Parents – American Conservative Movement https://americanconservativemovement.com American exceptionalism isn't dead. It just needs to be embraced. Tue, 12 Mar 2024 02:44:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://americanconservativemovement.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-America-First-Favicon-32x32.png Parents – American Conservative Movement https://americanconservativemovement.com 32 32 135597105 DOJ Hides Documents About Report Comparing Concerned Parents to KKK https://americanconservativemovement.com/doj-hides-documents-about-report-comparing-concerned-parents-to-kkk/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/doj-hides-documents-about-report-comparing-concerned-parents-to-kkk/#comments Tue, 12 Mar 2024 02:44:47 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=201787 (The Daily Signal)—America First Legal filed a lawsuit Monday after the Justice Department refused to hand over its communications related to a report last June comparing parental rights organizations to the Ku Klux Klan.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, a leftist group known for putting mainstream conservative and Christian organizations on a “hate map” with Klan chapters, added parental rights groups such as Moms for Liberty and Parents Defending Education to that “hate map” in June.

Parental rights groups have raised the alarm about divisive racial lessons and transgender lessons in schools, often championed in the name of diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI. The SPLC supports these lessons through its education arm, Learning for Justice.

“The Department of Justice has made it a priority to silence parents who speak out against DEI and the government-sponsored transgender agenda that is being pushed in public schools to children as young as 5 years old,” Ian Prior, senior adviser at America First Legal, told The Daily Signal in a written statement Monday. “The Southern Poverty Law Center appears to have been part of that effort—adding parent organizations to its so-called ‘hate map’ in 2023.”

“America First Legal is committed to shining a light on this abhorrent and anti-constitutional collusion between the DOJ and the SPLC to target parents who are exercising their rights to have a say in their children’s education,” Prior said of the Justice Department’s actions.

America First Legal, founded by former Trump administration officials, filed a Freedom of Information Act request in August. The request asked for records of all meetings between the DOJ and SPLC leaders and staff, records of communications between them, records related to the June report, and all communications containing terms such as “SPLC” and “Moms for Liberty.”

The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project received records showing that the Southern Poverty Law Center reached out to the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division before releasing its “hate map” in June. The SPLC offered to brief Justice Department leaders on the “hate map,” and the department confirmed to the Washington Examiner that the briefing indeed took place, although it didn’t specify when. (The Daily Signal is The Heritage Foundation’s news outlet.)

America First Legal’s request under the Freedom of Information Act cited The Daily Signal’s reporting that Moms for Liberty received death threats in the wake of the SPLC attack.

The request also noted that President Joe Biden’s White House helped craft the National School Boards Association’s letter to Biden comparing concerned parents to domestic terrorists in October 2021. That letter, later retracted, led to an FBI memo, also later retracted.

America First Legal’s request also noted that SPLC leaders and staff met with White House officials at least 11 times since January 2021, when Biden took office.

Recently unearthed documents, unrelated to the request, showed that a leading Education Department official met with SPLC staff in 2022, one year before the SPLC put Moms for Liberty on its “hate map.”

As I wrote in my book “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” the SPLC has faced numerous scandals related to its hate accusations. Its smears led to a domestic terrorist attack in 2012. The SPLC also paid millions to a Muslim reformer it branded an “anti-Muslim extremist.” And amid a racial discrimination and sexual harassment scandal that led the SPLC to fire its co-founder in 2019, a former employee called the “hate” accusations a “highly profitable scam.”

Yet the organization’s influence on the Biden administration appears widespread.

In a 2021 call with donors, SPLC President Margaret Huang bragged that the Biden administration reached out to her organization for advice to “help shape” its domestic terrorism strategy.

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6 Things We Need to Do to Start Fixing Youth Crime https://americanconservativemovement.com/6-things-we-need-to-do-to-start-fixing-youth-crime/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/6-things-we-need-to-do-to-start-fixing-youth-crime/#respond Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:32:42 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=199949 (The  Epoch Times)—“Youth crime is out of control” is the refrain heard on many lips around Australia and the Western world. Another common phrase is “The youth are our future.”

