RI Children’s Advocate Bob Chiaradio Is Traveling The State Calling On Districts To Ditch Their “Trans” Policies
Chiaradio: No matter how much a boy wants to be a girl, dress like a girl, thinks he’s a girl, or acts like a girl, he will never be a girl.
He’s been called the “Billboard Chris” of Rhode Island. And at the rate he’s going, children’s advocate Bob Chiaradio may well turn out to be the Canadian’s counterpart. Like Chris, Chiaradio is on a one-man mission to protect children from radical gender ideology. He’s taking that battle to every school district in the state, all 36 of them.
Chiaradio says he and others have testified on gender indoctrination at the State House numerous times, with little tangible success, due to the 90% Democrat make-up of the Rhode Island General Assembly. “We can’t win from the top down here in Rhode Island,” he explains, “so I’m doing it from the bottom up.”
In December 2022, we covered one of Chiaradio’s early showdowns with his hometown school board in Westerly over the obscene book Gender Queer. Chiaradio was convinced that if only people could see it with their own eyes, they would join his battle to remove the offensive title from the high school library. So he brought full-sized pictures—
only to be blocked off by several teachers teachers in the room who were “offended” because they “didn’t have a choice” about seeing the poster-sized illustrations from the book.
But whether they liked it or not, by the end of the evening, Chiaradio had made his point: Why was it fine for a 14-year-old at Westerly High School to see the book, but not the adults at the meeting?
Chiaradio returned to Westerly earlier this year to convince the board to rethink its gender policies—only this time, he walked away with the whole room on his side. On March 20, the school committee voted unanimously to replace the state’s guidance on transgender students with a new policy tailored to the sensibilities of the Westerly community.
Westerly’s existing transgender protocol tracks the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) guidelines that provide for “secret social transitioning” and allow biological boys to compete in girls’ athletics.
Under Westerly’s rules, as elsewhere throughout the country, once a student tells the school they want to become the opposite sex, the school must develop a “gender transition plan.” The school then assigns the student a new name and pronouns, locker, and restroom facilities—all on the student’s say-so.
And, with secondary school students as young as 14, this can happen without the parents’ knowledge or consent.
Westerly’s policy also allows boys who identify as female to be on girls’ sports teams.
At the March meeting, Chiaradio urged the school board to put aside RIDE’s guidelines. RIDE relies on federal guidance under Title IX, recently revamped by the Biden administration to prioritize transgender rights.
But RIDE’s guidance is not mandatory, Chiaradio is quick to point out. To be clear, that doesn’t mean Westerly won’t be challenged in court. As we covered here, school boards in California and New Jersey have been sued when they defied secret social transitioning policies in their respective states.
Nonetheless, while there was some discussion about how, exactly, the committee would solicit input from the community, there was no disagreement when the time came to vote. School committee member Lori Wycall’s motion to replace the RIDE guidance passed 7-0.
Wycall was optimistic:
I’m confident that we can do something that’s going to ensure the safety of all students in Westerly, that is going to ensure a safe and supportive learning environment, that will keep the parents involved, that will keep everybody safe and that we can do it without some of the specifics that are in the RIDE guide that I don’t think fit with our community.
Westerly was the first school district in the state to reject RIDE’s guidance, and Chiaradio is determined that it won’t be the last. He’s undertaken an ambitious campaign to appear before each of the state’s 36 school districts to convince them to follow Westerly’s lead. So far he’s spoken in six districts, with one more scheduled this week, and two weekly thereafter, through at least September.
Please plan on attending these RI school committee meetings to support me in my mission to protect RI’s kids, giving them the safety and privacy they all need and deserve. pic.twitter.com/FV8vPUkGYK
— Robert Chiaradio (@bchiaradio14) May 31, 2024
Chiaradio’s message to each school board: Do what Westerly is doing. Reject the state’s nonmandatory, radical transgender guidance and replace it with a common-sense version of your own.
From his Jamestown appearance:
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I am here to inform members of this committee, those in attendance, those watching at home, that you are under no legal obligation whatsoever to comply with rights, transgender policy protocol, or the Obama-Biden administration’s rewrite of Title IX. RIDE’s guidance is just that: it’s guidance, not law.
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Under this guidance, boys identifying as girls are allowed to utilize the same bathrooms and locker rooms as girls … allowed to compete against girls athletically, and allowed to room with girls on overnight field trips. Teachers are compelled to utilize pronouns as for the student’s sexual identity, and there is no mandate that the school inform parents should their child decide to socially transition in school. This must change.
Title IX was adopted in 1972, and it was written to protect women from discrimination. … It was not written to protect men who identify as women.
The Westerly school committee’s proposed revision to its policy … will keep boys out of girls’ bathrooms in locker rooms and the possibility of boys competing against girls athletically, outlaw boys rooming with girls on overnight field trips, and the illegal compelled speech of mandated use of pronouns, and ensure that parents are informed if their child presents to socially transition in school.
