based on the reason for your meeting request: " This meeting would be
for us to discuss what the school staff is doing with my daughter who is
a minor, her nonbirth name and using male gender pronouns. "
In California, Assembly Bill (“AB”) 1266, also known as the
“School Success and Opportunity Act,” was introduced by Assemblyman
Tom Ammiano on February 22, 2013 and requires that pupils be permitted
to participate in sex-segregated school programs, activities, and use
facilities consistent with their gender identity, without respect to the
gender listed in a pupil’s records. AB 1266 was approved by Governor
Brown on August 12, 2013.
AB 1266 is codified at Education Code section 221.5(f), which provides:
A pupil shall be permitted to participate in sex-segregated school
programs and activities, including athletic teams and competitions, and
use facilities consistent with his or her gender identity, irrespective
of the gender listed on the pupil’s records.
Education Code section 220 also provides:
No person shall be subjected to discrimination on the basis of
Wow! That is frustrating. Reading that makes me think that the better angle of attack against this philosophy is the fight for the rights of those other kids (in my case girls who are displaced on the athletics field for a trans boy’s sake; or girls who are forced to sleep in the same hotel room as trans boys) whose rights are stepped on in the attempt to support the trans kids. Thank you for posting this. I’m not in California but Oregon, but I guess the arguments would be the same here. All along I have asked but why does this burden of accommodation fall on the girls only?
Fantastic letter. I just want to add in response to some comments here, that voting Democrat for many of us who are adamantly opposed to the trans cult, is in no way supporting this horrible mess. Voting Democrat is about basic survival, to have health care, social security, fair voting for all, keeping girls and women's rights, including legal and safe abortions, etc. The republicans (who I consider primarily nazis, based on their support of carrying swastika and confederate flags, chanting anti-Semitism, and killing courageous working class women like Heather Heyer) are even denying ten year old rape victims abortions. They also want to destroy the environment for a few corporations to profit.
The republicans also promote the trans cult, but that is ignored, even when right wing trans Bruce Jenner ran for governor. Though it was quickly shut down in our local media, I won't forget the two nazi rallies in Berkeley led by a man in a dress claiming to be a woman.
I also want to ask all who are fighting this horrible cult, to not add L or Lesbians to "GBTQI" etc. We have been fighting this travesty longer than anyone else I know, getting rape, mutilation, and death threats. Just for saying no to one of these white men, an interracial couple and their son were murdered (beaten, stabbed, shot) in Oakland, California. Of course he is in a women's prison, trying to evade conviction and terrorizing women there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbS3V81lEjo&feature=share
These heterosexual men have taken over everything possible that Lesbian Feminists and other women have created over 50 years.
We never agreed to be added with our worst oppressors, heterosexual men in drag who are demanding sexual access to us. I'm guessing most B and G also do not want to be associated with "T."
Dear Bev Jo, your letter is a hate filled diatribe. What did you add to the discussion, but more alienation? I will not engage in finger wagging or blame placement, however, there is complicity enough to go around. Your political opinions should find another outlet. This is not the place. Please consider that some of the brave detransitioners that find a voice here are male. They have been duped by this cult also and are working their way out just as the brave female detransitioners are. Fathers, grandfathers and other caring males contribute to our community. And here, we are able to share our stories about the struggles as family members and friends of our beloved ones caught up in the insanity, and we share what helps we can find. Such as the wonderful article above by Felice. Think about praying for your disgust for half of the world's population. I wish you peace in Christ.
Saying the truth about what they are doing, that is harming people, is not "trashing." It helps to warn and remind people about who they literally want dead.
The republicans (who I consider primarily nazis, based on their support of carrying swastika and confederate flags... Respectfully, I don't think statements like this one help. We are all trying to help children avoid the trans cult.
Yes, but that is the truth about many republicans and if people vote for them it will get much worse. They are not with us against the cult at all... It's all about money for them...
I want to be encouraging, but we have to support each other about whoever will harm us the most, and that's why I posted. I know too many women saying they are leaving the democrats to not vote or split their vote, which will give it to the republicans, as if that won't mean more deaths for girls and women. This cult is very profit-driven.
I’m so glad you chimed in. I agree that we need to stop grouping those letters together as though it were a single group with the same interests. I don’t think intersex people are wild about trans people co-opting the idea of having been assigned a sex at both either. In response to what you said about not jumping ship on the Dems, is there any Democrat who will speak up? It’s hard to imagine any prominent Democrat changing course on this; there is just too much social pressure. I wish it were not the case. We need a celebrity who’s already earned a reputation as a TERF to get into politics. Bette? Dave? That career path seems to work for the Republicans.
