A major court has ruled that parents don’t have the right to know that their child is changing genders while at school.
The <a href="https://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/files/opnfiles/23-1069P-01A.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion</a>, from the First Circuit Court of Appeals, determined that it does not violate parental rights for a school to transition a child without the parents’ knowledge.
“[P]arental rights are not unlimited,” the court ruled. “Parents may not invoke the Due Process Clause to create a preferred educational experience for their child in public school.”
“As per our understanding of Supreme Court precedent, our pluralistic society assigns those curricular and administrative decisions to the expertise of school officials, charged with the responsibility of educating children,” the court continued. “And the Protocol of nondisclosure as to a student&#8217;s at-school gender expression without the student&#8217;s consent does not restrict parental rights in a way courts have recognized as a violation of the guarantees of substantive due process.”
The decision comes from a case in Massachusetts, where in 2020 a Baird Middle School student referred to in court documents as B.F. began questioning her identity after she received “unsolicited LGBTQ-themed video suggestions” on her school-issued computer. The student, in sixth grade at the time, was given an assignment along with her fellow students to create biographic videos about themselves and to include their pronouns in those videos.
It is unknown how B.F. referred to herself in the assignment, but in the following months, she began receiving the “unsolicited LGBTQ-themed video suggestions” and started questioning whether she &#8220;might be attracted to girls&#8221; and if she had gender identity issues, according to court documents.
By December 2020, B.F. told her teacher that she was “depressed and struggling with insecurity, low self-esteem, poor self-image, and a perceived lack of popularity.” The teacher told B.F.’s parents, Marissa Silvestri and Stephen Foote, what their daughter had said, and the parents agreed to get her the help she needed.
But on February 28, 2021, B.F. announced to her teacher and other school officials that she was “genderqueer” and would use her preferred pronouns and go by a new name. B.F. told school officials that she hadn’t explained this all to her parents yet and asked that she be referred to by her birth name and proper pronouns when discussing things with her parents. Teachers immediately switched to the new name and pronouns, and the school librarian started meeting with the student to talk to her about gender identity and to give her “LGBTQ-related resources,” according to court documents. The school counselor also told the girl she could use whichever bathroom she wanted at the school.
At the same time, B.F.’s 12-year-old sibling also suddenly decided to start using a different name and pronouns.
The parents learned in early March 2021 – just days after B.F.’s declaration – learned about her new name and pronouns from her teacher. The parents spoke with the school principal and superintendent to express concern that school officials had ignored their request not to engage with their child “regarding mental health issues.” When the parents eventually sued the school and its officials, they argued that transitioning the child at school amounted to mental health treatment because social transitioning is &#8220;recognized as a medical/mental health treatment for children with gender dysphoria.&#8221;
Educators at Baird ignored the parents and continued to refer to B.F. by her new name and pronouns. The school counselor also contacted the student through text messages and online chat to keep encouraging B.F. to discuss any gender-related concerns on a weekly basis. At one point, the counselor asked B.F. if her parents were providing her “with appropriate care.” The counselor also asked if B.F. felt comfortable discussing these issues with the counselor her parents were paying for.
When the parents sued, the school district moved to dismiss the case, and the case eventually moved forward to the First Circuit, which ruled the parents had no right to know that the school was transitioning their child behind their back.
The First Circuit’s ruling is filled with biased language, using “they/them” pronouns for B.F. because is it allegedly “gender neutral.”
As Frederick Claybrook, Jr., <a href="https://fedsoc.org/commentary/fedsoc-blog/wrong-foote-forward-first-circuit-tramples-parental-rights">noted in an article</a> for The Federalist Society — an organization that supports limited government — this is the first time a federal court of appeals has waded into parental rights when it comes to transgender issues. Until now, Claybrook states, the courts &#8220;have dodged&#8221; the issue as it relates to parental rights.
“When district courts have ruled in favor of parents, for example in a <a href="https://adflegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Ricard-v-475-Geary-County-Schools-2022-05-09-Memorandum-and-Order.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">District of Kansas case</a> and in a <a href="https://casetext.com/case/mirabelli-v-olson">Southern District of California case</a>, the school districts have not appealed,” Claybrook writes. “When parents have lost, for example in <a href="https://casetext.com/case/parents-v-montgomery-cnty-bd-of-educ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Parents v. Montgomery County Board of Education</a>, they have proceeded to circuit court, but those courts to date have dodged addressing the merits.”
The Fourth and Seventh Circuits, Claybrook noted, have both ruled that parents don’t have a standing to complain schools were keeping things secret from them because they didn’t know for sure the schools were keeping things secret from them. Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, who dissented from denial of certiorari in the Seventh Circuit, said that the school’s existing policy meant parents weren’t speculating about anything, and suggested circuit courts were avoiding the merits of the cases.
