On June 27, 2025, the US Supreme Court issued a huge win for family rights. In a 135 page decision in the case of Mahmoud v. Taylor, the Supreme Court stated that schools cannot force students to participate in instruction that conflicts with their families’ religious beliefs—without providing notice and the ability to opt out of any curriculum the parents find offensive or harmful to their children. The decision is important to families in Washington state because it calls into question the Trans Drug Cult Curriculum imposed on young elementary school children at schools all across Washington state due to State Policy 3211. Proponents of Parents Rights pointed to recent research that this curriculum, that lies to students and encourages students lying to parents and encourages students to take Toxic Trans Drugs, is extremely harmful to students. In short, Policy 3211 not only violates Title IX, Title VI and FERPA Civil Rights, it also violates the fundamental First Amendment right of parents to control the education of their children. In this article, we will begin with quotes from this landmark decision and then review how this ruling will help us restore academic sanity to our schools here in Washington state.

Here are quotes from the decision from the majority author, Justice Alito:

“During the 2022–2023 school year, the Montgomery County Board of Education (Board) introduced a variety of “LGBTQ+-inclusive” texts into the public school curriculum. Those texts included five “LGBTQ+-inclusive” storybooks approved for students in kindergarten through fifth grade, which have story lines focused on sexuality and gender. “

 

(The above Trans Cult books are also used to brainwash kids here in Washington schools. 

Here are quotes from these books: “When we are born, our gender is often decided for us based on our sex... But at any point in our lives, we can choose to identify with one gender, multiple genders, or neither gender.” The discussion guide explains that “Kate prefers the pronouns they/their/them” and asks “What pronouns fit you best?”

“Love Violet follows a young girl named Violet who has a crush on her female classmate, Mira. Mira makes Violet’s “heart skip” and “thunder like a hundred galloping horses.” Although Violet is initially too afraid to interact with Mira, the two end up exchanging gifts on Valentine’s Day. Afterwards, the two girls are seen holding hands and “galloping over snowy drifts to see what they might find. Together.”

“Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope tells the story of Penelope, a child who is initially treated as a girl. The story is told from the perspective of Penelope, who at one point says “If they’d all stop and listen, I’d tell them about me. Inside I’m a boy. When Penelope’s mother later assures her that “‘If you feel like a boy, that’s okay,’” Penelope responds: “‘No, Mama, I don’t feel like a boy. I AM a boy.’”

“Uncle Bobby’s Wedding tells the story of a young girl named Chloe who is informed that her favorite uncle, Bobby, will be getting married to his boyfriend, Jamie.”

“These books impose upon children a set of values and beliefs that are “hostile” to their parents’ religious beliefs. And the books exert upon children a psychological “pressure to conform” to their specific viewpoints.”

“That “objective danger” is only exacerbated by the fact that the books will be presented to young children by authority figures in elementary school classrooms… An MCPS official has made clear that teachers cannot . . . elect not to use the LGBTQ-Inclusive Books at all.”

“The Board hosted a “professional development workshop” in the summer of 2022, where it provided teachers with a guidance document suggesting how they might respond to student inquiries regarding the themes presented in the books…If a student claims that a character “can’t be a boy if he was born a girl,” teachers were encouraged to respond: “That comment is hurtful.” And if a student asks “what’s transgender?”, it was recommended that teachers explain: “When we’re born, people make a guess about our gender and label us ‘boy’ or ‘girl’ based on our body parts. Sometimes they’re right and sometimes they’re wrong.” The guidance document encouraged teachers to “disrupt the either/or thinking” of their students.”

“In other contexts, we have recognized the potentially coercive nature of classroom instruction of this kind. “The State exerts great authority and coercive power through” public schools “because of the students’ emulation of teachers as role models and the children’s susceptibility to peer pressure… There are heightened concerns with protecting freedom of conscience from subtle coercive pressure in the elementary and secondary public schools”. Young children, like those of petitioners, are often “impressionable” and “implicitly trust” their teachers. Here, the Board requires teachers to instruct young children using storybooks that explicitly contradict their parents’ religious views, and it encourages the teachers to correct the children and accuse them of being “hurtful” when they express a degree of religious confusion.”

“When parents in Montgomery County sought to have their children excused from instruction involving those books, the Board initially compromised with the parents by notifying them when the “LGBTQ+- inclusive” storybooks would be taught and permitting their children to be excused from the instruction... Less than a year after the Board introduced the books, however, it rescinded the parental opt out policy.”

“In March 2023, the Board issued a statement declaring that “students and families may not choose to opt out of engaging” with the storybooks and that “teachers will not send home letters to inform families when inclusive books are read in the future… Shortly after the Board rescinded parental opt outs, more than 1,000 parents signed a petition asking the Board to restore opt out rights. And hundreds of displeased parents, including many Muslim and Ethiopian Orthodox parents, appeared at the Board’s public meetings and implored the Board to allow opt outs. “

“Mahmoud and Barakat are Muslims who believe “that mankind has been divinely created as male and female” and “that ‘gender’ cannot be unwoven from biological ‘sex’—to the extent the two are even distinct—without rejecting the dignity and direction God bestowed on humanity from the start.”

“Chris and Melissa Persak have two elementary age daughters who attend public school in Montgomery County. The Persaks are Catholics who believe “that all humans are created as male or female, and that a person’s biological sex is a gift bestowed by God that is both unchanging and integral to that person’s being.” The Persaks believe “that children—particularly those in elementary school—are highly impressionable to ideological instruction presented in children’s books or by schoolteachers.” They are concerned that the Board’s “LGBTQ+-inclusive” storybooks “are being used to impose an ideological view of family life and sexuality that characterizes any divergent beliefs as ‘hurtful.’” They think that such instruction will “undermine their efforts to raise their children in accordance with” their religious faith. The Persaks’ daughters were initially permitted to opt out of instruction related to the storybooks, but they no longer have that option.”

Faced with the Board’s decision to rescind opt outs, petitioners filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. Among other things, they asserted that the Board’s no-opt-out policy infringed their right to the free exercise of their religion.

“Our Constitution proclaims that “Congress shall make no law . . . prohibiting the free exercise” of religion. Amendment. 1. That restriction applies equally to the States by way of the Fourteenth Amendment.

