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Fairfax County High School: ‘A Is for Abortion’ – A Cautionary Tale for Parents

A high school in Fairfax County, Virginia, celebrated Women’s History Month with a hallway decorated by “school administrators and teachers … with a special, leftist rendition of the alphabet” that included the phrase, “A is for Abortion,” The Daily Signal reported.

The incident at West Springfield High School highlights the need for parental involvement in their children’s education – not just in Northern Virginia, but across the country.

Parents are responsible for their children’s education, and they must be engaged in order to counteract and protect children from indoctrination in woke ideologies.

The “ABCs to ME” display at West Springfield also included uplifting sayings for students like “Q is for Queer,” “M is for Mansplain” and “F is for Femicide,”

That last sign directly contradicts the “A is for Abortion” poster, given that more than 63 million infants have been killed in the U.S. since the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, and more than half of these are female.

Millions of preborn girls aborted – that is real femicide.

That’s not even mentioning the spiritual, physical, mental and emotional harms to women who abort their preborn children.

Each letter of the alphabet in the display included two signs with different words or phrases representing each letter. So, for example, another A sign said, “A is for Athletes,” showing pictures of female athletes.

Without any apparent awareness of the irony, a different sign said, “T is for Trans Women.” So the school applauds female athletes – but also the boys who claim to be women who rob real teen girls of athletic opportunities, victories and scholarships, as well as assaulting their safety and privacy in girls restrooms, showers and locker rooms.

Other objectionable posters had slogans like “P is for Patriarchy,” “P is for Persecution,” “O is for Objectification” and “Z is for male gaZe.” In addition to playing fast and loose with the alphabet, the sloganeering paints all men as the enemy.

What a treat it must’ve been for high school boys to walk down the school hallway and seen posters denigrating them. The educators who posted the sign might as well have had pictures of teen boys with a sign that said, “E is for Enemy.”

The alphabet portrays a huge problem with “progressive” ideology – it separates humans into identity groups and pits them against each other. Why not simply celebrate the accomplishments of women during Women’s History Month, instead of attacking boys and men?

The dogmatic, simplistic little sayings also spread confusion. Are women victors – “L is for Limitless,” “O is for Olympian” and “T is for Triumph,” or are they victims – “G is for Gaslight” and “P is for Persecution”?

This is the latest in a list of incidents where the Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) District has implemented policies that sexualize, confuse and harm children, as the Daily Citizen has previously reported:

  • In 2021, Stacy Langton, a mother of six, with the two oldest attending Fairfax High School. She made headlines for reading aloud portions of sexually explicit books from the school library at a school board meeting. The books, including Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison and Gender Queer: A Memoir, by Maia Kobabe, include explicit illustrations of oral sex and masturbation, as well as graphic descriptions of sex between men and children. The school banned her from entering the library.
  • That same year, Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) announced it was removing the two books from school libraries. At the time, Lawn Boy was available in 11 FCPS high schools, while Gender Queer was available at 7 schools. But after reviewing the books, the district placed the sexually explicit materials back on school library shelves.
  • In March 2024, as part of its celebration of “Neurodiversity Affirmation Week,” district staff designed posters that were “were ‘hung in each of our schools as a constant reminder of the uniqueness of human thought,’” reported Parents Defending Education, a parental rights advocacy group. “Neurodiversity” is not a medical term, but it is used by activists to portray brain functioning issues as “normal variations.” It usually encompasses issues like autism, dyslexia and obsessive compulsive disorder. “However,” the group added, “the district’s poster that students saw also attempts to extend the meaning of neurodiversity to include ‘gender,’ ‘sexual orientation,’ ‘ethnicity,’ ‘race,’ and ‘religion/spirituality.’”
  • FCPS chose to ignore parents opposition to teaching children about “gender identity” in its Family Live Education program. More than 80% of parents responded to a district survey saying they did not support this teaching. But as one parent said, when the district wants to do something, ““they appoint a committee filled with people with viewpoints to get the outcome they want, ask for community feedback, then ignore and manipulate the feedback.”

It’s clear that Fairfax schools have embraced radical, sexualized ideology. Again, this spotlights the great need for parents to be involved in their local schools.

The woke alphabet posters also exemplify why educational freedom for all students is desperately needed in every state. Children should be able to attend schools that support their family’s values and avoid schools that inculcate them into harmful, false ideologies.

