<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/republican-party">Republican</a> lawmakers across seven states signaled in a Wednesday letter reviewed by the <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2022/10/05/state-freedom-caucus-fbi-ama-aap-transgender-children/">Daily Caller News Foundation</a> that they would inflict repercussions on medical facilities that perform so-called &#8216;gender-affirming care&#8217; on children.
Lawmakers from the State Freedom Caucus Network, a group composed of conservative members aiming to decentralize government power in federal agencies, penned the letter rebuking the American Medical Association (A.M.A.) and American Academy of Pediatrics (A.A.P.) for urging Biden Administration officials and federal agents to investigate journalists exposing radical gender surgeries that medical facilities are allegedly offering and performing on minors nationwide.
Signatures from the group&#8217;s lawmakers represent Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Nevada, South Dakota, Illinois, and Arizona.
&#8220;With your advocacy of childhood genital mutilation, your call to investigate those who disagree with you, and your request for Big Tech to suppress constitutionally protected free speech that challenges your leftist ideology, you have lost whatever credibility you had left,&#8221; the letter read.
The American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, and Children&#8217;s Hospital Association all signed the letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, urging the administration to &#8220;investigate the organizations, individuals, and entities&#8221; that it claimed were &#8220;coordinating&#8221; and &#8220;provoking&#8221; outrage online directed at those providing the controversial services.
According to the letter, lawmakers condemned the medical institutions for pushing and making decisions for young children to take action, resulting in &#8220;irrevocable and irreparable harm.&#8221;
&#8220;This so-called &#8216;gender-affirming care&#8217; is both morally and ethically repugnant,&#8221; the letter read. &#8220;We will fulfill our duty to stand in the gap and stop harm to any child by unnatural and irreversible procedures.&#8221;
State legislators wrote they would ensure such taxpayer-funded institutions should take &#8220;no part in furthering ethically and morally repugnant agendas&#8221; contrary to their state&#8217;s values.
&#8220;Collectively, and across the country, we will be pursuing a path to ensure no minors can receive these barbaric procedures,&#8221; the lawmakers wrote. &#8220;This includes calling on our governors to denounce this practice and using all available tools to end it.&#8221;
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hospitals-clinics-are-promoting-services-to-gender-nonconforming-kids-here-are-47-of-them">reported</a> at least 47 pediatric gender clinics, many at prominent children&#8217;s hospitals, have broadened the scope of their patient criteria to include not only transgender-identified children but those they describe as &#8220;gender creative,&#8221; &#8220;gender diverse,&#8221; or &#8220;gender nonconforming.&#8221;
Some of these programs see patients as young as two and three years old. However, while most clinics will not offer medical interventions until a child has reached puberty, many will help facilitate a &#8220;social transition.&#8221;
Such social transitions have forced the State Freedom Caucus Network to push back on the facilities that could face repercussions if the programs are proven non-compliant.
&#8220;This mutilation cannot and will not be tolerated in any form,&#8221; the letter reads.
Manhattan Institute fellow Christopher Rufo, who originally obtained the letter signed by the three major American medical institutions, said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1577029634042253313">tweet</a> that the &#8220;American Medical Association is attempting to censor, de-platform, investigate, and prosecute journalists questioning the orthodoxy of radical gender surgeries for minors, arguing that public criticism is &#8216;disinformation.'&#8221;
&#8220;This is now the Left&#8217;s playbook: last year, the National School Board Association, Department of Justice, and F.B.I. worked together to label parents who opposed critical race theory ‘domestic terrorists,'&#8221; Rufo <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1577029635380228096">said</a>. &#8220;They want to stifle dissent, suppress speech, and criminalize opposition. If ‘gender-affirming care’ is so good, the activists and doctors who promote it—and profit from it—should defend their practices in the realm of public opinion.”
&#8220;In a democracy, everyone gets to weigh in on important issues, not just regime-approved apparatchiks,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1577032889308708865">added</a>.
Ryan Saavedra and Christina Buttons contributed to this report.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/idaho" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boise</a> Pride Festival has canceled its controversial “Drag Kids” performance, and at least five sponsors have withdrawn from the event, while other sponsors have publicly condemned the performance.
The festival organizers released a statement on Thursday announcing the “difficult decision” to “postpone” the performance involving minors “due to increased safety concerns.”
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Statement from Boise Pride: <a href="https://t.co/0A7iGyZyfr">pic.twitter.com/0A7iGyZyfr</a>
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“While the vast majority of our sponsors and supporters have voiced their support for the Boise Pride Festival and the Drag Kids program, we have made the very difficult decision to postpone this performance due to increased safety concerns. The health and well-being of the kids, their parents, and the attendees of the Festival are our priority,” read a statement from the official Boise Pride Twitter account.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boise-pride-festival-loses-sponsor-over-scheduled-drag-kids-performance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously reported</a> that Zions Bank publicly withdrew its participation from the event on Wednesday, citing concerns over the drag performance involving children as young as 11. Since then, five additional sponsors have dropped out for the same reason, including Idaho Power, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (DHW), agribusiness company Simplot, Idaho Central Credit Union (ICCU), and CapEd Credit Union. Based on the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220906233240/https://boisepridefest.org/2022-sponsors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sponsors&#8217; levels</a> and the <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6046fb95a0a3ed5aaf7702e9/t/622f805924f3ab682740c785/1647280298943/2022-Sponsorship-Brochure.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pricing brochure</a>, Zions Bank committed to an $18,000 sponsorship, Simplot pledged $6,000, Idaho Power committed $3,000, and CapEd Credit Union and ICCU both pledged $1,500. DHW had more than one Orange Level sponsorship and committed at least $18,000.
On Friday morning, the J.R. Simplot Company issued a statement opposing the “Drag Kids” event.
“The J.R. Simplot Company is aware of some concerns from community members and Simplot customers about our support of the Boise Pride Festival and subsequent programming associated with that event,” read the statement from Simplot. “We do not condone any activity or event that may be perceived to exploit or take advantage of children or any other segment of the population.” It did, however, express support for their “LGBTQi+ employees.”
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BREAKING: Simplot has issued a statement in opposition to Boise Pride Festival&#39;s child drag queen program, saying the company does &quot;not condone any activity or event that may be perceived to exploit or take advantage of children.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/TT3OUXjotP">pic.twitter.com/TT3OUXjotP</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1568284883973476354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Shortly after, Christopher Rufo shared an update with his followers after learning of the withdrawal of two Idaho-based credit unions. CapEd Credit Union shared a statement on its social media accounts: “When we committed to our sponsorship of this year’s Boise Pride Festival, we were unaware of the events and activities involving children/minors. After careful consideration, we have made the decision to withdraw our sponsorship of this year’s Boise Pride Festival and have communicated this to the event organizers.”
In a Facebook post, ICCU wrote, “We are disappointed in the events and conversations centered around this year’s event. We appreciate the programming change made by Boise Pride, but have made the decision to withdraw our involvement from the event.”
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BREAKING: Two more sponsors—<a href="https://twitter.com/capedcu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Capedcu</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Idaho_Central?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Idaho_Central</a>—have dropped support for the Boise Pride Festival, which had advertised child drag queen performances featuring kids as young as 11 years old. That&#39;s now at least six sponsors that have canceled their donations. <a href="https://t.co/KLfQrsjqsg">pic.twitter.com/KLfQrsjqsg</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1568281166234648576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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On Thursday, Rufo shared a statement from DHW addressed to Boise Pride organizers. “DHW’s sponsorship of Boise Pride 2022 has led to some confusion about whether DHW endorses specific event activities involving minors during this event,” said Director Dave Jeppesen. “To avoid any confusion regarding DHW’s support of such activities, DHW is withdrawing both of its Orange Level sponsorships and Project Filter will no longer be supporting a booth at the event this weekend.”
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EXCLUSIVE: The Idaho Department of Health &amp; Welfare has withdrawn its sponsorship for the City of Boise&#39;s Pride festival, which has advertised performances featuring child drag queens as young as 11 years old. <a href="https://t.co/U6LDq4sMw5">pic.twitter.com/U6LDq4sMw5</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1567988358835744768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.kivitv.com/news/idaho-power-health-department-latest-to-pull-sponsorship-from-boise-pride-fest-over-controversy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Idaho News 6</a> was able to reach Idaho Power for comment on Thursday, confirming it was backing out of its sponsorship over concerns about the “Drag Kids” event. “Due to programming changes that occurred after our sponsorship and concerns for the safety of our employees and volunteers, we have withdrawn our participation in the Boise Pride event,” said Idaho Power Communications Specialist Brad Bowlin. “We will continue to support our diverse communities.”
Rufo, who first drew attention to the “Drag Kids” performance on Tuesday, shared the Boise Pride Festival update with his Twitter followers, calling the concern for safety “baseless.”
“The festival did not provide any evidence for alleged ‘safety concerns,’&#8221; said Rufo in a follow-up tweet. “This is a common technique when left-wing organizations get caught promoting something awful: they scream ‘harassment’ rather than take responsibility for their actions. Such claims are often baseless.”
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The festival did not provide any evidence for alleged &quot;safety concerns.&quot; This is a common technique when left-wing organizations get caught promoting something awful: they scream &quot;harassment&quot; rather than take responsibility for their actions. Such claims are often baseless.
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1568018986499198977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Boise Pride Backs Down, Cancels Controversial ‘Drag Kids’ Performance As More Sponsors Pull Out

