March 6, 2024 • 43 mins
Today I talk with Perla Hopkins, self-described Conservative, Catholic, Public School Mom, Teacher, Mil-Spouse, Veteran, Researcher, Policy, Military Family Parental Rights & Education Advocate.
Texas is considered to be a conservative state, from my outsiders’ view, but based on what I’ve read, it’s the same concerning school issues happening all over our country.
Inappropriate student relationships, x-rated books, critical race theory, the list goes on and on, but God bless people like Perla who are looking to raise the awareness and then tackle the job of putting the right people in place to make changes.
I’ll update you on Maine’s horrible LD227 bill from yesterday and more.
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Texas is considered to be a conservative state, from my outsiders’ view, but based on what I’ve read, it’s the same concerning school issues happening all over our country.
Inappropriate student relationships, x-rated books, critical race theory, the list goes on and on, but God bless people like Perla who are looking to raise the awareness and then tackle the job of putting the right people in place to make changes.
I’ll update you on Maine’s horrible LD227 bill from yesterday and more.
Here event for April 6th: https://bastropcc.com/event/rhinestones-on-the-river-annual-gala-and-fundraising-event-2024/
Please support Perla here: https://www.givesendgo.com/perlahopkins
@PerlaHopkinsTX on Twitter
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Today I talked with Pearla Hopkins,a self described conservative Catholic public school mom,
teacher, mills spouse, veteran researcher, policy military, family and printal
rights and educational advocate. Texas isconsidered to be a conservative state from my
outsider's view, but based on whatI've read and what we're going to discuss,
the same issues, the same concerningschool issues are all over the country.
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It doesn't matter what state you livein. It seems like inappropriate student
relationships, X rated books, criticalrace theory. The list goes on and
on. But God blessed people likePeerla who are looking to raise the awareness
and then tackle the job of puttingthe right people in place to make changes.
I'll also update you on Maine's horribleLD two two eighty seven bill from
yesterday and more. This is themain source of Truth podcast, and very
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few parents have said anything what Seanmcgriarty did. Sean mcbriarty is in the
Falters Focus today. Sean, though, how pervasive is that in our school?
Sean mcgriarty joins us now. Hejust won this lawsuit and gets forty
thousand dollars from the school board.Good morning Shawn for his most Dangerous dad
apparently, how are you are youbeing soon or work you do by a
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local district for exposing the transgender librarydisplay? Can you explain to what's what
happen? Hey? You are sowith everything that's going on to We just
talked to this like alcohol mail,Yeah, about the over spsualization of books
and libraries at the pool and theylook like you put the handle on that.
That's the way it makes you tosupport that. I ask you to
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support this podcast if you wanted tocontinue, and if you want to help
me with my legal expenses and Godwilling a legal offense fund to help others
in need, please consider chipping inat www dot gibsen go dot com,
slash Sean mcbriardy And now onto theshow. All right, folks, this
is season three, episode one ohfive Pela Hopkins Don't Mess with Texas Kids.
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And it's March six, twenty twentyfour as we record this. H
I can't believe it's March. There'sno on the ground here in Hampden where
I live. It's just completely insane. But I want to as I start
out these podcasts of the Bible versea Feesian six twelve, which I wore
is a T shirt yesterday at theCapitol to give testimony on this just LD
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two twenty seven. That's just themost insane, evil bill that you've ever
seen. But it says, forour struggle is not against flesh and blood,
but against the rulers, against theauthorities, against the powers of this
dark world, and against the spiritualforces of evil in the heavenly realms.
That's what's happening in our state ofMaine right now. And my T shirt
said, I fight demons in thiscase democrats. So LD two twenty seven,
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what can I say? It isagain the most egregious, most evil,
insane bill you've ever seen, andit really I'm going to read my
public comments here, but it's aas as Representative Regan Paul mentioned, this
LD two twenty seven is a fullfrontalistode on the sanctity of life. It
is just complete, complete lunar See. This bill was initially called an Act
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regarding healthcare in the state. Itwas a twenty one page bill that was
only received a few days before thehearing, and it's really a legal right
to gender affirming health care services andreproductive health care services. It certainly should
be labeled main Democrats want to surgicallymutilate your children and murder babies and make
sure no one can be held accountablefor it. LD seventeen thirty five was
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bad. LD two twenty seven ismuch worse than that. It's frustrating.
You know, parents showed up inforce. I don't know. I mean
one hundreds and hundreds of people inAugusta yesterday. I know myself, I
spent nine hours there for two minutesof public comment testimony. I know others
who spent longer time. Some folksstayed until nine to thirty ten o'clock last
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night. And as of this afternoon, there's five hundred and sixty six pieces
of testimony in the bill. Butclicking the link actually caused the system just
to spin and spin and spin.I haven't been able to access any of
the information as of yet. Weheard that there was about nine to twelve
full pages of those in opposition whohad signed up for public comment, and
about three pages that were supportive ofthe bill, mostly from Planned Parenthood and
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GLAD GLAAD now grooming organizations like GLAD, they pushed the gay sexuality trans alliances
gay sexuality alliances in over four thousandAmerican schools, including most schools in Maine,
Hamden, Herman, Brewer just toname a few here locally, and
Bangor as well. But GLAD pushesporn in the classroom. They promote all
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kinds of LGBTQ plus books in libraries, and they're really trying to normalize sexual
deviancy and immorality in the classroom.It's all about what's going on. So
let me read to you what Iended up submitting for testimony yesterday. So
I mentioned the same offician six twelvein the intro, but I go on
to say, just a few weeksago, parents all over the country celebrated
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the uniam ANmS defeat of LD seventeenthirty five, better known as the Main
trans Trafficking Bill, after massive pushbacknow LD two twenty seven and is the
most horrifying and morally inept bill wehave ever seen in our lifetime. Proposed
here in Maine. Nearly half theUnited States are enacting laws limiting youth gender
affirming care. Why is main lookingto reverse course? Didn't we already and
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don't we already have enough mental healthissues here in our state? One of
the worst in the country. Thefact is, we know there is no
such thing as gender affirming healthcare,only chemical castration and medical butchery done on
minors for profit. This is abillion dollar business and the product is children.
These are horrible choices forced upon childrenwhose frontal lobes of their brains have
not fully formed to make these typesof life altering decisions. In a very
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recent American College of Pediatrics Best forChildren Position Summary, which came out in
February twenty twenty four, they reviewedover sixty studies and clearly conclude, quote
there is no evidence based proof thatso called gender affirming therapy is affirming to
the health of gender incongruent youth unquote. I've personally spoken of many detransitioners who
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were brainwashed into believing this practice wouldmake them feel whole. Now these former
kids deeply regret their actions actions oftenimpose upon them by adults. They can't
get their once healthy body parts backonce they've been hacked off. In the
most thorough follow up of sex reassignedpeople in the world, extending over thirty
years, which was conducted in Sweden, they document lifelong mental unrest and the
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study shows quote, ten to fifteenyears after surgical reassignment, the suicide rate
for those who have undergone sex reassignmentsurgery rose to twenty times that of comparable
peers. Unquote. They kill themselvesat a twenty times greater rate after transition.
So trans bills such as this neveraddress the underlying cause of a person's
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sexual trauma, physical violence, rape, incest, abuse in doctrination, or
whatever the underlying causes of their mentalhealth issues really are. The clear issue
is an underlying mental health issue.If you really want to help main youth,
this is where you put your energymental health and you could be heroes.
And I urge the committee to voteought not to pass on LD two
twenty seven based on the evidence thatthis bill will only create negative life altering
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practices in children. Our job isto protect our vulnerable children, not push
them towards evil. And I finished, and I asked if there are any
questions, and no one dared toask me a question, which was kind
of a bummer. I certainly couldhave gone on for quite some time.
So the American College of Pediatrics infovery clear. And this just came out,
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I mean February twenty twenty four,over sixty studies that were reviewed.