Put those two phrases together and we are left contemplating, indeed fearing for, the future well-being of our society. The statistics on youth crime regularly adorn newspapers and lead electronic media bulletins. Youth crime is a scourge.

So how did we get here? What can we do about it?

Like with any ingrained social problem, there is no quick fix. Something that took a generation or two may well take a similar time to repair. It takes a lot less time to crash a car than it does to repair it. So it is with society.

1. Start With the Family

The social data is relatively clear. A good home life with a mother and a father who are married in a loving long-term relationship is an important influencer on a child’s positive social behaviour.

Broken homes with a lack of an authority figure tend to produce the opposite. Explore the background of a youth offender there will nearly always be the scars of trauma.

As with all things social data, the statistics deal in generalities and there are exceptions, indeed many exceptions. Nevertheless, a stable home life with mum and dad is the best start in life a young person can be given. Pro-family policies help to keep families together and reduce cost of living pressures. And the real choice of having a parent stay at home, especially in the formative years, is urgently needed.

2. Bring Back Education on Traditional Values

To back up the home influence, we need a school system that teaches genuine respect for others and parents. Too often we hear how the education system, which should be complementing the parental role, is undermining it. Rather than emphasising the nuclear family it is denigrated for not being “diverse.”

While parents hope and strive to get their children job-ready, we have a schooling system teaching every “right” imaginable forgetting that “responsibility” comes before “rights” and not only in the dictionary—a book which one suspects the children have not been told about.

While students are encouraged to defy authorities by leaving classes to demonstrate all manner of things, including supporting the terrorist group Hamas rather than learning basic skills, we witness an abhorrent indoctrination of our young.

A reformed education system focusing on virtues, values, service, and equipping our young with real-life skills would be another essential policy change.

3. A Better Media

The media and entertainment houses have a social responsibility to present role models for young people to whom they can look up.

Social chaos and lack of morals, combined with denigrating parents and vital social institutions, serve to unsettle children and their direction in life.

The idea that a life is best served by asking, “What is expected of me” rather than “What is in it for me” is now totally absent. A responsible media analysing its duty for partnering to develop a healthy social consciousness is yet another step.

4. Don’t Fear the Preacher

We all need hope and purpose in life. Hope is largely provided through the religious/spiritual institutions. Individual faith today is ridiculed and besmirched by the education system and the media, even though it is often the religious-based organisations that provide support and offer an alternate pathway.

Closely linked to religious belief, which provides hope, is the need for purpose. Without it, the young will fall into a life of anti-social behaviour and criminal activity.

5. Power to Law Enforcement

To help counter this trend, law enforcement agencies must be fully empowered to protect the community rather than the perpetrator.

With the vast majority of young perpetrators being released on immediate bail and portrayed as victims (of society), their interaction with the legal system is hardly a deterrent.

To make matters worse we have a justice system more interested in the immediate happiness of the perpetrator than in providing a punishment to drive home the seriousness, and consequences on others, of their unacceptable behaviour.

6. It’s About Personal Responsibility

Rehabilitation has to be the societal goal for those who have offended. However, the desire to rehabilitate is only activated by the recognition that the individual has a problem.

Reinforcing that the issues faced are not really the perpetrator’s fault, and they don’t really possess the agency and capacity to reform, hardly encourages self-reflection.

The future of our society and the well-being of our young requires a wholesale acceptance that the current methodologies are not working.

We need focused pro-family policies, a recognition that agency and responsibility are required of us all, irrespective of our background, together with the strong acceptance that there will be felt consequences for those disregarding their fellow’s rights to safety and protection of property.

The individual well-being of our young demands such changes as does the well-being of society as a whole and our collective future.

Let’s get started.

