Posted on 05/16/2022 6:30:20 AM PDT by Kaslin
In Fairfax County, Virginia, changes set to be approved May 26 would punish ‘malicious misgendering’ at the same level as assault and battery.
For those who scoff that Florida’s new education law bans “non-existent” gender indoctrination, let the tale of Fairfax County, Virginia serve as a wake-up call.
Fairfax County’s school board has long prided itself on leading the way for the nation in cutting-edge education policy and curriculum. As the tenth-largest district in the nation, it holds disproportionate sway over other school boards.
In 2015, the Fairfax school board blindsided parents with changes to its non-discrimination policy, followed by a sweeping expansion of the sex-ed curriculum and new rules governing student offenses and penalties. This is not an isolated policy. In Wisconsin, three middle-schoolers have been accused of “sexual harassment” for using biologically accurate pronouns to refer to a fellow student.
Fairfax’s proposed changes, set to be approved May 26, have hit a new low. Legally meaningless offenses such as “malicious misgendering” and “outing related to gender identification” would be now punishable by up to “Level 4” sanctions. It’s the last level before penalties for drug dealing, rape, and homicide.
Level 4 is the punishment meted out for assault and battery, drug consumption, theft, and arson. These penalties may be applied even to kindergarteners and include, at their worst, expulsion at the behest of the school board.
This barrage of ideological punishment is accompanied by the school board sex-ed committee’s latest, unanimous April 2022 vote to move instruction on gender identity down to elementary school. This puts the Fairfax school system entirely out of step with the Virginia State Standards of Learning on Family Life Education (sex ed).
But this is nothing new. In 2015 Fairfax school board proposed moving instruction on gender fluidity and identity down to middle school from high school, as well as sweeping expansions of the sex-ed curriculum on gender and sexuality. The board and superintendent claimed they were required to make these changes in order to align with new Virginia Standards of Learning (SOLs). When other mothers and I combed through the SOLs, we discovered this was a flat-out lie: there was not even a reference to these controversial new sexual concepts.
The Fairfax County School Board continued to steamroll families in 2018, when it voted against overwhelming community input to change the terminology of biological sex to “sex assigned at birth.” As I served on the sex-ed committee for more than years, I saw firsthand the determined effort to move teaching on sexuality to lower and lower grades, and to work around parents who might disagree—a trend mothers and fathers all over the nation are noting as well.
The 2019 blue wave in Virginia, when national LGBTQ advocacy groups including the Human Rights Campaign and the Victory Fund poured millions of dollars into our local races, resulted in further erosion of parental rights in Fairfax County. The new Transgender Policy (R2603.2) establishes a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary support and gender transition team for Fairfax County students.
This team can be formed and operate in secret, without the parents ever being made aware. The policy dictates that parents may be involved in a child’s gender transition team “if the student is willing.” It further stipulates that “a persistent refusal to use a student’s chosen name and pronouns constitutes discrimination”—again, a sanctionable offense for students and teachers alike.
At the state level, Fairfax ideologues are backstopped by their close ally in Richmond, the Senate Education Committee. Powerful members like state Sen. Janet Howell, who twice has used her election committee seat to gerrymander opponents out of her district during her campaigns, treat parents and students alike with staggering arrogance. The education committee is notorious as the graveyard of bills promoting curriculum transparency and accountability.
Taken as a whole, these actions and others by the Fairfax school board over the last several years constitute an ideological and dangerous overhaul of policy, curriculum, and standards that have little to no basis in law, but threaten very real harm to children. Two pending lawsuits in Virginia defending the rights of teachers are addressing these very questions of pronoun use.
But in the meantime, these actions by the Fairfax School Board have set the stage for children to be encouraged to transition in secret, and for children who might persist in using biologically accurate pronouns to be dealt criminal-level penalties.
For those who look at Florida and say “but no one is teaching these things in kindergarten,” let Fairfax be a cautionary tale. Our school board not only plans to teach them, but to expel the pint-size “criminals” who might resist.
If you get kicked out t of such a school, you say, “Thank you.”
BINGO!
Sadly, they aren’t suspending children, they face expulsion.
I work with a lady who is gay (she binds her chest and is married to a chick). I can’t help my raising - but I instinctively reply “ma’am” to her when we speak. I don’t know if I’m committing a faux pas or not.
The school officials deserve to be thrown in prison for their cruel treatment of the kids.
Will the corrupt fbi investigate parents who object to this unconstitutional action?
Gay and Trans are two different things and they are frequently at odds with each other. For example, men who say they are women think lesbians should have sex with them but lesbians push back because the trans have a penis so the Transpeople accuse them of Transphobia.
I guess if students started calling each M__ F_r’s that would be OK ???
Kicking kids out of public school for “mis-gendering” would be doing them a favor.
What they mean by misgendering is truegendering people who demand to be misgendered.
One wonders how deep into decadence the wokerotti will descend...
I graduated from high school in1972. If this had happened when I was in school, I’d have looked, in the hallway, at a “tansgender girl”, pointed, and said, “That girl has a penis. He’s not a girl.”
It would be fun to see 2/3 of the school get expelled.
This is one of the riches areas in the country. So strange this is what’s important to them.
Not much sex diversity there. They have a token man there? Of course it’s a broad assumption to just assume he’s a man, or that he identifies as male.
I don’t know how to post this picture. It is meme saying “if you believe women can have penises, I won’t believe a singe word you say about anything else because if you will lie about something so obvious, I will assume you lie about everything else.”
I think parents and students should say this whenever a lefty spouts this BS.
Link https://americasbestpics.com/picture/binary-if-you-think-that-women-have-p-nises-i-bk2sc6bS9
That was my first thought, Bring it. I know lots of families that are still fuming over the CRT and rape nonsense which led to Gov Youngkin. And if they think this will help the Democrats going forward, I really do need to find out who their drug dealer is.
Northern VA is about to blow up because the liberal parents are the ones getting hammered by all this nonsense.
Over a million kids didn’t return to public school this fall. Private, parochial and homeschooling are growing. “Class Dismissed” was an interesting pre-covid film made of one family’s journey from public school to homeschooling. It was interesting to see different ways family homeschool.
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Criminal punishment for speech? No surprise. All lefties are totalitarian monsters.
The only man has a bullet pointed head. It looks to me as if the dome of his head would pass through a 7 in. Diatmeter circle. If so, by definition, he is a cretin. Go figure.
“I sure am glad my kids are all grown.”
Do THEY have kids?
I would not force nor allow my children to participate in this foolishness.
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