Jonathan Turley, a renowned law professor, <a href="https://x.com/JonathanTurley/status/1894444445656899712" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> about the First Circuit case on X, writing that there “is no more cherished right that citizens possess than raising their children.”
“Indeed, the right to raise one&#8217;s children according to your own faith and values is the touchstone of freedom,” Turley continued. “Conversely, the subordination of such rights is the harbinger of state tyranny. True pluralism allows families with different norms and values to thrive. Public schools are effectively demanding that parents give up their rights to critical aspects of rearing their children as a condition for public education. It is a virtual slogan for school choice.”

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Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has removed his preferred pronouns from his X bio after placing them there in 2019.
“Dear @PeteButtigieg, why did you remove your pronouns?” professor-author Gad Saad asked.
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PeteButtigieg</a>, why did you remove your pronouns? <a href="https://t.co/A0hhwdezld">https://t.co/A0hhwdezld</a>
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“Because he&#8217;s now a ‘was/were,” one X user <a href="https://x.com/EarlyGates/status/1885184363689550246">quipped</a>.
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Chasten Buttigieg, Pete&#8217;s husband, has also removed the pronouns from his X bio.
Times have apparently changed; in 2021, as Pride Month got underway, Chasten Buttigieg spoke of using the “wrong pronoun,&#8221; telling <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chasten-buttigieg-interview-cbsn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBS News</a>, “Acknowledge that you&#8217;re going to mess up. Messing up is uncomfortable. We don&#8217;t want to mess up, especially if you consider yourself an ally. Some of these things are new. We live in a very heteronormative society, so of course pronouns are going to seem a little off-putting to someone who&#8217;s only done it a certain way for 50, 60, 70 years. But it&#8217;s a very, very simple thing to do to help somebody feel included.”
He added: &#8220;I have messed up. The most important thing to do is when you mess up, apologize, quickly restate the proper pronouns and move on from there. Always ask questions. If you consider yourself an ally, just ask questions. How can I be supportive? How can I be more helpful? How can I make sure that you know this is a safe space where you belong?&#8221;
Literally hours after former President Joe Biden was inaugurated, the White House website permitted users to choose their pronouns.
“As part of the website revamp that occurs during presidential transitions, the White House changed its contact form,” WBTV<a href="https://www.wbtv.com/2021/01/21/biden-administration-allows-users-choose-their-pronouns-remastered-website/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> reported</a>. “The form now allows individuals to select from the following list: she/her, he/him, they/them, other, or prefer not to share. Those who select other also have the option to write-in what pronouns they use. People can also choose which prefix they use: Mr., Ms., Mrs., Dr., Mx., other, or none.”
By October 2019, during the Democratic presidential primary, six of the presidential candidates had<a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90404480/6-of-the-2020-democrats-now-list-their-pronouns-in-their-twitter-bios" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> inserted</a> their “preferred personal pronouns” in their social media bios: Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Julián Castro, Cory Booker, and Tom Steyer.

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A transgender teachers network is urging schools across the country to adopt “hate speech” policies to crack down on so-called “homophobic and transphobic language” from both students and adults, according to a document obtained by The Daily Wire.
The Trans Educators Network distributed a guide earlier this month urging schools to pay for teachers’ sex change procedures, implement hate speech policies, and eliminate sex-segregated facilities. The guide, compiled in January, was shared with The Daily Wire by Parents Defending Education, an organization pushing to get gender and racial ideologies out of the classroom.
“Currently, LGBTQ+ educators are facing increasing levels of intimidation and hostility across the country,” the guide says, claiming that some of the pressure was coming from parents’ organizations, linking to Parents Defending Education. “We prepared this guide to highlight the needs of LGBTQ+ employees and help our schools assess their systems of support and protection for us.”
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The guide urges schools to create speech codes for alleged “transphobic language.” 
“Create a policy regarding hate speech that includes homophobic and transphobic language and covers both students and adults. Include persistent, intentional failure to use proper names, honorifics, and pronouns in policy. Make it clear how employees should report violations,” the guide says. 
The network did not respond to a request for comment on more details about what their recommended hate speech policy would encompass. Teachers across the country have been awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars after conflicts with their schools about preferred pronoun usage. 
The group also recommends schools offer health care plans “that will cover the full range of gender-affirming care,” and “fertility preservation and IVF coverage that is not limited to treatment for infertility.” The guide said that schools should work to avoid sending LGBT teachers on work trips to “locations with anti-LGBTQ+ legislation.”
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The guide also says that schools should offer “gender neutral” bathrooms and “allow community members to self-identify when using gender-exclusive facilities (restrooms, locker rooms, dorms, etc.).”
The Trump administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-trump-admin-investigating-denver-high-school-over-all-gender-bathroom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> Tuesday that it was investigating a school district in Colorado after one high school converted a previously female bathroom to an “all gender” facility. 
