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School Boards pass Resolutions opposing Boys in Girls Sports

On November 19, 2024, the Central Valley School Board, near Spokane and Liberty Lake, Washington, voted to send a message to the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA). The resolution, titled "Supporting Equity and Safety in Female Sports," notes that the entire board is comprised of female members who have either competed in athletics themselves or have daughters who competed in athletics.

One of those women, an unidentified current cross country runner, shared her experience of having to compete against one of those athletes during the hearing. The meeting had over an hour's worth of public comment and 75 submitted written comments, a large majority of speakers urging the board to send a clear message denouncing trans girls' participation in girls sports. Most spoke in support of the documents, or asked the board to send a stronger resolution like Mead passed in October.

"You're on thin ice if you continue to support this mental illness," Spokane Valley City Councilwoman Jessica Yaeger said in public comment. "In closing, I ask you, what are we willing to sacrifice for the sake of a very small minority?"

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The board passed its resolution and by doing so sent an official letter to the WIAA and Washington state legislators: "Students born male, including transgender girls or non-binary boys, have a biological advantage over students born female. Therefore, unless a sport category is deemed co-ed, those born male should continue to be welcome to enjoy fair play within male sport categories," the resolution reads.

The board members close the resolution by urging WIAA to "have open dialogue and discussion with its member school districts to restore equity and safety to all student-athletes," as well as "to advocate for legislative adjustments for such equity and safety." They also ask state legislators to amend current laws to allow all students to participate in athletics "while ensuring that biological female athletes are not denied their rights under Title IX to fair competition and opportunity."

"As our legislators, we respectfully urge you to address current inequalities and safety concerns effecting girls’ and women’s sports before further injury or loss of opportunities occur."

On October 21, 2024, the Mead School Board passed a similar resolution which reads: “The Mead School District recognizes the inherent biological and physiological differences that exist between male and female students. These differences place male students at an advantage for physical performance in athletic competitions.”

Spokane City Councilman Jonathan Bingle spoke in support of the resolution, as his district on city council slightly overlaps with Mead school district. “This is about fairness to female athletes,” Bingle said, wearing a “protect girls sports” T-shirt. “It’s about making sure that the next generation of young women will compete safely, and their hard work, dedication and talent will be rewarded, not undermined by forces beyond their control.”

No one spoke opposed to the resolution.

14 or more school boards in Washington State join the resolutions to protect girls sports
The resolution adds Mead to a list of school districts supporting an effort to amend this WIAA policy, restricting girls’ teams to athletes assigned female at birth. Lynden School District in Northwest Washington proposed the initial amendment on October 7, with 13 other school districts in support, according to the district’s website. Other supporting districts include Wenatchee’s Eastmont, Moses Lake and College Place, near Walla Walla, Kennewick, Thorp, Cashmere, Colville Okanogan, Brewster, Oroville, Tonasket, Lynden Christian, Lake Chellan Grand Coulee, Omak Blaine, Mansfield and La Center

Congress and 25 States also support protecting girls sports
In the U.S., 25 states have laws in place to restrict or prevent transgender inclusion in girls' and women's sports. On April 20, 2023, the US House of Representatives voted to protect girls sports from biological males. Not a single Democrat in the House of Representatives voted to protect women’s sports. Talk about being on the wrong side of history.

“The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act,” introduced by Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., passed the House in a 219-203 vote. The legislation would require that “school athletics comply with the Title IX recognition of a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.”

Not one Republican voted against the bill. Not one Democrat voted for it.

This should be a bipartisan, consensus issue. It should not be controversial that girls deserve a chance to compete in sports against their physical peers, not boys. Parents do not want biological men in locker rooms with their daughters, nor do they believe its equitable that a male can compete with women in female athletics. It’s the whole purpose that Title IX was created to begin with.

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WIAA fails to acknowledge that they are violating Title IX

The amendments to WIAA policy that would prevent trans girls from playing on girls teams and one to create a third ungendered league will be considered during by the WIAA assembly's annual amendment review process. A spokesperson for WIAA told Crisis in the Classroom (CITC) the association "is aware of numerous school board resolutions being adopted across the state."

"The Gender Identity Participation policies must follow Washington state law (RCW 28A.642.010), and the current rules do so. Our office is conducting a legal review of the policies in place, evaluating the possibilities within Washington state law."

"The WIAA staff closely monitors legislation from around the country as well as the developing guidance from the Federal Department of Education, but the WIAA office does not write the rules and regulations of the Association. Policies are developed and voted in by the membership through a year-round amendment process, and the staff provides the interpretations of those rules to the membership."

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Comments from the public about the School Board resolutions:
“Those of you who want your daughters to have a chance in sports need to stop voting for democrats.”

Good for the school board fighting for girls' athletics. It is not anti-trans to state the obvious. Sex is biological and males have an athletic advantage over females regardless of any gender preference.”

The one good thing about Dems including trans in women's sports is that it's a losing topic in elections. Most people regardless of political affiliation find it absurd and it defies basic science. If democrats stay on the path they are on, they will never win another election.”

There is nothing equitable or fair with putting the feelings of a few people ahead of what EVERYONE knows is 100% morally WRONG! Boys should not be in women’s sports period!!!!! There is simply no way to spin this other than it’s insane to let it happen.”

Democrats war on women. Democrats war on family. Democrats war on normalcy. No more Democrats.”

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24 States file a Supreme Court brief on the dnagers of Transgenderism to Womens Sports
On November 21, 2024, 24 states raised concerns regarding safety and fairness for female athletes in their 32 page brief which asks the Supreme Court to take up Warren Petersen v. Jane Doe, after the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a lower court  injunction against a 2022 Arizona law, the Save Women's Sports Act, which prohibits males from competing in female sports. The law was  challenged in April 2023 by transgender-identifying students who wished to participate on girls' sports teams. Here is a link to this important brief: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-449/332454/20241121142738951_2024.11.21%20-%20States%20Br.%20iso%20Petersen%20Pet.%20FINAL.pdf

Here are some quotes: “In sports, equal access means a level playing field. And a level playing field usually means sports teams divided by sex so that girls can compete against other girls. Indeed, providing separate leagues for boys and girls has worked magic, increasing the participation of girls and women in sports by nearly 1,100% over the last half century. For this reason all of our states have laws or policies like Arizona’s that restrict girls’ sports teams to biological females. Basing the distinction on biology rather than gender identity makes sense because it is the differences in biology—not gender identity—that call for separate teams in the first place: Whatever their gender identity, biological males are, on average, stronger and faster than biological females.”

The Ninth Circuit held that heightened scrutiny applies because it determined that Arizona’s law classifies on the basis of gender identity and that such a classification implicates the quasi-protected class status of individuals who identify as transgender. This Court should also provide clarity in this area.

The Equal Protection Clause Does Not Compel States To Define “Sex” as “Gender Identity.”

Contrary to the lower court’s decision (and earlier Ninth Circuit precedent), transgender persons do not constitute a quasi-suspect class. This Court has “rarely deemed a group a quasi-suspect class,” Adams, 57 F.4th at 803 n.5, and has not done so “in over four decades,” L. W. by & through Williams, 83 F.4th at 486. And in stark contrast to recognized suspect classifications, transgender individuals do not share an immutable characteristic, do not constitute a discreet group, and unlike groups suffering long discrimination are far from politically powerless.”

The states that signed the brief are Alabama, Arkansas, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming.

If the US Supreme Court decides to take up this case, and rules that Trans Cult members are not a protected class, their decision will go a long way to repealing several insane 9th Circuit Pro-Trans Decisions that they have made in the past several years.

What’s Next? This December, 2024, the US Supreme Court is likely to rule that Transgenderism is not a protected class and that 26 states can proceed with their laws banning giving toxic trans drugs to minors. Then in January 2025, it is likely that after he gets in office, Trump will rescend the Biden 2024 Title IX Final Rule. When this happens, the 2020 Trump Title IX Final Rule (which honors the original intend of Title IX) will become the law in all 50 states including Washington state.

After this happens, we at the Washington Parents Network intend to file a federal complaint against Bob Ferguson and Chris Reykdal and WIAA for blantantly violating Title IX by allowing biological males to enter Girls Bathrooms and participate in Girls Sports.

Finally, and most important, by making this an issue in every school district and at every school board meeting, we intend to make this an issue in the coming school board elections in 2025. We hope to encourage parents to run against any school board member that stands in the way of protect girls rights to their own sports teams and leagues.

It is time to organize politically to end the Trans Drug Cult here in Washington state! We will keep you posted!

Regards,

David Spring M. Ed.

Director, Washington Parents Network

PTA declares War against Parents & Kids

PTA stands for the National Parent Teacher Association. During the past 20 years, this extremely corrupt organization has inflicted more harm on children than any other group. With millions of dollars in funding from Bill Gates, the PTA supported unfair high stakes tests which were so difficult that 90% of all adults could not pass them. The pressure to pass these high stakes tests caused severe mental health problems in students.

The PTA also supported the shift from local learning standards written by local parents and teachers to national Common Core curriculum written by billionaires and Wall Street consultants. These misguided standards have made learning complex topics much harder – further worsening the mental health of our kids.

In 2020, the PTA also supported the closure of our schools for over a year - even in schools where not a single child or teacher was sick. Closing schools further worsened the mental health of our kids.

Once schools finally reopened, the PTA supported forcing children to wear masks for an entire year - despite the fact that no scientific study has ever supported masking children. Masks further worsened the mental health of our kids. The PTA also supported mandatory PCR testing of children despite the fact that a PCR test with a cycle count greater than 35 is known to be wrong 29 times out of 30.

Now to add insult to injury, the national PTA – including the Washington State PTA - has declared war against parents and children by supporting the Trans Drug Cult – which includes telling students that they should not trust their parents, opposing parents rights to be involved in important decisions regarding their children, giving kids toxic Trans drugs, allowing boys in the girls bathrooms and allowing boys to take over girls sports. Here is Washington State 2.19 PTA Resolution 2.19 (which is based on a similar national resolution): Washington State PTA and its local PTAs and councils seek and support legislation that creates a safe, supportive and accepting environment in schools, specifically with training for educators and other school-related professionals to support all students, updating health education standards that deal with the issues of sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression. https://www.wastatepta.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/WSPTA-Resolution-2.19-LGBTQ-Inclusion-2017.pdf

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In short, the lives and future of tens of thousands of children have been repeatedly put at risk by Top Down billionaire controlled PTA organizations that falsely claims to care about parents and children and instead is simply a front for drug companies and billionaires.

How the PTA really works
The National PTA is supposed to be a “non-political” 501c3 tax exempt organization. It has about 3.4 million parent members. As there are about 50 million students in the US with 100 million parents, this represents about 3.4 percent of all parents with children attending public schools. Here is a link to their latest federal 990 report which was for the 2020-2021 school year. https://www.pta.org/docs/default-source/files/why-pta/2023/financials/2021-national-pta-form-990.pdf

Federal 990 statements indicate that annual revenue from members fell 50% from about $12 million in 2019 to $8 million in 2020. This money is spent mainly on huge salaries for a few people that run the national PTA. Here are the top ten people who together are paid $1.8 million:

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The national PTA also paid three “contractors” a total of $550,000 :

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A total of $5 million was spent on salaries. The national PTA also spent a million dollars on their national convention and $328,275 on advertising. Total annual revenue for 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 was $11 million per year. In 2020, revenue fell to only $7.5 million.

So where did all of this money come from? Most of it came from local dues paid by parents through their local PTA – some of which goes to the State organization and the rest of which goes to the national organization. Total National Membership dues were 4 million. The rest comes from government grants and bribes from billionaires like Bill Gates:

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The Washington State PTA latest annual report was 2022 -2023 and can be read at this link: https://wastatepta.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/WSPTA-2022-2023-Annual-Report.pdf

The Washington state PTA has about 85,000 members in 800 schools. As our state has 1.1 million students and 2.2 million parents, the PTA represents 4% of all parents in our state. This membership number is down about 40% from the 2018-2019 peak of 125,000 members (which was 6% of all parents in our state).

The average local PTA, with 100 parent members, forwards roughly $1000 to the state PTA and other $1000 to the national PTA. At an average of $10 per parent member, this gives the Washington state PTA leaders about $850,000 dollars a year – most of which is spend on a few state salaries. The rest is spent on brainwashing parents (also called Advocacy). The Washington State PTA stages a statewide convention every year attended by about 1,000 parents all of whom must support the status quo of State controlled rather than local controlled schools.

In short, the Washington State and national PTAs are both scams intended to control parents rather than help kids.

Scam Alternatives to the PTA
Imagine you are fed up with your local, state or national PTA. Well, Bill Gates has been one step ahead of us there also. He funds another group called Stand for Children that also supports High Stakes Tests, Common Core, School Closures, Mask Mandates as well as fully supporting the Trans Drug Cult. Here is a quote from their website: “We, as education advocates, must use our voices and platforms to uplift and center the voices and stories of LGBTQ students and young people. “

Two Better Statewide and County Alternatives

First, join our Washington Parents Network and consider attending our weekly meetings. Second, join Moms for Liberty which has groups in several counties here in Washington state.

A Common Sense local alternative: Form your own Parents Network!
The best way to gain control over your own local school is to form your own local parents network.

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This could (and at least initially should) include having no mandatory dues at all. A huge benefit of not collecting money is that there is no need for a treasurer or annual reports to the state or federal government. Your local parents group is free to create your own meetings, policies and events. You are also free to support whoever you want on your local school board, train parents to speak at school board meetings and even encourage your members and help your members run for your local school board.

Building a parent network is a great way to support your children, and make needed changes in your local school. It means you have friends with whom you can plan (and attend) kid-friendly activities, swap parenting tips and tricks, and share stories from the trenches.

Seven Steps to Start Your Local Parent Network
To build your local parent network, here are seven steps:

1. Start with a small group of parents who want change. You can likely find these parents by going to your local school board monthly meetings and listening to other parents at the meeting. Introduce yourself after the meeting.

2. Establish a Mission Statement, Plans, and Goals: Get your core group to start generating ideas for what your team must accomplish. What education goals do you have for your students? What improvements can you make? What programs are you interested in starting? How will your group improve communication between parents and teachers? What programs will you develop to improve student success?

3. Write a one page flier with your contact information and pass it out at school events. You’ll be surprised how eager other parents are to connect!

4. Set up a regular monthly meeting time where parents can bring their kids. Alternate the meeting location from one home to another. Or meet at your local public library. Some schools will even let you use your school library to meet in the evening.

5. Encourage PTA Parents to join your group. If you school has a child-killing and parent-hating PTA, gradually encourage parents to leave the PTA and join your group instead.

6. Be aware of the drawbacks of Facebook. While you can organize only through social apps like Facebook, you should be aware that Facebook has frequently deleted groups that they consider too radical. For example, one parent group had 700 members trying to get their school to stop requiring masks. Facebook deleted their account without notice.

7. Set up your own website. A better option is to set up your own website that you control and that can not be deleted by some billionaire. To encourage you and help you form your own local school parents network, I am offering to host your website for free on one of my servers and train you and other parents how to use it to post articles, provide a calendar of events and send out email newsletters. If you are interested in learning more about this, email me:

David@ Washington Parents Network.com

An example of a Parents Network that left the PTA

Here is an example of one group of parents that decided to leave the corrupt national PTA and form their own parents network:

https://wasatch.edu/wasatch-parent-network/

Here is a quote from their website: “In Fall of 2020, the parent leadership at each school within Wasatch County School District collectively decided to transition out of the Parent Teacher Association to become the “Wasatch Parent Network.” WPN is solely a group of parents working together, to benefit each school’s staff and students, without the restrictions and financial obligations to a State/National organization. How will this affect the students, teachers, and parents at your school? No need to “join” and become a “member” of a national organization.

Each school’s WPN is a local volunteer organization with the focus on serving students and teachers within. 100% of all funds received by the each school’s WPN will stay, and be used, at that school.”

