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Mom Sues School, Says Teachers 'Planted the Seed' in
11-Year-Old Daughter That 'She Was Transgender'
Michael Foust |
ChristianHeadlines.com Contributor |
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
A California mother alleges in a new lawsuit that teachers recruited her sixth-grade daughter to join an LGBT Equality Club and then “planted the seed” in her mind that she was transgender while hiding the information from the mom.
The lawsuit, filed by mom Jessica Konen against Spreckels Union School District, claims the school violated her parental rights under California law and the U.S. Constitution. Konen is represented by the Center for American Liberty.
At the time, the daughter – known as “A.G.” in the suit – was 11 years old.
“Parents absolutely have a right to know what is being taught in their kids’ school, especially with respect to sensitive issues like gender and sexuality,” the center said in a news release. “... But parents are denied that right when activist teachers think they know better and intentionally hide information from moms and dads.”
The controversy began when the daughter attended an Equality Club meeting at the invitation of a friend. After the meeting, she decided she “was not interested in the LGBT+ discussion” and chose not to go back, but about two weeks later, a teacher who helps run the club, Ms. Caldiera, told her she “fit in perfectly” and encouraged her to return, according to the suit. The daughter agreed to do so.
“At these meetings and in other discussions,” the teachers “planted the seed in A.G.’s mind that she was bisexual,” the suit says. “That idea did not originate with A.G. In fact, she did not fully understand what that term meant.
“Shortly thereafter,” the teachers “planted the seed in A.G.’s mind that she was transgender. As with bisexuality, that idea did not originate with A.G., nor did A.G. fully understand what it meant.”
Feeling depressed and stressed, A.G. went to a school counselor, who, along with a teacher, told her the feelings were due to her “not being who she was,” the suit says.
Teachers then “encouraged A.G. to change her name to a boy’s name as an expression of the new identity they were encouraging her to take on.” A.G. began wearing boys’ clothes. All along, the teachers “instructed A.G. not to tell her mother about her new identity or new name, saying that her mother might not be supportive of her and that she couldn’t trust her mother,” the suit says. Other teachers began to refer to A.G. by her new name without the mother knowing.
Absolute madness!!!!
When A.G. was in seventh grade, the principal set up a school meeting that involved A.G., the mother, the principal and another teacher. There, the mom was informed that A.G. had changed her name, that teachers “would be referring to her daughter by her new name, that she would be referred to with male pronouns, and that she would be allowed to use the unisex teachers’ bathroom.”
“Ms. Konen was taken aback by this news, and she reasonably believed that if she did not process what was going on quickly enough, Respondents would take efforts to attempt to have her daughter taken from her,” the suit says.
A.G. is now in high school and no longer identifies as transgender but instead goes by her female name and female pronouns. The suit says she “is confused about issues relating to her sexuality and gender, and she believes that Respondents caused this confusion.”
“A.G. believes that she was pressured by [teachers] into portraying a character they created, a character that, by being inhabited and hidden from her mother, has taken on elements of reality that A.G. must now learn to understand and live with,” the suit says. “A.G. also believes that Respondents tried to turn her mother against her and that her relationship with her mother has been seriously damaged because of the actions.”
Ontario school board punishes teacher for raising concerns
over trans books in libraries
By Anugrah Kumar,
Christian Post Contributor|
Monday, January 24, 2022
An Ontario teacher was placed on leave after being accused of using “transphobic” language for voicing concern during a board meeting last Monday about the presence of books that celebrate medical gender transition in school libraries.
The teacher, Carolyn Burjoski, claims she is being “bullied, slandered and abused” for arguing that some books in libraries were inappropriate for children.
The Waterloo Region District School Board Chair Scott Piatkowski cut short Burjoski’s presentation after she said the school libraries have books that make the medical transition seem "simple" and “cool" available to kindergartners through sixth-grade students, The National Post reported.
The board, which oversees over 100 schools in the region, voted 5-4 to back up the chair’s decision.
In a video posted on Twitter, Burjoski said that she was informed the following morning by human resources that she was “immediately assigned to home, pending a formal investigation and banned from contacting my colleagues and students.”
“This was particularly upsetting to me because I love my students, and I have not seen them since December,” she said. “When my students excitedly returned to school on Tuesday — the first day of in-class learning after yet another lockdown — their teacher was not there, and they did not know why. I have been silenced and punished.”
During her presentation, the teacher started reading from the book Rick by Alex Gina, in which the protagonist discovers that he is asexual.
“While reading this book, I was thinking: ‘Maybe Rick doesn’t have sexual feelings yet because he is a child,’” she said in the meeting, according to CTV News. “It concerns me that it leaves young boys wondering if there is something wrong with them if they aren’t thinking about naked girls all the time. What message does this send to girls in Grade 3 or 4? They are children. Let them grow up in their own time and stop pressuring them to be sexual so soon.”
The teacher contends that she is “not a transphobic person.” “It’s crazy that just because you ask a question, the first thing people do is call you that,” she told The National Post.
In her social media video, Burjoski said that “board members have taken to radio, television, social media to grossly misrepresent my remarks.”
“I feel bullied, slandered and abused,” she said. “The school board has removed the video of the meeting from their YouTube channel, so people are not able to hear what I actually said.”
“Most of the video is me reading excerpts from two books available to any young child who is able to read,” she continued. “My few comments expressed concern about age-inappropriate sexual content. I did not and do not question the rights of trans persons to exist in any way. I fully support the human rights of transgender people.”
