A new PJ Media report reveals that many rural school districts in Alaska are following their urban counterparts in adopting rules that keep students’ so-called “gender transitions” secret from their parents.
According to an article published by an online news outlet earlier this month, seven school districts acknowledged that their transgender policies were inspired by the Alaska Association of State School Boards (AASB), a primarily taxpayer-funded and increasingly left-leaning organization that trains school board members across the state and provides them with funding and resources to implement policies based on its ideology.
AASB membership is made up of more than 330 trustees from 51 of Alaska’s 54 school districts. Associate members include school superintendents, the State Board of Education and the Alaska Secretary of Education. The conservative Matt-Suite Board of Education, which oversees Alaska’s second-largest school district, revoked its membership of the AASB several years ago, in part due to the group’s left-leaning ideological leanings.
According to AASB’s 2022 tax return, the organisation is mainly funded by taxpayer money, including $4.2 million in various government grants.
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While most large school districts, such as those in Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau, have well-known policies of hiding children’s sexual promiscuity from parents deemed “uncooperative,” many of the school districts cited in the PJ Media article are located in rural Native villages and other small communities in Alaska.
According to the article, rural Alaska school districts with policies concealing a child’s “transgender” identity from parents include Hoonah City, Pribilof, Bristol Bay Borough, Yakutat, Sitka, Wrangell and Northwest Arctic Borough. All school districts except Bristol Bay Borough acknowledged that their transgender policies were derived from the AASB, according to PJ Media.
In total, there are at least 14 school districts in Alaska that have documented parent-exclusionary transgender policies.
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