Young Girls Shouldn’t Have to Be Brave

Our friends at Prager U, an organization founded to help educate and point students to truth, recently posted a video of a young girl speaking before a school board in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

At issue was the district’s “trans inclusive” policies – a politically correct term for rules and regulations pertaining to the sexually confused.

We don’t know the student’s name, but this young teen is seen addressing a group of what appears to be mostly middle-aged adults.

“Now you guys are probably thinking, ‘Well, I’m not going to listen to her because she’s what, a middleschooler?’” the girl begins. “Well, I’m on the student council and those younger kids who probably weren’t brave enough to be here, I’m afraid for them.”

Why?

“I don’t want them to have to walk into the bathroom and see someone of the opposite sex in there,” she testified. “That’s not right. That’s not how it’s supposed go. I know most people are like, ‘Well, that’s not a way it’s supposed to go.’”

In response to her testimony, Prager U posted, “She’s brave and we’re proud of her.”

This young woman certainly acted in a courageous manner and made a valiant case regarding the dangerous and foolish policy of allowing boys to go into girls’ bathrooms or locker rooms.

But this young girl shouldn’t have to be brave, at least not in this way. 

This middleschooler shouldn’t have to be standing up to the bullies, testifying before a board of adults who should know better and who should have intervened long before this youngster was placed in a position where she felt compelled to push back against the wickedness.

The “trans” issue in schools has been hotly debated for years now. Thanks to common sense policies from the Trump administration, progress against the danger has been made, but the lunacy still lives on in areas where radicals have wrested control.

Attention is often paid to the practical side of the outrageousness – who can use what bathrooms and where, who can compete in what sports and when. But not enough attention has been focused on what these battles have done to the hearts and minds of the otherwise well-adjusted young people caught in the crosshairs.

The loss of innocence has been widespread and profound. Childhood is brief enough. These radical prevaricators who are determined to upend norms and redefine reality are stealing and corrupting fleeting moments from our children and forcing the young to bear the heavy burden of issues they’re unprepared and ill-equipped to encounter.

That young Wisconsin girl shouldn’t have to be brave. She should be protected and shielded from the cultural insanity. She should be allowed to focus on the evolution of her studies and sports or other extracurricular activities, not on the politics of a destructive cultural revolution.  

When you steal a child’s innocence and thrust them into a cultural conversation surrounding sexual deviance, you’re robbing not just the child, but everyone else, too. That’s because thanks to the carefree days of childhood, young people dream, and those dreams take root, and those roots can run deep and produce wonderful fruit years into the future.

Yet, short-circuit childhood, force children to “grow up” early by filling their minds with perversion and nonsense, and you potentially lose those fertile and innocent  fields of development. Rush childhood and you run the risk of ruining adulthood, too.

Young girls and boys need courage and bravery, but better to learn to first be brave by falling asleep in the dark, jumping off a high diving board, or reciting a poem in front of a class. Childhood bravery should not involve testifying before a school board about the dangers of boys in girls’ bathrooms.

And let’s face it: this type of bravery is only needed in youth today because of the cowardice of adult school board members who refuse to protect the very children they’re directed and called to serve.

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