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Olympic Track and Field Protects Women. Why Won’t Other Sports Do the Same?

All women competing in Olympic track and field events will now be required to confirm their gender via a cheek swab or dry blood DNA test.

Sebastian Coe, who heads up World Athletics, the governing body of track, was clear-headed and resolute in announcing the new policy.

“We’re not just talking about the integrity of female women’s sport, but actually guaranteeing it,” Coe said. “And this, we feel, is a really important way of providing confidence and maintaining that absolute focus on the integrity of competition.”

Inexplicably, the International Olympic Committee has elected to leave this issue up to each sport’s international federation.

It’s this leadership vacuum that not only threatens the integrity of individual sports but also jeopardizes the health and safety of the athletes themselves.

Readers will remember Imane Khelif, the Algerian male Olympic boxer who competed against women. Khelif was awarded a gold medal, despite having been disqualified by the International Boxing Association a few years earlier after tests revealed Imane with an XY chromosome.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) went along with Khelif’s charade and allowed the boxer to punch away on female athletes.

Track and Field has been navigating this gender controversy since 2009 when Caster Semenya, a South African athlete with naturally high testosterone levels, first won a gold medal in 800 meters at the World Championships.

Semenya has a condition called 5a-Reductase 2 deficiency, the same condition Khelif reportedly has been diagnosed with. Now 34 years of age, the track and field star was ordered in 2019 to suppress testosterone levels – but refused.

As the Daily Citizen’s Emily Washburn has previously reported:

5-alpha is a terrible, disorienting disorder. It also categorically disqualifies sufferers from participating in female sports … Khelif had XY chromosomes, normal male levels of testosterone and male reproductive organs. That means he has the same chromosomal and hormonal advantages all men have over women athletically, including heavier bones, bulkier muscles, broader shoulder and larger hearts and lungs.

But at the heart of the new track policy isn’t really the exceptions and the outliers but rather those male athletes who seem determined to game the system and by doing so, achieve a competitive advantage.

Be aware that you’ll be reading in the coming days and weeks that World Athletics is banning “transwomen athletes” – but such a claim isn’t true. That’s because there’s no such thing as a “transwoman” – there are just two genders, male and female. Just because a man is pretending to be a woman doesn’t make it so.

Human Rights Watch and other critics have described DNA testing rules of female athletes as abusive, harmful, discriminatory and accusatory.

It’s true that male athletes are not similarly tested, but women masquerading as men provides no competitive advantage. And complaining that such testing portrays women as “cheats” belies the reality of other similar checks such as screenings for performance enhancing drugs.

Trust but verify.

It’s been 125 years since women first appeared in the 1900 Olympics in Paris. There were just 22 of them out of a total of 997 athletes. These commonsense policies being implemented in Track and Field will ensure that the distinctiveness of female competition will be maintained and protected in the upcoming Summer Olympic games in Los Angeles in 2028.

This is a good thing, and every other Olympic sport should race to follow suit.

Girls Sports Coaches are Incentivized to Recruit Men — Parents Shouldn’t Let Them

Men don’t belong in women’s sports.

After years of watching men swing, shatter, punch and stomp their way to women’s trophies, its refreshing to know the vast majority of Americans — including the president — finally agree.

But America’s rediscovery of women’s rights doesn’t erase years of affirming young men for invading women’s spaces and stealing their athletic victories.

States, public schools and institutions like the NCAA aren’t stepping up to protect your sisters, daughters and nieces. Some proudly pledge to continue allowing boys to compete in girls sports, even if they lose federal funding.

Men are still taking women’s trophies. Girls are still being forced to change in front of boys.

It’s vital that parents and concerned citizens stand in the gap for their loved ones. Your mission? Eliminate incentives for men to compete in women’s sports — starting with the coaches.

Boys make girls teams virtually unbeatable, which means coaches have incentives to recruit them.

This isn’t a cynical take. Allen Cornwall coaches Class A track and field in Maine, where Katie Spencer, formerly John Rydzewski, “won” a pole-vaulting title in February. The former track and field official told Outkick:

“[Spencer’s assistant coach] was kind of into it. Someone said he had ‘championship fever’… [he was excited] to win both the boys and girls championships at the state level. It was kind of disgusting.

The unnamed coach’s “championship fever” was so strong, Cornwall alleged, that he kept quiet about Spencer taking a biological female’s place. Outkick paraphrases:

[Spencer’s assistant coach] told Cornwall he suspected a female pole vaulter at [Greely High School] declined to try out for the team this season, knowing that she could not defeat Spencer and wouldn’t make the team.

