Parents Outraged After School Coached 12-year-old Into Trans Identity

Jessica Konen blasted school board members at a meeting Wednesday, in the Spreckels Union School District(SUSD) in California.

The concerned mother had alleged that school staff indoctrinated her then 12-year-old daughter in an LGBTQ club disguised as an 'Equality Club.' She believes one of the teachers had invited her daughter to join in on a lunch-hour 'Equality Club' session. They then began affirming that her daughter was transgender.

"You took away my ability to parent my child," Konen said. "Even before I had any knowledge. I didn't even get to show support you ask for support I didn't get a chance.... You changed her personal documentation, her gender, her name, her email. I authorized an AKA added to her attendance because I want it to be supportive. But guess what? She's allergic to bees. Her medical record says a birth name and you changed it... They downgraded me in front of my child, and allowed me to question myself as the mother. You sat there and told me how my child was going to be. And then you wrapped your hands around her while I sat across the table and cried because you thought you could be there better than I, and I never got a chance. She was scared to even say anything."

Konen had told The Epoch Times that when her daughter was in the middle of her seventh grade year, she and her were called for a meeting with a teacher and the school's principal. That was when the teacher claimed her daughter was "trans fluid."

"I sat across the table, and I was crying. I was trying to absorb everything," she said. "They kept looking at me angrily because I kept saying 'she,' and that it was going to take me time to time to process everything," she said. "I was very confused. … I was very upset. I was blindsided—completely blindsided."

Konen's daughter was being called by a new name at school, had male pronouns used, and used the unisex restroom at school.

The teacher accused Konen of not being "emotionally supportive" of her daughter. "I felt she completely coached my child," she said. "It made me feel very, very small as a parent. I was unaware of anything. Not one time had she mentioned to me 'Oh, I think that I want to change my name,' or 'I'm transgender' or anything. Nothing. I only heard bisexual one time, and that was it."

A leaked audio recording revealed two teachers at a recent California Teachers Association (CTA) conference in Palm Springs, California, mocking parents over their concerns about homosexual and transgender indoctrination at school.

The sold-out CTA conference, billed as the “2021 LGBTQ+ Issues Conference, Beyond the Binary: Identity & Imagining Possibilities,” was held Oct. 29 to 31.

The CTA has hosted similar 'Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity' (SOGI) professional development training for at least the last two years, according to an event notice posted on the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) website, which asks teachers: “Do you have the courage to create a safe environment that fosters bravery to explore sexual orientation, gender identity and expression?”

The recording, obtained by The Epoch Times, captured two seventh-grade teachers employed by Buena Vista Middle School in Salinas, California, telling other teachers how to recruit students into LGBTQ clubs, also known as “Gay-Straight Alliance” (GSA) clubs, at school.

“It was horrifying to listen to not just one teacher but really all of the teachers in all of these seminars, excoriating parents,” said Epoch Times source, who goes by the pseudonym Rebecca Murphy. She said the teachers “mocked” parents for their concerns, and suggested they know better than parents about what’s best for their children. “They laughed at the parents.”

According to Epoch Times, the three classes Murphy attended were designed to recruit middle school students to GSA clubs.

“The overarching theme of the classes that I attended were California teachers instructing other teachers on how to sneak in the LGBTQ+ curriculum in a manner that does not alert parents,” Murphy said.

The two teachers from Buena Vista Middle School led a workshop called “How we run a ‘GSA’ in Conservative Communities,” and they described the obstacles they faced as activist teachers in concealing the activities of these clubs from parents. Buena Vista Middle School falls under the jurisdiction of the Spreckels Union School District

In the audio clip, one teacher advised other teachers who lead LGBTQ clubs to maintain an air of plausible deniability so they can play dumb if they are questioned by parents.

“Because we are not official, we have no club rosters. We keep no records,” said the teacher, who is also an LGBTQ club leader. “In fact, sometimes we don’t really want to keep records because if parents get upset that their kids are coming? We’re like, ‘Yeah, I don’t know. Maybe they came?’ You know, we would never want a kid to get in trouble for attending if their parents are upset.”

The other teacher backed up the first teacher, suggesting activist teachers disguise the nature of GSA clubs by calling them something less obvious. She provided an example of this deception, pointing out she avoided naming her LGBTQ club a GSA. Instead, she called it the “Equity Club” and later changed the name to the “You Be You” club.

The teachers bragged about spying on students’ online searches and activity as well as eavesdropping on their conversations to identify and recruit sixth-grade students into these LGBTQ clubs whose membership rolls are kept hidden from parents.

“We totally stalked what they were doing on Google,” one of the teachers said.

When the kids went home and talked to their parents about the degenerate presentation, the parents complained about the LGBTQ content. One of the teachers suggested a different strategy to avoid resistance from parents.

“Next year, we’re going to do just a little mind-trick on our sixth graders. They were last to go through this presentation and the gender stuff was the last thing we talked about. So next year, they’ll be going first with this presentation and the gender stuff will be the first thing they hear about. Hopefully to mitigate, you know, these kind of responses, right?” she said.

The teacher ridiculed a parent who complained she hadn’t planned on having a conversation about sexual orientation and gender identity issues with her middle-schooler but was pushed into it by the school.

“I know, so sad, right? Sorry for you, you had to do something hard!” she told her audience. “Honestly, your 12-year-old probably knew all that, right?”

After information about the leaked audio was made public this week, Superintendent Tarallo, SUSD President McDougall and Kate Pagaran, the principal at Buena Vista Middle School, issued a letter Nov. 19 addressed to the “SUSD Community” that the “UBU (You Be You)” club has been suspended.

“Any future student clubs will be required to submit an outline of all activities and materials before being allowed to meet,” the letter states. “Student sign-in sheets will be maintained and parent/guardian permission slips will be sent home prior to a club holding a meeting.”

The letter states that “all messaging shared in the morning announcements” will be controlled and distributed by the principal, a practice that “will be in place permanently.”

SUSD states: “Teachers are prohibited from monitoring students’ online activity for any non-academic purpose.”

WATCH Jessica Konen and others at the SUSD school board meeting.