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A Utah-based bank pulled its sponsorship from the upcoming Boise Pride Festival in response to backlash over a scheduled “Drag Kids” show where children as young as 11 are set to perform on stage.  
Zions Bank posted a statement to Twitter on Wednesday announcing it was &#8220;unaware of the event&#8217;s activities involving children/minors&#8221; and decided to withdraw sponsorship. 
&#8220;Over the years, Zions Bank has supported a variety of Pride events because they are an important part of our support for our LGBTQ employees and allies and are representative of our efforts to foster an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace and community,&#8221; the statement read. &#8220;This support for all of our employees and communities remains unchanged.”
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In a manner of hours, Boise Pride organizers responded with their own statement on Twitter, accusing Zions Bank of responding to “clearly anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and actions&#8221; and defending the scheduled &#8220;Drag Kids&#8221; event.
&#8220;Minors have participated in the Boise Pride Festival both on and off stage for many years. Pride and inclusivity do not begin at age 18,&#8221; the statement read.
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Boise Pride&#39;s response to the statement from Zions Bank about pulling their participation in this weekend&#39;s Boise Pride Festival. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/boisepride2022?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#boisepride2022</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/supportingoursuperhumans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#supportingoursuperhumans</a> <a href="https://t.co/Fm16eCHBIP">pic.twitter.com/Fm16eCHBIP</a>
&mdash; Boise Pride (@boisepride) <a href="https://twitter.com/boisepride/status/1567643299263184897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Zions Bank had an “orange tier” sponsorship, according to the <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6046fb95a0a3ed5aaf7702e9/t/622f805924f3ab682740c785/1647280298943/2022-Sponsorship-Brochure.pdf">brochure</a>, pledging $18,000 for various advertising opportunities and exhibit space. The financial institution was removed from the Boise Pride Festival website following the announcement of its departure on Wednesday evening.
“Drag Kids” is planned for 12:45 p.m. on Sunday, September 11, and is described in the Boise Pride Festival <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6046fb95a0a3ed5aaf7702e9/t/63110189f37d207226ca483b/1662058937017/2022+Boise+Pride+Guide.pdf">downloadable guide</a> as &#8220;a drag show like none other the Drag Kids range from ages 11-18 and are ready to bring it all to the Boise Pride Festival Stage! Come and cheer them on as they bring drag to the younger generation!&#8221; 
A newly-elected chairwoman of the Idaho Republican Party, Dorothy Moon, urged businesses to pull their support from the festival on Wednesday, calling on &#8220;concerned Idahoans&#8221; to &#8220;disavow this attack on Idaho&#8217;s children and invest their sponsorship dollars&#8221; elsewhere.
In a statement, Moon criticized Boise Mayor Lauren McLean and the financial donors of the event for encouraging the “sexualization of children.” 
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Idaho Republican Party Chairwoman Dorothy Moon has put out a statement she says is about Boise Pride Festival, which runs this weekend. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/idpol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#idpol</a> <a href="https://t.co/fQPpllB0vm">pic.twitter.com/fQPpllB0vm</a>
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“Out-of-state companies promise to bring investment and jobs to Idaho,” said Moon. “Instead, they are financing the sexualization of our children and the perverse idea that children should engage in sexual performances with adult entertainers.”
The attention surrounding the event began on Twitter on Tuesday afternoon, when the activist and writer Christopher Rufo created a thread criticizing the City of Boise for “hosting a festival featuring child drag queens as young as 11 years old.”
“And yes, drag shows involving children are explicitly designed to re-engineer child sexuality. As the academic queer theorists have explained, these performances are ‘site[s] of queer pleasure’ used to liberate children from ‘the rhetoric of childhood innocence.’” added Rufo, quoting from an <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03626784.2020.1864621">academic paper</a> published by “queer theorists” entitled “Drag Pedagogy: The Playful Practice of Queer Imagination in Early Childhood.”
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And yes, drag shows involving children are explicitly designed to re-engineer child sexuality. As the academic queer theorists have explained, these performances are &quot;site[s] of queer pleasure&quot; used to liberate children from &quot;the rhetoric of childhood innocence.&quot;
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1567223349725794305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Boise Pride Festival Loses Sponsor Over Scheduled ‘Drag Kids’ Performance