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‘Losing Our Freedom of Speech’: Parent Speaks Out Against Middle School’s Explicit Reading List https://americanconservativemovement.com/losing-our-freedom-of-speech-parent-speaks-out-against-middle-schools-explicit-reading-list/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/losing-our-freedom-of-speech-parent-speaks-out-against-middle-schools-explicit-reading-list/#comments Mon, 25 Sep 2023 03:16:04 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=197094
  • A Virginia public school gave 12 and 13-year-old students a compilation of recommended books to choose from that contained violent and sexually explicit content, a reading list for the school’s English class shows.
  • One parent shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation that she believes this reading list shows that teachers are more focused on indoctrinating students than actually teaching.
  • “When I was in China, we didn’t have freedom of speech. Now I feel like in the United States we are losing our freedom of speech,” the parent told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
  • DCNF(Daily Caller)—Cooper Middle School in McClean, Virginia, gave students an age- inappropriate reading list for their 7th grade English class this year, a concerned parent told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

    Students in the English class were assigned a wide variety of books on topics that spanned from illegal immigration to Black Lives Matter (BLM), according to a copy of the list. Although the reading list clarifies that students will not have to read every single book, one teacher at the middle school said students would have to choose books to read from the provided options unless a parent offered an alternate, school-approved book, an orientation video welcoming students to the class showed.

    “The first time I got this syllabus was after the open house,” “Jane,” a parent who immigrated to the U.S. from Communist China and who requested anonymity so her child would not be bullied by teachers and students in the class, told the DCNF. “I didn’t think much of it at the time because I thought it was about teaching English. But. . . when I saw the second page, there were some words that looked completely unrelated.”

    The list specifies eight core concepts the students will study by reading a “variety of books” over the course of the year to “challenge” them and let them “explore universal concepts”: Identity, community, the unknown, loyalty, justice, ethics, perspective and change. Students received slightly different book assignments depending on if they were in the honors-level course or the regular class, but both lists contained controversial books with explicit sexual or violent content.

    “My parents were little during the communist revolution,” Jane told the DCNF. “Every textbook was about indoctrination, whether about physics, math or Chinese language. There was politics everywhere. . . Now it looks like this ‘English’ class has become indoctrination.”

    “The thing is, the whole state, the whole country has something wrong. Every person is like a small screw in a big machine. I wonder if the teachers really know what critical thinking really is,” Jane added. “When I was in China, we didn’t have freedom of speech. Now I feel like in the United States we are losing our freedom of speech. It’s not just about speech. It’s about thinking.”

    Both syllabi contain “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You,” a book by controversial author Ibram X. Kendi, who has advocated for the idea that every white person is inherently racist and compared anti-lockdown protesters in 2020 to slaveholders. “Stamped” is a “kid-friendly” remix of Kendi’s original book, “Stamped From The Beginning,” and gives a simplified explanation of his racial theories while encouraging students to “build an antiracist America” by “recognizing America’s racist past,” according to an excerpt from the preface.

    “I saw the author [of one of the books], Kendi, and I read a report about him before,” Jane told the DCNF. “When I saw a book by him on the list, it was like an alarm to me. I started to Google books, and there are some on the honor’s list that are not on the others. There were some books promoted by BLM.”

    “I don’t think schools should be giving these books to 7th graders in classrooms,” Jane added. “This curriculum is made to integrate an ideology about identity. I don’t think it’s correct for a teacher to promote their political agenda at a public school. They’re on the taxpayer’s money, we pay their salary.”

    Parents have raised concerns about controversial reading lists across the country over the past few years, as more public schools and libraries have attempted to introduce LGBTQ and BLM ideology into the classroom. Republican Sen. John  Kennedy of Louisiana read aloud sections of books at a Sept.12  Senate hearing that revealed the extremely graphic nature of the stories public schools have recently assigned to young students.

    The list provides students with several other books that promote BLM ideas: “The Hate U Give,” “Dear Martin,” “All American Boys,” “Ghost Boys,” “Just Mercy,” “New Kid” and “A Good Kind of Trouble.” Each book uses a fictional narrative to introduce students to concepts like “microaggressions,” modern-day white supremacy, police brutality and inherent racism.

