Midwestern Teachers Trade Tips On ‘Subversively & Quietly’ Transitioning Kids

Several dozen Midwestern teachers discussed ways to transition their students’ gender without alerting parents in an online chatroom this week.

Roughly 30 teachers and administrators from various states including Iowa, Michigan, Illinois, and Ohio met in an online chatroom hosted by the Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center (MAP), an organization that has received millions of dollars in federal funding. The Daily Mail gained access to the four-hour workshop, which was centered on reviewing various new educational statutes to “remedy the marginalizing effects and disrupt problematic policies.”

Kimberly Martin, DEI coordinator for Royal Oaks Schools in Michigan, described her efforts to hide elements of social transition, such as changing a student’s name, from their parents.

“We’re working with our record-keeping system so that certain screens can’t be seen by the parents … if there’s a nickname in there we’re trying to hide,” Martin said.

Jennifer Haglund, counselor for Ames Community Schools in Iowa, condemned Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds for signing a law in March barring males from competing on female sports teams, and bragged about her personal activism for LGBTQ causes.

“I know that I have my own right code of ethics, and that doesn’t always go along with the law,” Haglund said.

“The stakes are very high for trans youth,” Shea Martin, an Ohio-based teacher and contributor to far-Left blog Radical Teacher, said. “I think that requires working subversively and quietly sometimes to make sure that trans kids have what they need.”

Martin also said she had worked against “laws that prohibit or restrict trans advocacy.” Martin also said that in discussion with elementary aged students, teachers should avoid treating “reinforced heterosexuality as the norm.”

Gender ideology has become an increasingly controversial issue in the United States — a recent poll by the Public Religion Research Institute found that 65% of Americans say that there are only two genders, up from 59% in 2021, with support for the gender binary increasing in virtually all demographic cohorts. Furthermore, a plurality of those polled, 36%, opposed teaching transgenderism at any level in K-12 education.

Hundreds of laws have been introduced in red and purple states to limit sexually explicit drag performances in public, ban books with explicit sexual content from school libraries, prevent males from competing in girls and women’s sports, and prevent minors from being given cross-sex hormones or body modification surgeries, among other things. These laws have been decried as “anti-LGBTQ” by activist groups such as the ACLU and the Human Rights Campaign, and the Biden White House, fueling intense national debate.

MAP is part of the Great Lakes Equity Center and operates in 13 different states: Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. It covers over 7,000 school districts and more than 11 million students. The states and localities under its jurisdiction have a wide range of stances on issues surrounding sex and gender.

According to the Daily Mail, MAP receives federal funding under Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and last November it received more than $8 million from the Department of Education.

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Jacqui Lambie refers ADF leadership to International Criminal Court declaring the top brass 'got a free pass' from war crimes investigations

Senator Jacqui Lambie has revealed in an emotional statement she has referred Australia’s top military brass to the International Criminal Court to investigate their “criminal liability” in alleged war crimes.

Senator Jacqui Lambie has sensationally referred Australia’s Defence Force leadership to the International Criminal Court.

In an emotionally charged statement to the Senate, the former military officer condemned the “culture of coverup at the highest levels” of the country’s military.

Senator Lambie blasted the decision by Major General Paul Brereton to exempt senior defence commanders from his war crimes investigation.

She said as a result, Australia’s military leaders “got a free pass while our diggers were thrown under the bus”.

As she denounced the previous government for not taking action, Senator Lambie revealed she had referred the matter to the International Criminal Court war crimes prosecutor in The Hague under Article 15.

“This asked him to look at Australia’s higher commanders through the lens of command responsibility,” Senator Lambie said on Tuesday.

“The law of command responsibility is a method of criminal liability where commanders have failed to do their duty.

“The International Criminal Court is a court of last resort… they can only do this if the state party, in this case Australia, has failed to investigate higher command for their breach of duty.

“Australia has in fact set up two systems of criminality, one for Australia’s top military commanders and another for commanders from the rest of the world.

“Quite frankly I feel embarrassed that Australia’s in this situation.”

During her impassioned plea for the new Labor government to take action, Senator Lambie cited evidence from “multiple sources” outside of the Brereton inquiry including from the recent defamation case of Ben Roberts-Smith in which these sources claimed “the leadership knew”.

https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/jacqui-lambie-refers-adf-leadership-to-international-criminal-court-declaring-the-top-brass-got-a-free-pass-from-war-crimes-investigations/news-story/f8b04dad4d658975963cb410cbc613cb

Hollywood actress Amanda Bynes, 37, placed on psychiatric hold for second time in 2023 after being detained by police in LA

A former Nickelodeon star has been placed on psychiatric hold for the second time this year, three months after she was found wandering the streets of Los Angeles without any clothes on.

