Kansas Isn't In Kansas Anymore

Parents reasonably assume they know their own children, yet the government is now positioning itself as the authority on whether the genitals Mom saw while changing Junior’s diapers were actually indicative of her son’s sex.

Jeannie DeAngelis | September 15, 2026

After twelve hours of intense labor, giving birth, tucking the rugrats into bed every night, wiping snotty noses, and patching up bruised elbows and knees, parents, in good faith, place their offspring into the hands of the public school system.

Parents reasonably assume they know their own children, yet the government is now positioning itself as the authority on whether the genitals Mom saw while changing Junior’s diapers were actually indicative of her son’s sex.

Regardless of gender, parents are entrusted with guardianship once the child safely enters the world. In more progressive circles, that arrangement is apparently acceptable until liberal schoolmarms and left-wing indoctrinators step in to usurp parental authority over children, confiscating family oversight and handing the fate of children to the political agenda of the government.

Wherever they live, American parents are now having to fight for the right to exercise authority over their own children. Meanwhile, local school districts increasingly appear intent on shaping a generation of confused useful idiots who look to the state for everything -- from how to think to whether to pee standing up or sitting down.

Take, for instance, what’s happening in Kansas -- you know, the state Dorothy and Toto were so eager to return to way back in 1939. On August 25, the Department of Education, partnering with the Department of Justice, announced action against three Kansas school districts over policies that instruct schools to hide information --........

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