According to the network, teachers across the country are being “limited by restrictive legislation,” and “school censorship laws.” This refers to legislation passed in Republican-led states to prohibit teachers from forcing young children to learn about gender ideology and sexuality. 
Parents Defending Education Director of Outreach Erika Sanzi told The Daily Wire that these kinds of laws were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-majority-of-american-parents-oppose-teaching-kids-transgender-ideology" target="_blank" rel="noopener">broadly supported</a> by parents across the country. 
&#8220;Not wanting sexual orientation and gender to be a school&#8217;s priority — or even part of the curriculum — is not an attack or an attempt to intimidate. It is a reasonable position held by a majority of parents across the country,” she said. “These LGBTQ activist groups think they are entitled to a captive audience of other people&#8217;s children during the school day. They are not. If they don&#8217;t like negative feedback for their insistence on tinkering in the minds of young children, perhaps they should stop doing that.&#8221;
Trump is expected on Wednesday to sign an executive order that will block federal funding from going to schools that promote radical gender theory or critical race theory.

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> judge has ordered that inmate Tremaine Carroll must be referred to by &#8220;she/her&#8221; pronouns because he has declared himself to be a woman and &#8220;deserves dignity.&#8221;
Carroll is on trial for allegedly impregnating one female inmate and raping two others after he claimed to be a woman — which, according to California law, requires him to be housed in a women&#8217;s prison despite having no psychological or medical evaluations to back up his claim — and a Madera County judge has now ordered everyone, including his alleged victims, to accommodate his pronoun choice.
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Madera District Attorney Sally Moreno charged Carroll with rape, which he allegedly committed while he was incarcerated at Central California Women&#8217;s Facility in Chowchilla — where he was placed based solely on his self-identification as a woman.
&#8220;After his first cellmate became pregnant and was moved to Los Angeles, two other cellmates of his had complained that he had raped them, so we have filed rape charges against this inmate,&#8221; Moreno said.
She went on to explain that Carroll&#8217;s self-identification was not just an insult to his alleged victims, but it also complicated the case against him regarding the alleged rapes: &#8220;This is a particular issue in this case because it&#8217;s confusing to the jury. In California, rape is a crime that has to be accomplished by a man.&#8221;
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Moreno is not the only one raising red flags over this case either.
&#8220;It&#8217;s just absolutely insane that a victim would have to get on the stand and police their pronoun usage when trying to recite one of the scariest times of their lives,&#8221; Supervising Deputy District Attorney Eric Dutemple explained that it was an added measure of cruelty to Carroll&#8217;s alleged victims to force them to accommodate his pronoun preferences while testifying in a case where Carroll had used his identity to gain access to them.

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Kamala Harris&#8217; campaign allows potential hires to select from a litany of pronouns, including some that refer to people who believe they are &#8220;non-binary&#8221; or are supposedly “without” a gender.
A job <a href="https://jobs.lever.co/BFP/7c8d8bd8-59c2-4261-8381-e97d883d2bc8/apply">application</a> on the campaign website allows those seeking employment to choose from nine sets of gender pronouns total, including seven sets that deviate from the usual “he/him” and “she/her.” They are sometimes referred to as “<a href="https://www.them.us/story/gender-neutral-pronouns-101-they-them-xe-xem">neopronouns.</a>”
Applicants who identify as nonbinary or even claim to be &#8220;agender&#8221; can select neutral pronoun sets like “they/them,” or the shortened version, “ey/em,” or “xe/xem” or “ze/hir.”    Other options include &#8220;hir/hir,&#8221; and a shortened version of the word &#8220;human,&#8221; which is &#8220;hu/hu.&#8221;  And there is &#8220;fae/faer,&#8221; which appears to be used by people who <a href="https://everypronoun.tumblr.com/post/634779894881173504/about-faefaer-pronouns-coming-from-someone">consider themselves to be fairies</a> or practice Wicca. Others have said that the use of the pronouns may constitute <a href="https://www.tumblr.com/gendercensus/643657043304153088/on-faefaer-pronouns-and-cultural-appropriation">cultural appropriation</a>.
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An “optional diversity survey” asks applicants for their preferred pronouns, race, ethnicity, gender identity, and whether they &#8220;identify as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community.”
The Kamala Harris campaign’s apparent focus on DEI continues from the Biden-Harris administration&#8217;s emphasis on its implementation in the federal government.
One guide from a federal agency on “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-federal-guide-on-inclusive-language-tells-bureaucrats-to-ditch-gendered-terms-like-son-daughter">inclusive language</a>” obtained by The Daily Wire instructs bureaucrats to ditch gendered language like “son” and “daughter” while also using “they/them” as the default pronouns for their colleagues in order to avoid so-called “misgendering.”
