What if parents do not share Sen. Baruth’s conclusion? Is the right and duty of parents to make decisions for their minor children to be supplanted by government bureaucrats, medical “experts,” hospitals and pharmaceutical companies?
Vermont university and public officials worked frantically to prevent a showing of Matt Walsh’s documentary “What is a Woman?” The event was scheduled by Travis Allen, father of the local Randolph Union High School girl who complained about being compelled to undress in front of a biologically male student.
Government should have no authority to deem parents hostile and strip them of their rights and responsibilities regarding their children’s reproductive experiences outside of a court. Children are being permanently harmed by gender ideology activism.
“Such a commingling of the biological sexes in the female athletics arena would significantly undermine the benefits afforded to female student athletes under Title IX’s allowance for sex-separated sports teams,” Judge Lagoa wrote.
Vermonters both liberal and conservative expressed their views Tuesday night regarding a proposed education equity policy and related free speech issues at Milton High School.
Where compelled speech is imposed by government action, it violates clear First Amendment strictures. Americans must insist that their pronoun selections — not fantasy identities — be respected.
Lawyers representing Randolph Union High School (RUHS) in Randolph, Vermont, persuaded school officials to drop their threats of punishment upon receiving a 124-page lawsuit filed by the Alliance Defending Freedom.
Neither measure stipulates that the reproductive “right” in question applies only to women or to abortion. Critics argue that both constitutional amendments would enable courts to declare transgender medical interventions a fundamental “right” for minors, excluding their parents from such decisions.
The vast majority of likely voters said they wouldn’t vote for a candidate who wants to allow minors to undergo gender transition procedures such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries, according to Thursday poll.
A Vermont school district punished both 14-year-old Blake Allen and her father for stating that a biologically male student who identifies as a transgender girl is male. Now the Allens are suing the school district — and accusing it of retaliating against their family for speaking out.
With children in school and parents out of school being censured, the free speech question extends to whether Americans have the right to even state that they believe there are only two biological genders. Existing law is clear that they do possess that fundamental liberty.
A growing chorus of activists and legislators seem intent on taking children away from parents like me, not because we would harm our children but because we would protect them from harm.