Remember when, in response to a letter from the National School Boards Association, Attorney General Merrick Garland set up an FBI “task force” dedicated to policing school board meetings, where angry parents were getting out of hand complaining about things like mask mandates and transgender access to locker rooms? Referring to concerned parents as domestic terrorists? That went well.
While most of the fireworks Wednesday were over the House Oversight Committee’s grilling of former Twitter executives, there was also a hearing on American education opportunities hosted by the Committee on Education and the Workforce. Testifying at the hearing was Ginny Gentles of the Independent Women’s Forum, although her presence at the hearing made Rep. Mark Takano disappointed that “extremists” had been given a platform.
Members of Congress who demean witnesses they disagree with should be ashamed of themselves. Asserting that @ginnygentles or any other parent is an ‘extremist’ is unacceptable.
Parents & students aren’t facing ‘hypothetical issues,’ they’re facing real burdens in education. pic.twitter.com/TL1LVGZLk7
— Independent Women's Forum (@IWF) February 8, 2023
But trans children are being murdered … violently.
Furthermore, @RepMarkTakano, if you think that emphasizing the harms of widespread learning loss, mental health issues in K-12 education, and the academic decline in our public schools are ‘problematic narratives’ you might want to reconsider what you find to be problematic.
— Independent Women's Forum (@IWF) February 8, 2023
Despicable gaslighting by Democratic members. Parents who love their kids, want the best for their kids, and won't stand by as educators hide what's going on with their kids are NOT extremists. These enablers are the extremists. https://t.co/19VMe7Lq29
— Patrice Lee Onwuka 🇫🇰🇺🇸 (@PatricePinkFile) February 8, 2023
So shameful that a member of Congress would smear @ginnygentles, who testified today as both an education policy expert and as a mother, as an "extremist."
Parents who are concerned about their children's education are not "extremists," @RepMarkTakano. They are good parents. https://t.co/69O3yw6y01
— Kelsey Bolar (Harkness) (@kelseybolar) February 8, 2023
Disgusting but predictable for @MarkTakano to call parents who don’t want schools to lead their children down the dangerous path of medical “transition” without so much as notifying those responsible for their welfare “extremist” and suggest they’re responsible for murder. https://t.co/BsXUwuwq6h
— Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ (@InezFeltscher) February 8, 2023
To the Democrats on this committee, believing in the reality of biological sex is an extreme idea. Loving parents who don’t want their children sterilized are dangerous. Unfortunately for the Congressman, though, @ginnygentles represents millions of American moms & dads.
— Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ (@InezFeltscher) February 8, 2023
You can’t change a child’s sex, but you can split her from her loving mom, chop off her breasts, irreversibly damage her life. Will @MarkTakano be around to pick up the pieces when these kids grow & realize what has been done to them? No, it’ll be their “extremist” parents. Evil.
— Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ (@InezFeltscher) February 8, 2023
Did you catch the end of that clip? It’s always set up as educators vs. parents. As we reported the other day, NBC News reporter Kat Tenbarge really wants to keep parents and their “backwards ideas” out of sex education. The cool part of being a teacher is “passing around dildos and butt plugs” and watching the kids play with them.
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