Lesbian Feminist: It's Time to Stop Trans Indoctrination in Public Schools

On Wednesday, Miriam Ben-Shalom, the first lesbian to be reinstated to the U.S. Army after getting kicked out for her sexual orientation, spoke out against the "indoctrination of children by the trans community." A vocal radical feminist, Ben-Shalom championed the cause of parents in Madison, Wisc., who are suing the local school district over the issue. She and her allies with the Hands Across the Aisle Coalition spoke at a press conference at the downtown Madison public library.

"It is time to put a stop to the sort of indoctrination of children by the trans community, Big Pharma, and Big Medicine," Ben-Shalom declared at the press conference, streamed exclusively by Women's Liberation Radio News. "As a teacher of 37 years, I wonder what goes on in the mind of a man who thinks that because he goes about in womanface [the feminist equivalent of blackface], that gives him the right to force his system of beliefs on young children. That isn’t what teachers are supposed to do, is it?"

The radical feminist was referring to Vica Steele, a male teacher who identifies as female and who used the same restroom as elementary school girls until parents complained. The teacher's union is suing to force the school to violate the privacy rights of female students by forcing them to share the private space with a grown man.

Ben-Shalom explained that she jointly founded Hands Across the Aisle Coalition with Kaeley Triller Harms, a conservative Christian, in order to push back against the transgender assaults on basic science and women's rights.

"We are especially concerned about the casual and cavalier way the human rights of women and girls are being set aside because of their biological sex, which is not the same thing as gender," Ben-Shalom explained. "We are not here today to say that transgender people should face discrimination. We are not here to say they ought not to exist. We are not here to say they ought not to have the same rights as all other citizens, nor will we say that males who identify as trans are all criminals. That simply isn’t true."

"This is about male entitlement and power being used to subjugate women and girls and deny them any human rights or place at all in the society. Men do this without any sort of consent — our consent," the veteran added.

"We are here to ask why the privacy of elementary school girls means nothing when a male who identifies as trans decides that walking down the hallway is simply too much," Ben-Shalom said. "We are asking... if it is appropriate for an adult intact male, no matter his presentation, to be in an elementary girls’ bathroom when there are other places nearby for him to use."

First Lesbian Reinstated to U.S. Army Comes Out Against Transgender 'Erasure of Women'
"Giving him that right does open the door for other males to claim they are women and claim access to that restroom.

How many girls will have to be violated? When is enough enough?"

"This is about [trans activists] saying that gender is more important than biological sex, that a man’s demands are more important than a young female’s right to privacy," she explained.

Ben-Shalom noted that many transgender advocates claim that men who masquerade as "transgender women" in order to prey upon vulnerable women in restrooms and changing rooms are not "really" transgender.

"How can one tell who’s a real transgender? It defies logic because it’s self-identified," she said, brushing aside this objection.

Ben-Shalom noted a recent lawsuit filed by the conservative law firm Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL), representing 14 unnamed parents with children in Madison schools. The lawsuit focuses on a district guidance document promoting transgender identity and directing school staff not to "disclose any information that may reveal a student's gender identity to others, including parents or guardians" unless it is legally required or the student wishes to reveal himself or herself.

The lawsuit claims the document requires staff to "actively deceive" parents about their children's gender identities and alleges that the guide violates parental and religious freedom rights guaranteed under the Wisconsin Constitution.

"It is Hands Across the Aisle position that parents should not have to have their rights abrogated by school personnel, that schools should not be pressured to force girls or boys to share bathrooms and locker rooms with members of the opposite sex, much less with an adult," Ben-Shalom declared. "Hands Across the Aisle asks for a return to education, not activism based on false science, female erasure, and the willful violations of student privacy and the denial of parental rights."

Sadly, the press conference was sparsely attended. Yet Ben-Shalom's powerful rebukes to transgender activism cannot be ignored.

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Quarrel, oath and failure

In the latest example of institutional neglect the University of Oxford, is considering making the study of Homer’s Iliadand Virgil’s Aeneid – optional.