“The right to free exercise, like other First Amendment rights, is not “shed . . . at the schoolhouse gate. Government schools, like all government institutions, may not place unconstitutional burdens on religious exercise. “

“At its heart, the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment protects “the ability of those who hold religious beliefs of all kinds to live out their faiths in daily life through the performance of ” religious acts. “

“The Court has “long recognized the rights of parents to direct ‘the religious upbringing’ of their children… And this is not merely a right to teach religion in the confines of one’s own home. Rather, it extends to the choices that parents wish to make for their children outside the home… the right of parents “to direct the religious upbringing of their” children would be an empty promise if it did not follow those children into the public school classroom. We have thus recognized limits on the government’s ability to interfere with a student’s religious upbringing in a public school setting.”

“Those rights are violated by government policies that “substantially interfere with the religious development” of children… For many people of faith, there are few religious acts more important than the religious education of their children. And the practice of educating one’s children in one’s religious beliefs, like all religious acts and practices, receives a generous measure of constitutional protection.”

“The Board’s introduction of the “LGBTQ+-inclusive” storybooks, combined with its decision to withhold notice to parents and to forbid opt outs, substantially interferes with the religious development of petitioners’ children… The storybooks are designed to present the opposite viewpoint to young, impressionable children who are likely to accept without question any moral messages conveyed by their teacher’s instruction. These books impose upon children a set of values and beliefs that are “hostile” to their parents’ religious beliefs.”

“It is both insulting and legally unsound to tell parents that they must abstain from public education in order to raise their children in their religious faiths, when alternatives can be prohibitively expensive and they already contribute to financing the public schools.”

“The Board suggests that permitting opt outs from the “LGBTQ+-inclusive” storybooks would be especially unworkable because, when it permitted such opt outs in the past, they resulted in “unsustainably high numbers of absent students.” But again, the Board’s concern is self-inflicted. The Board is doubtless aware of the presence in Montgomery County of substantial religious communities whose members hold traditional views on marriage, sex, and gender. When it comes to instruction that would burden the religious exercise of parents, the Board cannot escape its obligations under the Free Exercise Clause by crafting a curriculum that is so burdensome that a substantial number of parents elect to opt out.”

“The Board cannot purport to rescue one group of students from stigma and isolation by stigmatizing and isolating another. A classroom environment that is welcoming to all students is something to be commended, but such an environment cannot be achieved through hostility toward the religious beliefs of students and their parents.

“When a deprivation of First Amendment rights is at stake, a plaintiff need not wait for the damage to occur before filing suit… if teachers act according to the clear and undisputed instructions of the Board—a burden on religious exercise will occur.”

(My note: In other words, it is the school board policy itself that violates the First Amendment right of Parents to Freedom of Religion. One of the primary concerns the Supreme Court had about the curriculum was that it was being used to change the beliefs of prekindergarten children as young as age 4.)

Here are quotes from Justice Thomas concurring opinion:

“The Board of Education of Montgomery County (Board) adopted a series of controversial “LGBTQ+-inclusive” storybooks for use in its prekindergarten through fifth-grade English Language Arts (ELA) curriculum. Hundreds of parents raised religious objections and sought to use the Board’s then-existing opt-out policy to exclude their children from lessons involving these books. The Board responded by removing the opt-out option, and even refused to provide parents with notice of when schools would use the materials.”

“I write separately to highlight additional reasons why the Board’s policy cannot survive constitutional scrutiny, as well as to emphasize an important implication of this decision for schools across the country.”

“Sex education is also a “relatively recent development”—and the practice of teaching sexuality- and gender related lessons to young children even more so. And, as in Yoder, there is little to suggest that these lessons are critical to the students’ civic development.”

The practice of teaching sexuality and gender identity to very young children at school appears to be significantly more recent than typical sex education. Although the plaintiffs placed the storybook curriculum’s recency and lack of historical pedigree in issue, the Board failed to identify any tradition of teaching sexuality and gender identity to young children—much less a tradition of preventing parents from opting their children out of such instruction. The Board’s “LGBTQ+-inclusive” storybook curriculum appears to be as novel as the storybooks themselves, all of which were published within the last decade.

“Until very recently, young children have gone without sexual- and gender-identity education in school. Nothing suggests that the countless generations who did not receive such education failed to “meet the duties of citizenship.”

“The Board’s response to parents’ unsuccessful attempts to opt their children out of the storybook curriculum conveys that parents’ religious views are not welcome in the “fully inclusive environment” that the Board purports to foster. “

“Teaching young children about sexual and gender identity in ways that contradict parents’ religious teachings undermines those parents’ right to “direct the religious upbringing of their children.”

The “Framers intended” for “free exercise of religion to flourish.” Insofar as schools or boards attempt to employ their curricula to interfere with religious exercise, courts should carefully police such “ingenious defiance of the Constitution” no less than they do in other contexts.”

How the US Supreme Court Parents Rights ruling affects our battle against the Trans Drug Cult here in Washington state

This is a case about whether the government can override parents’ ability to raise their children in accordance with their faith. The Court answered that question: No, it cannot. This ruling school districts across the country that they cannot marginalize families of faith in the name of “inclusion.” Real inclusion means respecting diverse religious beliefs—not enforcing radical child-harming Trans Drug cult propaganda. The Supreme Court made it clear that parents are not bystanders in their children’s education.

Research confirms exposure of too-young children to sexualized materials, including heterosexual, gay, lesbian, or “transgender ideology,” leads to irreparable psychological and even physical harms to minor children.

Children must be protected from Trans Cult propaganda which may cause confusion in too-young minds, and may even lead to permanently mutilating surgeries. The reading of inappropriate and sexualized materials to children can also be characterized as criminal child abuse.

Premature exposure to these sexualized materials can and will lead to grave harms to young children. We, as parents, must never lose sight of what is really at stake: permanent and irreversible loss of a minor child’s ability to ever create/produce sperm or egg; permanent and irreversible loss of a minor child’s ability to breast-feed, get pregnant, birth or father a baby.

Children lack the capacity to understand the substantial risks of these “gender reassignment” surgeries to which this ideology may lead. By definition a minor cannot understand irrevocable infertility and lifelong inability to enjoy a normal sexual relationship.

Solid research now shows that the vast majority of children (85% +) will outgrow “gender dysphoria” within a few years. By contrast,“affirming” gender dysphoria drugs such as puberty-blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical interventions can be very harmful and cause lifetime permanent damage.

