Parental Rights Over the Education and Care of Their Kids Act

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Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, a special thanks to Chairman Walberg and Representative Owens for leading this important bill.

As reports continue to come out from the Department of Education, we have seen that public schools are blatantly violating FERPA by secretly encouraging children to adopt so-called transgender identities behind their parents' back.

In fact, the DOJ recently announced investigations into 36 public school districts in my home State of Illinois for violations of President Trump's executive orders that affirm the biological reality of male and female and prohibit public schools from indoctrinating children into believing they were born in the wrong body.

H.R. 2616, the Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act, takes an important step forward by codifying these executive orders and by rescinding Federal funding from any school that seeks to undermine parents.

Democrats believe children are nothing more than wards of the State to be indoctrinated as loyal foot soldiers in their march toward Marxism. They have labeled parents who are concerned about their children's well-being domestic terrorists and arrested them at school board meetings.

Parents are the only ones who have the fundamental, God-given right to raise their children as they see fit. Republicans are here fighting to protect parental rights, shield children from radical gender ideology, and restore sanity to America's classrooms.

Mr. Speaker, I urge all of my colleagues to support H.R. 2616.

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