Thank you! You are so right about Intersex people being used by the trans cult and some write about it. You're right too that we need a celebrity! I wish we could reach Bill Maher, as sexist as he is because he has been great about this issue. And he knows that this stupid con could lose the election. I've tried calling some local reps, but I think they think they are supporting gay men and Lesbians. Or they are too afraid. It is terrifying for trump or his minions to win again, not that he actually won last time. Hillary has been braver than most about this.
This compelling letter needs to be published and read widely. It's overdue for lawsuits to take down a monstrous ideology that harms children, young adults, and shatters families. It's time for politicians, school administrators, teachers,, medical and mental health professionals to prioritize material reality. If people collectively demanded this gender nonsense be shut down, my confused college age son would no longer revere Planned Parenthood as his HRT drug dealer. Planned Parenthood needs a class action law suit to end their despicable dispensing of wrong sex hormones to young people, often on the autism spectrum. How many people will Planned Parenthood be allowed to sterilize?! How long must suffering parents wait for the preying on their children and young adults to be recognized, and action taken to stop the shameful, bizarre "trans" train ?
So when a child crawls into the counselor's office on all fours and says she identifies as a cat, will he support her and get her a litter box? Not being funny because it is happening. Since when is it acceptable to support insanity? I get livid when teachers think they have the right to make decisions about someone else's child! Those people are way out of line and need to remember their place which is BEHIND parents. And they are doing this to inflate their own egos by thinking they're truly brave and quite special by "protecting" a child. What they're doing is truly damaging!!!
AGREE - I refuse to panic while the media panders such garbage in an effort to get us to believe and resign ourselves to their B.S. narrative. "Keep saying it and they'll begin to believe it" - no thanks, Biden & Co., CNN, MSNBC, PBS, etc............ People have forgotten how to think for themselves
“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924)
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic, and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” -- Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister
“It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.” – Patrick Watson, co-founder of the environmental group Greenpeace.
Typical Leftist Thought - It matters not what is the truth, what matters is what people believe is the truth. – (In other words, we will lie to you and it is your duty to believe those lies as if they were true)
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed — if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth.” —George Orwell, “1984”
Let's all live in make-believe where there are no consequences to our actions, we can be anyone we want to be, feelings trump science, the list goes on....
Here is what Ohio is trying to do - of course, the trans clinic in Cincinnati sent their minions - those older adults who they convinced they were transgender whilst minors, came to testify against protecting kids from gender ideology. RESOLUTION TO SUPPORT PARENTS, SCHOOLS, AND DISTRICTS IN REJECTING HARMFUL, COERCIVE, AND BURDENSOME GENDER IDENTITY POLICIES
The concept of education rests on the notion that there are things we can know. There are objective facts, even objective truths.
Biological sex is one such objective, scientific fact. A human male has an x and a y chromosome and a reproductive system ordered toward impregnation. A human female has two x chromosomes and a reproductive system ordered toward conceiving and bearing children.
Sex is not arbitrarily “assigned” at birth but rather identifies an unchangeable fact. There are observable, quantifiable, and immutable differences between males and females. The reality of biological sex can no more be altered than can the reality that two plus two equals four.
Denying the reality of biological sex destroys foundational truths upon which education rests and irreparably damages children.
