Congressional hearings expose what these schools are hiding

At a congressional hearing last week, the spotlight was on several public school districts exposing third grade children to transgender ideology — even asking them to explain the difference between “sex assigned at birth” and “gender identity.”

By fifth grade, the district introduces children to puberty blockers.

The House Committee on Education and Workforce hearing was titled “Breaking Trust: Attacks on Parental Rights, Inappropriate Content, and Legal Abuses in America’s Schools.” Superintendents from Chicago, San Francisco, and Loudoun County, VA, were called to testify.

What came out of that June 10 hearing should shake every parent.

These districts are not just teaching gender ideology; they are pushing children to change their names, pronouns, and school records, and use bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice — all this without parental knowledge or consent.

These same people are being assisted by a near majority in the U.S. House and Senate to expand their agenda nationwide with the so-called Equality Act (HR 15/S 1503). Fax Congress immediately to stop this bill.

Chicago’s policy allows some biological males to sleep with biological females on overnight field trips. Loudoun County has a similar policy.

Loudoun County is already infamous for what happened when a male student brutally assaulted a 15-year-old girl in the restroom. Instead of protecting the victim and informing parents, Loudoun County became a national symbol of what happens when school districts prioritize gender ideology over student safety.

Committee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) did not mince words at this recent House hearing. He said, “If I was a parent in either of these districts, with these students, I would consider suing them for child abuse and neglect. This is serious.”

Children are being exposed to gender ideology beginning in kindergarten. School officials lie to parents. The privacy and safety of girls are being sacrificed. And school officials are demanding that teachers and students pretend this is normal.

If the Equality Act passes, it would create a federal mandate to force this disease into every school.

Only a few more votes are needed to pass this dangerous bill. Demand Congress stop the Equality Act (HR 15/S 1503) with your faxes.

Two Virginia teachers are examples of what forced compliance would look like under the Equality Act.

In Loudoun County, Tanner Cross was an elementary P.E. teacher who told the school board he could not, because of his Christian faith, call a boy a girl or a girl a boy. He was immediately removed from the classroom.

A court ordered Loudoun to reinstate him, and the Virginia Supreme Court upheld that order. But the message was clear: Obey the gender ideology — or risk your job.

Peter Vlaming, a French teacher, tried to accommodate a female student who identified as “male” by using the student’s chosen name. But he could not use male pronouns for a female without violating his Christian faith.

He was fired.

Years later, his school board agreed to pay 575,000 dollars and clear his record. But Peter had already lost his job because the government demanded that he speak words his faith and reality would not allow.

This is what life would be like nationwide under the Equality Act. In New York, for example, Gov. Hochul is supporting a bill that would change “mother” and “father” to “gestating parent” and “non-gestating parent.”

If passed, this radical gender mandate will be pushed into schools, businesses, ministries, adoption and foster care programs, housing, federally funded services, and more.

A teacher could be punished for refusing to lie to a child. A Christian school could be pressured to abandon biblical truth. An adoption ministry could be forced to choose between faith and its license to serve.

If Congress passes the Equality Act, what happened to Tanner Cross and Peter Vlaming will no longer be isolated. It will be nationwide.

That is why Liberty Counsel Action is mobilizing now.

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