Most state laws rightly eliminate the ability of minors to consent to anything, because they lack the capacity at a young age to understand the long-term and even the short- term consequences of their actions. They cannot sign binding contracts, buy alcohol, or get tattoos. This obviously includes their inability to give truly informed consent to life-altering puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or surgical destruction of the normal functioning of their bodies, which is a foreseeable and predictable outcome of the “transgender ideology.”

The Supreme Court is telling us parents that we do have power. Now it is up to us to use that power to take back our schools. We have a four step plan to achieve this goal. First, we need to do a better job of informing other parents of the harm of subjecting First Graders to Trans Cult Propaganda. Email this article to your friends and encourage them to sign up for our weekly newsletters.

Second, we need to build our own statewide network of community news websites. Courses on this process start the second Tuesday in July. Email us for more information.

Third, we need to pass a comprehensive Family Rights Initiative that goes beyond merely parental notice and includes prohibiting Trans Cult Curriculum in the first place.

Fourth, we need to replace the crazy cult in Olympia.

We will review all four of these steps at our next Washington Parents Network meeting this Sunday, June 29^th from 4 to 5 pm. If you would like join us, send us an email (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and we will email you the link.

Regards, David Spring M. Ed. Director,

Washington Parents Network

People are rightfully mad that Ferguson just signed the largest tax increase in state history. But an equally important reason we need to focus on removing him in 2028 is that Ferguson also played the leading role in starting the Trans Drug Cult. He has thereby caused more harm to children than almost any person in history. For anyone who is still under the illusion that Ferguson is some sort of moderate, in this article, we will review the despicable role Ferguson played in a landmark Trans Cult case called Tingley versus Ferguson – a case that forces gender confused kids in our state to take toxic Trans drugs instead of getting the counseling they need - and why the US Supreme Court is likely to overturn it in the 2025 Fall session.

Why telling the truth about Ferguson Matters
It is important not only for you to know the truth about Ferguson, but also to be able to tell your friends and other parents about how much harm Ferguson has inflicted on our children. The lying legacy media will NEVER cover this issue. It is up to us to let Independent voters know the truth about Ferguson before the 2028 election. In 2023, Ferguson was able to fool the US Supreme Court about the dangers of the Trans Drug Cult. In 2024, Ferguson was able to fool the voters here in Washington state. But in May 2025, the US Department of Health released a several hundred page study confirming that Trans Drug Cult propaganda of lying to kids and parents and getting kids hooked on toxic Trans drugs is severely harmful to kids and their families. This is why the US Supreme Court is not likely to be fooled in 2025. We need to make sure the Independent voters here in Washington state are not fooled in 2028.

2018 Washington State bans Child Counselling
Since 2018, Washington is one of several states that have banned counselors from speaking with gender confused children about the underlying causes of their gender confusion. As insane as it sounds, Senate Bill 5722 requires licensed counselors in Washington to promote state-sponsored child abuse of giving gender confused children toxic drugs.

This crazy law is an attack on our free speech rights under the First Amendment. It is also an attack on the scientific method as science requires the ability to consider all points of view – and not be limited to only the official dogma. Finally, this law is an attack on at-risk children – because it forces children to go down a deadly drug path and prevents them from having access to counseling that might help them overcome their mental health problems.

For the past eight years, Bob Ferguson and his accomplices in the Teachers Union and the legacy media have been telling several Big Lies – including his claim that a federal law called Title IX requires us to allow boys in the girls bathroom and allow boys to compete in girls sports. The driving force behind this law is not a concern for Trangender children but the extreme greed of the drug industry that is making billions of dollars in profits by getting vulnerable children addicted to toxic Trans drugs.

Yet there is a simple reason that giving gender confused kids toxic drugs to solve their problems is doomed to failure while providing children with counseling offers at least the possibility of success. The fact is that each child is unique. This is why child counseling begins by asking each child about their past experiences and their feelings about those experiences.

It is the best way to get at the underlying causes of child’s problems. By contrast, giving troubled children drugs treats all children as if they are the same. It relies on the desire of parents for a simple “magic bullet” solution. It is the Con Game of drug peddling, snakeoil salesmen, and corrupt politicans like Bob Ferguson and Chris Reykdal.

Ferguson lies to the US Supreme Court
For the past eight years, Bob Ferguson and his accomplices have based their ban on child counseling on the false claim that if we do not give gender confused kids toxic drugs to “affirm” their desired gender, 51% of these kids will attempt to kill themselves. Ferguson began filing more than a dozen Transgender Drug Promotion Amicus briefs as far back as 2016. One of his latest briefs was filed with the US Supreme Court on July 6 2023, in a case called Tingley versus Ferguson. Here is a link to Ferguson’s brief: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-942/270446/20230705162425629_zzz%20CENTERED%20FOR%20FILING.pdf

Brian Tingley is a licensed marriage and family counselor in Washington, who believing that an individual’s sex is “a gift from God, integral to our very being.” He claimed that the Washington law prohibiting counseling of gender confused children violates his First Amendment rights. The draconian law imposed a fine of $5,000 and loss of license for any licensed counselor wanting to provide troubled kids with counseling.

In his Amicus briefs, Ferguson repeatedly used “fake science” to mislead federal judges. To promote giving kids toxic drugs, Ferguson blatantly lied. He used Fake Science studies to claim there was a correlation between child counseling and child suicide attempts. What the fake studies failed to account for was the fact that the child suicide attempts occurred BEFORE the child counseling and were what led the parents to seek counseling!

Why accounting for the Time Order of Events Matters
Failing to account for the time order of events will often lead to a conclusion that is the exact opposite of the actual effect of any intervention. For example, it is well known that taking small daily amounts of aspirin can reduce the risk of a heart attack. Therefore, those who have already had a heart attack often take a small amount of aspirin every day to reduce their chances of having a future heart attack. But imagine that a careless researcher studied these heart attack prone people.

The careless researcher would certainly find a relationship between taking aspirin and “lifetime occurances of heart attacks.” Now imagine that based on this relationship, the careless researcher ignored the time ordering of events. This would cause this researcher to falsely claim that taking aspirin caused the heart attacks and therefore that taking aspirin should be banned! This was the flawed logic behind every study claiming that child counseling causes suicides and should be banned.

But Ferguson’s many Amicus briefs did not merely lie to the Court, he lied to the American people, including millions of parents and children, about a gender drug policy that is currently harming tens of thousands of children and costing tax payers billions of dollars. In short, this may be one of the worst crimes Bob Ferguson has ever committed.

