On May 6, 2015, the FCPS School Board voted to add “gender identity” as a protected class for nondiscrimination in Fairfax County Schools, ignoring the outcry of the community, who could see it as opening the door for abuses in the name of “protection”. The public was assured it would have no impact on curriculum or policies. The School Board assured parents that the addition of “gender identity” would have no observable impact on students. It only provided protection from discrimination — who could oppose that? No one. But that was then and this is now! An inordinate amount of time and money is spent on promoting this agenda.
The Family Life Education Curriculum Advisory Committee (FLECAC) moved topics that had traditionally been under the Family Life Education Curriculum (FLE) to other curricula where parents did not have the legal right to “Opt Out” to protect their children and do not have the same level of review. Radical Gender Theory and Critical Race Theory have been fully integrated into every subject in Fairfax County.
In 2019, a radical School Board was elected with no dissenting members. The Board has made clear its ideology of “equity” for “oppressed” groups, particularly LGTBQIA+. The first year of this Board’s tenure was 2020 and little happened because of COVID, except the refusal to reopen schools as most private and Catholic Schools did in the Fall of 2020.
LGBTQIA+, particularly transgender students who are growing in number in response to the social contagion spread through FCPS, have a particularly high status to receive “protection from oppression” from the School Board.
LGBTQIA+ Only Group to Get TWO Heritage Months!
In 2021, when the School Board finally got down to business, it created two “Heritage Months” to honor LGBTQIA+ students and staff. No other group has been honored in this manner.
Heritage Months are periods within the year that are designated to celebrate and acknowledge various ethnic and marginalized groups …
FCPS Heritage Months, Celebrations and Traditions
Meaningful learning experiences that increase representation of all identity groups are integrated in all subject areas, and FCPS will provide guidance and resources to teachers for the following heritage months and observances acknowledged by the Fairfax County School Board. (emphasis added)
The School Board doesn’t just pass a resolution, it requires “meaningful learning experiences to be integrated into all subject areas”!
In June, 2021, the Fairfax School Board passed its first LGBTQIA+ Pride Month Proclamation and has issued one each year since. The Proclamations read as an indictment of the Fairfax Schools, community and country where hate is the norm and LGBTQIA+ students are routinely bullied. Each year, the Proclamation uses the same language and claims “recent studies”, but never give footnotes or evidence or even data. In 2023, the updated Proclamation proclaimed “now more than ever, with LGBTQIA+ people, especially transgender and gender-expansive youth, under attack by political leaders in Richmond and across the country who should know better than to bully children (emphasis added).
This theme of oppression will be repeated by School Board members, principals, the Superintendent and other FCPS staff. But who exactly are the oppressors that the School Board is holding at bay? Parents! The only changes in law in Richmond are to require parents be involved and give consent to any school action that promotes gender transformation. No wonder FCPS students report a high incidence of depression and anxiety.
In October 2021, the Board passed a Resolution Honoring LGBTQIA+ History Month. The resolution is a rewrite of the same grievances in the June Pride Proclamation. It does not address the problem in LGBTQIA+ history of individuals being “outed” posthumously because of interpretations (which may or may not be accurate) by present day activists of actions or comments of the historical figure. While claiming to promote LGBTQIA+ history as a means to inclusion and striking down judgment, the Board does not give the same respect to Judeo-Christian principles related to LGBTQIA+ behavior, while loving the individual, nor will a lesson in a public school on any related topics give an accurate or acceptable description of the Judeo-Christian perspective. In its effort to respect one marginalized group, it has succeeded in marginalizing others. As in the early Christian church, the state persecuted Christians that did not comply with Pagan beliefs, so the experience of Christian students in public schools today if they dare speak out on biblical Truths.
Changes in Family Life Education for Kindergarten and all subsequent Grades
On June 17, 2023, Board Member Karl Frisch moved to amend the FLECAC (Family Life Education Curriculum Advisory Committee) Report to change the definition of “two-parent family”, beginning in kindergarten to include “2 mothers” or “2 fathers”. The Family Life Education Curriculum Advisory Committee did not make any such recommendation. The parents and community were not consulted. The Fairfax County School Board voted to redefine two-parents to include “2 mothers” or “2 fathers” and to educate your children, beginning in kindergarten, with that “knowledge and attitude” as required by Social Emotional Learning. What will be next? On his re-election website, Board Member Karl Frisch, who proposed this amendment, states that he and his partner Evan “are the proud dog dads of Dexter, an energetic twelve-year-old Wheaten Terrier mix.” Will there be a need for Mr. Frisch to “clarify” the definition of “child” to include “dogs” to reflect his stated “parenthood”?
