The term gender affirming closet is something that I learned about this year as I began to read and learn more about the dirty book issue in Cameron. In this blog post I will share what I have learned, explain why you should know about it, and debunk the claim that there is no narrative being pushed on our kids.
A story published by the Herzog Foundation in their online publication The Lion is what prompted me to write this piece. Their story is about a school in Liberty, MO, and a grant application for a “gender affirming closet” that was submitted by the Gender and Sexualities Alliance (GSA) student group.
So what is a gender affirming closet? Look at the image that The Lion published of the grant application and read how the GSA in Liberty defines it. See what they want it to do with a gender affirming closet. According to Liberty North GSA, they want to create a gender affirming closet to offer nonbinary and transgender teens a safe space to express themselves through clothing, accessories, binders, makeup, jewelry and nail polish. The hope to provide accessibility to those items for students who may not currently have them.
Notice the words in bold print in the sentence above. The term accessories is broad, but I believe you should know about it. This information comes from the Daily Caller article: TransTape, Chest Binders And Packers: The ‘Gender-Affirming’ Gear Public Schools Are Stocking Up On
For biological males, an accessory can consist of “tucking tape”, some times called transtape, which allows him to tape his penis and testicles up between his legs to “hide the bulge”. It can also include a bra and something to stuff into it.
For biological females, accessories can include a prosthetic penis which would allow her to pee while standing up. These are often referred to as “packers” on websites which sell them and often require harnesses and tight boxers briefs to keep them in place. Binders were specially named in the application for that grant. They are used to bind down female breasts and hide them.
Stand-to-pee devices are prosthetic penises “designed for standing urination” for females, according to the FtM Essentials website. Harnesses and tight boxer briefs are required to keep the devices in place and it is recommended that females try the device out in the shower first to learn how to use the device.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/community-family/fairfax-schools-teacher-training-student-gender-transitions
If you scroll down to the itemized list of expenses on the GSA grant application in The Lions article you will see in the $3500 they want to spend on clothing the specifically list intimates as one of the items they want to buy.
In my home we define “intimates” as female articles of clothing, lingerie, like bras and panties. Based on our use of the word, the purpose of the grant included buying and providing panties to young boys. And it is likely that schools with these transition closets aren’t notifying parents that their child is using them.
“Who may not currently have them” is concerning to me. The reason they do not currently have those items is because, right or wrong, the parents often do no approve of their child having those items. Schools across our nation are keeping transition closets secret and training teachers to transition children’s genders and not get parental approval. In some instances, like in the quote below, children are changing clothes when they arrive at school and at the end of the day before going home. This is done to hide this secret life from the parents. We believe this debunks the myth that no agenda is being pushed on our nations children. If they weren’t pushing an agenda there would be no need to hide it.
They started in colleges, but trans closets—rooms stocked with transgender clothes and accessories for students to change into after arriving to school and back out of before going home—are being discovered in public schools with some indication they are being kept a secret from parents.
https://americanfaith.com/more-secret-gender-transition-closets-discovered-in-public-schools/
While it is suspicious to me that the Liberty school district superintendent waited to decline the grant for a gender closet until after The Lion sought records about the grant, it is good that this closet business was ended. That doesn’t mean this issue is over, just that they won’t go about it this way.
Parents and citizens should know about gender closets and be on the lookout for them. Schools should be teaching reading, science and mathematics to kids, not feeding into their gender dysphoria. Public schools are not trained or qualified to treat any dysphoria and feeding into and encouraging a dysphoria is unethical and wildly irresponsible. Any time an adult states or implies to a child that there is no need to tell the parents we should be deeply concerned.