At Oxford, large portions of the Iliad and Aeneid are read in Greek and Latin – subjects mostly taken by students from private schools, and Oxford is being pressured to attract more pupils from state schools.

Unfortunately, Oxford’s proposal is unsurprising as they have favoured hollow identity politics over maintaining a rigorous education in the classics.

A campaign to ‘decolonise the curriculum’ in British universities has gained popularity, winning a non-Sussex royal endorsement from Meghan Markle, because the current curriculum is “male, pale and stale.”

Such searing literary analysis was echoed by an Australia high school English teacher who bemoaned “Why are so many “classics” written by old, dead, (usually) straight white guys?”

These comments are indicative of universities obsession with ‘new thinking’ and ‘new ways of learning.’

When students are encouraged to ‘unlearn’, and “to be brave enough to…demolish social norms and build new ones” is it any wonder universities have neglected the classics, especially the teaching of Greek and Latin?

But, as one student opposed to Oxford’s changes remarked “Oxford remains one of the few places in the world, if not the only one, in which students must read a substantial amount of [The Iliad and Aeneid] in the original.”

Removing such a requirement in the name of equality will harm future generations as the knowledge of Greek and Latin is lost – entirely.

Oxford could address educational inequality by looking at increasing the number of students studying Greek and Latin – a change schools, parents and teachers would support.

But Oxford have, like Prince Paris, shot Achilles and run away – a simile fewer will understand as the Iliad is read less and less.

Although the ‘decolonising the curriculum’ crowd insist their way is necessary to “confront exclusion”, in reality, all they end up excluding is beauty and greatness.


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LGBT Activists Promote ‘Trans Reading Day’ in Public Schools

It started as just one rogue Wisconsin school, showing its LGBT pride. Now, five years later, it’s a national movement in public schools—and most parents have no idea it’s happening.

Do you want your child to be psychologically manipulated at school Thursday? Most moms and dads would say no.

But on Thursday, the Human Rights Campaign and its pals at the powerful National Education Association are teaming up to promote “Jazz and Friends National Day of School & Community Readings.”

“We want the listeners to know,” Family Research Council’s Meg Kilgannon told me on “Washington Watch,” “This could be happening in your school. Your children could be hearing a book [that is] very disturbing to young children.”

The book “I Am Jazz” is a favorite of transgender activists. It’s based on the real-life story of Jazz, a boy who was convinced that he was born in the wrong body.

“As a child he was injected with hormones to block his normal sexual development, and recently, he had radical surgery to complete his ‘transition’ to another sex,” Kilgannon says. “Which, of course, is impossible.”

Now, LGBT groups are pushing schools to make reading the book an annual event. The day will be used, FRC’s Cathy Ruse says, to promote gender deviance and LGBT politics to vulnerable children.”

“Not all schools are doing it. Yet. But some are,” she says.

In one school in Arlington, Virginia, administrators enlisted “mystery readers” to come read to children.

“The school has not revealed to parents who they are and what they will read,” Ruse warns.

And based on what we know about the “Drag Queen Story Hour” movement, that could mean anyone. To counterpunch, the Arlington Parents Coalition has urged parents to keep their kids home.

“We want all children to be treated with respect and dignity as children of God,” Kilgannon says, adding:

That’s a basic tenet of the Christian faith, of many faiths, that everyone should be, should have dignity. [But] that doesn’t mean that we need to reinforce these controversial ideas… that are untrue, biologically, and impossible. A boy cannot become a girl. A girl cannot become a boy.

But unfortunately, she warns, this kind of activity isn’t necessarily going to make it on the school calendar.

“It’s just something that’s going to happen—and then, once it’s over, it’s too late.”

Everyone should call their child’s school principal and ask, “Are you planning to have this reading in your school?”

If the principal says yes, it’s a great opportunity to turn in the universal opt-out letter available on Family Research Council’s website.

“It’s up to you what kind of a statement you want to make,” Kilgannon says.

But if your school is participating, make sure it knows where you stand.

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