Forsyth County Georgia Board of Education - Jere Krischel - 05/14/2024

I'm happy to note that SB233 was passed into law, and children stuck in underperforming schools will now be allowed to put the money meant for their children's education into programs of their choice. While various speakers in Forsyth County have criticized this legislation as a threat to Forsyth County schools, the fact of the matter is that we don't need to fear school choice, because our schools are the schools of choice. Having systems in place that encourage improvement in other, low performing school districts, helps everyone.
But as wonderful as the news has been in Georgia, on the federal level, things continue to get worse. Title 9 provisions, originally intended to give equal opportunity for females, have now been completely gutted by the Biden administration, and threaten our school district funding if we do not comply with their mental illness fantasies.
Instituted in 1972, Title 9 created protections on "the basis of sex" - acknowledging the obvious and eternal truth, that while males and females are of equal inherent value, they are not the same. Nobody can deny the dramatic physical, emotional, and personality differences between men and women, or boys and girls. And while there are certainly effeminate males, and macho females, defying your sex norms does not change your sex.
The original conflation of "sex" with "gender" was pioneered by John Money, who notoriously ran a transgender experiment on a boy with a botched circumcision. He went so far as to force this child to engage in "sexual act rehearsal", playing the female role with his own intact male brother. Despite declaring his experiment a "success", the trauma John Money induced in those two boys, ended with detransition for one, and both of them committing suicide as young men.
Despite this abominable beginning, John Money's "gender" theories came to dominate academia, popular culture, and the mainstream media.
While we can all be a bit skeptical of slippery slope arguments, sadly, they can be true sometimes. While it is good and righteous to protect children from violent bullying, our compassion can lead to evil consequences we would never have imagined. Like boys pretending to be girls and then raping real girls in bathrooms. Or men pretending to be women and stealing away sports trophies and scholarships from real women. We were told time and again that such fears were irrational, yet they have all come to fruition, and worse.
As difficult as it may be, no matter how much federal funding is put at risk, we must hold the line in Forsyth County. We cannot let our girls' safety be held hostage by bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., and destroy all of the protections put in place to honor and acknowledge the real differences between male and female.
Our Georgia Attorney General Carr has stepped into the breach, and has filed suit against these misogynistic changes to Title 9, and I beg the Board to support this litigation in any way you can. I'd also ask the Board to develop a contingency plan for operating without federal funding, so that if worse comes to worse, and the Title 9 changes are not enjoined from enforcement during litigation, Forsyth County can refuse to comply with these immoral regulations, and still maintain operations.
And so on that note, thank you very much for your time, and again, I'd love to buy lunch for anyone who disagrees with me.