Trans Tyranny at School: “This Is Classic Cultural Marxism”

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Published: March 22, 2022 | Date of Source Audio: March 18, 2022

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Eric Metaxas talks with writer Pedro Gonzalez about how schools punish and harass parents who resist transgender ideology

Pedro Gonzalez: So, I actually interviewed a family in Texas, that basically for two years, their daughter was living an alternative life. I actually wrote about this for Chronicles magazine. It's in the new issue, it should be online today, I think, out from behind our paywall.

But basically for two years, for freshman and sophomore year, every time the parents dropped this girl off at school, she became a boy. And the school's policy was to hide it from the parents. And the parents knew something was wrong for those two years because the girl had totally retreated from family life. She just stopped interacting with her family and the parents couldn't figure out what was going on because she didn't want to tell them. And the family were trying to be understanding, but this girl had just totally climbed into her shell.

And during a meeting with a school counselor – a guidance counselor – the parents noticed that something was wrong, that the girl had a kind of rapport with the counselor that was really intimate. They were finishing each other's sentences. And again, this is happening at the same time that she doesn't really want to talk to her parents anymore. And so after that, they sit her down and they say, please, tell us what's going on, there's something you're not telling us. And then she says, well, at school is the only place that I can be a boy. And what the family figured out was that this school in Texas – and the family spoke to me on the condition of anonymity because they're terrified, and I’ll tell you why. But at this school, in Texas, they basically encouraged this girl in her gender dysphoria to become a boy.

“The family spoke to me on the condition of anonymity because they're terrified.”

And when the family found out, they said, okay, we're homeschooling. So they did everything right. They filed the proper paperwork. They even signed up with the Texas homeschooling association. And they told the school, this is their last day, we're getting our kids out of the district – the route of least resistance, right?

Well, so they pull them out on a Friday. By Monday, they get a call from CPS saying someone has filed a report alleging child abuse. By Tuesday, they're talking to a CPS agent at their house, conducting the safety check. By Thursday, a second report is filed against them. And so the family suspects that someone at school – a faculty member, staff member, counselor, or teacher – because the identity of the person who files these reports in Texas is protected, so they can only speculate. But what they figure is that someone alleged that they were abusing their daughter to prevent them from pulling her out of the school.

Eric Metaxas: Yeah. Abusing her by not letting her pretend to be a boy at home. I mean, this is hard to hear, but keep going.

Gonzalez: Yeah. But fortunately, the daughter, although she was kind of alienated because, you know, there's a lot of confusion involved in this, she still loves her parents. And so, when her parents came to her and said, this is what's happening, someone has filed two reports against us claiming that we're abusing you, that we're locking you in the house, that we're isolating you from your friends and we're denying you medical care. And the father told me that the daughter was just shocked by it and she told him who she thinks it could be. And again, all this is in my article.

“A caseworker actually told them that these reports look like classic retaliatory reports against parents.”

And this story has a happy ending. They did finally get the kids out of the district. They're homeschooling now. And the reports were so egregious and so disconnected from reality based on CPS’s investigation that the pay parents told me – and I obviously reviewed the documents that they had available – CPS closed the case and said we found no evidence of child abuse. And the parents said that a caseworker actually told them that these reports look like classic retaliatory reports against parents for, you know, some reason.

And so, this story is a happy ending. But there are a lot of other stories that might not have happy endings. And the turning point, the father told me, was when he sat his daughter down and said, look, these people at the school that claim to understand you better than we do, they're willing to separate you from your parents and your brother. They're willing to break our family up to get their way. And he said that at that point was when she was just like, okay, I'm going to tell you everything and tell you who I think this could be.

And the last thing – because again, I think it's important in this case – there is a silver lining. They're working through things, they're all going to family counseling and they're kind of healing. But again, this is terrifying stuff. I had to win the family's trust even talk to me about this because they're terrified of what could happen to them. And this is in Texas.

Metaxas: Well again, this is horrifying stuff. This is classic cultural Marxism. I mean, we have really seen it come into our homes and into our families. This is the sort of thing that you would think that this is what goes on in the Soviet Union, this is what goes on in communist countries where kids in school are told to report on their parents. In America, that is something that never could happen, we are as far from that as could ever be imagined. And suddenly now, we've taken our eye off the ball and these things have come to us and we're fighting this battle now.