Just in case folks were thinking this teacher’s dismissal was unwarranted, Katie Rinderle, formerly an employee of Cobb County School Board in suburban Atlanta, released a statement through the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the disreputable organization that helped represent her, confirming the absolute necessity of jettisoning her from the classroom—and hopefully this occupation. (For more on the SPLC’s efforts to defend indoctrination in public schools, see my recent essay Southern Poverty Law Center Defames Parents Invested in Safeguarding Children.)
“The district is sending a harmful message that not all students are worthy of affirmation in being their unapologetic and authentic selves,” Rinderle said in the statement. “This decision, based on intentionally vague policies, will result in more teachers self-censoring in fear of not knowing where the invisible line will be drawn.”
In March, Rinderle had read to the children of Due West Elementary School the picture book My Shadow Is Purple by Scott Stuart. The color purple is achieved by mixing blue and pink, colors representing the gender binary that gender ideology, rooted in postmodernist nonsense, denies. Stuart fallaciously claims that a person can be both or neither. Here’s the link to My Shadow Is Purple on Google books. Note the gender stereotypes. Gender ideology depends fundamentally on stereotypes. (See Simulated Sexual Identities: Trans as Bad Copy.)
Parents rightly complained. The board’s Republican faction of four members cast their votes in favor of terminating Rinderle. On the opposing side, three Democrats voted against her dismissal following an unsuccessful attempt to postpone the voting process. A panel of retired teachers had recommended against dismissal (no surprise there). Superintendent Chris Ragsdale had recommended termination.
“It’s impossible for a teacher to know what’s in the minds of parents when she starts her lesson,” her lawyer Craig Goodmark said. “For parents to be able, with a political agenda, to come in from outside the classroom and have a teacher fired is completely unfair. It’s not right. It’s terrible for Georgia’s education system.”
There is no invisible line. Rinderle, who must understand how impressionable children are (indeed, those who brainwash children depend on it), and furthermore must have understood what the point of Stuart’s book (or otherwise prove herself too stupid to be a teacher in the first place) sought to indoctrinate her students—other people’s children—in the perverse notion of gender fluidity. Goodmark raises the specter of an outside political agenda. He means the agenda of parents safeguarding their children from sexualization. Is that political? But Rinderle is self-evidently pushing an outside political agenda, namely that of gender ideology. (Linguistic Programming: A Tool of Tyrants.)
Why is the notion of gender fluidity perverse? Gender is a fact of natural history. One is either male or female. One cannot be both or neither. This is nothing more false than this claim. For many people, their god made children either a boy or a girl ( Sex and Gender are Interchangeable Terms). In the view of science, the gender binary is the result of mammalian evolution. The gender cult stands in opposition to both systems—as well as and for this reason to the interests of children. If a child feels he is moving between genders he may be on the path to being a gay man. Or perhaps he will be bisexual. Maybe he will be an effeminate heterosexual. To confuse the child by substituting the fallacious construct of gender identity for his expression of sexuality, or for the non-problem of gender nonconformity, is a violation of the boy’s human rights (see Neutralizing the Gender-Detection Brain Module; Denying Reality: The Tyranny of Gender-Inclusive Language; Why I am Not “Cisgendered”). It is not the job of the teacher to shape the sexuality of children.
“The district is pleased that this difficult issue has concluded; we are very serious about keeping our classrooms focused on teaching, learning, and opportunities for success for students. The board’s decision is reflective of that mission,” the Cobb County district said in a press release. That’s the job of a teacher in a public school: teaching, learning, and student success. In a free society, public education is not a system of reeducation camps. Rinderle believes it is. She acted intentionally to expose her students to a crackpot premise for the purpose of confusing them. She said it herself: she wants to teach “affirmation” in “authentic selves.”
To be sure, the notions of gender fluid and nonbinary identity are inauthentic for the reasons explained above. But it’s not the job of teachers to “affirm” children’s “authentic selves” any more than it’s the job of teachers to audit children help them find the thetan inside their bodies or to preach to them about Jesus to save their souls from eternal damnation (see Dianetics in Our Schools). Rinderle works from a crackpot ideology that has damaged the lives of countless young people, confusing them about nature, turning them against their parents, putting them on a path of hormone treatments and surgery, a vast and explicit scheme, pushed by the government, to transform them into permanent clients of the medical-industrial complex. (See Making Patients for the Medical-Industrial Complex; Disordering Bodies for Disordered Minds; Feeding the Medical-Industrial Complex.)
Teachers like Katie Rinderle are functionaries of an ideological project that not only delivers primary commodities to the contemporary equivalent of Nazi doctors (I’ve been calling for a Nuremberg 2.0), but is designed to disrupt the normal understanding of children as a step in undermining western civilization, which progressives believe is illegitimate (cisnormative, heteronormative, white supremacies, etc.), to allow backwards ideologies—Islam and a myriad of lesser indigenous belief systems, as well as fallacious notions of implicit race bias and systemic racism—to overwhelm rational systems of thought necessary for human rights and individual liberty. This is a political project as much as it is a profit opportunity. And for that reason, Rinderle lost her job. She was the one with the political agenda. Good riddance.
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