The Highwire with Del Bigtree - THE GENDER TRANSITION PIPELINE

Episode Date: April 25, 2023

Jefferey Jaxen details the troubling trend of schools and hospital systems in states like California, who have established a gender transition pipeline for children to transition, often without the consent or knowledge of the parents, forcing many to sue.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

One of the big things we're seeing, you know, before the COVID vaccine came in in 2015, there was a really critical mass of parents in California that were fighting against the, the legislators coming in there and trying to remove the barriers to get these vaccines into kids through the school systems, through conscientious objections and things like that. And so, you know, I'm seeing a similar three-pronged pattern approach of the politicians, the school systems, and the pharmaceutical companies kind of coalescing for another topic and it's happening in California and the rest of the country right now. Take a look. All right.

For an elementary school allegedly helped her fifth grader change their identity and never got her permission to do it. The district is now instructing teachers to educate children starting in kindergarten to experiment with non-binary pronouns. Today, the Sacramento City Unified School District is standing with the trans staff and students raising the trans pride flag through the end of March. This was the biggest crowd I have ever seen trying to get into a local school board meeting. We're told but really got this crowd of more than a thousand people out here was a recent storybook hour featuring drag queens. They told me that if I were to ever find out about a student's gender or pronoun preference, that I was to withhold that from parents.

AB 1266 passed in 2014. Schools can't tell parents about their children's gender identity without first asking the student. School districts like Los Angeles have adopted an explicit policy that teachers can facilitate your child's gender or sexual transition, and the default policy is that they keep it secret from parents. So they know that they're doing something that parents would object to. Last year, my 11-year-old daughter was in elementary school here at Chico Unified, and her elementary school transitioned her from female to male behind my back. During one of those one-on-one meetings, my daughter told the counselor she wanted to tell me about her new identity.

counselor ignored her request and did nothing to support her and letting me know what was going on at school. Parents should absolutely be involved in all the decisions that their kids make. Right now, kids are influenced by the media, by their friends, by just a lot of mixed messages. It's about love and empathy and communication, not secrets and hiding and having government in our family's home. So it's a big topic here. Yeah. We're really starting to dive into this year at the High Wire because now it's starting to bump against a lot of the stuff we have talked about with the vaccine. And really one of the biggest developments in this story recently was in Chico, California. This is the headline coming out of there.

We saw some testimony there from the school board meeting. Chico unified board votes to keep current parental secrecy policy. So that's the secrecy policy that forced this mother here to sue. Here is the headline she was in there testifying at that school board meeting. Regina was her name. California mom sue school district that allegedly counseled daughter to transition gender. And we're seeing this across, you know, unlike the vaccine conversation, which kind of stayed localized in California. And then with the measles outbreak, you saw it really

spread out and just hundreds of bills started to come out of nowhere in 2019. Yeah. We see this, this conversation has spread very quickly to other school boards. And the schools are where a lot of this is happening. So you saw Missouri in 2022. This is Epoch Times article. You saw the parents have no right to be informed about children's conversations with teachers, Missouri school policy. Nearly 70 schools in the state of Missouri enacted these policies at that time. And then in Virginia, headline out of here at Washington Times, Democrats kill Virginia bill, banning schools from hiding kids' gender transition from parents. And we see the parents taking it to these schools. So just like the California mother, in Maine, we have a mother there suing as well.

Mother sues the Darm Skata School, alleging counselor, helped her child transition gender. Iowa, same thing. with school districts sued over gender transition policy that leaves parents in the dark. And you can see, I mean, this is just going. Yeah, I mean, and it's just a snapshot. And when we look at this, the idea that a teacher has more rights and their ability to communicate with your child than you do as a parent is pure insanity. And I, you know, I want to state it unequivocally here. Certainly there are, you know, a very small, strange group of bad parents out there.

But that doesn't mean we take the right, the rights of parents across the country. There's got to be better ways to handle these things. And truly, I think at the high wire, we stand for parental rights in making decisions of how to move our children through difficult times, different decisions. I don't think any of us are saying that there isn't a problem. I think our heart goes out, and we support those that are dealing with gender dysphoria. I mean, this is a group that I would stand up to protect also.

But what we cannot do is take away the ability for the parents to be a part of this conversation. Clearly a government institution and private individuals that do not spend every day and haven't watched the growth of their child cannot be better equipped than the parents themselves to handle these conversations. This is a very, very slippery and dangerous slope. And one that's been executed before by other authoritarian governments. Separating the children from their parents is usually how you really really, start to try and take over a society. Very, very disturbing. Right. And, you know, we're looking across these headlines. It's just a smattering of headlines from really the recently or over the past

year or so. But how are these schools doing? Is it just a couple of schools, a couple bad apples? What's the conversation like behind his closed doors? Well, we have some emails that were discovered, and this was from a FOIA request. Here's the headline showing this. Elementary School's private emails show secret plans to defy parents' wishes on transitioning their child. These are FOIA emails by a mom simply name Aaron for parental rights on Twitter, not a large following. And she received these from a Colorado elementary school. And this is what it says. This is the assistant principal at Laurel Elementary School.

