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Thursday, July 24, 2025

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

     The following text is my third article on the topic of Shepard Middle School staff's alleged coercion of several thirteen-year-old female students into changing in front of a trans-identifying student assigned male at birth.

     The meetings of Illinois School District 109 Board of Education - which governs Shepard Middle School - have a three-minute limit. The speech below would take approximately thirteen or fourteen minutes to read; it consists of the full comments which I would make if there were no time limit.

     I plan on delivering an abridged version of this speech for delivery at the meeting.

     The regular monthly meeting of the District 109 Board of Education will meet at 7:00 P.M., on Thursday, July 24th, 2025, at 517 Deerfield Road, in Deerfield, Illinois.



     While keeping multiple private changing locations in existing boys’ and girls’ locker rooms (and building more) would solve part of the problem that Shepard Middle School is experiencing – and while I admit that my proposal to add facilities would likely involve more spending – I must stress that creating locker rooms (and restrooms) to be used solely by transgender, non-binary, and intersex people, is the superior, more equitable, and more sustainable solution; because it would solve everybody’s problems, by providing sufficient privacy to everybody.

     If the school built non-binary locker rooms and restrooms, then cisgender females and cis males would not be required to use the same rooms as trans-identifying people, and trans people would not be forced to use the rooms that they’re trying to avoid using, and don’t feel safe in (which are the rooms associated with the gender they were assigned at birth).

     Despite the fact that my suggestion is perfectly viable, some of the people who attended the meeting in May seem to have relayed some fear about the fact that so-called “outsiders” are allowed to speak at these meetings, because they’re supposedly “extremists” who are “dividing” Deerfield.

     Since I live in Waukegan, I’m wondering who these “outsiders” are.


     I don’t want to waste time arguing for my own right to speak, but it looks like I’m going to have to, because, frankly, “you shouldn’t have a voice” is not something that we should be saying to our fellow citizens.

     The Constitution does not grant the right to speak freely as a new privilege; rather, it acknowledges a previously-existing freedom of speech, possessed by “we the people” and not just the citizens. So any limits on speech – based on location of residency, citizenship status, payment of taxes, or even three-minute time limits – are unconstitutional laws and policies, and can legally be ignored, because they are null and void. I will obey the time limit, though, for the sake of politeness and civility.

     The people warning about “outsiders” coming into Deerfield and speaking their minds, are on the same side as the person who allowed a three-year-old – who, by the way, doesn’t pay taxes to any level of government – to speak at the meeting in April.

     I pay taxes to the same county, state, and national government that the rest of you do; and this board’s policies allow me to speak anyway – and, also, I was molested and raped by my father while he was a member of the Lake Bluff school board, which is just ten miles away from here (which means that I know a little something about who, exactly – in this area – may be coming to are representing and defending teachers, in court, who are accused of sexual crimes against children. So I’m going to speak.

     Don’t pretend you’re being “attacked” by people who are trying to take away your “diversity”, if you’re going to try to silence people who have diverse opinions, just because you’re losing the debate. You can’t have diversity if you don’t let non-residents, non-parents, and people who disagree with you, speak.

     You need non-parents to speak at these meetings, to tell you what you were told last month: “I refuse to have children in this district”. People don’t want to have as many children when their government is protecting child abusers. Just like how many young teenage girls transition their gender because they live in fear of being seen as female, and raped for it, because their government is protecting child abusers.

     And you need “outsiders” to tell you what your town looks like from an outside perspective. To threaten to sue them for money, just because they’re not satisfied with the way your town conducts its business, is not just a refusal to give critics of your town a refund when they’re dissatisfied, it is a bridge-troll way of thinking.

     If you don’t want me to be involved, then don’t involve me by taking my tax money; and stop making me – a non-parent – fund this system of child abuse and indoctrination that you’ve set up.


     Deerfield’s population of about 19,000 means that, statistically, one child will be molested or raped at a Deerfield school – by a teacher or fellow student – roughly every ten years. That may seem like a small number, but every rational person would agree that that is one child too many.

