California School District Teaches Sex Confusion to Students and Hides it from Parents

In these videos, seven concerned parents and a former student step up to the microphone to express their concerns about gender ideology at Davis Joint Unified School District in California. In the past couple weeks, I have viewed similar parent/school-board videos from about five other public school districts. My prediction is that in 2023 we will be seeing dozens of lawsuits filed by parents against schools based on gender ideology.

I have first-hand knowledge of two concerned parents indicating that their kids' schools tell students that they might have been born in the wrong body, and where teachers and counselors hide from parents that children are being called a new name at school unbeknownst to parents and hidden from the official school records. I don't know how often this kind of thing is going on, but it is happening in more than a few districts. I share the parents' outrage that a school would engage in this behavior and/or hide this type of information from parents. Note that the first speaker at this link, Erin Friday, identifies herself as a democrat and a licensed attorney. There are enormous numbers of people who consider themselves liberal (I am one of them) who are aghast at what some of these schools are doing to students and parents.

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Colin Wright: Sex is Binary

I've often referred to the work of Biologist Colin Wright. In this 5 minute video, Colin explains why biological sex is real, immutable, and binary.  To his explanation, I would add this: There is no third sex that has a third type of gamete.  To the extent that anyone claims there is a third sex that has a third type of gamete, please explain how that third type of gamete leads to the creation of offspring.

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The Affect of Overall Wealth and Egalitarianism on Sex Based Differences

Where would you expect to find sex based differences in career choice most diminished? If you guessed in countries with more wealth and egalitarian culture, you would be wrong. David Geary discusses and interprets the data in his article, "The Nurture of Evolved Sex Differences: Why favorable conditions produce larger sex differences." In wealthy countries like Norway, increased numbers of women pour into fields that are "people oriented" rather than "thing oriented." Consider, first, this data:

As reviewed by Schmitt and colleagues [33], sex differences in many aspects of personality, self-esteem, and cognitive and psychological functioning are larger in WEIRD, gender equal countries. For instance, women are generally more cooperative and agreeable than men and men are more Machiavellian than women, on average. These differences are larger in more egalitarian countries. One potential reason is that religious prohibitions and proscriptions increase social cooperation and decrease self-serving behaviors in men and this in turn reduces the sex differences in these areas. The release of these prohibitions enables fuller expression of underlying differences; in this case, a decrease in men’s agreeableness and an increase in their use of Machiavellian social strategies [34].

Occupational segregation also increases in WEIRD, gender equal countries, presumably due to underlying differences in preferences for working with and helping people as contrasted with working with things [35]. Girls’ and women’s greater interest in other people and relationships follows from their greater investment in children and their need to develop BFF (best friends forever) relationships that serve as a source of social and emotional support. Boys’ and men’s greater interest in things likely follows from an evolutionary history of tool making, most of which is done by men.

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The Dangers of Living in an Impoverished Ever-Malleable Present

My dog lives in the eternal present. It's OK for dogs to do so, but not OK for people. People need a sense of history to avoid the mistakes of the past.  People need a foundation of hard-earned knowledge on which to make sense of the future or else they will not ever accomplish great things.  Without a solid foundation of knowledge based on history, people will live like dogs.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

George Orwell - 1984

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