What a parent needs to know
America has watched with astonishment at the meteoric pace of all-women’s safe spaces, universities, and sports opened their doors to any man who chooses to identify as a woman. Most Americans are also astonished that this has happened without a thoughtful and deliberate public debate or carefully consideration of a safety plan to protect women and girls in what was their own private and safe space.
These rapid changes are happening at the same time new laws proliferated mandating ignoring biological sex with gender identity and speech laws regarding the use of pronouns and a near tyrannical assault on those who would not use them including against five-year olds. People who speak openly about these changes can find themselves, their families, and their livelihoods and lives threatened-as have the Kolstads. The Kolstads are going through a personal nightmare complicated by shifting cultural norms, a lot of which have come down the pipeline through legislation, as well as, bureaucratic educational systems, and also through lobbying efforts of deep pocket groups such as the Ford Foundation which is making sweeping commitments to support LGBTQ+ communities by doubling donations for trans organizations.
