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BIDEN ADMINISTRATION TO FORCE SCHOOLS TO ADOPT RADICAL GENDER
POLICIES. HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW.
Jonathan Butcher / @JM_Butcher / June 22, 2022
For a brief moment last week, President Joe Biden’s administration
appeared to be interested in what parents think about K-12 schools.
Low student achievement coming out of the pandemic. High rates of
depression among youth. School officials hiding information about
students’ health from their parents.
 
The administration seemed to be aware of these concerns when it
announced the creation of a National Parents and Families Engagement
Council to “facilitate strong and effective relationships between
schools and parents.”
 
But just when we thought this administration was ready to apologize
for, say, intimidating parents who voice their opinions at school
board meetings, astute observers noticed that the new council actually
included groups complicit with such intimidation.
 
Last fall, the administration coordinated with the National School
Boards Association for the association to release a letter saying that
federal officials should investigate parents who speak up at local
school board meetings. The letter called for agencies such as the
Federal Bureau of Investigation to review the potential for any
“enforceable actions” against those making public comments at
these meetings.
But as Parents Defending Education’s Erika Sanzi notes, a group
called the National Parents Union also supported the letter and is now
a founding member of the new so-called parents council.
 
So, is the White House bringing parents together to listen to them or
to try to convince them to support Biden’s policies?
The announcement about the parent council was just days old when the
administration made yet another charge at “protecting families.”
This time, though, the administration did not even try to hide the
coercion.
 
On June 15, Biden issued an executive order on “advancing equality
for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex
individuals.” The order states that the secretaries of the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of
Education would be releasing model state legislation in the coming
months to support the “rights” of these individuals.
 
Model legislation from Washington is not even necessary for us to know
the administration’s position at this point—federal officials have
made it clear that existing federal and state laws will not stop them
from replacing “sex” with “sexual orientation and gender
identity” anywhere they see it. To justify this act of executive
fiat, they must misinterpret the U.S. Supreme Court decision in
Bostock v. Clayton County.
 
In May, the administration did something that offered a peek at what
may come in a model bill: Federal officials skipped over Congress and
any rule-making processes and are threatening to withhold federal
school lunches from low-income children in schools where boys are not
allowed to participate in girls sports or access girls bathrooms.
 
The executive order says there have been “unrelenting political and
legislative attacks at the State level … on LGBTQI+ children and
families in particular.”
 
This sounds like a reference to state policies that require educators
to include parents in discussions and intervention plans for children
who are depressed, anxious, and confused about their sex—three
conditions often found together in children caught up in the
“transgender” movement.
 
Parents should be at the center of conversations with their children
about their sexuality. Some state agencies, however, have adopted
policies that prohibit teachers from telling parents when a child is
confused about his or her sex. In response, lawmakers in other states,
such as Florida, have adopted policies that say parents must be part
of any health or medical decisions made regarding their school-aged
children. State policymakers around the country are considering
similar “parents’ bills of rights.”
 
The provisions in these parents’ bills of rights do not conform to
the Biden administration’s advocacy for radical “gender”
policies and the efforts to hide information about children from their
parents. The forthcoming federal model legislation for states is the
administration’s response to states that are reinforcing parents’
roles as the students’ primary caregivers.
 
Washington’s signals that it is interested in children and families
disappeared this week in a cloud of advocacy for these radical
policies. Individuals—including minor-age children—who are
struggling with their sexual identity deserve empathy and compassion.
Parents and family are necessary parts of such responses. Research
finds that nearly all cases of youth gender dysphoria resolve as long
as kids are not fast-tracked into “transitioning” to appear as the
opposite sex with puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
 
Despite the talk of “parent councils” and “protecting
families,” the Biden White House wants to force a radical gender
agenda on young minds and limit parents’ power to stop it.
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