Your children belong to the schools, where their trans status will be kept secret from parents
Children used to be taught that it was a danger sign if anyone asked them to keep something a secret, especially if that “something” was related to sex. And children were taught that they shouldn’t keep secrets, either.
Now that’s so 20th Century – at least in many states. To take some examples:
There’s New York [emphasis mine]:
The New York State Education Department released guidance Monday to advise schools on how to create “affirming” environments for transgender children, suggesting that teachers keep students’ gender transitions a secret from their parents.
School systems should not use the student’s transgender name with their parents, unless the child advises otherwise according to the New York guidance. The student is the only one who knows if it is “safe” to come out to their parents and the first thing educators should ask a transgender student is how they can help them through their transitioning process, the guidance states.
“Some TGE [transgender and gender expansive] students have not talked to their families about their gender identity because of safety concerns or lack of acceptance and may begin their transition at school without parent/guardian knowledge,” the guidance states. “Only the student knows whether it is safe to share their identity with caregivers, and schools should be mindful that some TGE students do not want or cannot have their parents/guardians know about their transgender status.”
Extraordinary abrogation of parental rights concerning a minor child, with the school in collusion with the child to keep the secret. And yet typical, and not just in blue states:
At least 168 districts governing 5,904 schools nationwide have rules on the books that prevent faculty and staff from disclosing to parents a student’s gender status without that student’s permission, according to a list compiled by the conservative group Parents Defending Education and shared with The Post.
The 3,268,752 students affected by such policies go to class in all kinds of districts — large and small, affluent and poor, urban and rural, red and blue — stretching from North Carolina to Alaska.
The non-comprehensive list includes two of the largest school districts in the country, Chicago Public Schools and Los Angeles Unified School District — along with other city jurisdictions like DC Public Schools, Baltimore City Public Schools, San Francisco Unified School District, Portland Public Schools, and Seattle Public Schools.
Districts from deep-blue university towns — Berkeley and Palo Alto, Calif.; New Haven, Conn.; Iowa City, Iowa; Ann Arbor, Mich.; Hanover, NH; Durham, NC; and Madison, Wis. — appear on the list, as do 11 districts in deep-red Idaho, 16 in purple Pennsylvania and seven in Virginia, where Republican Glenn Youngkin was elected in 2021 in part on a platform of giving parents a bigger say in their children’s education.
I doubt that most parents are even aware of these general policies, either. The whole thing is somewhat of a stealth operation, although it’s been getting more publicity over time.
Here’s an article about the situation in Idaho.
And here’s a recent one that is quite comprehensive:
Districts are using legal theories pushed by activist groups like the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN). Among the most important are that children have a federally guaranteed right to privacy from their parents in school, that the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution establishes children’s right to transition without the consent or knowledge of their parents, and that Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 protects transgender students from the “harassment” of school districts “outing” them to non-compliant parents. The Title IX theory, the most chilling, is supported by the radically progressive notion that parents represent a danger to the welfare of transgender children until they prove otherwise by providing “affirmation.”
School districts that buy into these theories are not merely embracing the idea that hiding children’s gender transitions from their parents is legal, but that divulging the information without the child’s consent is illegal and possibly perilous to the student’s safety. In Dover, Pennsylvania, for example, a mother of a middle school student castigated a local school board after discovering that school staff had been addressing her 12-year-old daughter with male pronouns for a year. School officials even sent the child to a hospital for an evaluation without informing the parents. When the mother confronted the school board, she was told that there was a law against informing her.
Once again, we see the work of activist groups that for a while have flown under the radar while they helped changed policies all over the country. In some states, legislative bodies have enacted or are attempting to enact laws that make such secrecy illegal, although (and I can’t find the link at the moment) some school districts are defying the laws and continuing to secretly transition students.
If parents are actually abusive about this or any issue, there have been longstanding mechanisms in place in all states to deal with that. In these trans student situations, however, the secrecy policies have no requirement to prove or even to allege that parental abuse has occurred. A child’s request – a child’s failure to explicitly give permission for any reason – is enough to cause the secret-keeping. The child and the school are in collusion to keep a secret – a very big secret indeed, with major repercussions – from the parent.