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The administration has even worked to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-biden-admin-enables-government-employees-to-change-genders">encourage gender transition attempts</a> for federal employees, telling those who refer to their colleagues by biologically accurate pronouns that they could be engaging in discrimination and contributing to an &#8220;unlawful hostile work environment.&#8221;
Gender pronouns are being pushed at every level of government. The New York City Department of Social Services considers their use a vital step &#8220;in becoming a TGNC (Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming) ally.&#8221;
&#8220;If your gender pronoun is something that never matters to you or that you rarely think about, then you may have pronoun privilege,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/assets/hra/downloads/pdf/services/lgbtqi/Gender%20Pronouns%20final%20draft%2010.23.17.pdf">according</a> to the department.
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A parental rights group filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday accusing a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York</a> school district of establishing “speech codes” that violate the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/first-amendment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">First Amendment</a> rights of conservative students, according to documents first shared with The Daily Wire.
The suit was filed by Parents Defending Education against Croton-Harmon Union Free School District north of New York City over its harassment and discrimination policies. It argues that the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of students have been violated by the policies, which include requirements for students to use the “preferred pronouns&#8221; of others.
“The District has adopted multiple ‘harassment’ policies that prohibit a broad swath of controversial speech at the heart of the First Amendment,” the <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/1_Complaint.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> says. “In so doing, the District unconstitutionally discriminates based on viewpoint, requires a student to affirm another student’s gender identity when inconsistent with that student’s sex, prohibits a substantial amount of protected speech, and uses vague terms that an average student cannot understand.”
The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The suit is asking for the judge to rule that the <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/PDEvCHExhibits.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">district policies</a> 0110, 0110-R, 0115, 0115-R, 0115-E, 5300, 4526, and 4526-R are unconstitutional. These policies “punish students for their speech and compel them to mouth support for the District’s preferred views at all times of day, whether at school or not,” according to the suit.
In the suit, Parents Defending Education noted that its members included multiple parents who had students in the district who felt like their ability to speak freely had been restricted.
The challenged policies describe discrimination as including “restrictions on the use of names or pronouns,” and include an acceptable use policy for electronics about the sending of “hate mail.” Additionally, the policies restrict speech determined to be “offensive,” “disparaging,” “degrading,” “derogatory,” &#8220;intimidating,” or “demeaning.”
According to Parents Defending Education, the policies are overly broad and allow students to be punished for their conservative opinions.
“Speech codes punish students for unpopular speech labeled as ‘harassment,’ ‘bullying,’ ‘hate speech,’ or ‘incivility’ — categories so broad that school officials can use them to ban speech based on one’s firmly held views including religious views, or to compel speech contrary to those views,” the suit says. “When these policies impose vague, overbroad, or viewpoint-based restrictions on speech, they are unconstitutional.”
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Parents Defending Education has been active across the country in efforts to push for accountability and transparency at public schools.
“Over the past century, the Supreme Court has made abundantly clear that students have robust First Amendment rights – and that education officials may not trample on these rights at their pleasure,” Parents Defending Education President Nicole Neily said in a statement to The Daily Wire. “Silencing unpopular viewpoints and compelling the speech of students in a public school system is fundamentally un-American.”
Croton-Harmon Union Free School District did not respond to a request for comment.

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A woke <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/illinois" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Illinois</a> math and science boarding academy makes teachers meet with an “equity” coach over “lack of inclusion” and “incorrect pronoun usage,” according to emails obtained by The Daily Wire.
Teachers at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/math-and-science-academy-provides-personalized-gender-transition-support-to-students" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Illinois Math and Science Academy</a> (IMSA), a public boarding school in Aurora for grades 10-12, are told to meet with an “Equity Instruction Coach” if they are found to have violated school DEI policies, according to emails obtained by Parents Defending Education (PDE) and shared with The Daily Wire.
The emails show a school culture where teachers are expected to undergo a plethora of DEI-related trainings and an extensive process for faculty and community members to report alleged instances of bias. In one instance, a teacher was ordered to undergo a “coaching” session with the equity coach over pronoun use.
“It has been determined that there is no evidence of bias, but rather a lack of inclusion,” IMSA’s DEI Officer Adrienne Coleman wrote to the teacher in September 2023. “In this instance, while you were proactive in collecting students names and pronouns, IMSA students still felt uncomfortable and unsafe due to incorrect pronoun usage.”
The teacher was then told to prepare to “engage in a coaching session around gender and sexuality, as well as appropriate use of pronouns,” with an “Equity Instructional Coach.”
