Posted on 06/20/2023 11:01:48 AM PDT by Twotone
Several dozen Midwestern teachers discussed ways to transition their students’ gender without alerting parents in an online chatroom this week.
Roughly 30 teachers and administrators from various states including Iowa, Michigan, Illinois, and Ohio met in an online chatroom hosted by the Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center (MAP), an organization that has received millions of dollars in federal funding. The Daily Mail gained access to the four-hour workshop, which was centered on reviewing various new educational statutes to “remedy the marginalizing effects and disrupt problematic policies.”
Kimberly Martin, DEI coordinator for Royal Oaks Schools in Michigan, described her efforts to hide elements of social transition, such as changing a student’s name, from their parents.
“We’re working with our record-keeping system so that certain screens can’t be seen by the parents … if there’s a nickname in there we’re trying to hide,” Martin said.
Jennifer Haglund, counselor for Ames Community Schools in Iowa, condemned Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds for signing a law in March barring males from competing on female sports teams and bragged about her personal activism for LGBTQ causes.
“I know that I have my own right code of ethics, and that doesn’t always go along with the law,” Haglund said.
“The stakes are very high for trans youth,” Shea Martin, an Ohio-based teacher and contributor to far-Left blog Radical Teacher, said. “I think that requires working subversively and quietly sometimes to make sure that trans kids have what they need.”
Martin also said she had worked against “laws that prohibit or restrict trans advocacy.” Martin also said that in discussion with elementary aged students, teachers should avoid treating “reinforced heterosexuality as the norm.”
Gender ideology has become an increasingly controversial issue in the United States — a recent poll by the Public Religion Research Institute found that 65% of Americans say that there are only two genders, up from 59% in 2021, with support for the gender binary increasing in virtually all demographic cohorts. Furthermore, a plurality of those polled, 36%, opposed teaching transgenderism at any level in K-12 education.
Hundreds of laws have been introduced in red and purple states to limit sexually explicit drag performances in public, ban books with explicit sexual content from school libraries, prevent males from competing in girls and women’s sports, and prevent minors from being given cross-sex hormones or body modification surgeries, among other things. These laws have been decried as “anti-LGBTQ” by activist groups such as the ACLU and the Human Rights Campaign and by the Biden White House, fueling intense national debate.
MAP is part of the Great Lakes Equity Center and operates in 13 different states: Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. It covers over 7,000 school districts and more than 11 million students. The states and localities under its jurisdiction have a wide range of stances on issues surrounding sex and gender.
According to the Daily Mail, MAP receives federal funding under Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and last November it received more than $8 million from the Department of Education.
DEI coordinator .....................
The Teachers Unions are the ENEMY..
A few huge lawsuits against the schools will stop that garbage......Annnnd go after the teachers, too....
It’s time to start visiting these people where they live.
At night.
Late at night.
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Bonnie and Clyde had “”their own set of ethics, too””.........
“ I know that I have my own right code of ethics, and that doesn’t always go along with the law,” Haglund said.
That so perfectly sums up these people’s insufferable self-righteousness and conviction that they only need to follow the law if they feel like it. If I were king I’d personally horse whip her for saying that, I truly would.
Like, it wouldn’t be noticeable.
So, parents need to organize and be prepared to sue the teachers and schools and doctors and government officials that would do this. It needs to be stopped NOW!
So, parents need to organize and be prepared to sue the teachers and schools and doctors and government officials that would do this. It needs to be stopped NOW!
100%. They can win.
Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone!
Or you’re gonna get...
Another brick thru your wall!.......................
Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center (MAP)
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Minor Attracted Persons
Damn it. OUR tax money is flowing freely to indoctrinate our children in public schools. The damnable DOE needs to be abolished. Heads should roll for this. Can we EVER rid ourselves of the evil DOE which wastes tens of billions every year and does not educate a single child?
The modern left acting like the people they are, damn reading, writing, and arithmitic, they have an agenda to push.
They have an address:
Street Address:
902 West New York Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202
So do the people who work there.
Just saying.
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Yep.
Totally says it all.
Ideology trumps society.
Good catch. 👍
I dont know about city schools. From my country school it was 100% administration directing down. No teachers that I knew were calling for it.
One day the admin just held a meeting and talked about having uni-sex bathrooms, kids acting out different sex genders even animals like cats. Rise in LGTBQ + - % / £ whatever they are making up nowadays behavior.
The teachers were all “whaaa???”
I will say there were a few student freaks already walking around trying to look like the opposite sex—they were ahead of the curve and probably into social media heavily.
Most parents and teachers were blindsided —-that was about 2015… or so.
The union now regards grooming as a professional obligation.
Duplicity as a moral value is why I rejected the Left. Rather that open debate to change hearts and minds they feel self-righteously justified in duplicity, subversion, coercion, manipulation even bullying. Ends justifying the means always.
These people are acting as if they are hiding Jews from Nazis. They are hiding children’s issues with their well-being from their own parents. That is wrong.
There’s tremendous capacity for evil on the Left.
Why do bank robbers rob banks?
Because that’s where the money is.
Why do perverts flock to schools like moths to the light?
Because that’s where the kids are.
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