The voters need to know about this crime because Ferguson is now the Governor of Washington state. We have summarize actual scientific studies in the following article: https://washingtonparentsnetwork.com/trans-drug-cult/part-i/4-why-kids-should-be-given-counseling-instead-of-drugs

Here is a graph from the above article showing that child counseling reduces the risk of a gender confused child committing suicide:

Studies on the benefits of counseling to reduce suicidal thoughts
A 2019 review of 40 studies on counseling found that 37 (92%) concluded that counseling reduces both suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00277/full

2021 Study finds Talk Therapy greatly reduces Suicidal Thoughts
The two most common psychological treatments for depression and suicidal thoughts are cognitive therapy (CT) and interpersonal therapy (IPT). Cognitive Therapy relies on changing a persons thoughts in order to improve their feelings. Inter Personal Therapy helps a person deal with their feelings about past negative events. Most child counselors use a combination of both. In 2021, van Bentum et al. published a study called, “Cognitive therapy and interpersonal psychotherapy reduce suicidal ideation” Here is a link to this study. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8451935/

The result was that the Wait List subjects had almost no change while the IPT group had a 60% reduction in Suicidal thoughts and the CT group had an 80% reduction. This combination of studies showing that drugs do not work while counseling does work led Sweden, Finland, Norway, France and the United Kingdom to move away from recommending gender mutilation drugs and towards counseling as the best option for minors.

How to Protect our Kids from the Trans Drug Cult

The first step is Education. Parents and Grandparents need to take the time to get better informed about the drawbacks of the Transgender Cult and the danger it presents to their children and to all children. The scientific research is out there and more studies are being published every year on the drawbacks of drugging children.

The second step is Political Organization. Parents need to reach out to other parents in their community and become more involved in the election process. Corrupt politicials often receive huge amounts of funding from the drug companies that benefit from laws that promote getting kids addicted to their toxic drugs. Corrupt politicials also get millions of dollars in free advertising from the mainstream media which in turn is funded by drug company ad money. The only way for an honest candidate to compete against the drug pushers and their accomplices is with the support of parents willing to take the time to get politically involved and help their campaigns with either time, money or both.

The third step is take steps to repeal 2018 Senate Bill 5722
We are working on a comprehensive Family Rights Initiative to the People that we intend to file that will not only protect the rights of parents but also protect the rights of children to child counseling and the rights of girls to their own sports leagues. We will describe this Initiative in more detail in a future article. Here is a link to the bill we intend to repeal: https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5722&Year=2017&Initiative=false

2023 US Supreme Court fooled about the Trans Drug Cult
While most of the Supreme Court justices were fooled by Ferguson and his Fake Science Amicus brief, two justices, Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas, were not fooled and would have granted the appeal. Thomas authored a 6 page dissent you can read at this link: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-942_kh6o.pdf

Here are quotes from his Dissent: “This case is not the first instance of the Ninth Circuit restricting medical professionals’ First Amendment rights, and without the Court’s review, I doubt it will be the last…We warned that “regulating the content of professionals’ speech ‘poses the inherent risk that the Government seeks not to advance a legitimate regulatory goal, but to suppress unpopular ideas or information… Under SB 5722, licensed counselors cannot voice anything other than the state-approved opinion on minors with gender dysphoria without facing punishment... Although the Court declines to take this particular case, I have no doubt that the issue it presents will come before the Court again. When it does, the Court should do what it should have done here: grant certiorari to consider what the First Amendment requires.”

2025 US Supreme Court learns the Truth about the Trans Drug Cult
In 2019, the Crazy Cult in Colorado passed a Child Counseling ban similar to the Washington state 2018 ban. This Colorado ban was challenged in the case called Chiles v Salazar. Kaley Chiles, a licensed professional counselor, brought a federal civil rights challenge to the law, arguing that it violates both the free speech and free exercise clauses of the First Amendment because it interferes with her ability to communicate with her clients. The district court denied her request for a preliminary injunction and by a divided vote, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit affirmed. Judge Harris Hartz dissented, citing Supreme Court precedent recognizing that “speech is not unprotected merely because it is uttered by professionals.” On November 8, 2024, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) on behalf of Chiles, appealed the 10^th Circuit decision to the US Supreme Court. A dozen pro-freedom groups filed Amicus briefs in support of Chiles. Links to all of these briefs can be found at this link: https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/24-539.html

The good news is that the US Supreme Court finally accepted this case and it is on their docket for the October 2024 term! It is likely that their decision will be in favor of Chiles and will be issued by the end of 2025. It is almost certain that the decision will finally overturn the 9^th Circuit decision in Tingley v Ferguson – allowing us to repeal 2018 Senate Bill 5722 as part of our Family Rights Initiative we will be submitting in 2026 or 2028.

Here we will briefly quote from the Chiles Petition to the US Supreme Court as well as some of the Amicus briefs to see why the US Supreme Court changed their mind – and to provide us with facts to help change the minds of Independent voters in the 2026 and 2028 elections here in Washington state. Here is a link to the Chiles Petition to the Supreme Court: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-539/331462/20241108125757340_USSC%20Petition%20for%20Writ%20of%20Certiorari.pdf

The Petition is 280 pages long. But only the first 44 pages are the Petition. We will only provide a couple of important quotes:

“An independent policy review commissioned by the English National Health Service noted the urgent and unmet need for mental health services to support “gender-questioning young people.” The Cass Review, Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children (Apr. 2024). “

“The Cass Review linked this shortage to restrictions like Colorado’s. Such restrictions have “left some clinical staff fearful” of “providing professional support” to young people at all. That result leaves detransitioners— those who adopted a transgender identity but now identify with their biological sex—with no counseling support whatsoever in much of the United States.”

“By upholding counseling censorship, the Tenth Circuit’s ruling here and the Ninth Circuit’s in Tingley tell countless minors they have no choice but to medically transition (aka take Trans Drugs).

“Recent studies show that those who desire harmony with their bodies and seek counseling find “significant improvement” with depression, anxiety, and suicidality and experience no “adverse or negative effects.” Cass Review at 153. “

On December 9, 2024 the Ethics and Policy Center filed a 31 page brief supporting Chiles at this link: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-539/334671/20241209165819165_No.%2024-539%20Amicus%20Brief.pdf

This brief provides links to some of the latest research on the drawbacks of giving kids toxic Trans Drugs. Here are a couple of quotes:

“The numbers of minors identifying as transgender and seeking hormonal and surgical body modifications has increased exponentially.”