    The school does not have a specific policy on allowing parents to opt their children out of books with extreme violence or overly politicized ideas, although the Fairfax County Public Schools system (FCPS) told the DCNF that parents have a right to opt their students out of an assignment if they are “uncomfortable with any books on any of our school reading lists.” FCPS administrators told the DCNF that all “controversial” books go through an extensive committee review process before being assigned to students.

    Jane expressed concern about some of the books she claimed had an ulterior agenda or had sexual themes that are inappropriate for children who are 12 or 13 years old. She pointed to one book, “Gracefully Grayson,” which is about a young boy who decides over the course of the story that he is actually a girl and that he wants to transition.

    “The students are vastly growing, not just with their bodies but with their minds,” Jane told the DCNF. “They [public schools] want to interfere with our children, and they want to make our children follow them, to accept their ideology. Identity is important. But discovering identity is a lifelong journey.”

    Other books focus more on the purely sexual side of the LGBTQ world, like “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe” and “They Both Die At The End.” Both books present two teenage boys as their protagonists, and both novels have extremely graphic descriptions of the boys making out and wanting to have sex.

    Other stories, like “Shatter Me,” “Uglies,” “The Fifth Wave” and “Five Feet Apart” focus on characters that want to have physical contact or sex but are not able to for varied reasons. “Shatter Me” in particular focuses on eroticism to emphasize to readers that the main character cannot touch anyone because she has the power to kill people on contact.

    “His hand. On me,” a passage at the very beginning of “Shatter Me” reads, describes the first time the main character is touched by her male cellmate. “2 tips of 2 fingers graze my cloth covered shoulder for less than a second and every muscle of every tendon in my body is fraught with tension that clenches my spine.”

    When the DCNF asked FCPS why they assign borderline pornography to young students, the administration pointed to their policy that requires teachers to inform parents at least 30 days in advance if their students will be reading a sexually explicit book in class. Parents can choose to opt their student out of reading those books and can also suggest alternate books they would rather have their child read.

    Jane told the DCNF that she worried about her child’s literature education, especially since the classroom functions as a “book club” style discussion format. She also said she was concerned the school would not approve her book choices if she chose more classic literature or conservative-leaning nonfiction.

    “One thing I was worried about: My daughter, my child, may be persecuted in her class,” Jane told the DCNF. “I want her to have the opportunity to actively participate in the learning activities. But some of the learning material that is provided is concerning. But how do you participate when the material is inappropriate?”

    Cooper Middle School, the school’s principal and the three teachers overseeing the English class did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

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    Astonishing Percentage of Young Adults in the United States Are Living With Their Parents https://americanconservativemovement.com/astonishing-percentage-of-young-adults-in-the-united-states-are-living-with-their-parents/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/astonishing-percentage-of-young-adults-in-the-united-states-are-living-with-their-parents/#comments Fri, 22 Sep 2023 04:05:30 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=196966 (The Economic Collapse Blog)—When are we going to wake up and admit that our system is failing?  If close to half of our young adults find themselves needing to live with their parents, we have a major crisis on our hands.  Yes, there are some young people that are simply lazy and don’t want to work hard enough.  I definitely understand that.  But most young adults in America today don’t actually want to live with their parents.

    Given the opportunity, they would love to have their own homes.  Unfortunately, home prices have risen to absolutely absurd levels and housing in America is now more unaffordable than it has ever been before.

    I feel so badly for the millions upon millions of young people that are struggling so much right now.

    We encourage them to pile up giant mountains of student loan debt without ever considering the consequences, and then once they get out into the real world they quickly discover that the cost of living has become extremely suffocating.

    As a result, vast numbers of young adults are finding that it is necessary to move back in with their parents

    Nearly half of all young adults are living with their parents — and they’re not ashamed to say it.