It’s astounding that this is happening, but it’s really just part of a continuum of moves by which the left is increasingly taking on the task of child-rearing and indoctrination. The number of teachers and administrators who are fine with these policies, or go along with them out of fear, is extraordinary. And the number of Democrat state legislators who think it’s a great idea is enormous.
The left seems so confident that the secrets public schools keep will only be kept from those awful parents on the right. And so they don’t see a policy like that ever coming back to bite them. They expect to be in control forever, so it’s okay to take rights – or children – from conservatives. And in a state such as California, failure to affirm is increasingly defined as a form of child abuse; I’ve already written about that here as well as here.
By what legal authority are the “schools” or the “departments of education” making these “guidances” which seem to have no play in them, are intended to be applied unquestioningly, widely and immediately, without notice to the affected parties? Indeed with the converse of notice –with deliberate concealment of this impairment of their interests and fraying of their parental role?
Did the state legislatures empower them –to abrogate parents’ rights (and responsibilities) and introduce sex and gender themes and activities having exactly nothing to do with the formal curriculum for which schools are established and for which teachers are paid, all this wildly intrusive activity being done according to exactly nobody’s idea of science or ethical conduct?
Somebody needs to go to jail, and soon.
There is this from the Olympia WA school district where a teacher was trying to trans a fifth grader secretly from her parents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSvmxRyfHMw
We conservatives have no common ground with today’s Dems. In addition to this business, the public schools do a terrible job at education. Omaha’s best public high school was Central High School. It had a pipeline to the Ivy League. Today, not even half the students are proficient in math and reading. Other OPS schools are much worse; some below 20%.
If one’s school system enacts such a policy one must pull one’s kid(s) from that school system.
Even if it’s a one parent home, or both spouses work; team with other parents, form a co-op. It can be done.
Cornhead,
It is a true tragedy that so many children in the U.S. are not receiving an education.
You are correct in blaming school administrators, however, poor performance also has to be the fault of unengaged or disinterested parents. Except in extreme cases of a child suffering from a genetic disorder, engaged parents will lead their children to academic proficiency.
It is nearly impossible for me to comprehend there are so many parents in the U.S. who do not care that their children are educated.
This kind of thing is exactly why I think it’s a terrible mistake for conservatives to let themselves be distracted by national elections drama, and let stuff like this go by, which not only affects our lives a lot more, but we also have much more power to do something about.
I worry about this. I have a beautiful and very feminine grand daughter who will begin K-12 this fall. Her mother used to be a lefty but has changed a lot since she became a mother. At one time we talked about her home schooling the daughter but she is working now. She is in LA, the worst education locale I know of. Three other grandchildren attended charter public schools in Orange County, which is better than anything in LA. They are older and seem to have escaped the worst of the nonsense. I actually have two others being raised by the leftist ex-wife of my older son and I have small hope for them.
Imagine reading 1984 and thinking that Big Brother and the thought police were the good guys.
Humility is crucial to a functioning society and necessary for effective govt leaders. Democrats lack it. Always have.
Playing God in the lives of other people because they assume they are smarter and morally superior is the reason they choose to be Democrats.
well more like strange new world
https://twitter.com/eugyppius1/status/1681621496920264705
It was 1993 when I first met a couple who were homeschooling their children. I asked why, because the local public school had a good reputation for academics. This couple were members of the Aryan Nations group that was very strong in Eastern Washington at the time. There was no religion being mentioned in the public schools and they objected to that. They were a nice couple with three children.
They shared some of their political beliefs with me and I was surprised. There were many of them in the Wenatchee River valley. The men could be identified by having beards and wearing their pants with suspenders and no belt. They were mostly lumber jacks, construction workers, heavy machinery operators, and orchardists.
I looked on them as kind of like the Amish, a religious group who wanted to be left alone, but I knew the Feds looked on them as dangerous.
They saw what was happening in this country long before a lot of us did. People who are deeply religious are not easily controlled. The Democrats (Cultural Marxists) see them as dangerous.
