Thank you all for your comments. I want to respond to the many people who responded that a federal statute that made it unlawful for public schools to change names and gender identities without parental permission - would not fix our public schools. I agree! I believe, as many of you do, that the public schools are infested with Woke ideologies and that sometimes, when an institution is sufficiently corrupt or infested, you simply can't continue to use it until it is evacuated, tented, and bombed with pesticide. I don't propose it because I believe it will 'fix' the public schools. I propose it because it is a first step in empowering the parents to discover the extent of the problem - and to push back against it. I propose the statute because it will empower the good teachers already at schools (and there are many) who are right now silent, fearful for their jobs. And it will hand the Woke - who are very much on the march - a defeat. We need to start handing them losses. And we need to embolden and empower the good guys. Thank you, again, for engaging. I'm so grateful for all of you. xo
Perhaps a bit of perspective here ... A most relevant but (conveniently for the woke) undiscussed issue is that 5 year olds are not allowed to vote, drink alcohol, smoke cigarettes, drive a car, move out of the house, opt out of school, get a job at the grocery store, etc., yet somehow they are now allowed to choose their gender and pronouns and hide it from their parents??? Parents are the legal and moral guardians of their children and this must be remembered and respected.
This stuff breaks my heart. If my daughter has a headache at school and she self-diagnoses that it must be a tumor, can she then go to a neurosurgeon and ask him to cut a hole in her skull and find it? No—there would be all kinds of less-invasive actions taken before, starting with my wife and I being called. How many more Keira Bells are going to suffer permanent consequences so that the tiny percentage of people who truly suffer clinical gender dysphoria can receive the treatment they need? They’re not mutually exclusive outcomes, but the ideologues act as if they are so everybody is put in the same category and treated the same way despite the evidence (e.g., 70+% of teens suffering “gender dysphoria” will outgrow it without any medical intervention).
Quick, what is the most effective thing we can do right now? Answer: Make the responsible party pay a price. Although I generally have voted for Democrats in the past, I do not subscribe to the belief backed by the Democratic Party that sex can be changed. By teaching and affirming this belief, schools are increasing the risk that children having difficulty adjusting to puberty will demand and receive sex-change affirmation, first through name and pronoun changes, and then often followed by irreversible medical interventions. The risk and damage are great enough that I will not again, without exception, vote for any Democrat until all laws and regulations based on the sex-change belief are repealed. And I am going to shout this promise from the rooftops.
If you put the education of your children into the hands of lunatics what, pray tell, do you think will happen?
A recent Pew Report just found that over 50% of liberal women under 30 are being treated for a valid mental disorder. Does this surprise anyone? If the public schools don't stop this nonsense - along with teaching racist, anti-American poison - they need to be torn down and replaced with a new model that actually teaches children the basic life tools they need, leaving the teaching of morals and ethics to the family and religious groups, where they belong.
While this macabre reality you describe is beyond deplorable, it seems to be one of many, and nobody can imagine what happens in ten to twenty years when these abused and confused children begin to take leadership positions in our culture and institutions. These psychological depradations are so many and so large... the unintended consequences are, what?
"In a time when so many public school teachers are properly described as activists,..." Wow, this pulled me up short. YES, this explains so much. And not hard to trace the source: humanities and social science college graduates who have received heavy indoctrination in gender ideology, anti-racism, etc., fit for no useful employment. Elementary and middle schools now join the sordid world of make-work progressive non-profits whose sole function seems to be to employ those guilt-laden liberals who atone for their material comfort by destroying civilization for the rest of us.
Why are teachers allowed to be activists? And why are they allowed to bring their activism into school? Surely this should be "checked" at the recruitment stage and if present, that person is not taken in. I cannot see this level of child abuse being tolerated in UK schools. Because that is ehat it is, child abuse by the very people who are in loco parents. And they should be charged with it, not protected.
Amazing article! Blew mind mind and made me a paying subscriber. Had to go in to school give my daughter a Tylenol but if she wants to be a boy I can’t be told.. WTF 😳
Shared on FB, MeWe and MagaBook - schools have been inserting themselves between parents and kids for a long time. It started with the emphasis on "feelings" and the push to make being a teenager a mental illness requiring medication. I hope my posts are widely read and you get more fans and supporters! Good job.
The U.S. Constitution guarantees "the liberty of parents and guardians to direct the upbringing and education of children under their control." Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 US 510, 534-535 (1925). The Supreme Court has explained: " It is cardinal with us that the custody, care and nurture of the child reside first in the parents, whose primary function and freedom include preparation for obligations the state can neither supply nor hinder." Prince v. Massachusetts, 321 US 158, 166 (1944).
The "It Takes a Village" lobby notwithstanding, the law of the United States is clear: "The child is not the mere creature of the state; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations." Pierce v. Society of Sisters, supra at 535.
Government bureaucrats and lawyers have lost this argument in the courts so many times that they now take the position, as set out in this article, that there isn't good federal law to stop this type of government interference with the right of a parent to raise his or her child. If you say something enough times, people will start to believe it whether or not it is accurate.
As a Plastic Surgeon, I would caution any of my Surgical colleagues performing gender surgery on minors to make sure they have really good malpractice insurance because there is a backlash coming and they WILL get sued by someone as an adult who was mutilated by them as a minor. This also holds true to my Medical colleagues who may be prescribing hormone-blocking medications that may leave these patients permanently sterile.
As a public school teacher blessed to teach in a solidly conservative district, but still witness to this trend among students, I want to thank you for your courage and action. I support school choice for many reasons - not least of which is the potential to check woke excesses like this.
