John Klar: Riots in Randolph
RUHS has been the center of a prolonged series of conflicts, almost all of which have been instigated by faculty-driven social justice initiatives, previously by Elijah Hawkes, and then by Layne Millington.
Letter: Gender dysphoria bills trample rights
Age protection for minors has been recklessly ignored in the committee regarding H.89 and S.37, along with parents’ rights to direct the medical care of their children.
Disaffected podcast: Transactional wokeness in Vermont
The woman who gay-bashed Stonewell original Fred Sargeant at Burlington’s 2022 Pride Parade gets let off with community service and charges dismissed. Historic first gay woman rep Becca Balint’s election efforts got a $1 million ad buy boost from the disgraced FTX crypto company being investigated for theft and fraud.
Disaffected podcast: Hell is for children
House Bill 89 legalizes parental abduction and medical mutilation of children. Stranger still, most Republicans voted for it. We’re going to ask why. All of this starts in your elementary schools.
Letter: Vermont Family Alliance response to Sen. Ginny Lyons on gender dysphoria
During the second reading of S.37, Sen. Lyons made an attempt to make a case that “sexual ambiguity” was a historical example of “gender dysphoria.” With just a google search Lyons could have easily accessed better information than she received from her list of committee experts.
Vermont legislator defends banning Christian school over forfeit to team with trans player: ‘I don’t think it’s a bridge too far’
A Vermont state senator defended the ban of a Christian school that forfeited a state tournament game rather than play against a team with a transgender player during a CNN interview that aired Monday.
Gender-affirming ‘shield bills’ target minors, college students in Vermont
Both Rep. Martin LaLonde and Sen. Ginny Lyons have made it clear that H.89 and S.37 prioritize the facilitation and protection of gender-affirming services for minors and young adults.
Podcast: Girls high school basketball team banned for refusing to compete against male player
A Christian school’s girls basketball team has been banned from competing in future tournaments after forfeiting a game against a team with a male student who claims to be transgender.
Vermont mother challenges gender theory in elementary school
In an interview with True North Reports, Tara Ferf Jentink said she was unaware of ANWSD’s gender curriculum until alerted by her young child, and she took steps to address the issue with administrators — and was stunned by their response.
Mid-Vermont Christian School banned from tournament play over transgender decision, promises appeal
The private Christian school banned Monday from future Vermont high school athletic tournaments and other Vermont Principals Association activities said it is “disappointed” with the decision and promised to appeal.
VFA: Hear the voices of detransitioners from third annual Detrans Awareness Day
March 12 was the third annual DetransAwarenessDay. The Vermont legislative proponents of H.89 and S.37 need to pause and hear detransitioner voices this week — the voices of those unnecessarily misdiagnosed and abandoned by exclusive gender-affirming healthcare.
John Klar: Vermont once embraced eugenics; now it embraces puberty-blockers
Vermont, which eagerly embraced eugenics and forced sterilization a century ago, is aggressively creating a modern version of Underground Railroad for people in other states to freely obtain hormone-meddling “therapies” in the Green Mountains.