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The Children&#8217;s Hospital of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chicago">Chicago</a> is working hand-in-glove with Chicago schools to push radical gender theory and gender transition on students.
Documents obtained by writer and activist <a href="https://christopherrufo.com/unholy-alliance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christopher Rufo</a> show that the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children&#8217;s Hospital of Chicago is collaborating with schools to push radical gender theory, providing school administrators with training documents, policy guides, and resources for students. These resources have been provided to middle and high schools in at least four of Chicago&#8217;s public school systems, Rufo reported.
&#8220;Beyond the lurid nature of some of the content, these documents reveal a profoundly disturbing collusion between radical gender activists in the medical system and the public school bureaucracy,&#8221; Rufo wrote. &#8220;They have laundered the promotion of queer theory, synthetic sexual identities, and child sex toys under the guise of &#8216;health and education,&#8217; devoting significant resources toward building &#8230; a school-to-clinic pipeline.&#8221;
The primary document is a training presentation entitled &#8220;Beyond Binary: Gender In Schools,&#8221; which took several forms in different school systems. One such training contained in Rufo&#8217;s report is conducted by Hadeis Safi (they/them), an &#8220;LGBTQ and Gender Inclusion <a href="https://www.luriechildrens.org/en/specialties-conditions/adolescent-medicine/trainings-education/meet-our-trainers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">training facilitator</a>&#8221; with the hospital&#8217;s Potocsnak Family Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine. The presentation includes a section instructing educators to support transgender and &#8220;gender expansive&#8221; students.
<a href="https://www.catherinecookschool.org/uploaded/2015-2016_School_Year/Newsletter_files/Gender_Identity_Presentation.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Other versions</a> of the presentation describe the phenomenon of &#8220;gender nonconforming,&#8221; &#8220;gender variant,&#8221; and &#8220;gender creative&#8221; individuals as a &#8220;normative variation of human diversity.&#8221; The presentation instructs schools in methods of &#8220;institutional inclusion&#8221;: so-called &#8220;gender support plans&#8221; for transitioning students that include discussions of confidentiality and parent involvement; avoiding gender segregation; allowing for an inclusive dress code; and supporting a school &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/left-wing-org-combines-k-12-radical-gender-theory-with-anti-cop-anti-capitalist-rhetoric" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Genders and Sexualities Alliance</a>&#8221; club. It instructs schools to &#8220;[e]xplicitly include gender identity in nondiscriminatory policies, diversity statements, and anti-bullying policies — and have explicit bathroom/locker room policies inclusive of all genders,&#8221; and to use inclusive school forms and identification materials. It also instructs schools to include LGBT issues in school curricula.
The presentation then provides a list of resources for teachers to share with students. One such resource is a breast binder exchange program from the DC Area Transmasculine Society; another free breast binder program is also available. Another resource links to a &#8220;<a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1565088266390749185?s=20&amp;t=L1y0qdEXdezf25uisasd3g" target="_blank" rel="noopener">kid friendly website for gender affirming gear</a>,&#8221; which include: artificial penis &#8220;packers&#8221; to wear underneath clothing; phallic-shaped &#8220;stand-to-pee devices&#8221;; chest binders, and &#8220;trans masc pumps.&#8221;
Another resource links to an &#8220;LGBTQ friendly sex shop for teens&#8221; that includes dildos, vibrators, sex toys, bondage and gender gear. The website also includes graphic depictions of pornography, BDSM, and so-called &#8220;kink&#8221; sex. The resource list also includes a number of sex education resources targeted at teenagers.
Rufo&#8217;s latest trove of documents come as several major children&#8217;s hospitals have promoted life-altering &#8220;gender affirming&#8221; surgeries, such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/audio-d-c-hospital-confirms-it-performs-trans-hysterectomies-on-girls-under-16-years-old" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hysterectomies</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lgbtqia-advocate-pediatrician-admits-children-can-medically-transition-at-10-years-old-minor-females-can-have-breasts-removed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mastectomies</a>, on minors as young as 13.
The Daily Wire reported Wednesday that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/there-is-no-youngest-age-at-all-california-doctor-admits-to-performing-affirming-surgeries-on-transgender-children-as-young-as-13" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Robert Mosser</a>, the founder of the Gender Confirmation Center in San Francisco, said that he does not have an age limit for &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; surgeries in his clinical practice, and admitted that he has performed surgeries on children as young as 13.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sacramento" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sacramento</a> Unified School District has been pushing radical gender theory in its classrooms for at least a decade, according to documents.
The documents, obtained by writer and activist <a href="https://christopherrufo.com/sacramento-gender-radicalism/">Christopher Rufo</a>, show that the Sacramento USD has been pushing teachers and school administrators to adopt the core tenets of radical gender theory since at least 2012. Training materials and presentations obtained by Rufo encourage LGBT teachers to openly express their sexuality, while pushing straight teachers to self-discriminate, hiding their sexuality in favor of being an &#8220;ally&#8221; to LGBT teachers. The documents also encourage teachers to take similar steps to become allies of transgender students as well, Rufo reported.
&#8220;Sacramento Unified has been working on this for a decade,&#8221; Rufo wrote in a <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1560000102449565696?s=20&amp;t=Gh5YImpJYQ4Mr4hMKRml6Q">Twitter thread</a> accompanying his report. &#8220;In 2012, the district invited academic queer theorist Elizabeth Meyer to conduct a leadership presentation on how to launder &#8216;queer pedagogy&#8217; into the K-12 system and create &#8216;sexual diversity.’”
Rufo also included photos from the Sacramento USD&#8217;s official website, showing a presentation from Dr. Elizabeth J. Meyer, who at the time was a professor of Education at California Polytechnic State University, as the keynote address for their &#8220;No Time To Lose 2012 Conference.&#8221;
The presentation is included in the documents Rufo obtained. In the presentation, Meyer provides teachers with tools to inculcate schools with an LGBT-friendly environment. On an individual basis, Meyer instructs teachers to watch &#8220;educational&#8221; LGBT films and documentaries, or to &#8220;[a]ttend an event sponsored by a local GLBT advocacy organization&#8221;; and invite a colleague to view the film or attend the event with them.
At a classroom level, Meyer encourages teachers to &#8220;[c]hallenge your own assumptions&#8221; about LGBT students, to &#8220;use inclusive language&#8221; such as &#8220;parent or guardian&#8221; or &#8220;partner or spouse&#8221;; and &#8220;avoid gender-specific language and assumptions in class activities,&#8221; including asking girls to clean the classroom, or dividing students up by gender during classroom activities.
Furthermore, the presentation instructs straight teachers to self-discriminate. &#8220;If you are heterosexual, donʼt state it,&#8221; it says. &#8220;Allow yourself to be an ally while allowing others to be uncertain about your sexual orientation.&#8221; Meanwhile, it encourages LGBT teachers to openly express their sexuality. &#8220;If you are GLBT, consider coming out to your employer, and if you get their support, your students/school,&#8221; the presentation says. In either case, it encourages teachers to “[a]ctively include issues relating to sexual orientation and gender identity in your classes,&#8221; and &#8220;[i]nvite GLBT speakers to address your class.&#8221;
At a school level, the presentation encourages teachers to confront name-calling, or &#8220;stop and educate&#8221; students in public areas, such as hallways, cafeterias, bathrooms, and locker rooms. It also directs teachers to help establish a &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/left-wing-org-combines-k-12-radical-gender-theory-with-anti-cop-anti-capitalist-rhetoric" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gay-Straight Alliance</a>&#8221; or other gender diversity group in their schools; starting a &#8220;safety and equity task force&#8221; at their schools; and pushing to &#8220;[r]evise and update school policies to address gendered harassment and cyber-bullying.&#8221;
Furthermore, it directs teachers to work with students and other teachers to organize a &#8220;Day of Silence&#8221; or a &#8220;No Name Calling Week&#8221;; invite community members to work on the &#8220;safety and equity task force&#8221;; ask school librarians to create a display of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/parents-battle-school-boards-over-graphic-content-in-gender-queer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">books</a> and resources on sex, gender, and sexual orientation; integrate sex and gender issues into their curricula; and invite outside presenters to speak on sexuality issues.