    Moving out and living on your own is often seen as a marker of adulthood. But dealt an onerous set of cards — including pandemic lockdowns, decades-high inflation, soaring student debt levels and a shaky job market — young people today are increasingly staying put. What’s more, it’s no longer seen as a sign of individual failure.

    Needless to say, this is not a good thing for our society.

    The last time that such a high percentage of young adults were living with their parents was during the aftermath of the Great Depression

    These days, about 23 million, or 45%, of all Americans ages 18 to 29 are living with family, roughly the same level as the 1940s, a time when women were more likely to remain at home until marriage and men too were lingering on family farms in the aftermath of the Great Depression.

    So why is this happening? One of the primary reasons why this is happening is because high interest rates have pushed housing costs to insane levels.

    This week, the average rate on a 30 year fixed mortgage reached 7.19 percent

    US mortgage rates remained flat this week, hovering over 7%, where they’ve been for six consecutive weeks as inflation pressures persist.

    The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 7.19% in the week ending September 21, a tick up from 7.18% the week before, according to data from Freddie Mac released Thursday. A year ago, the 30-year fixed-rate was 6.29%.

    “Mortgage rates continue to linger above 7% as the Federal Reserve paused their interest rate hikes,” Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist, said. “Given these high rates, housing demand is cooling off and now homebuilders are feeling the effect,” he said. “Builder sentiment declined for the first time in several months and construction levels have dipped to a three-year low, which could have an impact on the already low housing supply,” Khater added.

    And this isn’t even going to be the peak.

    In fact, NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun is warning that “in the short run, it’s possible that mortgage rates may go up to 8%.”

    8 percent? Are you kidding me?

    Even now, mortgage payments have escalated to absolutely crazy heights.  Earlier this week, the following example was posted on Twitter by Amy Nixon

    This home sold in 2021 for $685,000

    Buyer’s monthly payment? $3526

    Buyer’s monthly payment today? $8402

    “But wages went up!”

    “But people have cash now!”

    NO—THIS IS COMPLETE INSANITY

    STOP PRETENDING IT IS NOT

    She is right. This is nuts.

    Only a very small percentage of the population can afford such monthly payments, and so millions of potential buyers are being sidelined. And millions of potential sellers are being sidelined as well, because most of them would need to purchase another home if the current home they are living in was sold.

    So the vast majority of us are trapped in our homes right now. Most of us simply cannot afford to move because the mortgage payments would be way too high. Obviously, this is one of the main things that is greatly depressing home sales right now.

    Sales of previously owned homes declined again in August. If you can believe it, they were actually down a whopping 15.3 percent from the already depressed level that we witnessed in August 2022. If you want to thank someone, thank the officials at the Federal Reserve, because they created this mess. Overall, Fannie Mae is projecting that this will be the worst year for home sales since 2011

    US home sales are headed for the biggest slowdown since 2011, according to Fannie Mae.

    The government-sponsored mortgage finance company forecasted total home sales to slump to just 4.8 million this year, marking the slowest sales environment since 2011. That figure will only improve slightly in 2024, with total home sales expected to hit 4.9 million, Fannie Mae economists said.

    If our young adults cannot afford to purchase homes, at least they can afford to rent places to live, right?

    Wrong.

    In recent years, rents have skyrocketed all over the country.

    At this point, the national median asking rent in the U.S. is over $2,000 a month

    Landlords are continuing to ask near record-high rents amid a tight housing market, but tenants in some parts of the country are still finding deals, according to a new study from Redfin.

    The asking rent in August was $2,052, up slightly (0.7%) from just a month earlier when the asking rent was $2,038.

    When I was a young adult, I remember renting an apartment for $300 a month.  And I thought that was expensive.

    Unfortunately, I don’t see much help for our young people on the horizon. The Federal Reserve does not plan to cut interest rates any time soon. And it will be quite some time before housing prices decline enough to be considered “affordable”.

    So if you are a parent, please be patient with any young adults that you currently have living at home.  Factors outside of their control have made housing more unaffordable than it has ever been before, and economic conditions are going to continue to get harsher all around us.

