K-12 public schools are no longer a place children go to receive solid academic instruction. Instead, they have become indoctrination centers for progressive ideology. The aggressive promotion of radical ideas about human sexuality is not only infused into all academic subjects but is also infecting school practices and policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Step on the campus of a public school today, even an elementary school, and you will instantly be confronted with the gay pride flag, trans flag, or a combination of the two called the \u201cProgress Pride\u201d flag. These sexual identity flags are increasingly becoming the center of attention in place of the American flag on school campus flag poles and at the front of classrooms, seemingly encouraging school children to give their allegiance to these concepts instead of the ideals represented by their country\u2019s flag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
District leaders, school staff, and teachers have pledged their allegiance to a radical gender identity agenda and are working vigorously to instill their beliefs into your children and teens. Deeming themselves, rather than the children\u2019s parents, as the true experts in such matters, they secretly counsel children in gender transitioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not only is the swift transition intentionally hidden from parents, school personnel employ rhetoric to convince children or teens that their parents are unloving, or even the enemy, if they don\u2019t fully affirm the newly claimed identity. Parents can lose custody if they fail to affirm the child\u2019s desire to transition and try to prevent puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries aimed at making the child appear as the opposite sex \u2014 which can result in sterilization and other lasting damage.<\/p>Keri D. Ingraham<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n The damaging process starts with kindergarten<\/a> or first-grade<\/a> classroom activities and reading books that expose these five, six, and seven-year-old children to queer and transgender content. An example is the Gender Unicorn<\/a>, which asks children to select their gender identity (\u201cfemale\/woman\/girl, male\/man\/boy, and other gender(s)\u201d), gender expression (\u201cfeminine, masculine, and other\u201d), and which gender they are attracted to physically and emotionally (\u201cwomen, men, and \u201cother gender(s)\u201d). The Gender Unicorn also asks children to select their \u201csex assigned at birth,\u201d with options including \u201cfemale, male, and \u201cother\/intersex.\u201d Think this isn\u2019t happening at your local public school? Think again<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once the soil has been tilled by trusted adults placing radical ideas in children\u2019s minds, school personnel are ready to prompt students to express confusion regarding their basic identity. It only takes a student slightly questioning their gender for the celebratory gender-affirming bandwagon to take over with full speed and enthusiasm. Gender affirming support plans are implemented, including new names, new pronouns, and the use of the opposite sex\u2019s bathroom. Other students are required to use the new names and pronouns for those students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not only is the swift transition intentionally hidden from parents, school personnel employ rhetoric to convince children or teens that their parents are unloving, or even the enemy, if they don\u2019t fully affirm the newly claimed identity. In this brave new world, parents can lose custody<\/a> if they fail to affirm the child\u2019s desire to transition and try to prevent puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries aimed at making the child appear as the opposite sex (which can result in sterilization and other lasting damage).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Virginia Gentles, Director of the Education Freedom Center of the Independent Women\u2019s Forum, asks a critical question: Where are these \u201ccaring and supportive\u201d school personnel down the road in the child\u2019s life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Will any of the staff who have huddled with students – often with middle school girls, which means they are 11, 12 and 13 – to craft gender support plans be involved in that child\u2019s life beyond that particular semester or school year? Will they remember the child\u2019s name in the future – either the name her parents lovingly and carefully chose, or the new name picked by the child when she got caught up in this social contagion? Do the school staff members know the child\u2019s (likely complex) emotional, behavioral and developmental history? Will they be a loving, consistent and active presence in her life forever? The answers to those questions are, of course, no.<\/p>Virginia Gentles, Director, Education Freedom Center at Independent Women’s Forum<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n All this flies in the face of what should be obvious \u2014 parents know their children best and are responsible for their care, protection, and upbringing. Telling parents their child will commit suicide if they don\u2019t let them transition socially and medically is not only malevolent and manipulative, it does not align with the latest research<\/a>. Virginia Gentiles again makes powerful observations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n These vulnerable children, often girls, deserve their parents\u2019 involvement as they struggle through puberty, and they need their parents\u2019 emotional and financial support until they make it safely to adulthood. At its horribly rotten core, the culture created by the question \u201cdo you want a dead daughter or a live son?\u201d intentionally drives a painful wedge between parents and children unless parents consent without question to immediate <\/em>social and medical transition. Parents, who love their children with every fiber of their being\u2026 parents who have walked with their precious children through every step of their often challenging lives\u2026 parents who would do anything to keep their children safe are shoved aside by arrogant and callous school staff. School staff with \u201cI\u2019m your mom now\u201d posters hanging on their classroom doors and the full power of the education bureaucracy behind them.<\/p>Virginia Gentles, Director, Education Freedom Center at Independent Women’s Forum<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n