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A left-wing organization is behind over 4,000 LGBTQ clubs and student groups in K-12 schools, combining the language of radical gender theory, anti-police, and anti-capitalist rhetoric, according to a new report.
The report from writer and activist <a href="https://christopherrufo.com/gender-soldiers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christopher Rufo</a> cites documents from the left-wing nonprofit activist group GSA Network, an umbrella organization that encompasses more than 4,000 &#8220;gender and sexuality&#8221; alliances in schools in 40 states nationwide. The organization, which has an annual budget of more than $2 million, nonprofit tracker <a href="https://www.guidestar.org/profile/20-5367752">Guidestar</a> notes, espouses the tenets of radical gender theory, but it also promotes defunding law enforcement, &#8220;decolonization and reparations&#8221; for minorities, and anti-capitalism.
&#8220;The individual chapters, which operate in elementary, middle, and high schools, often use the language of &#8216;LGBTQ inclusion&#8217; and &#8216;anti-bullying&#8217; in their public relations, but behind the scenes, the central organization is driven by pure left-wing radicalism that extends far beyond sexuality,&#8221; Rufo reported.
The GSA Network relies on &#8220;programming&#8221; students in order to adequately participate in the group, Rufo notes. One of the documents obtained by Rufo is a toolkit for students to organize their GSA clubs online. The <a href="https://gsanetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/GSA-Virtual-Toolkit-2020.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">toolkit</a> instructs students to engage in &#8220;self work,&#8221; which involves the student engaging in a self-examination of his or her inherent systemic racial or gender privilege, how those privileges contribute to the oppression of LGBTQ people and people of color, and how he or she can combat their privilege in order to more effectively &#8220;commit to dismantling these systems for collective liberation.&#8221;
The toolkit also instructs students to examine their purpose for engaging in self work in order to help them &#8220;stay committed to liberation.&#8221; It also tells students that &#8220;self work happens everywhere—not just in a GSA meeting.&#8221; Included is an appendix with a sample rubric for students to examine their privileges and how they contribute to oppression of minority groups. The rubric is divided into five rows: &#8220;Groups with systemic power (privilege),&#8221; which includes straight people, cisgender people, men, and white people; &#8220;Systems of oppression,&#8221; which includes white supremacy, patriarchy, and imperialism; oppressed groups, which include transgender people, black and indigenous people; prejudice, which is described as &#8220;a preconceived idea about a group with no factual backing&#8221;; and discrimination, or &#8220;the actions and ways folks are affected by the system.&#8221;
Another document obtained by Rufo is a <a href="https://gsanetwork.org/resources/truth-nine-point-platform/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nine-point manifesto</a> the GSA Network borrowed from the National Trans Youth Council, which the GSA Network uses &#8220;to guide our collective vision for gender justice and liberation.&#8221;
The platform explicitly borrows from the manifestos of other radical activist groups, like the Black Panther Party&#8217;s Ten-Point Program, the Young Lord’s 12 Point Program and Platform, and the Third World Gay Revolution. The nine points are:
<ol>
<li>We Call for the Right to Self-Determination and Control of Our Destinies</li>
<li>We Call for the Abolition of the Police, ICE, Borders and the Judicial System</li>
<li>We Call for an End to Disposability Politics and a Commitment to Transformative Justice</li>
<li>We Call for an End of the Cisgender Heterosexual Patriarchy</li>
<li>We call for Decolonization and Reparations for all Indigenous and Black Peoples</li>
<li>We Call for Comprehensive Education that Reflects our Histories and Needs</li>
<li>We Call for an End to Global White Supremacy</li>
<li>We Call for Land Justice and Environmental Justice</li>
<li>We Invite our Comrades, Accomplices and Allies to Join Us</li>
</ol>
The GSA Network also engages in radical anti-capitalist programming, Rufo reports. A promotional website for a <a href="https://gsanetwork.org/qylts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">summer camp</a> run by the organization includes a portion dedicated to &#8220;Economic Justice and Capitalism,&#8221; which it describes as &#8220;often the most immersive experience for campers.&#8221;
Campers learn &#8220;to think through the ways that capitalism impacts our communities and greater systems that young folks interact with on a regular basis, including: school, incarceration, and employment.&#8221; Campers also learn &#8220;how capitalism erases parts of our community and therefore erases all of queer and trans community,&#8221; along with &#8220;techniques&#8221; messaging to share with their communities.