She argues that “cancel culture needs to stop.”
“We need to recover our ability to listen to each other and speak with one another with open mind. Respectful dialogue is the core of democracy.
Not to mention 'truth'!
Piatkowski was quoted as saying that it was “unfortunate that it was necessary, but it was necessary.”
“I’m hearing from school board chairs and other boards that they would not have allowed that either. I’m hearing from past chairs of this board.”
Burjoski’s case comes as parents in the United States have raised concerns about the content that their children are being exposed to in their school districts.
Last November, Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia, the largest school district in the U.S., said it was reinstating two books — Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison and Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe — to its high school libraries after a review into concerns raised by a mother that they contain “pornography” with graphic descriptions of sex acts between men and boys.
At a school board meeting in September, Stacy Langton, a parent of a student at Fairfax High School, said, “both of these books include pedophilia, [and] sex between men and boys.”
“Both books describe different acts. One book describes a fourth-grade boy performing oral sex on an adult male,” she said. “The other book has detailed illustrations of a man having sex with a boy… The illustrations include fellatio, sex toys, masturbation and violent nudity.”
Last August, the highest court in Virginia rejected a request by the Loudoun County School Board to uphold the suspension of a Christian teacher, Byron Tanner Cross, who was punished for criticizing a proposed policy requiring teachers to use trans students’ preferred names and pronouns. A lower court had struck down the school district’s suspension of the teacher.
“Looking to federal precedent as persuasive, it is settled law that the government may not take adverse employment actions against its employees in reprisal for their exercising their right to speak on matters of public concern,” read the order in part.
Apparently, not so in Ontario. PCMadness prevails in most Canadian school districts. And, as always, it's the children who suffer from adult madness.
Man declares himself woman to retire early – media
A savvy male has reportedly been able to profit from a loophole in Switzerland’s
new sex-change legislation
A Swiss man reportedly exploited a loophole in the country's new simplified sex-change legislation and registered as a woman so that he could become eligible for a lavish pension a year earlier.
Starting from January 1, a ten-minute-long interview and a payment of 75 Swiss francs (about $80) is enough for a person in Switzerland to change their sex on paper. Such procedures as a physical examination and hormonal testing have been eliminated.
One citizen, a man from the canton of Lucerne in the German-speaking central part of the country, saw this as a good opportunity to profit, the local Luzerner Zeitung reported.
In the wealthy Alpine state, the retirement age for men is 65 years, compared to 64 for women, and the pensions are really high, varying from 13,480 euro (about $15to nearly 27,000 annually.
The as-yet-unnamed person apparently decided not to wait another year for the money, by simply going and registering as a female with the authorities.
The sex change only occurred on paper, with the claimant later confirming to family and friends that it was done only to speed up the retirement, according to media.
There have so far been no reports of the authorities in Lucerne planning to challenge this reported application.
However, the reportedly isolated incident has pointed to significant flaws in the sex-change rules. The local media have swiftly come up with several other scenarios, in which they can also be exploited by the country’s male population.
The young men could register as women to avoid military service, as it’s only compulsory for men in the country. Widowers could also tend to turn into widows to receive the higher compensations that women in Switzerland are entitled to.
It took less than a month for the sheer stupidity of this new law to become apparent. Far-left politicians rarely think through the consequences. Switzerland used to be such a sensible country.
Defiant Trump vows to ban trans athletes
Donald Trump has pledged that US Republicans will ban trans athletes
from competing against women if they take back power
Donald Trump has waded into the growing debate surrounding transgender athletes in the United States while speaking at a 'Save America' rally in Texas, vowing that they will no longer be permitted to compete against biologically-born women when the Republican Party wrestles back control from their Democrat counterparts.
Trump, who stopped short of committing to a presidential run in 2024, gave a lengthy 80-minute speech to the assembled masses in Conroe, Texas, on Saturday night where he touched on a range of issues from illegal immigration to the possibility of pardons for those convicted in relation to the January 6 2021 riots at the US Capitol.
But it was the issue of transgender rights, and the fairness of them competing against naturally-born women in athletic competition, which appeared to be one of the central tenets of Trump's polemic.
Trans rights has been a political battleground between the contrasting philosophies within the US political sphere. More and more figures within sport have begun speaking out against the efficacy of having trans athletes competing alongside cisgender women, with stories from the worlds of weightlifting, swimming another others drawing global attention in recent months.
But as far as Trump is concerned, this is exactly where the Republican party should draw the line.
"We will ban men from participating in women's sports. So ridiculous," Trump said.
"Did you see the man that was on a swimming team at a certain school that I know very well? The record held for like 11 years, he beat it by 38 seconds.
"But the best is the weightlifting records - they're going. One guy walks in with one hand... he broke the record that held up for 20 years. For 20 years they're putting a little half an ounce on each side of the weights and the women are working so hard.
"Take a look at the weightlifting records. Two ounces in unacceptable, they beat 'em by many, many, many, many, many, many pounds."
Whether designed to or not, Trump's comments will enflame tensions between a chasm of opinion in the United States (and likely beyond) in which the terms 'woke' and 'cancel culture' have become implements of political branding.
The 45th US president suggested that issues such as these should be central to Republicans' thoughts as they navigate the upcoming midterm elections later this year, as well as the drive to reassume Republican control of the presidency in two years.
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