In 2021, at just 14-years-old, a young girl named Sage Blair began a so-called “social transition” where she identified as male at school and used the male restroom. This decision was facilitated by and hidden from her parents by her school counselors. As a result, Sage went on to suffer assault, kidnapping, sex trafficking, and even the loss of her parents as legal guardians.

Thankfully, Sage is now reunited with her mother and father. She also identifies as her biological sex.

The abuse that Sage endured, unknown to her parents, who were powerless to help her, feels especially poignant now. Recently, the Supreme Court of the United States temporarily blocked a California law that prohibited educators from sharing a child’s gender identity with their parents.  

Advocates of the law told students that their gender identity is personal, and that nobody had the right to know it, “including your parents.” Opponents challenged the law as unconstitutional and an attack on both religious freedom and parental rights.

California is not the only state in recent years where school officials have decided that they know better than parents when it comes to gender ideology. Across the country, individuals who have known kids for mere months, weeks, or even hours quietly participate in life-altering, often irreversible decisions for children without informing parents.

These officials hold a dogged commitment to gender ideology that, unfortunately, triumphs over the safety of........

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