Left-Wing Org Combines K-12 Radical Gender Theory With Anti-Cop, Anti-Capitalist Rhetoric

Left-Wing Org Infuses K-12 Gender Acceptance Groups With Anti-Cop, Anti-Capitalist Rhetoric

Capitalism

Defund The Police

Gender

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/san-diego">San Diego</a> Unified School District is instructing teachers to &#8220;dismantle &#8216;heteronormativity&#8217; and break the &#8216;gender binary'&#8221; in their classrooms, according to newly revealed training documents.
K-12 teachers in the Southern California district are being trained in radical gender theory, and providing course materials to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/portland-school-district-indoctrinates-students-to-become-lgbtq-activists-in-k-5th-grade">students</a> to indoctrinate them with radical gender theory, organizations, according to a trove of documents obtained by writer and activist <a href="https://christopherrufo.com/san-diego-gender-theory/">Christopher Rufo</a>. The documents also contain training for facilitators of on-campus LGBT student organizations.
&#8220;Following the principles of queer theory, San Diego Unified has created a program of gender-identity instruction with the explicit goal of undermining the traditional conception of sex and promoting a new set of boutique sexual identities&#8230; that promise to disrupt the oppressive system of heteronormativity,&#8221; Rufo wrote on his website.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lausd-imposes-radical-gender-teacher-training-curriculum-materials-instructs-teachers-on-not-disclosing-students-gender-identity">trainings</a> instruct teachers to use gender neutral language and encourage transgender and non-binary identity expression to &#8220;dismantle &#8216;heteronormativity&#8217; and break the &#8216;gender binary,’” Rufo added.
The first document obtained by Rufo is a &#8220;facilitator training&#8221; presentation for establishing workshops for &#8220;LGBTQ+ Youth &amp; Allies.&#8221; In this training, which begins with participants stating their name, pronouns, and how they plan to use the curriculum, teachers are instructed in the basics of the gender binary and the social structures of &#8220;heteronormativity.&#8221;
The presentation describes the gender binary as &#8220;a social construct that situates &#8216;male&#8217; and &#8216;female&#8217; as synonymous with &#8216;man&#8217; and &#8216;woman&#8217; and dictates how people assigned to these categories should act. This limited system excludes and oppresses trans, nonbinary, intersex, and gender-nonconforming people,&#8221; it says. The presentation also says that heterosexual and cisgender people benefit from privilege, the &#8220;[s]ocietal assumption that all people are heterosexual and/or cisgender.&#8221; This alleged privilege benefits these people, often unbeknownst to them, and confers institutional power on them.
The presentation then goes on to instruct facilitators in how to conduct these workshops. The workshops are intended to be conducted as part of a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) or LGBTQ+ club, or as an additional lesson to the district’s required sexual health curriculum. The lessons include &#8220;Loving Your Body,&#8221; about body image within the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lgbtq">LBGTQ</a> community; and &#8220;Healthy Relationships,&#8221; which focuses on consent and sexual activity among LGBTQ people.
In another training on sexual health instruction, created in partnership with Planned Parenthood, teachers are instructed to distinguish between sex and gender, and that sexuality is a mix between gender identity, behavior, and sexual orientation/attraction.
The presentation includes a section on sexual anatomy. The training says that knowledge of the sexual anatomy is important for the discussion of sexuality, and for STI and pregnancy prevention, but it encourages participants to “[u]se inclusive language as much as possible when referring to body parts.&#8221; The male anatomy is referred to as the anatomy of &#8220;people with a penis,&#8221; and the female as that of &#8220;people with a vulva.&#8221;
Teachers are then instructed in ways to answer difficult questions on sexual topics, including: &#8220;Is it okay to masturbate?&#8221;; &#8220;What does semen taste like?&#8221;; &#8220;How do gay people have sex?&#8221;; and &#8220;What is porn?&#8221;
Rufo also obtained a lesson plan for high school students, entitled &#8220;Understanding Gender.&#8221; In the plan, students are asked to construct &#8220;gender scripts&#8221; that people of both sexes and transgender people are expected to follow.
Students are then instructed to watch an episode of the reality show &#8220;I Am Jazz&#8221; about transgender teen Jazz Jennings. Students are also instructed to identify transgender people by looking at photos, which include a man wearing lipstick, several women in suits and with short haircuts, a woman with a beard, several young boys and grown men in dresses, female welders, a female soldier, a boy in a tiara, and a baby with a gender-neutral name.
Other documents obtained by Rufo included a flyer called &#8220;Understanding Non-binary Identities,&#8221; which contends that &#8220;Nonbinary people are not confused about their gender identity or following a new fad,&#8221; and another flyer about the word &#8220;Latinx,&#8221; which is described as &#8220;part of a &#8216;linguistic revolution&#8217; that aims to move beyond gender binaries and is inclusive of the intersecting identities of Latin American descendants.&#8221;

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San Diego Schools Train Teachers To ‘Break The Gender Binary,’ Impose Radical Gender Theory On Students

San Diego Schools Train Teachers To 'Break The Gender Binary,' Impose Radical Gender Theory On Students

