Blue state schools are secretly transitioning your children behind your back, and Trump’s Department of Education is finally stopping the madness by threatening to pull their funding.
At a Glance
- Trump’s Department of Education is investigating Maine and California for school policies that allow withholding information about a student’s gender identity from parents
- The policies could violate the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), potentially resulting in loss of federal funding
- Maine’s Human Rights Commission explicitly tells schools to “abide by the wishes of the student” over parents regarding gender identity
- California’s SAFETY Act prohibits schools from requiring staff to disclose a student’s gender identity without the student’s consent
- Education Secretary Linda McMahon warns that “the Department will no longer passively accept school officials’ hostility to parental involvement”
Liberal States Caught Hiding Gender Transitions From Parents
The battle lines have been drawn, folks. On one side, we have parents who believe they have the right to know what’s happening with their own children in public schools. On the other, we have blue state education bureaucrats who think they know better than you about raising your kids.
The Trump administration has launched investigations into both Maine and California over school policies that allow educators to keep a child’s gender transition hidden from their own parents – a move that should have happened years ago. These investigations target policies that potentially violate federal law, specifically the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), which grants parents access to their children’s educational records.
The absurdity of what’s happening in these liberal strongholds is mind-boggling. In Maine, a memorandum from the state’s Human Rights Commission actually instructs schools that “in the event that the student and their parent/legal guardian do not agree with regard to the student’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression, the educational institution should, whenever possible, abide by the wishes of the student.” Let that sink in – the state is explicitly telling schools to side with confused children over their own parents. This isn’t education; it’s state-sponsored family sabotage.
California’s Anti-Parent Law Under Fire
California, never wanting to be outdone in the race to undermine traditional values, passed Assembly Bill 1955, known as the SAFETY Act. This piece of legislative garbage prohibits schools from requiring staff to disclose a student’s gender identity to parents without the student’s consent.
Governor Newsom and his progressive allies claim this protects vulnerable students, but what it really does is drive a government wedge between parents and their children during critical developmental years. The Department of Education is rightfully challenging this law as a potential violation of federal privacy regulations that guarantee parents access to their children’s educational records.
“Teachers and school counselors should not be in the business of advising minors entrusted to their care on consequential decisions about their sexual identity and mental health. That responsibility and privilege lies with a parent or trusted loved one.”, says Secretary of Education Linda McMahon.
While Newsom’s office desperately tries to spin the situation, claiming that “parents continue to have full, guaranteed access to their student’s education records, as required by federal law,” the reality is that these blue state bureaucrats are playing semantic games. If schools are socially transitioning children without telling parents, those actions are clearly educational matters that parents have a right to know about. It’s not just about a paper trail – it’s about who gets to make life-altering decisions for America’s children.
Trump Administration Takes Action
President Trump isn’t waiting around for the next election to protect American families. He’s issued an executive order specifically designed to protect parental rights under FERPA and the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA). The order prevents federal funds from supporting social transitions without parental consent and stops funding for gender ideology promotion in schools.
In other words, the federal government will no longer be bankrolling the left’s social experiments on your children. It’s about time someone in Washington stood up for the radical concept that parents should be the primary decision-makers in their children’s upbringing.
According to McMahon: “The Department will no longer passively accept school officials’ hostility to parental involvement.” – Linda McMahon
Real-world consequences are already unfolding. In Maine, a mother named Amber Lavigne is suing after her child’s school supported a gender identity change without her knowledge. As her attorney Adam Shelton powerfully stated: “It is our position that the school violated Amber’s parental rights by depriving her of information of its own employees’ actions and decisions, including the giving of chest binders to and the social transitioning of her child.” When she requested records, the school refused to provide them – literally citing the very federal law that’s supposed to guarantee parents’ access to their children’s records. The hypocrisy is staggering.
The Constitutional Line in the Sand
Let’s be crystal clear about what’s happening: Progressive states are attempting to replace parents with government employees as the primary influence in children’s lives. They use Orwellian terms like “forced outing” to describe the simple act of telling parents what’s happening with their own children at school.
They claim to be protecting vulnerable kids, but what they’re really doing is undermining the family unit – the most fundamental building block of society. If schools can keep life-altering secrets from parents about their own children, then parental rights are nothing but a meaningless phrase in America.
“We are proud to stand with President Trump and Secretary McMahon to hold school districts accountable and ensure no child is socially transitioned behind parent’s backs by teachers or administrators.”, concludes Nicole Neily
The battle between federal oversight and progressive state policies represents the larger cultural war for America’s future. On one side stand parents, the Constitution, and natural rights. On the other stand government bureaucrats who believe the state knows best. By threatening to withhold federal funding from schools that violate parental rights, the Trump administration is finally using the power of the purse to defend American families from governmental overreach. And if these blue states want to continue their social engineering without federal dollars, they’re welcome to try explaining that to their taxpayers.