     That’s why I believe I’m justified to warn that continuing a policy of not only allowing boys and girls to change in the same room – but allowing administrators to collude to force them to do so (as the F.O.I.A. requests have shown happened) – absolutely does put these students at additional risk of being molested by fellow students or teachers.

     For one: Some of the money that taxpayers pay to teachers, is spent on union dues, some of which goes to hire lawyers, who defend teachers accused of abusing students, in court. That was once my money, and I don’t want it spent that way.

     You don't get to out-vote me, because I have rights, because the 13th Amendment recognizes that I can't be forced to render servitude, involuntarily. Education and schools are not even mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, so you should lose federal funding no matter where you have trans-identifying kids change clothes.

     I may live in another town, but I and everyone else here all pay taxes to the State of Illinois, and its department of education. Was I asked for my money, before it was decided that my money would go to fund schools outside my county? No. Maybe I would say yes if I had ever been asked. I guess now we’ll never know.

     My point is this: You now know that about 17,000 students are molested in school every year. You are continuing to send your kids, or teach kids, despite knowing this. So... If parents want to keep hiring teachers to molest their children, then they should pay for it themselves.

     Is that so much to ask? Does it really take an “outsider” to point out that this system is unconscionable? Yes, in fact, that is what you're doing. How many times do taxpayers need to be mocked – and compared to cheap, greedy, billionaire "robber-barons" – just because they don’t want to pay for your kids to get molested at school at a rate of 78 per day?

     You pat yourselves on the backs for helping boys and girls into the S.T.E.M. fields, but have you stopped to ask yourselves if you should warn them that some of those fields are still dominated by Jeffrey Epstein’s scientist friends? Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Steven Pinker? If you send traumatized children into professional fields run by megalomaniacal billionaire pedophiles, they will either get abused, or else they will become abusers themselves, and turn out to be evil geniuses. It does not benefit me, if the kids in my area, are well-educated, but also traumatized.


     While on trial for war crimes in 1946, Nazi military leader Herman Goering explained that, to pressure people to support a war, “all you have to do is tell them they are being attacked”.

     That is the quote that comes to mind, when the person who was literally propping-up that three-year-old, at the meeting in April – Asher McMaher – accused people who don’t want boys and girls changing in the same room, of “attacking” the trans-identifying boy who wanted to change in the girls’ locker room.

     I hope that people will look up the meaning of the phrase “D.A.R.V.O.” if they want to understand what I believe McMaher is doing. It stands for “Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender”.

     If a mother can be placed under a Naziesque gag order – and if parents can be sued for defamation just for failing to correctly guess what teachers did to their children behind closed doors – then people and groups (like Asher McMaher and TransUpFront) who falsely claim that a child who was never physically attacked (but was merely criticized), was attacked, can and should be sued as well.

     The people suggesting that the school district should sue for defamation should be ashamed of themselves; they are trying to profit from a tragedy and from the silencing of the victims.

     The people who want boys and girls to change in the same room, are in league with people who are giving double mastectomies to thirteen-year-olds (including one who is suing the State of California over it), and installing hormone-emitting devices into the arms of eleven- and twelve-year-old girls while they scream.

     I guarantee you that this is making the governor, J.B. Pritzker – and his transgender billionaire sister, “Jennifer” – money. And it is making money for AbbVie; the company that has polluted our county with "volatile organic material", and producing Lupron to sterilize sex offenders and partially or completely sterilize trans-identifying kids.

      Walt Heyer was mentioned at the meeting in June. Every trans ally wants to talk about how transgender people disproportionately suffer sexual abuse in adulthood. But why aren't we talking about how many transgender people were sexually abused when they were children (it's at least 19 percent, by the way, according to one study); and moreover, why aren't we talking about how being sexually abused might be the reason they have those gender-questioning feelings in the first place? Indeed, that is what happened to Walt Heyer.

