EXCLUSIVE: Bombshell interview with California parent on activist teachers

Written and interviewed by Genspect parent Lynn Chadwick. Interview lightly edited for clarity, length, and anonymity.

Two Buena Vista, California middle school teachers have been placed on administrative leave following an article by Abigail Shrier that revealed highly questionable practices by the teachers related to a club designed to promote gender identity ideology to students. The club, called UBU (You Be You) was held during the lunch period and was not an officially sanctioned school club.

More than 200 teachers attended the California Teachers Association conference called  “2021 LGBTQ+ Issues Conference—Beyond the Binary: Identity and Imagining Possibilities” the last weekend in October. So did at least a few parents.  Genspect spoke with concerned parent Rebecca Murphy, a pseudonym, who attended the seminar. Murphy was shocked by what she heard during the weekend.

“I attended three different classes, and in each of the classes it was clear the goal of the instructors, who are California teachers, was to teach the audience how to trick parents and hide information from them.”

“The first class I went to, ‘Use of Literature and Interactive Read Alouds to Promote an Inclusive Classroom’ was about “read alouds” – books read aloud by teachers to children. These are books read to kindergarteners. The teachers made it very clear they were sneaking in books that parents would not be aware are really about trans. So, the first book we spent a lot of time on was called Red: A Crayon’s Story. The teachers made it really clear that this is a safe book to start with because parents would not understand that this was really about transgenderism. They also discussed where you could get the books and curriculum. And, of course, all those entities providing those materials were trans-activist groups.

“I then attended another class, called ‘LGBTQIA+ 101: Making Sense of this Alphabet Soup.’ That was all about making the students feel comfortable in school, using their chosen names and pronouns, and keeping it secret from parents. One teacher really floored me. She asked, with deep emphasis, ‘What are MY rights?’ She was asking what her rights are, as a teacher, to change the name of a child at school. She made it very clear that this was her right, as opposed to being concerned about the rights of the child or the parents. There was also a discussion about whether it is child abuse to call a child by a birth name rather than a new chosen [gender identity related] name. The teachers were all in agreement that this should be seen as child abuse and agreed to push for it.”

“There were teachers who stood up and talked about the fact that when a parent pushes back on the use of a different name for a child, the teacher says, ‘This is my classroom. I control what happens here. You control what happens in your home. I control my classroom.’ It was as if these teachers were taking over custody of these children and the raising of these children once they walked into the teacher’s classroom. One of the teachers, a Spanish teacher, said that there are more than two sexes. Not genders. Sexes. They talked about pushing McGraw-Hill to change textbooks to say that there are more than two sexes.”

“Then I walked into the third class, ‘How We Run a “GSA” in Conservative Communities,’ which was the most alarming of the three. This is the class that was led by the two activist teachers and originally was written up by Abigail Shrier. These two teachers were gleeful in their ability to trick both the administration of the school and the parents. The club they started, UBU, was not a school-sanctioned club. They were teaching the teachers how to have a club in a conservative area. The focus was on how to hide the nature of the club. Because the club was not a school-sponsored club, they did not have to keep a roster. They fundraised though a parent group, and then asked that parent group to give the money back to them. So, in this way, they were able to raise funds from the parents, without the parents being aware of what the funds were actually being used for. They also obtained funds through the CTA’s Guy DeRosa grant. One of the requirements for the funding is that the club be a school-sanctioned club. These teachers reveled in the fact that they received the funding twice with the grant providers knowing their club did not meet the funding requirements, so it appears that these funds were fraudulently obtained.”

“The discussion then turned to the concern the teachers had that their club had no members anymore. In order to get the club going again, they needed to find students and try to get them interested in attending the club. This is counterintuitive. LGB clubs may be needed, but what they did was create a club and then look for a need. The kids had other lunch time activities they were interested in, so the teachers actively tried to find kids who might attend and then invited them. By having the club during lunch, they were able to conceal the club from parents, since it didn’t interfere with other activities or require a permission slip. The club was held on the school campus, which means the school is equally responsible for what these teachers were doing.”

“In their response to media reports, the school has stated that they have put safeguarding measures in place. The problem with these measures is that they only apply to school-sanctioned activities. This club would fall outside the parameters of this, because it wasn’t a school-sanctioned club. There really needs to be safeguarding preventing any teacher from having any type of club or gathering that isn’t school-sanctioned on any public school campus.”

Regarding the Spreckles School Board meeting held December 15, during which an enraged mother accused teachers of indoctrinating her daughter, Murphy says:

“I felt that there was a cohesive group of attendees who were intent on avoiding the main topic of the meeting, which was parent rights. There was a mom who spoke up, and CPS came to her home. That is a silencing tactic. I think there are a lot of people who remained silent because they were scared. And that is the normal course. If you watch the video of the meeting, it’s clear that a lot of people got up and intimidated the parents, who were being attacked for loving their children and wanting to parent them.”

“Any time you have something kept secret from parents, where the child is in 6th, 7th, 8th grade, it’s just wrong. But the sleeping giant is waking up. Parents just want to parent their own children.”