    Michael’s new book entitled “End Times” is now available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can check out his new Substack newsletter right here.

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    California Bill Would Remove Local Control of Education https://americanconservativemovement.com/california-bill-would-remove-local-control-of-education/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/california-bill-would-remove-local-control-of-education/#comments Tue, 18 Jul 2023 14:27:20 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=194920 Our founding fathers believed in essential principles that have advanced our republican form of government for the last approximately two and a half centuries. Those values are enshrined in our U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights.

    Our founding fathers also recognized that education was central to a thriving nation. They knew that an educated nation was necessary to prepare its citizens for a republican form of government. With that acknowledgment and awareness of an educated citizenry, our founding leaders promoted public education that has allowed our country to endure and flourish. The desire to create public schools was the foundation for advancing our citizens’ knowledge of and fitness for self-government and local control by citizens through elected leadership.

    The concept of local control in education has been traditionally recognized and revered by both Democrats and Republicans alike. The concept of local control is grounded in a philosophy that citizens and institutions that are closest to their communities are the best endowed in the welfare and success of its educators, students, and communities.

    In the three years since our nation was paralyzed with the COVID-19 pandemic, our nation has become increasingly detached and divided. Our students have been academically damaged by school closures, worsening test scores, and less parental rights and local control of education.

    At this historic moment, our communities hold fast to politically and culturally diverse views of self-governance. Unproven and troublesome university pedagogical theories have become the primary focus by state bureaucrats resulting in a drifting education mission to the detriment of academic achievement, parental rights, and school choice. Essentially, public education has been diverted from the primary goal of inculcating facts and knowledge to our children, as well as critical thinking skills. Now the progressive left’s mission is to advance divisive gender and race theories over academics.

    Newly-elected state Assemblyman Corey Jackson (D-Perris), a former Riverside County Board of Education member, has authored Assembly Bill 1078, which creates a substantial new state-mandated local program that burdens the state’s already deficient General Fund, and abolishes local control of education. Under AB 1078, employing the guise of “curriculum diversity,” local control of education is tragically dissolved.

    Additional state monies, taxes, or both will be required to finance this bill for reimbursements to local school districts. This is at a time when the state and local school districts face massive financial and budget deficits. Once again, this bill places great burdens and significant new workloads and responsibilities on the state Department of Education and local school districts all under the umbrella of “diversity and inclusion.”

    Traditionally, local school boards have the final decision in these matters to select specific curricula and textbooks under state guidelines. This bill mandates the state Department of Education to procure schools textbooks that are narrowly and politically defined. This bill will force local school districts to adopt certain textbooks or instructional materials approved only by the state.

    This bill violates the inviolable concept of local education control once enjoyed in our state and nation by prohibiting local decisions for our children’s schools by locally elected school board members. It mandates Orwellian-like classroom instruction, curriculum, and textbooks. In other words, this bill limits local school boards to state-endorsed literature, instructional materials, and curriculum.

    Our founding fathers would scorn contemporary Sacramento legislators for allowing the demise of local control of education. The responsibility of public education and deciding what curriculum and textbooks to adopt, and what curriculum and books to discard, should remain with local school boards who are accountable to the parents and the voters who elect them.

    Article cross-posted from our premium news partners at The Epoch Times.

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    Is It ‘Authoritarian’ to Take Children Away From Parents Who Allow ‘Gender Affirming Care’? https://americanconservativemovement.com/is-it-authoritarian-to-take-children-away-from-parents-who-allow-gender-affirming-care/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/is-it-authoritarian-to-take-children-away-from-parents-who-allow-gender-affirming-care/#respond Thu, 25 May 2023 17:58:36 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=192946 Parental rights are at the top of my list of liberties to protect because they’re at the top of the radical left’s list of liberties to attack. “Progressives” truly believe public school teachers and government-provided indoctrination services should be raising our children with parents doing little more than supplying the money necessary to keep the brainwashing flowing.

