Do parents have a right to shield their kids from “gender identity” in schools?

August 18, 2026

This post is about a lawsuit that was recently filed by a Portland, Oregon, mom against her child’s school for introducing her child to so-called “gender identity” ideology. It’s hard to tell, but I think she stands a decent shot at prevailing.

But first …

I received this lovely email message in response to my free post about the Indiana Fever game I attended last Friday. I am sharing it, and using her name, with permission and verbatim.

Hello Kara,

I wanted to let you know how much I appreciate you and I follow everything you are doing for women and girls sports.

I am a conservative Christian republican, but most importantly I am deeply affected by the abuse against women and girls and I speak out against this whenever I can.

I give conservative people your name. Inevitably, people try to blame women for this transgender fetish and I feel furious about this. Comments like, “where are the feminists against men in women’s sports?” and I let them know your name and the tireless work you are doing.

I am in not such a great place financially at this moment but when things change, I will support your work even more.

Thank you and thank you so much,

Eva Small

By the way, I am way pissed off to have men coming into the women’s restroom at Kaiser hospital and into our locker room at 24 hour fitness, I want this to stop but it requires diligence on every woman’s part. God bless you.

This is why we do what we do. We’re going to get this done, together.

I appeared on Sunday on “Free Speech Nation” with Josh Howie to discuss the Sophie Cunningham situation. Thanks so much to GB News for having me!

The US Department of Justice has issued a report concerning its investigation into the California prison system. A summary of its findings:

The Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice and the United States Attorney’s Offices for the Eastern and Central Districts of California (the Department) provide notice, pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1997 et seq., (CRIPA) that there is reasonable cause to believe that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF), and the California Institution for Women (CIW) are subjecting prisoners to egregious or flagrant conditions which deprive such prisoners of their rights under the Constitution and Federal law, pursuant to a pattern or practice of resistance to prisoner enjoyment of their rights, causing such prisoners grievous harm. Specifically, CDCR, CCWF, and CIW are violating the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights of prisoners.

The report is not specifically about California’s practice of housing male prison inmates in the women’s prisons, but it suggests that at least someone cares about incarcerated women in California. Amie Ichikawa has explained that it’s an important step. Speaking of Amie Ichikawa, please check out my interview with her from last month; it’s one of my favorite interviews.

The US Department of Health and Human Services has published a report titled Wolves in White Coats, about so-called “gender” clinics using fraudulent billing practices to cover their administration of harmful hormones and surgeries. This is in addition to the Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit against WPATH for essentially the same thing. These clinics are essentially making money by harming kids and then lying about it.

The PodSaveAmerica bros are at it again, discussing amongst themselves whether women should be speaking out about our sex-based rights. I absolutely think men have a seat at this table, and that seat is showing up for women and girls and demanding that men accept all men (including those who call themselves “trans”) in men’s spaces. I am not interested in listening to men go back and forth about whether we should have rights (or talk about them) at all. The group Women Are Real appears to agree with me:

Why the fuck do these knuckleheads think women’s sports exist in the first place? Sorry, lost my calm.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court order “quashing” an administrative subpoena that had been issued by the Justice Department to “QueerDoc,” a “telehealth provider of gender affirming care that treats patients, including minors, who suffer from gender dysphoria.”

“Quash” is fancy legal speak for “void” or “cancel.” When I was a public defender, my clients would frequently ask me to get their criminal charges “squashed.” I thought that was cute, and it is, but it’s not far off. “Quash” does, in fact, mean something along the lines of “squash.” It means “get rid of.” I’m sure my clients would have been quite happy for their criminal charges to be gotten rid of. Sadly for them, that’s not exactly how the system works.

So, here, the DOJ had issued a subpoena in order to obtain documents that might assist it in investigating whether QueerDoc is in violation of federal health care laws. The lower court was like, “You can’t do that,” but the 9th Circuit is like, “Yes, it can.” So that’s good.

Two women wore XX-XY Athletics shirts to the Indiana Fever’s game against the Atlanta Dream on Sunday, and were told by security to cover up the shirts. The WNBA later said that “should not have happened.” The Atlanta Dream agreed with the WNBA that it “should not have happened.”

It’s getting really hard to keep track of all this winning.

The gender zealots have no arguments. None. So they just resort to insults and profanity. Here is an example:

Classy.

There’s a new book out titled Gender Identity: The Career of a Category. It’s written by Rogers Brubaker, a sociology professor at UCLA. I haven’t read it, but I’m sharing it here because somehow I managed to end up in footnote 103 of the book. Someone sent me this screengrab:

I’ll take it.

I came across a strange article in The Atlantic titled “The Wrong Kind of American: The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.” The link I provided should be a free gift link, so you ought to be able to read it without subscribing. I’m still scratching my head over the article. Let me know what you think in the comments.

Again, this post is about a lawsuit that was recently filed by a Portland, Oregon, mom against her child’s school for introducing her child to so-called “gender identity” ideology. It’s hard to tell, but I think she stands a decent shot at prevailing. Read on to learn more.

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