More Steps to improve your local school
Once you have a core group of concerned parents, you may want to work on electing members of your group to your local school board. One way to do this is to start your own local newspaper. Here is a link to a local newspaper that got a local parent elected to their local school board:

https://burien.news/

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If you would like to start a local newspaper to help members of your community become better informed about your local schools, I am willing to host the news website and train you how to post to it for free. Again, just email me: David @ Washington Parents Network.com.

Together, we can bring about urgently needed changes to our schools, our community and our state! As always, I look forward to your questions and comments!

Regards,

David Spring M. Ed.

Put Families First… A Plan to Build a New Winning Coalition in the Washington State Republican Party

Anyone who has studied the Transgender Cult knows it is based on a series of lies intended to get tens of thousands of children addicted to toxic Trans drugs in order to make billions of dollars for corporations that sell Trans drugs. It is also a bribery and corruption scheme that provides millions of dollars to elect the corrupt leaders of the Democratic Party. By contrast, the Trans Cult is strongly opposed by many leaders of the Republican Party. The map of 26 states that have banned giving minors toxic trans drugs confirms that they are all led by Republicans. These same 26 states all filed successful lawsuits blocking the crazy Biden interpretation of Title IX in 2024.

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What is less well known is the crucial role that Trump’s support for Parents Rights and his opposition to the Trans Cult played in winning the 2024 Presidential Election. In this article, we will look at the roll opposition to Transgenderism played in the 2024 Presidential Election and the roll it could play during the next four years in building a new winning coalition in the Washington State Republican Party.

Here is an Electoral College map of the 2024 Presidential Election which Trump won 312 to 226:

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In addition, Trump won the 2024 popular vote by 4 million votes, 75 million to 71 million. Ironically, Trump had 74 million vote total in 2020. But Biden supposedly got 81 million votes in 2020. So Harris got 10 million fewer votes in 2024 than Biden supposedly got in 2020. While it is likely that millions of these missing votes were “2020 ghost votes”, it is also likely that millions of Independent voters who voted in 2020 decided to sit out the 2024 Presidential Election. The question is why did millions of Independent voters decide not to vote in the 2024 election?

Many polls indicted that Harris was slightly ahead of Trump in most of the “Battleground states” entering the final months of the election. Then Trump spent about $35 million on TV ads attacking Harris for her support of allowing Trans Males to compete in girls sports and for spending taxpayer dollars providing Trans Sex Change operations for inmates in federal prisons. Harris, in her 2019 presidential campaign, wrote in an ACLU questionnaire, “I support policies ensuring that federal prisoners and detainees are able to obtain medically necessary care for gender transition, including surgical care, while incarcerated or detained.” Harris also worked as California attorney general to use state taxpayer dollars to give free sex change operations to California state prisoners.

By comparision, in several rallies, including his Madision Square Garden Rally, Trump boldly stated “We will get transgender insanity the hell out of our schools, and we will keep men out of women’s sports”.

$35 million may seem like a lot of money. But according to the website, opensecrets.org, Harris and the Democratic Party raised and spent more than $1 billion from July through September, 2024. By comparison, Trump and the Republican Party raised and $430 million over the same period. In short, Harris spent twice as much as Trump. But the Trump commercial confirmed that Harris was in the pocket of the Transgender Drug Cartel and was placing the egos of Trans males above the rights of girls and women.

As a result, in the Fox News National Exit Polls, a majority (54%) of voters said Support for transgender rights has gone too far”. Of these voters, 77% voted for Trump. Less than one in four voters (22%) want the government to take more actions to promote Transgenderism. Of these voters, 83% voted for Harris and only 14% voted for Trump. See: https://www.foxnews.com/elections/2024/general-results/voter-analysis

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In the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania where the Harris Trans ads ran even more often, opposition to the Trans Cult was even higher where 80% voted for Trump and only 19% voted for Harris:

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However, in Washington state, only 50% thought Transgenderism had gone too far and only 71% of those who thought Transgenderism had gone to far voted for Trump while 26% voted for Harris. In short, thousands of Washington voters had no idea that Kamala Harris, Tim Waltz and Bob Ferguson were leaders of the Trans Drug Cult.

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https://www.foxnews.com/elections/2024/general-results/state/washington

Several election analysts credited the transgender issue with turning Independent voters against the Democratic Party. Craig DeRoche, President of the Family Policy Alliance stated:

The Republicans have finally gotten over their squeamishness. For whatever reason, in 2022, they couldn’t talk about the Left saying that boys should go into girls’ locker rooms,” that minors whose “brains aren’t developed until they’re 18 can make permanent disfiguring” surgeries, and that male sex offenders who identify as female have the “right” to be housed in female prisons. A lot of pollsters are saying that that issue alone was definitive.”

It is likely that millions of Independent voters, who may have in the past voted for Democrats, watched the Trans commercial and realized that Democrats were not really in favor of Womens Rights. Instead, Democrats were more in favor of Trans rights – including allowing males to takeover Womens Sports and using taxpayer dollars to pay for Trans Sex change operations. Being unable to vote for Harris, and unwilling to vote for Trump, these Womens Rights Independent voters simply decided to not vote at all.

In Texas, the State Democratic Party chairman Gilberto Hinojosa faced enormous backlash this week for stating the obvious: that a contributing factor to his party's humiliating defeat in Texas was its obsession with Transgender ideology. Hinojosa recognized that Democrats' desperation to pander to transvestites and gender ideologues likely alienated some voters.

"You have a choice as a party," said the former chairman. "You can support transgender rights, or you can understand that there's certain things that we just go too far on, that a big bulk of our population does not support."

The Texas Democratic Party's losing 2024 platform calls for "LGBTQIA+ inclusive" sex education programs; sex-change operations for transvestites in prison; allowing men to compete in women's sports and keeping parents in the dark about converting their kids gender at school. It was no secret ahead of the election that Democrats' LGBT activism and views on transvestism were outside the mainstream of public opinion. According to a Manhattan Institute poll conducted in late June, 74% of all likely voters, 76% of independents, 95% of Republicans, and 37% of Democrats indicated that transvestic athletes should play on sports teams with other members of their sex. https://manhattan.institute/article/testing-texas

When asked whether schools should be required to inform parents if their children use incorrect pronouns at school, 67% of likely voters said, "Yes."

An overwhelming 69% of likely voters said that children who claim to be "transgender" should not be allowed to receive sex-change treatments before the age of 18. When asked about sterilizing puberty blockers, 76% of respondents said that minors under the age of 18 "are not old enough to consent to puberty blocking treatments." 82% of respondents said minors are not old enough to consent to sex-change mutilations.

Every State Except Washington State saw a huge Red Wave
As further evidence that the Trans issue shifted the 2024 vote, a study of all 50 states comparing the 2024 Presidential Election to the 2020 Presidential Election found that millions of Democratically leaning Independent voters in traditionally deep blue states stayed home and did not vote in 2024. Here is a link to this study: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2024/11/07/2024-us-election-in-almost-all-states-kamala-harris-performed-less-well-than-joe-biden-in-2020_6731936_8.html

The Trump to Harris/Biden vote percent increased by 12 percent in California, 12 percent in New York, 11 percent in New Jersey and 10 percent in Florida. In fact, the only state that did not see a huge shift to the Republican Party was Washington state. In 2020, Trump got 39% of the vote in Washington.

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Then in 2024, Trump also got 39% of the vote in Washington state:

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Here is the link: https://results.vote.wa.gov/results/20241105/president-vice-president.html

Note that about a half million fewer Independent voters voted in Washington in the 2024 Presidential Election in 2024 compared to 2020. Nearly 4 million votes were counted in 2020 but only 3.5 million votes were counted in 2024. But unlike the other 49 states, Harris about the same percent of votes in Washington as Biden got in 2020.

It is shocking and disgusting that Washington was the only state in the nation where that did not experience a Red Wave in 2024.

This strange result was mirrored in the 2024 Washington Governors Race where despite spending nearly $7 million, Dave Reichert got about the same vote percent as Loren Culp did in 2020 when Culp only spent $3.3 million. https://results.vote.wa.gov/results/20241105/governor.html

Here is Reichert in 2024:

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Here is Culp in 2020:

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Note that while they got about the same percent, despite Reichert spending twice as much, Culp actually got about 200,000 more votes than Reichert.

The Trans Drug Cult was and still is Bob Ferguson’s Achilles Heel
While Reichert did say at a small Republican Party meeting in spring, 2024, that he was not in favor of males taking over girls sports, during his debates with Ferguson, Reichert repeatedly failed to point out that Ferguson, like Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz, is a national leader in the Trans Drug Cult. Reichert also failed to point out that the Trans Cult has taken over our schools and teachers here in Washington state to the point that thousands of students in our state are currently having their lives destroyed by becoming addicted to toxic Trans drugs without the knowledge or consent of their parents. Had Reichert taken the time to learn the truth about the harm of Transgenderism and been willing to attach Ferguson on his Transgender lies, both he and Trump would have done much better here in Washington state – and many close down ballot races might have also swung to the Republican party.

Exposing the Role of the Drug Controlled Media
Some have claimed that the reason Trump and Reichert did so poorly here in Washington state was because the media in our state is more biased against Republicans than anywhere else in the nation. The fact is that the media is much more biased against Trump in states like California and New York (where Trump was wrongly prosecuted). The media is only pro-Democrat because the Democratic Party, like the corporate media, is controlled by drug pushing corporations. Despite the strong media bias against Trump, the Harris Transgender ads were able to shift the vote in both New York and California by 12%.

Dave Reichert opposed Donald Trump
Unfortunately, instead of supporting Trump’s opposition to Transgenderism, Reichert actually opposed Trump.

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During their debate on September 10, 2024, Reichert stated “I am not supporting Trump.” Elaborating on comments in the debate, Reichert said he would write in a candidate in the presidential race. Again, in a radio interview in October, 2024, Reichert stated: “Donald Trump is a joke.” Reichert may have seen opposing Trump as a way to court Independent voters. But instead, failing to attack Ferguson and Harris on their role in promoting the Transgender Drug Cult likely cost both Reichert and Trump votes here in Washington state.

A Path to Victory for Parents and Students in 2028
Washington’s last Republican governor was John Spellman. He was elected 44 years ago way back in 1980. Restoring the right of parents to make important decisions for the health of their minor children is a winning issue. Preventing Trans Males from taking over Girls sports is a winning issue. To be clear, Transgenderism is not about a “policy” difference between Democrats and Republicans. Instead, Transgenderism is one of the worst crimes in human history. It needs to be exposed. It is about destroying the lives of thousands of children just to make billions of dollars for drug corporations.

Thankfully, there are several turning points that will help us expose the truth about corrupt drug corporations and their control of both the Democratic Party and the corporate media. First, Trump has promised to include Robert Kennedy Jr. in his administration. “Make America Healthy Again” will expose drug corporation lies they have been telling during the past decade.

Second, in December 2024, the US Supreme Court is likely to rule in favor of 26 states that have banned giving Trans Drugs to minors. This ruling will also help voters realize that the Trans Drug Cult has been lying.

Third, Trump has promised that during his first week in office, he will withdraw the Biden Title IX Final Rule – which the US Supreme Court has already stated violates both Title IX protections for girls and women as well as violating our First Amendment Right of Free Speech. This means that Title IX federal law will return to the original meaning of protecting the rights of girls and women. This will give us an opportunity to file a federal Title IX complaint against Bob Ferguson and Chris Reykdal here in Washington state in February 2025. I have already written this complaint so all we really need is an attorney willing to help us file it in federal court. I will write more about this in future articles.

It is likely that Federal Education Funds be withdrawn from states that fail to comply with Title IX
Trump has also stated he intends to force states to comply with Title IX – which requires states to honor the rights of girls and women to fair treatment in education and sports in order to receive federal education funding. This will expose the Trans Drug Cult as one of the main news stories during the next four years.

In response, California Attorney General Rob Bonta said his team has been preparing for possible litigation to stop many of President Trump’s expected policies, including attacking Transgender policies. In short, California will not comply with Title IX. New York has also indicated they will not comply with Title IX.

Because Ferguson and Reykdal are leaders of the Trans Drug Cartel, it is likely that Washington state schools will also not comply with Title IX. The failure of these states to comply with Title IX means that all three states may lose their federal education funding in the next two years. This is in addition to the loss of COVID education funds which ended in 2024. In short, schools in Washington state, California, New York and a few other states are about to lose 10% of their total education funding.

How much will this come to? According to a federal report called “Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts: School Year 2019–20, Table 5(the last year not affected by additional COVID funds), Washington state will lose more than one billion dollars. New York will lose $4 billion. California will lose more than $8 billion. https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2021/2021304.pdf

This will mean that more than 6000 teachers will be fired in Washington state in the next two years (on top of thousands of teachers that were fired in the past two years do to the failed McCleary School funding scam).

Taxes will continue to skyrocket in King and Snohomish counties at the same time that class sizes in our state continue to go through the roof and parents continue to pull their kids out of our public schools. In short, we will be facing a disasterous Transgender Cult School Funding Crisis here in Washington state during the next couple of years.

At the same time, Transgender Cult legal cases will continue to unfold, further exposing the many lies of the Transgender Cult and the corruption of Democratic Party leaders. As just one of dozens of examples, on October 28, 2024, a school teacher in Kansas who opposed Transgenderism has filed the following case:

Sullivan v. USD 512 Shawnee Mission et al

Here are links to her 102 page brief (which we will likely cover in a future article). https://edmundslaw.com/cases/

https://edmundslaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Complaint-FIled-1.pdf

Finally, we can expect a wave of lawsuits from the thousands of kids whose lives have been destroyed by the false promise made by the Trans Drug Cult that all they needed to do was take Trans Drugs and their mental health problems would be solved. See this article for more information on these cases:

https://washingtonparentsnetwork.com/9-trans-cult-survivors-file-lawsuits-against-the-trans-drug-cartel

This is part of a series of articles I have written about winning the 2028 election. To view all of these articles, go to the Washington Common Sense Coalition website. Here is the link:

http://washingtoncommonsensecoalition.org/

Here are ten issues that are important to families and independent voters:

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Why are these Ten Issues important to Families?

Issue #1: Put Families First includes restoring the Parents Rights Initiative (currently being blocked by Chris Reykdal in King County Superior Court). It also includes protecting children from Transgender Cult lies and other WOKE propaganda.

Issue #2: Lower Property Taxes: Since the McCleary School funding scam was pasted in 2017, property taxes have skyrocketed – up by more than 70% in King and Snohomish Counties. We need to roll back these tax increases and replace the McCleary scam with a property tax system that honors the Washington State Constitution. Rolling back property taxes will save the average family more than $2,000 per year. For more on this issue, see: https://washingtoncommonsensecoalition.org/cut-property-taxes-in-half

Issue #3: Lower Heating Costs: Thanks to our economical hydroelectric power system, Washington used to have among the lowest home heating costs in the nation. Now, due to over-regulation, we have among the highest heating costs. While voters approved the repeal of the Natural Gas Ban in 2024, it is likely that the current crazies in Olympia will continue to artificially drive up the cost of energy. We need to let voters know who is driving up their energy costs. Restoring lower heating costs will save the average family more than a thousand dollars a year. For more on this issue, see: https://washingtoncommonsensecoalition.org/lower-heating-costs

Issue #4 Lower Gas Taxes: Sadly, voters did not approve repealing Carbon Taxes in 2024. We need to continue to expose the fact that Carbon taxes have not and will not reduce carbon emissions. Instead, they are simply a billion dollar a year boondoogle and part of the bribery and kickback scheme keeping the crazies in Olympia in power. Eliminating carbon taxes will save the average family nearly one thousand dollars a year.

