Pennsylvania School District Backs Down After Hiding Kids’ Gender Transitions From Parents

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Our friends at Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) say a Pennsylvania school district has rescinded a policy that required teachers to hide students’ social transitions from parents.

The Chester County Intermediate Unit 24 School District had a policy mandating that staff use students’ preferred names and pronouns at school while keeping parents in the dark. Teachers who refused to go along with the policy faced disciplinary action.

After attorneys from Alliance Defending Freedom and the Independence Law Center sent a letter outlining the policy’s constitutional violations, the district backed down and rescinded the policy.

This is good news, but the situation should never have happened in the first place.

We have written before about how pro-LGBT activists have used public schools to promote transgender ideology and gender confusion to kids in many different ways.

Schools have been hiding important information about students from their parents. A New York school district secretly treated a middle-school girl as if she were a boy without her mother’s knowledge or consent. A Massachusetts school helped an eleven-year-old girl “socially transition” without her parents ever being told. And earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with parents challenging California’s secret gender transition policy — a strong signal that these policies violate the law.

Public school students should not be taught to question their gender, and schools should not lie to parents about what their children are experiencing at school.

Arkansas has been a leader when it comes to passing laws that block radical pro-LGBT ideology in the classroom and help prevent schools from socially transitioning children. Arkansas’ Given Name Act and other good laws protect children and affirm parental rights in our state.

Last month, Family Council joined an amicus brief defending parental rights in a federal lawsuit before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, because federal court cases like it could affect schools nationwide. That’s why it’s important for us to stand up for students and parents in court.

Parents are not the enemy. They are the first and most important line of defense for their children. No school should ever be allowed to cut them out.

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Two More Hospitals Agree to Stop Performing Sex-Change Procedures on Children

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The federal government is continuing to shut down gender clinics that perform dangerous, irreversible sex-change procedures on children.

Over the past 20 years, the number of children who identify as transgender has skyrocketed — especially among biological girls.

Many hospitals opened “gender clinics” that prescribed puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to kids or even performed sex-change surgeries on children. But since then, public health experts and policymakers in the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, Finland, and other nations have found that science simply does not support these “gender transitions.”

Now state and federal officials are taking serious steps to protect children and shutter these “gender clinics.”

On September 18, the U.S. Department of Justice announced New York University Langone Hospitals (NYU) and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) — two of the nation’s largest healthcare systems — have agreed to stop subjecting children to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-change surgeries. The agreement resolves federal investigations into the facilities.

This is really good news.

Puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-change procedures carry serious risks — like infertility, sexual dysfunction, impaired bone density, and cardiovascular problems.

Today we know pro-LGBT activists and medical organizations spent years citing each other’s work in a circular pattern, manufacturing a fake consensus about performing sex-change surgeries on kids.

Investigators have alleged that some of the healthcare professionals who performed these procedures may have committed insurance fraud to improperly profit from what they were doing.

Whistleblowers have come forward to testify about how they were rushed through gender transitions as children without understanding the procedures’ risks, consequences, or alternatives.

Stories like these have prompted investigations and legal action against doctors and facilities that performed these procedures on children.

In 2021, Arkansas’ lawmakers passed the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act. This good law generally prohibits doctors from performing sex-change procedures on children or giving them puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.

Arkansas was the first state in America to enact a law like the SAFE Act, but since 2021 lawmakers in more than half the country have passed similar legislation. Federal courts have upheld the SAFE Act and other state laws like it as constitutional.

Arkansans should be proud that their state has been a leader when it comes to protecting children from dangerous sex-change procedures.

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Nike Loses $200 Billion in “Woke Wipeout”

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Yahoo Finance reports the iconic sportswear brand Nike has lost $200 billion in market value since 2021. Financial experts point to poor sales performance domestically and internationally, but our friends at The Washington Stand ultimately trace it back to Nike’s political activism, calling the company’s financial turn a “$200 billion woke wipeout.”

Suzanne Bowdey at The Washington Stand writes:

“Millions of customers called it quits on Nike after its endorsement of anti-American Colin Kaepernick, who, along with disrespecting our national anthem, persuaded the company to shelve its idea of patriotic shoes.

“Since then, Nike’s far-left agenda has taken different forms — from a doomed Dylan Mulvaney partnership to its defense of China’s slave labor program. Now, the company seems intent on being the official sponsor of team transgenderism, refusing to back away from radical LGBT advocacy that’s at odds with 80% of America.

“And its roots in the movement run deep. In a conscious decision to trade their brand’s popularity for toxic activism, executives started sticking their necks out years ago in areas that were racing to put the brakes on gender mutilation procedures for children. In places like Alabama, where lawmakers tried to stop kids from rushing into transgender hormones and surgery, Nike led the corporate march to put the scalpel back in doctors’ hands. Fortunately, they failed.”

Nike is not the only company that has suffered financially because of its social and political activism.

In 2023, Anheuser-Busch sent transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney a novelty can of Bud Light with Mulvaney’s picture on it. Mulvaney posted a video of himself dressed like Audrey Hepburn showcasing the Bud Light can — which led to backlash and boycotts from Bud Light drinkers nationwide. That novelty can of Bud Light ended up costing the company more than $1 billion in lost sales, and the brand has never fully recovered.

Seeing a brand like Bud Light singlehandedly overthrow itself as America’s bestselling beer caught the corporate world’s attention. Since then, many major corporations have reduced their LGBT themed marketing, rolled back pro-LGBT policies, and stopped participating in HRC’s Corporate Equality Index.

However, unlike most major companies, Nike doesn’t just participate in the Human Rights Campaign’s Equality Index. This year the company earned a perfect score.

It’s worth pointing out that HRC’s Corporate Equality Index puts some heavy requirements on businesses that participate. Getting a perfect score like Nike’s means companies must agree to demands like covering the cost of gender-transition procedures for employees and their families, forcing workers to undergo ideological training, opening restrooms to both sexes, and so forth.

Corporate DEI polices and pro-LGBT pandering are deeply out-of-step with everyday Americans. These are flawed ideologies that do not ensure individuals are valued, heard, or included. Employees who hold biblical views of marriage or gender risk losing their jobs in workplaces that have adopted DEI policies. None of that is good for our economy or our country.

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