&#8220;The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) is committed to maintaining a learning environment that is inclusive and supportive of all students, regardless of an individual’s race, sex, age, color, national origin, religion, disability or physical or mental ability, veteran’s status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, ancestry, and/or other characteristics protected by applicable law,&#8221; IMSA told The Daily Wire. &#8220;The goal of coaching conversations and educational conversations in gender bias is to raise awareness and promote understanding and empathy.&#8221;
Other emails obtained by PDE show a number of supposed bias incidents being investigated, including an allegation from the school’s equity coach against a member of a committee reevaluating school policies through an “equity” lens. According to PDE, the school’s equity coach said that the incident made him question how the committee was selected, suggesting that white males and Christians shouldn’t be involved.
The equity coach said the incident “has made me question how individuals were chosen for the committee, considering the purpose of the work and how policies are inherently geared toward privileged individuals (white, straight, cis, able-bodied, men who are middle class and Christian) and, in reviewing for equity, should be evaluated by those who are not privileged,” the email said.
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“These systems have no place in K-12 schools and are antithetical to a healthy educational environment,&#8221; Rhyen Staley, a researcher for PDE, told The Daily Wire. &#8220;It is deeply concerning to see a system in place that promotes reporting fellow students and staff for facial expressions and thought crimes. It is a tragedy that students are subjected to such draconian measures in the name of ‘safety’ and ‘equity.’”
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The public information request from PDE also obtained a bias report that had been filed in 2022 by Coleman, who has been with the school for 16 years. In it, Coleman said that she was offended by evaluations referring to black staff members as “incompetent” and by having to “constantly” defend DEI programs at the school, among other allegations.
“This is exhausting and sometimes traumatic! Walk a mile in my shoes, have a conversation with me, do not judge me, erase the stereotypical perspectives that you have of me, get to know me, see my ‘Blackness,’ and understand that it is the most important part of my identity!” she wrote.
It is unclear how the complaint, filed in October 2022, was resolved, though The Daily Wire reached out to IMSA for comment.
Previous Daily Wire reports on IMSA have focused on the school&#8217;s policies for staff to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/math-and-science-academy-provides-personalized-gender-transition-support-to-students" target="_blank" rel="noopener">create</a> “personalized” gender “support” plans for students who identify as transgender and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illinois-math-and-science-academy-hosts-race-based-retreats-exclusively-for-black-and-latinx-students" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hosting</a> of a race-based retreat open only to black and “Latinx” students.

Teachers Put Through ‘Coaching’ Sessions On Gender And Sexuality At Woke Illinois Math Academy

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The game show “Jeopardy!,” in which gives contestants must give answers in the form of a question, embraced the woke agenda by including so-called “neo-pronouns” as an answer.
The $600 selection in the category titled “Parts of Speech” offered the words “Xem, Xyrs, Xemself.”
The incumbent champion offered the question, “What are pronouns.”
Host Ken Jennings stated, “Those are pronouns. Neo-pronouns.”
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Jeopardy asked about xem/xyrs/xemself &quot;pronouns&quot; during last night&#39;s show
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In September 2022, Jennings <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/misogynist-bigot-jeopardy-host-slammed-after-letting-man-correct-answer-but-not-woman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was slammed</a> by critics after they felt he favored a male competitor over a female one.
Incumbent champion Luigi de Guzman was competing against contestant and retired lawyer Harriet Wagner. When Guzman was asked to identify a “19th-century landscape by this British painter,” he responded, “Constant.”
Jennings prompted, “Say it again” and de Guzman immediately corrected himself. “I’m sorry. Constable. Who is Constable.”
“Constable is correct, yes. That takes you to $6,200,” Jennings responded.
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But later in the show, the answer given by the board was “Mythcon 19 in 1988 had as a guest of honor this ‘Always Coming Home’ fantasy author and was held in Berkeley, her birthplace.”
“Who is Angela Le Guin,” Wagner answered, prompting Jennings to react, “No,” before Wagner immediately corrected herself: “Ursula Le Guin.”
After de Guzman then gave the correct answer, Jennings turned to Wagner, explaining, “Yes, Harriet, you remembered that her name was Ursula but I had already begun ruling against you when you corrected yourself.”
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&quot;Jeopardy!&quot; host Ken Jennings allowed a contestant to change his answer, but later denied a second contestant from doing the same. <a href="https://t.co/LwWqbMdjwY">https://t.co/LwWqbMdjwY</a> <a href="https://t.co/RJX8ZLGJkR">pic.twitter.com/RJX8ZLGJkR</a>
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In November 2022, contestant Amy Schneider, a biological man who identifies as a woman, won the $250,000 prize on “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jeopardy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeopardy!: Tournament of Champions</a>.”
“I feel amazing,” Schneider said after winning. “Earlier in the finals, I had this sudden moment of seeing myself and being like, ‘I’m on stage in the Tournament of Champions finals,’ and that was crazy. And I won! It’s a great feeling.”