Enough reminiscing. I agree with Rufus T. Religious schools, private schools, and home schooling have to be the wave of the future. It’s the effective way to fight these cultural Marxis
The Kahn Academy videos are an excellent source for home schoolers.
https://www.khanacademy.org/
@JJ:members of the Aryan Nations group
Aryan Nations are literally anti-Semites and white supremacists, not media-labelled white supremacists, is your memory mistaken?
very strong in Eastern Washington
My memory of the 1990s is that Aryan Nation were concentrated in Northern Idaho near Couer d’Alene but they were never more than a tiny number that drew outsized national media attention.
The men could be identified by having beards and wearing their pants with suspenders and no belt.
Aryan Nations generally had shaved heads and white shoelaces in black boots.
Are you sure these aren’t Hutterites or another Mennonite group? They DID concentrate in Eastern Washington and are not, of course, white supremacists or anti-Semites. This would make way more sense in terms of your positive impression.
Frederick,
You are correct. People should focus on local elections. We have more impact there and local politicians have more impact on us. I think this is why the Tea Party, Bernie Bros, parents attending schoolboard meetings, Occupy Wall Street… are all so quickly attacked and reviled by both parties and the national media.
A true, national, grassroots uprising is anathema to their power.
For years I’ve been saying this country will really start moving in a positive direction when the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street types realize they both share a common enemy.
The men could be identified by having beards and wearing their pants with suspenders and no belt.
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Buzz off.
Schools (“teachers”) and their young students are to be allied against the student’s parents? Sounds like the march to Stalinism to me.
Almost daily I see something that supports my contention that every leftist pathology besetting us today was visible on the left in the 1960s. An activist I knew in the late ’60s, lost touch with, and met again in the early ’80s via a food co-op or something of that sort that attracts offbeat people from both sides is an instance. She was big into the Nuclear Freeze movement and her focus at the time was on getting her point of view into the classroom. I distinctly recall her saying something along the lines of “We have to bypass the parents because they’re hopeless.” I don’t believe it ever crossed her mind that there was any ethical question involved.
And that in turn makes me think of another essential characteristic of the contemporary left: absolute moral confidence. It’s pretty much exactly the same thing as the religious confidence that one is doing God’s will and therefore no mere human policy or law can take precedence. Only, of course, there’s no God or even any definite principle, just that one is on “the right side of history.”
Cornhead makes an interesting and to me troubling observation… troubling because it is both true and appears intractable.
“We conservatives have no common ground with today’s Dems.”
Today’s political, social, spiritual, moral, and ethical divides are not simply matters of degree with negotiable ground between. It’s the “2 different movies on the same screen” or worse.
And I don’t know how you claw 1 country back from there without bloodshed.
Pair that with the gross distrust in public institutions and recipe for disaster doesn’t start to describe it.
so the road crew of zz top,
@ Neo > ” The whole thing is somewhat of a stealth operation, although it’s been getting more publicity over time.”
Here is a school that started their grooming back in 2015 — there aren’t many silver linings about the Covid shut-downs, but outing the “education mafia” is one of them.
https://notthebee.com/article/report-anchorage-schools-has-secret-gender-swap-contracts-that-allows-students-to-live-as-a-member-of-the-opposite-sex-without-their-parents-knowing
@ Mike K > “I have a beautiful and very feminine grand daughter who will begin K-12 this fall.”
The leftists are going after girls like her from another direction.
NTBee dissects an article from The Guardian:
https://notthebee.com/article/wearing-frilly-dresses-is-racist-now
The meme at the end is worth the click.
But, seriously, the exact same people are praising men who wear frilly dresses. As the Bee’ers say: Welcome to Clown World.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/07/09/a-biological-man-just-won-miss-netherlands-2023-and-ive-got-a-controversial-response-n773715
@ Corhead and John Guilfoyle > “We conservatives have no common ground with today’s Dems.”
I’m not convinced that all Democrat voters are irreclaimable (I still have some hopes for the ignorant masses once they actually find out what’s being done by their party), and note that you don’t draw the line between Republicans and Democrats (see my next comment), but there are certainly two Venn circles in the population universe that don’t even touch on the boundary line.
“Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.” Luke 18:16-17
I suspect that many on the left who support this are well-intentioned and are blind to the terrible harm they are enabling. Of those who label any and all objections, however fact based to be biased in hate is evidence that their blindness is willful.