Desiring to protect these foundations, to safeguard the wellbeing of children, and to support parents, schools and districts in doing the same, The State Board of Education (the "Board") hereby adopts the following Resolution:
WHEREAS Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 was enacted into law to ensure that "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"; and
WHEREAS original and existing Title IX regulations acknowledge "physiological differences between the male and female sexes"; and
WHEREAS on June 23, 2022, the U.S. Department of Education released proposed changes to Title IX regulations that would contradict the plain language of the law; and
WHEREAS the proposed regulations would prohibit schools that receive federal funds, including public, charter, private, and parochial schools, from “adopting a policy or engaging in a practice that prevents a person from participating in an education program or activity consistent with their gender identity,” thereby compelling schools to deny biological reality; and
WHEREAS under the proposed rules, actions such as a student or staff member using a child’s legal name and biological pronouns rather than the child-selected preferred name and pronouns could be deemed a form of “sex-based harassment,” subjecting schools and staff to civil litigation and loss of federal funds; and
WHEREAS the proposed regulations would require that K-12 schools socially transition minor children to a different gender without requiring parental notification or involvement; and
WHEREAS Ohio law and the United State Constitution and legal precedent recognize the right of parents to direct the education, upbringing, and physical and mental health of their children; and
WHEREAS for many parents the nature of the human person created by God male and female is a deeply held religious belief; and
WHEREAS children are harmed when parents are barred from making decisions to protect their child’s physical, mental, and spiritual well-being; and
WHEREAS a high percentage of children who are permitted to socially transition will then pursue medical and surgical interventions which have irreversible, life-altering consequences for school age children, interrupt a child’s healthy growth and development, and come with significant risks, including loss of bone density, infertility, cognitive impairment, dangerous blood clots, cardiovascular disease, and cancer; and
WHEREAS under the proposed rules, schools would be required to grant access to sex-separate restroom and locker room facilities based on gender identity rather than on biological sex, which would place girls and women at increased risk for harassment and sexual assault by males who claim a female identity; and
WHEREAS the USDOE proposed regulations pertaining to athletics would require sports teams to be based on gender identity rather than biological sex, forcing women and girls to compete on an unfair basis against males for athletic opportunities and scholarships; and
WHEREAS in guidance issued May 5, 2022 and in a rule promulgated on June 14, 2022, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that it will interpret the prohibition on sex discrimination found in Title IX and the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to include discrimination based on gender identity; and
WHEREAS approximately 100,000 Ohio public schools, nonprofit private schools, and residential childcare institutions could now be forced to choose between adopting gender identity policies or foregoing federal funding to provide subsidized free or reduced-price meals to the more than 516,000 Ohio children who qualify; and
WHEREAS the Board acknowledges the pain experienced by those suffering with gender dysphoria; and
WHEREAS the appropriate course of action to pursue for students experiencing symptoms of gender dysphoria is treatment delivered by parent-selected mental health professionals; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, that the State Board of Education declares its unequivocal opposition to the proposed regulatory changes released by the U.S. Department of Education on June 23, 2022; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board supports the lawsuit filed by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and 21 other state attorneys general seeking to invalidate the newly enacted Department of Agriculture rules that tie continued receipt of federal nutritional assistance and other funding subject to Title IX to the adoption of gender identity policies; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the State Board of Education directs the acting Superintendent of Public Instruction to issue, within fourteen calendar days of the passage of this resolution, a letter, subject to the approval of the president of the Board, to every Ohio school district and every Ohio school or institution receiving Federal funds indicating that the Ohio Department of Education:
opposes the proposed regulatory changes released by the U.S. Department of Education on June 23, 2022;
considers the applicable USDOE guidance documents as without legal force and effect and, therefore, non-binding and unenforceable at this time; and therefore,
urges districts not to amend local policies or procedures based on these guidance documents; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board calls upon the General Assembly to assist local districts in combatting this federal overreach by proactively approving stopgap funding of necessary programs should the proposed regulations take effect; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board calls upon the General Assembly to safeguard the rights of parents and the wellbeing of children by requiring that schools and districts disclose information to parents whenever their child claims a discordant gender identity, questions their gender identity, requests alternative names or pronouns, or otherwise indicates mental or emotional distress about their gender identity; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board calls upon the General Assembly to protect the rights and safety of women and girls by prohibiting schools and districts from allowing biological males on female sports teams or in female privacy facilities; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that with this action the State Board of Education stands resolutely with parents, schools, and districts in rejecting harmful, coercive, and burdensome gender identity policies, procedures, and regulations.
Thank you so much for writing this. I am a teacher, and my school has these policies too. The administration communicate them in staff meetings but, interestingly, won't put them on paper. Mine is a private school where only a handful of kids have started transing socially. I might be the only person in the community who has a kid who is transing medically, or even knows one. I believe the adults who work here think they are being heroes to LBGTQ kids by using the pronouns and keeping parents out of the loop, and those who don't believe that are protecting their jobs by going along. The administration believes it is following the rules set by the state and by the Biden administration by implementing these policies. PLEASE send your schools letters like these. So many teachers and administrators are clueless about what transing actually looks like once the hormones and surgeries start. They need to know, and they need to hear from parents that we won't put up with the secrecy and with the encouragement down this harmful path.
Homeschool......PERIOD!
https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/2022/02/why-homeschooling-is-most-effective.html?m=0 - stop fooling yourself of the idea you can change DaServants of Satan!