    I recently got into a debate with a fellow conservative about various state laws that are popping up across the nation banning “gender affirming care” for children. For those who are unfamiliar, “gender affirming care” is the woke way of describing hormone poisoning and genital mutilation to permanently change the sex of a child.

    The conservative I was debating, who I generally respect, was lambasting me for condemning the actions of states like California while supporting the “similar” actions of states like Florida. The former will take children away from their parents if they do not allow their children to be permanently deformed. The latter will take children away from parents who allow it.

    “You can’t have it both ways, Rucker,” my conservative friend told me. “Either parents have rights over their children’s gender or they don’t.”

    It was disappointing to be getting a strawman argument from a fellow conservative, but I’m glad it happened. It alerted me that some things that are black and white to me aren’t as clear to others who are otherwise likeminded.

    I’ll keep my argument simple. Parental rights do not supersede the physical health of the child. “Gender-affirming care” is the practice of permanently deforming a child. Therefore, it is child abuse. This is backed by the plethora of evidence showing later-life regret from “transitioned” children, many of whom end up with major mental disorders. Some commit suicide, though you’d have a hard time finding corporate media stories telling their tragic tales.

    Comparing California and Florida laws through the lens of parental rights is disingenuous, especially for a conservative. California endorses child abuse. Florida protects children from child abuse. I see no contradiction in condemning one and endorsing the other.

    Let’s look at it with a different hypothetical. Let’s say there’s a movement that promotes hand-shifting. Right-handed people who want to be left-handed because they believe they were born in the wrong bodies decide to surgically remove their right hand and replace it with a prosthetic.

    If an adult wants to do it, that’s on them. If they do it to their child, it’s child abuse. Period.

    I’m all-in for parental rights. Those rights do not empower parents to have genital mutilation performed on their kids, millions of whom were confused about sexuality BEFORE the recent push for trans-supremacy. Now that we live in a society that embraces brainwashing children into thinking they’re in the wrong bodies, the “gender affirming care” industry is making a killing off woke parents. They are deforming their children permanently and must be stopped.

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    The Real Risk From the CDC’s New Jab Recommendations: Kids Getting Injected Without Parents Being Aware https://americanconservativemovement.com/the-real-risk-from-the-cdcs-new-jab-recommendations-kids-getting-injected-without-parents-being-aware/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/the-real-risk-from-the-cdcs-new-jab-recommendations-kids-getting-injected-without-parents-being-aware/#respond Sat, 11 Feb 2023 16:09:02 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=190199 Yesterday’s quiet announcement that the Covid-19 “vaccines” had been added to the recommended jabs for school children has received very little attention from corporate media. One might think that this victory for vaxx-nannies and purveyors of pandemic panic would be heralded far and wide. Instead, it was a pre-weekend drop with no fanfare, no ribbon-cutting, and no Anthony Fauci bouncing from interview to interview.

    As MRCTV noted, this means it will be harder for parents to avoid getting their kids jabbed in certain school districts that take the CDC “recommendations” and make them required:

    The CDC has officially taken the recommendation of its vaccine panel and added a triple dose of the COVID shot to its list of recommended vaccinations for American kids, toddlers, and babies – a list used by many public school systems to determine which shots a child must have in order to start school.

    Per the updated guidelines, healthy kids 6 months old and up should receive a two doses of either the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech monovalent COVID-19 vaccine followed by a bivalent vaccine or booster.

    While the agency’s list of recommended jabs doesn’t actually require anyone to get all – or even any – of the shots on it, the update is concerning for many parents worried that their local school district will start requiring the COVID vaccine for their preschoolers to be enrolled in public schools, which oftentimes use the CDC’s recommended shot list as their own default requirements. In some districts, those vaccine requirements even extend to private schools, further limiting the options for families who decline.