Youth who perceive gender identity did notalign with a biological sex have high rates
of mental health problems regardless of anyaffirmation of their gender identities. That is
the biggest issue. You know.Research can now cast doubt on claims social
affirmation like using even desired pronouns,And that's where all this garbage starts of
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transgender identified youth helps their long termpsychosocial wellbeing. None of us believe that
this is reality, right. Thisis like believing that unicorns exist. And
so in their extensive review of thedata, ultiple countries have rejected so called
gender affirming therapies in favor of psychologicaltreatment of children with gender incongruence. And
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there's no evidence based proof that's socalled gender affirming therapy is affirming to the
health of the gender incongruent youth.So it's so disappointing. Our state has
just become again the California of theEast Coast. I want to mention a
couple of things here that Billboard,Chris and some other folks tweeted out.
He said, what message are yousending when you call a boy a girl
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a boy? You're affirming that shewas made wrong and that she needs to
be something she's not. It's garbage, it's psychological abuse. The only thing
we should be telling kids that theyare beautiful just as they are. Now,
what about social transition for adults.I'm never playing along with a delusion
that someone is the opposite sex.The second you play the pronoun game,
you've got one foot in the doorof this cult, and you are giving
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legitimacy to the child abusing ideology.That is ultimately a perfect, perfect quote
from Billboard Chris Friend of the podcastso, and then Elon Musk had tweeted
something kind of similar. You know, kids can be taught to believe anything.
Mental firewalls are hidden or missed formost adults and almost non existent for
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most kids. And then Riley GainsFriend of the podcast another you know,
excellent quote. What they show isthe widespread medical mistreatment of children and adolescents
and vulnerable adults. They show thatwp A th h W path members and
the gender medicine practitioners aren't getting informedconsent from their patients because again, kids
can't give informed consent. They don'tknow what they're talking about. So she
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goes Honestly, this is huge.The wp A w PATH files prove that
we already know the practice of transgendermedicine is neither scientific or medical, and
she says gender firming CARO will beseen of one of the most profitable yet
destructive social experiments in history. Excellentwork. Michael Schollenberger. Shellenberger who broke
the these notes out of the wPATH file. I think they were released
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yesterday the World Professional Association for TransgenderHealth. And he goes on to state
in some of his summary information neitherscientific nor advocating for ethical medical care,
because of course how could they,you know, none of this is ethical.
But it is a big business.It's a multi billion dollar business in
the product is children, and hegoes on to say it's members, of
course, are engaged in pure politicalactivision, not science. So we know
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that gender just fort is not afatal illness. Almost all kids simply grow
out of it by supporting them intheir time of need and just waiting.
So more on the WPATH files.At some point I will try to maybe
create a story on trying to summarizeit. It's like two hundred pages,
so I'll need some time to workthrough that and then lastly, Trump wins
main you know which which we allyou know, hope for, certainly on
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the presidential primary, the Republican presidentialprimary, even though our Shinna Bellows the
main just insane Secretary of State wantedto keep them off the back, same
as Colorado. We got the decisionon that one here recently about the Supreme
Court saying that that can't be happening. I listened to Dan Bonngino a lot.
He's mentioning that, yes, youknow, hey, that's a great
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win. However, there's much moreimportant stuff coming up when it comes to
President Trump, because he's getting firedupon by liberals from all angles, which
is just insane. So maybe maybeif we work hard enough to get Trump
elected in November, maybe next January, you know, almost a year from
now, maybe we can get somesupport nationally on national legislation to stop all
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of this nonsense that's going on herein our once great state of me.
Our next guest has a very broadeducation on being an educator. A Texas
certified teacher, an educator in SouthCarolina, teacher mentor for English teacher interns
during certification processes, school textbook acquisitionstandards, curriculum specialists, Technology and lesson
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planning, Library technician for the DoDcataloging and materials. She has about in
psychology in a Master's of Arts andAdult Education, a Master of Arts and
Teaching Secondary Education, and a Masterof Arts in Spanish Literature. She's also
testified at the Texas State Committee onState Affairs. Twitter bio reads, Conservative
Catholic public school mom, teacher,mill spouse, veteran researcher, policy,
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military, family, printal rights andeducation advocate, and she's Perla Hopkins Tea
on Twitter and you can find herinfo at www dot Perla Hopkins dot com.
And I want to welcome Pearla Hopkinsto the Main Source of Truth podcast.
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Hey, thank you for your timetoday. I appreciate it. Our
friend VEM. Miller connecting us whenI saw him at Cepack a few weeks
ago in Washington, d C.So thanks for being here today. Yes,
thank you, Sean. I ama big fan of your work and
I was so delighted to hear fromthem that he thought we should meet.
And I'm an even bigger fan nowas you go and not only advocate,
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but take action to make sure thatour children are protected, especially in the
education setting, and out of oneof those titles. You know, I'm
not big on titles, but I'vehad to wear many hats as I am
have embarked on this journey of parentalrights and child rights, you know,
advocacy, and one of those tatshas been a domestic terrorist. So please
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don't forget to add that. Yeah, it's fine, would you say that.
I actually I avoided the FBI whenthat whole thing occurred. I think
it was like the fall of twentytwenty one, and I was disappointed that
I didn't get any information back.So maybe I wasn't trying hard enough at
that point. Yes, that wasat the peak where our parents were being
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arrested for you know, being outof line at school board meetings, which
we were not. I was kickedout of my children's school board meeting in
September twenty twenty one, and I, you know, we had a lot
of questions, how is it possiblethat the Attorney General of the NEA would
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want to activate the FBI when there'sso many other issues that are plaguing our
country right now and where they're fightingfor the right thing, you know,
and that's the protection of kids.So it's been quite quite a ride.
And no matter what, especially thesilence thing that we received from the left,
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nothing's going to stop us from makingsure that our kids are going to
be okay. Yeah. Well,and the interesting thing there is, so
as an outsider, I would haveconsidered Texas to be a conservative state,
but based on what you know Iread from you sending me information, it
seems like it's the same school concernsand the same issues all over the country,
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you know, inappropriate student relationships,X rated books, critical race theory,
and so one of the things thatI wanted to kind of touch on
is you've been a champion for theremoval of this obscenity exception or exemption so
I found in this penal code thatcurrently permits graphics sexual material in public schools.
Can you tell us a little bitabout some of the you know,
and I'll put my air quotes bookbanning efforts that you've had to go through
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to to kind of work through someof this. Yes, I am,
you know, the last worst nightmarebecause I squashed all of their false narratives,
whether it's book banning or you know, parents being biggest and the whole
realm of things. But the penalcode for three point two four allows for
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sexual content. Let's you know,put the word obsenity out there to be
used for educational purposes. And sothat has been a huge loop loophole that
the school districts, the compromise oneshave used to get away with, you
know, a few of their educatorsto hyper sexual our children. And when
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you are using instructional materials that hardlycontain any words, mind you, I'm
talking about these graphic novels. Oneof them could be and Frank's biography it's
no longer and words, you know, her written work. It has become
a graphic novel that barely has anywords and alludes to her being sexually attracted
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to Margaret, for example. Andso those are the things that we are
fighting against. We're fighting against booksthat have no business being in the hands
of children, regardless of that penalcode. And so then we have worked
with wonderful organizations like Months for America. The President Kimberly Fletcher came to our
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Texas capital, you know, shebrought me along and we sat with our
representatives and our senators. We introducedJohn Richards. That's the standard bill that
he has introduced over in Tennessee,which the FCC requires that if their obscenities,
they cannot be broadcasted over the radiowaves or over the television. So
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when we are talking about grotesque,pedophilia ridden instructional materials, they should never
be in the hands of minors inTexas. With that advocacy for removing the
exemption found in Keino Code for threepoint two four, we worked on Houseville
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nine hundred by Representatives Jared Patterson,which is also known as the Reader Act,
and it has served as model legislationfor the rest of the country based
on that FBC standard. However,we have had book vendors in the state
of Texas through the State of Texasbecause they're claiming that we are trying to
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re move their freedom of speech.But what we always have to keep in
mind, Sean, and this isnot to take away anything from a creative
writer or author. Anyone in theyear twenty twenty fast forward twenty twenty four
can become a writer. You nolonger have to spend your lifetime trying to
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find a literary agent, send yoursynopsis of your books. You can just
become a self published in the authorand your books are available on Kindle through
Amazon. That doesn't mean that yourwork, that your book belongs in the
hands of kids in an educational setting. And that is what I bring to
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the table. I am an educator, and you cannot convince me otherwise that
we are removing anyone's freedom of speechwhen it comes to the protection and the
education of our children and the nextgeneration. That is why now overall,
just conpointing the Hispanic student population nationwide, only twenty one percent are able to
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read proficiently. So we have ahuge problem. And that's another false narrative
that you know, critical race theorypractices or equity must be present in our
schools as well, because it actuallymakes the education of the most vulnerable children
decline. Well, yeah, andthat you mentioned a couple of things.