Issue #5 Lower Childcare Costs: Due to over-regulation by the State Childcare Gestapo, the cost of childcare in Washington has doubled during the past 7 years. In King County the cost is now over $2,000 per month – and Washington now has the third highest childcare costs in the nation. We need to repeal the draconian regulations that have forced small economical daycare providers out of business. For more on this issue, see: https://washingtoncommonsensecoalition.org/lower-childcare-costs

Issue #6 Lower Class sizes: Despite having some of the highest school funding in the nation, Washington now has some of the highest class sizes in the nation. High class sizes means that struggling students do not get the help they need to succeed in school and succeed in life. This problem gets worse every year due to budget cuts associated with the McCleary School funding scam and billions of dollars in tax breaks to wealthy multinational corporations like Microsoft, Amazon and Boeing – all of which are against our State Constitution. If we repeal these tax breaks, we can not only lower property taxes on families, but we can also lower our class sizes back down to the national average. For more on this issue, see: https://washingtoncommonsensecoalition.org/lower-class-sizes

Issue #7 Restore Local Control of Public Schools: For more than 100 years, thanks to several clauses in the Washington State Constitution, our state was a “local control” state. However, recently, our Governor and State Superintendent chose to ignore our State Constitution by illegally threatening to withhold funds from school boards that refused to comply with their draconian policies. These policies included imposing “Sex Ed for Kinders”, promoting “Racial Shaming”, allowing boys to enter girls bathrooms and letting boys compete in girls sports and promoted gender mutilation without parental consent and imposed shot mandates. As a result of these crazy WOKE policies, Washington students have suffered the greatest learning losses of any students in the nation as confirmed by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). We pledge to reverse these policies by restoring local control of public schools where schools are controlled by a locally elected school board under the guidance of local parents. For more on this issue, see: https://washingtoncommonsensecoalition.org/restore-local-control-of-public-schools

Issue #8 Reduce Bloated Government: The size of the Washington state government has skyrocketed in the past 8 years. During his time as Attorney General, Ferguson doubled the number of attorneys. During his time as State Superintendent, Reykdal doubled his staff (and added even more hidden consultants). To keep this bloated staff will require another $5 billion in new taxes during the next legislative session. Instead, we should cut the size of state government in half and use the money to reduce taxes and or reduce class sizes down to the national average.

Issue #9 End Bribery and Corruption: Article 2, Section 30 of our State Constitution prohibits bribery or corruption of elected officials. It is the only crime specifically mentioned in our State Constitution. But instead of free and equal elections not influenced by bribery, we now have elections which are essentially bidding wars where the rich and powerful give hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes (also known as campaign contributions) to the most corrupt candidates - and the corporate media give these same corrupt candidates hundreds of millions of additional dollars in free media promotion and hundreds of millions of dollars more in attack and hit pieces on the opponents of their preferred candidates. As just one example, about ten million dollars was spent to promote the four “Vote Yes, Pay Less Initiatives on the 2024 General Election ballot. But $50 million was spent telling lies to defeat these Initiatives. It is not surprising that three out of the four went down to defeat. What is surprising is that one of them, the repeal of the Natural Gas Ban was able to pass despite the fact that millions of dollars was spent to defeat it. It is time to honor our Washington state constitution by putting an end to bribes and kickbacks. For more information, click here: https://washingtoncommonsensecoalition.org/end-bribery-and-corruption

Issue #10 Restore Free and Equal Elections
Article 1 Section 19 of our State Constitution requires “all elections to be free and equal.” Free and equal means no money is required to run for office and all candidates are treated equally. The goal is that the person with the best ideas to solve our problems should win rather than the candidate with the most money. It also means that all candidates are to be treated equally by the media – what used to be called the Fairness Doctrine. Equal treatment means that all candidates are asked the same questions and their answers are published verbatim. If the paper wants to print an editorial promoting a candidate, equal space is allowed for opposing candidates to express their own point of view. It is time to honor our state constitution by returning to Free and Equal elections.

A Five Step Process to replace the Crazies in Olympia with Common Sense Leaders

Step 1: Encourage & Train More Common Sense Candidates to run for School Boards in 2025
Currently, every school district in Washington state is violating Title IX by failing to protect the rights of girls and women to their own private spaces and their own fair sports and academic programs. We need to encourage and train Common Sense candidates to run for school boards in 2025 on a platform of restoring fair treatment and ending the Transgender Drug Cult and WOKE propaganda in our schools.

Step 2: Take Legal Actions to force Ferguson and Reykdal to Comply with Title IX
For the past 8 years, Ferguson and Reykdal have gotten away with the Big Lie that Title IX requires allowing boys in the girls bathrooms and allowing boys to take over girls sports. In fact, Title IX requires just the opposite. It requires protect the rights of girls to their own bathrooms and their own sports teams. The best way to expose the Ferguson Reykdal Drug Cartel is to take them to federal court.

Step 3: Encourage & Train Common Sense Candidates to run for the State Legislature in 2026
As our state slides from bad to worse during the next four years, there will be an opportunity to replace the current corrupt legislature. We need to take an active roll in encouraging and training Common Sense candidates to replace the Crazy Crowd in Olympia.

Step 4: Encourage & Train Common Sense Candidates to run for State Office in 2027: It is understandable that many potential Common Sense candidates for statewide office might look at the results of the 2024 election and conclude that it is impossible to elect any sane candidates statewide here in Washington state. However, there will likely to be many huge changes in the next couple of years that will expose the fraud, lies and corruption of our current leaders. When this happens, there will be an opportunity for real change. However, Washington is a huge state. To really mount an effective, successful statewide campaign, we need to encourage candidates to begin their campaign at least a year in advance. We also need to do a better job of making sure that our candidates are aware of issues and solutions to problems important to families and Independent voters.

Step 5: Expand our Washington Parents Network and Washington Common Sense Coalition
Most important, we need to do a better job of informing voters both of the problems families face and the solutions to those problems. This is the goal of both the Washington Parents Network and the Washington Common Sense Coalition. If you have a group interested in learning more about either of these groups, send us an email and we would be happy to set up a time to do a presentation and Question and Answer session with your church or parent group.

Summary
I am not suggesting that the Trans Drug Cult be the only issue to organize around. What I am suggesting is that if Republican leaders and candidates take the time to learn the truth about the harm of Transgenderism and then have the courage to tell the truth, Washington state can join the Red Wave in 2028. All they need to do is put families first.

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

Regards,

David Spring M. Ed.

Director, Washington Parents Network

Teacher Unions turn against Parents, Students and Teachers

There are two teachers unions representing thousands of teachers here in Washington state. The National Education Association (NEA) represents public school teachers and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) represents college teachers. Sadly, both unions are deeply involved in promoting the Transgender Cult. They not only encourage children to change their names and become addicted to Trans Drugs, but they oppose informing parents that their kids have changed their names at school. Both unions offer training in how teachers can promote Transgenderism in their classrooms. Both unions require teachers to attend brainwashing sessions where they are told lies about how encouraging kids to change their pronouns will bring them happiness. Both unions support allowing boys in the girls bathrooms and allowing trans males to takeover girls sports. Both unions support the lie that Title IX protects Trans Rights rather than the rights of girls and women.

The truth is that it is not possible for anyone to change their gender. Encouraging students to lie to their parents harms both students and their parents. Opposition to Transgenderism has forced thousands of parents to pull their kids out of public schools – leading to a loss of school funding which in turn has forced schools to fire thousands of teachers in the past 2 years. But in addition, requiring adherence to Trans Lies has forced thousands of experienced teachers to leave the teaching profession due to their unwillingness to go along with the Trans Cult lies. This leads to larger class sizes and more work for teachers left behind. These remaining teachers not only have to deal with larger class sizes but also a huge increase in student absenteeism, student drug addiction and student mental health problems. In short, the teachers unions support for Transgenderism is leading to the destruction our schools. But if all this was not bad enough, this past week, these reckless teachers unions sent out a mailer that they opposed the four “Vote Yes, Pay Less Initiatives on the ballot in the 2024 Washington State General Election. Their opposition to these Initiatives is also posted on their websites.

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What is disturbing is that voting No on these initiatives will not only continue to increase the cost of food, heating and gasoline for working class families, but it will also continue to increase the cost of school lunches, heating of school buildings and gasoline for running school buses. All of these costs have skyrockets since the Washington legislature passed bills deliberately driving up these costs. To balance their budget, school boards have been forced to fire teachers. In short, the teachers unions have not only turned against parents and students, they have also turned against the best interests of teachers. In this article, we will use the teachers union opposition to the Natural Gas Ban and Carbon Tax Initiatives to explain why it is time to offer teachers a new Common Sense Teachers Union that will actually act in the best interest of parents, students and teachers.

How Crazy Carbon Taxes have driven up Energy Costs in Washington
You have likely noticed that your electric bill and natural gas bill have both gone through the roof in the past few years – costing you hundreds of dollars a year in additional heating costs. Sadly, the current administration in Olympia plans to double your heating costs even beyond what they are now - and eventually force millions of the homeowners in our State to spend $40,000 or more to switch from natural gas to electric heat.

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In short, their diabolical plan to address climate change is to drive the cost of energy so high, that most of us will not be able to afford to heat our homes with either electric or natural gas.

Doubling your Energy Cost is not about climate change – it is about Increasing Profits for Corporations driving this narrative
Some feel strongly that humans carbon emissions play a role in climate change and that we should do everything possible to reduce that impact.. Others feel strongly that climate change is a scam being used to drive up their taxes and energy costs to increase profits for energy companies. The Common Sense approach to this debate is to demand scientifically credible evidence – not only about the causes and degree of climate change – but also demand scientifically credible evidence of proposed solutions to the climate change problem.

Even if one believes that human caused climate change is real, it is crazy to force solutions down our throats – such as Carbon Tax scams to drive up energy prices - when there is no evidence that Carbon Taxes will have any significant impact on the Climate Change problem. If the current administration actually wanted to do something to offset carbon emissions, they would encourage everyone to plant a tree in their back yard or their local park. Trees absorb carbon and they produce oxygen. Trees are a Common Sense solution because they are relatively inexpensive and they last for 100 years or more.

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As you will shortly see, the insane laws passed by the current administration to drive up energy costs will not significantly reduce carbon emissions. All it will really do is drive poor and middle class families out of their homes and apartments and into homeless shelters.

Why Natural Gas is Much Cheaper than Electric Heat
Another scam is the plan to get rid of natural gas. About half the homes in Washington state use natural gas to heat their home and the other half use electric home heaters. There has long been a debate in the scientific community as to the benefits of natural gas versus electric heat. Those who favor electric heat claim that hydroelectric power is “renewable” in that it comes from dams on our rivers. This simplistic argument ignores the fact that all dams have a limited life span. Eventually, the uphill side of the dam will fill with silt. Dams also have a huge initial cost and a huge initial carbon footprint in terms of the tons of concrete and tons of iron rebar used to make the dams. Then there are the hundreds of miles of huge transmission towers and lines that also have a carbon footprint. There is also the cost of millions of acres that were once forests of carbon-absorbing, oxygen-producing trees that were cut down to make room for the dam reservoirs. Dams also can have an impact on fish. So while dams are an important source of energy, this electric energy is not free and it is not carbon neutral. It is therefore insane to claim that electricity is renewable and does not have a carbon footprint. But that is in fact what the current administration in Olympia is claiming.

This same administration claims that natural gas is “not renewable.” Their claim is not currently supported by the facts. The actual amount of natural gas reserves has gone up during the past 20 years – not down. This increase in supply is the main reason why natural gas prices have gone down in Washington State and across the nation during the past 20 years – despite an increase in demand. The average annual residential price of natural gas in Washington state trended downward from 2010 when it was $12.24 per thousand cubic feet to 2019 when it hit a low of $9.82 per thousand cubic feet. This was a 20% price reduction over 10 years related primarily to a large increase in the supply of natural gas. https://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/hist/n3010wa3A.htm

Meanwhile, during this same period, the price of electric heat has gone up substantially. This is largely because the supply of electricity has not kept pace with demand. In fact, if the current administration succeeds in their plan to eliminate natural gas, there will not be enough electricity to replace the loss of natural gas. We can expect rolling blackouts during cold winter months – in addition to paying massively higher heating bills.

Despite the fact that only half the homes in our state heat with electricity, we are already facing electric supply capacity problems. Forcing the half of our homes currently using natural gas to switch to electricity will lead to certain disaster. This switch will also cost the average homeowner about $40,000 – and the switch itself will lead to a huge carbon footprint. But that is the crazy plan currently being forced on us by our current administration.

Another fact to be aware of is that natural gas is a much more efficient way to heat your home than electricity. This is because it takes a lot of electricity to create a little bit of heat. Most of the electricity is wasted. On the other hand, natural gas has a energy conversion rate of over 90%. The term we use is efficiency. As a result of this efficiency advantage, the cost of natural gas per KWH is about half the cost of an equivalent amount of electric heat. See this 2024 study as a good example:

https://shrinkthatfootprint.com/natural-gas-heat-vs-electrical-heat/

This study found that for Washington state, the cost of natural gas was $16.91 per million BTU (British Thermal Units) while the cost of electric heat was $32.47 per million BTU. This converts to 6 cents per KWH for natural gas compared to 12 cents per KWH for electric heat. As of March, 2024, the cost of electric heat is about 13 cents a KWH which converts to an average electric bill of $132 per month or $1,584 per year. This is a 100% increase over the price of electricity in 2003. https://findenergy.com/wa/

By comparison, the price of natural gas fell by 20% from 2010 to 2020. While the price of natural gas has continued to decline in the rest of the nation, it has shot up by 59% in Washington State since 2020 – solely because of new laws passed by the current administration that have the stated purpose of driving the cost of natural gas beyond what any normal family can afford.

The final fact to be aware of before we dive into the details is that the two groups that emit the most carbon are the US military and billionaires like Bill Gates flying around in private airplanes. Yet jet fuel is exempt from the Washington Carbon tax scam! By comparison, the average homeowner in Washington state emits very little carbon – and perhaps is already carbon neutral if they have a couple of trees in their back yard.

Washington Legislature votes that doubled our heating bills
Now that we have a better idea of the options, we will next take a look at the new “Carbon” laws that have been passed in Washington state in the past four years and why they have driven up the cost of both electricity and natural gas. In 2019, the Washington legislature passed Senate Bill 5116, known as the Clean Energy Transformation Act (CETA), which requires Washington's electric utilities to eliminate carbon emissions from their energy resources by 2045.

On February 16, 2020, the Washington State House of Representatives passed HB 2311 GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION LIMITS. The bill then passed the Senate on March 5, 2020. The bill ordered that a study be done to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Washington state by 95% by 2050. The study results are posted on this page: https://www.utc.wa.gov/decarbpathways

Scroll down the page and click on WA Emissions Charts to down load an excel file with the following three graphs:

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Note that residential home heating (green above) is only a tiny fraction of the total emissions. Even if every homeowner stopped using electricity and natural gas completely, as the above graph claims will happen by 2050, there would be almost no change in total emissions. In fact, the carbon footprint associated with two million families forced to spend $40,000 each to switch is certain to be greater than any carbon reduction from switching from gas heat to electric heat.

Note also that transportation is claimed to be the largest carbon emitter. So another goal of the Climate Crazy Crowd is to drive the cost of gasoline through the roof to force us to buy electric cars.

Here is the second graph:

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Note the final two columns on the right. There is no reduction in jet fuel. But gasoline is completely eliminated. Just to the left of this are the two tiny columns on Residential Heating. Currently, it is half Natural Gas and half Grid Electric. Note that combined, these two sources account for just 10% of total emissions. By 2050, both Natural Gas (blue) and Grid Electric (yellow) will be gone. Here is a closer look at these two columns:

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You can either buy solar panels for $50,000 or more per home (this is on top of the $40,000 you need to spend to switch to electric heat – the total is $90,000). Or you can have no heat and just wear a thick coat.

Here is the third graph on 2050 transportation:

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Gas cars will be gone. You can either buy an electric car for $40,000 - or an electric bike with a cargo carrier for $5,000 – or you can walk – or you can vote for Common Sense candidates who will oppose this crazy plan. A Toyota Prius will cost you another $40,000 – bringing your grand total to $130,000 – in addition to doubling the cost of your energy and food bills.

