Bet that Senate Democrats never allow a floor vote on the Protect Kids Act, which passed the House last week — because they don’t dare go on the record about opposing parents’ rights against the “trans the kids” cult.
The bill simply requires schools to get an explicit parental OK before socially transitioning children, or lose federal funds.
Eight House Democrats, including Washington’s Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, dared vote “yea,” and no doubt a Dem senator or three would as well — but Minority Leader Chuck Schumer will use the filibuster to ensure they never get a chance as he shields other Dems from the burden of voting against parental rights.
That the practice of social transition ever took root at all in schools is horrifying: It includes teachers and administrators changing a child’s pronouns, permitting them to dress as the opposite gender, and the like.
This approach does real psychological damage, especially when done in elementary school, when kids’ claims about gender identity should be taken as seriously as their claims of being princesses or superheroes.
It’s outrageous that schools hide these transitions from families — and worse that the secrecy is often ordered by legislatures, as in California and New York.
The rationale: If evil, bigoted parents know their 6-year-old son is wearing a dress and claiming to be a girl, they might harm the kid.
This perversely treats all parents as likely abusers, as well as excluding the likely reality that “affirming the identity” is bad for the child.
Neither schools nor states should be in business of imposing woke nostrums, let alone behind parents’ backs.
The social-transition craze was always political, a bid to co-opt the classroom into rank indoctrination.
Parents’ furious effort to end this madness brought lawsuits across the country; in Mirabelli v. Bonta, the Supreme Court recently found that California cannot order schools to lie to parents about their kids’ mental health; the Protect Kids Act is simply an effort to ensure that principle’s upheld nationwide.
Most of the nation has rejected “gender madness,” but it still rules the Democratic Party — so Schumer and other national Democrats are left doing their best to again hide their own extremism.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