The “Jeopardy!: Tournament of Champions” began at the end of October 2022. It featured 21 contestants who won at least four games since the 2020 tournament along with winners of the National College Championship, the Professors Tournament, and the game show&#8217;s first Second Chance faceoff, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/amy-schneider-wins-jeopardy-tournament-champions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Larissa Kelly, the woman who held the record for the most Jeopardy wins, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-jeopardy-contestant-amy-schneider-ends-winning-streak-on-this-question" target="_blank" rel="noopener">congratulated</a> Schneider after Schneider passed that number, referring to Schneider as a woman. She tweeted, “Well, it was fun to hold a Jeopardy record for a few years … but it’s been even more fun to watch @Jeopardamy set new standards for excellence, on the show and off. Congratulations to Amy on becoming the woman with the highest overall earnings in the show’s history!”
Schneider responded to critics by tweeting, “I’d like to thank all the people who have taken the time, during this busy holiday season, to reach out and explain to me that, actually, I’m a man. Every single one of you is the first person ever to make that very clever point, which had never once before crossed my mind.”
Amanda Harding contributed to this article.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-jeopardy-contestant-amy-schneider-ends-winning-streak-on-this-question">Trans ‘Jeopardy!’ Contestant Amy Schneider Ends Winning Streak On This Question</a>

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Democrats in the Virginia state Senate derailed a hearing on Monday after the state’s lieutenant governor absentmindedly responded “yes sir” to an inquiry from deep-voiced Sen. Danica Roem, a man who believes he is a woman.
“Madam president, how many votes would it take to pass this bill with the emergency clause?” Roem asked Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears, a Republican, about a mundane bill that was being voted on.
“That would be four-fifths,” replied Sears, who as lieutenant governor presides over the Senate.
“And what would be the exact number for that madam president?” Roem added.
“Yes, sir, that would be 32,” Sears said as she looked through papers. “Those in favor of that motion shall record their votes aye,” she said, calling the vote.
Roem stormed out and missed the vote. A shout could be heard as he was leaving, though it wasn’t clear who made the sound or what it said.
After the vote, Sears recognized Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-dems-could-lose-control-of-state-senate-because-one-of-its-members-may-have-lied-about-her-residence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ghazala Hashmi</a>, whose turn it was to describe the next bill. But Hashmi would not speak. Several Democrat senators began leaving the room. Sen. Scott Surovell then said, “I think I’d ask that we take a recess for five minutes.”
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Seven minutes later, the body reconvened, and Sears said, “The chair again recognizes Sen. Hashmi, the senator from Chesterfield.” Hashmi again refused to speak, and Sears put the Senate back in recess.
Three minutes later, the hearing resumed, and Sears appeared irritated but measured.
“I said something that upset Sen. Roem. Let it be known I am not here to upset anyone. I am here to do the job that the people of Virginia have called me to do and that is to treat everyone with respect and dignity. I myself have at times not been afforded that same respect and dignity, but in this body and as long as I am president of the Senate and by the grace of God, I will be treated with respect and dignity and I will treat everyone else with respect and dignity.”
She said she frequently calls people by the wrong names, noting that she had just mistakenly put “the House” into recess instead of the Senate. “I apologize. And I would hope that everyone would understand there is no intent to offend.”
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Hashmi finally discussed the bill.
The Democratic Party of Virginia refused to accept Sears&#8217; apology, writing on X, &#8220;We will not forget this smear.&#8221;
Earlier this month, Hashmi’s education committee <a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+S04V0110+SB0037" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed</a> Sage’s Law, a bill passed by the House of Delegates last session that would prevent schools from hiding a child’s gender transition from their parents. It is named after Sage, a girl who was trafficked from rural Virginia to Baltimore and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mother-of-sex-trafficked-teen-files-lawsuit-after-girl-was-held-in-boys-group-home-to-affirm-her-trans-identity">raped by a registered sex offender</a> after going through trouble at school that her parents knew nothing about, and after school staff allegedly repeatedly encouraged her to transition. After the FBI rescued her from the sex trafficker, Baltimore placed her into a group home full of Baltimore&#8217;s roughest male youths. After her mother rescued her, she later said she was not actually transgender.

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On Thursday, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled that a high school teacher who was fired for refusing to use pronouns that didn’t match a student’s biological sex could have his lawsuit against the local school board reinstated.
Peter Vlaming taught French in the West Point School District for seven years. A female student claiming to be male had a new preferred name. Vlaming used the new preferred name but simply avoided using the student’s preferred pronouns. The school demanded he use the student’s preferred pronouns, even when the student was not present.
“Peter went out of his way to accommodate this student as he does all his students; his school fired him because he wouldn’t contradict his core beliefs,” Caleb Dalton of the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) <a href="https://adfmedia.org/press-release/va-teacher-fired-declining-refer-female-student-male-pronouns-files-suit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">had noted</a>. “The school board didn’t care how well Peter treated this student. It was on a crusade to compel conformity. He works hard to make his students feel welcomed. In his French class, he always calls his students by the name they choose. He even used the student’s preferred masculine name and was willing to avoid using pronouns in the student’s presence. He just didn’t want to be forced to use a pronoun that offends his conscience. That’s entirely reasonable, and it’s his constitutionally protected right. Tolerance, after all, is a two-way street.”
