By Rhyen Staley
Tuesday, December 03, 2024
Following the national election, author Joyce Carol Oates
posted on X that the “‘transgender issue meant a good deal
to some voters,” and that she can “only conclude that many voters were made to
hate & fear by rightwing media caricaturing & demonizing them.”
According to Oates, the real problem was the “‘scapegoating” of transgender
individuals over a fabricated or embellished moral outrage by conservative
media.
Since then, more pundits and influential individuals have
posited similar conclusions — either people do not understand the transgender
issue or they are making a mountain out of a grain of sand. Some are claiming
both.
While parents and community members may not always be
deeply versed in queer theory and its tenets, they are tuned in enough to know
it is a destructive force that leaves kids and society worse off, not better.
For many voters for whom the “transgender issue meant a
good deal,” it is very real in their lives, in their children’s schools, and in
their community.
The pervasiveness of queer theory and its tenets in the
K–12 education system is not a myth meant to “scapegoat” a small group of
individuals; it is a tangible fact for a lot of families around the nation.
For example, Parents Defending Education has documented over 1,100 school districts across the country
that have policies in place that dictate that teachers and staff are to hide a
minor student’s gender transition from parents. These policies, covering over
12 million students, often include language that gives males access to
female-only locker rooms and bathrooms. In some cases, these policies state
that students on overnight trips can choose to share sleeping quarters based on
their “gender identity.”
In fact, families from Colorado’s Jefferson County Public
Schools are suing the district over its policy of assigning students to
overnight housing based on “gender identity” as opposed to sex. The suit comes
after an eleven-year-old female was assigned to share a bed with a male student
on a school trip to Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., and sixth-grade males on
a school-sanctioned camping trip were assigned to a cabin where an adult
biological female who identifies as “non-binary” shared the accommodations and
monitored the showers.
Even more alarming, Seattle Public Schools’ Nova High
School and Meany Middle School allow the school-based health center provider to offer students
“gender-affirming care,” which includes access to hormones and hormone therapy
and “referrals for gender-affirming surgeries.” Seattle Public Schools also has
a policy that requires staff to keep gender transitions a secret from parents.
Not only does this far-left radical ideology end up in
district policy, but it also permeates curricula for the youngest of students.
Chicago Public Schools’ health-education guidelines start injecting queer theory
and its tenets into course content as early as pre-K. By fifth grade, students
are taught about puberty blockers, and in sixth grade, they are taught to use
pronouns properly.
In America’s heartland, West Des Moines Community
Schools’ “Shared Language” webpage features far-left language such as “binder” and
“binding” (as in chest binders), “coming out,” “drag,” and “genderqueer.” It
states that the intent of the site is to “leverage language in achievement of
belonging,” but the glossary is “NOT to be used to advance any agenda besides
the four objectives above.” It would seem pretty clear that if these words are
being promoted as “shared language” in the name of equity, they are advancing a
queer agenda.
The implementation of this ideology is not only limited
to the academic setting but is also starting to colonize athletics as well. As
a result, it is putting young girls and women at increased risk of physical
harm by males, as well as robbing them of opportunities and accolades.
In 2022, North Carolina high school volleyball player
Payton McNabb was on the receiving end of a hard hit from a male opponent. She
sustained a brain injury and long-term complications as a result.
Additionally, during a 2023 high school field hockey
game, a female player suffered injuries to her face and mouth from a ball hit by
a male opponent. That same Rhode Island school forfeited their game with the same school this fall owing
to a male still being present on the roster.
While people like Joyce Carol Oates downplay parents and
the public’s concerns over the transgender issue and the implementation of
queer theory into society, many families have to deal with the destructive
reality that the ideology has wrought in their lives.
The far left’s postelection reaction has revealed that,
as a collective, it appears it is not willing to engage in self-reflection and
introspection; especially when it comes to transgenderism and its impact on
families.
Most Americans still judge ideas based on their merits
and outcomes; those same Americans sent a very clear message to proponents of
queer theory and transgenderism this last election: leave our children alone.
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