I have good news and bad news. Here is the good news: On Saturday February 15, 2025 at Noon there will be a rally in favor of Parents Rights at the north steps of the Capitol in Olympia. Please consider attending and sharing this information with anyone you know who cares about protecting the rights of parents and their children.
More good news. On Thursday, February 6, President Trump signed the Save Girls Sports Executive Order which should deny federal education funds to states that continue to allow biological males to take over girls sports. It remains to be seen if it will have any effect on the crazies running Washington state.
Now for the bad news. This week the Senate voted on party lines to pass Senate Bill 5181. This bill, which will gut the Parents Rights Initiative is now in the House Education committee.
If you want to track the progress of this crime, here is the link:
https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5181&Year=2025&Initiative=false
In explaining why parents should not be told when their child decides to take toxic Trans drugs that will permanently sterilize them and greatly increase their risk of cancer, Senator Jamie Pedersen stated: "Kids over 13 have the right to make their own decisions about their mental health care. Parents don't have the right to have notice, they don't have the right to have consent about that" - Washington State Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen (D) February 7, 2025
Anyone who has raised an actual teenager probably already knows this, but from a scientific child development point of view, the ages from 13 to 17 are the absolutely WORST TIME to allow kids to make life altering decisions without the benefit of their parents. Here is a graph of mental health problems by age range:
https://www.cdc.gov/children-mental-health/data-research/index.html
You can clearly see from the above graph that teenagers tend to suffer from all kinds of mental health problems beginning about age 12. Basically, teenagers go crazy for a few years.
Even if a child does not suffer from mental health problems, minors cannot give informed consent because children have immature brains, they are vulnerable to peer pressure, and they don’t grasp long-term consequences. The prefrontal cortex, which is where complex decisions are made, is not fully developed until about age 20. This is why young adults get more speeding tickets and car accidents than older adults.
Here is a link to a report on adolescent brain development: https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/146/Supplement_1/S18/34490/Adolescent-Brain-Development-and-Medical-Decision?autologincheck=redirected
The good news is that kids usually regain their sanity sometime between the ages of 20 to 25. Ignoring this basic scientific research, Senate Bill 5181, insists that kids should be allowed to make their own decisions not just at age 13 – but as early as AGE 5. This is why I have reached the conclusion that the leaders of the Democratic party have gone completely nuts. This is no longer about right versus left. This is about Common Sense versus Crazy.
But it gets worse. Much worse. You may have no idea that your 9 year old is being given toxic Trans Drugs. But you will still be required to pay the bill. And the bill for each year of Puberty Blockers could range from $20,000 to $50,000. Multiple this times four to six years and it will give you an idea of how truly crazy the crooks in Olympia have become.
Here is a quote from Brian Heywood, Parents Rights Initiative Sponsor, last week (when he was trying to talk some sense into the lunatics in Olympia):
“There is a secondary issue here because, while parents are not allowed to know what medical treatment is being given or done to their child once they turn 13, the parents are required financially to pay for any such treatment. If a parent asks to know the details of the treatment, WA does not allow the doctors or teachers or state employees to give that information to the parent. If they do not pay, their debt is sent to a collector…”
Brian is correct. This is why we need to start local community news websites so we can get this information out to parents, most of whom are Independent voters and have no idea about the kind of crimes currently occuring in Olympia. More on this at the end of this article. First, we need to summarize the crimes committed against parents and kids during the past couple of weeks.