Alphabet soup brigade non-profit group It Gets Better gave Centennial High School in New Mexico $10,000 to build “a gender-inclusive closet providing affirming supplies and clothes for trans and gender non-conforming students.”
The New Mexico Freedoms Alliance discovered that the Las Cruces Public School District, which houses the high school, used $8,370 to purchase chest binders to pass out at a pride parade. From The Washington Examiner:
Instead, a records request from the New Mexico Freedoms Alliance shows the district spent $8,370 of the money on over 200 chest binders, which are tight fabrics used to compress breasts in order to “masculinize” a female’s chest. The school district said that it bought the chest binders because it already had a clothing closet at school “open for use to all CHS students.”Chest binding can cause harm to women and girls, with one study showing that 88.9% of participants reported experiencing at least one symptom from chest binding, including pain and musculoskeletal or neurological problems, as well as scarring and rib fractures.The records also show that the chest binders were handed out at a Pride Day event that the Independent Women’s Forum, which broke the story about the “transgender closet,” suspects was the Southern New Mexico Pride Celebration. The first-of-its-kind event included, among other things, cross-dressing men performing in front of children as drag queens.
The district used $1,556 to stock the high school’s library with books approved by It Gets Better.
Ashley McClure, a storyteller for the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF), said the school didn’t use the money for a gender-inclusive closet but built one onsite for all students.
The school district has tried to sneak many gender policies past parents.
Rachael Hein told McClure the enrollment form had changed, adding a section “asking for parents to give LCPS permission to provide healthcare in schools.”
Oh boy:
Surprised by this new question, Hein said she investigated New Mexico legislation on the subject and discovered Senate Bill 397, titled “School-Based Health Centers.” According to Hein, the “ambiguous” bill gives school health centers the right to treat students without any language or provisions requiring parental consent.This transfer of medical responsibility from families to schools is just one more way that public schools are trying to take the place of parents, Hein said.“It’s them opening the door to, well, you’re too busy to take them to their pediatrician, so we can handle that here,” she said. “ And once you give over that control, then they can start giving them treatments and all kinds of things that parents are not in the know about.”
Parents Defending Education exposed the school district’s transgender training materials for teachers. It includes tips on how to keep changes in gender identity a secret from a student’s parents.
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