And they allegedly right here in the email, I'm wondering about what to do when an elementary school student has expressed their pronouns and chosen name, but their parents directly tell school staff not to call the student by those pronouns. Well, this went through the machinery at the elementary school to the higher ups, and they came back with this email. and I met to discuss this and both agree that the school should use the students affirming name and pronouns at school and use their legal name and corresponding pronouns when talking with the family so I mean completely completely kind of

two realities there to kind of two face from the school and and look at the heart of this is this problem I don't know what the agenda of these teachers are I don't know what the agenda I don't know what their own sexual background is I don't know what their interest in having sex conversations with my child are. And now they're being empowered by, you know, school boards and potentially, ultimately government agencies to be indoctrinating my child into a thought system. Don't tell me that that's not possible. Don't tell me that that can't happen. I mean, this is, this is really, it's incredibly dangerous when you, when you think about this and how vulnerable children are in this time of life, elementary school,

especially. And the reporting on this goes to a bias as well. And let's check out ABC News here. We have the headline here where gender affirming care is being targeted in the United States. So again, targeted. You're already kind of have an aggressive headline there. Right. But we have this map now. We can show what's going on. And we can see that quite a few, about 12 states have passed laws or policies that are restricting gender affirming care for people under the age of legal minority, another about 19 states and local legislatures are considering or have introduced bills that would restrict the medical community from being involved in transitioning minors. But then you go into this article a little more, and you see this, this quote,

critics say gender affirming care restrictions are an infringement on the rights of families to make their own health decisions. The rights of the family. Whoa. We just saw the rights of the family completely sidestepped purposely by school boards all across America. So, So again, when you see purposeful hypocrisy on these talking points on a charged topic, you really have to start taking note and wonder what the heck is going on here. That's not a slippage. I mean, it's ABC News and that's very deliberate. So now we get into the topic that is very familiar to the high wire here.

And that's medicine that hasn't been properly tested. So this goes into this conversation. A recent article by the Federalist breaks this down beautifully. Pumping gender bending drugs into kids is even more dangerous than we thought. It says, last month, a stunning report by the British Medical Journal, written by a former editor of Ms. Magazine, argue that only a contrive medical consensus, Neil deGrasse Tyson, consensus, not scientific evidence, props up wrongly named gender-affirming care for minors. That's the protocol that starts with social transition, that's what everyone's suing for,

these mothers, moves on to puberty blockers, then wrong sex hormones and finally surgery. Now, one of the puberty blockers they use is a puberty blocker named Lupron. It's actually a prostate drug for people with cancer, and they found off-label that it can be used successfully as a puberty blocker. So that's a very successful one. So we go back to the article and it says this about Lupron. Lupron side effects are so severe that doctors tend not to prescribe it for even mild non-metastatic cases of prostate cancer. Many doctors found that Lupron decreased minors bone density so much that they could no longer recommend it. And so now it goes on to say this.

some gender activist doctors will admit their guidance is not based on long-term studies, rather they claim it's based on expert consensus. There's that word again. But that consensus is highly staged managed because of the known dangers and lack of long-term data. The Finnish French and Swedish governments have either banned or limited LuPron's use for minors. Similarly, the British National Health Service now urges caution.

So again, we have this consensus, this highly stage-managed situation. And where have we seen that before? Much like you just discussed. opioids, not habit forming, vaccines, safe and effective, injures one in a million. So we have this massaging of the words even here with this. We have the word gender dysphoria medication. Well, you can call those also puberty blockers or you can call them chemical castration. It all depends. I mean, all that is true depends on how you want to discuss this conversation. Which is really, you know, and I know that, you know, and for our audience out there, we are, if you can't tell,

going to start putting this on our agenda to be looking. at a lot of this conversation. We have a much bigger show coming up. You can always write into our show at info at thehighwire.com about your comments about us covering us. But this is the thing that I just, we are talking about, you know, castrating children when we talk about these drugs that can be used, meaning I don't even understand this idea. You're going to take away all sexuality. If they don't go through puberty, what is their experience no matter what they choose as adults. It seems like there's such a danger of robbing them of any sensation and experience. There's so much of this that doesn't make sense, yet it is really being rammed down our

throats from every direction right now. And in the space of these drugs are not tested for long-term safety, a Reuters investigation, they did a deep dive into this. And if you want to read this, it's a pretty in-depth article. It says, as more transgender children seek medical care, families confront many unknowns. Where have we seen this before? And in the article, it says the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. government agency responsible for medical and public health research, told Reuters that, quote, the evidence is limited on whether these treatments post short or long-term health risks for transgender or other gender diverse adolescents. The NIH has funded a comprehensive study to examine mental health and other outcomes for about 400

transgender youths treated at four U.S. children's hospitals. However, long-term results are years away and may not address concerns such as fertility and cognitive development. So again, we have this huge campaign across the entire United States is now being resting upon 400 transgender youths and a study that someday maybe might be done but didn't look at fertility, kind of important for kids growing up. Yeah. Cognitive development, another kind of important topic. There's good old NIH really on the ball there, I guess.

But that's a confusing thing for me looking at this is where are the studies? Yeah. I mean, it's really, I mean, this is it, and this is the continued push by science. Pharma doesn't want the studies, and they don't need the studies, as long as they keep funding government to just do their bidding and get them into school board meetings and get them into changing laws and rules all around us. And this is, you know, this is why I think this reporting and this story, though it's controversial, and we're going to be very careful with it is one that I think we have

to be focused on, because it truly is going to come down to our health, our safety, and our rights. Absolutely. Thank you.