Despite significant negative exposure by conservative media outlets, authors, activists, and parents' groups, efforts by the progressive left to force-feed dangerous and destructive transgender propaganda to schoolchildren continue unabated. According to The Epoch Times, a phenomenon known as "secret transgender transition closets," which originated at the college level, is surfacing in public high schools and middle schools.

The Western Journal's Elizabeth Stauffer observed with sarcasm on April 24: "Activist teachers understand how painful it can be for students whose parents won't allow them to dress as the gender they identify as. And they've come up with a solution — 'secret gender transition closets.'"

Stauffer explains how the closets work. "Unbeknownst to their unenlightened parents, a student can arrive at school, enter a transition closet, which is equipped with a wide variety of gender-appropriate clothing and accessories, and walk out dressed any way he or she wishes. Obviously, before they return home to their parents, the student goes back into the closet to change into his or her original clothes. And no one is the wiser."

While this notion is disturbing at the college level, it becomes even more outrageous when pitched to middle and high school students. Stauffer reports that, surprisingly, the concept was initially launched by the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and was designed "to let trans-identified youth circumvent their parents and socially transition without their knowledge."

The concept spread and was "announced with glee" by Fremont Public High School in Oakland, California in February of this year. An article posted on thepostmillennial.com reported that the school launched its "'transition closet' to help students hide gender dysphoria from parents."

Thomas Martin-Edwards, a Fremont Spanish teacher and founder of the Queer Teacher Fellowship, explained that he uses "the idea that this is like Superman changing in a phone booth. But that idea actually goes a lot further ... Because Superman isn't Clark Kent. Clark Kent is actually the disguise. And when Clark Kent goes into the phone booth, he transforms into Superman, who is really just who he truly is, Kal-El. So this gives our trans students the opportunity to be the superheroes that we know they are."

The PostMillennial article said the Oakland district was looking to expand Transition Closets to other schools and was busy soliciting clothing donations. In addition to providing a secret space to change their clothes, the closets also offer videos to students on "how to use specific pronouns," "how to put on a chest binder," "how to look more stereotypically masculine," and more.

The Western Journal's Stauffer also stated: "PJ Media's Megan Fox wrote about a new transition closet at a Denver, Colorado, middle school in March." A now-deleted post on the school's Facebook page read: "Our school, DSST Conservatory Green Middle School, is creating a closet for our trans students to be able to access clothing reflecting their gender identity."

The Libs of TikTok tweeted about Green Middle School's effort to "TRANSGENDER TWELVE YEAR OLDS pic.twitter.com/vRUVQA76wR." One Twitter user responded that the Denver Public School District "is now hiding and restricting comments. They don't want to answer as to why they are assisting in transing the kids." Another user commented: "There were zero trans kids when I was in school. Now they seem to be everywhere."

Is there any real question as to why this might be so?

Stauffer added that Fox "tried to obtain information from Green Middle School via the Freedom of Information Act. She was told it would cost her $1,650 because they estimated it would take 55 hours at $30 per hour to fulfill her request." Fox asked if the school "had notified parents that a transition closet was being set up and for any emails about its planning" and decried the "absurd amount of money" they tried to charge as being "calculated to keep parents from being able to discover what this publicly funded school is doing with the children in their care."

'Sinister motive' behind the transgender movement

Journalist, educator, and author Alex Newman rightly contends that the sex and gender curriculum uncovered by many parents during the COVID-19 lockdowns "is intentionally being used to indoctrinate young children and has gotten progressively more radical with time."

Newman spoke with NTD Evening News in May, noting: "With each generation that passes, the content has become more and more graphic. The content has become more and more radical, the values being promoted have been more and more explicitly anti-traditional, anti-Christian, anti-family values, and I think there really is a very sinister motive here."

He voiced what many conservatives have long recognized, that "the main goal of such a curriculum is to undermine the nuclear family. And one of the ways that that happens is by undermining traditional morality and values associated with sex...."

The NTD news report described how since the early 20th century, Marxist influence has advocated for increasingly graphic and deviant sex education of children. For example, "Georg Lukacs, a Hungarian Marxist who served as deputy commissar of education in 1919 during the Hungarian Soviet Republic, introduced sex education to children at the elementary level."

Newman explained: "This was back during the Bela Kun regime — the communist Bolshevik regime that took root in Hungary for a short time under the leadership of cultural and education commissar Georg Lukacs. What he wanted to do — and he was very explicit about this — was use a sort of psychological terrorism in the form of graphic sex education to try to break down the moral values of Hungarian children.

