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Lawmaker urges colleagues to back bill that would strip federal funds from districts that conceal student gender transitions
Summary
A lawmaker urged passage of the "Stopping Indoctrination of Protecting Kids Act," saying schools should not conceal student gender transitions from parents and that districts that do so should lose federal funding; the speech cited Defending Education figures and invoked parental-rights arguments.
A lawmaker urged colleagues to support the "Stopping Indoctrination of Protecting Kids Act," saying schools that conceal a student's gender transition from parents should lose federal funding.
The lawmaker opened the remarks with a direct assertion: "There are only two sexes, male and female," and said sex is a "biological fact, not an ideological whim." He framed the issue as a matter of parental authority, arguing that "parents, not school administrators, should have the ultimate right to make decisions about their child's upbringing."
The speaker alleged that some districts are "actively pushing radical gender ideology on children" and claimed some adults are "secretly transitioning a child, and then actively working to conceal it from the parents." He added, "If a child is struggling with gender dysphoria, parents should be the first to know, not the last."
The remarks cited a figure attributed to Defending Education: the lawmaker said "at least 21,000 schools and 1,200 districts covering over 12 million students have policies that prevent faculty and staff from disclosing a student's gender identity to his own parents...without the student's permission." The lawmaker used a classroom permission-slip analogy, saying, "If a child needs a permission slip signed to go to a field trip, a school should never think they have the right to social transition that same child without informing his or her parents."
On policy, the speaker described the bill as "straightforward," saying any district that "promotes these ideologies in the classroom and conceals a child's gender transition from parents will lose federal funding." He thanked "Chairman Walberg for the work he's been doing to bring this bill to the floor" and urged colleagues to vote yes.
The transcript does not record a formal motion, a vote tally, or any recorded response from other members during this excerpt. The remarks combine assertions of fact, citations to an outside group's statistics, and a call for a legislative penalty; no rebuttal or alternative evidence is documented in the provided segments.
Next procedural steps were not specified in the excerpt; the lawmaker concluded by urging colleagues to vote "ye."