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I was just taking a little bitof notes here, but I had doctor
Trent Talbot on from Brave Books.He's trying to be the alternative to Scholastic.
So Scholastic is one of those bigorganizations. It's pushing, you know,
all this LGBTQ garbage through the bookfairs, through the schools and those
kind of things. And one ofthe things I always remind everybody is Board
of Education versus Pico Supreme Court.You know, that allows school boards to
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say if these books are pervasively vulgarand educationally inappropriate, they can be pulled
out of schools. But you know, we've seen such an influx really probably
since COVID of these books just floodinginto these libraries. So you mentioned critical
race theory. I want to haveyou kind of give me your definition of
critical race theory. And I startedkind of doing That's really where this whole
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thing started for me almost four yearsago. But I want you to give
me your definition, then I'll kindof give you your mind and we can
kind of talk a little bit aboutthat. I would agree with the radical
activists that critical race theory is notbeing taught in the classroom. However,
what is absolutely happening is that theyare employing critical race theory practices. So
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the art of teaching involves your strategy, the practices that one takes as an
educator in order to make sure thatthe students are obtaining and you know,
having effective learning. Well, whenyou are employing assignments that are fixated on
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one's gender and exploiting the children's emotionalside instead of thinking to academics. You
are in a sense again adding tothat declining of the education level. And
I want to give you one example. In the state of Texas, especially
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at the high school level, schoolcounselors are to meet with the students and
parents for at least twenty minutes,only twenty minutes per year. Two years
ago, neither of my two highschoolers at the time received such a briefing
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or counseling session. I certainly wasnot invited to it per that education code.
Because the district and and your independentschool district took out of the sixth
high schools, the highest performing highschool and the lowest performing high school,
which was my children's and where Iused to teach at, and they implemented,
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along with the school board members,a program called Access, and that
program was only for quote unquote blackstudents to receive counseling, and they were
also given the opportunity to be takenin college tours. Well, that is
just completely unacceptable, that is racist. We had some parents going back and
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forth with the counselors because their children, just like mine, are multi ethnic,
so maybe one child out of theirhousehold was kept off of that opportunity,
and others were not. So thatis one specific example of CRT being
used as a practice, and thatagain is a violation of the law.
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When I first came to teach atLeander ISD in twenty seventeen, I had
just left my military bubble. Iwas teaching prior to that in South Carolina,
and my kids were in high schooland in middle school. I walked
into the school district right off thebat. All of the staff from tom
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Gren High School were put on taxpayerfunded school buses and we were driven around
the entire school zone area so thatwe could see where our kids came from.
I had never walked into such unorthodoxon ethical practices. Because it doesn't
matter whether a student is homeless orwhether they live in a mansion somewhere up
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in the hill country. Every studentdeserves equal opportunity and a chance to work
hard, achieve their American dream andreceive equality education. Something there that that
just kind of you know, thethe equality versus equity aspect is getting so
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confusing, I guess in the schoolsbecause you know, everybody has you know,
theoretically equal rights, you know,under the law under God. Uh,
the equal opportunity to gain an education. But what they're trying to do
is push based on the melanin levelsin your skin and how dark your skin
is. They're trying to give certainfolks, Uh, this equity nonsense,
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and equity is just it's impossible.Nobody's ever going to work the same as
somebody else, you know. Andand so that's that's a piece that's frustrating
for me. I mean, tome, critical raceory definition for me is
anytime skin color is used over contentof character. And then you can get
into the oppressed and oppression and youknow, all these other things. But
what you're what you're telling me what'shappening in Texas, you know, in
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schools? I mean that's just crazy, Like what is what is you driving
around on a on a school busto see your local area. It's not
going to help the kids read anybetter exactly. And in twenty twenty one,
we I had to collaborate with ourlawmakers on House Bill three nine seventy
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nine, which you know we can'tuse the word CRT, but yes,
it was to add transparency so thatwe could see what our kids are learning
and you know, squash all ofthose unethical practices. So that's still a
work in progress because again there's onlya few. I want to say the
majority of US educators are well intended, but there are you know, those
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that are dead set on this radicalindoctrination agenda. And you know, don't
mess with Texas kids. That isall I have to say. We are
a force to be reckoned with,from grandparents to moms and dads and you
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know, folks like you, dad'slike you that are bringing to the table
facts and figures and exposing things forwhat they are. You would never think
that this is happening in Texas,but sadly it is the case. And
back to the point I was makingabout the buses, it turns out that
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the chief of staff and my principle, my boss, were buddies that were
hired out of California and Oregon.So that kind of draw up the timeline
for us where you know, Texashas been infiltrated. All eyes on Texas
and again we are just a bandof parents that will not be by standards.
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Yeah. One of the things Iguess, and you just mentioned something
that I thought about, was,you know, what's the level of the
influence of the Teachers' Union in Texas. It is the most powerful union here
in Maine without question. A numberof things have occurred recently, including some
of my first AMENDMIC cases, thatare you know, really directly tied to
the teachers' union. So what isit? What is the playing field there?
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Do you have to be a memberof the union or you know,
sort of what's the makeup generally andmaybe the schools that you've taught in.
Well, I want to point outthat in Texas we quote unquote don't have
unions, but nonetheless we do havethese associations. I remember coming to teach
in Texas in twenty seventeen and asa teacher, we were just heavily hit
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with join this union, join thisunion, this or another. We will
represent you, you know, shouldyou need legal help. And as a
you know, a teacher with integrityand wanting nothing but the best for all
students, I thought to myself,well, I don't see myself trying to
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break the law and needing legal help. So I can say that I have
gladly never joined the teachers' unions.And yes, they are the ones really
backing up those few educators and youknow, indoctrinating our children, and they're
the ones that are fighting parents.In particular, they tried to guide the
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school board members. We have oneassociation called the Texas Association of school Boards
CAB for short, and they essentiallycontrol the twelve hundred plus school district trustees
board members and their training, youknow, involves all of the above above.
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In twenty twenty one, I wasat the Capital. This is the
time that the Democrats had left.We had a lot of key legislation tending
in education as well as election integrity. And I don't know if you remember
this, but the Texas Democrats goton charter buses and charter planes and went
over to DC. So it justleft us all hanging at the Capitol.
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I was there. I happened tohave a poster in the trunk of my
car. I wrote like a fifthgrader would do it, or you know,
just very sloppy with a sharpie markerthat I found in my purse,
and I wrote in real big letters, no CRT in Leander. Well.
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I had a lady come and listenin on a conversation that I was having
with the author of the House billthat I mentioned earlier that would try to
eradicate those practices, and she juststarted putting her finger in my face,
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telling me that I didn't know whatI was talking about. I needed to
put that post her away. Andwhen she found out that I was a
teacher, she handed me her businesscard. Well I look down on it.
It turns out that she was aJB. She was the government specialist
for the Texas State Association of Teachers. And the news saw this commotion.
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I had two teachers, one fromHouston, one from Leander, IOC,
you know, come and see whatthe fuss was all about. And the
news didn't report it right. Theymade it seem like I was arguing with
the two teachers that were present andgave their own testimony to the news reporters.
