Ohio School District Hides Student Gender Transitions From Parents
Last September, Ohio’s largest school district gave $24,200 of taxpayer dollars to a consulting firm to teach staff how to hide students’ gender transitions from parents, as revealed this week in a public records request made by Parents Defending Education.
The two-day seminar was hosted by Hey Wes (formerly named Q Inclusion). This company, led by a biological woman parading as a man, gives “custom workshops on lgbtq-affirming practices” with aims to “support queer and trans belonging.”
Falsifying records, deceiving parents: The presentation told staff to hide a student’s new gender identity from parents. The slideshow from the training states:
Affirmed name should be used, regardless of legal name, on all paperwork and printed materials. Legal name is kept in a segregated, confidential file. If student’s caregivers are not supportive or cannot know about their affirming name, there should be a private place within the student’s records to indicate the name and pronouns that staff and peers should use for the student, aligning with the student’s wishes.
This is advocating intentional falsification of official academic documents. It further says students have “privacy rights from parents.”
‘Gender-support plan’: School staff were given tools such as “gender-support plan” sheets. These outlined subjects such as instructions for when “a student is out to you but not to their family,” handling pushback from caregivers, a Wheel of Power chart to see how privileged or marginalized someone is, and tips for those whose “personal/religious beliefs don’t align with lgbtq+ inclusion.”
Educators were given ways to “visually signal” their “allyship,” including wearing pronoun pins, hanging pride flags, using alternative terms to “boys and girls” such as “friends, scholars [and] learners,” and stocking shelves with sexually explicit “children’s” books.
Targeting toddlers: One slide asserts, “Children are not too young to talk about or know their gender.” It is preceded by a “Gender Identity Development Timeline,” which advocates the importance of discussing “gender expansiveness with very young children.” It claims that infants form understandings of gender and that most toddlers have established their gender identity when they are 2½ years old.
Suicidal scare: One slide explained what to do when receiving pushback, stating that “inclusive practices save lives.” Their evidence for this assertion was from the Trevor Project, an organization that was exposed last August for hosting anonymous online chatrooms about sex between adults and children.
This platform claims that lgbtq youths who were in an affirming school “reported lower rates of attempting suicide.” This data comes from a survey of volunteer lgbtq youths. Self-reported data always needs to be taken with a grain of salt, accounting for bias and exaggeration.
As we wrote in the August issue of the Trumpet, more reliable data tells a different story. A German center specializing in “gender-affirming care” discovered that medically transitioned young people were more depressed than trans youths who didn’t undergo surgery. Another study found that kids who received affirming care needed more anti-depressives after the care than before.
Educators are taught that if they fail to affirm their students’ gender identities, they will kill themselves. In reality, gender-affirming “care” is making trans kids more depressed.
Child sacrifice: Why are youths being targeted with this ideology? Why are parents being kept in the dark as their children are being raised by the state? To see the evils of how this movement is targeting youths, read “Modern-Day Child Sacrifice.”
