A girl bullied to death - and her grieving dad smeared by HER school! From suicide, to rape, to gender madness...
The disgusting Triantafillos Parlapanides has now resigned
To watch the video of 14-year-old Adriana Kuch being brutally assaulted in the hallway of her own high school — to see her crouching in the fetal position as she's swarmed and dragged and pummeled by three other students while another student off-camera yells, 'F**k her up! F**k that b*tch up!' — is to see the confidence of bullies in present-day America.
Once upon a time, kids like this would attack off-campus, in secret, no witnesses. Now they attack openly in cafeterias and classrooms, school buses and social media, secure in the knowledge that administrators won't do a thing.
After Kuch was assaulted — and it took 40 seconds for an adult to intervene, these brazen kids punching away regardless — her attack was posted on social media: TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram.
Two days later, Adriana committed suicide. A message sent just hours before mocked her for 'dripping' blood and getting 'whooped.'
This poor young girl already had a host of stressors and risk factors — her mother, who battled addiction, had died when she was little, and her father had been concerned about Adriana vaping marijuana. But it seems that this beating, and the endless social media humiliation that followed, broke her young spirit.
'She was so embarrassed that they jumped her,' said her father, Michael Kuch. 'She would say, 'I don't want to be made fun of.' It was like she was attacked twice. It used to be you'd go to school, get bullied and then you left. But now you come home and you keep getting bullied — they still keep picking at you at home.'
In the immediate aftermath of the attack, the school suspended the bullies involved but did not call the police. Instead, Michael Kuch brought his daughter – beaten and bloodied – to the police station himself.
After Adriana's suicide made headlines, the school superintendent, Triantafillos Parlapanides, posted to social media that in this case, 'there are two sides to every story.'
This is an adult entrusted with the education and care of teenagers? This is appalling. No wonder bullies at his school beat and crush and slap and insult with impunity. No wonder the bullied feel even more helpless — the adults in charge won't stand up for the victims!
On Friday, the day of Adriana's wake, Parlapanides sent a series of emails to DailyMail.com in which he seemed to blame Adriana and her father for this tragedy. Responding to a question about whether the school had offered Adriana any services — as it's believed she had been bullied for quite some time before her suicide — this craven, blame-shifting, cowardly deflector wrote: 'After her mother's suicide since her father was having an affiar [sic] at the end of her 6th grade. Her father married the woman he had an affair with and moved her into the house. Her grades and choices declined in 7th and 8th grade. We offered her drug rehab and mental services on 5 occasions but father refused every time.'
Wow. The fish, as they say, rots from the head. This guy should be fired immediately and never allowed to work with children again. He violated Adriana's private health information and essentially blamed her father for her mother's suicide.
As of Thursday, the four girls allegedly involved in the attack at New Jersey's Central Regional High School have been charged; three with fourth degree assault, and one with disorderly conduct. Prior to that, her father said, the school did next to nothing: No investigation. No monitoring of social media.
It's fair to assume that Central Regional, like far too many schools across America, has no real rules against cyber-bullying. Why would they? There's no federal law against it, even as the CDC reported in October 2022 that one in five high school students reported being bullied on campus the previous year. More than one in six reported cyber-bullying. Self-reports are highest in middle schools at 33%, then high schools at 30%.
Where are our educators? Our administrators? Our elected officials?
Make no mistake: Cyber-bullying among children and adolescents is a public health crisis, just as the angry young American male is, just as the school shooter is, just as the post-COVID learning and socialization gap is, just as the woke orthodoxy that every boy or man who questions their gender should have access to women's and girls' bathrooms, locker rooms, shelters, prisons — whether or not girls and women feel safe — is as well.
In May of 2021, a 15-year-old boy raped a female classmate in a trans-friendly school bathroom. He assaulted that young girl in a bathroom stall. A teacher later testified that she saw two pairs of feet under the stall door but did nothing.