But never once was that governmental specialistfor that union mentioned. But nonetheless
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in the in the news. Istill have the screenshot of that report.
There she is, you know,putting her finger in my face. And
again, at the end of theday, you don't mess with my kids,
you don't mess with any children.We will set the record straight.
Well, yeah, one of thethings, one of the things that you
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were setting the record straight on hererecently February twenty first, twenty twenty four
A Leander if that's why I pronounceit Leander High School delays telling Leander.
Leander High School delays telling parents aboutalleged educator misconduct. It took five days
to inform parents about this inappropriate relationship. I guess that one of the teachers
had the third instance. I thinkthat school year, and it is interesting
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to see and we've seen this inmain you know, if they ever even
inform parents via email. It seemslike there's this massive delay in communicating.
So I want to read a quotefrom you on the situation. You said,
families are not timely informed of severeincidents happening in Leander ISD schools.
At Hopkins, students, parents andteachers have to speak up the school board
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meetings, the capital of the stateBoard of Education to EA, resort to
exchanging information on parent groups and socialmedia, and or seek the help of
investigative journalists for information or solutions regardingtheir children's safety. This should never be
the case. So, I mean, schools don't want these sexual assaults to
be known. They don't want parentsto really understand what's going on because it
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raises more eyebrows and causes parents topull their kids out, which affects the
bottom line. So I mean thattype of situation. Unfortunately, we have
seen in state after state after statethis just inappropriate relationships with kids. Yes,
and that is part of the consequences. Where you are deliberately sexualizing children,
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you are sending them the message thatyou, as a school district,
as a campus, don't care.We have had students, very brave students,
gone to our school board meeting andstating that the administrators refuse to do
anything about male students masturbating in thehallways and in the classroom. These kids
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have an outcry like you wouldn't imagine, and everything is covered up or retribution,
you know, retaliation is very asyou know, alive when anyone dares
to speak up, and then youcompound it by giving them, you know,
graphic obscene classroom books. It alsosends the message to child predators that
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nothing will happen to them. Andso that report that you were just reading
off of, I had parents reachout to me because they were getting no
news from the campus, and ittook me two days to have a journalist
or to contact a communications officer toget any answer. So Finally I started
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working on that on Sunday night afterI got back from a conference, and
by Tuesday afternoon, the school districthad said that they would send out information
that that same after evening. Andwhat we were discussed along with the delay
and information was that the principle wroteessentially that he was putting out this notice
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because it might get media attention.I saw that. I mean, that
is that is you know, sofirst off, you know, if I
don't know, it's one of thosethings like if they would get out in
front of it and be upfront tosay, listen, we have a concern,
we've addressed it. The person isyou know, being investigated, they're
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pulled or you know, whatever itis, and let parents know. But
but again, they don't want itto leak out. And the only way
that they do something is if there'sa threat of it leaking out. I
mean, it's just crazy. Imean one of the things that kind of
as we're working through wrapping up here, I saw a tweet from Chris Ruffoe
this morning. Big win tonight ford'angelus Corey Corey Dangelis in Texas is Geopple
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primary candidates are wiping out incumbent Republicanswho refuse to vote for school choice last
term. It's looking like Texas willget universal school choice and the new legislative
session. Congratulations to all. Andyou've been really working to try to champion
and help work on conservative candidates aroundvarious levels of Texas government, for local
to state to federal. And youguys have an event coming up right called
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the if I'm pronouncing this right,the bass Drop County Conservative Fundraiser. Yes,
Rhinestones on the River Cool. Itwill be a one of a kind
VIP experience where we hope to packup the convention center down there in bass
Drop and just you know, workwith our leaders from you know, faith
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to education in collaborating and continuing thework that so many have had to sacrifice
for. And we already know thatsome of these compromised school districts don't care
about the kids, and we justhave to step in and do something about
that and preserve, you know,our our sovereign republic and protect our freedom.
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Yeah, and I think I readCarl Higbee, newsmax's host of Frontline,
is going to be the guest speakerApril sixth at five pm local time.
I assume. Yes, absolutely,So we're inviting all of our candidates
and our honor death you know,months for Liberty, months for America.
We invited you. We hope thatyou can come. It's just going to
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be a great time in learning moreabout each other's journeys and just advocacy and
fight because you know, what happenshere in Texas will lead away, you
know, for other states and justour nation. We are a very proud
military friendly state. About one infive families our military affiliated here in the
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great State of Texas. And alot of the doctrination when it comes to
our kids, it's so anti American. You know. Not only is it
growth filled with obstremities, but youjust can't make this stuff up. And
what are they thinking? You know, the left is just really self implode,
imploding, and they don't realize thatwhat they're adding us to the destruction
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of our own country well with us, Yeah, no, it's it is
a Marxist initiative, I mean,and that's the hardest thing. I mean,
I've said for the last couple ofyears. I believe that, at
least in Maine, I tell everyparent pull your kids out immediately. The
schools are irreparably broken, and thereis no signs of them being fixed based
on the way that this state iscurrently constituted. At least in Texas,
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it seems like you at least havesome backing and some support and some folks
that are really in, you know, charge of trying to make that better.
But I just think in Maine itis it is past the point of
no return at this point, andevery time that a parent is sending their
kids off to these schools, they'rejust rolling the dice on if they're going
to come back the same way theyleft the house. You know, I
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mean, it's just crazy. Sohow do folks get tickets for your event?
They can go through rhinestones on theriver on any platform they can profibly
you know, look at your informationas well. They could look up bash
Drops, County Conservatives. Just manyways that you can learn about the event.
And if I may, I alsohave a funding page like you all
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do. And so I want tosay thank you to your audience for helping
us. Parental rights advocates, youknow, are all out braves, moms
and dads and grandparents out there.We're doing this pro bono, you know,
I'm helping a family later this weekwith a grievance with school administrators.
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We travel, you know, longdistances to try to advocate for our children
across the country. And my siteor my page is w w W give
send go dot com backslash Perla Hopkins. Okay L that's easy. Yeah,
sorry, go ahead? Uh yes, no, yes, gives them to
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go dot com backslash p E RL A H O P K I M
L. And it's just been sucha pleasure, Sean. I want to
share with you one last thing.I followed doctor Frank Lunt and he was
on Doctor Phil a couple of yearsago. And you know, our parents,
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especially the Hispanic community, which Iwant to point out because here in
Texas, Hispanic you know, Texanpopulation is now fifty one percent of the
folks residing here. Well waking up. You know, our Spanish speaking communities,
they understand that equity no is bueno. It's all about equality, equal
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opportunity. And doctor Lunch went into, you know, pointing out that for
the longest time, you know,there have been freedom fighters and leaders.
You know, we have doctor LutherKing and sets off Travis, but we
haven't had someone leading the way whenit comes to the Hispanic Latino communities,
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especially when it comes to education.So your outreach having me on your podcast
today, I just want to tellyou on behalf of so many Americans,
thank you, because it's all aboutexposing and making sure that our kids are
going to be okay at the endof the day. And I just follow
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your work and I'm so thankful,Thank you very much, And I appreciate
your time today, and I'm gladto have met you know another ally in
the fight for students and parents andtaxpayers. It is it is a community
of warriors trying to help expose what'shappening. And and you know you've been
able to take it and and reallyrun with it. So I really appreciate
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all the work you've done and I'mso glad that you've been able to spend
some time with us today. Thankyou, Thank you, God blessed America.
So some final truths. Uh,we had a great conversation, uh
Pearl and I and I'm so gladand blessed to have been able to make
this contact and talk to her.Sometimes God does put you in positions to
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meet the right people and and keep, you know, keep the thing going.
So I got this email right beforethe podcast from US Parents Involved in
Education. UH in LGBTQ program inDallas, Texas region has been caught working
with the district school teachers without consentfrom Dallas Independent School District officials. Out
for Safe Schools program is designed toconnect teachers with a transgender affirming clinic called
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the Resource Center and educate them howto be allies to trans identifying students.