Fairfax School Board Approves Pornograhic Books for Libraries Because they have LGBTQIA+ Content
On September 23, 2021, following the recitation of the St. Michael Prayer by the audience at a School Board Meeting (after a mother revealed pornographic material in books in FCPS schools), FCPS Board Member Karl Frisch tweeted out: FCPS Board Member Karl Frisch revealed the Board’s agenda by tweeting out: “It’s not every week the School Board receives two exorcisms during public comment. To be clear, nothing will disrupt our Board’s commitment to LGBTQIA+ students, families, and staff. Nothing. “
Following a “review” of the pornographic materials by two committees appointed by FCPS Administration and the School Board, FCPS reinstated the books that sent the School Board scampering to a back room after shutting off a mother’s microphone for reading and showing images from the books at the School Board meeting on September 23. The committees concluded that the books depicting LGBTQ+ sexual acts “aligns with FCPS Regulation 2603 supporting members of the gender-expansive community and affirming individuals in their identity.”
Fairfax Public Schools Reject State VDOE Standards
There has been a battle over the treatment of “transgender” students in Virginia. In 2021 under Governor Ralph Northam, guidelines were promulgated and and FCPS developed its policy based on the principles embraced in that document. (According to Equality Virginia, an LGBTQ advocacy group, only 14 of Virginia’s 132 school districts adopted the 2021 VDOE guidance under Northam. Eight school boards partially adopted it and nine school boards rejected it.) FCPS policy allows students to determine their “gender identity” with or without the parents’ knowledge and/or consent. FCPS policy allows students to access facilities (bathroom, locker rooms, etc.), activities and services compliant with their stated gender identity. It further provides for disciplinary actions against students and personnel who do not support and comply with the stated gender identity, referring to legal (baptismal) names as “dead names” if a student decides to socially change the name for gender identity purposes, and “misgendering” if a student or staff member refers to a “gender expansive” individual with a pronoun that does not conform with the student’s “gender expansive identity”.
FCPS has been vocal about its rejection of current revised guidelines which require parental involvement VDOE MODEL POLICIES ON ENSURING PRIVACY, DIGNITY, AND RESPECT FOR ALL STUDENTS AND PARENTS IN VIRGINIA’S PUBLIC SCHOOLS published on July 18, 2023. In September 2023, the FCPS High School Principals wrote a letter to students, parents, staff, etc. expressing their opposition to the proposed Model Policies “We, the High School Principals of Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), are writing to ensure every student, faculty and staff member, parent and guardian know that we understand the angst amongst our LGBTQIA+ students, staff, and community caused by the recent proposed model policy from the Virginia Department of Education.” This is a recurring theme. FCPS School Board Member Karl Frisch told the Washington Post: “This is about making sure that our students, who are carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders right now because of what’s happening in Richmond and across the country (emphasis added), can come into our school buildings every single day and focus on what’s important: learning,” Parents Out of Exile responded “Did FCPS principals even read model policy before issuing letter to their communities?”
It is not a secret or surprising that anyone who is suffering from body dysphoria or living a double life of secrecy from parents and family would suffer depression and/or anxiety. Rather than addressing the root issues, advocacy groups are promoting a mental health crisis, by encouraging rather than resolving underlying mental health problems. In 2021 an advocacy group, using Marxist bullying techniques, have made significant in-roads in changing policy and the culture within FCPS.
Wolves in Sheeps’ Clothing?
The Pride Liberation Project emerged in 2021 and describes itself as “the only student-led organization advocating for LGBTQIA+ rights in Virginia. We’re entirely led by high school students, and work to create empowering schools and communities for all LGBTQIA+ students in Fairfax County and Virginia.” But is that true?
PLP touts its activities and successes on its website, an impressive list for any advocacy group. It is all the more impressive from an “entirely led by high school students” organization. PLP reports it has led student walkouts to protest the Department of Education Policies on Transgender Students and to protest the appointment of the Superintendent of FCPS. They also protested the removal of books with graphic illustrations of LGBTQI+ individuals engaging in sexual acts. Their reasoning?
Unfortunately, current portrayals of LGBTQIA+ youth are severely limited. Existing LGBTQIA+ young adult novels often do not depict gender fluid, non-binary, and asexual charecters (sic). Moreover, depictions that do exist are often stereotypical, contributing to a lack of knowledge around gender expansive people in
Letter from Pride Liberation Project
society.
It does not explain why or how graphic illustrations of actual sex acts provide the positive image they are seeking for their identified community.
The PLP website discloses some of its partnerships with organizations such as Safe Space NOVA, NAACP Fairfax and Fairfax Alliance for Black School Educators (FABSE). They advise FCPS students of their rights and resources for avoiding family interference. But is it high school led?
Following an October Walk Out, an on-line meeting was held among organizers. Investigative Veteran Reporter Asra Nomani viewed a recording of that after action meeting.
But a post-protest (walkout) video debrief, shared with the Fairfax Times, reveals the effort was led by a young adult Democratic Party activist, Aaryan Rawal, guiding the underaged students, with “messaging research,” talking points and resources that help children leave their families. The video debrief includes Rawal speaking to at least six students under the age of 18.
Asra Nomani / Special to the Fairfax County Times
Oct 7, 2022 Updated Oct 7, 2022
Traffickers Setting Children Up for Exploitation?