Scott Smith, the girl's father, said she had been held down on the floor and attacked in that stall. Why was a grown teacher afraid to knock? To yell 'What's going on in there?' Or 'Get out of there now and let me see what you're doing!'?
That school superintendent, Scott Ziegler, also did nothing. In fact, he claimed there was no record of that assault — or a similar sexual assault committed by the same boy, against another teenage girl, later that same year in another Virginia school.
For agitating for justice, for demanding that the school board tell the truth about sexual assaults in girls' bathrooms and what transgender policy may have to do with them, Scott Smith was arrested at a school board meeting, dragged on the ground till his shirt rolled up to his chest, winding up with a bloody mouth.
Humiliated.
That's what fathers standing up for young female students in America get today — shamed as anti-trans, bigots, MAGA or MAGA-adjacents, idiots who can't comprehend liberal nuances.
Michael Kuch, speaking out after his daughter was bullied and committed suicide, gets smeared by the school superintendent, who took it upon himself to air their private family matters.
And look at the non-coverage of whistleblower Jamie Reed in much of liberal media. Here is a 42-year-old who identifies as 'a queer woman, politically to the left of Bernie Sanders' — married to a trans man — who worked for four years at The Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
She's the first American gender clinic worker to come forward and say children are being harmed by medical gender transition.
You would think her explosive essay, published yesterday in the Free Press, would make headlines everywhere. Not so, despite her dire warnings.
'What's happening to children,' Reed wrote, 'is morally and medically appalling.' With little more than claims of gender confusion and two visits with an in-house therapist, these children, she says, are placed on puberty-blockers that can result in lifelong sterilization or increased risks for cancer or who knows what — because we have no longitudinal studies. The teenagers Reed saw, most of them virgins, were approved for surgeries that many come to regret. They had no idea what their minds and bodies were in for, but they trusted the adults at this facility.
Reed reprinted an email from one angry parent:
'Please be advised that I'm revoking my consent for this course of medical treatment. Grades have dropped, there's been an in-patient behavioral health visit and now he's on five different medications . . . [Redacted] is a shell of his former self, riddled with anxiety. Who knows if it's because of the hormone blockers or the other medications. I revoke my consent.'
For alerting us to this public health emergency, Reed says she expects to be shamed and unemployable. 'I am putting myself at serious personal and professional risk,' Reed wrote. 'Almost everyone in my life advised me to keep my head down. But I cannot in good conscience do so.'
The children of America need more adults like Jamie Reed and Michael Kuch and Scott Smith: Willing to stand up for the most vulnerable, the most at-risk, to push back against this ultra-woke world in which black and white, right and wrong, are increasingly archaic ideas. We cannot abide bullies, be they kids in class or teachers who look the other way or school shooters whose aberrant behaviors give plenty of warning — our most recent a six-year-old who intentionally shot his teacher — or trans activists who equate concern and questioning with prejudice and hate.
We are failing our children. It's long past time for the adults in the room to grow up.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11737631/MAUREEN-CALLAHAN-girl-bullied-death-dad-smeared-school.html
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DeSantis Camp Calls Out 'The View' Host for 'Dishonest and Incorrect' On-Air Claim: 'Stop Lying'
A representative for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called out purported Republican Alyssa Farah Griffin after she charged on ABC’s “The View” Thursday that the governor is “erasing history” for black students by banning critical race theory in classrooms.
Griffin falsely claimed DeSantis had hijacked the curriculum on the subject of black history in order to censor topics such as slavery and the civil rights movement.
In a response to the governor’s recent ban of an AP black history course that was CRT in disguise, she made an accusation that was not supported by the facts.
“You’re literally talking about erasing history,” she said on “The View.”
“This is straight up saying we’re not gonna learn about slavery, we’re not going to learn about the Civil War. That’s much more dangerous,” Griffin continued.
The AP black history course in question had been appropriately flagged as a trojan horse for Marxist ideals and will not be taught in Florida classrooms in its original form.
DeSantis took issue with its focus on black history as “queer theory” and also its literature on “abolishing prisons,” among other topics.