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A New and Better Alternative to Electric Cars
Instead of banning gasoline cars and requiring 4 million families to spend $40,000 each to buy an electric car, we should let the market decide which car maker has the best solution. For example, Toyota recently announced a new type of hydrogen powered engine they claim will make electric cars obsolete. Currently, their Hydrogen-cell powered cars cost $50,000. However, they expect that as these cars grow in popularity, by 2030, the price will be cut in half to $25,000 making them about the same price as a gas powered car. In addition, by 2030, Toyota claims they will produce an entirely new kind of engine that uses Direct Hydrogen rather than a Hydrogen Fuel cell. Unlike hydrogen fuel cell vehicles like the Toyota Mirai, which generate electricity through a chemical reaction, Hydrogen Internal Combustion engines (aka HICE) burn hydrogen directly in a manner akin to gasoline engines.

This direct combustion method has many advantages, including the need to make only minor modifications to existing engines and producing almost zero CO2 emissions. The primary emission from these direct hydrogen engines is water vapor. This process the opposite of combustion of fossil fuels, where carbon in the fuel combines with oxygen to produce CO2.

Here is a picture of their first HICE van taken earlier this year filling up at a Hydrogen pump:

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Another advantage of the Hydrogen car is that it does not require an expensive battery – which is a major cost for current electric vehicles.

The point is that as new technologies become more cost effective, the market itself will make the conversion from gas powered cars to newer hydrogen powered cars. There is simply no need to force 4 million families to spend $40,000 each on an electric car which may soon be replaced by a newer technology.

How “No New Taxes” Claims turned into a record 59% Hidden Tax
Naturally, we were all told all of these new bills out of Olympia will cost next to nothing. But despite the fact that natural gas prices have declined in the rest of the nation, the table below shows the increase in the price of natural gas here in Washington State over the past four years:

Year

Dollars per thousand cubic feet

Percent increase

2010

12.24

2019

9.82

20% Decrease

2020

10.97

12% Increase

2021

11.63

6% Increase

2022

12.83

10% Increase

2023

15.58

18% Increase

Total

5.76 / 9.82 =

59% Increase

2024 Inslee’s Farewell Gift to the working class families that elected him based on his “No Tax Increase” Promises

On March 1, 2024, the Washington State Senate passed House Bill 1589 CLEAN ENERGY (also known as the Drive Up Your Heating Costs bill).

On March 5, 2024, the Washington State House passed House Bill 1589. The new law speeds up the change from natural gas to electric by allowing electric companies like PGE to use an accounting trick called “accelerated depreciation” to pretend to increase their costs – giving them an excuse to greatly increase what they charge to both electric and gas customers.

Because of Washington’s already-existing climate laws, companies like PSE are legally required to transition from natural gas to electricity quickly. Companies like PSE are already required to generate 80% of their energy from so-called “renewable” energy sources like Hydro and solar by 2030 and 100% by 2045.

Thus, HB 1589 sets the stage for a total statewide natural gas ban and will drastically inflate utility rates for everyone, as millions of homeowners and businesses will bear the cost of converting from gas to electricity. This bill allows “accelerated depreciation.” This will lead to significant short-term rate increases which will disproportionately impact low and moderate-income households. Customers will be responsible for replacing gas furnaces, gas water heaters and gas stoves. The Building Industry Association of Washington (BIAW) estimates PSE’s residential customers will face a cost of $7 billion to $10 billion converting to electricity, with average costs expected to be about $40,000 per home. Statewide for 2 million homes now using natural gas, the cost will be $80 billion.

Owners of older homes can expect much higher costs because of necessary upgrades to wiring, electrical panels and other equipment. Renters will also be burdened with higher rental payments to absorb the costs of their landlords’ electrification efforts.

The Real Agenda is to force everyone to move into Stack and Pack Over Crowded Cities

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Let’s compare our Voluntary Locally Controlled Tree Planting Program as a Common Sense Alternative to forcing millions of families spend $40,000 on gas to electric conversion, plus $50,000 for solar panels and $40,000 for an electric car. Let’s assume there are four million families living in single family homes in Washington state. Let’s further assume that half of these families already use expensive electric heat to heat their homes. Let’s further assume that 5% of all families own electric cars and 5% of all families own solar panels.

With these assumptions, the average family will be forced to spend about $100,000 to comply with the new Carbon laws. Multiply this times 4 million families and the total hidden tax comes to $400 billion – the largest hidden tax in State history.

Our alternative to this draconian hidden tax is to offer a voluntary, locally controlled tree planting program. Our State has 39 counties. Assuming the average tree cost $100, if our State granted $4 million to each county, they could set up their own tree planting program to plant 100,000 trees in each county. One option would be to give each homeowner and or property owner a $100 offset to their property taxes as an incentive to plant a tree in their yard. But it would be up to each county to decide how to run their program. The result would be planting 4 million additional trees in Washington State. The total cost would be $160 million. In addition, Washington has nearly 300 school districts and over 3000 schools. If each school district was given a million dollars, they could plant a 10,000 trees or other plants on school properties. This would be a thousand new trees and plants at every school. The total cost would be $300 million.

Finally, DNR and DOT both have millions of acres of State land. If each of them were given $260 million, they could each plant 2.6 million trees. The total cost of the entire program would be under $1 billion – all of which could be paid for by eliminating a few illegal corporate tax breaks. This is much less expensive than the Crazy Crowd plan which would cost $400 billion. And it is more likely to achieve the goal of reducing CO2 and increasing Oxygen. The net result is that Washington State would have 10 million additional trees each of which would be consuming CO2 and producing Oxygen 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for the next 100 years. Any family that wants a new tree in their back yard can have one and no family is forced to spend one penny for the program.

This is why the Natural Gas Ban Initiative was put on the 2024 General Election ballot. Do the voters want a voluntary locally run tree planting program or a State Mandated $400 billion crazy carbon program that would cost each homeowner more than $100,000?

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Carbon Taxes have never lowered carbon emissions

Despite carbon taxes currently costing Washington families nearly $2 billion per year, there has been no significant reduction in carbon emissions in our state – nor will there be in the future. Those pushing carbon taxes have claimed that they will reduce carbon emissions by 50% by 2030. Here is where we are at so far. Does it look like carbon emissions are going down?

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So, how much will $2 billion in new state taxes reduce Washington’s carbon emissions? They don’t know. And they aren’t interested in finding out. During The Seattle Times editorial board debate on I-2117, which would repeal the carbon tax, members of the board raised concerns about the lack of accountability for how the CCA money was being spent. In fact, there is no tracking of the effectiveness of Carbon tax spending at all. The fact that they don’t even have a system to track the impact of that spending indicates that isn’t really the goal.

The Only Long Term Solution is to replace the Crazy Crowd with Common Sense Candidates – which also means replacing the current Teacher Unions
Republicans argue that Washington voters should repeal the Climate Commitment Act (CCA) by voting Yes to Pay Less in November 2024. However, a PSE spokesperson stated that even if the CCA goes away, other state climate laws, like the Clean Energy Transformation Act (CETA) will continue to dictate how the utility company shapes its future energy policies. Therefore, the only real long term solution to end Crazy Carbon Tax policies is to vote for Common Sense candidates!

But this brings us back to the reckless Teacher Union endorsements. Not only do they oppose repealing tax scams like the Carbon Tax – but they also have endorsed corrupt politicians like Bob Ferguson and Chris Reykdal who not only push Transgender Drugs on kids but push billions of dollars in Carbon Taxes on the rest of us.

The only good news is that the truth about both of these scams will eventually come out in the open. When the truth does come out, we need to not only replace Reykdal and Ferguson, we also need to replace the Teacher Unions with a Common Sense Teachers Union that works to help families and teachers rather than harm them. As always, I look forward to your questions and comments.

Regards,

David Spring M. Ed.

Washington Parents Network

Detransitioners expose Deadly Truth about Transgenderism

Many young women and men who have undergone “gender-affirming” treatments, now realize that they were misled and deeply harmed. They recognize that they could never have become the opposite sex, and that they were rushed into life-altering procedures when their underlying mental-health issues should have been addressed instead. Notably, children and adolescents with gender dysphoria often have mental-health comorbidities, including severe depression, anxiety, autism, self-harm, eating disorders, and post-traumatic stress from past sexual abuse. These “detransitioners” feel betrayed. Their mental-health problems have not been solved by the medical interventions. In many cases, those problems are much worse and compounded by the realization that the promised cure was irreparably harmful.

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Some detransitioners are seeking justice. Some detransitioners have been able to bring legal action to hold their health care providers accountable and prevent others from being harmed as they were.

In December 2024, the US Supreme Court will decide whether 25 US States can ban giving Trans drugs to minors. Currently, dozens of states and other organizations have submitted briefs to the Supreme Court. You can read these briefs at this link:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/23-477.html

Naturally, the Washington AG, Bob Ferguson, submitted a brief opposing the banning of Trans drugs. According to Bob, it is OK to give kids toxic drugs but it is not OK to counsel kids about the drawbacks of getting addicted to these toxic drugs. By contrast, on October 15, 2024, the Alabama AG, Steve Marshall, submitted a 52 page brief exposing the deadly truth about Transgenderism. You can download and read his brief at this link:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-477/328275/20241015131826340_2024.10.15%20-%20Ala.%20Amicus%20Br.%20iso%20TN%20FINAL.pdf

This brief refers to over 30 court documents and hundreds of pages of research reports which have all been posted at this link: https://www.alabamaag.gov/boe-v-marshall/

Here is a quote from the Alabama brief to the Supreme Court:

Alabama has exposed a medical, legal, and political scandal that will be studied for decades to come.”

Here is the scandal the Alabama brief refers to: The state-sponsored and state-supported drugging of thousands of children with drugs so toxic that they are known to cause cancer, tumors, sterilization as well as increasing the suicide rate – not to help gender confused children but to make billions of dollars for those pushing Trans Drugs. The Alabama brief then goes on to provide evidence that the leaders of the Trans Cult, such as WPATH and he American Academy of Pediatics (AAP) suppressed evidence of the harms of Trans drugs while lying about the safety and effectiveness of Trans Drugs. One of the many lies was the WPATH and AAP claim that Puberty Blockers were not only safe and effective, but that they were “reversible” – falsely claiming that they did not harm a child’s brain development or ability to have children of their own later in life.

The latest brief was submitted by the American College of Pediatrics. Here is the link:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-477/328729/20241018200530413_Skrmetti%20SCOTUS%2010.18.24-corrected-served.pdf

Here are quotes from this brief:

Scientific research shows that children with gender incongruence or dysphoria almost always have significant mental health struggles and adverse childhood events that contribute to if not cause their dysphoria. And multiple studies show that these children almost always grow out of or desist from such gender incongruity while going through puberty.”

Hormonal and surgical interventions do nothing to treat the underlying mental health struggles these children face. Rather than push a pre-teen to drugs and permanent body-altering surgery, the appropriate medical treatment is to address the child’s underlying mental health issues while allowing the child to go through natural puberty.”

Transitioning” to a Different Sex Is Biologically Impossible

From a purely scientific standpoint, human beings possess a biologically determined sex and innate sex differences. No physician or surgeon could actually change a person’s genes through hormones and surgery. Sex change is objectively impossible.”

There is no evidence that a child benefits from social “transition,” use of puberty-blockers, cross-sex hormones, or surgery to alter the body’s physical appearance to look like the opposite or no sex… The available, credible science suggests that mental health treatment should be the focus for children expressing gender incongruence and not hormonal or surgical interventions. Avoiding invasive, dangerous, and irreversible medical interventions such as those prohibited by Tennessee benefits children and saves them from serious and life-long harms.”

Puberty Blockers Harm Children
“In addition to making a child sterile, puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones have significant impact on brain development. Indeed, as the Cass Review noted, as a result of such hormones offered for “gender transition” purposes, “brain maturation may be temporarily or permanently disrupted by the use of puberty blockers, which could have a significant impact on the young person’s ability to make complex risk-laden decisions, as well as having possible longer-term neuropsychological consequences.”

In short, as the renowned Swedish psychiatrist Dr. Christopher Gillberg has said, pediatric transition is “‘possibly one of the greatest scandals in medical history,’ which is why he also called for “an immediate moratorium on the use of puberty blocker drugs because of their unknown long-term effects… The Proper Standard of Care for Minors with Gender Incongruity or Dysphoria is Mental Health Counseling, Not Hormones and Surgery.”

Some of children harmed by Trans Drugs wrote a 25 page Brief to the Supreme Court. You can read their Brief at this link: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23A763/301057/20240221152619095_Burleigh%20et%20al.%20Amicus%20Brief%20No.%2023A763%20PDFA.pdf

Here are quotes from this Brief:

They were led to believe that “affirming” medical interventions for the purpose of “gender transition,” such as cross-sex hormones and surgical procedures, would resolve their gender dysphoria and permit them to live healthy, well-adjusted lives. Sadly, they learned through their experiences that such interventions did not resolve their mental health issues or gender dysphoria, but only caused physical harm and increased their distress as they realized their bodies had been irreversibly altered based upon a false promise.”

These kids need therapy and a safe environment to work through and address the severe mental health issues they are experiencing. Children facing struggles need help with their thoughts, not a body “fix” with hormones and surgery.”

A detransitioner named KathyGrace “realized that she was living a lie built upon years of repressed pain and abuse. Hormones and surgery had not helped her resolve underlying issues of rejection, abuse, and sexual assault. Her desire to live as a man was a symptom of deeper, unmet needs.”

Another detransitioner named Laura stated: “During the time that she lived as a man, Laura was constantly reminded of the truth, but had to constantly override it, which she found to be exhausting. After seven years of medical transition treatments, Laura was depressed and suicidal… he began working through a healing community, which restored her emotionally and psychologically as a woman. She received counseling that helped her see the broken patterns, process negative thinking towards herself, and understand healthy womanhood. She began to realize that she was not a man but had fixated on becoming a person who would be loved… Based on her experience, Laura believes transition procedures do not solve anything but only give temporary relief, like taking a pain killer for a broken bone. From personal experience, Laura knows there are far healthier ways to help children resolve distress with their bodies.”

In 2017, the National Geographic magazine posted a cover story about a boy who was transitioning to be a girl.

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The boy then told his parents he "changed his mind." His mother wouldn't let him. She forced him to stay on the trans track.

He grew out of the "girl" phase, but because he had taken cross sex hormones and had been casterated, it was too late. No one warned him that there was no going back to being a boy. This boy was the victim of a perverted ideology that mangled him for life.

Three scientific studies have been published on the history and needs of detransitioners. In 2021, Littman published a survey of 100 detransitioners where 60% reported their decision to detransition was motivated by the fact that they “became comfortable identifying with their natal sex.” Here is the link: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8604821/

In 2022, Vandenbussche published a survey of 237 detransitioners with 70% reporting that they detransitioned after realizing their gender dysphoria was related to other issues. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00918369.2021.1919479#abstract

In 2023, Jorgensen published a summary of why detransitioners decided to return to their biological sex. Here is the link: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10322945/

Reddit’s “detrans” forum has more than doubled, from over 23,000 members in November 2021 to 56,000 members in 2024. Here is this link: http://www.reddit.com/r/detrans/

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Meanwhile the Transgender Drug Cartel keeps making Billions by killing our kids
There are now more than 400 pediatric gender clinics in North America, according to the Gender Mapping Project. The U.S. sex-reassignment-surgery market was valued at $1.9 billion in 2021 and is expected to reach $5 billion by 2030, according to Grand View Research. AbbVie reported $720 million in net revenue in 2019 from sales of Lupron, a powerful puberty blocker.

Regardless of the outcome of this election, we need to continue organizing politically to hold those accountable for this monsterous crime and to get justice for their victims – which is all of us. As always, I look forward to your questions and comments.

Regards,

David Spring M. Ed.

