“I resigned” from the Freedom From Religion Foundation, explains Jerry A. Coyne at The Wall Street Journal , because it had “abandoned science.” In November, it posted an essay “denying the basic biological fact that all animals, including humans, have only two sexes.” It ran his rebuttal, “Biology is not bigotry,” but quickly took it down saying that was an error in judgment. “In many ways, transgender ideology is no different from the religious dogma the FFRF was founded to oppose.” It tars dissenters as “transphobes,” silences critics and “proselytizes” in schools; proponents deem themselves “morally correct.” In fact, “biological sex is a scientific issue,” but the FFRF has “abandoned science” for an “embrace of quasireligious” dogma, so “I’m proud to proclaim myself a heretic.” Pennsylvania mom Anne Trethewey is “the face of a growing band of parents fighting to force better transparency and accountability in their children’s schools,” notes The Free Press’ Frannie Block . In 2020, she began attending school board meetings after the district started indoctrinating kids with DEI. With other local parents she joined activist group Moms for Liberty and started asking questions. In 2023 the district nixed her request for info by “arguing that the DEI training materials couldn’t be shared with the public because they were ‘trade secrets.’ ” State courts rejected that claim in February; now the local court must decide “whether the DEI training materials could be considered ‘confidential proprietary information.’ ” Trethewey “still can’t access the materials she requested more than two years ago,” but “she has no intention of backing down.”
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