{"id":1128465,"date":"2021-12-17T12:58:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T17:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1128465"},"modified":"2021-12-17T12:58:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T17:58:51","slug":"parents-outraged-claim-teacher-coached-daughter-into-identifying-as-trans-fluid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/parents-outraged-claim-teacher-coached-daughter-into-identifying-as-trans-fluid\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents Outraged: Claim Teacher \u2018Coached\u2019 Daughter into Identifying as \u2018Trans Fluid\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fparents-outraged-claim-teacher-coached-daughter-into-identifying-as-trans-fluid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1128465&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/children-wave-gay-pride-lgbt-flags-stock-getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The parents of a 12-year-old girl in the Spreckels Union School District (SUSD) in Salinas, California, claimed school staff indoctrinated their daughter into identifying as \u201ctrans fluid\u201d after encouraging her to join a lunchtime \u201cEquality Club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou took away my ability to parent my child!\u201d an irate Jessica Konen told the school board Thursday night.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.464285714286\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The school reportedly called the parents in for a meeting where they informed them that their daughter is trans. The teacher then proceeded to call CPS on them when they didn\u2019t use the \u201ccorrect\u201d name and pronouns. <\/p>\n<p>This is the dad\u2019s speech tonight: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/17gl3QBRrQ\">pic.twitter.com\/17gl3QBRrQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1471359238811254796?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Konen alleged two years ago school staff at Buena Vista Middle School encouraged her daughter to join a lunchtime LGBTQ club disguised with the name \u201cEquality Club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Konen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_app\/parent-says-daughter-was-coached-on-lgbtq-identity-at-california-school_4156865.html\">told<\/a> the <em>Epoch Times <\/em>that<em>&nbsp;<\/em>toward the end of her sixth grade year, her daughter informed her she might be bisexual, and later on, in the middle of seventh grade, Konen said she was called to the school for a meeting with her daughter, a teacher, and the school principal.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>During that meeting, Konen reported the teacher said her daughter was \u201ctrans fluid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI sat across the table, and I was crying,\u201d she said, according to the <em>Times<\/em>. I was trying to absorb everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey kept looking at me angrily because I kept saying \u2018she,\u2019 and that it was going to take me time to process everything,\u201d Konen added. \u201cI was very confused. \u2026 I was very upset. I was blindsided\u2014completely blindsided.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Konen said the teacher accused her of not being \u201cemotionally supportive\u201d of her daughter\u2019s new gender identity, and said she should be using her daughter\u2019s new name and pronouns. The teacher apparently added Konen\u2019s daughter would now be using the unisex bathroom at school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt she completely coached my child,\u201d Konen said. \u201cIt made me feel very, very small as a parent. I was unaware of anything. Not one time had she mentioned to me \u2018Oh, I think that I want to change my name,\u2019 or \u2018I\u2019m transgender\u2019 or anything. Nothing. I only heard bisexual one time, and that was it.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.9908675799087\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Young children in kindergarten are being taught transgender ideology without an opt-out, say concerned parents in West Hartford, Connecticut. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DuVOT0dS5B\">https:\/\/t.co\/DuVOT0dS5B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1461752339904225284?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Konen reported that several days after the school meeting, the King City Police Department arrived at her home to inform her a Child Protective Services (CPS) complaint had been filed against her. The <em>Times<\/em> noted police officers questioned both of her children and asked if they wished to be removed from their home.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThey made me feel like a monster,\u201d she said, but followed through by taking her children to meet with CPS.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the agency dropped the case, Konen said, and did not require that she use masculine pronouns in addressing her daughter.<\/p>\n<p>The experience, however, left Konen frightened that additional inquiries regarding her daughter\u2019s activities at school could lead to another CPS complaint.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Several more meetings with teachers revealed, unbeknownst to Konen, her daughter had searched online for information regarding suicide, though the school had failed to inform her.<\/p>\n<p>Konen then removed her daughter from the school. According to the <em>Times<\/em> report, her daughter, now 14, is at a new school, using her birth name and feminine pronouns.<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News reported in November, author and journalist Abigail Shrier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/education\/2021\/11\/19\/abigail-shrier-activist-teachers-recruit-middle-schoolers-lgbtq-clubs-mock-parents\/\">revealed&nbsp;<\/a>leaked authenticated documents that showed activist teachers from the Buena Vista Middle School boasting at a California Teachers Association (CTA) meeting in October. Shrier reported the teachers were touting their \u201cbest practices for subverting parents, conservative communities and school principals on issues of gender identity and sexual orientation.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.2832618025751\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">**BREAKING NEWS**:<\/p>\n<p>Teachers union speakers coach educators in surveilling student web searches, looking for middle school recruits for LGBTQ activist clubs.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YCnCFjgccm\">https:\/\/t.co\/YCnCFjgccm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Abigail Shrier (@AbigailShrier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AbigailShrier\/status\/1461387637877469186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSpeakers went so far as to tout their surveillance of students\u2019 Google searches, internet activity, and hallway conversations in order to target sixth graders for personal invitations to LGBTQ clubs, while actively concealing these clubs\u2019 membership rolls from participants\u2019 parents,\u201d Shrier noted.<\/p>\n<p>Two teachers, Lori Caldeira and Kelly Baraki, reportedly led a workshop about how to run a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) club in conservative communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause we are not official \u2013 we have no club rosters, we keep no records,\u201d Caldeira reportedly said. \u201cIn fact, sometimes we don\u2019t really want to keep records because if parents get upset that their kids are coming? We\u2019re like, \u2018Yeah, I don\u2019t know. Maybe they came?\u2019 You know, we would never want a kid to get in trouble for attending if their parents are upset.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another middle school teacher, Kelly Baraki, was reportedly heard describing how she has changed the name of her \u201cGSA\u201d to the \u201cEquity Club,\u201d and then later to \u201cYou Be You,\u201d in order to keep parents at bay.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.6608187134503\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UPDATE from the School District re: Yesterday&#8217;s Bombshell About Activist Teachers <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y72huKIAzV\">https:\/\/t.co\/y72huKIAzV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Abigail Shrier (@AbigailShrier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AbigailShrier\/status\/1461815841129959433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>SUSD officials responded to Shrier\u2019s report by stating:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p>Many of the comments and themes stated in the article are alarming, concerning, disappointing, and do not in any way reflect the District or Board of Education\u2019s policies and practices.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cRegarding the teachers involved, appropriate personnel steps are being taken to make sure such activities and comments will not be repeated,\u201d the district stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The parents of a 12-year-old girl in the Spreckels Union School District (SUSD) in Salinas, California, claimed school staff indoctrinated their daughter into identifying as \u201ctrans fluid\u201d after encouraging her &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}