South Park, dolphin episode.
Does anyone know what has happened to felice’s shbstack? Hers was my favourite substack and it disappeared a couple of days ago....
Oh no. I am a (free) subscriber and her substack no longer appears among my subscriptions. If I had to guess, I'd imagine that her writing somehow got exposed in ways that are putting her family at risk. I know she wrote that her husband read her posts; they also had differences as to how to approach their child's situation. I appreciate her thoughts and am sorry to lose her wisdom if she must stop writing. But also: She has to put her family first, and even though I only discovered her substack a couple months ago, it's clear to me that she'll do that.
Felice, if you're reading here, please know that I am one of many who will be holding you in our hearts.
This is powerful, thoughtful, and compelling. Thank you for sharing this. It should be widely distributed.
This is the response from my daughters school principal. I received this one week ago after I found out for a second year in a row my daughter is using a male name and pronouns at school. I am at a point we parents need to amend these laws that allow these strangers to keep secrets from us. They hide behind laws.
Thank you for your email. As to your inquiry regarding the records
request, it has been received and sent to Deborah, Executive
Assistant to the Superintendent, at the District office for processing.
Based on the reason for your meeting request: " This meeting would be
for us to discuss what the school staff is doing with my daughter who is
a minor, her nonbirth name and using male gender pronouns. "
In California, Assembly Bill (“AB”) 1266, also known as the
“School Success and Opportunity Act,” was introduced by Assemblyman
Tom Ammiano on February 22, 2013 and requires that pupils be permitted
to participate in sex-segregated school programs, activities, and use
facilities consistent with their gender identity, without respect to the
gender listed in a pupil’s records. AB 1266 was approved by Governor
Brown on August 12, 2013.
AB 1266 is codified at Education Code section 221.5(f), which provides:
A pupil shall be permitted to participate in sex-segregated school
programs and activities, including athletic teams and competitions, and
use facilities consistent with his or her gender identity, irrespective
of the gender listed on the pupil’s records.
Education Code section 220 also provides:
No person shall be subjected to discrimination on the basis of
disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality,
race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or any other
characteristic that is contained in the definition of hate crimes set
forth in Section 422.55 of the Penal Code, including immigration status,
in any program or activity conducted by an educational institution that
receives, or benefits from, state financial assistance, or enrolls
pupils who receive state student financial aid. [Emphasis added].
At the federal level, there is an Executive Order that was issued on
January 20, 2021, by President Biden that clarifies students have
protection from discrimination on the basis of gender identity and/or
sexual orientation under Title IX.[2] [1]
Sharing a Student’s Transgender Identity with the Student’s Parents,
Other Students, and the Public
CDE has advised:
A gender nonconforming student may not express their gender identity
openly in all contexts, including at home. Revealing a student’s
gender identity or expression to others may compromise the student’s
safety. Thus, preserving a student’s privacy is of the utmost
importance. The right of transgender students to keep their transgender
status private is grounded in California’s antidiscrimination laws as
well as federal and state laws. Disclosing that a student is
transgender without the student’s permission may violate
California’s antidiscrimination law by increasing the student’s
vulnerability to harassment and may violate the student’s right to
privacy. School personnel are not legally permitted to discuss any
student's gender identity with anyone including teachers, counselors,
parents, etc..." The student is the only one who can discuss his or her
gender identity with those he or she chooses.
Based on these laws, I am not able to accommodate your request to meet
to discuss " what the school staff is doing with my daughter who is a
minor, her nonbirth name and using male gender pronouns. "
I would like you to have all of the links to the law the school is
required to follow which you can find below:
Please see this link of FAQs about AB1266 [2]. It is from the
California Department of Education (CDE). Please see answers from #6-8.
I have also attached the law. Please click here for the law. [3]
* Page 2 highlights bullet points "upon request". See bullet point #3
* Page 3 highlights "privacy rights"
* Page 4 highlights "professional development and education"
Thank you for your understanding of the restrictions placed on our
school as it relates to this specific line of inquiry.
Sincerely,
Juliet
Wow! That is frustrating. Reading that makes me think that the better angle of attack against this philosophy is the fight for the rights of those other kids (in my case girls who are displaced on the athletics field for a trans boy’s sake; or girls who are forced to sleep in the same hotel room as trans boys) whose rights are stepped on in the attempt to support the trans kids. Thank you for posting this. I’m not in California but Oregon, but I guess the arguments would be the same here. All along I have asked but why does this burden of accommodation fall on the girls only?