Too often, coaches abdicate their protective responsibilities by blaming the institution in charge. “The [school, institution, state, ad nauseum] allows men to participate,” they say. “My hands are tied.”

I would have had more sympathy for this argument four years ago. Under the previous presidential administration, coaches risked termination and federal prosecution for keeping males off women’s sports teams. In the days of Lia, formerly Will, Thomas, most coaches likely didn’t know what gender ideology was — let alone how to combat it.

Today, those excuses hold no weight. The ol’ “man says he’s woman to appear better at sports” playbook is predictable. The Departments of Justice, Health and Human Services and Education (what remains of it) are behind coaches who keep men off women’s teams.

So are parents and almost 80% of Americans.

So, if you are a coach, protect your female players — period. Do not allow a man to join your team. If you are forced to do so, inform parents immediately and ensure the man changes in a separate locker room. Speak emphatically and often about your concern for your players’ safety.

Parents, make allowing a man on a girls’ team so inconvenient and unpleasant that coaches have no desire to recruit them. Talk about Title IX violations open and honestly with anyone who will listen. Attend school board meetings, contact your local family policy council, file a discrimination complaint with the Department of Education — anything warning coaches against allowing men to participate in women’s sports.

As always, children’s safety comes first. If a coach remains unwilling to keep a girls team single-sex, parents must remove their daughter from the dangerous situation.

It’s easier than ever for Americans to speak out against men pushing women out of their own sports. It’s past time for coaches to buck up and get on board — and for parents to make them.

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Girls Just Wanna Have Privacy: Mom Files Complaint About Male in Girls Locker Room

A Chicago mom filed a complaint with the Justice Department after school administrators allegedly tried to force her 13-year-old daughter to change clothes in the locker room – while a male student was present.

Nicole Georgas spoke out against the incident at a Deerfield School District 109 School Board meeting on March 13, 2025, a meeting which was packed with transgender activists and their allies.

Georgas began by explaining what she wanted from the board, saying, “I’m here to demand that the locker rooms at District 109 be designated as biological male and biological female, as there already is a gender neutral option. The girls want their locker rooms and bathrooms back. They want their privacy back.”

Georgas then described the events at Alan B. Shepard Middle School that led her to testify.

My 13-year old daughter’s well-being and mental health and privacy are at stake.

This nightmare began on February 5th when my daughter was using the girl’s bathroom and was stunned that a biological male student was using it as well. She came home frightened and was extremely upset.

I asked her to talk with her teachers and find out more information. She was told by the administration that the [male] student can use the bathroom as well as a female locker room because they now identify as female.

Transgender-identified activists and their allies filled the room, booing and heckling this brave mom, shouting about “children” and their “genitals.”

The activists, who oppose privacy and safety for girls, also spoke to the board. One radical glared threateningly at Georgas, claiming that “trans students” were targeted “by an organization that weaponizes religion to push the white supremacist agenda of their cis white husbands.”

“Cisgender” is a nonsense term, made up by trans activists, to signify healthy people who accept their God-given male or female bodies.

Chicago’s Morning Answer radio show broke the story, and posted Georgas’ testimony.

The school’s transgender policy follows guidance from the Illinois Department of Human Rights, based on The Illinois Human Rights Act, passed in 1979, “providing for broad civil rights coverage for the people of Illinois.” The Act was expanded in 2006 “to include ‘sexual orientation’ as a distinct protected class and ‘gender-related identity’ within the definition of ‘sexual orientation.’”

According to the guidance,

Use of restrooms, locker rooms and changing rooms may not be restricted based upon a student’s physical anatomy or chromosomal sex. A student must be permitted to access restrooms or bathrooms, locker rooms and changing rooms that align with their gender-related identity and without having to provide documentation or other proof of gender.

Basically, any male student can claim to identify as female and use the girls restrooms, locker rooms and showers, regardless of a girl’s feelings, as the Department of Human Rights goes on to explain,

Under the [Human Rights] Act, the discomfort or privacy concerns of other students, teachers, or parents are not valid reasons to deny or limit the full and equal use of facilities based on a student’s gender-related identity. …

[T]here is no right that insulates a student from coming in contact with others who are different than them or a Bathroom Privacy Act, unless the behavior violates a school policy or is criminal.