Gender Identity

San Diego

Teachers

Portland&#8217;s public school system is indoctrinating its students to become queer activists as early as kindergarten through 5th grade.
<a href="https://christopherrufo.com/portland-sexual-revolution/">Documents</a> obtained by writer and activist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/christopher-rufo">Christopher Rufo</a> show that from as early as kindergarten, students are taught the tenets of radical queer gender theory. They are taught that ideas about human sexuality are &#8220;colonized,&#8221; that white colonizers from Europe forced their views on other people and cultures, and that current discourse around sex and gender is still affected by colonization. The curriculum instructs children to experiment with their own gender expression, and to commit by as early as fifth grade to become queer activists.
The curriculum begins in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kindergarten">kindergarten</a>. Several PowerPoint presentations obtained by Rufo, entitled &#8220;Understanding Our Bodies: Kindergarten Health Scientists,&#8221; exposes children to talking about their genitalia, by framing it in the context of &#8220;being scientists to know about our bodies.&#8221; The presentations then show graphic drawings of male and female genitalia. The presentations place particular emphasis on the word &#8220;BODIES,&#8221; and refer to either a &#8220;person with a penis&#8221; or a &#8220;person with a vulva,&#8221; because, according to the presentations, &#8220;Any gender and kid can have any type of body.&#8221;
In first and second grade, students are indoctrinated into the basic tenets of queer theory. It teaches students to think about gender as a social construct. &#8220;Gender is something adults came up with to sort people into groups,&#8221; one of the presentations reads. Another presentation, entitled &#8220;Our Names, Genders, and Pronouns,&#8221; encourages children to present their gender pronouns.
Another presentation teaches students that &#8220;[g]ender is like outer space because there are as many ways to be different genders as there are stars in the sky!&#8221; In another presentation, students are exposed to gender pronouns, including transgender pronouns like they/them and ze/zir. &#8220;Or you can make up your own,&#8221; it states. It also says that students can go by more than one set of pronouns.
In third through fifth grade, students are introduced to “LGBTQIA2S+” concepts. Students are also taught to use gender-neutral terms for people: &#8220;girls and boys&#8221; is replaced with words like &#8220;learners,&#8221; &#8220;y&#8217;all,&#8221; and &#8220;folx&#8221;; words like &#8220;mom and dad&#8221; are replaced by &#8220;parents,&#8221; &#8220;family,&#8221; or &#8220;your adults&#8221;; and the honorifics &#8220;Mr.,&#8221; &#8220;Mrs.,” and &#8220;Miss&#8221; are replaced by the gender neutral &#8220;Mx.&#8221; In another presentation, students are introduced to the concepts of &#8220;cisheteronormativity,&#8221; which is used as a means of &#8220;oppression for nondominant&#8221; sexual and gender identities.
&#8220;Being straight and cisgender (cis) are both dominant identities,&#8221; the presentation says. &#8220;The culture, systems, and assumptions that everyone is straight is called heteronormative. The culture, systems, and assumptions that everyone is cisgender is called cisnormative. Therefore, the culture, systems, and assumptions that everyone is straight and cis is called cisheteronormativity.&#8221;
Finally, students are asked to make a &#8220;commitment to change&#8221; according to the tenets of queer ideology. The six commitments students are asked to make are: &#8220;I commit to learning more about what LGBTQIA2S+ words mean and how they have changed over time&#8221;; &#8220;I commit to learning about the history and leadership of Black trans women&#8221;; &#8220;I commit to practicing pronouns and correcting myself EVERY time&#8221;; &#8220;I commit to attending QSA/GSA and being a leader at my school&#8221;; &#8220;I commit to watching and reading books, movies, and TV shows that have LGBTQIA+ characters&#8221;; and &#8220;I commit to being my full self!&#8221;
The Portland School District is home to more than 49,000 students across some 79 schools in the city of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/portland">Portland</a>, Oregon.

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Portland School District Indoctrinates Students To Become LGBTQ Activists In K-5th Grade

Gender Pronouns

Kindergarten

Portland

The Los Angeles Unified School district is imposing a radical race and gender ideology on its students, including teaching kindergartners to &#8220;experiment&#8221; with pronouns and requiring teachers to keep their child&#8217;s gender transition a secret from their parents.
<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22090184-lausd-source-documents?responsive=1&amp;title=1">Documents</a> from the LAUSD&#8217;s Human Relations, Diversity, and Equity department, obtained by City Journal&#8217;s <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/sexual-liberation-in-public-schools">Christopher Rufo</a>, show that the LAUSD is pressing teachers to impose race, gender, and queer theory on students through academic conferences, curriculum materials, and teacher training modules. Furthermore, other documents show that the LAUSD is imposing a policy around transgender students that would allow teachers to keep a student&#8217;s gender identity a secret from their parents.
The first document obtained by Rufo is a list of guidelines for teachers entitled, &#8220;Queer All School Year: LAUSD&#8217;s Queer And Trans-Affirming School Calendar.&#8221; The calendar has guidelines for each month of the school year, from August through June. Suggestions include &#8220;Attend LA Unified School District&#8217;s Standing With LGBTQ+ Students Conference&#8221; in the month of October, which the calendar lists as &#8220;LGBT History Month&#8221;; &#8220;Post LGBTQ-affirming signs in your office, classroom, and around campus&#8221; in December; &#8220;Participate in the Black Lives Matter in Schools Week of Action&#8221; in February; and &#8220;Celebrate Pride Month with literature, art, music, poster campaigns, or lunchtime events&#8221; in June.
Rufo also includes a PowerPoint presentation for the &#8220;Standing with LGBTQ+ Students, Staff, and Families&#8221; conference on &#8220;Best Practices for Affirming LAUSD’s Queer Communities.&#8221; Conference sessions include such titles as &#8220;Welcoming Words &amp; Safe Spaces: Supporting Students Who Are Both Neurodivergent &amp; LGBTQIA+&#8221;; &#8220;LGBTQ-Inclusive Content and Pedagogy for Elementary and Middle School Classrooms&#8221;; &#8220;What Your Queer Middle Schooler Wants You to Know&#8221;; and &#8220;Breaking the Binary in Education.&#8221;
Rufo also obtained a teacher training entitled, &#8220;Queering Culture and Race.&#8221; The goals of the training include “[engaging] in learning about the history of the intersection between race, sexual orientation and gender,&#8221; and “[exploring] what educators can do to support students.&#8221; The training begins with a history of LGBT activism, beginning with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/d-c-neighborhood-moves-to-rename-iconic-street-after-the-worlds-first-queen-of-drag">William Dorsey Swann</a>, the first-ever self-identified &#8220;queen of drag.&#8221; It then contends that history is repeating itself, that &#8220;[t]he struggle experienced by William Dorsey Swann unfortunately continues today, and not just out in the community but in schools” because of a lack of LGBTQ+ acceptance.
The documents also include the &#8220;SOGIE Handbook of Language &amp; Vocabulary,&#8221; an extensive glossary of terms related to issues of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression. Rufo further reported that the district has inundated teachers with radical curriculum materials, including course materials from the consulting firm Woke Kindergarten that encourages kindergartners to experiment with pronouns, and to adopt non-binary gender identities that “feel good to you.”
In addition, Rufo obtained a <a href="https://achieve.lausd.net/cms/lib/CA01000043/Centricity/Domain/383/BUL-6224.2%20Transgender%20Policy%205%2013%2019.pdf">policy bulletin</a> from the district that instructs teachers to address the students by their preferred name and gender pronouns without any legal changes or parents&#8217; consent, but at the same time directs them not to disclose a student&#8217;s gender identity, even to their parents, without the teacher&#8217;s discretion:
<blockquote>When communicating with a student’s parent, legal guardian, or educational rights holder&#8230; school personnel should be aware that the student may not have disclosed their gender identity to their parents&#8230; [P]ersonnel should consult and work closely with the student to assess the degree to which, if any, the parent is aware of the student’s gender identity or expression and is supportive of the student, and school personnel shall take into consideration the safety, health and well-being of the student in deciding whether to disclose the student’s gender identity or expression to parents.</blockquote>
The LAUSD is the largest school district in California and the second largest in the United States, serving more than 660,000 students.