“Since 2021, 26 states have examined the evidence for youth gender affirmation and responded by passing laws restricting or banning most gender transition interventions for minors.”

A person’s sex is imprinted in every cell of the person’s body and cannot change. Feelings cannot override or erase this truth. When an adolescent seeks affirmation of an identity at odds with reality, the therapist has an ethical duty to speak the truth, not to validate the minor’s false self-perception. It is profoundly unethical to reinforce a male child’s belief that he is not a boy, or that he “is” or can “become” a female. It is similarly unethical for a therapist to tell a female patient that her self-perception that she “is” a boy overrides the reality of her female-sexed body.”

“Decades of research show that nearly all (88%) children who express a transgender identity or exhibit identity distress typically “desist,” resolving those feelings before puberty.”

“The U.S. gender industry is at the center of a growing “medical scandal,” writes journalist Lisa Selin Davis. Evidence of suppressed research, political manipulation, misleading the public, and unethical experimentation on minors has surfaced in recent months, partly in the context of litigation. As these developments make clear, a counselor’s ability to speak freely, provide information, and respond to her client’s wishes is an ethical priority.”

“Kozlowska note 47, concluded that 87.7% of children and adolescents diagnosed with gender dysphoria had comorbid psychiatric diagnoses. “

On December 13, 2024, 11 more briefs were filed supporting Chiles. The first was Erin Lee who represented a group of parents who wanted counseling for their children in Colorado but was unable to get counseling due to counselors fearing the Colorado Child Counseling ban. The parents said the lack of counseling severely harmed their kids.

The second brief was from a Christian Medical Association representing 30,000 medical professionals. Here is a link to this 35 page brief: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-539/335148/20241213180542753_24-539_Brief.pdf

Here are quotes from this brief:

“Gender transition procedures (GTPs) imperil already at-risk gender dysphoric youth with experimental and unproven hormonal and surgical gender procedures, which medicalize prematurely and permanently. Bans on comprehensive counseling regarding GTPs—such as the ban at issue in this case—contradict the spirit of science and the scientific enterprise and run squarely against evidence-based healthcare, client autonomy, free speech, and the counselor-client relationship.”

“Cross-sex hormones bring a host of risks and adverse health effects. For example, when introduced into a healthy biological male, estrogen significantly increases the risks of blood clots, heart attacks, strokes, breast cancer, insulin resistance, and more—and these risks increase with length of use. Similarly, testosterone use in females significantly increases the risks of heart attacks, strokes, breast and uterine cancer, hypertension, severe acne, and more.” Nash R. Getahun, et al., Cross-sex Hormones and Acute Cardiovascular Events in Transgender Persons: A Cohort Study, Ann. Intern. Med. (2018), 169(4): 205-13. doi: 10.7326/M17-2785

“Among individuals who undergo full transition, the suicide rate significantly increases—not decreases.” Cecilia Dhejne, et al., Long-Term Follow-Up of Transsexual Persons Undergoing Sex Reassignment Surgery: Cohort Study in Sweden, PLOS ONE (Feb. 22, 2011) (found at: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0016885).

“Thousands of individual transitioners regret their transition and are now attempting to de-transition. For example, in late 2017, the subreddit r/detrans (r/detrans, 2020) was revitalized, and in four years, grew from 100 members to more than 46,000 members. Littman (2021) supra. Many of these men and women who transitioned as children are speaking out publicly about the irreversible harm GTPs caused them, demonstrating that some effects of GTPs are permanent.”

Another amicus brief was from the state of Iowa and 11 other states including Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and South Carolina. Here is a link to this brief: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-539/335135/20241213170632451_Chiles%20v%20Salazar%20State%20Coalition%20Amicus.pdf

Here is a quote: “The freedom to speak one’s mind is not only an aspect of individual liberty—and thus a good unto itself—but also is essential to the common quest for truth and the vitality of society as a whole.”

Another amicus brief was from Changed Movement which is an organization of detransitioners. Here is a link to their brief: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-539/335082/20241213134219541_241212a%20AC%20Brief%20for%20efiling.pdf

Here are quotes from their brief:

“CHANGED Movement is a community of friends who once identified as LGBTQ+ and exchanged that identity for a Christian worldview.”

“This case vividly illustrates the profound public harms that result when the government makes itself the arbiter of a perceived truth that ought to be discussed and debated by the people.”

“Through counseling, Daniel says that “God began to work in my heart in unexpected ways” and “I found myself increasingly aligned with what I believe to be God’s design for sexuality and marriage.” As a result, he is now happily married to “my wonderful wife” and has found marriage “more of a blessing than I could have imagined.” Like many other members of the CHANGED Movement community who have had similar experiences, Daniel believes that “change is possible when approached with the right support system that honors both the individual’s struggles and their faith convictions.” See, e.g., Lisa Littman, Individuals Treated for Gender Dysphoria with Medical and/or Surgical Transition who Subsequently Detransitioned: A Survey of 100 Detransitioners, 50 Archives of Sexual Behavior 3353 (2021)

The final 20 page Chiles brief was submitted on January 15 2025. Here is the link: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-539/337356/20250115133807207_24-539%20Reply%20Brief.pdf

Here are some important quotes:

“Amidst a nationwide mental-health crisis, many minors struggling with gender dysphoria are seeking the counseling that Kaley Chiles would like to provide. They want help aligning their mind and body rather than chasing experimental medical interventions and risking permanent harm. Yet it is this desperately needed counseling—encouraging words between a licensed counselor and a consenting minor client—that Colorado forbids with its viewpoint-based Counseling Restriction.”

“In the south and northeast, conversations between counselors and clients are constitutionally protected; but in western states, counselors can be silenced and vulnerable minors deprived of urgently needed counseling.”

“They disregard recent studies showing that children with gender dysphoria who seek harmony with their bodies and desire counseling find “significant improvement” with depression, anxiety, and suicidality and experience no “adverse or negative effects.” Cass Review at 153.

“There is a fierce public debate over how best to help minors with gender dysphoria... Colorado has taken a side in this debate and, with a lack of evidence, silenced the other…Every day the Tenth Circuit’s decision remains in place, it denies urgently needed counseling to vulnerable minors. There is no time to lose.”

It is time to prepare for the 2028 election here in Washington state
There is only one way to end the Trans Cult lies to our kids and parents. We need to work hard to organize parents, grandparents and other concerned citizens. We need to set up community news websites to get the truth out to Independent voters. The US Supreme Court can and will help us by overturning Tingley v Ferguson by the end of 2025. But we also need to do our part.

