Several decades ago, a very prominent liberal in Illinois once told me that “there are facts and there are principles. I believe in principles. If the facts contradict the principles, then the facts must be ignored.” This seems to be the thinking of large swaths of our current population. Forget the facts. All that is important is what we believe.

For the left, gender ideology seems to be one of those beliefs that exists far beyond the facts. The basic principle is that everyone has a sex and a gender. Biology determines your sex. Gender identity is determined by something inside, something known only to the person.

Today, there are more than 200 colleges in the U.S. that promote this gender ideology by offering degrees in gender studies as a major or a minor, despite there being no evidence that such a thing as gender even exists. The entire structure of gender ideology is based on a theory spawned by the deranged mind of John Money, whose research has been discredited by his own disastrous experiments. His seminal experiment was a catastrophic failure. And that failure, that fact, has been ignored . . . because it must be since the failure contradicts the principle.

The idea of gender has become so entrenched in our culture it’s difficult to see a path to escape from it. Yet it was created out of thin air and has metastasized throughout all our institutions within the last half century. Even major Christian denominations have become corrupted by gender ideology.

We have become so desensitized to gender, it seems that most of us have become resigned to it and have lost any sense of the danger the ideology poses. Take the transgender issue.

Transgender clinics for children have sprung up, seemingly overnight, throughout the country. After all, children know best who and what they are. Performances by drag queens at libraries, schools, restaurants and other public venues have become commonplace. All in good fun.

The dark side of the issue is being ignored by most. Little attention is paid to the mental illnesses that underlie the transgender phenomenon, or to the genuine danger that many transgenders pose toward others because of their mental illnesses, their narcissism, their twisted thinking.

This dark side cannot be ignored for long.

Recently Kelsey Boren, 31, a former teacher’s aide in Oregon, was convicted of 11 counts of encouraging child sexual abuse. Boren is a man who claims he’s a woman. And he is a drag queen, whose stage name is Alwaiz Craving. What he’s always craving seems evident by what he was convicted for, and by the fact that he was mentoring an 11 year old boy to become a drag queen. Boren had arranged for the boy to perform at a local pub named after Satan. As far as I can tell the child’s parents have not been prosecuted. Shockingly, Boren received less than one year in county jail for his conviction on 11 felony charges.

If this case doesn’t reveal the dark side of transgenderism clearly enough for you, several years ago I investigated the case of a four-year-old boy living in New York who had suffered abuse and torture at the hands of a transgender woman (a man) so severe that the child died.

Because of my past profession, I am accustomed to seeing the worst humanity has to offer, including countless cases of severe abuse that have led to the death of a child.  Four decades ago, I investigated more than 200 such cases during the course of my first investigation into the child welfare system.  But I’ve never seen one quite like the torture murder of Myls Dobson.

Myls’ killer was the new “girlfriend” of the child’s father. Born Christopher King, “she” was known as Janaie Jones and reportedly used the stage name of Kryzie King.  “She” had a $3,200 per month apartment at the Ritz Plaza in Midtown Manhattan and was a “transgender performer.”

Jones/King supposedly had a juvenile record but nothing as an adult. During an interview by the police, Jones/King admitted to starving the boy for more than two weeks, beating him with the buckle end of a belt all over his body, burning him with cigarettes and making him stand outside in his underwear for more than an hour when the temperature was 9 degrees.  “She” eventually called paramedics when the boy became unresponsive and they found him unconscious in a bathtub with extensive burns and bruises all over his body, including his genitals.

This is evil in its most sadistic manifestation.  You don’t get there overnight.  You don’t go from crime free to this kind of behavior unless you’ve already traveled many miles down the path of depravity. Additionally, Jones/King is a man.  He is not a she, no matter how much the gender cult wants it to be so.  This is a sick, twisted, evil man.

He is also transgendered.  That does not mean that all transgendered men are sick, twisted murderers. But this guy is among the worst.

The American Psychological Association says:

Transgender is an umbrella term for persons whose gender identity, gender expression or behavior does not conform to that typically associated with the sex to which they were assigned at birth. Gender identity refers to a person’s internal sense of being male, female or something else; gender expression refers to the way a person communicates gender identity to others through behavior, clothing, hairstyles, voice or body characteristics.

Until recently, transgendered people were considered to have a mental disorder, specifically “gender identity disorder.”  But with the publication of the DSM-5, the term has been changed to “gender dysphoria” to de-emphasize that it is a “disorder.”

From the descriptions I’ve read about the injuries Myls suffered, I have to conclude that this is a case of child sexual sadism.  Not having access to all the investigation reports, I can’t be certain. But it sure looks like it. In any event, what Jones/King did to the boy proves that he was, indeed, disordered, to say the least.

I won’t go into all the other chaos of this little boy’s life, you can read a few of the articles here, here, here, and here.   The whole story of his short time on this earth is sad beyond comprehension and should be viewed as an indictment of the pathetic paper shuffling, buck passing system we’ve set up to make it seem we care about protecting children.

If we are ever going to get a clear picture of what’s going wrong (and right, for that matter), let’s first stop with all the woke lingo and start reporting the facts.  Maybe then, when we can see how “disordered” our world is becoming, we might be able to do something about it.

The torture murder of Myls Dobson by a transgendered child sexual sadist is outrageous.  But it is also outrageous to downplay the contribution played by the murderer’s lifestyle and HIS self-styled sexual orientation.

Christopher King and Kelsey Boren are not representative of the transgender community as a whole. But there are many like them within that community and there are many more who pose a less aggressive threat. More importantly, these cases are cautionary tales. They are a reminder that transgenderism involves a deranged view of reality that presents an imminent danger to children. That fact cannot be ignored if you care about protecting children.