None of that was mentioned on “The View,” and so DeSantis’ press secretary, Bryan Griffin — no relation, apparently — called out the ABC host and CNN contributor online after her comments aired.
“@Alyssafarah stop lying,” Bryan Griffin tweeted. “Florida has extensive requirements to teach black history. But @GovRonDeSantis will not allow ideologues to utilize black history as a vehicle for a political agenda in FL’s classrooms.” He later told Fox News that Griffin’s claims were “both dishonest and incorrect.”
Columnist David Marcus also reacted to her comments on “The View.”
“This is incredible lying, but I think Whoopi at least believes it,” Marcus tweeted. “Alyssa Farrah Griffin knows damn well that CRT is implemented in the schools but is too afraid to say so.”
In his tweet, DeSantis’ press secretary shared a link to the state’s approved curriculum on the subject of African American History.
According to the Florida Department of Education, students will learn about the history of “African peoples before the political conflicts that led to the development of slavery; the passage to America; the enslavement experience; abolition; and the history and contributions of Americans of the African diaspora to society.”
“Students shall develop an understanding of the ramifications of prejudice, racism, and stereotyping on individual freedoms, and examine what it means to be a responsible and respectful person, for the purpose of encouraging tolerance of diversity in a pluralistic society and for nurturing and protecting democratic values and institutions,” the department clearly states.
But it also clearly states that theories on race intended to stoke racial division will not be permitted in classrooms for the purpose of poisoning young people against one another.
“Instructional personnel may facilitate discussions and use curricula to address, in an age-appropriate manner, how the individual freedoms of persons have been infringed by slavery, racial oppression, racial segregation, and racial discrimination, as well as topics relating to the enactment and enforcement of laws resulting in racial oppression, racial segregation, and racial discrimination and how recognition of these freedoms has overturned these unjust laws,” the guidelines say.
The website adds that classroom instruction and curriculum “may not be used to indoctrinate or persuade students to a particular point of view.”
https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/desantis-camp-calls-view-host-dishonest-incorrect-air-claim-stop-lying
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Washington University says it is 'alarmed' by whistleblower allegations against its transgender center and vows to 'ascertain the facts'
Washington University is 'alarmed' by the allegations of a whistleblower who worked at its transgender clinic at the St Louis Children's Hospital and has vowed to 'ascertain the facts'.
Jamie Reed, a former employee at the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital, said that working there was like working 'in a cult' and that what is being done to kids is 'morally and medically appalling'.
After the article was published, Missouri's Attorney General Andrew Bailey confirmed his office was launching an major probe into the clinic following Reed's allegations, which he characterized as 'disturbing.'
Bailey said his primary goal was to make sure children were not harmed by 'individuals who may be more concerned with a radical social agenda than the health of children.'
In her affidavit, Reed said in one instance a girl was prescribed cross-sex hormones because she did not want to become pregnant.
'There was no need for this girl to be prescribed cross-sex hormones. What she needed was basic sex education and maybe contraception,' she said, adding that a basic assessment of her case would have revealed that.
'But because the doctors automatically prescribe cross-sex hormones or puberty blockers for children meeting the bare minimum criteria, this girl was unnecessarily placed on drugs that cause irreversible change to the body.'
She alleged that in another instance, a patient asked for their breasts to be removed and was given the surgery at St. Louis Children's Hospital - but just weeks later, the woman asked for them to be 'put back on.'
Reed draws the conclusion that proper assessment was not taken, and the patient was not properly informed that the changes were irreversible, according to the document.
The former employee added: 'Three months later, the patient contacted the surgeon and asked for their breasts to be "put back on." Had a requisite and adequate assessment been performed before the procedure, the doctors could have prevented this patient from undergoing irreversible surgical change.'
The whistleblower, who first came forward in The Free Press, included a list of outlandish requests children came into the center with, which she alleged doctors listened to and then prescribed cross-sex treatment for.
