The United States House of Representatives will vote on an important and necessary piece of legislation that affirms parents’ fundamental right to protect their children and to know what is happening to them in public schools. The Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act (H.R. 2616) will require parents to be told if a child wants to use different pronouns, change their name, or use different bathroom facilities while at school. It will also prohibit schools from teaching biologically untrue information about so-called gender ideology.
“The Obama and Biden administrations forced children to learn extreme and inaccurate ideas about ‘sex’ and ‘gender.’ Shockingly, they encouraged schools across the country to hide information from the parents when kids were suffering confusion around their identity,” Kris Ullman, Eagle Forum President said. “Parents have a fundamental right to know what is happening inside the schools, instead they are too often kept in the dark.”
The UCLA Williams Institute estimates that approximately 300,000 teenagers identify as transgender. According to Defending Education, at least 21,000 schools in 1,200 districts (affecting over 12 million students) have policies that prevent teachers and other school personnel from sharing a student’s struggle with gender identity with his or her own parents without that student’s permission. This is a real and widespread problem across the nation.
“Eagle Forum supports the Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act to codify the Trump administration’s progress that puts parents back in the driver’s seat of their children’s education and upbringing,” Ullman concluded. “This legislation is a commonsense solution to a crazy idea that schools can not only indoctrinate students with biological untruths but can keep crucial information about children’s struggles from parents. Parents care more about their kids’ physical and mental health than any education bureaucrats. It’s time for the government to protect kids by insisting schools respect parents.”
Eagle Forum was founded by Phyllis Schlafly, a dynamic and charismatic leader who inspired countless women and men to participate in the process of self-government and public policy-making so that America will continue to be a land of individual liberty, with respect for the nuclear family, public and private virtue, and private enterprise. For nearly fifty years, Eagle Forum’s network of state organizations has led the charge to mobilize the grassroots to defend the founding principles of the United States.