These proposed changes make sense. These children do not belong to the state or the school. Until they turn 18, they are the sole responsibility of their parents or guardians.
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No matter how much a boy wants to be a girl, dress like a girl, thinks he’s a girl, or act like a girl, he will never be a girl.
In the months to come, Westerly may prove that you can craft a policy that is sensitive to trans students and supported on both sides. “Once the Westerly school committee decided that RIDE’s guidance and Obama-Biden’s hijacked Title IX policy wasn’t working for Westerly,” says Chiaradio, “we knew we were on our way.”
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I will pray for him and his work.
Thank you very much.
Just wait a few years- a similar crusader will be campaigning to tone down the group-sex-in-classroom policy.
The whole system consists of amoral, careerist, ignorant scum. A huge percentage of the parents is just as bad. A separation is necessary.
In the image of the teachers blocking the view, each teacher is a Karen. Just have to point that out — each is an AWFL and wannabe Stasi.
Mr. Chiaradio can succeed because RI is a small state with 36 school districts. A very different approach will be needed in the large states, but perhaps campaigning in those states first in the rural districts will build momentum.
I hope he points out: “My opponents claim I am a censor. But look — who’s the censor right here and right now? They are censoring my presentation because they have no rational argument to counter it.”
Uh oh . . . he sounds like he may be a domestic terrorist. I’m confident that the solid blue RI teachers have notified the DOJ and FBI of this threat to wokedom.
Yes the FBLIE was notified and yes they where labeled and have been attacked legally for standing up against these lunatics that fill children’s minds with this garbage. . Not sure if you have seen some of the other article in Legal Insurrection. But the books they want children to read in the schools in RI are disgusting. Bob Chiaradio is on point and really has a battle in front of him in my former Commie state of RI.
Thanks. I believe we will defeat those who want to destroy our kids, our state, and our country. Thanks for your support.
Sir, you have my prayers and best wishes. But you are up against a very great evil empire that lies to all and sundry, including itself, about how compassionate and progressive it is.
That auditorium was empty
Nice going parents
I hope he has a gun and knows how to use it. He’s not going to get a nice reception from all the Communists out there.
I just carry the Holy Spirit and the truth with me. You’re right though…People aren’t overjoyed to see us. 🙂
So many of these kids who want to become another (or no) sex are emotionally disturbed, according to the data.
I have often wondered if sexual abuse is not behind most of this; in a child’s mind, he could very well hope to escape this abuse by “becoming” someone else.
I am confident the trans affirming community would block any attempt to make this connection.
I definitely think it is the case in F-M. “I am abused/victimized/gawked at like this because of my female parts. if I get rid of those, maybe I will then be safe from objectification and abuse.”
I can’t understand how it can be illegal for an adult to possess child pornography while the state pays adults (teachers) to hand out child pornography to children in its schools.
@DaveGinOly:
As a professional swindler of the young–oops, public high school social studies teacher who would like to keep his job–I fully agree with you; even if I disapprove of both child porn and the obscenities they’re foisting on the young. All I’ve concluded is that a bunch of well-heeled, jaded members of the donor class want a much larger pool of playthings from among the confused and vulnerable young.
As Bob often says the there is no ‘my truth’. The truth is just the truth.
He delivers the truth on many matters for this advocacy for the protection of children from unfiltered, so called trusted adults, that seem bent on stealing inherent parental rights and modifying the child’s behaviour to their liking.
Sadly, DEI and gender affirmation will lead to (as we see now in school) mental and developmental anguish that will last beyond their teen years.
Dear Mr. Chiaradio:
You can’t win. A bunch of well-funded lawyers, media moghuls, Democrat donors, and activists must have their Little [preferably] Brown Playthings regardless of the cost to the rest of society.
Dear Republican RJL: You are quite right, but we are living in a post-truth world [and I, for one, do not like it]. BTW, I am a professional swindler of the young–oops, a public high school social studies teacher who would like to keep his job–and in a district near us, a school system’s gender affirmation got girls in two schools raped by a young male in a skirt and a trans-boy trafficked. It ended up with the superintendent fired and imprisoned for endangering; but I’m sure that the hapless superintendent got himself into this by weighing the likelihoods of which sides had the bigger legal guns to go after him and miscalculated.
He (and we) are already winning. Look around.
Defeatism is not a good look. Never ever take a knee to these evil purveyors of destruction. We are AMERICANS. Stand tall and fight back. Or just sit the heck down and be quiet, no one wants to hear your servile chants of defeat.
We will not stop fighting, ever, and we have something to protect, to fight FOR. They just have destruction and chaos. Don’t you dare sit down beside them like some Bergdahl clown. Fight!