The following is from Maria Adams of Summerfield
Dear Editor,
My heart goes out to the families affected by the tragic shooting by a transgender person at Annunciation Catholic School. Gender dysphoria, a serious mental health condition, has led to harmful and deadly outcomes by prioritizing pseudoscience over proper medical care.
Public schools are increasingly promoting materials and practices that encourage affirming this condition, which fosters a dangerous environment rather than addressing the underlying mental health needs.
Guilford County Schools (GCS) is guilty of grooming children to believe a serious mental health illness, such as gender dysphoria, is nothing more than an identity problem that can be treated with a pronoun change and fun clothes.
Have you heard of Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID)? It’s a rare mental health condition where someone feels a strong need to remove or disable a healthy body part, like an arm or leg. Imagine if society treated this as normal and encouraged children to amputate their arms and legs in order to feel “affirmed.” That sounds extreme, doesn’t it?
“Gender affirming care” is as extreme as amputating a healthy limb to treat BIID. Gender dysphoria is a serious mental health condition where a person feels their gender identity doesn’t align with their biological sex. Instead of addressing it as a complex issue, Guilford County Schools provides materials that frame gender dysphoria as a simple or even fun shift in identity.
For example, GCS libraries offer books like You Be You: A Kid’s Guide to Gender, Sexuality, and Family. This book, aimed at children aged 7-11, explains concepts related to gender identity and sexual orientation.
Another book, What Are Your Words? A Book About Pronouns introduces young children to made-up pronouns like “ze” and “zir” for those who don’t identify as a boy or a girl.
GCS also carries “Born Ready” by Jodie Patterson, an activist and Chair of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation Board. According to its Amazon description, “this picture book shares the story of Patterson’s transgender son, focusing on identity and acceptance.” This spring, Summerfield Elementary attempted to use lesson plans from WelcomingSchools.org, an LGBTQ organization tied to the Human Rights Campaign, to discuss sexuality and transgenderism with young students.
These books are accessible to all students, regardless of age or reading level, with no restrictions.
Parents, if you’re worried about your children being exposed to these topics, stay proactive. Take the time to learn about your rights under North Carolina’s Parents’ Bill of Rights (SB 49) and the recently enacted law, HB 805. Learn how to opt your children out of materials you find inappropriate.
Maria Adams
Summerfield
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Evil endures.
It’s time to stop indulging delusions – and talk truth about transgenderism. If any other mental condition produced a pattern of murder, we would collectively discuss how to help those ailing. Gender dysphoria is often a symptom of a much larger mental health problem.
Democrats continue to talk about gun-banning nonsense and Red Flag laws that MN already has, a dishonest position that won’t solve the problem. That dog no longer hunts, but Democrats continue fueling violence and psychosis in Trans kids.
After the shootings in Minneapolis, many pro-crime Democratic politicians and the legacy media mocked God and prayer, a sign that they are working for the devil.
A CNN special from 2015 implied that either accept your child’s gender transition or they’ll die. Many parents feel coerced into pursuing the hormone blockers and surgeries that are banned in most Western countries.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara speculated that Westman had wanted to be famous, saying the shooting was “Incomprehensible.” Many would take exception to describing it as ‘incomprehensible’ in light of recent events; this was undeniably predictable.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey urged rallying and standing for the “trans community” after the shooting. CA Governor Newsom disputed the effectiveness of prayers.
The Daily Wire reported in 2023 that Governor Tim Walz was explicitly asked for more money by the Minnesota Catholic Conference for “school safety in nonpublic schools.” Still, Walz didn’t react to this request.
We don’t yet know the details of the ‘gender-affirming care’ Westman was receiving, or whether it involved brain-altering hormones. However, we do know he was experiencing regrets. In a YouTube video, Westman shared a journal entry: “I am tired of being trans, I wish I had never brainwashed myself.” This raises serious questions about the safety and efficacy of such treatments.
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Gov. Stein said that too many of our kids are being killed by gun violence. “Gun violence”..?? It wasn’t a gun that murdered two little children and maimed other innocents. It was a deranged nutcase who was some kind of MGBGT deviant. He had scrawled “Kill Donald Trump” on one of his guns. His diaries appear to portray him communicating with demonic entities, as he perceived them. He deliberately chose to target Christian children.
The tool he used is irrelevant.