Despite the initial conversation about a partnership, no agreement had actually ever been signed,
making the program's presence in the districthighly inappropriate and unwarranted. You know,
that's the type of influence that we'reseeing in these schools. And again,
you know, this is an examplein Texas. It's it's on,
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it's ungodly, it's on, it'simmoral, it's unconscionable that these things are
happening to our kids with our taxdollars. So please consider sharing the podcast
with other concerned parents and taxpayers.I certainly appreciate your support. If you
have an opportunity to go to Seanmcbriordy dot substack dot com. That's where
I post all my articles UH.And again you can you can download this
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Today I talked with Pearla Hopkins,a self described conservative Catholic public school mom,
teacher, mills spouse, veteran researcher, policy military, family and printal
rights and educational advocate. Texas isconsidered to be a conservative state from my
outsider's view, but based on whatI've read and what we're going to discuss,
the same issues, the same concerningschool issues are all over the country.
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It doesn't matter what state you livein. It seems like inappropriate student
relationships, X rated books, criticalrace theory. The list goes on and
on. But God blessed people likePeerla who are looking to raise the awareness
and then tackle the job of puttingthe right people in place to make changes.
I'll also update you on Maine's horribleLD two two eighty seven bill from
yesterday and more. This is themain source of Truth podcast, and very
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few parents have said anything what Seanmcgriarty did. Sean mcbriarty is in the
Falters Focus today. Sean, though, how pervasive is that in our school?
Sean mcgriarty joins us now. Hejust won this lawsuit and gets forty
thousand dollars from the school board.Good morning Shawn for his most Dangerous dad
apparently, how are you are youbeing soon or work you do by a
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local district for exposing the transgender librarydisplay? Can you explain to what's what
happen? Hey? You are sowith everything that's going on to We just
talked to this like alcohol mail,Yeah, about the over spsualization of books
and libraries at the pool and theylook like you put the handle on that.
That's the way it makes you tosupport that. I ask you to
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support this podcast if you wanted tocontinue, and if you want to help
me with my legal expenses and Godwilling a legal offense fund to help others
in need, please consider chipping inat www dot gibsen go dot com,
slash Sean mcbriardy And now onto theshow. All right, folks, this
is season three, episode one ohfive Pela Hopkins Don't Mess with Texas Kids.
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And it's March six, twenty twentyfour as we record this. H
I can't believe it's March. There'sno on the ground here in Hampden where
I live. It's just completely insane. But I want to as I start
out these podcasts of the Bible versea Feesian six twelve, which I wore
is a T shirt yesterday at theCapitol to give testimony on this just LD
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two twenty seven. That's just themost insane, evil bill that you've ever
seen. But it says, forour struggle is not against flesh and blood,
but against the rulers, against theauthorities, against the powers of this
dark world, and against the spiritualforces of evil in the heavenly realms.
That's what's happening in our state ofMaine right now. And my T shirt
said, I fight demons in thiscase democrats. So LD two twenty seven,
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what can I say? It isagain the most egregious, most evil,
insane bill you've ever seen, andit really I'm going to read my
public comments here, but it's aas as Representative Regan Paul mentioned, this
LD two twenty seven is a fullfrontalistode on the sanctity of life. It
is just complete, complete lunar See. This bill was initially called an Act
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regarding healthcare in the state. Itwas a twenty one page bill that was
only received a few days before thehearing, and it's really a legal right
to gender affirming health care services andreproductive health care services. It certainly should
be labeled main Democrats want to surgicallymutilate your children and murder babies and make
sure no one can be held accountablefor it. LD seventeen thirty five was
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bad. LD two twenty seven ismuch worse than that. It's frustrating.
You know, parents showed up inforce. I don't know. I mean
one hundreds and hundreds of people inAugusta yesterday. I know myself, I
spent nine hours there for two minutesof public comment testimony. I know others
who spent longer time. Some folksstayed until nine to thirty ten o'clock last
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night. And as of this afternoon, there's five hundred and sixty six pieces
of testimony in the bill. Butclicking the link actually caused the system just
to spin and spin and spin.I haven't been able to access any of
the information as of yet. Weheard that there was about nine to twelve
full pages of those in opposition whohad signed up for public comment, and
about three pages that were supportive ofthe bill, mostly from Planned Parenthood and
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GLAD GLAAD now grooming organizations like GLAD, they pushed the gay sexuality trans alliances
gay sexuality alliances in over four thousandAmerican schools, including most schools in Maine,
Hamden, Herman, Brewer just toname a few here locally, and
Bangor as well. But GLAD pushesporn in the classroom. They promote all
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kinds of LGBTQ plus books in libraries, and they're really trying to normalize sexual
deviancy and immorality in the classroom.It's all about what's going on. So
let me read to you what Iended up submitting for testimony yesterday. So
I mentioned the same offician six twelvein the intro, but I go on
to say, just a few weeksago, parents all over the country celebrated
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the uniam ANmS defeat of LD seventeenthirty five, better known as the Main
trans Trafficking Bill, after massive pushbacknow LD two twenty seven and is the
most horrifying and morally inept bill wehave ever seen in our lifetime. Proposed
here in Maine. Nearly half theUnited States are enacting laws limiting youth gender
affirming care. Why is main lookingto reverse course? Didn't we already and
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don't we already have enough mental healthissues here in our state? One of
the worst in the country. Thefact is, we know there is no
such thing as gender affirming healthcare,only chemical castration and medical butchery done on
minors for profit. This is abillion dollar business and the product is children.
These are horrible choices forced upon childrenwhose frontal lobes of their brains have
not fully formed to make these typesof life altering decisions. In a very
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recent American College of Pediatrics Best forChildren Position Summary, which came out in
February twenty twenty four, they reviewedover sixty studies and clearly conclude, quote
there is no evidence based proof thatso called gender affirming therapy is affirming to
the health of gender incongruent youth unquote. I've personally spoken of many detransitioners who
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were brainwashed into believing this practice wouldmake them feel whole. Now these former
kids deeply regret their actions actions oftenimpose upon them by adults. They can't
get their once healthy body parts backonce they've been hacked off. In the
most thorough follow up of sex reassignedpeople in the world, extending over thirty
years, which was conducted in Sweden, they document lifelong mental unrest and the
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study shows quote, ten to fifteenyears after surgical reassignment, the suicide rate
for those who have undergone sex reassignmentsurgery rose to twenty times that of comparable
peers. Unquote. They kill themselvesat a twenty times greater rate after transition.
So trans bills such as this neveraddress the underlying cause of a person's
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sexual trauma, physical violence, rape, incest, abuse in doctrination, or
whatever the underlying causes of their mentalhealth issues really are. The clear issue
is an underlying mental health issue.If you really want to help main youth,
this is where you put your energymental health and you could be heroes.
And I urge the committee to voteought not to pass on LD two
twenty seven based on the evidence thatthis bill will only create negative life altering
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practices in children. Our job isto protect our vulnerable children, not push
them towards evil. And I finished, and I asked if there are any
questions, and no one dared toask me a question, which was kind
of a bummer. I certainly couldhave gone on for quite some time.
So the American College of Pediatrics infovery clear. And this just came out,
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I mean February twenty twenty four,over sixty studies that were reviewed.
Youth who perceive gender identity did notalign with a biological sex have high rates
of mental health problems regardless of anyaffirmation of their gender identities. That is
the biggest issue. You know.Research can now cast doubt on claims social
affirmation like using even desired pronouns,And that's where all this garbage starts of
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transgender identified youth helps their long termpsychosocial wellbeing. None of us believe that
this is reality, right. Thisis like believing that unicorns exist. And
so in their extensive review of thedata, ultiple countries have rejected so called
gender affirming therapies in favor of psychologicaltreatment of children with gender incongruence. And
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there's no evidence based proof that's socalled gender affirming therapy is affirming to the
health of the gender incongruent youth.So it's so disappointing. Our state has
just become again the California of theEast Coast. I want to mention a
couple of things here that Billboard,Chris and some other folks tweeted out.