     By giving a trans-identifying male child - and his parents, who, for all we know, may have done God-knows-what to him - whatever they want, you may be, effectively, ignoring an incident of child abuse. Are you mandatory reporters of suspected child sexual abuse? I hope you're not. I don't want to hope you're not, but I hope you're not, because you would probably be bad at it.

     You're not here to protect children. If you were here to protect children, you would put some security guards - or at least a greeter - near the entrances to your schools. People need to know where they're going, for student events; and someone needs to be the first line of defense in case a shooter walks by. I went to the wrong school, when trying to find the May meeting, and I was able to walk around for 20 minutes, without anyone stopping me, and without anyone successfully helping me or telling me whether the board meeting was there or even asking what I was doing there.

     If you cared one-hundredth as much about students getting shot, as you act like you do - so much so that you ignore molestation even though it happens over one hundred times as often as students getting shot - then you would provide your schools with adequate security. But you won't do that; because if security guards were present at your schools, then they would have stopped the staff members who tried to force... what was it, twenty girls? Twenty-five thirteen-year-old girls? ...to commit public indecency.


     Sure; ignoring the possible crimes of people who molest kids who become trans, and failing to adequately counter the threat of a school shooting, may not be what you think you’re supporting, but it is. You fail to realize that it is based on coercion and the legitimization of violence; and so, you effectively worship the State.

     You refuse to invoke your natural right of conscientious objection, when you see a human rights violation taking place, because you'd rather do what you think is "your job" than do what's right.

     The unlawful transfer of children from one group of people (like their parents) to another (like the group of administrators who pressured them to undress) is one of the components of genocide. These children were in the custody of complete strangers, without their parents knowing about it.


     You Democrats are treating your children like petsmuzzling them (with Covid masks), giving them too many shots, putting “harnesses” (leashes) on them; castrating them (like the Democrats of the 1800s used to castrate their slaves)and now you’re afraid that some “outsiders” are going to come into your town, and expose your kids to the idea that they can’t consent to these things. Just like when the Republican “outsiders” came, from the North, and swept into your plantations a hundred and sixty years ago.

     You’re worried that someone is coming to free the pets and slaves whom you’ve turned your children into. If trying to stop you, makes me an “outsider”, then so be it.

     Yet most of you will still pretend that this is not a problem, because you treat the government as if it can do no wrong.

     Making the “argument from benevolence”, when the government (or its schools) do something wrong, your first reaction is that “government is good, therefore whatever bad thing it was accused of doing, it did not do; or else, if it did, then what it did is actually a good thing.”

     Like Adolf Eichmann – the architect of the Holocaust – you obeyed your country’s laws, and the rules for war, so you are not guilty.

     Basically: If you don’t force kids to expose themselves - and don't force them to do whatever else the state wants you to force them to do - then you don’t get paid.

     You aren’t here to protect – or educate – these kids. You’re here to please the people at the top of the state government who butter your bread. Your job is to do as you're told, in order to take a paycheck home.

     One of your students asked, at the May meeting, why critics of this school board speak in public, when they could meet with its members in private. The reason is that you need to understand what it's like to be publicly humiliated, so they can know how these girls felt, when they had to change, in a locker room, unsure as to whether another student who has a penis may be able to see her, with adults they didn't know nearby making sure they disrobed.

     You administrators, and the teachers you employ - and the Democratic Party of Illinois and the teachers' unions which are orchestrating all of this - have decided that this is the policy that you will fight to the death to enforce.

     We are here to tell you that this is such an egregious incursion into students' privacy, human rights, children's safety, and parents' rights to know where their children are, that we cannot possibly tolerate it. The forced exposure in the locker rooms must be the last sex crime that ever occurs in this school district. And whether one does, again, or not, you are never going to hear the end of this.


     You failed. Our school system has failed. 

     The fact that twelve teachers retired from the district this year, should probably concern us. I hope that the rest of you will retire soon, because the state of public education, under your watch, is unconscionable, and it is a danger to children's safety, as well as to their privacy and innocence.