Ferguson and Reykdal are both currently ignoring the 2023 US Supreme Court decision in Students v Harvard and the 2024 US Supreme Court decision in Tennessee v Cardona. If we do not have a way of reaching Independent voters, they will also just ignore the coming Supreme Court decision in Chiles v Salazar. Our plan is to submit a comprehensive Family Rights Initiative to the People in either 2026 or 2028 that among many other goals, restores the right of gender confused kids to the child counseling they urgently need.

We hope you will take the time to join us and work with us to protect our kids and our families from the Trans Drug War being waged against them by Reykdal and Ferguson. We will review our next steps at our Washington Parents Network meeting this coming Sunday, June 8th from 4 to 5 pm. For a link to our meeting, send us an email.

As always, we look forward to your questions and comments.

Regards, David Spring M. Ed.

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Two incidents of appalling distortions of the truth occurred over the past few days – providing more evidence that the only way the voting public will ever here the truth is if we set up a series of community news websites all across Washington state.

The most recent incident occurred last Saturday when a group of Christians held a pro-family rally in Seattle. They had wanted to hold the event at a park near the Pike Place Market. But the Seattle Parks Department forced them to move the event to a park on Capital Hill. A bunch of counter protesters showed up and 30 of the counter protesters were arrested for committing acts of truly disgusting violence. The good news is that none of the Christians responded with violence and not a single Christian was arrested. Instead, they just keep singing. Those are the FACTS about what happened. But if you read the lying legacy media headlines, you would think that the Christians were a bunch of Jack Booted Nazi Thugs attacking and assaulting a crowd of innocent gay people.

Here are some of the misleading headlines:

Here are some more legacy media misleading headlines:

Look closely. Do you see any mention of the fact that all 30 of those arrested were counter protesters – and that none of the Christians were arrested? Neither did I. Did you see any mention that the Christians have a 1^st Amendment right to Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion? Neither did I.

The legacy media constantly distorting the Truth is why we need to set up our own statewide network of Community News websites. Our next 12 week course on how to do this start in July. Email me (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) for more information.

As blatantly misleading as the above headlines are, an even worse incident of misleading the voters occurred on TVW, during a May 22, 2025 program called Inside Olympia, featuring complusive liar Chris Reykdal. Ironically, the epsode was called “Public Education Never Under More Attack.” What is ironic is that the person doing the attacking against kids and their parents is none other than Chris Reykdal. Here is a link to this interview if you want to watch it yourself:

https://tvw.org/video/inside-olympia-wa-superintendent-of-schools-chris-reykdal-2025051147/

The reason I include the above link is that I am going to send this article to Pam Bondi and the DOJ as further evidence of Reykdal’s ongoing violations of federal law including Title IX, Title VI and FERPA, all of which Reykdal managed to violate during his 55 minute interview.

I downloaded the MP3 audio file and used a Transcriber to turn it into a Text file so that I could accurately quote Reykdal. His quotes are shown below in italics. My comments about the truth follow each of his lies. Reykdal starts off with a real doozey:

First Reykdal Lie: “I'd say 90% of Washingtonians and almost 90% of people around the country went to public ed, and I've never seen it more under attack by a federal administration. They're trying to use executive orders now to dismantle and privatize the system, and we all have to be ready for that.”

Here is the truth: The Trump executive orders are about enforcing federal civil laws passed 50 years ago and enforcing US Supreme Court rulings on those laws issued in the past 3 years (but not enforced by the Biden Administration). There federal laws include Title IX, Title VI and FERPA and the US Supreme Court rulings are the 2023 ruling in Students v Harvard and the 2024 ruling in Tennessee v Cardona. None of these laws or Supreme Court rulings have anything to do with dismantling or privatizing public schools. They are all about protecting the federal civil rights of all Americans. The claim that the Trump Executive orders are about privatizing public schools is simply Reykdal making up a “strawman” argument in order to mislead the voters.

Next Reykdal Lie: “The second thing they want to do is use executive orders to force cuts, or what they call Dear Colleague letters, where they don't have authority.”

Here is the truth: The Trump administration Dear Collegue letters are required by federal law to give states like Washington an official warning that they are going to start enforcing federal laws such as Title IX, Title VI and FERPA. The letters quote the law and the US Supreme Court rulings. None of the letters are about cutting school funding. Instead, they note that federal law requires the Department of Education to withhold funding if needed to bring states into compliance with federal laws. The “authority” comes from Article VI, Section 2 of the US Constitution which requires that federal laws such as Title IX, have priority over any state laws that conflict with federal laws. So if there are any federal funding cuts, the cuts will be caused by Reykdal refusing to comply with mandatory federal laws.

Question: “Sticking with the Trump administration and the federal government, you have publicly challenged the administration's threats to cut education funding over diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. You've affirmed what you say is Washington's constitutional right to shape its own education system, saying Washington will not suppress its core values. What is your legal and what's your moral case for defying this Trump order around DEI? And maybe more importantly, how far are you willing to go with this? “

Next Reykdal Lie: “I'm willing to go the distance. We have an amazing attorney general who will make decisions along the way on how to push and where to push. The legal case is pretty simple. You start with the 10th Amendment. If it isn't explicitly enumerated for Congress or the federal government, it's the states… So there's no doubt that legally they're overstepping their boundaries at this point.

Here is the truth: Title VI, Title IX and FERPA are all based on the “Spending Clause” in Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution. This clause allows the federal government to enter into “certification contracts” with states whereby each state education leader (aka Reykdal) is required to sign a contract each year certifying that the state is in compliance with the federal laws in order to get billions of dollars in federal funding. Reykdal has been committing fraud for the past 8 years by claiming he was in compliance with these federal laws when he was not. Reykdal is playing a high stakes game of chicken which could cost tax payers billions of dollars due to his filing false Title IX and Title VI and FERPA federal certification contracts during the past 8 years.

Question: “The state is under investigation for its gender inclusion guidance having to do with transgender participation in sports. What is the status of, first up, why don't you explain sort of the position you've taken here as well, and then we'll sort of talk about what, again, the status is with the federal government.”

Next Reykdal Lie: “It isn't until this administration came and made it a national issue that suddenly people think there's a crisis and, you know, they have this false sense that kids are in the wrong locker rooms, which just does not happen… and now suddenly it's a big issue, so they're after us as a state, they're after my office for enforcing the law.”

