EXCLUSIVE: Activist Teacher Network Urges Schools To Ban ‘Transphobic’ Language

A transgender teachers network is urging schools across the country to adopt “hate speech” policies to crack down on so-called “homophobic and transphobic language” from both students and adults, according to a document obtained by The Daily Wire.

The Trans Educators Network distributed a guide earlier this month urging schools to pay for teachers’ sex change procedures, implement hate speech policies, and eliminate sex-segregated facilities. The guide, compiled in January, was shared with The Daily Wire by Parents Defending Education, an organization pushing to get gender and racial ideologies out of the classroom.

“Currently, LGBTQ+ educators are facing increasing levels of intimidation and hostility across the country,” the guide says, claiming that some of the pressure was coming from parents’ organizations, linking to Parents Defending Education. “We prepared this guide to highlight the needs of LGBTQ+ employees and help our schools assess their systems of support and protection for us.”

School recommendation guide.

The guide urges schools to create speech codes for alleged “transphobic language.” 

“Create a policy regarding hate speech that includes homophobic and transphobic language and covers both students and adults. Include persistent, intentional failure to use proper names, honorifics, and pronouns in policy. Make it clear how employees should report violations,” the guide says. 

The network did not respond to a request for comment on more details about what their recommended hate speech policy would encompass. Teachers across the country have been awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars after conflicts with their schools about preferred pronoun usage. 

The group also recommends schools offer health care plans “that will cover the full range of gender-affirming care,” and “fertility preservation and IVF coverage that is not limited to treatment for infertility.” The guide said that schools should work to avoid sending LGBT teachers on work trips to “locations with anti-LGBTQ+ legislation.”

Recommendations from the guide.

The guide also says that schools should offer “gender neutral” bathrooms and “allow community members to self-identify when using gender-exclusive facilities (restrooms, locker rooms, dorms, etc.).”

The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it was investigating a school district in Colorado after one high school converted a previously female bathroom to an “all gender” facility. 

According to the network, teachers across the country are being “limited by restrictive legislation,” and “school censorship laws.” This refers to legislation passed in Republican-led states to prohibit teachers from forcing young children to learn about gender ideology and sexuality. 

Parents Defending Education Director of Outreach Erika Sanzi told The Daily Wire that these kinds of laws were broadly supported by parents across the country. 

“Not wanting sexual orientation and gender to be a school’s priority — or even part of the curriculum — is not an attack or an attempt to intimidate. It is a reasonable position held by a majority of parents across the country,” she said. “These LGBTQ activist groups think they are entitled to a captive audience of other people’s children during the school day. They are not. If they don’t like negative feedback for their insistence on tinkering in the minds of young children, perhaps they should stop doing that.”

Trump is expected on Wednesday to sign an executive order that will block federal funding from going to schools that promote radical gender theory or critical race theory.