Democrats are attempting to deflect from the fact that an insane Leftist committed this atrocity, and suggesting that those who believe in The Second Amendment are somehow responsible. It’s a despicable and offensive suggestion.
If people voluntarily choose to be on one side of the other of the reproductive motivation, that is their business, not mine. I really don’t care either way. I suppose that is the Libertarian point of view.
All these political issues belong to the individuals and the parents, not to the State. The State needs to get out our lives. Stop asking for money, favors, or dispensations from the State. You can elect the right politicians to this task if you want.
Maybe the mental health issues of people struggling with gender identity comes from ignorant people who go out of their way the shame them, spread hate about them, and attempt to push them from view in society. THAT makes more sense as to why someone struggling with gender identity would be depressed AND angry.
But go ahead and blame the people who promote acceptance of people who are different than they are as Christ teaches us to do.
But you be you.
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In the Left’s Weltanschauung there is no personal responsibility. So, in their twisted interpretation, the murder of these innocent children is not the fault of the murderer, it is the fault of others. Without explicitly mentioning conservatives, Chris lays out his usual characterization of us. So in his pitiful little World, it’s our fault.
Perhaps you can see now why Leftism is a mental illness.
And without personal responsibility, Leftists are free to behave as sordidly, venally, and despicably as they like. That is a more accurate explanation for the actions of Robert / Robin Westman.
The political Left is evil, in varying degrees, but evil nonetheless.
No, the left beleives in accountability. But we dont look at life through a single lense that only evaluates the actions of a single person. We beleive it is important to evaluate the broader societal role of our mental health issues and our broader issues with violence in our society.
The author of this letter beleives that gender identity is a mental illness. I strongly disagree (as does everyone who actually studies these issues). I beleive the mental illness this person suffered from was likely due to society pressures that want to treat him as broken, wrong, and sick…..when he just wanted to be as God made him.
End of day, he is accountable for his actions. But we as society do need to learn to be more accepting of people we don’t understand why they are so different than us.
But you be you.
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If he’d wanted to be as God made him, he wouldn’t have tried to change his sex and his name.
And no, the Left does NOT believe in personal responsibility. Their wicked actions are always laid at the feet of “society”, or “racism”, or “Islamophobia”…. never the perpetrator.
There is no personal responsibility in the Alice in Wonderland World of the Left.
God made trans people as trans.
I wish you would hold yourself to being accountable to the misinformation and hate you promote here on the daily but I am very clear you don’t believe in accountability for yourself as you post your misinformation and hate about the LGBTQ community.
Yet another conservative projecting. Yawn.
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No, God created humanity in two forms: one has two X chromosomes (female), the other has an X chromosome and a Y chromosome (male). There are no other options.
No “misinformation” or “hate” here – just facts. Sorry you can’t handle them.
And give it a rest with my character assassination will you? Nobody’s buying it, and it just makes you look like a bitter, spiteful little man.
So, God didn’t create hermaphrodites? intersex people? and yes, God created transsexual people. THAT is fact.
Yet again Austin shows he only cares about people that are just like him and has not patience or tolerance for people that are different than his personal definition of acceptable people.
Typical modern conservative. Not shocked.
Gender-affirming hormones and Democratic rhetoric are fueling violence and psychosis in Trans youths. The pattern is undeniable.
We need to reopen insane asylums.
How many Trannys have attacked schools and churches in the last four years…7-9? But Dems say rednecks with AR-15s are the problem.
The only thing causing violence in our youth is narrow minded conservative who tell anyone is doesn’t fit their personal definition of socially acceptable that they are broken, bad for society, and should be hidden from view of others. THAT is what is driving the anger, depression and violence of our youth.
Not complicated.
@Chris, On target!
it’s not the guns, it’s that they are pointed in the wrong direction…..more law enforcement needed in our town and it’s rural areas…..
Trannys are killing people, and then you have “intellectually barren” people like Chris supporting their right to do so.
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Yes, and the worst thing is that not only is he “intellectually barren” but that he thinks he’s some kind of genius, here to dispense wisdom and enlightenment to us unwashed conservatives.
He’s a classic example of the Dunning-Kruger effect. And a classic asshole.
Nope. But I do supoort the fight to stop the ignorance such as yours that discriminate against them.
Killers should be locked up for life. That is not the question.
The question is what can society do to stop the pushing of people to such depths of despair that they take such violent actions against us. We are one of the most violent societies of the developed nations. Why do you think that is?