David (at) Washington Parents Network.com

Womens Volleyball Teams stage Boycott against Trans Male

Male volleyball players are much stronger and spike the ball much harder than female volleyball players. This is why the net for Mens Volleyball is nearly 8 feet high while the net for Womens Volleyball is 7 feet 4 inches high. Men hit the ball so hard that allowing Men to play on a Womens team with a Women’s Net has caused permanent injuries to Women players. For example, in September 2022, a North Carolina female high school volleyball player named Payton McNabb was severely injured when she was hit in the face by a volleyball spiked at her by a Trans biological male. Here is an image of her just after impact. See Payton in the lower left corner:

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https://nypost.com/2023/04/21/nc-volleyball-player-urges-transgender-ban-for-schools-female-sports/

In addition to being dangerous, allowing males to compete on Womens Volleyball teams violates a federal law called Title IX which requires that girls and woment be given equal and fair opportunities in sports competition. Allowing a male to be on a Women’s Volleyball team deprives Women of the opportunity for fair sports competition. It also deprives women of scholarship opporunities when sports scholarships intended for women are given to males. In addition, males who who pretend to be females have taken at least 578 athletic victories from women. Despite these facts, during the past few years, sports scholarships intended for women players have been illegally given to Trans Male players.

A Secret Takeover of Girls and Womens Sports
Giving males spots on female teams has often been done in secret – without informing girls and women who are forced to compete against males. For example, in March 2022, a biological male who called himself Lia Thomas and who was ranked #550 when he competed as a male, beat 3 biological females to win the NCAA Women’s Swimming Title. The women swimmers were not told until just before the match that they would not only have to compete against this male, but that they would have to share their locker room with this male!

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In May, 2024, girls participating in the Washington State Track Championship were not told that they would have to compete against a male runner until just before the race. Here is an image showing this male far ahead of the four fastest girls:

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In 2024, women on the San Jose State Volleyball team were told to room with a new volleyball player without being told that the new volleyball player was a biological male! When they found out, school officials told them that they had to keep the secret that there was a male on their team hidden from the press and from opposing teams. But eventually the truth came out. When it did, in September and October 2024, five Womens Volleyball teams staged a boycott against this Trans male pretending to be a woman.

The NCAA refuses to make available information to student-athletes regarding whether any of their opponents are males who have been granted the opportunity to compete on a women’s team.

Boycott against Trans Male Volleyball Player Begins
On September 14, the Southern Utah Womens Volleyball team voted to cancel their match against San Jose State. Two weeks later, on September 28, the Boise State Womens Team voted to forfeit their match against San Jose State. A week later, on October 5, the Wyoming Womens Team voted to forfeit their match against San Jose State. Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon supported the team saying, “it is important we stand for integrity and fairness in female athletics. The Utah State Womens Team announced that they voted to forfeit their match to San Jose State which had been scheduled for October 23.

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Nevada Womens Volleyball Team votes to join the boycott
On October 14, 2024, the Nevada Womens Team announced that they had voted unanimously to forfeit their game against San Jose State which was scheduled for October 26, 2024. In reponse, Nevada univerity officials falsely claimed that federal law required Nevada to play the game. In fact, what Title IX really requires is that the Nevada Womens team be given fair and equal opportunities for sports competition. So it is Nevada University offficials who are actually violating federal law.

In response to the University claim that the game would be played, the Nevada Womens Team issued the following statement making it clear that they would not play this game: “We, the University of Nevada Reno women’s volleyball team, forfeit against San Jose State University and stand united in solidarity with the volleyball teams of Southern Utah University, Boise State University, the University of Wyoming, and Utah State University. We demand that our right to safety and fair competition on the court be upheld. We refuse to participate in any match that advances injustice against female athletes.”

Sia Liilii, a senior and one of two captains on the Nevada team, stated: "We decided that we're going to stand in solidarity with other teams that have already forfeited and that we wouldn't participate in a game that advances sex-based discrimination or injustice against female athletes".

National support for the Boycott grows
The state governor of Nevada has backed the female athletes after they forfeited their match against San Jose State. Joe Lombardo said he respects their decision and has 'safety concerns'.

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The governors of Idaho, Utah and Wyoming have also said they support the boycott. Idaho Gov. Brad Little said “We need to ensure player safety for all of our female athletes and continue the fight for fairness in women’s sports.” 

On October 15, Presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke out in favor of the boycott saying if he’s elected he’ll use an executive order to outlaw transgender competitors at all levels. Trump said: “I saw the slam, it was a slam. I never saw a ball hit so hard, hit the girl in the head,” Trump said. “Other people, even in volleyball, they’ve been really hurt badly. Women playing men… we stop it. We absolutely stop it.”

Riley Gaines, host of the OutKick podcast "Gaines for Girls" and one of the most influential pro-woman voices in the country, lauded the Nevada team for their bravery: "I applaud these athletes for setting boundaries and prioritizing their safety over victory. They've shown far more courage and leadership than the president of the university and the President of this country. A movement is forming, where athletes take control of their future."  

Former Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, as a U.S. representative in 2020, sponsored legislation to ban transgender athletes from participating in women’s collegiate athletics. She told the Nevada Womens Team she was proud of them for having the courage to stand up for their right to fair competition.

On October 17, 2024, the Nevada GOP is issuing a statement of support for Nevada’s women’s volleyball team:

The Nevada Republican Party stands firmly with the young women of the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) women’s volleyball team, who recently made the decision to forfeit a match in protest of an opponent fielding a biological man. Their concerns centered on fairness and safety for female athletes. While the university has called for the game to be played in the name of equality, we believe that true equality means protecting the integrity of women’s sports. For decades, women have fought for a level playing field, and allowing men to compete in women’s categories undermines this hard-won progress and presents serious physical risks to female athletes. The Nevada Republican Party applauds the UNR volleyball team’s principled stand for fairness and safety. Women’s sports were created to empower women, and no athlete should have to sacrifice that in the name of misguided policies.”

October 17 Update: Today during a volleyball match between San Jose State and New Mexico, a spike from the Trans Male volleyball player hit a New Mexico player in the head and decked her as shown below:

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San Jose State Womens Volleyball Player joins national lawsuit against NCAA for allowing males to compete in Womens sports

On September 23, 2024, Brooke Slusser a captain on the San Jose Womens Volleyball team joined Riley Gaines and 18 other female athletes in a lawsuit in federal court against the NCAA for allowing male athletes, like her teammate, to compete in women’s sports. Here is a link to their 208 page complaint:

https://www.iconswomen.com/take-on-the-ncaa/#filing

Slusser has publicly supported the boycott against her San Jose State team:

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The lawsuit argues that allowing males onto the Womens teams violates Title IX by compromising fairness, safety, and privacy for women. Here are some quotes from this lawsuit:

The NCAA is aware of significant scientific research demonstrating that men have inherent athletic advantages over women. The NCAA and the other Defendants knew or should have known that the NCAA’s Transgender Eligibility Policies violate Title IX because they result in numerous discriminatory impacts against women (“Discriminatory Impacts”), including:

a. preventing women from even knowing whether they are competing against men in women’s sports,

b. authorizing men to compete on women’s teams or in the women’s category of competitions,

c. subjecting women to a higher risk of injury in sport by allowing men to access women’s showers, locker rooms, restrooms and other such safe spaces and depriving women of the right to know biological men are accessing their safe spaces,

f. depriving women of equal access to separate showers, locker rooms, and associated restroom facilities which protect their right to bodily privacy,

g.diminishing equal opportunities and resources for women,

h.diverting opportunities and resources to men,

i.subjecting women to a loss of privacy and emotional harm,

j.depriving women of a fair opportunity to compete in college sports,

k. depriving women of a fair opportunity to prepare to compete in college sports by allowing men to access women’s spaces including

women’s locker rooms, depriving women of a fair opportunity to compete for titles, placements, and recognition at NCAA national championships, and

m. suppressing the free speech rights of women and men advocating for the rights of biological women to a fair opportunity to compete, separate and equal locker rooms and a correct application of Title IX.

The NCAA distributes more than $600,000,000 (six hundred million dollars) annually to its members… Division I athletic departments at NCAA member institutions spend approximately twice as much on men’s programs compared to women’s programs… The NCAA Policy on Transgender Student-Athlete Participation is not supported by any scientific research or study commissioned by the NCAA.

The Male-Female Sport Performance Gap

The reason for sex-separated sport (i.e., for creating separate men’s and women’s teams or a separate women’s category) and the reason the Title IX regulations endorse sex-separated sports teams is to give women a meaningful opportunity to compete that they would be denied were they required to compete against men.

Developmental biologist Dr. Emma N. Hilton and sport physiologist Dr. Tommy R. Lundberg report that “the performance gap between males and females . . . often amounts to 10 – 50% depending on sport.” Hilton, E.N., Lundberg, T.R., “Transgender Women in the Female Category of Sport: Perspectives on Testosterone Suppression and Performance Advantage,” Sports Medicine (2021) 51:199-214, p. 199.

Hilton and Lundberg note that the sport performance gap between men and women is not limited to certain sports but applies generally to most skills necessary for success in sport.

The source of male athletic performance advantages over women is attributed by many scientists to genetic differences between males and females and the effects higher levels of testosterone have on the male body throughout male development. The developmental and physiological effects brought about by genetic differences between males and females and higher levels of circulating testosterone in males begin well before puberty. In the womb and in the 6-9 month “mini puberty” phase immediately post birth natal males experience endogenous synthesis and secretion of higher levels of testosterone than natal females, triggering differentiation in male body structure beginning even before birth. The result is “is a clear sex difference in both muscle mass and strength even adjusting for sex differences in height and weight. On average women have 50% to 60% of men’s upper arm muscle cross-sectional area and 65% to 75% of men’s thigh muscle cross-sectional area, and women have 50% to 60% of men’s upper limb strength and 60% to 80% of men’s leg strength. Young men have on average a skeletal muscle mass of >12 kg greater than age-matched women at any given body weight.”

The impact of these differences is “an obvious performance enhancing effect, in particular in sports that depend on strength and (explosive) power, such as track and field events.” Also, “levels of circulating hemoglobin are androgen-dependent and consequently higher in men than in women by 12%.”

Testosterone Suppression Does Not Bridge the Male-Female Sport Performance Gap

Despite the science-backed dividing line for eligibility in women’s sport provided by Title IX, which is sex and sex alone, the NCAA has chosen to define eligibility in women’s collegiate sport in terms of testosterone suppression by allowing men to compete as women by suppressing testosterone to a certain level that is still above the female range. The NCAA gives men who wish to compete against women the option to suppress testosterone to a level that is still above the highest level a female can produce.

Peer reviewed scientific research papers confirm testosterone suppression does not bridge the Male-Female Sport Performance Gap. In one peer reviewed article researchers studied the effects of a year of hormone suppression on males and found that while males on hormone suppression experienced some reduction in muscle mass, they “generally maintained their strength levels.”

Wiik, Anna, et al., “Muscle Strength, Size, and Composition Following 12 Months of Gender-affirming Treatment in Transgender Individuals,” J Clin Endocrinol Metab, March 2020, 105(3):e805–e813, available at: https://academic.oup.com/jcem

In another report, researchers Hilton and Lundberg concluded “that under testosterone suppression regimes typically used in clinical settings, and which comfortably exceed the requirements of sports federations for inclusion of transgender women in female sports categories by reducing testosterone levels to well below the upper tolerated limit, evidence for loss of the male performance advantage, established by testosterone at puberty and translating in elite athletes to a 10–50% performance advantage, is lacking.”

Hilton, E.N., Lundberg, T., “Transgender Women in the Female Category of Sport: Perspectives on Testosterone Suppression and Performance Advantage,” Sports Medicine, (2021) 51:199-214, p. 211.

Hilton and Lundberg continued: Rather, the data show that strength, lean body mass, muscle size and bone density are only trivially affected. The reductions observed in muscle mass, size, and strength are very small compared to the baseline differences between males and females in these variables, and thus, there are major performance and safety implications in sports where these attributes are competitively significant. These data significantly undermine the delivery of fairness and safety presumed by the criteria set out in transgender inclusion policies, particularly given the stated prioritization of fairness as an overriding objective. If those policies are intended to preserve fairness, inclusion and the safety of biologically female athletes, sporting organizations may need to reassess their policies regarding inclusion of transgender women.

Peer reviewed scientific studies confirm testosterone suppression does relatively little to mitigate the strength, speed, size, power and other athletically relevant differences between men and women.

A review published in April 2023 reported there have been a total of 19 published peer reviewed research reports on the effects of testosterone suppression (as part of gender affirming hormone treatment or “GAHT”) on performance. Even after 3 years of testosterone suppression there are still lasting male athletic advantages in transwomen. See

Should Transwomen be allowed to Compete in Women’s Sports?” Brown, Gregory A., Ph.D. and Lundberg, Tommy, Ph.D., available at: https://www.sportpolicycenter.com/news/2023/4/17/should-transwomen-be-allowed-to-compete-in-womens-sports

The NCAA’s Transgender Eligibility Policies Allow Men to Compete Against Women While Retaining Higher Levels of Testosterone Than Women

The ranges of testosterone produced by men and women do not overlap. Men produce far more testosterone than women and there is a significant gap between the upper end of the testosterone range for women and the lower end of the testosterone range for men. A 2018 metanalysis established that in healthy individuals there is “a clear bimodal distribution of testosterone levels, with the lower end of the male range being four- to five-fold higher than the upper end of the female range (males 8.8-30.9 nmol/L, females 0.4-2.0 nmol/L).” Clark RV, Wald JA, Swerdloff RS, et al., “Large divergence in testosterone concentrations between men and women: Frame of reference for elite athletes in sex-specific competition in sports, a narrative review.” Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 2019; 90:15–22. https://doi.org/10.1111/cen.13840

The <10 nmol/L testosterone threshold used by the NCAA for granting eligibility to men to compete against women in most NCAA sports is five times higher than the upper end of the female testosterone range, twenty-five times higher than the testosterone level of females at the lower end of the female range, and includes testosterone levels that are within the normal male range of 8.8 nmol/L to 30.9 nmol/L. Importantly, the female range of 0.4 nmol/L to 2.0 nmol/L includes elite female athletes. This means that even after “suppression” men are allowed to compete in the women’s category with testosterone levels far higher than any female athlete could ever achieve. These facts further confirm the NCAA’s policy disparately impacts women.

Brooke provides details on harm her and her team mates are experiencing due to being required to tolerate a male on their female team

Brooke transferred from the University of Alabama to SJSU in 2023. Brooke is a scholarship athlete and currently a co-captain of the 2024 SJSU women’s volleyball team. Upon transferring to SJSU in the Fall of 2023 Brooke began sharing a residence with four members of the SJSU women’s volleyball team.

One of the teammates with whom Brooke shared a residence at SJSU in 2023 was Blaire Fleming, a scholarship athlete, who was then a junior and is now a senior volleyball player on the SJSU women’s team. Fleming is a male who identifies as transgender and who claims a female identity. Fleming has played at SJSU on the women’s volleyball team during the 2022, 2023 and 2024 seasons.

At no point during Brooke’s recruitment from the University of Alabama or during the 2023 volleyball season did either SJSU or Fleming advise Brooke that Fleming is a male, even though it was known to SJSU that Brooke was rooming with Fleming.

Brooke was frequently assigned by the SJSU athletic department to room with Fleming on road trips to competitions even though Fleming is male and without Brooke being informed by SJSU that Fleming is male.

Brooke was not aware for months after her arrival at SJSU that Fleming is male. However, towards the end of the 2023 volleyball season Brooke learned that Fleming is male when Brooke overheard a conversation between two students, who are not members of the SJSU women’s volleyball team, in which a statement was made that Fleming is a “guy.” Upon overhearing the remark, Brooke inquired and was told that Fleming is a “dude.”

Brooke was surprised to learn Fleming is male, although this was consistent with Brooke’s observation that Fleming played volleyball with jumping ability and power that surpassed that of any girl on the team.

As Fleming had not informed Brooke that he was male or transgender, and as the SJSU women’s volleyball team coaches had not told the team that Blaire was male, Brooke was initially unsure about how to proceed with this new information. Brooke ended up not discussing what she had learned about Fleming’s true sex for the rest of the 2023-24 school year while she thought about how to respond.

