Abridged Speech to the Illinois School District 109 Board of Education Regarding Transgender Students' Access to Locker Rooms, July 24th, 2025

     The following is the text of a speech which I plan to deliver, in whole or in part, at the July regular monthly meeting of the school board of Illinois District 109.

     That district includes Shepard Middle School, whose staff allegedly coerced a group of thirteen-year-old girls to change clothes in the presence of a student, assigned male at birth, who identified as transgender, and who may have been within range to see the girls changing.

     The meetings have a three-minute time limit.  The following speech would take about six minutes to read in full.

     The meeting will be held at 7:00 P.M. at 517 Deerfield Road in Deerfield, on Thursday, July 24^th, 2025.

     It is truly unconscionable what you’ve allowed to happen here. This should be the last straw and last stand for any rational parents.

     There are so many things here that have been done wrong, that I have enough to say about it to last me the next four months of meetings.

      I could talk more about why my proposal to add bathrooms for non-binary individuals is the safest and most equitable and sustainable solution.

     I could talk about how the way you enforce your locker room policy not only could put children at heightened risk of being trafficked to people they don't know, but also - in effect - actually already did traffic them to people who they (and their parents) didn't know.

     Or I could talk about about how the governor’s ban on the banning of books makes it difficult to get books containing rape, child rape, incest, and pornographic content out of school libraries.

     Or about how - when residents come up here and say “outsiders are coming into our town and attacking us”, or when Asher McMaher says the trans male student was “attacked” – it reminds me of Nazi military leader Herman Goering saying “all you have to do [to get people to support a war] is tell them they are being attacked”.

     I could talk about how Asher McMaher could be sued, for defaming the girls, by falsely claiming  that the boy was attacked when he was just criticized. Especially if you can sue parents, or people who speak here – and take their money - for failing to correctly guess what crimes the staff committed against children, in private, without their parents knowing who had custody of them.

     I could talk about how giving the trans male’s parents whatever they want here, means that you may be ignoring the possibility that the boy’s gender-questioning feelings could be motivated by previous child sexual abuse by a family member or a friend of the family (and a 2021 study showed that 19 percent of trans kids were sexually abused).

     I could talk about how the people who gave you this policy, are aligned with Governor J.B. Pritzker’s billionaire transgender sister, Jennifer, who’s funding a lot of these efforts, and profiting off them (and so is AbbVie, the company that pollutes our county with “volatile organic materials”, while producing Lupron to sterilize adult sex offenders and potentially sterilize confused children as well).

     I could talk about how you’ve failed to post security guards or even greeters at the entrances to your schools, for in case a shooter shows up to an event outside normal school hours (so you’ve failed to guard against shootings and sexual impropriety against children).

     Or about how it’s unconstitutional for you guys to receive federal funds for education, in the first place, no matter where you have the trans kids change clothes.

     But those things are boring, and don’t communicate the gravity of the situation. So let’s read this definition of genocide, from Cornell Law, and see how much of it you guys are doing.

     Intent to commit genocide includes any one, or more, of the following acts, even if incomplete or unsuccessful: “Intent to destroy – in whole or in part – a[n]… ethnical… group, as such.” Ethnicity technically means just a “common cultural background”, so that could include children. Playing is kind of a common cultural background.

     Destroy them “As such”… The childhoods of children who were abused, were destroyed. Thus, abused children are destroyed as children. Like Pinocchio’s Stromboli said, “They don’t come back as boys”.

     “Causing … mental harm”… Certainly the girls suffered that.

     “Imposing measures intended to prevent birth”. Bottom surgery, anyone? You didn’t do it, but you support it. It’s being done to 17-year-olds now. Double mastectomies for 13-year-olds. Hormone-emitting devices implanted into 11-year-old girls.

     Forcible transfer from one group to another… Like from parents to the state?

     You – and the people behind this locker room policy - have committed at least three components of intent to commit genocide; against homosexual and gender-questioning minors, by confusing them into thinking they’re trans, then partially or completely sterilizing them, and filling their heads with thoughts of suicide by insisting it's the only alternative to transitioning.

     Everyone supporting that wider set of policies, towards trans-identfying kids, is acting as if children should be treated like pets and slaves whom their parents and a doctor can castrate, at will, for attention and money. You are abducting children from “non-affirming” homes and lying about transition satisfaction rates.

     You, your staff, the Pritzkers, the other Democrats, and AbbVie should all be put on trial for kidnapping, child trafficking, accessory to sex crimes against minors, and attempted intentional conspiracy to commit genocide against gender-questioning and homosexual minors.

     And “even if the incitement is not obvious to outsiders” (like me), incitement to commit genocide "can still be considered direct as long as the intended audience immediately understands the message”. I believe you know very well what you're doing.

     First you have declared war on this nation’s children, now you are committing war crimes against them. The intent to destroy their bodies and spirits is clear.

     And you can’t sue me for saying that, because I just proved it.

     Invoke your right of conscientious objection to a human rights abuse, stop enforcing that locker room policy, stop violating Title IX, and tell your union and governor that you have a responsibility to interfere with the commission of this legalized crime.

