If you need evidence that Illinois lawmakers have plumbed the depth of idiocy and that public schools are no longer fit places for boys or girls, look no further than Deerpath Middle School in the North Shore’s tony suburb of Lake Forest where the boys’ bathrooms are now equipped with free feminine hygiene products. And folks, you paid for them.

What’s worse, leftist lawmakers concocted the bill that Governor J. B. Pritzker signed into law that requires every boys’ bathroom in every Illinois public school that serves grades 4 on up to provide free feminine hygiene products—at taxpayer expense. This insult to decency, science, common sense, and stewardship of public money is an expensive sop to the “trans” cult before whom the left grovels.

Because leftists have no fixed moral compass and, therefore, no timeless principles to which they remain tethered, feelings, nothing more than feelings are their polestar. But not everyone’s feelings matter. Only the feelings of those whose sexual identity and sexual drive are disordered, anarchical, and subversive matter.

And that’s why hardworking Illinoisans now pay to provide free tampons and sanitary pads in all boys’ bathrooms in all elementary, middle, and high schools in Illinois.

Boys who attend Deerpath Middle School, which serves children in fifth through eighth grade, recently reacted as anyone over the age of eight would expect them to respond to such idiocy. They “used” sanitary pads and tampons in the only way young boys can, sticking pads hither and thither, and performing science experiments on the absorption capacity of tampons.

Since many leftist re-educators/change agents heartily endorse student activism, they should be pleased with this student protest of adult inanity. Give those boys an A for activism, effort, creativity, and wisdom. Okay, fine, deduct a point for mischief: A-.

Putting feminine products in all boys’ bathrooms in Illinois public schools is not merely a colossal waste of money. The far greater problems are that such a venture depends on prior acceptance of “trans”-cultic assumptions, and that it promulgates those assumptions.

This bathroom practice depends on accepting the leftist understanding of “gender identity” as true and accepting that dissenting beliefs are false.

This bathroom practice depends on accepting the idea that a girl’s subjective belief that she is a boy trapped in a girl’s body should determine bathroom usage rather than her biological sex determining bathroom usage.

This practice depends on accepting the belief that feelings of modesty and the desire for privacy when engaged in private bodily functions has no inherent and necessary connection to sexed bodies.

Moreover, this revolutionary practice now teaches every child in Deerpath Middle School that the preceding “trans” cultic assumptions are true and endorsed by the school.

This practice teaches that biological sex has no meaning relative to privacy.

It teaches that to be just and compassionate, boys (and girls) must relinquish their privacy. They must be willing to share bathrooms with persons of the opposite sex.

Parents and other taxpayers should not be surprised at this partisan-driven waste of scarce tax dollars. IFI warned about this idiotic bill when it was proposed and when it passed, and IFI even provided a peek at the risible “floor debate” prior to the bill’s passage.

Why weren’t there massive protests in Springfield when this law was first proposed? Why weren’t there massive protests when a bill was proposed mandating that schools teach age-inappropriate “comprehensive sex ed” starting in kindergarten? Why weren’t there massive protests when lawmakers proposed the law mandating that schools promote ideas derived from “gender” theory starting in kindergarten?

Where are the courageous, principled school leaders willing to say, “No, we will not sexually integrate the private spaces of children and teens”? “We will not introduce socially constructed, leftist ‘gender’ theory to children and teens or implement policies based on such an arguable theory. We will not sexually integrate single-sex sports. We will not force our teachers to refer to students by pronouns that do not correspond to biological sex, and we will not force teachers to ask students for their pronouns. Rather, teachers will be required to use pronouns that correspond to biological reality.”

And where are the school boards that will stand behind such principled positions? If a district in as wealthy a community as Lake Forest will not stand for truth and be willing to risk the lawsuits that Lambda Legal and the ACLU will surely bring, then there are no limits to what our sanctimonious, presumptuous leftist activists in Springfield will do.

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A sure sign that leftist lawmakers in Springfield are obsessively driven by the desire to use government money and power to advance an absurd, science-denying ideology is House Bill 922  sponsored by State Representative Linda Chapa LaVia (D-Aurora) that, if passed, will require every public middle and high school in the state to make tampons and sanitary napkins available for free in every boys’ bathroom.

You read that right. Every middle and high school in the state will have to add feminine hygiene dispensers to every boys’ restroom for all the menstruating boys. #AnotherUnfundedMandate.

“What ho?!” you may be exclaiming if you’ve been sequestered in a cloistered world in which science still appertains. Surely—you think—teachers know that boys don’t menstruate!

Oh, you naïve, antiquated, science-loving peeps. We’ve left modernity and post-modernity behind. We’ve even left “truthiness” behind.

We’ve now entered the post-science, post-rationality, post-truth era where pseudoscience—aided and abetted by Big Brother and his ugly twin Big “Trans”—in the service of absolute autonomy, amorality, and pagan sexuality reign—and destroy.

To be clear, the “menstruating boys” are confused girls who masquerade as boys. Leftist lawmakers believe we the people and our taxes should be forced to subsidize their confusion and masquerades.

A less costly—in both dollars and sense—compromise with anti-science cultists would be to allow girls who pretend to be boys to get their feminine hygiene products from school nurses, but “trans”-cultists and their ideological allies demand that all society pretend along with “trans”-identifying persons. “Trans”-cultists seek to force everyone to pretend the empress is an emperor.

Leftist lawmakers believe that commitments to compassion and inclusivity require Illinois taxpayers to facilitate a body- and soul-destroying fiction that harms these children—a fiction that is supported by no actual hard science. There is no conclusive, research-based hard science proving that girls with healthy, normally functioning anatomy and physiology can be born in boys’ bodies or vice versa. There is no conclusive, research-based hard science proving that if a girl experiences a mismatch between her subjective feelings about her sex and her objective biological sex that the error resides in her body as opposed to her mind. There is no conclusive, research-based hard science proving that all cross-sex-identifying children as well as all other children are best-served by adults facilitating a fiction.

Parents of public school children must understand that pronoun mandates and restroom diktats like this bill are teaching all children that biological sex has no intrinsic meaning relative to anything, including to feelings of modesty and the desire for privacy when undressing or engaged in personal bodily activities.

These intrusive, coercive mandates are teaching all children that the desires of opposite-sex impersonators take precedence over the desires of non-delusional people in every context.

These mandates are teaching all children that in order to be loving, compassionate, and inclusive, they must share private spaces with opposite-sex peers.

And parents must understand that these “trans” policies and the ideology taught to their children to rationalize these policies are desensitizing their children to co-ed private spaces. In other words, increasing numbers of children and teens are becoming unnaturally comfortable sharing restrooms and locker rooms with peers of the opposite sex.

It is our cowardice and complacency that allow these incremental changes to move forward, thereby ensuring what should be a shocking sexual revolution. We’re moving to a cultural place where it will be illegal to publicly recognize sexual differentiation in word or deed.

When you next contact your lawmakers and school leaders, make sure to ask them this question: “What is a woman?” Get back to me with their answers.

Take ACTION: Click HERE to send a message to your state representative to ask him/her to vote down HB 922.

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