Brooke did learn however that the reason she had been assigned to room with Fleming so often during road trips in the 2023 season was that SJSU officials asked Fleming who he wanted to room with, and he chose Brooke. At the times she was assigned to room with Fleming during the 2023 season, Brooke had no idea that Fleming was being given the choice of which girl he wanted to room with on team road trips.

In April 2024 an online news article was published stating that Blaire Fleming was male, but Brooke was not immediately aware of the publication of this news article. When Brooke got back to her apartment near the end of the day that the article about Fleming was published, Fleming and another student asked if Brooke would go with them to get a sandwich because there was something Fleming wanted to say. At that time, Fleming told Brooke that he was born male and considered himself to be a “transgender woman.”

Brooke asked why Fleming had not shared this information with her before, particularly as they had been living together. Fleming responded that there never seemed to be a good time to bring it up.

Brooke was uncomfortable with Fleming continuing on the SJSU women’s volleyball team as she questioned whether it was safe or fair for the other women on the team and for opposing teams for Fleming to compete on the women’s team.

Soon thereafter, SJSU officials convened a meeting to address the news article about Fleming’s sex. In this meeting SJSU officials told the SJSU women’s volleyball team members that they should not speak about Fleming’s sex or gender identity with anyone outside the team.

The women’s volleyball team members were told by SJSU representatives that if the women spoke publicly about Fleming being male things would go badly for the team members. SJSU representatives stated that any information about Fleming’s sex was Fleming’s information alone and that the women on the team could not share it, that they could not share what they thought about playing with a male, and that they could not speak with others outside the team about any safety or privacy concerns that related to Fleming being male and playing on the SJSU team.

The statements of the SJSU representatives caused Brooke to understand that if she were to protest Fleming’s participation on the SJSU team or to speak publicly about harms from Fleming’s participation on the team that she would be disciplined by SJSU and could be suspended or removed from the team and/or have her athletic scholarship taken away.

The members of the SJSU team were also told that if they did not go along with Fleming’s participation on the team or if they criticized Fleming’s participation in any way that pursuant to NCAA rules and pursuant to SJSU’s own policies any team member making public statements about their concerns regarding Fleming could be removed from the team.

When the 2024 SJSU women’s volleyball team members returned to campus to begin training for the 2024 season, Brooke learned that none of the nine new recruits on the team for the 2024 season had been told that Fleming is male and participating on the women’s team as a result of the NCAA Transgender Eligibility Policies, even though this was now a well-known fact to the athletic department and virtually everyone at SJSU.

Brooke became aware that upon learning that one of their teammates was a trans-identifying male, several of the new recruits became upset, as it was too late for them to transfer, and they felt they had been misled.

During practices immediately before the 2024 season Brooke saw that Fleming was hitting the ball with more force than before and far harder than any woman she had ever played against. Brooke estimates that Fleming’s spikes were traveling upwards of 80 miles per hour which was faster than she had ever seen a woman hit a volleyball. She recalls it was “scary” having balls hit that hard at her and unlike anything she had previously experienced in her volleyball career.

Brooke recognized that Fleming’s spikes significantly increased the risk of her, teammates and opponents being concussed as Fleming hit the ball so hard that if the ball was not blocked at the net by a defender it was difficult for the players to react to Fleming’s spike and to even get their hands up in time to deflect a ball away from their face.

Many of the girls on the team spoke with Brooke about their fears of being hit by balls spiked by Fleming and concerns about potential concussions from being hit by a Fleming spike were regularly discussed among the women on the team. Brooke observed that the girls were doing everything they could to dodge Fleming’s spikes but still could not fully protect themselves.

Throughout the 2024 pre-season and during their regular in-season practices Brooke and her teammates have been afraid of getting concussed from getting hit in the head by a volleyball struck by Fleming. Brooke has herself been hit in the head and about her body by volleyball’s hit by Fleming causing greater bruising, pain, and discomfort than what Brooke has experienced from similar hits by female volleyball players.

As a team captain Brooke personally spoke to her head coach about the risk of injury to team members from Fleming’s hitting. The SJSU coach responded that having played for a Power 5 school Brooke must have played against male practice players and tried to suggest that Fleming’s participation in practices was no different than SJSU using male practice players. Brooke responded to her coach, “You can’t lie to me. At Alabama each of the practice players was warned by the coach that if they hit harder than 70% against the girls they would not ever come back to practice. No college women’s team lets their male practice players hit like Blaire is hitting in our practices.”

Brooke told the SJSU coach that Fleming’s participation in practices, and the fact that the coaches were not asking Fleming to pull back on use of his physical power, was putting everyone on the team at risk of serious injury and she again asked the coach to take steps to protect the women players on the team. However, the SJSU coach brushed Brooke off and would not talk further about it.

Brooke and many of the girls on the SJSU women’s volleyball team agree it is unfair to the teams they are playing that SJSU has a male on their team.

They are also concerned about the risk for injury to the female athletes on teams SJSU faces due to Fleming competing against them. In a recent game against the University of Delaware, which took place in a tournament at the University of Iowa, a SJSU freshman set Fleming for a spike, and Fleming smashed the ball into the face of a woman on the University of Delaware team’s back line, knocking the opposing player to the ground. Several days after the event, the teammate who had set the ball for Fleming came to Brooke in tears due to feelings of guilt that her set to Fleming had led to the Delaware player being hit in the head. The SJSU player wondered aloud whether she had done the right thing to set the ball for Fleming and whether she was responsible for any injury the University of Delaware player suffered.

Due to public attention to Fleming’s transgender status, during the 2024 season SJSU officials have met with all the players on the SJSU women’s volleyball team and again instructed the girls on the SJSU women’s team that they are not to confirm or state to anyone that Fleming is transgender or male, nor are they permitted to criticize Fleming being on the team, or to state their personal feelings or concerns about the matter, including their safety concerns. The SJSU officials said the girls should not worry about any media attention they were getting, because the story “hasn’t hit any media source that matters.”

Conclusion
Female athletes being told to keep their mouth shut as Trans Males secretly continue to take over girls and womens sports. Now that we have heard from the inside the level of harm and danger our girls are being exposed to, it is up to all of us to put a stop to it as soon as possible.

If you would like to join our weekly meetings to put an end to the Trans Takeover of Girls Sports, send me an email to david at Washington Parents Network dot com. We look forward to meeting you!

Regards,

David Spring M. Ed.

9 Trans Cult Survivors file lawsuits against the Trans Drug Cartel

There are about 50 million school children in the US. If 2% are taken in by the Transgender Cult, this would be one million children whose lives have been destroyed by toxic Trans Drugs. In Washington, there are about one million school children. Two percent would be 20,000. Other evidence I have cited in our previous reports indicates that the actual number of kids sucked into the Trans Black Hole is closer to 60,000. Recent studies indicate that more than 50% of these kids will eventually regret becoming addicted to Trans Drugs. Unfortunately, once a person has been sterilized by the Trans Drugs, there is no going back.

In a preview of the tidal wave of litigation about to occur over this issue, several formerly Trans kids have filed lawsuits asking for damages for the harm that was inflicted on them due to the Transgender lies they are told while they were minors. Currently, the lawsuits are against either individual doctors (who made millions of dollars in giving kids toxic drugs and sterlizing surgeries). In one case, the lawsuit is against the American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) which also makes millions of dollars pushing the Drug Cult agenda.

It is likely that over time additional defendents will be named. This should include teachers who brainwashed kids into transitioning and school boards who promoted the Trans Drug Cult. Defendents should also include State Superintendent Chris Reykdal and State Attorney Genderl Bob Ferguson. Imagine 10,000 such cases here in Washington State – each asking for one million dollars in damages. The total could exceed $10 billion dollars – an amount we the tax payers would be on the hook to pay. Therefore, in this article, we will briefly review eight of these first Trans complaints.

For each case, we include the date filed, the name of the case and a link to the complaint with a couple of quotes from the complaint. What is important about all ten of these complaints is that each victim suffered from adverse childhood events that led to serious mental health problems before being brainwashed into transitioning – under the promise that taking Trans Drugs would resolve their mental health problems. But in each case, the drugs only made their mental health problems worse. In every case, instead of providing the child with counseling, they were given toxic drugs instead. As these cases go to trial, we are also learning more about the dark secrets of the Transgender Drug Cartel.

Case #1: 2022 December Oregon Camille Kiefel v Ruff

In December 2022, attorneys for Camille Kiefel filed a 14 page complaint in Oregon. Her is a link to her complaint:

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f232ea74d8342386a7ebc52/t/63a0afdfc02f9322762974cf/1671475168006/Kiefel+First+Amended+Complaint+%28file+stamped%29.pdf

Here are some quotes from their complaint:

Plaintiff is a 32 year old woman who has struggled with numerous mental health issues and diagnoses since her pre-teen and teenage years. Plaintiff experienced severe childhood traumatic events leading to her feeling discomfort and dissociation with her body. Plaintiff was diagnosed with ADHD, Childhood PTSD, major depressive disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder.

In about 2016, while still experiencing serious symptoms of depression, anxiety, Childhood PTSD, and ADHD, including regular episodes of suicidal ideation, Plaintiff began to identify herself as having a “non-binary” “gender identity” and describing to therapists a feeling of distress (“dysphoria”) regarding her breasts. In the spring of 2020 Plaintiff feeling as though she had tried “everything” to help her mental health issues, identifying as “non-binary” at the time, and feeling dysphoria over her breasts, Plaintiff came to believe that breast reduction or breast removal (double mastectomy) would finally solve her mental health problems.

After an initial one hour Zoom session, Defendant Ruff made statements in the Ruff Referral that Defendant Ruff knew were factually false and/or misleading or made with conscious disregard for the truth or falsity thereof, or that in the exercise of reasonable care Defendant Ruff ought to have known were false or misleading, which statements were not based upon the information provided to Defendant Ruff by Plaintiff, and which were contradicted by Plaintiff’s medical or mental health treatment records (none of which Defendant Ruff obtained or reviewed prior to completing the Ruff Referral), including but not limited to: (a) stating that Plaintiff’s mental health conditions were “successfully managed…with the help of mental health professionals and medication management”; (b) the statement that “At this time, any other symptoms reported appear to be well enough managed that they should not impact the medical experience or outcomes”.

The Burmeister 40 minute Zoom Assessment and Burmeister Surgery Letter contain numerous statements demonstrating that Defendant Burmeister knew, or in the exercise of reasonable care ought to have known, Plaintiff was a high-risk candidate for regretting or not benefitting from undergoing a double mastectomy for the purpose of “gender affirmation” and demonstrating that Defendant Burmeister failed to conduct an individualized, comprehensive mental health assessment prior to recommending that Plaintiff undergo double mastectomy surgery.

In May 2022 Plaintiff realized that she did not have “gender identity disorder” or “gender dysphoria,” that she has accepted the fact of being a woman, that her long history of mental health problems were finally improving through engaging in non-invasive mental health therapies involving embodiment and health and wellness and physical health improvements through holistic and alternative therapies, and that having her breasts surgically removed worsened rather than improved her mental, emotional, psychological, social, and physical health and well-being, including increased suicidal ideation after and because of the Gender Surgery.

As the direct cause of Defendants’ intentional or reckless abuse of Defendants’ positions of trust and authority as mental health professionals, Plaintiff did suffer and is still suffering extreme, excruciating, severe emotional distress including but not limited to feelings of betrayal by mental health professionals, humiliation, distress, and anxiety over having lost her breasts and living with a permanently scarred, disfigured, and physically painful or discomfiting chest, deep feelings of regret over unnecessarily and permanently losing her choice ever to breastfeed a child.

Case #2 2023 February California Cloe Brockman aka Chloe Cole v Kaiser Permanente et al

In February 2023, attorneys for Chloe Brockman submitted a 110 page complaint in California State Superior Court providing evidence of Medical Neglegence against Kaiser Permanente Medical Group, 3 doctors and 51 others. Here is a link to this 110 page complaint:

https://libertycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Complaint1.pdf

Here is a summary of this case:

At just 9 years old, Chloe Cole began suffering from gender dysphoria. She first expressed her struggle with gender dysphoria to her pediatrician when she was 12 years old. Then, under the advice and supervision of medical professionals, Chloe was coerced into undergoing a “gender transition.” Between the ages of 13 and 16 years old, physicians placed Chloe on puberty blockers, off-label cross-sex hormone treatment, and performed a double mastectomy on her to remove her breasts.

Doctors told Chloe and her parents that Chloe’s gender dysphoria would never resolve itself. That was a lie. They also told Chloe and her parents that Chloe was at a high risk for suicide unless she socially and medically transitioned. Chloe’s doctors told her parents, “would you rather have a dead daughter or a live son?” That was a lie too.

But Chloe’s gender dysphoria did resolve itself. And despite an undeniable body of relevant medical literature, Chloe’s doctors never informed her of the possibly—the high likelihood—that her gender dysphoria would resolve itself, without cross-sex treatment, by the time she reached adulthood.

Chloe’s doctors never once informed her or her parents of non-invasive psychological or psychiatric counseling options.

Instead, her doctors fraudulently informed her that the only way to resolve her gender dysphoria was to undergo a physical, chemical, and social transition to a male role. And the result of their concealment—their fraud—is a lifetime of irreversible physical and psychological damage to Chloe.

Chloe was the victim of Defendants who did not have any interest in taking the time necessary to sit with her and perform the regular, weekly psychotherapy that Chloe needed. Defendants grossly breached the standard of care by pushing Chloe into this harmful experimental treatment regimen without a proper period of psychological evaluation, without evaluating and treating her serious co-morbidities, without providing informed consent, and while actively utilizing emotionally super-charged and false information to derail the rational decision-making process of Chloe and her parents. Defendants were not “caring” for Chloe, they were experimenting on her, and doing so all to their own great financial benefit.

Today, Chloe is fighting back and seeking justice—justice for herself and for other kids who struggle with gender dysphoria and are being coerced into irreversible medical “care.” Chloe’s lawsuit seeks to hold her doctors responsible for the bodily mutilation she has suffered.

Case #3 2023 June in California Kayla Jane v Kaiser Hospital Foundation

In June 2023, attorneys for Layla Jane filed a 35 page Medical Negligence complaint. Here is a link to this complaint: https://libertycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Complaint-06-15-23.pdf

Here are quotes from this complaint:

This case is about a team of doctors (i.e., the Defendants) who decided to perform a damaging, imitation sex change experiment on Kayla, then a twelve-year-old vulnerable girl struggling with complex mental health co-morbidities, who needed care, attention, and psychotherapy, not cross-sex hormones and mutilating surgery.

Kayla is a biological female who suffered from a complex, multi-faceted array of mental health symptoms as a child and adolescent. Her presentation of symptoms and concerns included, among other things, recurrent intense anxiety and panic, extreme mood fluctuations and self-harm.

At age 11, Kayla was exposed to online transgender influencers who prompted Kayla to entertain the erroneous belief that she was transgender. As a result, Kayla informed her parents that she was a boy. Prior to being exposed to online influences, Kayla never had expressed to anyone that she was transgender. Her parents didn’t know what to do and promptly sought guidance from various doctors and eventually the Defendants. Three Kaiser doctors, including Defendant Dr. Escalante, advised Kayla and her parents that Kayla was too young for cross-sex hormones. But Kayla and her parents eventually were referred to Defendants Dr. Watson, Dr. Taylor, and Dr. Tong, who immediately, and negligently, affirmed Kayla’s self-diagnosed transgenderism without adequate psychological evaluation. They instead promptly placed her on puberty blockers and testosterone at age 12, and performed a double mastectomy within six months at age 13. This all occurred after Dr. Watson determined in a single, 75-minute transition evaluation that Kayla was transgender.

Defendants did not question, elicit, or attempt to understand the psychological events that led Kayla to the mistaken belief that she was transgender, nor did they evaluate, appreciate, or treat her multi-faceted presentation of co-morbid symptoms.

