The first good-news story emerges fast on the heels of the bad-news story I wrote on Tuesday about the confidential “LGBTQ+” propaganda club—er, I mean “affinity group”—for 10 and 11 year olds, scheduled to start next week at Lincolnwood Elementary in Evanston, Illinois.
The group’s leader was third-grade leftist activist Moira Gitau who uses the grammatically incorrect pronouns “they/them” while on her taxpayer-funded job. Clearly, she is both intellectually and morally unfit to teach any child anything, but she intended to help young, ideologically malleable children who are “questioning their gender or sexuality” sort things out while playing games. Parents learned about the inappropriate group from a letter sent on Jan. 6, giving them six days to opt their children out.
Worse yet, any children who chose to attend this group were going to be sworn to secrecy. And if parents didn’t opt their children out by Jan. 12 and later their children chose to attend, no parents would be notified.
Here’s the good news: Within hours of this arrogation of public resources for leftwing ideological ends spreading via social media, the school sent out another letter saying in part,
The announcement about the [LGBTQ+ affinity group for fifth grade students] … contained some erroneous information which raised questions and concerns from beyond this community. Thus, in the spirit of transparency, I would like to provide an update to all of our Lincolnwood families.
The announcement of the formation of the group and process for joining was sent by our 5th grade team with 100% positive intentions rooted in a commitment to supporting all students. However, this communication was sent before we were able to ensure that the proposed group fully aligns with our school and district vision and guidelines for student groups and activities.
Community members should ask who exactly sent out the announcement prematurely. Did Principal Laura Pinsof see the announcement before it was sent out?
Pinsof is a lefty as well. I know that because her school bio says she is (don’t laugh) “experienced in translating equity goals into concrete steps toward meaningful action to upend inequitable systems, practices, and outcomes.” No wonder she earned over $152K in 2023, with all that translating, step-taking, meaningful acting, and upending.
In addition, Pinsof admits to having served as a leader in the DEI propaganda organization called Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity (SEED) founded by Peggy McIntosh who socially constructed the infamous paper “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.” Pinsof also boasts of having been an “anti-bias parent educator.”
But it’s not entirely good news because Pinsof hasn’t abandoned the sexuality club for young children. Rather, she said the school will be offering it as soon as they have “a chance to revisit plans.”
The second good news story comes not from Illinois, a state vying with California for the worst-run state in the country, but from Florida, a state vying for the honor of best-run state. And this story is sure to warm the schadenfreudish cockles of your heart.
Attention-seeking transvestite James Rose, a bad-content creator, crowed in a TikTok video that he had circumvented a Florida law in order to obtain a fraudulent driver’s license. The affectedly effeminate Rose’s goal was to obtain a license that falsely identified him as female, which he’s not and never can be.
In the since-deleted video, Rose is seen in his car, thrashing about in jubilation, screaming, “I just got my gender changed on my driver’s license in the free fucking state of Florida. My God, Ron DeSantis would be screaming right now if he knew about this!
Actually, grown men—mature men—don’t scream in the face of wrongdoing. They act.
Girly-man Rose continued his embarrassing diatribe, grimacing and mugging as he explained to other scofflaw-wannabes how to break a Florida law:
This was the last step in changing all of my documents. It was not easy. You’re not even supposed to be able to do this in this state. … Listen up. If you’re replacing your driver’s license—not renewing it—but replacing it because you “lost it” [nudge, nudge, wink, wink], you have to take all of your information from what they consider a primary document. A passport is considered a primary document, and [in a singsong girly voice] you can self-identify on your passport, which means—LOOPHOLE—you can self-identify on your Florida fuckin’ driver’s license. … and, Ron DeSantis, you can suck my trans dick.”
This guy’s an uber-creep, and sometimes uber-creeps get their just desserts.
On Jan 6—seventeen days after Rose broke the Florida law—he received a letter from the Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles Department informing him that the fraudulent driver’s license Rose about which Rose had been publicly boasting was “invalid and cancelled”:
Please be advised that the sex identifier on the replacement Florida driver’s license issued to you on December 20, 2024, was improperly changed from male to female. … A valid replacement license with the proper sex identifier of male is provided herein.
… the Department may issue a replacement driver’s license only when a license is lost or stolen, or when there is a subsequent change in licensee’s name, address, or restrictions. … Moreover, the term “sex” in Florida Statutes, does not refer to a person’s internal sense of his or her gender role or identity but is determined by innate and immutable biological and genetic characteristics.
Oh, but the no-nonsense Executive Director of the FLHSMV, who is an attorney and former police officer, Dave Kerner, wasn’t done:
Thank you for bringing this error to the Department’s attention. Your public comments will help ensure compliance with Florida law. … the department will conduct an audit to determine whether similar errors have been made previously. …
Finally, your public comments suggest that … you many also have knowingly made a false statement about whether you truly lost your original license. … it is unlawful for any person “knowingly to make a false statement, knowingly conceal a material fact, or otherwise commit a fraud” in any application for a driver’s license.
Ouch. That must have stung Mr. Rose’s panty-accoutered behind. Maybe, just maybe this comeuppance will make James Rose, who will be thirty years old this summer, grow up or at least stop sashaying around the U.S. Capitol invading women’s restrooms with his juvenile friends—an event recorded in a post his friend titled “C*nty Civil Disobedience.”
This is one of the many reasons residents of blue states like Illinois are fleeing to Florida.
While conservatives tend to ignore the words and actions of creeps like Rose, dismissing them as fringe and isolated, DeSantis did what we should be doing. We should be making an example of ne’er-do-wells. Hold them accountable.
When possible, name them publicly. Name teachers and professors. Name department chairs. Name principals, superintendents, and school board members. Make it costly for them to teach inappropriate material to minor children; use public resources to promulgate leftist assumptions; and or violate laws. The destruction of culture has not happened through seismic singular events but rather through the slow accretion of small offenses against truth that we ignore or dismiss.
Conservatives have a window of opportunity right now to move the Overton Window back in the direction of truth. So, they better dig those dusty spines, creaky from disuse, out of storage and use them. Fight the sexuality propaganda spewed by public school teachers. Fight the usurpation of public resources for the pernicious efforts to normalize homosexuality and transvestism. Fight like these issues matter, because they do. We cannot restore and maintain a public square conducive to human flourishing when the befouled fingers of Big Brother are smearing education, policy, and laws with excrement.