Notice how many times the Administration contradicted itself, depending on to whom the information was addressed to.
Much needed! Excellent!
Fantastic letter. I just want to add in response to some comments here, that voting Democrat for many of us who are adamantly opposed to the trans cult, is in no way supporting this horrible mess. Voting Democrat is about basic survival, to have health care, social security, fair voting for all, keeping girls and women's rights, including legal and safe abortions, etc. The republicans (who I consider primarily nazis, based on their support of carrying swastika and confederate flags, chanting anti-Semitism, and killing courageous working class women like Heather Heyer) are even denying ten year old rape victims abortions. They also want to destroy the environment for a few corporations to profit.
The republicans also promote the trans cult, but that is ignored, even when right wing trans Bruce Jenner ran for governor. Though it was quickly shut down in our local media, I won't forget the two nazi rallies in Berkeley led by a man in a dress claiming to be a woman.
I also want to ask all who are fighting this horrible cult, to not add L or Lesbians to "GBTQI" etc. We have been fighting this travesty longer than anyone else I know, getting rape, mutilation, and death threats. Just for saying no to one of these white men, an interracial couple and their son were murdered (beaten, stabbed, shot) in Oakland, California. Of course he is in a women's prison, trying to evade conviction and terrorizing women there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbS3V81lEjo&feature=share
These heterosexual men have taken over everything possible that Lesbian Feminists and other women have created over 50 years.
https://genderispoison.wordpress.com/2018/04/27/san-francisco-public-library-hosts-transgender-art-exhibit-featuring-weapons-intended-to-kill-feminists/
We never agreed to be added with our worst oppressors, heterosexual men in drag who are demanding sexual access to us. I'm guessing most B and G also do not want to be associated with "T."
Let's work together to stop this horror...
Dear Bev Jo, your letter is a hate filled diatribe. What did you add to the discussion, but more alienation? I will not engage in finger wagging or blame placement, however, there is complicity enough to go around. Your political opinions should find another outlet. This is not the place. Please consider that some of the brave detransitioners that find a voice here are male. They have been duped by this cult also and are working their way out just as the brave female detransitioners are. Fathers, grandfathers and other caring males contribute to our community. And here, we are able to share our stories about the struggles as family members and friends of our beloved ones caught up in the insanity, and we share what helps we can find. Such as the wonderful article above by Felice. Think about praying for your disgust for half of the world's population. I wish you peace in Christ.
I don't think name calling helps. You can make your point without trashing Republicans.
Saying the truth about what they are doing, that is harming people, is not "trashing." It helps to warn and remind people about who they literally want dead.
The republicans (who I consider primarily nazis, based on their support of carrying swastika and confederate flags... Respectfully, I don't think statements like this one help. We are all trying to help children avoid the trans cult.
Yes, but that is the truth about many republicans and if people vote for them it will get much worse. They are not with us against the cult at all... It's all about money for them...
I've always felt so comforted by reading stories on PITT. Your comments make me sad.
I want to be encouraging, but we have to support each other about whoever will harm us the most, and that's why I posted. I know too many women saying they are leaving the democrats to not vote or split their vote, which will give it to the republicans, as if that won't mean more deaths for girls and women. This cult is very profit-driven.
This group is very heartening though...
I’m so glad you chimed in. I agree that we need to stop grouping those letters together as though it were a single group with the same interests. I don’t think intersex people are wild about trans people co-opting the idea of having been assigned a sex at both either. In response to what you said about not jumping ship on the Dems, is there any Democrat who will speak up? It’s hard to imagine any prominent Democrat changing course on this; there is just too much social pressure. I wish it were not the case. We need a celebrity who’s already earned a reputation as a TERF to get into politics. Bette? Dave? That career path seems to work for the Republicans.
Thank you! You are so right about Intersex people being used by the trans cult and some write about it. You're right too that we need a celebrity! I wish we could reach Bill Maher, as sexist as he is because he has been great about this issue. And he knows that this stupid con could lose the election. I've tried calling some local reps, but I think they think they are supporting gay men and Lesbians. Or they are too afraid. It is terrifying for trump or his minions to win again, not that he actually won last time. Hillary has been braver than most about this.