Instead, Defendants assumed that Kayla, a twelve-year-old emotionally troubled girl, knew best what she needed to improve her mental health and figuratively handed her the prescription pad. There is no other area of medicine where doctors will surgically remove a perfectly healthy body part and intentionally induce a diseased state of the pituitary gland misfunction based simply on the young adolescent patient’s wishes.

Defendants were horribly, and inexcusably wrong, as Kayla was not transgender and was not a person that any reasonable physician could ascertain would permanently maintain a transgender identity. Consequently, she detransitioned when she was 17 years old, and she eventually started regular psychotherapy sessions for her mental health symptoms, which is the care she should have been receiving all along.

Among others, three critical facts establish that Defendants should not have recommended or performed transition “treatment” on Kayla. First, desistence in childhood cross gender identities is well studied and demonstrates that around 80%-90% of gender dysphoria cases involving minors resolve by adulthood, with gender identity realigning to biological sex. Second, minors with co-morbid health symptoms, such as Kayla, are at a particularly high risk for dissatisfaction and complications.

Third, the medical studies in this area regarding minors, particularly minor girls, are dubious at best and do not indicate improved mental health outcomes from this affirmation treatment. One of the best studies in this area is a 30-year, population-based study of adults in Sweden, which found that transgender individuals who chemically/surgically “transition” have poor mental health outcomes, increased psychiatric morbidity, suicidality, and a 19-fold increased rate of suicide as compared with the general population (40-fold for biological females). A 2023 smaller scale 2-year study of adolescents found a 49-fold increased rate of suicide as compared with the general population; in that study, two of the participants actually committed suicide and suicidality was the most common side-effect of this so called “treatment.”

At age 17 years old, Kayla began a period of detransition and no longer identifies as a male. Unfortunately, as a result of the so-called transgender “treatment” that Defendants performed on Kayla, she now has deep physical and emotional wounds and severe regrets. Kayla has suffered physically, socially, neurologically, and psychologically. Among other harms, she has suffered mutilation to her body, fertility risks, health risks, and lost opportunities for social and physical development along with her peers, and at key developmental milestones that can never be regained. Defendants were not “caring” for Kayla; they were experimenting on her.

Case #4 2023 July North Carolina Prisha Mosley v Emerson et al.
In July 2023, attorneys for Prisha Mosley, who received testosterone injections and a double mastectomy filed a 53 page complaint in North Carolina. Her is a link to her complaint:

https://www.cmppllc.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/1303610/2023/12/PrishaMosleyFileStampedComplaint71723.pdf

Here are some quotes from their complaint:

Instead of telling Prisha the truth and informing her accurately and fully, Defendants lied to Prisha. They lied when they told Prisha she was actually a boy. They lied when they told her that injecting testosterone into her body would solve her numerous mental health problems. They lied to and withheld critical information from and about a young and vulnerable teenage girl who was a victim of sexual assault and suffered from severe psychological impairment. Instead of providing competent treatment for her depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation and self-harm, they convinced her that changing her body to appear as the opposite sex would solve her mental health problems. These individuals whom Prisha trusted lied to and misled her for the purpose of making money off of her gender confusion.

Case #5 2023 July Texas Soren Aldaco v Perry, Crane Clinic, TX Health Physicians Grp

In July 2023, attorneys for Soren Aldaco filed a 29 page complaint. Here is a link to this complaint:

https://www.cmppllc.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/1303610/2023/12/AldacoPlaintiffsOriginalPetitionFinal.pdf

Here are quotes from this complaint:

Plaintiff Soren Aldaco was a vulnerable teenager struggling with a slew of mental health issues. Soren’s experiences with these providers shock the conscious. The Defendants deliberately and recklessly propelled Soren down a path of permanent physical disfigurement and worsening psychological distress.

By the tenth grade, Soren’s depression and anxiety had become crippling. Once a straight-A student, Soren now found herself falling behind both academically and socially. In addition to depression, anxiety, and the social disorders she would later discover with the help of competent counseling, Soren experienced the added psychological stress of meeting her biological father for the first time in December of 2017. The next month, as a 15-year-old, these stresses and issues coalesced and manifested into a manic episode that resulted in her psychiatric hospitalization at Mesa Springs Psychiatric Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas.

Dr. Nekkalapu did not do any meaningful or comprehensive psychobehavioral examination, did not explore Soren’s existing mental and psychological issues, and did not discuss or attempt to address her glaring comorbidities. Instead, he appeared to simply jump to—and indeed encourage—the conclusion that the sole explanation for Soren’s psychotic break was her needing to embrace a transgender identity, after only knowing her for mere minutes.

Three months after her manic episode and treatment at Mesa Springs, Soren began treating with other therapist and psychologist who helped Soren discover that in addition to her Major Depressive Disorder, ADHD, and other diagnoses, Soren also suffered from Autism Spectrum Disorder. Soren’s autism was never discussed or even considered by Dr. Nekkalapu.

On January 28, 2020, at Soren’s first ever appointment at Perry’s office—a visit lasting only approximately 30 minutes—Perry wrote Soren a prescription for her first round of cross-sex hormones, anastrozole (an estrogen blocker) and testosterone cypionate (together with the anastrozole, the “cross-sex hormones”), at an outrageously large, off-label dosage. Perry gave her instructions on how to inject herself with the drugs and sent her on her way. Notably, to this day, it is still clinically uncertain what the long-term consequences are for the use of these cross-sex hormones in minors, but certain grotesque risks are well known within the medical literature including, for women, infertility, vaginal atrophy, bone density and growth complications, and many other disfiguring side-effects.

Perry failed to discuss or address any of Soren’s numerous mental health issues and existing comorbidities and conducted no psychobehavioral mental health analysis before providing Soren’s first injection of life-altering cross-sex hormones. Soren was, at he time, only 17 years old, and Perry never sought or obtained any written parental consent from Soren’s parents to guide her down this path.

The Crane Clinic surgeons simply accepted the recommendation letter at face value, conducted no independent medical assessment of their own, ignored the red flags, and put Soren under the knife, permanently and irreversibly disfiguring and disabling her. Because of Soren’s comorbidities, age, and other similar red flags, simply approving Soren for the double mastectomy and agreeing to perform it was itself a gross breach of the medical standard of care.

Following her problematic recovery from the Crane Clinic surgery, Soren began to realize that neither the testosterone nor the double mastectomy had helped her feel entirely comfortable in her body. After considerable thought and research, around November of 2021, Soren discovered that the “gender-affirming care” she received from these Defendants was a controversial and experimental practice with little reputable research or science supporting it.

Case #6 2023 September Nebraska Luka Hein v UNMC, et al

In September 2023, attorneys for Luka Hein filed a 28 page complaint of Medical Malpractice. Here is a link to this complaint:

https://libertycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Luka-Hein-District-Court-Complaint-9-13-23-filed.pdf

Here are quotes from this complaint:

When Luka was just 16 years-old, her breasts were surgically amputated as the first step in her “gender affirming care” with the Defendants.

Defendants deceive gender-distressed patients by leading them to believe that chemical and surgical procedures will medically “transition” them from male to female and vice versa. This is not reality. In fact, it is not medically or biologically possible. Proceeding straight to breast amputation in a depressed, anxiety-ridden, gender-confused adolescent, who was incapable of understanding the lasting consequences of her decision, constitutes negligence.

Luka was in the partial care program until September 7, 2017. The progress notes from the program are replete with references to family conflict, social isolation, anxiety, depression, and difficulty attending school. The treating therapists spent their time addressing “family relationships, strategies to decrease anxiety at home, and strategies to complete homework”. The partial care program psychiatrist prescribed ADHD medication and diagnosed Luka with: (1) severe recurrent major depression without psychotic features; (2) generalized anxiety disorder; and (3) attention deficit disorder without hyperactivity.

Rather than counsel Luka through these difficulties, Megan Smith-Sallans referred her to the gender clinic for “top surgery”. When Luka’s parents expressed hesitancy about breast removal surgery, it was implied that if they did not consent, Luka would take her own life. This was a manipulative tactic to get Luka’s parents on board with surgery. Luka had no suicidal ideation for almost one year prior to surgery

Dr. Johnson failed to discuss the most consequential risk of double mastectomy at 16: that Luka might regret the loss of her breasts when she was older and more mature in her thinking. Dr. Johnson also failed to advise Luka that historically most gender-questioning adolescents become comfortable in their bodies by the time they are through their teen years.

Case #7 2023 October Rhode Island Isabelle Ayala v American Academy of Pediatrics

In October 2023, attorneys for Isabelle Ayala filed a 62 page lawsuit. Her is a link to their complaint: https://www.cmppllc.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/1303610/2023/12/202310231612AyalaOriginalComplaint.pdf

Here are quotes from this complaint:

Plaintiff Isabelle Ayala is an unfortunate victim of a collection of actors who prioritized politics and ideology over children’s safety, health, and well-being. Isabelle brings this complaint against Defendants for civil conspiracy, fraud, medical malpractice, and other related causes of action in connection with their collective failure to treat her properly in the name of a so-called “gender-affirmative” model of care, a then-new and experimental model of treating transgender and gender diverse children and adolescents that Defendants created, promoted, and have continued to advocated for despite (1) immediate criticism that its stated evidence base was misleadingly presented and/or failed to actuallysupport any of its recommendations, conclusions, or proposed treatments, and (2) a growing international skepticism for the evidence base for the recommended interventions and concerns about their harms.

Despite immediate and sustained criticism pointing out the misrepresentations and apparent lack of evidentiary backing in this policy statement, as well as a continually growing body of international research undercutting the policy statement’s conclusions and recommendations, Defendants have doubled- and tripled-down on their commitment to the policy statement and its “affirmative model” of treatment, while continuing to promote and profit off it

Early traumatic experiences in her life had left Isabelle in a severely compromised mental state at age fourteen and in need of compassionate, professional medical care. As her mental health issues began manifesting in her belief that she was a boy, Isabelle and her family turned to the group they had identified as “the experts” in this area. Rather than seeking Isabelle’s best interest, they lied to her and her family and coerced them into immediately sending Isabelle down their path of “gender-affirming” medicalization that has forever damaged Isabelle’s physical and mental health. They misled Isabelle into believing that taking testosterone would resolve her mental health issues, particularly her depression and anxiety, and restore her overall health and well-being.

Rather than resolving her numerous health issues, Isabelle’s depression and anxiety worsened, ultimately leading to an unsuccessful suicide attempt approximately six months after first taking testosterone. She still has mental health issues and deals with episodes of anxiety and depression, further compounded by a sense of regret; and she has since contracted an autoimmune disease that only the males in her family have a history of.

The suit alleges that while Ms. Ayala was in their care, Dr. Rafferty and his mentor at Brown, pediatrician Michelle Forcier, engaged in a conspiracy with the AAP – one that the suit claims directly harmed Ms. Ayala – for him to draft the medical organization’s policy statement on pediatric gender-transition treatment. In particular, the suit argues that the statement, which was published in 2018, violates consumer protection laws by deceiving the public with non-evidence-based claims.The policy statement has become a cornerstone of the contemporary American approach to caring for gender dysphoric children.

The AAP has remained largely opaque regarding the policy statement in the wake of the lawsuit, which alleges that the document is compromised by a “lack of scientific basis and outright misrepresentations.” The legal complaint refers in particular to a scathing critique of the policy statement that Canadian psychologist and sex researcher James Cantor published in 2019.

The portion of Ms. Ayala’s suit that focuses on Dr. Rafferty and his colleagues caring for her—and ultimately prescribing her testosterone for gender dysphoria—hinges in particular on a March 2017 meeting between the care team, Ms. Ayala, and her parents. Her mother was reluctant to consent to the testosterone prescription. One of the care providers then suggested to the mother that her child would kill herself absent hormonal treatment. The mother subsequently relented. The suit alleges that this suicide-related assertion amounted to non-evidence-based coercion, given the lack of research directly supporting the claim that gender-transition treatment for minors lowers the risk of suicide death.

In an April 2019 email exchange a fellow pediatrician asked Dr. Rafferty about a friend’s depressed trans-identified teenage child who had recently attempted suicide. The doctor asked Dr. Rafferty, “Is there data to support the intuition that gender reaffirming hormones help prevent suicide attempts?”

Dr. Rafferty’s reply was equivocal. “The perfect study does not yet exist – actually, no population study answers the question of whether hormones are right for any particular person.”

As for the question of whether gender-transition treatment is indeed evidenced-based, following the 2018 publication of Dr. Rafferty’s policy statement, new analyses conducted by evidence-based medicine experts have cast a shadow of doubt across the pediatric gender medicine field. Since 2020, a half-dozen systematic literature reviews—the gold standard of scientific evidence—have emerged that have found the research backing pediatric gender-transition treatment wanting and inconclusive

Most notably, in April came the publication of the United Kingdom’s Cass Review, a four-year effort that offered withering criticism of pediatric gender-transition treatment as based on “remarkably weak evidence.” In response, the UK promptly joined four Scandinavian nations in sharply restricting pediatric access to gender-transition treatment.

On Tuesday, a group of 20 Republican attorneys general, led by Idaho’s Raúl R. Labrador submitted a letter to the AAP requesting responses to a series of probing questions that suggested that the organization may have violated state consumer protection laws by claiming—falsely, the letter asserts—that puberty blockers are “reversible.”

“That claim is misleading and deceptive and requires immediate retraction and correction,” the letter states.

This isn’t the first time a state attorney general has sought internal documents from medical groups that are leaders in the pediatric gender medicine field. In June, a federal judge unsealed a trove of internal emails from Wpath, the influential medical-activist group largely based in the United States, that was subpoenaed by Alabama’s attorney general. 

These documents revealed that in 2022, Rachel Levine, the Biden administration health official, had pressured Wpath – for explicitly political purposes – to remove from its forthcoming revision of its influential transgender-care guidelines all age restrictions on gender-transition treatment. Then, shortly before WPATH published the new guidelines in the fall of that year, an AAP representative threatened Wpath that if it did not remove the age restrictions, the AAP would not only not endorse the guidelines, it would come out publicly against them. Wpath promptly acceded to this demand, and did so without engaging in its standard scientific process for reaching internal consensus, the subpoenaed documents demonstrate

Case #8 2024 April Cristina Hineman v Planned Parenthood Federation of America

In April 2024, attorneys for Cristina Hineman filed a 35 page complaint against Planned Parenthood. Here is a link to this complaint:

https://www.cmppllc.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/1303610/2024/07/Final-Complaint-4-23-24.pdf

Here are quotes from this complaint:

Plaintiff Cristina Hineman is an example of the growing number of young people who have been victims of so-called “gender-affirming care,” characterized by the immediate, no-questions-asked “affirmation” of one’s desired gender identity, irrespective of the underlying reasons for such desire and without any mental health assessment.

At every step of the way, Cristina was failed by the medical and mental health providers that she and her family sought out for help with her depression, anxiety, social exclusion or rejection disorder, and other mental health conditions.

As she entered into her teen years, Cristina began dealing with significant mental health issues. Cristina began to suffer from anxiety and major depressive disorder, social exclusion disorder, self-harm, and passive suicidal ideation. After visiting online websites, Cristina became convinced that her numerous mental health struggles would resolve if she adopted a different gender identity. When she told her mental health providers that she was adopting a transgender identity, they unquestioningly “affirmed” this suddenly onset new identity, without conducting appropriate mental health evaluations or offering Cristina appropriate psychological counseling. They would eventually encourage her to pursue life-altering cross-sex hormones and even a double-mastectomy of her healthy breasts

Cristina’s mental health struggles, however, continued to persist and worsen. But convinced that gender transition was the only thing that could fix her, a mere week after switching her identity from agender to transgender male, she went to Planned Parenthood, where, after a single, roughly thirty-minute visit, she was prescribed life-altering cross-sex hormones. The clinicians at that Planned Parenthood would continue to prescribe her testosterone without question for well over a year, and in fact would increase her dosage at Cristina’s request (rather than their own clinical judgment). Those clinicians, however, were simply following the orders from Planned Parenthood Federation, which mandates the treatment protocols Planned Parenthood affiliates, individual health centers, and their clinicians and practitioners must abide by for any patient seeking “gender-affirming” cross-sex hormones; and those mandated protocols are that a Planned Parenthood clinician must give any patient “gender- affirming” cross-sex hormones upon request, without any mental health evaluation or even review of records.

