{"id":1705092,"date":"2022-10-21T07:17:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T11:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1705092"},"modified":"2022-10-21T07:18:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T11:18:02","slug":"virginia-teacher-reveals-the-lefts-next-public-school-quest-convincing-autistic-kids-theyre-trans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-teacher-reveals-the-lefts-next-public-school-quest-convincing-autistic-kids-theyre-trans\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Teacher Reveals The Left\u2019s Next Public School Quest: Convincing Autistic Kids They\u2019re Trans"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fvirginia-teacher-reveals-the-lefts-next-public-school-quest-convincing-autistic-kids-theyre-trans%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=1705092&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--><p>During a county school board meeting in Arlington, Virginia, on Oct. 13, Carly Hughes, a teacher in Long Branch Elementary School\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/longbranch.apsva.us\/grade-levels\/mipa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Multi-Intervention Program for Students with Autism (MIPA)<\/a>,\u00a0spoke against Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin\u2019s proposed public school\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doe.virginia.gov\/support\/gender-diversity\/2022-model-policies-on-the-privacy-dignity-and-respect-for-all-students-town-hall.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">policies<\/a>\u00a0for transgender-identifying students. Her reason? She believes her autistic students \u201cmay experience gender queerness more than other students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did my master\u2019s study in queer inclusion in public schools,\u201d Hughes told the school board. \u201cMy study told me that including trans students in all spaces is best practice. It also told me there are trans kids of every age \u2014 one I actually worked with in my student teaching. He was in the third grade.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Youngkin\u2019s model policies specify that taxpayer-funded public schools cannot facilitate a child\u2019s so-called \u201ctransition\u201d without written consent from a parent. Additionally, the guidance prescribes that bathroom and locker room access and sports participation should be based strictly on a student\u2019s sex. These policies are a reversal of previous\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/equalityvirginia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Transgender-Student-Model-Policies-March-2021-final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">guidance<\/a>\u00a0from former Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, which asked schools to hide a student\u2019s \u201cgender identity\u201d from his or her parents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hughes herself identifies as a \u201cqueer\u201d special education teacher. \u201cI found that autistic students, the population I work with, may experience gender queerness more than other students,\u201d she said. \u201cThese students \u2026 have helped me learn so much about myself as well.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018Queer\u2019 teacher at Long Branch Elementary in Arlington finds autistic students \u201cexperience gender queerness more than other students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re not gender queer, Carly, and they\u2019re not trans.<\/p>\n<p>Parents, this teacher might be nice as pie, but she\u2019s a danger to your kids. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dZxxda2UhA\">pic.twitter.com\/dZxxda2UhA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Billboard Chris \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@BillboardChris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillboardChris\/status\/1582219906522951680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2022<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>The Arlington County School Board <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apsva.us\/post\/aps-statement-in-response-to-proposed-virginia-policies-affecting-transgender-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">responded<\/a> to Youngkin\u2019s model policies with a pledge to \u201csupport the rights of our transgender, non-binary, and gender fluid students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hughes isn\u2019t the only public school teacher who thinks it\u2019s best to confuse autistic students by glorifying the transgender craze. Back in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/autistic-children-pushed-to-become-transgender\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2018<\/a>, a whistleblowing teacher in the U.K. alleged that autistic students at her school were being persuaded they were trans. At one point, 17 students were in the \u201ctransition\u201d process, according to a Daily Mail\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220319160229\/https:\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6401593\/Whistleblower-teacher-makes-shocking-claim-autistic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The teacher said few of the 17 \u201ctrans\u201d students were actually suffering from gender dysphoria. Rather they were \u201ctricked\u201d into believing they were the wrong sex as a way of coping with problems associated with their autism. Even older students at her school who had transitioned \u201cgroomed\u201d younger autistic students to do the same.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The report followed another exclusive by the Daily Mail that year, which revealed that a third of the children referred to the U.K.\u2019s National Health Service showed \u201cmoderate to severe autistic traits.\u201d As such, 150 autistic teenagers were given puberty-blocker drugs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The same phenomenon appears to be happening in America. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/transgender-identifying-adolescents-threats-to-parental-rights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Syed<\/a>, a \u201cstraight-A\u201d autistic student in Seattle, was checked into a hospital after dealing with severe mental health issues. Hospital staff told Syed\u2019s parents that their son\u2019s distress was due to the fact that he was really a girl, and said he should begin the medical transition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Virginia elementary school teacher believes her autistic students &#8216;may experience gender queerness more than other students.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1130,"featured_media":1705095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705092","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\/1130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1705095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}