     Build non-binary restrooms and locker rooms and make a plan to end this nonsense quickly; or else the American people will have no choice but to consider total abolition of public education by government employees, or at the very least, exemption of non-parents from having to fund a system that gets at least 17,000 kids molested per year.

     We must elect a governor who will nullify Pritzker's Executive Order 2019 11, we must amend Section 3B of the Illinois Human Rights Act, and we must elect sheriffs who will refuse to enforce inhumane policies that allow coercing children to expose themselves.



Written on May 15th, June 17th, and July 24th, 2025.

Published on July 24th, 2025.



Monday, April 7, 2025

Speech to the Illinois School District 109 Board of Education Regarding Gender Integration of Locker Rooms at Shepard Middle School (April 10th, 2025)

I. Introduction

      The following text is a speech I delivered, in part, at the April 10th meeting of the Board of Education of Illinois School District 109, which governs Shepard Middle School in Deerfield.
     Readers seeking additional context and background for this article, should read my previous article about the topic - titled "Reaction to Shepard Middle School Staff Pressuring a Girl to Disrobe in Front of a Trans-Identifying Boy" - which was published on March 20th. That article is available at the following address:

     The speech below would probably take about six minutes to read, the board's normal limit is three minutes - and their limit was reduced to two minutes on April 10th in order to accommodate more speakers - so an abbreviated version of the speech was delivered to the board.
     What follows is my second draft of the speech, without omissions or abridgement. This is the full text of what I would have said, had my time been unlimited.

     The April meeting of the District 109 Board of Education was held at 7:00 P.M. on the evening of Thursday, April 10th, 2025, at Caruso Middle School, located at 1801 Montgomery Road in Deerfield.
     Another meeting will take place at the same time and location, on Thursday, May 8th, 2025.

     [Notes:
     1. I plan to use the initialization "B.L.I.N.T." to refer to "Bathrooms and Locker-rooms for Intersex, Non-binary, and Trans Individuals" in upcoming writing and/or campaigns.
     2. During the April 10th meeting, I learned that one of the causes for the conflict was that not enough private stalls were available to biological cisgender girls who wished to change in a room apart from the trans-identifying male. I think it is reasonable to assume that the reason not enough private stalls were available, was probably because a majority of the girls did wish to change separately from the trans child.]



II. Speech

     Pardon me for speaking quickly.
     My name is Joe Kopsick, I’m a security guard who attended Lake Forest -area schools, and I pay taxes that fund schools in Waukegan, where I live.


     While I support Nicole Georgas’s proposal to label existing locker rooms for biological males and females, I would also like to urge the school to add
additional private stalls in boys' and girls' locker rooms, as well as new locker rooms and bathrooms which would provide equal access and accommodations to transgender, intersex, and non-binary individuals.

     Providing private changing facilities to girls who don’t want to undress in the same room as a trans student…
was already the compromise position, just a few years ago. But now, even that has been taken away.
     There is no reason to limit normal access to the private stalls within the girls’ locker room, by biological cisgender girls; because prior to February, one hundred percent of the people who used that room, were satisfied with those arrangements.
     In many schools, boys and girls play sports together on the same fields and courts, at the same time; including in wrestling. Yet nobody makes the boys and girls change or shower in the same room. There would be no need for that. So, then, why must the fact that boys and girls and trans kids are playing together on the field, mean that they also must change and undress and shower together, off the field? No reason at all. So why do it?
     Neither girls' comfort nor trans people's comfort is more important than the other. That’s why each group should be afforded the same equal right to exclude, in order to achieve a relative degree of privacy.
     If someone assigned male at birth, wants to use the girls’ locker room, and there is no mutual agreement that they’re welcome in either locker room, then they need a third locker room. They would have plenty of room, and plenty of privacy, and would know that they can never get kicked out.
     
If we’re going to have gender-integrated sports, then 1) boys, girls, and non-binary students should not be made to undress in the same room as each other; 2) students and parents should be fully informed of any risk of injury from sports; and 3) students should be free to choose whether to play on a gender- integrated or -non-integrated team. That’s the only way this can be consensual for everyone involved.