Cristina ultimately sought “top surgery,” or an unnecessary removal of her healthy breasts, all the while cheered on by her supposed mental health providers. Settling on the cheapest option she could find, Cristina had a double mastectomy performed on her.

It was almost immediately thereafter that she experienced profound regret and realized that transitioning was not resolving her mental health issues but was in fact worsening them, that surgery and hormones had not made her a man. After this realization, she began to detransition.

Cristina is now 20 years old and recognizes that she had been betrayed by the lack of care and concern Defendants showed her in facilitating life-altering medical decisions. The scars across her chest and the irreversible changes to her body from prolonged usage of testosterone are constant reminders that she needed an unbiased medical expert willing to evaluate her properly and provide the care she needed.

Conclusion

While Trans Drug companies make billions of dollars selling trans drugs and Trans Doctors make millions of dollars doing Trans Gender Mutilation surgeries, tens of thousands of kids are left to deal with a lifetime of cancer and regret. These kids deserve more than a day in court and a financial settlement. We owe it to these kids to end this child abuse and put the perpetrators of this horrendous crime behind bars.

8 Why States should ban Transgender Drugging of Minors

As bad as the issue of Girls Rights is here in Washington at the moment, there is hope on the horizon. In December 2024, the US Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether States can ban giving toxic transgender drugs to minors. It might also decide whether tax payers should be forced to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for these toxic drug treatments – which lead not only to sterility but also to cancer and brain tumors.

The issue of banning Transgender drugs is indirectly related to the series of Title IX cases on which the Supreme Court has already spoken in its August 2024 decision. In addition, should the Supreme Court rule that Transgender status is not a protected class, the outcome should help change the radical position of the Ninth Circuit which has recently made several bad rulings based on their assumption that Transgender status was a protected class. Equally important, it will be an opportunity for the Supreme Court to agree with the latest research on the harm of Transgender drugs.

The Fourteen Amendment Equal Protection Clause forbids States from discriminating based on race or sex. However, the Supreme Court has not said whether the Fourteen Amendment Equal Protection Clause extends to “Gender Identity” in cases that do not involve Title VII Employment law. There is good reason to conclude that gender identity is not a protected class and is radically different from sex or race. Both sex and race are objectively measured, biologically determined and unchangeable while “gender identity” is a subjective term which can change from one day to the next. In addition, the Transgender Drug Cult involves lying to minors to convince them to take toxic drugs promoted by drug companies that make millions of dollars off these drugs.

In 2023, Tennessee and Kentucky joined 23 other states to ban the use of puberty blockers and cross sex hormones currently being given to hundreds of thousands of minors in the US with the lie that taking these drugs will magically change a confused and troubled child into the opposite sex. These State Drug Bans led the Biden administration to sue these States. Federal Courts in the Sixth Circuit and Eleventh Circuit found in favor of the State Drug Bans. The Supreme Court will review two decisions from the following cases (both from the Sixth Circuit): US v SKRMETTI, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TENNESSEE and Jane Doe 1 v KENTUCKY.

The Supreme Court decision will also influence an 11th Circuit decision that found in favor of an Alabama Transgender Drug Ban. The Alabama case was called Eknes-Tucker v. Governor, of the State of Alabama. You can read this case at this link: https://casetext.com/case/eknes-tucker-v-governor-of-the-state-of-ala

The Alabama court concluded that Transgender status is not a protected class by the 14th Amendment and that the Alabama Ban “does not further any particular gender stereotype but rather simply reflects the biological differences between males and females.”

Here is a quote from the Alabama decision: “Alabama produced a declaration in which Carol Freitas, a biological female who previously experienced gender dysphoria, claims that "[taking transgender drugs] was the biggest mistake she ever made" and that she instead should have been treated for depression and post-traumatic stress disorder related to her "internalized homophobia and childhood abuse." In terms of medical opinions from foreign countries, Alabama produced documents showing that public healthcare entities of Sweden, Finland, France, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom have raised concerns about the risks associated with puberty blockers and cross-sex hormone treatment… The Supreme Court has instructed courts addressing substantive due process claims to be reluctant to recognize rights not mentioned in the Constitution." Alabama argues that the ban "serves the compelling State interest of protecting children from unproven, life-altering medical interventions."

On July 8, 2023, a judge for the Sixth Circuit overturned a lower court ruling which had found against the Tennessee Transgender Drug ban. You can read this decision here: https://casetext.com/case/l-w-v-skrmetti-2

In summary, the judge found that the Tennessee law has a rational basis of preventing harm to minors as Transgender Drugs have been shown to not be safe. The judge also found that a previous Supreme Court decision called Bostock only applies to a federal employment law called Title VII. In addition, while parents "have a substantive due process right 'to make decisions concerning the care, custody, and control of their children'" parents do not have a right to give their minor children “new medical or experimental drug treatments." (quoting Troxel, 530 U.S. at 66, 120 S.Ct. 2054).

On September 28, 2023, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision in favor of the Tennessee and Kentucky Transgender Drugging bans. You can read their decision here: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-6th-circuit/115185810.html

Here are quotes from this Sixth Circuit decision:

Nineteen States have laws similar to those in Tennessee and Kentucky. See Ala. Code § 26-26-4; Ark. Code Ann. § 20-9-1502(a); Fla. Admin. Code Ann. R.64B8-9.019; Ga. Code Ann. § 31-7-3.5; Idaho Code § 18-1506C; Ind. Code § 25-1-22-13; Iowa Code § 147.164; La. Stat. Ann. § 40:1098 (effective Jan. 1, 2024); Miss. Code Ann. § 41-141-1-9; Mo. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 191.1720; S.B. 99, 68th Leg., 2023 Sess. (Mont. 2023); Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-7301-07; H.B. 808, 2023 Sess. (N.C. 2023); N.D. Cent. Code. § 12.1-36.1-02; Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 2607.1; H.B. 1080, 98th Leg. Sess. (S.D. 2023); S.B. 14, 88th Leg. Sess. (Tex. 2023); Utah Code Ann. § 58-68-502(1)(g); W. Va. Code § 30-3-20 (effective Jan. 1, 2024). At least fourteen other States, meanwhile, provide various protections for those seeking (drug) treatments for gender dysphoria. See Ariz. Exec. Order No. 2023-12; Cal. Penal Code § 819; Colo. Rev. Stat. § 12-30-121(1)(d); Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 52-571n, 54-155b; 735 Ill. Comp. Stat. 40/28-10; Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 12, § 11 et seq.; Md. Exec. Order No. 01.01.2023.08; Minn. Stat. § 260.925; N.J. Exec. Order No. 326; N.M. Stat. Ann. § 24-34-4; N.Y. Educ. § 6531-b(2); H.B. 2002, 82nd Leg., 2023 Reg. Sess. (Or. 2023); Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 15, § 150; Wash. Rev. Code § 7.002.002.”

The government has the power to reasonably limit the use of drugs. If that's true for adults, it's assuredly true for their children. While our longstanding traditions may give individuals a right to refuse treatment, there is no historical support for an affirmative right to specific treatments.”

The Tennessee and Kentucky laws treat similarly situated individuals evenhandedly.…The laws regulate sex-transition treatments for all minors, regardless of sex. Under each law, no minor may receive puberty blockers or hormones or surgery in order to transition from one sex to another. Tenn. Code Ann. § 68-33-103(a)(1); Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 311.372(2). Such an across-the-board regulation lacks any of the hallmarks of sex discrimination. It does not prefer one sex over the other. It does not include one sex and exclude the other. It does not bestow benefits or burdens based on sex.”

The Biden Administration appeal of the Sixth Circuit decision presents two questions to the US Supreme Court:

1. Whether Tennessee’s SB1, which categorically bans gender-affirming healthcare for transgender adolescents, violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.

2. Whether Tennessee’s SB1 violates the fundamental right of parents to make decisions concerning the medical care of their children guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause.

On February 2, 2024, Tennessee filed a 49 page brief supporting the Trangender Drugging Ban. Here is the link to download and read this brief.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-466/299673/20240202161313831_23-466%20-477%20Brief%20in%20Opposition%20Final.pdf

Here are quotes from this brief:

In recent years, the number of minors receiving gender-dysphoria diagnoses have exploded. States have also seen a corresponding surge in unproven and risky medical interventions for these underage patients. It is undisputed that these hormonal and surgical interventions carry serious and potentially irreversible side effects, including infertility, diminished bone density, sexual dysfunction, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.

States across the country have responded to these developments by enacting laws designed to ensure that potentially irreversible sex-transition interventions of uncertain benefit are not performed on minors who may not be able to fully grasp their lifelong consequences and risks. Tennessee, for example, prohibited three types of medical interventions for minors— puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-transition surgeries.

The questions presented are:

Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits States from enacting laws protecting children from sex-transition medical interventions with risks of lifelong harm.

Whether the substantive component of the Due Process Clause gives a parent a right to demand cross-sex medical interventions for children that a State has found to be unproven and excessively risky.”

Also on February 2, 2024 Alabama filed a 38 page brief in support of the Tennessee Transgender Drugging ban. This brief provides a summary of why the WPATH Transgender Drugging standards are not supported by any credible science. Here is the link to download and read this brief.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-477/299629/20240202143043426_2024.02.01-%20Ala.%20Amicus%20Br.%20iso%20TN-KY%20BIO%20FINAL.pdf

Here are quotes from this brief:

For many years, petitioners’ preferred interest groups went unchallenged. Comprised of transgender activists and clinicians interested in—and financially dependent on—sex-modification procedures, groups like WPATH promulgated so-called “standards of care” that promised that providing sex-change procedures to a 12-year-old girl uncomfortable in her body was the only way to treat her discomfort. Never mind that the puberty blockers followed by testosterone would likely leave the girl infertile.”

Then things began to change. Stories of rushed transitions and regret made their way into the media. Once-lauded multidisciplinary pediatric gender centers were shut down. Gender clinics founded on the promise of helping suffering children saw their patients get worse after transitioning. And healthcare authorities, particularly in Europe, began reviewing the evidence for themselves... These and other countries rejected the WPATH model of “care” and severely restricted the availability of sex-modification procedures for youth.”

WPATH is no normal medical organization. Its guidelines purport to be evidence-based, but WPATH admits it skipped the foundational step of conducting a systematic evidence review when it crafted its treatment recommendations for adolescents. It routinely suppresses scientific inquiry, silencing scholars who question the WPATH standard of “care” and censuring members who go public with their concerns.”

The First and Fifth Circuits—and, until recently, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services— found that “the WPATH Standards of Care reflect not consensus, but merely one side in a sharply contested medical debate.”

As one doctor at Vanderbilt’s gender clinic bragged, transitioning services are “huge money makers.” A surgeon profiled by the New York Times “has built a thriving top surgery specialty” by advertising her services to children on social media… American interest groups that endorse gender-transition procedures are just that— interest groups, with a strong financial interest in promoting the procedures their members make a living by providing.”

One member of the guidelines authoring committee even bragged that the committee did not even have “some little data”—it “had none”—to justify the language in the guideline allowing doctors to prescribe cross-sex hormones to youth under 16.”

On September 3, 2024, the Society of Evidence Based Medicine filed a 50 page brief further explaining that giving kids toxic trans drugs is not supported by scientific evidence. Here is the link: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-477/323919/20240903143746537_23-477%20Amicus%20Brief%20SEGM.pdf

Here are some quotes from their brief: “The practice of youth gender medicine has no parallels in modern medicine. Every aspect of the practice—from the diagnosis, which is unable to differentiate those who may be helped by treatment from those who will be harmed, to the highly invasive interventions themselves, which cause certain harms, such as sterility, while producing only uncertain benefits—challenges the conventions of evidence-based medicine.

In 2020, when systematic evidence reviews began to send a strong signal that the harm-benefit ratio of gender transitions is unfavorable for most youth, the prior medical consensus regarding treatments of youth gender dysphoria collapsed. Several European health authorities sharply restricted the practice of medical gender transition for minors. At the same time, in the U.S., the medical establishment chose to ignore this new scientific evidence. Research shows that among children whose gender dysphoria emerged before puberty, 61% to 98% come to identify with their sex before adulthood. In the last year, several studies have shed light on the fact that gender dysphoria in adolescence is not a permanent diagnosis. At least three re- cent studies examined the diagnostic prevalence of the gender dysphoria diagnosis in youth. These studies found that as few as 40% to 50% of ad- olescents with a gender-related diagnosis retain that diagnosis after five to seven years, and trends indicate this number will continue to go down with longer follow-up. Here are the three recent studies:

Christian J. Bachmann,, Yulia Golub, Jakob Holstiege, Falk Hoffmann, Gender Identity Disorders among Young People in Germany: Prevalence and Trends, 2013–2022. An Analysis of Nationwide Routine Insurance Data, Deutsches Ärzteblatt International, (May 31, 2024).

The Gender Dysphoria Diagnosis in Young People Has a “Low Diagnostic Stability,” Finds a New German Study, Society for Evidenced Based Gender Medicine (July 19, 2024) https://segm.org/gender-dysphoria-diagnosis-desistance-germany

Leor Sapir, Adolescent Gender Dysphoria Is a Temporary Diagnosis for Most Teens, The City Journal, (August 30, 2024), https://www.city-journal.org/article/adolescent-gender-dysphoria-is-a-temporary-diagnosis-for-most-teens

A recent analysis by Sapir of insurance records of 85% of insured US population found that only 42.3 to 49.9% percent of youth retain their gender dysphoria diagnosis over a seven-year period (see graph below).

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WPATH removed minimum age requirements for hormones and most types of surgery due to last-minute political pressures from the U.S. government (Admiral Levine), “social justice” attorneys, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, as recent court disclosures reveal.

The studies emerging from the NIH-funded research reveal a concerning picture. The psychological benefits appear marginal, at best, with an alarming finding of young people committing suicide during treatment at the rate that is at least forty times the expected rates (2/315). Here is the recent study: D. Chen, et al, Psychosocial Functioning in Transgender Youth after 2 Years of Hormones, New England Journal of Medicine, (2023) at 240–250, 288.

The studies of the harms of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones are reporting changes in the young people’s bodies that are consistent with heightened risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and potential bone health issues. Here are the recent studies:

Natalie J. Nokoff, et al, Body Composition and Markers of Cardiometabolic Health in Transgender Youth on Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Agonists, Transgender Health 6, no. 2 (April 1, 2021) at 111–19

Natalie Nokoff, et al., Body Composition and Markers of Cardiometabolic Health in Transgender Youth Compared With Cisgender Youth, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 105, no. 3 (March 1, 2020) at e704–14

Despite the increasing mountain of scientific evidence on the harm of giving kids toxic transgender drugs, on September 3, 2024, Washington AG Bob Ferguson filed an Amicus brief with other states siding with the Transgender Drug Cult. You can read this brief here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-477/323942/20240903152555724_U.S.%20v.%20Skrmetti%20California%20Amicus%20Brief.pdf

Needless to say, Ferguson and his accomplices ignore all of the real scientific evidence.

Will the US Supreme Court even get a chance to render an opinion?

The outcome in this Supreme Court review could be affected by the presidential election in November 2024.

If Donald Trump wins the election, he has stated he will withdraw the Biden administration’s pair of appeals once in office. This would have the effect of allowing the lower court rulings in favor of State Transgender bans to stand.

On the other hand, if Harris wins the election, the Supreme Court will be forced to issue an Opinion. Either way, it is likely this issue will be resolved some time in 2025.

Our goal at Washington Parents Network is to help States and the US Supreme Court make the right decision using the latest available science. We will keep you posted. In the meantime, we look forward to your questions and comments.

Regards,

David Spring M. Ed.

Washington Parents Network