GOP Duo Urge DOE to Halt Secret Gender Transitions
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) issued a letter to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona urging him to clarify that schools must disclose students’ gender identity to parents. The letter comes after news that a 12-year-old girl in Florida reportedly attempted suicide after her school started calling her a boy and assigned her a male name. The school reportedly pulled the girl from class to partake in gender therapy discussions that did not involve a licensed medical professional before concluding she should transition socially.
According to the Daily Caller:
“The sheer fact that a 12-year-old student attempted to take her life after her own school refused to disclose conversations about a gender transition to her parents is repulsive,” Foxx told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Parents across this country deserve to know vital information about their children – and not be blindsided by the very people that are entrusted to teach them.”
AdvertisementFoxx and Burr urged Cardona to clarify that the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) explicitly states that schools cannot have policies that deny parents the right to review the educational records of their children. “Actively concealing vital health information from parents ‘effectively prevents’ parents from accessing information to which they are entitled,” the letter said.
The letter also challenged guidance from the Obama administration instructing schools to treat gender identity as a protected category through Title IX, which has traditionally been used to promote gender equality in education.
The letter also asks whether “school personnel should practice other forms of medical or psychological treatment without appropriate licensure or training” and “what other medical or psychological treatments [the department believes] that school personnel should provide to minor children without parental consent.”
The two closed the letter with a list of questions for the DOE to answer within two weeks.
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Hurrah for Foxx and Burr! Esp. good for Burr to take the lead on something like this, since he usually does not.
However, DOE is the abbreviation for the Department of Energy. The Department of Education is usually abbreviated ED.
It is about time the DOE was held accountable for overstepping its athourity. The right of parents to parent their children without governmental intrusion should be sacrosanct!
Boy, am I glad I’m out of this racket.
If I was still in it, the school/teacher have no idea what they would have to put up with me. Glad parents are standing up. For now….
Unfortunately, many still sleeping at the wheel.
DOE is just another rotting from within alphabet soup federal agency that should not exist and be disbanded.