This compelling letter needs to be published and read widely. It's overdue for lawsuits to take down a monstrous ideology that harms children, young adults, and shatters families. It's time for politicians, school administrators, teachers,, medical and mental health professionals to prioritize material reality. If people collectively demanded this gender nonsense be shut down, my confused college age son would no longer revere Planned Parenthood as his HRT drug dealer. Planned Parenthood needs a class action law suit to end their despicable dispensing of wrong sex hormones to young people, often on the autism spectrum. How many people will Planned Parenthood be allowed to sterilize?! How long must suffering parents wait for the preying on their children and young adults to be recognized, and action taken to stop the shameful, bizarre "trans" train ?
So when a child crawls into the counselor's office on all fours and says she identifies as a cat, will he support her and get her a litter box? Not being funny because it is happening. Since when is it acceptable to support insanity? I get livid when teachers think they have the right to make decisions about someone else's child! Those people are way out of line and need to remember their place which is BEHIND parents. And they are doing this to inflate their own egos by thinking they're truly brave and quite special by "protecting" a child. What they're doing is truly damaging!!!
And as we write, a Time Magazine article pops up on my news app about how the parents rights movement has gone too far!
Time has been way out in LEFT field for about 30 or more years.
There should be no need for any Parents Rights movements.
Just as there is no need for an anti-Zombie movement... because there is no such thing as Zombies.
AGREE - I refuse to panic while the media panders such garbage in an effort to get us to believe and resign ourselves to their B.S. narrative. "Keep saying it and they'll begin to believe it" - no thanks, Biden & Co., CNN, MSNBC, PBS, etc............ People have forgotten how to think for themselves
“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924)
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic, and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” -- Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister
“It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.” – Patrick Watson, co-founder of the environmental group Greenpeace.
Typical Leftist Thought - It matters not what is the truth, what matters is what people believe is the truth. – (In other words, we will lie to you and it is your duty to believe those lies as if they were true)
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed — if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth.” —George Orwell, “1984”
EXACTLY Goldie!
Under this craziness: If someone wanted to self-identify as a flat rock...
Then you MUST fully support their delusions, otherwise, you are just a bigoted racist against igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic persons!
Let's all live in make-believe where there are no consequences to our actions, we can be anyone we want to be, feelings trump science, the list goes on....
The other thing about keeping IMPORTANT sexual matters from parents is ... this is exactly how pedophiles operate. Schools should know better.
I have thought about that as well.
This is a thoughtful, powerful statement. I am heartened that you are speaking up.
Thank you.
Here is what Ohio is trying to do - of course, the trans clinic in Cincinnati sent their minions - those older adults who they convinced they were transgender whilst minors, came to testify against protecting kids from gender ideology. RESOLUTION TO SUPPORT PARENTS, SCHOOLS, AND DISTRICTS IN REJECTING HARMFUL, COERCIVE, AND BURDENSOME GENDER IDENTITY POLICIES
The concept of education rests on the notion that there are things we can know. There are objective facts, even objective truths.
Biological sex is one such objective, scientific fact. A human male has an x and a y chromosome and a reproductive system ordered toward impregnation. A human female has two x chromosomes and a reproductive system ordered toward conceiving and bearing children.
Sex is not arbitrarily “assigned” at birth but rather identifies an unchangeable fact. There are observable, quantifiable, and immutable differences between males and females. The reality of biological sex can no more be altered than can the reality that two plus two equals four.
Denying the reality of biological sex destroys foundational truths upon which education rests and irreparably damages children.
