Forsyth County Georgia Board of Education - Jere Krischel - 12/12/2023

I was very grateful last month to hear my dear friend Pat talk about what made a good and intelligent person - I passed her test with flying colors, with disagreement only on the scientific question of gender dysphoria. Sadly, her test implies that muslims are bad and unintelligent for their beliefs, which I think shows a distinct lack of commitment, to both diversity and inclusion.

Having a welcoming environment for people who worship sexual deviance, and people who worship Allah, is obviously a challenge. But if we keep sex and sexuality out of the classroom, and treat school like a professional setting, it allows those differences to coexist, and not come into conflict with each other. Sexual morality is a conversation to be had at home, not at a place of work.

And my dear friend Pat might not see school as a place of hard, earnest work, for children to learn the skills they need to succeed in higher education, and the workplace. She seems to think, it is simply an extension of family, and that the kitchen table topics she has in her home ,should be part and parcel of every muslim child's experience at public school.

It's easy to understand how she could come to that conclusion - school has historically been a place of support for the ups and downs of puberty and adolesence, and has over time extended to assist those with developmental disabilities and mental illnesses. And if you truly believe that we must expose children to every form of kink so they can reject islam and fully realize their socio-sexual identity, well, of course you'll want to be a groomer.

But my kids aren't her kids. And they don't belong to the schools, teachers, or staff either. We don't have the right to insert ourselves into the deeply personal and private conversations, that muslim families have about sex and sexuality. Those discussions should be up to the parents to have outside of our professional school setting.

And this goes both ways - I would be just as concerned with a muslim teacher, expressing their diverse sexual viewpoints at school, preaching that all gays are going to hell, and should be thrown off buildings to kill them, as I would be with a woke teacher preaching that every sexual kink is completely normal, and exploring those kinks have no negative consequences.

To answer my dear friend Pat's other question, reading a book about a gay character isn't going to turn you gay, and reading a book about a straight character isn't going to turn you straight - what you want is an *interesting* character that represents universal human traits, not superficial fashion choices, and trying to promote books focused on deviant sexuality is as superficial as you can get.

Unless, of course, you're talking about Alan Turing. The man who literally saved the world from Nazis with his cryptography work, was chemically castrated through hormone therapy simply because he was gay. It should shame us that today, we have normalized this same kind of chemical castration for young homosexuals swept up in the trans hysteria.

Once again I would humbly ask the Board to make sure that any students who present with mental illnesses regarding gender dysphoria, be treated with respect and care, and are immediately referred to the mental health counseling necessary to help them accept their perfectly healthy natural born bodies.

And so on that note, thank you very much for your time, and again, I'd love to have lunch with anyone who disagrees with me.