Hollywood actress Amanda Bynes has been placed on psychiatric hold for the second time this year.

The news comes three months after the 37-year-old was hospitalised in March after she was found roaming the streets of Los Angeles naked.

On Monday (local time), American tabloid TMZ reported Bynes had been placed back on "5150" psychiatric hold after being detained by police over the weekend.

A source with law enforcement knowledge told the publication that Bynes called Los Angeles Police Department herself on Saturday to report a person in distress.

She was then taken to a police station to undergo a medical evaluation, which determined she had to be placed on a mandatory psychiatric hold.

Photos shared by TMZ show the former Nickelodeon star in handcuffs being escorted by two officers into a police car.

A 5150 psychiatric hold is an involuntary, legally mandated stay at a psychiatric hospital or facility for up to 72 hours.

While the hold typically lasts three days, it can be extended under some circumstances based on the patient's needs.

In March this year, Bynes was hospitalised after she was found walking near downtown LA without any clothes on.

At the time, she hailed a car and told the driver she was coming down from a psychotic episode. She then reportedly called 911 herself.

Bynes was released from a mental health facility about two months after the incident, with sources telling TMZ she was not doing well and felt isolated.

Bynes first rose to stardom when she appeared on Nickelodeon programs "All That" and "The Amanda Show" from the mid 90s to early 2000s.

The 37-year-old has since has starred in many popular Hollywood films, including 2006 romantic comedy "She's The Man".

However, the troubled actress has struggled with mental health and substance abuse over the years, formally announcing she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2014.

Following a public breakdown in 2013, Bynes was admitted to hospital and placed on her first psychiatric hold, sparking her mother to be granted a conservatorship over the actress.

In February last year, Bynes filed a petition to end her nine-year conservatorship, which ended about a month later in March following a court ruling.

https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/hollywood-actress-amanda-bynes-37-placed-on-psychiatric-hold-for-second-time-in-2023-after-being-detained-by-police-in-la/news-story/2d314dc639ad6fa2a57f9fcea82e6379

‘Acting As Police’: DCNF Reporter Describes How Chinese ‘Intelligence Service’ Quietly Operates In US

A Daily Caller News Foundation reporter described Monday how a key Chinese intelligence service quietly operates “service centers” in seven American cities.

Philip Lenczycki told WMAL talk show host Vince Coglianese, who also serves as editorial director of the Daily Caller, the Overseas Chinese Service Centers (OCSCs) are located in San Francisco, California; Houston, Texas; Omaha, Nebraska; St. Paul, Minnesota; Salt Lake City, Utah; St. Louis, Missouri and Charlotte, North Carolina. The centers, which were ostensibly created to assist Chinese citizens living abroad, are housed within various nonprofits based in the U.S.

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“What we found was that there’s a Chinese Communist Party intelligence service called the United Front Work Department and it turns out that they are operating 60… so-called overseas Chinese service centers around the world and seven of those are in the United States,” Lenczycki told Coglianese.

Lenczycki noted that individuals involved with the OCSCs met with officials of China’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS), which detailed how they could aid efforts by Chinese law enforcement. The Justice Department accused China’s MPS of engaging in extortion and other efforts in a 2022 indictment and a 2020 complaint.

“What we found is that some of these overseas Chinese service stations in other countries, for instance, in Ireland and whatnot, actually are a part of the alleged same program that the New York station was in,” Lenczycki said. “So this is really concerning, because the Chinese government has said that all of these, you know, entities in this program are required to perform quote-unquote ‘consular protection’ and that ranges from as we’ve seen in cases in United States, helping consulates process visas. In other countries, for instance, in South Africa and elsewhere. We’ve seen it actually, sort of evolving, to ‘form patrols’ where, where they really are going around with weapons and are acting as police.”

The Justice Department indicted two individuals on multiple charges in April, alleging that they helped China harass citizens who were overseas. The presence of such centers has been a concern after the FBI raided a similar station in New York.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/19/acting-as-police-dcnf-reporter-describes-how-chinese-intelligence-service-quietly-operates-in-us/