{"id":68497,"date":"2025-12-12T06:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T06:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/68497\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T06:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T06:28:06","slug":"bravo-to-schools-fight-against-letitia-james-trans-tyranny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/68497\/","title":{"rendered":"Bravo to schools&#8217; fight against Letitia James&#8217; trans tyranny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of parents and school-board members are standing up to state Attorney General Letitia James and Education Commissioner Betty Rosa\u2019s bullying of New Yorkers who won\u2019t toe the line on gender insanity.<\/p>\n<p>Yes: The deadly duo have ordered a de facto ban on dissent on trans issues from school board meetings.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, The Southeastern Legal Foundation<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/09\/us-news\/li-school-groups-sue-ny-ag-letitia-james-over-trans-student-athletes-and-forcing-certain-pronouns-intimidation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> filed a lawsuit<\/a> on behalf of four Long Islanders (two school board officials, two parents) over that state \u201cguidance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In May, James and Rosa sent out a letter threatening to remove local officials who misgender a student or even allow public comments suggesting that trans students\u2019 \u201cidentities and experiences are illegitimate\u201d or that their \u201cpresence in school spaces and participation in school activities is harmful to other students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No matter that most adults oppose, for example, forcing born-males into girls\u2019 locker rooms and bathrooms, and into female sports leagues. <\/p>\n<p>Nor that the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/19\/opinion\/dont-mutilate-kids-science-confirms-common-sense-on-gender-affirming-care\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">growing consensus of experts <\/a>is that the \u201cscience\u201d supporting gender transitions for minors is bunk.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n<p>Shut up! argue James and Rosa: Adults with gripes, and kids with perfectly-well-grounded  fears, must be shushed or run out of school board meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Public meetings, mind you: No free speech in these democratic institutions.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s disgusting that New York\u2019s top law-enforcement official and it\u2019s No. 1 educrat would push such an obvious violation of basic American rights; we expect the federal courts to slap them both down in short order. <\/p>\n<p>Too bad the feds can\u2019t toss both these so-called public servants out of office completely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group of parents and school-board members are standing up to state Attorney General Letitia James and Education&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[304,67,2850,398,9,24,63,299,209,122,124,123,5271,9889],"class_list":{"0":"post-68497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-editorial","9":"tag-education","10":"tag-lawsuits","11":"tag-letitia-james","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-opinion","16":"tag-public-schools","17":"tag-queens","18":"tag-queens-headlines","19":"tag-queens-news","20":"tag-schools","21":"tag-transgender"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}