He said, what message are yousending when you call a boy a girl
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a boy? You're affirming that shewas made wrong and that she needs to
be something she's not. It's garbage, it's psychological abuse. The only thing
we should be telling kids that theyare beautiful just as they are. Now,
what about social transition for adults.I'm never playing along with a delusion
that someone is the opposite sex.The second you play the pronoun game,
you've got one foot in the doorof this cult, and you are giving
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legitimacy to the child abusing ideology.That is ultimately a perfect, perfect quote
from Billboard Chris Friend of the podcastso, and then Elon Musk had tweeted
something kind of similar. You know, kids can be taught to believe anything.
Mental firewalls are hidden or missed formost adults and almost non existent for
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most kids. And then Riley GainsFriend of the podcast another you know,
excellent quote. What they show isthe widespread medical mistreatment of children and adolescents
and vulnerable adults. They show thatwp A th h W path members and
the gender medicine practitioners aren't getting informedconsent from their patients because again, kids
can't give informed consent. They don'tknow what they're talking about. So she
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goes Honestly, this is huge.The wp A w PATH files prove that
we already know the practice of transgendermedicine is neither scientific or medical, and
she says gender firming CARO will beseen of one of the most profitable yet
destructive social experiments in history. Excellentwork. Michael Schollenberger. Shellenberger who broke
the these notes out of the wPATH file. I think they were released
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yesterday the World Professional Association for TransgenderHealth. And he goes on to state
in some of his summary information neitherscientific nor advocating for ethical medical care,
because of course how could they,you know, none of this is ethical.
But it is a big business.It's a multi billion dollar business in
the product is children, and hegoes on to say it's members, of
course, are engaged in pure politicalactivision, not science. So we know
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that gender just fort is not afatal illness. Almost all kids simply grow
out of it by supporting them intheir time of need and just waiting.
So more on the WPATH files.At some point I will try to maybe
create a story on trying to summarizeit. It's like two hundred pages,
so I'll need some time to workthrough that and then lastly, Trump wins
main you know which which we allyou know, hope for, certainly on
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the presidential primary, the Republican presidentialprimary, even though our Shinna Bellows the
main just insane Secretary of State wantedto keep them off the back, same
as Colorado. We got the decisionon that one here recently about the Supreme
Court saying that that can't be happening. I listened to Dan Bonngino a lot.
He's mentioning that, yes, youknow, hey, that's a great
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win. However, there's much moreimportant stuff coming up when it comes to
President Trump, because he's getting firedupon by liberals from all angles, which
is just insane. So maybe maybeif we work hard enough to get Trump
elected in November, maybe next January, you know, almost a year from
now, maybe we can get somesupport nationally on national legislation to stop all
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of this nonsense that's going on herein our once great state of me.
Our next guest has a very broadeducation on being an educator. A Texas
certified teacher, an educator in SouthCarolina, teacher mentor for English teacher interns
during certification processes, school textbook acquisitionstandards, curriculum specialists, Technology and lesson
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planning, Library technician for the DoDcataloging and materials. She has about in
psychology in a Master's of Arts andAdult Education, a Master of Arts and
Teaching Secondary Education, and a Masterof Arts in Spanish Literature. She's also
testified at the Texas State Committee onState Affairs. Twitter bio reads, Conservative
Catholic public school mom, teacher,mill spouse, veteran researcher, policy,
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military, family, printal rights andeducation advocate, and she's Perla Hopkins Tea
on Twitter and you can find herinfo at www dot Perla Hopkins dot com.
And I want to welcome Pearla Hopkinsto the Main Source of Truth podcast.
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Hey, thank you for your timetoday. I appreciate it. Our
friend VEM. Miller connecting us whenI saw him at Cepack a few weeks
ago in Washington, d C.So thanks for being here today. Yes,
thank you, Sean. I ama big fan of your work and
I was so delighted to hear fromthem that he thought we should meet.
And I'm an even bigger fan nowas you go and not only advocate,
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but take action to make sure thatour children are protected, especially in the
education setting, and out of oneof those titles. You know, I'm
not big on titles, but I'vehad to wear many hats as I am
have embarked on this journey of parentalrights and child rights, you know,
advocacy, and one of those tatshas been a domestic terrorist. So please
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don't forget to add that. Yeah, it's fine, would you say that.
I actually I avoided the FBI whenthat whole thing occurred. I think
it was like the fall of twentytwenty one, and I was disappointed that
I didn't get any information back.So maybe I wasn't trying hard enough at
that point. Yes, that wasat the peak where our parents were being
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arrested for you know, being outof line at school board meetings, which
we were not. I was kickedout of my children's school board meeting in
September twenty twenty one, and I, you know, we had a lot
of questions, how is it possiblethat the Attorney General of the NEA would
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want to activate the FBI when there'sso many other issues that are plaguing our
country right now and where they're fightingfor the right thing, you know,
and that's the protection of kids.So it's been quite quite a ride.
And no matter what, especially thesilence thing that we received from the left,
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nothing's going to stop us from makingsure that our kids are going to
be okay. Yeah. Well,and the interesting thing there is, so
as an outsider, I would haveconsidered Texas to be a conservative state,
but based on what you know Iread from you sending me information, it
seems like it's the same school concernsand the same issues all over the country,
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you know, inappropriate student relationships,X rated books, critical race theory,
and so one of the things thatI wanted to kind of touch on
is you've been a champion for theremoval of this obscenity exception or exemption so
I found in this penal code thatcurrently permits graphics sexual material in public schools.
Can you tell us a little bitabout some of the you know,
and I'll put my air quotes bookbanning efforts that you've had to go through
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to to kind of work through someof this. Yes, I am,
you know, the last worst nightmarebecause I squashed all of their false narratives,
whether it's book banning or you know, parents being biggest and the whole
realm of things. But the penalcode for three point two four allows for
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sexual content. Let's you know,put the word obsenity out there to be
used for educational purposes. And sothat has been a huge loop loophole that
the school districts, the compromise oneshave used to get away with, you
know, a few of their educatorsto hyper sexual our children. And when
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you are using instructional materials that hardlycontain any words, mind you, I'm
talking about these graphic novels. Oneof them could be and Frank's biography it's
no longer and words, you know, her written work. It has become
a graphic novel that barely has anywords and alludes to her being sexually attracted
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to Margaret, for example. Andso those are the things that we are
fighting against. We're fighting against booksthat have no business being in the hands
of children, regardless of that penalcode. And so then we have worked
with wonderful organizations like Months for America. The President Kimberly Fletcher came to our
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Texas capital, you know, shebrought me along and we sat with our
representatives and our senators. We introducedJohn Richards. That's the standard bill that
he has introduced over in Tennessee,which the FCC requires that if their obscenities,
they cannot be broadcasted over the radiowaves or over the television. So
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when we are talking about grotesque,pedophilia ridden instructional materials, they should never
be in the hands of minors inTexas. With that advocacy for removing the
exemption found in Keino Code for threepoint two four, we worked on Houseville
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nine hundred by Representatives Jared Patterson,which is also known as the Reader Act,
and it has served as model legislationfor the rest of the country based
on that FBC standard. However,we have had book vendors in the state
of Texas through the State of Texasbecause they're claiming that we are trying to
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re move their freedom of speech.But what we always have to keep in
mind, Sean, and this isnot to take away anything from a creative
writer or author. Anyone in theyear twenty twenty fast forward twenty twenty four
can become a writer. You nolonger have to spend your lifetime trying to
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find a literary agent, send yoursynopsis of your books. You can just
become a self published in the authorand your books are available on Kindle through
Amazon. That doesn't mean that yourwork, that your book belongs in the
hands of kids in an educational setting. And that is what I bring to
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the table. I am an educator, and you cannot convince me otherwise that
we are removing anyone's freedom of speechwhen it comes to the protection and the
education of our children and the nextgeneration. That is why now overall,
just conpointing the Hispanic student population nationwide, only twenty one percent are able to
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read proficiently. So we have ahuge problem. And that's another false narrative
that you know, critical race theorypractices or equity must be present in our
schools as well, because it actuallymakes the education of the most vulnerable children
decline. Well, yeah, andthat you mentioned a couple of things.