Thank you all for your comments. I want to respond to the many people who responded that a federal statute that made it unlawful for public schools to change names and gender identities without parental permission - would not fix our public schools. I agree! I believe, as many of you do, that the public schools are infested with Woke ideologies and that sometimes, when an institution is sufficiently corrupt or infested, you simply can't continue to use it until it is evacuated, tented, and bombed with pesticide. I don't propose it because I believe it will 'fix' the public schools. I propose it because it is a first step in empowering the parents to discover the extent of the problem - and to push back against it. I propose the statute because it will empower the good teachers already at schools (and there are many) who are right now silent, fearful for their jobs. And it will hand the Woke - who are very much on the march - a defeat. We need to start handing them losses. And we need to embolden and empower the good guys. Thank you, again, for engaging. I'm so grateful for all of you. xo
Perhaps a bit of perspective here ... A most relevant but (conveniently for the woke) undiscussed issue is that 5 year olds are not allowed to vote, drink alcohol, smoke cigarettes, drive a car, move out of the house, opt out of school, get a job at the grocery store, etc., yet somehow they are now allowed to choose their gender and pronouns and hide it from their parents??? Parents are the legal and moral guardians of their children and this must be remembered and respected.
This stuff breaks my heart. If my daughter has a headache at school and she self-diagnoses that it must be a tumor, can she then go to a neurosurgeon and ask him to cut a hole in her skull and find it? No—there would be all kinds of less-invasive actions taken before, starting with my wife and I being called. How many more Keira Bells are going to suffer permanent consequences so that the tiny percentage of people who truly suffer clinical gender dysphoria can receive the treatment they need? They’re not mutually exclusive outcomes, but the ideologues act as if they are so everybody is put in the same category and treated the same way despite the evidence (e.g., 70+% of teens suffering “gender dysphoria” will outgrow it without any medical intervention).
Secrets between teachers and students are common signs of sexual abuse...which in my opinion is exactly what this is.
Quick, what is the most effective thing we can do right now? Answer: Make the responsible party pay a price. Although I generally have voted for Democrats in the past, I do not subscribe to the belief backed by the Democratic Party that sex can be changed. By teaching and affirming this belief, schools are increasing the risk that children having difficulty adjusting to puberty will demand and receive sex-change affirmation, first through name and pronoun changes, and then often followed by irreversible medical interventions. The risk and damage are great enough that I will not again, without exception, vote for any Democrat until all laws and regulations based on the sex-change belief are repealed. And I am going to shout this promise from the rooftops.
Also, we need your work shouted out through a larger megaphone.
If you put the education of your children into the hands of lunatics what, pray tell, do you think will happen?
A recent Pew Report just found that over 50% of liberal women under 30 are being treated for a valid mental disorder. Does this surprise anyone? If the public schools don't stop this nonsense - along with teaching racist, anti-American poison - they need to be torn down and replaced with a new model that actually teaches children the basic life tools they need, leaving the teaching of morals and ethics to the family and religious groups, where they belong.
While this macabre reality you describe is beyond deplorable, it seems to be one of many, and nobody can imagine what happens in ten to twenty years when these abused and confused children begin to take leadership positions in our culture and institutions. These psychological depradations are so many and so large... the unintended consequences are, what?
"In a time when so many public school teachers are properly described as activists,..." Wow, this pulled me up short. YES, this explains so much. And not hard to trace the source: humanities and social science college graduates who have received heavy indoctrination in gender ideology, anti-racism, etc., fit for no useful employment. Elementary and middle schools now join the sordid world of make-work progressive non-profits whose sole function seems to be to employ those guilt-laden liberals who atone for their material comfort by destroying civilization for the rest of us.
Why are teachers allowed to be activists? And why are they allowed to bring their activism into school? Surely this should be "checked" at the recruitment stage and if present, that person is not taken in. I cannot see this level of child abuse being tolerated in UK schools. Because that is ehat it is, child abuse by the very people who are in loco parents. And they should be charged with it, not protected.
Amazing article! Blew mind mind and made me a paying subscriber. Had to go in to school give my daughter a Tylenol but if she wants to be a boy I can’t be told.. WTF 😳
Shared on FB, MeWe and MagaBook - schools have been inserting themselves between parents and kids for a long time. It started with the emphasis on "feelings" and the push to make being a teenager a mental illness requiring medication. I hope my posts are widely read and you get more fans and supporters! Good job.
The U.S. Constitution guarantees "the liberty of parents and guardians to direct the upbringing and education of children under their control." Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 US 510, 534-535 (1925). The Supreme Court has explained: " It is cardinal with us that the custody, care and nurture of the child reside first in the parents, whose primary function and freedom include preparation for obligations the state can neither supply nor hinder." Prince v. Massachusetts, 321 US 158, 166 (1944).
The "It Takes a Village" lobby notwithstanding, the law of the United States is clear: "The child is not the mere creature of the state; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations." Pierce v. Society of Sisters, supra at 535.
Government bureaucrats and lawyers have lost this argument in the courts so many times that they now take the position, as set out in this article, that there isn't good federal law to stop this type of government interference with the right of a parent to raise his or her child. If you say something enough times, people will start to believe it whether or not it is accurate.
As a Plastic Surgeon, I would caution any of my Surgical colleagues performing gender surgery on minors to make sure they have really good malpractice insurance because there is a backlash coming and they WILL get sued by someone as an adult who was mutilated by them as a minor. This also holds true to my Medical colleagues who may be prescribing hormone-blocking medications that may leave these patients permanently sterile.
As a public school teacher blessed to teach in a solidly conservative district, but still witness to this trend among students, I want to thank you for your courage and action. I support school choice for many reasons - not least of which is the potential to check woke excesses like this.
I'm sharing this widely! Another thing we must fight for (before the right is attacked) is our right to homeschool.