    But there’s an even more troubling risk, one that would explain why the powers-that-be did their best to keep this as a quiet release. As Dr. Kris Held noted on Twitter:

    I’m worried some children will get the C19 V because parents aren’t aware it’s been added to the recommended immunization schedule to which they consent. Parents must ask specifically which vaccine is being administered at each visit and best confirm before each plunger is pushed.

    If parents are either unaware about this change to the vaccine schedule or if they believe their doctors have to divulge what’s going into their kids when “standard” vaccine schedules are requested, it’s very possible they could get their kids the Covid jab and never even know it. It should be standard operating procedure in the parenting handbook that they are fully aware of what’s going into their kids, but we know that’s not always the case.

    Spread this information to every parent you know. They MUST ask their doctors about the “standard” jabs they’re giving their kids. They MUST be aware of what their school districts are going to require. It may seem like common sense to most, but there are many Americans who still fully trust the CDC, FDA, and their own doctors without questioning intents or actions.

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    NY Father Desperate to Save 11-Year-Old Child From Forced Gender “Transition” Speaks Out https://americanconservativemovement.com/ny-father-desperate-to-save-11-year-old-child-from-forced-gender-transition-speaks-out/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/ny-father-desperate-to-save-11-year-old-child-from-forced-gender-transition-speaks-out/#respond Sat, 08 Oct 2022 16:54:30 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=182814

    Editor’s Note: The father of the girl in this article has a fundraiser going.

    A young girl from New York is at risk of being turned into a “boy,” thanks to the transgender desires of her mother and the state’s medical industry.

    The girl’s father is trying to fight for her to remain her natural gender, but everyone else seems to want the child to have her female body parts severed or altered, as well as her female hormones obliterated, all so she can be transitioned into a “male.”

    The father of the middle-schooler, whose name is being kept private to protect the family, said he has been instructed by the court system to refer to his daughter using her new chosen male name, along with a new set of “preferred pronouns.”

    The girl’s mother wants her to be placed on puberty blockers immediately, which the girl’s father worries could stunt her development and lead to sterility. (Related: Another father has come forward with claims that the family pediatrician is now asking him if he wants to be referred to as a boy or a girl.)

    Children’s body parts and hormones are being destroyed based on the very same gender stereotypes that LGBTs want to eliminate

    From now on, the court has decided that neither parent is allowed to talk to the child about “anything gender related,” even though they are the child’s parents. The court, in other words, has taken ownership of the child.

    That order has been in effect since April, which is around the time the mother started demanding full custody of the child. The courts rejected that request, however, and the couple is now seeking a divorce, this being the primary disagreement between them.

    The child’s father has since launched a fundraiser to ask for “help to keep [his] daughter a girl” and stop the child from becoming surgically and chemically mutilated for life.

    The man said he is fully committed to fighting as hard as he can to protect his daughter from gender mutilation, while his wife indicated that she will “die on this hill.”

    When the child was much younger, “her dream was to be in a pageant,” the couple indicated. By the time she reached eight years old, however, the child said that “girly clothes and dresses” were no longer her style.

    “I have no problem with that,” the father said. “Tomboys actually do still exist.”

    The mother feels differently, though. Like many trans activists, she is of the belief that if her daughter is no longer interested in beauty pageants, then she must be a boy trapped inside a girl’s body.

    The only solution, she apparently believes, is to remove the child’s breasts and transition her vagina into a fake penis. Then she will be her “true self” and be able to wear less-girly clothes and no more dresses.

    The mother apparently indoctrinated the child for more than a year, unbeknownst to the father. The mother scared her about growing breasts and “bleeding from the vagina,” which persuaded the pre-teen to agree to become a “boy” instead.

    “So my child, scared out of her mind at 8-years-old, says ‘I don’t want that to happen. I will cut off my breasts and I want to be a boy,’” the father explained about what happened.

    Starting in fourth grade, the child started to “socially transition” into a boy. She was then referred to the gender clinic at Golisano Children’s Hospital while the couple met with Daran Shipman, a marriage and family therapist who consulted them virtually.

    The latest news about trans insanity can be found at Transhumanism.news.

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