What I Learned About the Transgender Politics Injected Into This Affluent County’s Schools

The Daily Signal ^ | November 3, 2019 | Cathy Ruse

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I live in Fairfax County, Virginia, which has the 10th-largest public school district in the nation, but I never focused on our public schools.

My kids go to Catholic schools, and that was the center of our universe. I never focused, that is, until I heard that the Fairfax County School Board voted to let boys into the girls’ bathrooms.

The vote was 10-1. Was there only one sane person on the Fairfax County School Board?

I had to find out. So I began attending school board meetings.

And there I saw moms and dads begging the school board to stop threatening their child’s privacy and safety in intimate spaces and on the sports field. They pleaded with the board to stop the pornographic reading assignments. They tearfully asked board members to respect their family’s religious beliefs.

These were my neighbors, fighting to stop their school board from playing sex politics with their children.

This shouldn’t happen anywhere in America. I resolved that it wasn’t going to happen in my county, on my watch, without a fight.

Fairfax County, just outside Washington, is the second-richest county in America. But most parents here don’t know that every year, beginning in seventh grade, their children will be taught lessons on “transgender theory.”

How did this happen? It started with a vote in 2015 to add “gender identity” to the Fairfax County school system’s nondiscrimination policy.

You can watch the vote on YouTube. Hundreds of parents, filling the room, occasionally shouting, trying to be heard. You can see the board chairman gavel them down and threaten to kick them out. You can see Ryan McElveen, the sponsor, scolding them, telling them they’re on the wrong side of history.

[NetAddicted]

Thanks for the intersex statistics.

[21twelve]

“No one wants to see a child in distress, especially a child suffering from sex confusion.”

Of course not. We just wish this confusion would be resolved in the same way that people with body image disorders (like anorexia) can get treated.

Giving someone the wrong hormones as “treatment” is like putting an anorexic on a diet.

[Tax-chick]

This thread is almost 2 years old, but I don’t see anything I would say differently, except that I have only five children at home, now.

[21twelve]

LOL. I didn’t notice the age. Yeah - two years ago we just had one at home. She left for awhile and is back again (yay!)

[Tax-chick]

We’re paying rent for one, but he’ll be getting a new job as soon as the semester starts. Meanwhile, he’s teaching two teenage brothers to drive, which is worth a lot.