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I was just taking a little bitof notes here, but I had doctor
Trent Talbot on from Brave Books.He's trying to be the alternative to Scholastic.
So Scholastic is one of those bigorganizations. It's pushing, you know,
all this LGBTQ garbage through the bookfairs, through the schools and those
kind of things. And one ofthe things I always remind everybody is Board
of Education versus Pico Supreme Court.You know, that allows school boards to
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say if these books are pervasively vulgarand educationally inappropriate, they can be pulled
out of schools. But you know, we've seen such an influx really probably
since COVID of these books just floodinginto these libraries. So you mentioned critical
race theory. I want to haveyou kind of give me your definition of
critical race theory. And I startedkind of doing That's really where this whole
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thing started for me almost four yearsago. But I want you to give
me your definition, then I'll kindof give you your mind and we can
kind of talk a little bit aboutthat. I would agree with the radical
activists that critical race theory is notbeing taught in the classroom. However,
what is absolutely happening is that theyare employing critical race theory practices. So
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the art of teaching involves your strategy, the practices that one takes as an
educator in order to make sure thatthe students are obtaining and you know,
having effective learning. Well, whenyou are employing assignments that are fixated on
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one's gender and exploiting the children's emotionalside instead of thinking to academics. You
are in a sense again adding tothat declining of the education level. And
I want to give you one example. In the state of Texas, especially
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at the high school level, schoolcounselors are to meet with the students and
parents for at least twenty minutes,only twenty minutes per year. Two years
ago, neither of my two highschoolers at the time received such a briefing
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or counseling session. I certainly wasnot invited to it per that education code.
Because the district and and your independentschool district took out of the sixth
high schools, the highest performing highschool and the lowest performing high school,
which was my children's and where Iused to teach at, and they implemented,
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along with the school board members,a program called Access, and that
program was only for quote unquote blackstudents to receive counseling, and they were
also given the opportunity to be takenin college tours. Well, that is
just completely unacceptable, that is racist. We had some parents going back and
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forth with the counselors because their children, just like mine, are multi ethnic,
so maybe one child out of theirhousehold was kept off of that opportunity,
and others were not. So thatis one specific example of CRT being
used as a practice, and thatagain is a violation of the law.
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When I first came to teach atLeander ISD in twenty seventeen, I had
just left my military bubble. Iwas teaching prior to that in South Carolina,
and my kids were in high schooland in middle school. I walked
into the school district right off thebat. All of the staff from tom
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Gren High School were put on taxpayerfunded school buses and we were driven around
the entire school zone area so thatwe could see where our kids came from.
I had never walked into such unorthodoxon ethical practices. Because it doesn't
matter whether a student is homeless orwhether they live in a mansion somewhere up
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in the hill country. Every studentdeserves equal opportunity and a chance to work
hard, achieve their American dream andreceive equality education. Something there that that
just kind of you know, thethe equality versus equity aspect is getting so
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confusing, I guess in the schoolsbecause you know, everybody has you know,
theoretically equal rights, you know,under the law under God. Uh,
the equal opportunity to gain an education. But what they're trying to do
is push based on the melanin levelsin your skin and how dark your skin
is. They're trying to give certainfolks, Uh, this equity nonsense,
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and equity is just it's impossible.Nobody's ever going to work the same as
somebody else, you know. Andand so that's that's a piece that's frustrating
for me. I mean, tome, critical raceory definition for me is
anytime skin color is used over contentof character. And then you can get
into the oppressed and oppression and youknow, all these other things. But
what you're what you're telling me what'shappening in Texas, you know, in
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schools? I mean that's just crazy, Like what is what is you driving
around on a on a school busto see your local area. It's not
going to help the kids read anybetter exactly. And in twenty twenty one,
we I had to collaborate with ourlawmakers on House Bill three nine seventy
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nine, which you know we can'tuse the word CRT, but yes,
it was to add transparency so thatwe could see what our kids are learning
and you know, squash all ofthose unethical practices. So that's still a
work in progress because again there's onlya few. I want to say the
majority of US educators are well intended, but there are you know, those
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that are dead set on this radicalindoctrination agenda. And you know, don't
mess with Texas kids. That isall I have to say. We are
a force to be reckoned with,from grandparents to moms and dads and you
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know, folks like you, dad'slike you that are bringing to the table
facts and figures and exposing things forwhat they are. You would never think
that this is happening in Texas,but sadly it is the case. And
back to the point I was makingabout the buses, it turns out that
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the chief of staff and my principle, my boss, were buddies that were
hired out of California and Oregon.So that kind of draw up the timeline
for us where you know, Texashas been infiltrated. All eyes on Texas
and again we are just a bandof parents that will not be by standards.
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Yeah. One of the things Iguess, and you just mentioned something
that I thought about, was,you know, what's the level of the
influence of the Teachers' Union in Texas. It is the most powerful union here
in Maine without question. A numberof things have occurred recently, including some
of my first AMENDMIC cases, thatare you know, really directly tied to
the teachers' union. So what isit? What is the playing field there?
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Do you have to be a memberof the union or you know,
sort of what's the makeup generally andmaybe the schools that you've taught in.
Well, I want to point outthat in Texas we quote unquote don't have
unions, but nonetheless we do havethese associations. I remember coming to teach
in Texas in twenty seventeen and asa teacher, we were just heavily hit
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with join this union, join thisunion, this or another. We will
represent you, you know, shouldyou need legal help. And as a
you know, a teacher with integrityand wanting nothing but the best for all
students, I thought to myself,well, I don't see myself trying to
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break the law and needing legal help. So I can say that I have
gladly never joined the teachers' unions.And yes, they are the ones really
backing up those few educators and youknow, indoctrinating our children, and they're
the ones that are fighting parents.In particular, they tried to guide the
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school board members. We have oneassociation called the Texas Association of school Boards
CAB for short, and they essentiallycontrol the twelve hundred plus school district trustees
board members and their training, youknow, involves all of the above above.
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In twenty twenty one, I wasat the Capital. This is the
time that the Democrats had left.We had a lot of key legislation tending
in education as well as election integrity. And I don't know if you remember
this, but the Texas Democrats goton charter buses and charter planes and went
over to DC. So it justleft us all hanging at the Capitol.
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I was there. I happened tohave a poster in the trunk of my
car. I wrote like a fifthgrader would do it, or you know,
just very sloppy with a sharpie markerthat I found in my purse,
and I wrote in real big letters, no CRT in Leander. Well.
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I had a lady come and listenin on a conversation that I was having
with the author of the House billthat I mentioned earlier that would try to
eradicate those practices, and she juststarted putting her finger in my face,
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telling me that I didn't know whatI was talking about. I needed to
put that post her away. Andwhen she found out that I was a
teacher, she handed me her businesscard. Well I look down on it.
It turns out that she was aJB. She was the government specialist
for the Texas State Association of Teachers. And the news saw this commotion.
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I had two teachers, one fromHouston, one from Leander, IOC,
you know, come and see whatthe fuss was all about. And the
news didn't report it right. Theymade it seem like I was arguing with
the two teachers that were present andgave their own testimony to the news reporters.
But never once was that governmental specialistfor that union mentioned. But nonetheless
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in the in the news. Istill have the screenshot of that report.
There she is, you know,putting her finger in my face. And
again, at the end of theday, you don't mess with my kids,
you don't mess with any children.We will set the record straight.
Well, yeah, one of thethings, one of the things that you
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were setting the record straight on hererecently February twenty first, twenty twenty four
A Leander if that's why I pronounceit Leander High School delays telling Leander.
