Speech to the Illinois District 109 Board of Education Regarding the Forcible Transfer of Children from Parents to the State (August 21st, 2025)

     What follows is my fourth speech to the Illinois District 109 Board of Education, regarding the locker room policy at Alan B. Shepard Middle school in Deerfield, Illinois.

     In February 2025, at Shepard, at least three administrators who were strangers to students, allegedly coerced several 12- and/or 13- -year-old girls into undressing and changing, while evidently failing to ensure that a transgender-identifying student, born male, was able to see them.

     This speech was read at the monthly business meeting of the District 109 Board of Education, which meets on the third Thursday of each month at 517 Deerfield Road in Deerfield, at 7:00 P.M..

     The time limit for speakers is three minutes; this speech would have taken about four or five minutes to read in full. It was delivered with edits, in an abbreviated form.

      Since April, I’ve been advocating for the construction of more locker rooms and restrooms for non-binary individuals. But I just watched an interview with Nicole Georgas, from March, in which she claimed that the locker room controversy began when the trans-identifying student had access to a non-binary bathroom but refused to use it.

     So – assuming that’s true – I'd like to clarify, by saying this:

     It is important to build an equal number of bathrooms – for non-binary, intersex, and transgender people – for the sake of ensuring equal accommodations. If equal accommodations can be ensured, then there is no excuse to object to designating non-binary restrooms as the restrooms that non-binary students are supposed to use.

     The restroom problem has been solved; the new problem seems to be that the trans student doesn't want it solved. But the locker room problem persists; so please build new locker rooms for non-binary students.

     I left you last time by asking you to look up the phrase “forcible transfer of children from one group of people to another”. I mentioned that phrase because it is one of the components of genocide, and because I worry that your staff may have committed it in February.

     To be clear, I am not directly accusing you of genocide. Rather, I am saying that, if children were an ethnic group, then the Illinois Democrats – the people who want you to enforce this locker room policy – would arguably be complicit in genocide (and so might you, by extension, for helping to enforce it, rather than exercising your natural right to conscientiously object to abusing children as part of your jobs).

     To review:

     Since you caused children to fall into the custody of at least three strangers, you arguably committed unlawful detention, and possibly even kidnapping (because transfer that happens without parental knowledge cannot possibly be consensual on the part of either the parents or the child). If it’s not consensual, then it’s coercive; and therefore (covertly) forcible.

     I submit that this is the same type of "forcible transfer of children" which the definition of genocide describes; hence, my concern.

     I will now cite the definition of genocide, from the Cornell Law School’s law dictionary, to defend my argument.

     As I explained, one of the components of genocide is the forcible transfer of children from one protected group of people to another. Also, to commit genocide, someone must target an ethnicity for destruction.

     It is worth noting here - as an aside - that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says that each of the world's independent nations has "the right to compulsory education" of children. Children have a right to be educated... by force.

     Excuse me, but if we're having a "say something that doesn’t make sense" contest, then I raise you "children are an ethnicity".

     Ethnicity is not a strictly genetic concept, in the way that race is, because it can include religion. Under the widest possible definition of “ethnicity”, children could count as an ethnic group, because they all have a shared custom in common; namely, child's play.

     But even if children could never legally be considered an ethnicity, they are still a protected class (because the case of Troxel v. U.S. affirms that child custody is conditional upon not abusing the child). And parents, likewise, have the protected right to retain custody, provided they refrain from abusing their kids.
     [And if you doubt that the state is a protected class, you can study 11^th Amendment case law regarding the state’s sovereign immunity, its right to extend that immunity to others, and legal limitations upon the right to sue the government.]

     So, then, it would not be out of line to suggest that these children were forcibly transferred from one protected group of people (parents) to another protected group of people (the school, which is part of the state), in a way that comports with the definition of genocide.

 

     Last month, I talked about the sterilization of kids with the puberty blocker Lupron. I don't know how many of you are in favor of puberty blockers, but you should know that eleven- and twelve- year-old girls are having hormone-emitting devices installed in their arms while they scream. I hope you do not support that. But to those of you who do, I say this:

     The children at Shepard were forcibly transferred; some of the girls who were victimized might decide never to have children because of this.

     You also, arguably, destroyed this group of children "as such", meaning that you took their childhoods; destroying them inasmuch as they were children. Destroying a group "as such" is another component of genocide. As Stromboli says in Pinocchio, "They don't come back [from Pleasure Island] as boys".

     So if you're in favor of risking committing kidnapping, and traumatizing people into not reproducing, and sterilizing non-consenting minors with chemicals - and I and the girls' parents are against those things - then whom, exactly, is committing the genocide against trans children?

      There’s more than one theory, here, about who “the real Nazis” are.
     Stop enforcing the locker room policy. The use of force is wrong.

Written and published on August 21st, 2025

Based on notes taken in July 2025.

Edited on August 22nd, 2025.