Desiring to protect these foundations, to safeguard the wellbeing of children, and to support parents, schools and districts in doing the same, The State Board of Education (the "Board") hereby adopts the following Resolution:
WHEREAS Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 was enacted into law to ensure that "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"; and
WHEREAS original and existing Title IX regulations acknowledge "physiological differences between the male and female sexes"; and
WHEREAS on June 23, 2022, the U.S. Department of Education released proposed changes to Title IX regulations that would contradict the plain language of the law; and
WHEREAS the proposed regulations would prohibit schools that receive federal funds, including public, charter, private, and parochial schools, from “adopting a policy or engaging in a practice that prevents a person from participating in an education program or activity consistent with their gender identity,” thereby compelling schools to deny biological reality; and
WHEREAS under the proposed rules, actions such as a student or staff member using a child’s legal name and biological pronouns rather than the child-selected preferred name and pronouns could be deemed a form of “sex-based harassment,” subjecting schools and staff to civil litigation and loss of federal funds; and
WHEREAS the proposed regulations would require that K-12 schools socially transition minor children to a different gender without requiring parental notification or involvement; and
WHEREAS Ohio law and the United State Constitution and legal precedent recognize the right of parents to direct the education, upbringing, and physical and mental health of their children; and
WHEREAS for many parents the nature of the human person created by God male and female is a deeply held religious belief; and
WHEREAS children are harmed when parents are barred from making decisions to protect their child’s physical, mental, and spiritual well-being; and
WHEREAS a high percentage of children who are permitted to socially transition will then pursue medical and surgical interventions which have irreversible, life-altering consequences for school age children, interrupt a child’s healthy growth and development, and come with significant risks, including loss of bone density, infertility, cognitive impairment, dangerous blood clots, cardiovascular disease, and cancer; and
WHEREAS under the proposed rules, schools would be required to grant access to sex-separate restroom and locker room facilities based on gender identity rather than on biological sex, which would place girls and women at increased risk for harassment and sexual assault by males who claim a female identity; and
WHEREAS the USDOE proposed regulations pertaining to athletics would require sports teams to be based on gender identity rather than biological sex, forcing women and girls to compete on an unfair basis against males for athletic opportunities and scholarships; and
WHEREAS in guidance issued May 5, 2022 and in a rule promulgated on June 14, 2022, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that it will interpret the prohibition on sex discrimination found in Title IX and the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to include discrimination based on gender identity; and
WHEREAS approximately 100,000 Ohio public schools, nonprofit private schools, and residential childcare institutions could now be forced to choose between adopting gender identity policies or foregoing federal funding to provide subsidized free or reduced-price meals to the more than 516,000 Ohio children who qualify; and
WHEREAS the Board acknowledges the pain experienced by those suffering with gender dysphoria; and
WHEREAS the appropriate course of action to pursue for students experiencing symptoms of gender dysphoria is treatment delivered by parent-selected mental health professionals; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, that the State Board of Education declares its unequivocal opposition to the proposed regulatory changes released by the U.S. Department of Education on June 23, 2022; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board supports the lawsuit filed by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and 21 other state attorneys general seeking to invalidate the newly enacted Department of Agriculture rules that tie continued receipt of federal nutritional assistance and other funding subject to Title IX to the adoption of gender identity policies; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the State Board of Education directs the acting Superintendent of Public Instruction to issue, within fourteen calendar days of the passage of this resolution, a letter, subject to the approval of the president of the Board, to every Ohio school district and every Ohio school or institution receiving Federal funds indicating that the Ohio Department of Education:
opposes the proposed regulatory changes released by the U.S. Department of Education on June 23, 2022;
considers the applicable USDOE guidance documents as without legal force and effect and, therefore, non-binding and unenforceable at this time; and therefore,
urges districts not to amend local policies or procedures based on these guidance documents; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board calls upon the General Assembly to assist local districts in combatting this federal overreach by proactively approving stopgap funding of necessary programs should the proposed regulations take effect; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board calls upon the General Assembly to safeguard the rights of parents and the wellbeing of children by requiring that schools and districts disclose information to parents whenever their child claims a discordant gender identity, questions their gender identity, requests alternative names or pronouns, or otherwise indicates mental or emotional distress about their gender identity; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board calls upon the General Assembly to protect the rights and safety of women and girls by prohibiting schools and districts from allowing biological males on female sports teams or in female privacy facilities; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that with this action the State Board of Education stands resolutely with parents, schools, and districts in rejecting harmful, coercive, and burdensome gender identity policies, procedures, and regulations.
Yay! That’s encouraging.
Only the Dem party supports this. Vote accordingly.
Excellent letter!
Thank you so much for writing this. I am a teacher, and my school has these policies too. The administration communicate them in staff meetings but, interestingly, won't put them on paper. Mine is a private school where only a handful of kids have started transing socially. I might be the only person in the community who has a kid who is transing medically, or even knows one. I believe the adults who work here think they are being heroes to LBGTQ kids by using the pronouns and keeping parents out of the loop, and those who don't believe that are protecting their jobs by going along. The administration believes it is following the rules set by the state and by the Biden administration by implementing these policies. PLEASE send your schools letters like these. So many teachers and administrators are clueless about what transing actually looks like once the hormones and surgeries start. They need to know, and they need to hear from parents that we won't put up with the secrecy and with the encouragement down this harmful path.
As a teacher, I agree completely.
Thank you! So good to hear this from a teacher. ❤️🔥