‘I agree with Rufus T. Religious schools, private schools, and home schooling have to be the wave of the future. It’s the effective way to fight these cultural Marxists.” J.J.
Which is why they are on the left’s radar for cancelation.
The left, earning their way into the hell that awaits.
Comment part two:
@ John Guilfoyle > “Today’s political, social, spiritual, moral, and ethical divides are not simply matters of degree with negotiable ground between. It’s the “2 different movies on the same screen” or worse.”
The line dividing the movies is not a Party Line.
https://notthebee.com/article/the-republican-led-congress-just-voted-down-an-amendment-that-would-allow-airlines-to-re-hire-pilots-fired-over-the-vax-mandates
I haven’t tracked down any story on WHY 83 of the Republicans joined all but one of the Democrats in voting no, but, on the face of it, this amendment was a conservative no-brainer.
Note the emphasis is on “allow,” not “mandate,” so I assume there is currently still a federal statute barring unvaxxed pilots — for absolutely no possible sane reason, knowing what we do now about covid and the vaccines.
Votes tabulated here, check your representatives:
https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023346
Frederick, these people believed that the UN was going to take over the country. They talked of black helicopters in “whisper mode” spying on the U.S. They believed in standing against the government in any way they could.
I just assumed from their political and religious leanings that they were part of the Aryan Nations. Or at least sympathetic to them.
The men dressed similarly and had beards, but the women didn’t. So, maybe they were another local religious group like the Amish, but they were intermingled in with the regular population. The Amish and Hutterites tend to form colonies.
I witnessed an encounter between a teenager and one of the men. The man told the teen that he was old enough to have a beard and ordered him to stop shaving. I’ve searched for a Christian religious sect that favors beards but didn’t find much. There’s this:
“Christianity has an on-again, off-again relationship with the beard. St. Augustine wrote: “The beard signifies the courageous; the beard distinguishes the grown men, the earnest, the active, the vigorous.”
I never subscribed to the ideas these people had and considered them “out there,’ but occasionally did business with one of them and always found them to be hard-working and honest. So, I may have misjudged them as being part of/sympathetic to the Aryan Nations.
Mac (5:25 pm) said: “I distinctly recall her saying something along the lines of ‘We have to bypass the parents because they’re hopeless.’ I don’t believe it ever crossed her mind that there was any ethical question involved.”
Back in the day, I heard that more than just once, practically verbatim.
Back then, ‘waay back then, I harbored vaguely rightie leanings, but I was not then known, nor was I then known among friends, as a right-winger per se. Consequently, I was a trusted quantity, and friends and acquaintances spoke freely around me, so I got to be privy to what they actually were thinking.
Frightening, especially given the way it’s now playing out.
who determining health policy, ipcc determining economic policy, drones have replaced the black helicopter, unesco determining freedom of speech, who’s the paranoid one again, (they were just ahead of the curve)
JJ (6:29 pm) said: “The men dressed similarly and had beards, but the women didn’t.”
The fact alone that the women didn’t have beards might make me suspect that this gang wasn’t terribly woke. [smile!]
“The line dividing the movies is not a Party Line.” — AesopFan
Absolutely. From where I sit, I use the language of “worldview ” or “ultimate things.” What’s the ultimate purpose destiny meaning etc…of our lives?
It’s metaphysics before anything else. So much of what I see in those who appear bent on destroying all that is good beautiful and true is a race to futility. Utopian dreams over literally billions of corpses… paradise only for carrion eaters.
I need to go for a walk… I’m depressing myself.
M J R @ 6:31: “”Mac (5:25 pm) said: “I distinctly recall her saying something along the lines of ‘We have to bypass the parents because they’re hopeless.’ I don’t believe it ever crossed her mind that there was any ethical question involved.”””
“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” -Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
The trans movement is the Leftists taking over any cause they can ride to more power and graft.
Like the Environment, as Tom Slater at spiked points out.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/07/17/why-cant-greens-practise-what-they-preach/
They are hoping to take total control of Everything, at which point (I predict) they will turn on the same dime as always when they have the upper hand (as with Free Speech), and suddenly discover that fossil fuels are Essential (for themselves).
