Lawyer’s view worth opposing
You didn’t vote for Danielle Weatherby. You might not even know her. But she is the unelected, unaccountable New York lawyer who co-wrote Ordinance 5781 for Fayetteville, pretty much the same Chapter 119 Fayetteville voters already repealed. Sure, they exempted a few things, but it doesn’t exclude local public schools, and still forces private secular schools to allow males to use your daughters’ bathrooms, locker rooms and dressing rooms. It still forces businesses to violate their conscience in speech, events or systems against their will. It still violates individual liberties, disregards SB202, and effectively nullifies the First Amendment. It also bankrupts people with cumulative city charges after the first violation (with jail time for refusing to pay). But that isn’t all! As if losing freedom isn’t bad enough, it can get even worse for the kids.
In her legal paper “From Jack to Jill: Gender Expression as Protected Speech in the Modern Schoolhouse,” Jack is the center for sympathy in the story. It would seem Weatherby champions children as young as 5 years old being able to dictate to their parents what “gender” they are. Five years old. A child! Naturally, the activist parents encourage the child’s delusions rather than correcting them.
The paper unfolds the legal vision of the future for your children, as Weatherby questions the exclusivity of future genetic male vs. female separation using emotionally charged novel language, citing “Queering Our Vocabulary” as her professional scholarly source. She remarks that these things are currently “determined exclusively by a student’s biological sex” which was “assigned” as a sex “designation at birth.” Consider that changing that future exclusivity means boys showering, changing and taking your daughters starting spot, with no judgment. By force of law.
She asks how schools, in loco parentis (in place of parents) are to “intervene when children in their care” explore the transsexual pressure created by this environment. The other kids must learn the Newspeak as well, as once the “students incorporate trans-affirmative language into their everyday vernacular, they will begin to think, and eventually act, with sensitivity and awareness” as the teachers are forced to be “modeling and adopting a trans-affirmative vocabulary.” Referring to genetic gender could just be a Thoughtcrime soon.
Still paying attention? This paper explains step by step how this will occur through fear of lawsuits and local sexual orientation/gender identity ordinances. Ordinance 5781 is the means to this end. They need this ordinance in order to insist that “schools must adopt sound policies protecting transgender students … consistent with state and local law.” This is the dark path ahead, where sexually charged experimentation and mental dysphoria are made into “civil rights,” then imposed upon your children.
You might not have been aware of an un-elected New York lawyer imposing her moral vision of a brave new world upon you before, but at least now, you can vote against her on Sept. 8. Learn the truth at ProtectFayetteville.com, share it, register your friends and neighbors, and bring them to vote against 5781.
MICHAEL W. COLLINS
Fayetteville
Know the issues, then vote
Amen to G.W. Weeks' letter “Too much Fox News?” (Letters, Aug. 18)
Not really. The sad thing is these people are voting and are encouraging their friends to vote like they are — uninformed.
Please have the correct information before casting your ballot. There is nothing worse than voting for someone and then complaining because they are doing just what they said they would do.
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PAMELA BARNUM
Holiday Island