This Fairfax Times article by Asra Nomani shares troubling details about the activities and connections of this student-front group, including its adult leadership, counseling allies within the schools and funding sources to help “children who allegedly ‘need to leave their home,’ the guide offers ‘Housing Support,’ noting: ‘“In the event of you needing to leave your home, we can provide you with emergency housing from a supportive, Queer friendly adult.'”
“Offering students an opportunity to get cash, Pride Liberation Project offers an alternative through the Democratic Party fundraising platform. “We can also set up a dedicated ActBlue fundraising page for you and get allies to donate,” the guide recommends, noting: “In the past, this has led to thousands of dollars in donations.”
Pride Liberation Project “#resources-for-outed-students!”
Assistance from Adult Allies in the School and Mental Health System and Funding from ActBlue
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Pushback from parents who recognize the tactics of PLP as standard trafficking techniques, have caused the PLP to be much more circumspect on its website, claiming the lack of transparency is because members fear their own parents. The PLP website is careful not to mention FCPS Pride (An Allied and LGBT community for FCPS employees) on its website, but various reporting shows a clear link of retired FCPS Teacher Robert Rigby, founder of FCPS Pride and regular fixture at FCPS School Board Meetings and LGBTQ+ and Teacher Union protests to the alleged student-run organization.
Bullying Acceptable if it is for a Good Cause?
Luke Rosiak of the Daily Wire exposes the bullying and manipulation tactics of the PLP revealed in an after-action video from a student walkout. PLP leader Aaryan Rawal advised students to “publicly invoke suicide, it would be more potent than the law. “It’s a lot easier for someone to hide behind a legal argument if they don’t know there’s a queer student whose about to testify who’s about to say that these guidelines would have literally killed their community and would have literally led to incredible rates of self-harm,” he said.
Rosiak reported that on the internal messaging board, “asked a question about the topic (funding), Rawal wrote, “f–k let me dm rigby,” referring to Robert Rigby, a Fairfax County teacher who frequently pushes gay activism at school board meetings. The Pride Liberation Project did not respond to an inquiry about Rigby’s role.”
Other reporting about this same “walkout” organizers claimed involved “participation from nearly 100 schools, mainly concentrated in Fairfax County and other counties in northern Virginia: Loudoun, Prince William, and Arlington,” lamented the apathy of students for the cause:
‘People Weren’t Actually Interested’ in the Cause‘
“Yesterday, at the school walkout we had, we had about 200 students participating. And most of the students were just there to skip class,” said one student organizer at the debrief. “And when I was handing out flyers yesterday, most of the flyers I handed out got handed right back to me because people weren’t actually interested in the cause for the walkout. They just wanted to skip class.” Another responded, “I definitely had a lot of those people at my school as well.”
‘Most Were Just There to Skip Class’: Untold Story of Walkouts Against Virginia’s New Transgender Student Policies
Organizers did not despair, (organizing principle 101):
“Honestly, they don’t realize it, but they are definitely helping our cause. They are bolstering our numbers; we can count them as our people who walked out for the Pride Liberation Project for these walkouts across the state.”
A third coordinator chimed in, “When helicopters are recording your school, they’re not seeing which one’s caring and which ones don’t. They’re just seeing the numbers.”
“So at the end of the day, if you had 200 students, the news saw 200 students regardless of how they actually felt in that moment, and that made a really big impact collectively,” she added.
This reporting confirms what most parents know: If teens are given an option to skip class, they will take it. Teens also are not buying wholesale into the constant indoctrination of the LGBTQ+ lobby. But this does not mean that it is not having an impact on individual teens, particularly those with vulnerabilities. The LGBTQ+ lobby is preying on the human tendency to always “approach the Good.” By couching the “narrative” in “social justice” and CRT “oppression” terminology and using manipulative threats of suicide, the PLP is appealing to teens (and unfortunately adults) who have been trained for years to respond through Social/Emotional skills rather than virtue and critical thinking.
Because human beings are hardwired for the good, they even choose evil under the appearance of good. And because that hardwiring also structures the human mind, the person who persists in evil must redefine reality so that down is up, and evil is good. Ressentiment is very much the spiritual rebel’s philosophical response to “Did God really say. . . ?”
John M. Grondelski, Changing Words Doesn’t Change Things
Adults at
There has long been concern that there is a correlation between autism and gender dysphoria. It is difficult to get positive interventions for persons reporting the comorbidities because of ideology and controversy of even labeling one or the other trait as a “morbidity”. But it is clear that there is a higher rate of gender dysphoria among individuals diagnosed on the autism spectrum. An often-reported study in 2014 by John Strang, a neuropsychologist in the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at Children’s National Medical Center, in Washington, D.C., looked at the prevalence of children with autism who reported “gender diversity”. The study found that participants on the autism spectrum were 7.59 times more likely to “express gender variance.”
Reports on the social contagion of transgenderism, including communities developed through social media, show that children who may be socially awkward or have difficulty creating friend relationships can find solace in LGBTQ+ social groups who love them “for who they are”. But with every other high school peer group, membership in the group requires conformity to the values and norms of the group.
Vulnerable children are susceptible to adopting an “identity created in the image and likeness of the group” rather than an “identity created in the image and likeness of God.”
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