Written on July 24th, 2025.

Based on "Speech to the Illinois School District 109 Board of Education
Regarding Transgender Students' Access to Locker Rooms, July 24th, 2025",
which was written on May 15th, June 17th, and July 24th, 2025.

No Man is Man: Thoughts on Privacy and Sexual Segregation in Sports Participation and Restroom Access

      Like most other issues in politics and society, the transgender sports and bathroom issues are being framed in a false dichotomy: "Should sports be sexually segregated everywhere, or nowhere?"
     In this article, I would like to ask: "Why can't sports be sexually segregated in some places, but not in others?"
     I believe that this strategy will provide balance, achieve compromise, and offer something to everybody who wishes to be accommodated.

     The idea that all sports should be sexually segregated, whether in private or public contexts, is too extreme, because it doesn't let women voluntarily choose to expose themselves to the great challenge of competing against men and trans people who are (on average) much stronger than they are.

     (This is the same principle that Mary Wollstonecraft communicated, in A Vindication of the Rights of Women, when she explained that girls were considered stupid because nobody had bothered to teach them to read. We should be asking ourselves whether the average woman would be larger if psychotic cave males had beaten and killed fewer of the larger cave women.)
     Women do not lag behind men in all activities. But for those activities (reading, specific sports, etc.) in which women do lag behind men, women who expose themselves to the challenge of competing against men, do it because they want to get better at it, compete against the best, and win solely by merit (not because certain people or types of people were excluded).

     But the idea that no sports should be sexually segregated, is also too extreme, because it places unreasonable demands on individuals who don't want to shower, change, or relieve themselves in the same rooms as people who have different gametes and reproductive function than they do, or were born with different organs, or whatever the criteria of the person who feels that their privacy has been intruded upon.

     Sexual orientation could be part of that criteria, just as well. There is no reason why a building shouldn't or can't have multiple bathrooms - one for gays, one for lesbians, one for cis hetero men, one for cis hetero women, one for trans people, one non-gender-specific stall - if that is what the most frequent users of the building (or the company's customers) demand, based on the needs and demographics of the people who use it. There is no reason why gay men shouldn't be able to keep lesbian women out of their bathrooms, in neighborhoods where gay men are threatened by lesbian women (and you can repeat this idea with any other combination of people you can think of).
     If that is reasonable, then shouldn't heterosexual men, too, have the right to access safe, secure, and private bathroom facilities - which are for heterosexual men only - in neighborhoods which are heavily populated by homosexual men?

     It should be up to an individual athlete, whether that person wants to participate in sexually segregated sports, or whether that person would rather participate in sexually integrated sports.
     Public schools should permit both to exist, side-by-side, while also ensuring the privacy and safety of each individual athlete, to access restroom and changing and shower facilities, with the expectation of privacy, however each person defines it (within reason).
     If a school cannot promise safety and privacy - and achieve them, de facto - then that school should stop expanding its athletic program until proper security is hired and all bathrooms and locker rooms are safe.

     At the same time that we should honor the rights of people who want to shower and change in groups, we must not delude ourselves into thinking that this would achieve actual, full privacy.

     Privacy means being free from being observed or disturbed by other people.
     Unless you are using a very loose definition of privacy, “privacy” does not refer to a group of people changing clothes or showering in the same room. They have privacy from some people, but not from all people. One does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy when that person chooses to get naked in a room full of naked people.

     In a single-person shower stall, or a single-person bathroom stall, however, that is different; one does have an expectation of privacy there.

     Policies, regarding sexual orientation and identification, as they relate to participation in sports and access to locker room facilities, should not be based on self-identification, but based on how to achieve the total equality and total freedom of each individual involved, at the same time. Neither freedom nor equality can be compromised, nor should they.

     Sexual segregation in sports (and sports accommodations) should be legal in private contexts, and non-sexually-segregated sports should also exist and be legal. But, just as nobody should be prohibited from participating in sexually segregated sports, nobody should be compelled to integrate with people they don’t feel comfortable around in close quarters.

     But also, a person should not be compelled to change and shower in the same room as other people, simply because they are of the exact same combination of biological sex, sexual orientation, and gender role as the other people are. Some people, such as survivors of sexual abuse, do not feel comfortable showering or using the bathroom or changing around anybody. Not enjoying being naked near complete strangers is not a crime, and it is not unreasonable to suggest that accommodations can and should be made for such people, and that doing so would not be an undue burden upon anybody.

     Same-sex bathroom stalls can and should solve most or all of the bathroom access issue, because it achieves equality of accommodations, through separation. There's nothing wrong with being separate but equal, as long as you're actually equal, and there's no slavery. The only way to have no slavery, and be totally equal, is to be completely free, and thus equal in our freedom.

     Belonging to a group isn’t what makes us unique, or special, or deserving of freedom or rights. Being individuals is what makes each of us unique, special, and deserving of freedom and rights.

     No man is Man.

Written and published on May 9th, 2023.