@ Owen quoting “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” -Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Lenin knew what God told the Israelites 4000 years ago:
Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Sadly, we all know families with children who had the same religious training as their siblings who DID depart from it; fortunately, many of them return to that training later.
Conversely, Neo and others are proof that the reverse works as well: childhood training in Leftism sometimes falls apart on contact with reality.
In that, the left is more fragile than the religious, who are starting with, and returning to, truth and reality.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/07/20/lifelong-jewish-democrat-dov-hikind-registers-as-republican/
h/t cb on the Open Thread
If the Democrats had been forced to pay the price for their absurd virtue-signaling policies years ago, they would have ended the Leftists’ agenda much sooner.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/07/20/house-gop-passes-plan-to-block-sanctuary-cities-from-housing-illegal-aliens-in-public-schools/
They were fine with the border states and Republican-majority communities paying for it.
Except, given that the federal government has been shoving money at non-profits (someone is profiting, you can bet on that) which “resettle” the illegals, we have all collectively been paying.
It just hurts more when its obviously coming out of your own wallet.
Good one MJR. What I should have said was that their wives didn’t seem to have a dress code. At least not one I could discern. Not that I’m such a keen observer. 🙂 And it was 30 years ago. 🙁
I can predict that the defense of these laws, rules, and “guidance” will be, “We are only doing what the student asks us to do. We’re not telling a minor to keep a secret from parents, we’re only supporting a minor who may be in actual danger from parents if the minor’s gender identity were revealed to them.”
And the problem with that is, it’s in media res. It doesn’t start at the beginning of the trans-formation [sic], wherein schools support activist teachers’ introducing their very young students to the idea that gender is (a) significantly non-binary, (b) entirely independent of biological sex characteristics including at the cellular level, and (c) a matter of choice and uncritical self-perception. These very young kids have no idea about any of this nor any defense against it – when their kindergarten teacher encourages a girl who prefers to dress as a firefighter to consider herself to be a boy, or a boy who likes the princess dresses to consider himself to be a girl, that teacher – in many children’s lives, THE SECOND OR THIRD MOST TRUSTED ADULT THEY KNOW – isn’t going to have to explain herself (or himself – I know there must be some), either to the naive child or, thanks to schools’ cover, to the child’s parent.
So the child has early exposure to the concepts of transness and queerness, and to the perception that most people are not plain old heterosexual and in the “correct” bodies – which all feeds into the You Are Special narrative that schools use to try (unsuccessfully) to foster students’ self-esteem (instead of the old narrative of “you deserve credit and approbation for what you do, including getting back up again after a failure, not just for existing”). That child then sees the hearty approval the first kid in the class to “come out” receives from teachers, and the popularity bump the kid receives from peers, as well as the pervasive presence of trans and queer characters and themes in “family” programming and in young-reader books.
The child gets a little older and becomes exposed to the “triumph over dystopia” themes that dominate in middle school. Puberty is around the corner, and the kid begins to feel that unease that accompanies its physical and mental changes. The kid, entering good old adolescent rebellion, decides that parents are the enemy and that the consequences will be dire if the parents find out about the weird feelings the kid is having.
And now, the kid has a ready course to take, and the school can claim it’s “just” supporting the student’s decision and wishes.
Where would LGBTPDQ+ be without its molest & mutilate regime?
Some lifestyles are inherently totalitarian, regarding children as creatures owned by the part and the state.
This LGBTPDQ+ regime can’t be waited out, not unless millions of ruined lives are OK, and apparently they are.
Wait until the nation’s embassies, flying the new trans flag, become safe spaces worldwide for molest & mutilate.
Reagan promised to abolish the Department of Education. That wild, radical idea failed from uniparty resistance. Now we know why—the pedophiles who rule our nation want a federal Department of Education to implement quality education nationwide. Thanks, Jimmah!
I have been a lifelong Democrat — my family, my parents,” Hikind said. “But that’s over!
Will you be paying reparations for the decades of damage you’ve done?
You see this kind of thing occasionally, especially, say, on dates like 22 June 1941.
Is FERPA still law or what?