Leander High School delays telling parents aboutalleged educator misconduct. It took five days
to inform parents about this inappropriate relationship. I guess that one of the teachers
had the third instance. I thinkthat school year, and it is interesting
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to see and we've seen this inmain you know, if they ever even
inform parents via email. It seemslike there's this massive delay in communicating.
So I want to read a quotefrom you on the situation. You said,
families are not timely informed of severeincidents happening in Leander ISD schools.
At Hopkins, students, parents andteachers have to speak up the school board
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meetings, the capital of the stateBoard of Education to EA, resort to
exchanging information on parent groups and socialmedia, and or seek the help of
investigative journalists for information or solutions regardingtheir children's safety. This should never be
the case. So, I mean, schools don't want these sexual assaults to
be known. They don't want parentsto really understand what's going on because it
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raises more eyebrows and causes parents topull their kids out, which affects the
bottom line. So I mean thattype of situation. Unfortunately, we have
seen in state after state after statethis just inappropriate relationships with kids. Yes,
and that is part of the consequences. Where you are deliberately sexualizing children,
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you are sending them the message thatyou, as a school district,
as a campus, don't care.We have had students, very brave students,
gone to our school board meeting andstating that the administrators refuse to do
anything about male students masturbating in thehallways and in the classroom. These kids
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have an outcry like you wouldn't imagine, and everything is covered up or retribution,
you know, retaliation is very asyou know, alive when anyone dares
to speak up, and then youcompound it by giving them, you know,
graphic obscene classroom books. It alsosends the message to child predators that
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nothing will happen to them. Andso that report that you were just reading
off of, I had parents reachout to me because they were getting no
news from the campus, and ittook me two days to have a journalist
or to contact a communications officer toget any answer. So Finally I started
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working on that on Sunday night afterI got back from a conference, and
by Tuesday afternoon, the school districthad said that they would send out information
that that same after evening. Andwhat we were discussed along with the delay
and information was that the principle wroteessentially that he was putting out this notice
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because it might get media attention.I saw that. I mean, that
is that is you know, sofirst off, you know, if I
don't know, it's one of thosethings like if they would get out in
front of it and be upfront tosay, listen, we have a concern,
we've addressed it. The person isyou know, being investigated, they're
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pulled or you know, whatever itis, and let parents know. But
but again, they don't want itto leak out. And the only way
that they do something is if there'sa threat of it leaking out. I
mean, it's just crazy. Imean one of the things that kind of
as we're working through wrapping up here, I saw a tweet from Chris Ruffoe
this morning. Big win tonight ford'angelus Corey Corey Dangelis in Texas is Geopple
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primary candidates are wiping out incumbent Republicanswho refuse to vote for school choice last
term. It's looking like Texas willget universal school choice and the new legislative
session. Congratulations to all. Andyou've been really working to try to champion
and help work on conservative candidates aroundvarious levels of Texas government, for local
to state to federal. And youguys have an event coming up right called
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the if I'm pronouncing this right,the bass Drop County Conservative Fundraiser. Yes,
Rhinestones on the River Cool. Itwill be a one of a kind
VIP experience where we hope to packup the convention center down there in bass
Drop and just you know, workwith our leaders from you know, faith
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to education in collaborating and continuing thework that so many have had to sacrifice
for. And we already know thatsome of these compromised school districts don't care
about the kids, and we justhave to step in and do something about
that and preserve, you know,our our sovereign republic and protect our freedom.
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Yeah, and I think I readCarl Higbee, newsmax's host of Frontline,
is going to be the guest speakerApril sixth at five pm local time.
I assume. Yes, absolutely,So we're inviting all of our candidates
and our honor death you know,months for Liberty, months for America.
We invited you. We hope thatyou can come. It's just going to
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be a great time in learning moreabout each other's journeys and just advocacy and
fight because you know, what happenshere in Texas will lead away, you
know, for other states and justour nation. We are a very proud
military friendly state. About one infive families our military affiliated here in the
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great State of Texas. And alot of the doctrination when it comes to
our kids, it's so anti American. You know. Not only is it
growth filled with obstremities, but youjust can't make this stuff up. And
what are they thinking? You know, the left is just really self implode,
imploding, and they don't realize thatwhat they're adding us to the destruction
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of our own country well with us, Yeah, no, it's it is
a Marxist initiative, I mean,and that's the hardest thing. I mean,
I've said for the last couple ofyears. I believe that, at
least in Maine, I tell everyparent pull your kids out immediately. The
schools are irreparably broken, and thereis no signs of them being fixed based
on the way that this state iscurrently constituted. At least in Texas,
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it seems like you at least havesome backing and some support and some folks
that are really in, you know, charge of trying to make that better.
But I just think in Maine itis it is past the point of
no return at this point, andevery time that a parent is sending their
kids off to these schools, they'rejust rolling the dice on if they're going
to come back the same way theyleft the house. You know, I
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mean, it's just crazy. Sohow do folks get tickets for your event?
They can go through rhinestones on theriver on any platform they can profibly
you know, look at your informationas well. They could look up bash
Drops, County Conservatives. Just manyways that you can learn about the event.
And if I may, I alsohave a funding page like you all
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do. And so I want tosay thank you to your audience for helping
us. Parental rights advocates, youknow, are all out braves, moms
and dads and grandparents out there.We're doing this pro bono, you know,
I'm helping a family later this weekwith a grievance with school administrators.
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We travel, you know, longdistances to try to advocate for our children
across the country. And my siteor my page is w w W give
send go dot com backslash Perla Hopkins. Okay L that's easy. Yeah,
sorry, go ahead? Uh yes, no, yes, gives them to
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go dot com backslash p E RL A H O P K I M
L. And it's just been sucha pleasure, Sean. I want to
share with you one last thing.I followed doctor Frank Lunt and he was
on Doctor Phil a couple of yearsago. And you know, our parents,
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especially the Hispanic community, which Iwant to point out because here in
Texas, Hispanic you know, Texanpopulation is now fifty one percent of the
folks residing here. Well waking up. You know, our Spanish speaking communities,
they understand that equity no is bueno. It's all about equality, equal
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opportunity. And doctor Lunch went into, you know, pointing out that for
the longest time, you know,there have been freedom fighters and leaders.
You know, we have doctor LutherKing and sets off Travis, but we
haven't had someone leading the way whenit comes to the Hispanic Latino communities,
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especially when it comes to education.So your outreach having me on your podcast
today, I just want to tellyou on behalf of so many Americans,
thank you, because it's all aboutexposing and making sure that our kids are
going to be okay at the endof the day. And I just follow
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your work and I'm so thankful,Thank you very much, And I appreciate
your time today, and I'm gladto have met you know another ally in
the fight for students and parents andtaxpayers. It is it is a community
of warriors trying to help expose what'shappening. And and you know you've been
able to take it and and reallyrun with it. So I really appreciate
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all the work you've done and I'mso glad that you've been able to spend
some time with us today. Thankyou, Thank you, God blessed America.
So some final truths. Uh,we had a great conversation, uh
Pearl and I and I'm so gladand blessed to have been able to make
this contact and talk to her.Sometimes God does put you in positions to
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meet the right people and and keep, you know, keep the thing going.
So I got this email right beforethe podcast from US Parents Involved in
Education. UH in LGBTQ program inDallas, Texas region has been caught working
with the district school teachers without consentfrom Dallas Independent School District officials. Out
for Safe Schools program is designed toconnect teachers with a transgender affirming clinic called
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the Resource Center and educate them howto be allies to trans identifying students.
Despite the initial conversation about a partnership, no agreement had actually ever been signed,
making the program's presence in the districthighly inappropriate and unwarranted. You know,
that's the type of influence that we'reseeing in these schools. And again,
you know, this is an examplein Texas. It's it's on,
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it's ungodly, it's on, it'simmoral, it's unconscionable that these things are
happening to our kids with our taxdollars. So please consider sharing the podcast
with other concerned parents and taxpayers.I certainly appreciate your support. If you
have an opportunity to go to Seanmcbriordy dot substack dot com. That's where
I post all my articles UH.And again you can you can download this
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