She said: 'Children come into the clinic using pronouns of inanimate objects like mushroom, rock, or helicopter. Children come into the clinic saying they want hormones because they do not want to be gay.
'Children come in changing their identities on a day-to-day basis. Children come in under clear pressure by a parent to identify in a way inconsistent with the child's actual identity.
'In all these cases, the doctors decide to issue puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones.'
Reed alleged the hospital's public claims that it did not perform gender transition surgeries on minors was a lie.
'The Center regularly refers minors for gender transition surgery,' she said. 'The Center routinely gives out the names and contact information of surgeons to those under the age of 18.
'At least one gender transition surgery was performed by Dr. Allison Snyder-Warwick at St. Louis Children's Hospital in the last few years,' Reed alleged.
In another shocking claim, Reed alleged that one 17-year-old patient was brought into the clinic by a man - who he was not related to. The teenager was living with the man.
The teenager started hormones 'as soon as they turned 18.' But the patient's mental health very quickly deteriorated - and Reed claims it was soon revealed the man who initially bought the child to the clinic was sexually and physically abusing him.
Despite learning of the alleged abuse of power, the center did not stop the gender transition treatment, the affidavit claims.
Reed worked at The Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital and was responsible for patient intake between 2018 and November 2022.
Reed said she took the job at the center with the intention of 'saving' trans kids, but that she believes what is happening amounts to 'permanent harm' on young, vulnerable children.
After four years, she says she became convinced the clinics were harming kids and families, whose understanding of the realities of the medical side-effects involved was scarily poor.
Doctors acted as though they were more entitled to make decisions than parents, says Reed, and only one parent's consent was required in cases involving minors.
Reed cites examples of a 17-year-old girl's birth canal allegedly being 'ripped open' when she had sex while taking testosterone to transition to male, unaware that the drug would cause her to bleed extensively if she had intercourse.
In other scenarios, she claims teenage girls were terrified when their clitorises turned into micro-penises while they took the drugs.
Some psychiatrically 'disturbed' children from juvenile detention centers were also presented because they had 'at some point' expressed an interest in changing gender.
The doctors I worked alongside at the Transgender Center said frequently about the treatment of our patients: 'We are building the plane while we are flying it.' No one should be a passenger on that kind of aircraft.'
Among those patients, according to Reed, was a boy who'd been sexually abusing dogs. 'Somewhere along the way, he expressed a desire to become female, so he ended up being seen at our center.
'The way the American medical system is treating these patients is the opposite of the promise we make to "do no harm."
'Instead, we are permanently harming the vulnerable patients in our care... what is happening to scores of children is morally and medically appalling.'
She describes seeing a sudden, sharp uptick in the number of young girls 'demanding testosterone', sometimes presenting themselves as 'clusters' from the same schools.
Reed perceived a 'lack of formal protocol' at the center, and that doctors ignored the fact young girls lied about having other illnesses and prescribed them hormones.
She reveals that in order for a young girl to start transitioning to male, all she needed to do was see a clinic-recommended therapist once or twice and obtain a letter of support for their decision.
That therapist was often given a template for the letter that was written by the clinic, according to Reed.
'Frequently, our patients declared they had disorders that no one believed they had.
'We had patients who said they had Tourette syndrome (but they didn't); that they had tic disorders (but they didn't); that they had multiple personalities (but they didn't).
'Clinics like the one where I worked are creating a whole cohort of kids with atypical genitals - and most of these teens haven't even had sex yet.
'They had no idea who they were going to be as adults. Yet all it took for them to permanently transform themselves was one or two short conversations with a therapist,' Reed writes.
She says the doctors at the hospital treat the issue of transitioning among teens as an 'experiment'.
'Experiments are supposed to be carefully designed. Hypotheses are supposed to be tested ethically.
'The doctors I worked alongside at the Transgender Center said frequently about the treatment of our patients: 'We are building the plane while we are flying it.'
'No one should be a passenger on that kind of aircraft.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11737411/Washington-University-alarmed-trans-clinic-whistleblower-allegations.html
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