“Peter wasn’t fired for something he said; he was fired for something he couldn’t say,” Chris Schandevel of ADF <a href="https://adfmedia.org/case/vlaming-v-west-point-school-board" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> after the lawsuit was reinstated. “The Virginia Supreme Court rightly agreed that Peter’s case against the school board for violating his rights under the Virginia Constitution and state law should proceed. As a teacher, Peter was passionate about the subject he taught, was well-liked by his students, and did his best to accommodate their needs and requests. But he couldn’t in good conscience speak messages that he doesn’t believe to be true, and no school board or government official can punish someone for that reason.”
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The Virginia Supreme Court agreed that the Virginia Constitution “seeks to protect diversity of thought, diversity of speech, diversity of religion, and diversity of opinion,” adding, “Absent a truly compelling reason for doing so, no government committed to these principles can lawfully coerce its citizens into pledging verbal allegiance to ideological views that violate their sincerely held religious beliefs.”
“The West Point School Board violated that constitutional command when it tried to force Vlaming to endorse the school’s ideological viewpoints on gender identity,” Schandevel stated. “And the Virginia Supreme Court rightly vindicated Vlaming’s right to stand by his convictions in its decision.”

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Virginia Supreme Court Backs Teacher Fired For Not Using Student’s Preferred Pronouns

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A school district in rural <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ohio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ohio</a> mandated that new teachers learn the definition of terms like “pansexual,” and assert that they would hide information from parents about their children’s sexual orientation, according to training materials obtained by The Daily Wire. 
The training, which took place at St. Marys City Schools earlier this year, told instructors to use students “preferred pronouns” to make sure they didn’t “trivialize a student’s identity.” It also forced them to properly match so-called “gender identities” with their definitions, pushing teachers to master terms such as “questioning,” “asexual,” “same-gender loving,” “queer,” “pansexual,” “agender,” “nonbinary,” “pangender,” “transgender,” “cisgender,” and “bigender.” 
If you didn’t correctly match terms with their definition, or failed to agree with assertions such as that “school personnel do have the right to disclose a student’s sexual orientation to her/his parents,” you were not able to advance through the training. 
After the contents of the training were raised to the school by The Daily Wire, the school superintendent said it was unaware of what was included and would no longer offer it.
”I see what the training says and that’s not our philosophy, and we don’t agree with that,” Bill Ruane, the superintendent, told The Daily Wire. He said that the training had been administered by mistake as the district had switched to a new provider for state-mandated bullying training and the module given to the new hires was supposed to be on bullying, not gender ideology. 
The discarded trainings show how far-Left ideologies can creep into schools, even in the most conservative areas of the country. The area is about as conservative as it gets, with over 75% of voters in precincts surrounding the school voting for former president Donald Trump in 2020. The district is represented by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), who has been invited to speak at the school and likewise said the training had no place in his home district.
“This training doesn’t represent the values of St. Marys School System and community,” Russell Dye, a spokesman for Jordan, told The Daily Wire in response for comment on the training.
Ruane said they had managed to keep radical leftist views out of the school, which <a href="https://www.limaohio.com/top-stories/2023/09/01/st-marys-schools-opts-to-arm-staff-for-emergencies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allows</a> teachers to be armed to protect students, and has always backed parental rights in education. He also said the district has supported bills that would keep males out of women’s sports and bathrooms.
He said that the training was only administered because of a switch from SafeSchools to Public School Works, both electronic systems that facilitate state-mandated health and safety training. The same kinds of trainings from SafeSchools were supposed to be transferred over to Public School Works, but Ruane said that a module called “LGBTQI+ Students” meant to be on bullying made it into the training shown to new hires. 
During one part of the training from Public School Works, teachers are told not to go to parents with information about their children’s “sexual orientation.”
“When an educator learns of a significant issue affecting a student, the standard response is to notify the student&#8217;s parents/guardians. However, for issues involving a student’s sexual orientation, you must carefully consider what information is appropriate to share,” the training says. 
It says that teachers should first look at district policy and that it would be “wise” to “consult with a building administrator” or a “mental-health professional” before speaking with parents. 
Elsewhere in the training, teachers were forced to mark “false,” for the statement: “Generally speaking, school personnel do have the right to disclose a student’s sexual orientation to her/his parents.”
Instead, according to the training, “Generally speaking, absent a very compelling reason to do so, school personnel do not have the right to disclose a student’s sexual orientation to anyone without her/his permission.” 
