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This Edition: October 2026
Child Sexualization, Gender Transitioning Continue in Schools
If parents think the radical sex education activists, including pushers of the transgender agenda, have relaxed their efforts to groom children, they should think again.
Despite the Trump Administration’s Executive Orders and enforcement of parental rights laws, many schools across the country have continued to secretly transition students and successfully hide their activities from parents. In July, the U.S. Dept. of Education’s Student Privacy Policy Office (SPPO) partnered with the U.S. Justice Department to take “enforcement action” against two school districts in violation of FERPA, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act: Maryland’s Anne Arundel County Public Schools and Michigan’s Ann Arbor Public Schools.
MoreA Bit of Good Education News
In a positive development, younger teens are less likely to identify as “lesbian, gay, or bisexual in 2026 than they were just a few years ago,” according to new Centers for Disease Control (CDC) data reported by major media, including The Washington Post.
In summarizing the CDC’s 2025 data on the Substack Generation Tech blog, San Diego State University Professor of Psychology, Jean Twenge, explored the question of whether identifying as “lesbian, gay, or bisexual is ‘in free fall’ among young people in the last few years.” She writes that, among 18-24-year-olds, the percentages remain fairly stable, but that declining trends among younger teens up to those about to enter college, are “striking.”
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Briefs
- The Gateway Pundit reported on new research that shows children who were given the COVID-19 shots “have experienced significantly higher rates of various health conditions, including increases in autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), neurodevelopmental disorders, special education needs, asthma, anxiety, and more.”
- After a mediocre finish at the first Camas, Washington High School track meet on the boys’ junior varsity team, runner Logan Mihailoff switched genders and “won the girls’ varsity race at the Union/Camas meet, finishing ahead of all 45 other competitors.”
- The pro-parent organization, Defending Education, has released an important new report on public schools in all 50 states regarding the extent to which they implement and/or allow “DEI & Merit, Foreign Funding & Influence, Free Speech, Gender Ideology, and the policies of state Teachers’ Unions.” More
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