The other evening in Dearborn, MI, home to the nation’s highest concentration of Muslim-Americans, a cultural war broke out between their religious values and those of an elitist school board pushing a transgender agenda in public schools.
Parents were targeted by the FBI as domestic terrorists in Virginia last year for protesting school board policies allowing biological males to use girls’ bathrooms. After one girl was raped, her father protested, and was arrested and dragged out of a meeting. He was white. Thankfully, the Muslim parents in Michigan have not been arrested for speaking their minds. In fact they shouted in a chorus, “Vote Them Out! Vote Them Out!” Having lost control of the room, the school board adjourned.
What a fascinating moment in our history — when the Left’s favorite narratives are colliding. In the regime media’s telling, Muslims are people of color, victims of racial prejudice. So when the religious views of these brown people conflict with the Left’s current mania of sexualizing our children, they must be silenced. But unlike white parents, many of them Catholic, the Muslims are not labeled religious fanatics or extremists, not arrested for their beliefs. Quite a lesson in liberal hypocrisy.
Spiraling inflation, a looming recession, soaring crime and the Fentanyl that comes from a broken border — those issues are all top of mind for voters. But make no mistake, what happened in Dearborn is echoing around the nation. In the 2022 midterm elections, woke will also be on the ballot. Because the kids are just not ok.
Consider:
In Encinatis, CA, outside San Diego, parents protested the school’s promotion of a “Family-Friendly Drag Show” sponsored by Rich’s Gay Bar and the Align Surgical Associates, a gender reassignment surgery center. Parent Brittany Mayer lit up the Internet with her condemnation of the school board as groomers.
In Denver, schools hired a Drag Show celebrity, Dixie Krystals, to participate as a crossing guard for Pedestrian Safety Month. “Drag queens, known for their lewd and sexualized performances, have no place in or around schools,” said parent Alex Nestor. “It’s immoral, distracting and confusing for children.”
In Charlotte, NC, parents from Moms from Liberty confronted a Mecklenburg County school board over a book, This Book Is Gay. She read from a chapter with explicit instructions on how to perform male-on-male sex. The board demurred that the book is not on its recommended reading list but was brought into its school by a teacher. Any teacher who promotes these books, replied parent Christy Wade, must be “a bad teacher or a pedophile who grooms children.”
The Left’s cultural imperative to “trans the kids” is difficult to understand. Only seven years ago, in 2015, the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage was a constitutional right under the Fourteenth Amendment. Obergefell v. Hodges was hailed by many as a milestone in U.S. human rights history. But instead of celebrating their achievement, transgender activists started expand their name — LGBTQ+ whatever — to perpetuate the myth that gays — now protected in marriage, adoptions, employment, benefits — are still victims of discrimination.
I believe the craze to go transgender stems from the emphasis on teaching Critical Race Theory — which instructs white children that they are racists and children of color that they are victims. But with a transgender reassignment surgery, a white child who is no longer cis can be a victim too. Friends groups urge an LGBTQ+ identity. Schools abet the craze with pornographic books in their libraries and pronouns in their classrooms. Add peer pressure, TikTok instructions and millions of dollars donated by Black Lives Matter, and you have a burgeoning empire of victims.
Anyone who reminds the gay rights movement of its proud civil rights history — even the new group Gays Against Groomers — is targeted as transphobic. And canceled.
Changing the sex of teenagers — mastectomies for girls and chemical castration for boys — has become a $5 billion industry, and hospitals once in the healthcare business are competing for their share. Boston Children’s Hospital features videos on its website that tout palso uberty blockers, and hormone procedures for minors.
Caught up in the trend, Far Left states are offering chemical castration to children from other states, part of their commitment to a transgender sanctuary law. In a high-profile custody battle over his 10-year-old son, father Jeff Younger of Texas said he is prepared to file a federal lawsuit if his ex-wife moves to California for the procedure.
In Virginia, any parents who fail to affirm their child’s stated gender identity could soon be charged with felony child abuse, their children handed over the Child Protective Services, under a bill proposed by Delegate Elizabeth Guzman. So ferocious was the pushback that she has tried to memory hole the bill until after the election. National Association of School Psychologists leader Amy Cannava gave away the game when she insisted the goal of the bill is to “make it illegal to not affirm” a child’s gender, to “resettle” gender confused kids with new parents.
In Michigan, voters are voting on a constitutional amendment that would allow kids of all ages the right to “make and effectuate decisions about all matters relating to … sterilization” without “discrimination.” As The Federalist’s Margot Cleveland reported, “Passage of Prop 3 will also give boys a constitutional right to be castrated and girls the right under Michigan’s constitution to be sterilized by way of a hysterectomy or the removal of their ovaries — all without their parents’ consent.”
Keep in mind that many of these children — amid puberty, arguably the most confusing time of life — have said they regret their transgender surgeries. Their stories, which you can read here, are squashed by Social Media giants, part of the Media-Medical Conspiracy to push transgendering — much as they pushed the COVID vaccine which proved neither safe, nor effective, nor even a vaccine.
As HBO’s Bill Maher said, “Kids are fluid about everything. If they know at age 8 what they wanted to be, the world would be filled with cowboys and princesses. I wanted to be a pirate. Thank God no one scheduled me for eye removal and peg leg surgery.”
It is hard not to conclude that we are witnessing a socialist campaign to destroy the nuclear family so that it can be replaced by government. Attacks on Christians, on Dads and now on parents, make it clear that this is no passing trend. Anyone who opposes sexualizing children — which used to be called pedophilia — is suppressed by a cabal of evil Social Media companies who believe that as long as they toe the line a Socialist Government will let them keep their money. Children are just pawns.
Gone is the battle-cry of the #MeToo Movement against molesting girls or objectifying their bodies. The New York Post reported this week that 269 educators — principals and teachers — in K-12 public schools were arrested for sex crimes this year, from grooming to raping underage students. We are in the Age of Pedophilia.
Parents have noticed. Expect them to shout at the polls in November.
I’nm sad for the children that are pawns and prey of leftist schoolteachers, psychologists, media.