Schools throughout Illinois have implemented rules that require students to be allowed to use the restrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender identity, but it is not clear exactly how many schools. So a trans boy, who is really a girl, is allowed to use the boys’ restroom and locker room. While a trans girl, who is really a boy, is allowed to use the girls’ facilities. The requirement is based on a guidance document from the Illinois State Board of Education.

The guidance document claims that the Illinois Human Rights Act requires schools to allow trans students to use the facilities based on their claimed identity.  The document points out the law specifically states “transgender, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming students have the right to use a school’s physical facilities consistent with their gender identity.” The general public is largely unaware of this legislation.

There are a couple of problems with this law, not the least of which is that there is no such thing as gender identity. That term is based on a fraudulent theory proposed in the 50’s by John Money. He theorized that our gender identity could be different than our biological sex, that it was independent and fluid. It remained a theory until he was given the opportunity to test it out on the Reimer twins. One twin, Bruce, had his penis catastrophically damaged by a horribly botched circumcision as an infant. His entire penis was burned off due to medical incompetence. The parents refused the procedure for the other twin.

Sometime later, the parents reached out to Dr. John Money, a psychologist from Johns Hopkins University, who had put forward the theory that any child born a boy could be raised as a girl, or vice versa. Nurture, not nature, determined a child’s gender identity, he claimed, and he convinced the parents that Bruce could have a normal life as a girl. Money enthusiastically took on the case and treated the boys for several years. He began writing articles about the case, underscoring how well the children were doing, pointing out that Bruce, being raised as a girl, had taken to her identity very well. The success of his experiment received international attention.

The real story was that the experiment was an utter failure. You can read about the case in a book by John Colapinto, “As Nature Made Him.” The bottom line is instead of proving gender identity was real, it proved the opposite. Money never acknowledged the failure and continued to pretend gender identity was real. One of the twins died of a drug overdose and Bruce committed suicide. I would say that was a failure, spectacularly so.

Despite this failure being made public in 2000, the psychological community ignored it. The idea that the theory of gender identity was real took on a life of its own and continued to gain adherents even with no evidence to support it and with two dead boys from the study that was used to confirm the theory. Who needs evidence, right?

Our Illinois State Board of Education and many of our local schools just roll over and conform to the fraud that is gender identity.

Some students at Waterloo High School in Waterloo, Illinois rebelled against this invasion of their privacy. Earlier this year, high school principal, Lori Costello, wife of Illinois Department of Agriculture Director, Jerry Costello II, allowed trans students to use the restroom of their choice.  According to Ryan Cunningham of the nonprofit organization, “Speak for Students,” several students at the school identify as trans, boys and girls. Students told him that one of the trans boys (a girl) regularly uses the boys restroom. She reportedly stands at the urinal and uses a funnel which she washes out in the common sink. At least one student claimed that was not true. Whether it is or not, many of the boys were uncomfortable using the restroom with girls being allowed free access to the facility.

The students were told if they felt uncomfortable, they should use the nurse’s restroom which is for one person at a time. On March 17^th approximately 150 students lined up to use it. The administration didn’t like that at all.

Brian Charron, the Superintendent of CUSD #5, issued instructions that any student in line who was late to class was to be marked tardy. If the protest continued, he directed that the students be disciplined. Reportedly, some students were. Cunningham said he helped several parents appeal and succeeded in having the discipline withdrawn. He is not sure what happened with the other students. However, to his knowledge the directive stands.

I sent a message to Charron asking the status, but so far have received no response.

The Biden Administration last summer proposed revisions to Title IX regulations which would redefine the meaning of the term “sex” to include gender identity. During the public comment stage over 240,000 comments were received. It is not known whether these comments will affect the final regulations. We will see in May, when the revised regulations are released publicly.

If the rules change the definition of sex to include gender identity, it is unlikely they will withstand a challenge which most certainly will be filed immediately. In West Virginia v. EPA the U.S. Supreme Court decided last summer that:

“Precedent teaches that there are ‘extraordinary cases’ in which the ‘history and the breadth of the authority that [the agency] has asserted,’ and the ‘economic and political significance’ of that assertion, provide a ‘reason to hesitate before concluding that Congress’ meant to confer such authority.”

In the case of redefining sex in Title IX to mean “gender identity,” Congress could not possibly have intended to give the Department of Education the power to redefine a foundational characteristic of all humanity since the dawn of time. This is exactly the same reasoning that the Illinois Human Rights Act is flawed.

Another case, in November last year, in Neese v. Becerra, a U.S. District court ruled that sex did not equal sexual orientation or gender identity. And in December, the 11^th Circuit Appellate Court ruled in Adams v. St. Johns County School Board that a school board policy requiring students to use the bathroom that corresponded to their biological sex did not violate Title IX.

Since the idea of “gender identity” emanated from the deranged mind of John Money, and has no science that supports the alleged identities, the most prudent course for all school boards would be to reject the guidance on this issue from the Illinois State Board of Education.

One stumbling block for school boards could be the lawyers they are selecting to advise them. It seems many lawyers are advising boards to cave to the guidance. Apparently, they are too timid to challenge the misguided Illinois Human Rights Act. That is a mistake. While it may save the boards money in the short term, in the long run these misguided rules are going to destroy the schools.

School boards, when choosing lawyers to advise them, would be better off if they followed J.P. Morgan’s philosophy. Reportedly, his position was: “I don’t hire a lawyer to tell me what I can’t do, I hire a lawyer to tell me how to do what I want to do.”

In this case school boards need lawyers who can tell them how to implement policies that align with common sense. Obviously, Waterloo High School does not have such a lawyer. It’s a quality that appears to be lacking in the school leadership and in the district administration as well.

Time to clean house.

Get your children & grandchildren OUT of government schools as soon as possible!