Georgas went on to say that the school emailed her and the principal phoned her. The school’s legal counsel advised that “the [male] student could use both the [girls] locker room and bathroom.”

She then explained that the school was violating federal policy, pointing to the Trump administration’s executive order “restricting biological males from participating in girls sports and accessing female locker rooms.”

That same day, Georgas said, “I filed a civil rights complaint on behalf of my daughter with the Department of Justice. It has now been referred to the Department of Education.”

The situation then went “from bad to worse,” Georgas explained that, “A few days later, the male student was present in the girls locker room. Feeling violated, the girls made the choice to not change into their PE clothes with a biological male student present.”

The next day, the assistant principal pulled the girls into her office to question them, and then the superintendent, the assistant principle, and “multiple teachers all came into the girls locker room, making them change into uniform.”

“This went on all week,” she said.

Her daughter would not comply.

“She is not changing for the remainder of the year, and she is not changing into another [P.E.] class,” her mom stated, adding,

“The girls just want their privacy, and they want their locker room back. …”

“This is my daughter’s story and the story of many other young girls who have been forced at the difficult age to do something they know – and most adults know – is wrong.”

We are thankful for women like Nicole Georgas who speak out – and take action – on behalf of girls’ privacy and safety. May she prevail in her complaint.

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Maine Schools Violated Title IX, Must Apologize, Feds Say

The Maine Department of Education (MDOE), Maine Principals’ Association and Greely High School violated Title IX by allowing men to compete in women’s sports, two federal investigations concluded this week.

The institutions must agree to comply with federal rules by the end of the month or risk losing funding.

The Departments of Education (DOE) and Health and Human Services (HHS) distribute federal money to schools and education programs that comply with Title IX and other government rules.

On February 5, President Trump signed Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports, an executive order finding that allowing men to compete on women’s teams violates Title IX.

“Under Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972, educational institutions receiving federal funds cannot deny women an equal opportunity to participate in sports,” the order reads, arguing:

[Allowing men to compete in women’s sports], is demeaning, unfair and dangerous to women and girls, and denies women and girls the equal opportunity to participate and excel in competitive sports.

Maine is one of four states publicly defying the order. On February 21, Maine Governor Janet Mills effectively told President Trump she would continue allowing men to compete in women’s sports until he took her to court.

The Civil Rights Offices at DOE and HHS launched Title IX compliance investigations into Maine schools that same day.

Investigators at HHS quickly stumbled on Greely High School, which won a women’s state track and field competition in February with a biological male’s help.

Formerly John Rydzewski, Katie Spencer took first in the women’s pole vault, beating the women who tied for second by a whopping six inches.

Had Spencer competed as a male, Outkick reports, he would have tied for 10th out of 13 competitors. When Spencer competed in the men’s pole vault at the same tournament just last year, he came in ninth.

Spencer’s contribution allowed Greely to win the overall competition, edging out Freeport High School by just one point. Both women who lost to Spencer in the pole vault were Freeport athletes.

Greely High School, the MDOE and the Maine Principals’ Association, which contributes money to interscholastic sports, must “resolve the matter through a signed agreement” by March 27 to avoid further action, HHS wrote in a press release Monday.

It’s unclear what that agreement includes.

DOE, which only investigated MDOE, has additionally ordered MDOE to sign six-point agreement to:

  • Direct all public schools to follow Title IX or risk losing funding.
  • Clarify that following Title IX means acknowledging there are only two sexes, segregating bathrooms and locker rooms based on sex and stopping boys from competing in girls’ sports.
  • Solicit a signed letter from every school certifying their compliance with Title IX and notify DOE of any violations.
  • Revise all rules and guidelines allowing men to join women’s teams.
  • Award appropriate accolades and trophies to female athletes that lost to men.
  • “Send a letter to [each] female athlete [whose record is restored] expressing an apology on behalf of the State of Maine for allowing her educational experience and participation in school sports to be marred by sex discrimination.”

MDOE must comply with this additional requirement by March 29.

None of the implicated organizations have responded to ED and HHS’ accusations.

Women deserve equal access to single-sex bathrooms, locker rooms and sports. After years of watching men violate these spaces and experiences with impunity, it’s a relief to watch the legislators and administrators that enable women’s oppression get their comeuppance.

Here’s to the further protection and vindication of women.

Additional Articles and Resources

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