In a last minute, late night amendment, Nevada Senate Democrats amended Assembly Bill 423 to specifically prohibit elected school board officials from adopting certain policies for their respective districts. The timing of this amendment is an unlikely coincidence due to the controversy surrounding the Douglas County School District’s Board of Trustees’ attempt to protect girls sports and their private spaces.
The original language of AB 423 stated:
AN ACT relating to the boards of trustees of school districts; restricting the time of day during which the board of trustees of a school district may take action or corrective action at a regular or special meeting; authorizing, under certain circumstances, the board of trustees to restrict certain public comment at a regular or special meeting; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
The amended language now reads (changes emphasized):
AN ACT relating to the boards of trustees of school districts; prohibiting a board of trustees of a school district from adopting certain policies; restricting, with certain exceptions, the time of day during which the board of trustees of a school district may take action or corrective action at a regular or special meeting; providing an administrative penalty; authorizing, under certain circumstances,
the board of trustees to restrict certain public comment at a regular or special meeting; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Although the Democrats have abandoned their attempt to curtail free speech in this legislation, they are now prohibiting a school board from adopting CERTAIN policies which will effect both public and private schools. What policies are those, you may ask?
According to the bills newly-amended language:
A board of trustees shall not adopt a policy that limits the access of a pupil because of race, religious creed, color, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, ancestry, familial status or sex, to school facilities or activities. If the Department finds that a board of trustees adopts a policy that violates the provisions of subsection 1, the Department may impose an administrative penalty of not more than $5,000 for each day that the policy is in effect.
One week ago, Senator Fabian Doñate took to Twitter to express his shock that elected officials would take the “inhumane” steps to protect girls sports and private spaces as protected through Title IX.
Tensions began prior to the Douglas County school board meeting when District Superintendent Keith Lewis published and designated the agenda item #19 as a “transgender policy” for the May 16th meeting. In advance of that meeting, Douglas County School District Board President Susan Jansen told The Globe: “The primary purpose of agenda item #19 is to protect girls. This isn’t a transgender policy.”
As the Globe has exclusively reported and others in the state media have misreported, the policy will now be rewritten by the DCSD Board of Trustees to reflect the policies original intent.
After a long and contentious school board meeting, and in response to the misleading headlines and related political statements, Jansen told The Globe: “As I stated numerous times, the true intent of the agenda item #19 is to protect girls and has nothing to do with what Superintendent Keith Lewis designated as a “transgender policy.”
The ACLU Nevada has threatened a lawsuit should the board adopt any policy that adheres to Title XI protections and the District is accepting applications for new legal counsel.
In the wake of this last-minute amendment that changes the entire scope of the original bill (which received unanimous support in the Assembly), it is likely to pass the Senate tomorrow and head to Governor Joe Lombardo’s desk for signature or veto.
As the Globe reported, Governor Lombardo recently joined a coalition of 25 governors who are advocating to restore protection in girls’ sports in the wake of the Biden Administration’s new Title IX rules, proposed by the Department of Education, to expand the meaning of sexual discrimination to include gender identity that would prevent schools and colleges from banning transgender athletes. The proposed rule would mean that schools and colleges receiving federal funding could not impose an independent policy ensuring students play on teams consistent with their biological sex.
Nevada Democrats have now aligned with the Biden administration’s attempts of decimating Title IX protections by amending AB423–the beginning of the end of female sports, scholarships, and private spaces.
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Title IX from so many very important resolutions including 88-352 (78 Stat. 241).
As a person who is almost half a century old. I am profoundly saying that there was is and is a hijacking. As well as an incredible, blatant and disrespectful delusion and diversion of non negotiable and factual basis rights, that were faught a long time ago.
In the latter generations on Gen Z and now Gen Alpha, one of the downsides of growing up in the first generation of the digital age and then the next Alpha being completely digital. We love you, we are you and have been for a very long time.
The difference is we were the ones who advocated to be who you want to be through expression, it did not involve capitalism. Your individualism didn’t come with a price tag from big government, big tech or biotech.
We didn’t have microwaves. We were taught to go against the established to maintain our individuality and that didn’t require propping up corporate capitalism or denying reality.
Young parents and young people who are Gen Z and Alpha. We really need you to be rooted in reality. And your reality in your genetics or biological sex that is factual and it does not change and is not observed or assigned at birth.
We really need you rooted in reality and not left in the left behind generation who was lied to and betrayed.
I do not know how we have become the upside down world or the Matrix. I’m sorry that you’ve been being being bullied to believe something that is simply not true. You are true. No matter how you want to dress, how you color your hair, if you have piercings or gages or tattoos.
In your Gen Z and Alpha.. the political elite and corporate financial elite, the medical industrial and biotechnology complex has completely co-opted your two generations.
I’m a Gen X and concerned for you in that you will realize that you will be hurt that you were betrayed. With student loans and your young minds under 25 built on the Matrix.
I do not want your two generations to be the lost generations. You are being lied too. That’s the trouble with social media, the digital world that is definitely defining your own identity and for those that see the manipulation…. A lot of us are sorry and hope more wake up from the Matrix that was supposed to be only a trilogy of a horrible inhumane distortion, destruction and example of the dystopia of humanity.
Unfortunately it’s become reality. It’s being done by super elites who donate to your college and to the chains that you may work at.
Can we please do all possible ways to support. Truth and facts because we will be relying on the next generations and they are being lied too by the elites.
We need you grounded in reality and your reality is being polarized and profited off of by elites, the government, biotech, social media and big pharma. They have been and were waiting for you and your parents who mean well. At the time it was called a conspiracy… only 16 years later please look.
You are you and you are every day. You are not an accident. Your endocrine system matters. Everything including your puberty matters. Every part of your healthy anatomy matters and anyone telling you that you don’t belong is the problem.
Be you however you want to be right now… and you will change through the years. The not so nice ones are the ones who want to profit off you now and have you in their files of financials in dependence for life. That is not freedom.
Young digital generation… if you are buying into things now … what will our Mother Earth look like and the little ones who will come after you? The idea of the internet is now real and it’s really important for those in Gen Z and Alpha to not have the Matrix become real.
It’s already so close and is very scary.
Please break away, we’ve been trying to tell you. Please speak out in your truth and not to the handlers.
Have no idea if this will help for those who don’t know, but thankful to know a whole lot who do know.