Here is the truth: We parents here in Washington state have been outraged about boys in girls sports and boys in girls locker rooms for years. What we lacked as a federal government willing to enforce Title IX. Here is an image from 2024 of a boy winning our Washington state girls state championship:

Here is a picture from 2024 of another boy winning a girls track regional championship:

Both of these crimes were well before Trump took office. In fact, one of the reasons Trump defeated Harris was his pledge to enforce the Title IX rights of girls to fair sports opportunities.

Question: “One of the arguments, recurring arguments, about transgender girls in girls sports is that it is a Title IX violation, that it's unfair to the biological females on those teams. What is your position in view of this?”

Next Reykdal Lie: “Our position is that the federal law doesn't describe Title IX beyond the words that are there, sex. They don't say biological sex or sex at birth, and so the states for decades have had a chance to interpret that the way that it fits each state. So we've said that your gender identity, how you identify, is the way to proceed because there are, you know, legitimately transgender youth by identity… There are transgender folks by biology. We have intersex births. There's a percentage of our population where you are not born one way or the other.”

Here is the truth: Virtually every federal court that has interpreted the word “sex” in Title IX – including the US Supreme Court in August 2024 has ruled that the word sex means “biological sex.” On January 9, 2025, in the case of Tennessee v Cardona, a federal court ordered all 50 states, including Washington, to comply with the plain meaning of the word sex in Title IX. The court stated that interpreting the word sex to include students of the opposite sex would render Title IX to be “meaningless.”

As for gender confusion being related to “intersex births,” a 2021 genetic analysis of more than one thousand transgender males found that only 1% of them had an “intersex” genetic condition – the same rate as the general population.So there is no relationship between being “intersex” and Transgenderism – which is a mental health problem and not a physical problem. Reykdal is not only ignoring federal civil rights laws, he is ignoring science and just making stuff up to fool the voters. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35394664/

Question: “Let's go back to the La Center district, which your agency is now investigating because they, from your point of view, did not adhere to Washington civil rights law, specifically around whether to identify transgender students by their preferred pronouns and also having to do with, I guess, notifying parents… Why not let La Center do what La Center is going to do and Tumwater do what it's going to do and sort of go the local control route? “

Next Reykdal Lie: “State education agencies get to determine that. Some states give all of that control then away to locals and say, do what you kind of want to do… So we hear this from folks, like it's local control, we get to do what we want… You got to do it within the law, though, and in this case, the controlling legislation is state law, which allows for gender identity. Local districts have to follow state law, and the federal government should follow the law. They have no jurisdiction in this. The president's executive orders are political ambitions most of the time. He doesn't get to change federal law, he doesn't get to change federal code, he doesn't get to do that. Everybody follow the law, and when you do that, you realize that locals have to follow state law, and the federal government has to defer to the state on most issues. “

Here is the truth: Actually, just the opposite is true. School districts must comply with federal laws just as state educational agencies must comply with federal laws. If they don’t they risk losing federal funds. In the case of the La Center School District, they recognized that they needed to comply with FERPA by telling parents the truth about their kids. Reykdal by contrast, wants to enforce a state law that requires schools and teachers to lie to parents. Again, Reykdal is risking losing billions of dollars in federal funds by refusing to honor the US Constitution and federal laws. In addition, he is violating his oath of office.

Other misleading Reykdal lies
Reykdal ended the interview with a series of ridiculous claims about Washington students being near the tops in the nation in national test scores. In fact, Reykdal getting tens of thousands of kids here in Washington state addicted to toxic trans drugs like puberty blockers and cross sex hormones while at the same time lying to their parents has been a disaster. According to a 2024 National Mental Health Study, Washington is now near worst in the nation in kids suffering from Depression and Suicidal thoughts. Here is a link to this report: https://mhanational.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/2024-State-of-Mental-Health-in-America-Report.pdf

Also over the past 8 years since Reykdal took office, the chronic absentee rate of Washington students skipping school has skyrocketed from 17% in 2017 to 30% in 2023:

With so many kids missing so much school, it is no wonder that over two thirds of our kids can not pass our 8^th grade math test. In 2023, 68% of Washington students failed to pass our 8^th Grade Math test:

During the past 8 years, our student scores on the national 8th Grade Math test declined more here in Washington than in any other state in the nation. Washington students used to be a among the top five states in the nation on this test. Currently, we are in about 30th place. No other state has seen such a huge decline in student test scores. This is a red flag that something very harmful is happening to our kids here in Washington state.

Washington has also seen a record drop in Enrollment. Since Reykdal took office, parents have pulled a total of 91,000 kids out of our public schools.

In short, thanks to the lying legacy media, all of us are literally swimming in an ocean of lies where the real truth is often the exact opposite of what we are told in the papers and on TVW.

The only way voters will ever learn the truth about either Reykdal or Ferguson is if we set up a statewide series of Common Sense Community News websites. I built one of the world’s first online stores in 1994 and trained many of the people who built Microsoft dot come and Amazon dot com. Thanks to free modern web building tools, you do not need to be an expert to run a News website. If you can bake a cake, you can run a secure news website.

We developed a 12 week course which covers every aspect of running a successful news website. Because we host these websites on our own servers, the operating cost of each news website is only $2 per month…. So any ad revenue you get from local business sponsors can stay with the team running the local news website.

So if you really want to help voters learn the truth about Reykdal and protect parents and their kids, then join our next 12 week course starting in July. As always, we look forward to your questions and comments.

Regards,

David Spring M. Ed.

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On Friday, May 23, 2025, Brian Heywood filed 8 Initiatives to the Legislature. While this will give him until January 2026 to collect and submit the 400,000 signatures for each of these Initiatives, it will also give the legislature the ability to pass and later repeal these initiatives without any of them ever going before a vote of the people. In this article, we will review why a Comprehensive Family Rights Initiative to the People is better than a bunch of poorly written bandaid Initiatives to the Legislature.

Before we review the problems with these Initiatives, we first need to understand why ANY Initiatives to the legislature are a bad idea. If there is one thing we should have learned from the past two years is that we need to go directly to a vote of the People if we are to protect the rights of parents and children. The Parents Rights Initiative to the 2024 legislature was a huge political mistake because it allowed those opposed to Parents Rights the opportunity to pretend to be in favor of Parents Rights in the 2024 election. If instead, the Parents Rights Initiative were taken directly to the voters, we could have made it a major election issue.