     
Additionally: The school seems adamant that nobody was forced to undress. If that’s true, then it’s only because the girl resisted. The girl complained, and called her mom. That’s the evidence of force.
     They tried to make her undress; that’s the force. …If you’re charged with attempted murder, you don’t get to go free just because your attempt didn’t succeed. The attempt was still illegal. You still attempted to force a child to undress. That's the force.
     Beatings and assault are overt force. But pressure, intimidation, manipulation, and threats are covert force. So is taking away alternatives, which are normally available, for no good reason – such as the private changing stall.
     You might say, “Well, the other girls complied. Certainly that was voluntary.” Not true; they were given no choice but to undress. Their parents didn’t know that that was happening to them at the time. Most of the girls probably undressed because they were afraid not to. They were intimidated. That’s the force.
     If the teachers blocked the exit (and please correct me if I'm getting any facts wrong), then that's the force. That’s probably unlawful restraint, and therefore possibly also false imprisonment, or maybe even kidnapping. In my opinion, it’s entrapping a minor to commit an act of public indecency. The people who did this, need to be investigated for any and all offenses they might possibly have committed.
     The fact that coaches and administrators would not have forced the girl to change, if it had been another cis girl who had made her uncomfortable, means that this could only have been done for the sake of public humiliation.

     To the parents of the trans-identifying child:
     Nobody hates your kid; we are concerned about your kid. Nobody thinks your kid doesn’t exist, and nobody wants anybody to have to show their genitals in order to enter a bathroom or locker room.
     The trans kid is just a shield, whom the staff is using, to deflect criticism away from themselves, to defend exercising more and more control over your kids every day. Most of the people saying trans kids belong in girls' locker rooms, are doing everything they can to make it look like the people saying they don't, hate trans kids, rather than that they are upset with the teachers (which is the truth of the matter).
     The teachers, coaches, and administrators who allowed this, want to deflect criticism away from themselves; because they don’t want anyone to find out that, every school day, 78.3 students are molested or raped by a teacher or fellow student – and that’s just what’s reported – as of the 2017-18 school year. Assuming a 180-day school year, and seven hours and twenty minutes of school per day, that’s one molestation, somewhere in America, every five minutes and thirty-seven seconds (during school hours).
     [Source: http://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/15/sexual-violence-reports-rise-drastically-at-schools-education-department-data-shows-429663]

     The police, lawyers, and judges in Lake County are doing everything they can to stop lawsuits against abusive teachers from going forward. And the money to hire lawyers to defend teachers for rape, comes mostly from taxpayer funds.
     How am I supposed to sleep, knowing this? How am I supposed to work, knowing what my money will be spent on?
     In effect, all of you are forcing me, and other taxpayers who don't have children, to fund - through my taxes - people who help teachers get away with molesting and raping your children.
     Please stop forcing me to fund this system of molestation factories that you call public schools.

     As far as I’m concerned,
every public school should lose federal education funding, whether they end gender separation or not. They rape over fourteen thousand kids per year. On top of that, education was never legally made into a federal issue to begin with.
     We must elect a governor who will nullify Pritzker’s Executive Order 2019 11, and we must amend Section 3B of the Illinois Human Rights Act. We must convince local sheriffs to refuse to enforce laws that force children to engage in public indecency, and to file charges against each and every sex crime suspect (regardless of profession, wealth, or reputation).
     To any children who are listening: Your teachers don’t care about your safety, and your parents have sold you into slavery. Nobody is going to defend you but you. If you get an opportunity to study martial arts, take it.
     Please stop sending your children to these schools; this is insanity. We must stop fooling ourselves, and we must admit that these schools are failing our children.




Written and published on April 7th, 2025.

Edited and expanded on April 9th and 10th, 2025,
including several minor edits which were made
after the speech was partially delivered.

Two notes in introduction added on April 14th, 2025.

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