Activists are pushing back against critical race theory and transgender ideology in schools.

 

A school board meeting in Loundoun County. Fox News.

As you may be aware there has been a movement to challenge what school boards are teaching in the United States. The latest of these incidents took place in Loundoun County in Virginia. In that case the school board decided to shut down public comment on trans issues. The majority of parents were opposed to the teaching of critical race theory and transgender issues. 

Both of these issues have grassroots opposition and I think this is a good way for anyone opposed to the far left progressives that have taken over public education. I was going to say just Republicans, but that's not even true, there are a lot of radical feminists that are opposed to transgender issues as well. Though they make for strange allies, I did not want to say that everyone that is opposed to these issues are conservatives. 

In this case it was about transgender ideology. Though I believe that adult transgender people should be treated with dignity, I think a lot of people agree that exposing children to this is undesirable at best and child abuse at worst. It does not make any sense to have this in elementary schools at the very least. 

I am not surprised about transgender ideology having a major pushback against it. In general, the transgender community has made a lot of enemies, not just Christian conservatives. Like I mentioned many radical feminists are upset with them due to the fact that the male to female transgender community tends to take over woman only spaces. Indeed, lesbian dating apps are so full of MTF transgenders that actual lesbians can't find each other. 

It's also a bridge to far for many to push this ideology on children. A transgender elementary school child is a lot like a vegetarian cat. We all know who is making the actual choices. Even if they are transgender, it doesn't make sense to push things like hormones and surgery on small children since those things are irreversible and a lot of transgender children stop being transgender as they get older. 

The other major area of pushback is against critical race theory. CRT basically says that instead of judging people by their character we should judge them by their race. It also states that America is a hopelessly racist country and that in order to address this racism we have to tear down the entire system. 

This is radically different than the race relations of old. Instead of judging people by their personality and actions there is a hierarchy based on how "oppressed" someone is. It's basically original sin but your sin is what color your skin is. 

The reason for pushback against this is obvious. No reasonable white person wants to raise their kids to hate themselves. No reasonable black person wants all of their accomplishments and failures to be based on their race. And I am guessing people of other races are going to be angry about how they are second fiddle to everyone else. 

But regardless of the arguments against CRT and Transgender ideology, is this the right idea for people opposed to these things? I think it is. The left has been doing things like this for decades now and it has been successful. It's good to see other groups pushing back. Putting pressure on these people is always a good thing for people to understand that not everyone is on the same page as them