The reason a single comprehensive Initiative is better than a bunch of bandaid Initiatives is that, if we are going to go through the effort of gathering 400,000 signatures, we need to provide an Initiative that actually solves the underlying erosion of parents rights over the past 8 years by the state legislature. Solving this problem requires repealing and replacing not just one of two laws but several laws that act in combination to severely harm the parent child relationship.

Problems with the 8 Heywood Initiatives to the Legislature
The first Initiative to the legislature filed by Heywood was called Fairness in Womens Sports. It was withdrawn later on Friday due to spelling errors but will likely be resubmitted next week. It only addresses boys in girls sports and does not address boys in girls bathrooms or locker rooms or any of the other 3211 Trans Drug Cult policies. Nor does it address the need to comply with Title IX and the federal court order in Tennessee v Cardona and the loss of billions in federal funding for the failure to comply with Title IX.

The second Heywood Initiative to the Legislature relieves parents of the duty to pay for Gender Transition drugs and other medical treatments that they did not authorize. But it still allows children to be hooked on drugs without their parents consent.

The third Initiative repeals House Bill 1296 and restores the Parents Rights Initiative but does not provide the full text of the law being repealed or the law being restored. The fourth Initiative is essentially the same as it also repeals House Bill 1296 and restores the section of the Parents Rights Initiative that requires parental notice of their students medical records.

Both the third and fourth Initiatives are band-aid solutions that do not address many serious problems including but not limited to:

#1 Repealing SB 5722 (2018) which prohibits child counseling and requires gender confused kids to be given toxic Trans Drugs instead of counseling.

#2 Repealing Policy 3211 (2019) which requires schools and teachers to lie to students about being able to change from a boy to a girl, lie to parents about their children & allows Boys in Girls Sports & Privates Spaces.

#3 Repealing RCW 28A.150.250 which violated Article IX, Section 1 of the Washington State Constitution by allowing OSPI to not fully fund any public schools if their school board fails to comply with anti-parent state policies.

#4 Amending the Mature Minor Doctrine age from 13 to 17 to bring it more closely in line with the latest research on brain development.

#5 Repealing SB 5395 (2020) which requires Sex Ed for Kinders.

#6 Repealing HB 2331 (2024) which requires schools to buy & display age-inappropriate sex books.

#7 Restoring essential parents rights including not only that parents have the right to be told the truth about what is happening to their child when their child is at school but also that parents have the right to be involved in any educational or medical decisions affecting their child and parents have the right to opt their child out of any program the parent finds offensive or harmful to their child and parents have the right to the assumption of being a fit and caring parent until proven otherwise in a court of law.

#8 Adding essential student rights including the right to be told the truth, the right to privacy, the right to counseling, the right to fair sports, the right to a good education and most important the right to parental guidance.

#9 Clarifying the right of ALL STUDENTS to be free from racial discrimination & requiring compliance with Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act as ordered by US Supreme Court in Students v Harvard in June 2023 .

The fifth and sixth Heywood Initiatives to the legislature provide for school choice scholarships. But they do it in a way that likely violates several sections of the Washington state constitution. The way to achieve school choice that complies with the Washington state constitution is to do it through the election of pro-school choice candidates to your local school board – not by imposing one more unfunded mandate from Olympia.

The seventh and eighth Initiatives to the Legislature limit the growth of property taxes to 0.5% and cut the state property tax by 50%. Sadly, these are also written in a way that likely violates several sections of the Washington state constitution.

The 2026 Family Rights Initiative to the People - A Better Path to Restoring and Protecting the Rights of Parents and Children
In response to the disaster of sending the Parents Rights Initiative to the legislature in 2024, I have written a comprehensive Family Rights Initiative to the People which we can and should pass in 2026 that actually addresses the major policies harming parents and children by including:

#1 Restoring the Washington Parents Rights Initiative.

#2 Clarifying the right of girls not just to their own sports leagues but also to their own bathrooms and locker rooms.

#3 Amending the Mature Minor Doctrine to raise the age from 13 to 17.

#4 Clarifying the meaning of education related sections of the Washington State Constitution including clarifying that “ample” funding includes the right of all students to at least national average class sizes (which would require hiring at least 7000 additional classroom teachers and building 7000 additional classrooms for these teachers), limiting the duty of local parents to provide no more than 10% of school operating costs and school construction costs and the right of students to attend schools that meet Safe Drinking Water requirements and all Building Code requirements.

#5 Giving the legislature 10 years to clear the school construction backlog estimated to be over $40 billion by spending at least $4 billion per year on school construction until the backlog has been cleared.

#5 Adding the right of retired persons over age 62 the right to be exempt from state and local property taxes for the first $400,000 of their primary residence in order to protect them and their family from being driven out of their family homes by being unable to pay rising property taxes while living on a fixed income.

#6 Restoring local control of public schools by repealing laws which are detrimental to the local school control rights of parents and children including 2025 House Bill 1296, 2024 House Bill 2331, 2023 Senate Bill 5599, 2018 Senate Bill 5722, 2020 Senate Bill 5395 and 2019 Policy 3211 (including RCW 28A.600.477, RCW 28A.642.080, RCW 28A.300.286, RCW 28A.345.130, RCW 71.34.530 and RCW 28A.150.250.

#7 Funding the above rights by repealing all tax preferences except those approved by the voters through Initiatives (these tax breaks violate numerous sections of the Washington State Constitution including Article 2, Section 28 and Article 7, Section 1) thereby generating at least $30 billion per year in recovered state revenue.

#8 Amending the “protected classes” provisions of Washington state laws to clarify that “protected classes” that go beyond the protected classes recognized by federal laws, shall only be protected to the degree that it does not violate federal laws such as Title IX, Title VI and FERPA.

Passing the Family Rights Initiative despite significant opposition
It is likely that the Washington Education Association will spend a million dollars or more opposing the Family Rights Initiative. It is also likely that the legacy media will provide millions of dollars in misleading editorials opposing the Family Rights Initiative. This is why we need to build a series of local Community News websites this year and next to provide parents with more accurate information on the benefits of the Family Rights Initiative. The good news is that family rights issues, including providing girls with fair sports opportunities, are supported by nearly 80% of the voters. The other good news is that the federal Department of Justice Taskforce should have their investigation of the crimes of Reykdal and Ferguson completed by the summer of 2026 which can also be used to promote the Family Rights Initiative which addresses many of these same issues. Feel free to email me back with any questions or suggestions.

Regards,

David Spring M. Ed.

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