The Age Of In No Sense

 I concluded my last post with a seemingly simple question regarding age appropriate material in our education system.  I wondered how age appropriate materials in school used to be not only simple common sense but also an issue that most reasonable people agreed on.  Parents, teachers, democrats, and republicans agreed that grade level material existed with regards to curriculum and testing.  How then has it gone so wrong with regards to sexual materials and gender discussions?

As a father of 5 children covering a wide range of ages and grades I have had many years of dealing with various changes to how and what our children have been taught.  Given my political leanings and the obvious educational themes that you will see posted here over time I'm sure you expect that figuring out where I stand is easy here.  Let me clarify it for you and you decide for yourself how extreme my views are on this.

One thing that has been agreed to forever, (even if it proves to be only words for some in the education system), is that parents are the first and most important teachers of our children.  That parental involvement and engagement with our kids teachers and education is not only welcomed, but strongly encouraged by educators.

However, over time this has become more and more of an issue that puts many parents at odds with the teachers and the policies of those whom set the curriculum up.  Especially on the issue of gender.  I could show you an endless stream of recent videos like this one.  Take a few minutes for yourself sometime and just look up the various school board vs parents videos online, it's overwhelming.

So let me ask you what is so dangerous about parental consent regarding controversial issues?  How does it make sense to have to get a parental consent form in order to give your kid an aspirin at school but not gender transformation therapy and treatment?

It seems crystal clear where the extremist point of view lies.  We don't even have to take it that far.  For me, this seems like an easy and simple problem to solve in a way that would avert controversy for all involved, no fighting between parents and school boards, no irreversible harm to children, and no ideological propaganda being pushed one way or the other.

Simply put, increase parental involvement rather than decrease it.  Why is that such a difficult position to hold?  Burlington, Massachusetts recently had a huge fight over a sexual survey given to students as young as 11 years old which was of course changed in 2025 to include very explicit questions to be more inclusive to the alphabet mafia, (LGBTQLMNOP2+??), community. 

Read this story for yourself first and then we will move on.

In light of what you just read and saw let me ask my previous question again, what is so dangerous about parental consent regarding controversial issues?  

Perhaps your next question for me would be, what would I know about these kids, especially ones that may be gender or sexually confused?  Well, first I'll give you an answer in the form of a study performed in Germany.

"Administering irreversible endocrine and surgical interventions based on a diagnosis of such poor diagnostic stability is problematic, given the lifelong, irreversible nature of the "gender-affirming" interventions and their lifetime medical burden."

This points out a very obvious point that most reasonable people have been making all along.  We should not be allowing underage children to undergo permanent life altering medical surgeries or treatments before the age of 18.

How fitting that this study comes out of Germany.  I doubt many of you are aware of this but did you know that the first sex change surgery and the first uterus transplant surgery were also performed in Berlin, Germany in 1931?

Meet Dora Richter, the recipient of the first sex change surgery and Lili Elbe, the first man to have a uterus implanted surgically, (which lead to his death due to complications).

I will bring this post to a close with these final points.  Dora Richter was 40 when he underwent a trans surgery.  Lili Elbe was 48 when he underwent the uterus transplant surgery that lead to his death.  These were not children.  

I stated before that you might wonder what would I know about these issues?  I have a gay daughter whom is married to a woman, (she was 15 when she came out publicly as being gay), and my stepson's biological father came out as trans after my stepson was born before I met my wife.

These issues do hit close to home for me and I take them seriously.  Perhaps it is not I whom is speaking out of ignorance on this issue, rather it is those who would label me an extremist without context.  

To push such an important topic with such dire potential consequences, especially for our children, in one direction, and to intentionally not only keep parents in the dark on it, but to vilify them for their very reasonable positions, to me makes no sense.  Hence the title of this particular post.

Over time the point of my new focus here will hopefully become clearer as I not only try to address some of these issues but also see what we can do about it.  This is not about being against education.  Far from it.  Children have been the targets of this progressive machine forever and for obvious reasons.  

Hopefully, we can come up with ways to push back and actually be a voice of reason in an unreasonable world.  We have a lot to do and much to learn.  With any luck, I'm just getting started.