A similar question said that school faculty could not tell “anyone” about a “child’s gender identity,” but in the classroom they should do whatever a student prefers. 
“By using a child’s preferred name and pronoun (e.g. he/him, she/her, they/them, xe/xem, ze/zem, etc.) you promote their safety and well-being,” the training says. “As previously stated, LGBTQI+ terminology is continually evolving. The same holds true for pronouns. Again, remaining open-minded and respectful is the best course of action.”
Teachers are also pushed to accept the provided definitions of politically charged words like homophobia and heterosexism, which is defined as the “belief that heterosexuality is the only ‘natural’ sexuality and is superior to other sexual orientations. Heterosexism denies, ignores, denigrates and/or stigmatizes non-heterosexual forms of emotional and affectional expression and sexual behavior.”
According to the training, gender is not “the biological distinction between males and females” but “the concept of masculinity or femininity.” 
Ruane told The Daily Wire that the district has never supported any of the policies promoted by the training and said that if an employee had told him what was in the training he would have immediately pulled it. He added that trainings are normally vetted but this one slipped through because of the switch over in providers. 
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It is unclear how many districts use Public School Works, but the Ohio-based education company encourages the celebration of “Pride” in the classroom. 
A <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231201214259/https://corp.publicschoolworks.com/resource/school-pride/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blog post</a> from the company encourages school districts to celebrate “Pride” and set up Gay-Straight Alliance Clubs, which have been criticized by parental groups who say the clubs serve to indoctrinate students into gender ideology. The post also said districts should adopt “supportive” policies for LGBT identifying kids and teach staff how to address the “unique needs of transgender and gender diverse students.”
A catalog available <a href="https://corp.publicschoolworks.com/program/staff-compliance-training/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">online</a> from one of Public School Works trainings include information on “gender transitioning, including social transitioning and medical transitioning via puberty suppressors, hormone therapy and/or gender‐aﬃrming surgeries; schools as partners in the gender‐transitioning process.”
Teachers across the country have come under fire for promoting LGBT content to children without <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dont-invite-parents-school-teacher-called-lgbt-club-bubbles-to-keep-it-from-being-identified-emails-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">parental knowledge</a> and in some cases have been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/parents-win-ruling-against-wisconsin-school-district-over-pronoun-name-change-policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> of secretly socially “transitioning” kids.

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Public School In Deep-Red Ohio Town Forces Teachers To Learn Definition Of ‘Pansexual’

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Sources claim that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/disney-world">Disney World</a> is offering <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gender-pronouns">pronoun pins</a> to their employees. 
Multiple employees at the theme park spoke anonymously with <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/13/walt-disney-world-epcot-pronoun-pin-name-tags/">The Daily Caller</a> about a new DEI initiative that will begin with janitors who work in the Florida theme park and then roll out to other Disney employees. Photos shared by the sources showed that theme park and EPCOT employees can fill out a form with their preferred pronouns to have them added to their name pin by scanning a QR code.
“Hi everyone, we are excited to introduce pronoun name tags in our area!” the <a href="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=qDG3VqyiMky_a2FoEOkTxo8ZQhqfGXNIiFn9s_4cvspUNVVVTVgyMTVPOVpCQ0kxUVhRQTJDOUtDTSQlQCN0PWcu&amp;origin=QRCode">form</a> says. “Pronoun name tags help us understand each other more and bring a positive impact within our community!”
The outlet noted that pronoun pins are still being used voluntarily, per their sources.
This was not the first <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/woke">gender identity-related initiative</a> introduced into Disney theme parks. In May, a video of a male employee in a dress welcoming small children into the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique at Disneyland in California went viral, with many people expressing their outrage online. 
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“This is insane,” one Twitter user wrote, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disturbing-man-in-a-dress-welcoming-children-to-disneyland-princess-boutique-sparks-outrage-on-twitter">reported</a>.
“Absolutely grooming. That is a moment for little girls. Mustache has no business there,” another account agreed. 
“Disney is just an LGBT activist organization at this point,” a third commenter wrote. “Any sane company would have backed down by now. Disney keeps doubling down because it would rather engage in political activism than return value.”
Another viewer called the footage “disturbing and sick.”
In August, more images of different male Disney employees wearing dresses were shared by Libs of TikTok. “Disney has men dressed as women, wearing dresses greeting children at some of their attractions,” LOTT wrote in the X <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1695164391694487592">caption</a>. “Received both of these this week from disturbed visitors.”
Disney Parks updated its uniform policy in 2021 to allow employees, or as they’re referred to in the park, “cast members,” to wear gendered clothing of their preference regardless of their biological sex. 
“Inclusion is essential to our culture and leads us forward as we continue to realize our rich legacy of engaging storytelling, exceptional service, and Disney magic,” the statement about the policy change said in part.
This article has been revised for emphasis and clarity.

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