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LAUSD Imposes Radical Gender Teacher Training, Curriculum Materials, Instructs Teachers On Not Disclosing Students’ Gender Identity

LAUSD Imposes Radical Gender Teacher Training, Curriculum Materials, Instructs Teachers On Not Disclosing Students' Gender Identity

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On Friday, Disney heiress Abigail Disney, the great-niece of Walt Disney who <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/01/29/abigail-disney-calls-kobe-bryant-a-rapist-is-swiftly-met-with-backlash/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_medium=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=NYPTwitter">sniped</a> just after NBA superstar Kobe Bryant’s tragic death along with his 13-year-old daughter and seven other people in a helicopter crash, “The man was a rapist. Deal with it,” has now weighed in on the Florida Parental Rights in Education law and Disney’s opposition to it as well as the right-wing’s efforts to combat the woke agenda adopted by American corporations, declaring, “The right-wing has finally run amok.” She also called Christopher Rufo, who has been documenting the woke politics inside the Disney empire, a “little punk.”
(Disclosure: The Daily Wire has announced plans for kids entertainment content.)
In a <a href="https://twitter.com/abigaildisney/status/1509904775726436356">long Twitter thread,</a> Abigail Disney began by snapping, “Like all radical ideologues, the right wing has finally run amok and is coming to devour the hand that feeds it. Business. For my part I am delighted.&#8221;
“It is the business world that has been, either by act or omission, feeding the opportunist right wing to distract,&#8221; she stated, &#8220;us with culture war nonsense while they rifle through the till and empty everyone&#8217;s pockets.”
Despite a mid-March <a href="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000017f-9034-d137-abff-f0f410670000">Politico/Morning Consult poll</a> showing 50% of respondents supported banning the teaching of sexual orientation and gender identity from kindergarten through third grade and 52% supported limiting lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity after third grade to “age appropriate” discussions, Disney claimed that a majority of Americans were not in favor of the &#8220;&#8216;anti-woke&#8217; right,&#8221; writing, “This ‘anti-woke’ right wing nonsense is unsupported by a large majority of Americans. In fact most Americans are offended by it and wish it would just go away.”
Using her claim that the anti-woke crowd was in the minority, she continued, “You need two things to rule with a minority. First, you need to be constantly looking for fresh meat to throw to the minions, to keep them riled up all the time. That works until the herd thins (remember Scar in Lion King?). So now they&#8217;ve come for American Businesses.&#8221; She continued, &#8220;It was really only a matter of time. But the second thing you need to rule with a minority is money, lots of it. You need the very deep pockets to fund you, yes, and if they don&#8217;t, you need them to sit quietly along the sidelines, out of your way.”
She added, “Until now, business has been content to do just that. Or they compartmentalized like sociopaths when they funded folks like Dennis Baxley who wrote the hateful Don&#8217;t Say Gay bill because as the CEO claimed, he had no way of knowing he might vote for legislation like that. “
She suggested that those on the political Right harbored racism, xenophobia and misogyny and were trying to “tear this country apart,” ranting, “HAH. Or else they have chosen silence. Their silence brought us Donald Trump. Apparently the racism and the xenophobia and the misogyny weren&#8217;t deal breakers. Their silence, or at least willingness to compartmentalize when it came to politicians who were willing to fight for their outrageous and multi-decade campaign to stack the deck against the American People brought us this whole raft of Trump wanna-be&#8217;s now casting about for new and more insidious ways to tear the country apart.”
Disney claimed that “decent human beings were being actively harmed by right wing activism,” writing:
<blockquote>So now that the right wing and the business agenda might actually be showing signs of parting ways, perhaps we might see the powerful lobbies of the various industries wondering which party was truly interested in supporting their interests. Perhaps we will see lobbies lose faith in the devil&#8217;s partnership they until now have relied so heavily upon to look after their subsidies, their tax breaks, their flouting of law and regulation. Perhaps the right wing has finally bitten the hand that has been feeding it superfoods these last few decades. This is a monster of corporate America&#8217;s creation. Until now they&#8217;ve managed to dodge the worst of it by feigning &#8220;neutrality&#8221; &#8211;even when decent human beings were being actively harmed by right wing activism.</blockquote>
She huffed that “authenticity, generosity, joy and decency” were “the heart and soul of the Disney brand” even as she called Rufo a “little punk”:
<blockquote>The only thing that will work for business now if they want to emerge in one piece, is to stand tall for authenticity, generosity, joy and decency. These things are cryptonite (sic) for the right wing agenda. So the cure for this isn&#8217;t hard. And it also just so happens to be the heart and soul of the Disney brand. Disney has everything it needs to fight this threat, if only it will have the courage to weather the slings and arrows and threats and name-calling. If only leadership will check in with first principles. If only they will show us that as a company that trades on American Right now, when it matters most of all, they will stand for those values with every fiber of their being. Yeah guys like Rufo can try, but Disney is so much bigger, means so much more to the American people than that little punk can ever hope to mean.</blockquote>