"They couldn't start right away in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s teaching children to go have multiple sexual partners, teaching children that they might have been born in the wrong body and that if they mutilate their genitals they can be a new gender, or that they should go out and experiment with homosexuality, it just would have been absolutely forbidden."

But as Newman and others explain, the goal of the left has consistently been to replace the nuclear family with government, and this has been accomplished since the 1960s with the feminist movement and the civil rights movement. Both these movements quickly abandoned the notion of equal opportunity for all and instead became a crusade to foster dependence on the state. As Newman summarized it, the state has become "the primary influence in the child's life; in terms of passing on values, in terms of passing on morals, in terms of passing on culture."

The bad news for the left is that parents have awakened and many states are passing laws to protect kids from these radical curricula. Most famous of these is Florida's Parental Rights in Education law, but many similar measures have either been enacted or are moving through the legislative process in other states. Surveys consistently show that a majority of citizens support these efforts.

An example of the human toll

On May 2nd, Candace Owens published a powerful narrative on The Daily Wire.com that, in her direct and movingly honest manner, demonstrates the tragic reality of gender transitioning.

She points out the fallacy of so-called "gender-affirming care" as an example of the lies and manipulation undertaken by transgender proponents. "It's a term used by trans-activists and media talking heads when discussing, as journalist Abigail Shrier put it, 'puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and experimental surgeries whose benefits are unproven. In other words," she writes, "it's a euphemism only meant to soften the blow of what transitioning and radical gender ideology looks like.

"It makes transitioning sound like a cakewalk which, in turn, makes the issue sound like it's impossible to argue against."

Owens then shared the heartbreaking story of a young man who transitioned to a "woman," as described by his mother on the social media platform Reddit. "The mother's son, who received puberty blockers from an early age and underwent gender reassignment surgery, is now 20 years old, identifies as a girl, and is unhappy. And not just unhappy — he is suicidal, and the mother doesn't know what to do." At her wits' end, she is asking strangers on Reddit to help her.

Owens acknowledged that the mother's son probably had innocent childish fantasies, such as believing in Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny. She then stated the obvious, that other fantasies can be harmful, such as a child believing he's Superman, also harmless until he decides to jump out a window believing a cape will help him fly. The parent then has to step in and save the child from serious injury or death.

"The child might not understand why his parents would pull him away from the window," Owens wrote... "But the parents know the truth. And they know it's their responsibility to keep their child healthy and alive—to show him the difference between right and wrong, reality and illusion.

"Now, imagine that a boy, like the one above, came to his mother and said, 'I want to be a girl, mommy.' And rather than explaining to him why that is ultimately a biological impossibility—no more possible than flying like a bird—the mother, in her ignorance, went along with the fantasy.

"She allowed her child to jump from the figurative bedroom window, and now, her child has grown into adulthood and is crashing into reality all at once. He's already harmed himself and he's thinking about taking it a step further — suicide is on his mind.

"Because, as the doctors have told the mother and her son, there is no way to undo what's been done. Reality has caught up with fiction. Truth has caught up with lies. His depression stems from the fact that he will never be a woman. Sure—they can use parts of his colon to give him something that resembles a vagina, but he will never be a woman — and he knows that.

"His suicidal thoughts also stem from the realization that he'll never have the opportunity to be a man now because his mother allowed his sexual parts to be mutilated. He'll never truly know physical desire — because an irrevocable decision was made for him in his childhood.

"Yes — alongside a host of predatory doctors and therapists who should all be imprisoned, this mother agreed to the physical mutilation of her son. The heart aches for the son because he is a true victim; a child victim; a young man whose life was stolen from him.

"To the mom who reached out on Reddit for help — the truth is, you mutilated your once-healthy son over a feeling and a fantasy that he had. Ultimately — and this is hard to accept — you bear responsibility for that mutilation because you prioritized acquiescing to an insane cultural narrative rather than first-grade-level, immutable, biological facts."

As many victims have painfully discovered in recent years, despite its cultural popularity, transitioning is not a solution for gender dysphoria.

Owens recommends the nonprofit organization "Sex Change Regret," which is operated by a group of former trans individuals who help those who regret and further suffer from their gender reassignment procedures. Although there is no way back from such procedures, Owens affirms that "there is, fortunately, a way forward. And that way forward begins by no longer suppressing the truth."

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