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Disney Heiress Rants Anti-Woke Right ‘Has Finally Run Amok,’ Calls Activist Rufo ‘Little Punk’

Abigail Disney

Disney

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Woke Culture

Chris Rufo, a luminary in the war against Critical Race Theory in K-12 schools, says a new book by Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak “provides a road map for returning to sanity in our schools.”
&#8220;Luke Rosiak exposes the complex network of activists, unions, bureaucrats, and philanthropists who are hell-bent on racializing the American education system and indoctrinating students with left-wing ideologies. This book is an essential read for parents, educators, and citizens who care about the future of American education. It’s high time for our country to get back to basics, and Race to the Bottom provides a road map for returning to sanity in our schools,&#8221; he said.
The book, titled “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Race-Bottom-Uncovering-Destroying-Education/dp/0063056720">Race to the Bottom: Uncovering the Secret Forces Destroying American Public Education</a>,” hits shelves March 8.
Rufo popularized the term “Critical Race Theory” as a catchall for K-12 policies and lesson plans that ascribe all racial differences to invisible but pervasive racism in “systems,” and deem the U.S. as permanently and comprehensively racist. He has helped lead initiatives to combat them, including challenging disparate treatment based on race in court, and pushing “curriculum transparency” initiatives that would require schools to post online what they are teaching children.
Rosiak is the reporter who broke the Loudoun County bathroom rape story for The Daily Wire. His book takes the scrutiny nationwide, tackling school shutdowns and Critical Race Theory, and getting to the bottom of the special interests taking over America’s schools, from teachers unions to activist nonprofits.
The book is a product of a two-year investigation in partnership with Peter Schweizer’s Government Accountability Institute. It is the first comprehensive exposé of teachers union influence, the effect of union-induced coronavirus school shutdowns, and racialized, politicized curriculum, which is popularly referred to as “Critical Race Theory,” but which school districts refer to as “equity.”
The 318-page book serves as an anthem for the trans-partisan movement of parents who have emerged as a surprise constituency in American politics as they saw school closures and an assault on merit, such as attacks on math magnet schools because too many Asians were succeeding there. The book exposes manipulations by school officials over twenty years, painting a picture of malfeasance that was able to occur mainly because no one — other than self-interested teachers unions and administrators — was watching.
Rosiak says some action points that parents can take, based on the scandals exposed in the book, are:
<ul>
<li>Know your school board members and their backgrounds</li>
<li>Don&#8217;t allow student school board members</li>
<li>Make school board elections partisan and concurrent with major elections</li>
<li>Run for school board</li>
<li>Watch for the word “equity”: it means CRT and lowering standards</li>
<li>Rely on objective standardized tests, not grades</li>
<li>Don’t assume the PTA represents you</li>
<li>Push for large school districts to be broken up into smaller ones</li>
<li>Put school choice/vouchers directly to voters with ballot measures</li>
</ul>

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Chris Rufo: New Book Lays Out ‘Road Map For Returning To Sanity In Our Schools’

Critical Race Theory

Luke Rosiak

Appearing on Fox News on Wednesday night after the election results in Virginia on Tuesday revealed that parents’ anger at public school policies had driven much of the mammoth win for the Republican Party, the Manhattan Institute’s Christopher Rufo, whose dedicated work has exposed the use of Critical Race Theory-tinged curricula in schools and other organizations, stated, “Tell people once and for all — Critical Race Theory has no place in our schools, no place in our public institutions” while asserting, “God bless all the parents and activists in Virginia who made this happen.”
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson prompted Rufo by saying, “I don’t think it’s an overstatement to say that you’ve been single-minded on this and you’ve been totally unafraid to say what it is, which is anti-white racism. I’m sorry, that’s as bad as any other kind of racism because we actually have a brotherhood of man. So, thank you very much for what you’ve done. How do you respond to people looking at you and saying, ‘Oh, no, it’s all fake’?”
“Well, I’ve actually done the reporting,” Rufo responded. “I’ve shown through original source document reporting that Critical Race Theory is absolutely taught in dozens of schools. Even a simple book that’s taught in elementary schools called ‘Not My Idea’ that tells white children that they are the devil, that their whiteness is equivalent with a pact with Satan. These books are everywhere; the evidence is out there. I always report with full source documents.”
“But here’s the thing,” Rufo said. “The nihilistic and malicious elite in this country believes that your children are their property, and that they can pump them full of ideology and simply lie about it. But what we’ve seen in Virginia, not just conservatives, but independents and even Joe Biden voters, saw through the lies of these despicable people at MSNBC and The Washington Post, and they said, we want good education oriented toward excellence, not toward a reductive, racialist ideology promoted by some of the worst people in the country.”
“So what chills me is to watch these people casually defend something that’s evil,” Carlson commented. “So they&#8217;re arguing, and they argue it on TV, that one specific race is inherently bad. So what&#8217;s the end game here exactly? If a race is inherently bad, if it&#8217;s inherently stained, if it&#8217;s inherently disgusting, something we should eliminate, like what are they saying exactly? This seems really dark to me.”
“If you look at the academic literature of Critical Race Theory, the idea is to break down whiteness,” Rufo explained. “So, removing people’s ‘white privilege.’ Putting them into a stance of humiliation and defeat and concession in order to redistribute wealth and property along racial lines. It&#8217;s not really an exaggeration to say that Critical Race Theory is a form of race-based Marxism using racial politics to achieve the old Marxist ends of economic leveling and redistribution.”
“And then they simply hide it,” he declared. “They play these linguistic shell games. They try to intimidate average people. They try to humiliate them and shame them, but average people rose up. They have nothing to lose. They want to protect their kids. God bless all of the parents and activists in Virginia who made this happen. And tell people once and for all &#8212; Critical Race Theory has no place in our schools, no place in our public institutions.”
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Journalist <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realchrisrufo</a> single-handedly led the charge in exposing the anti-white racism and CRT being taught in schools across the country <a href="https://t.co/fkyIV8bjF0">pic.twitter.com/fkyIV8bjF0</a>
&mdash; Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1456060752977137664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 4, 2021</a></blockquote>
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