“Gender liberation” will likely be the new vogue term used to describe the tidal wave that is fast approaching the shores of the California public school system. And you can be sure that it won’t stop there. It will spread throughout the nation and have disastrous consequences on the innocent.

Boasting a membership of 325,000 teachers, the CTA has allied itself with radical organizations promoting “gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and questioning” issues. Although many of the teachers within the membership of the CTA are solid Christians or persons of character who are opposed to the agenda currently being fostered by the CTA, they appear to have no voice within the union.

In fact, the CTA is actively litigating against us in the case we filed on behalf of Southern California student Chad Farnan. They are defending a teacher’s actions in the federal lawsuit we filed asserting that the teacher’s repeated anti-Christian remarks, made throughout the semester, constitute unlawful government hostility toward religion.

The CTA is promoting drastic causes that are contrary to the moral values taught in homes across California and the nation. California families have placed their trust in the public school system. Unfortunately, however, many of the public servants educating our kids have an alternative agenda that is contrary to the fundamental purpose of teaching our kids reading, writing and arithmetic.

We have been actively opposing the leftist influences within our public school system for many years. In the past few months, however, we have been appalled by the exponential rate at which our public schools have become a haven for social experimentation and moral ambiguity.

Just recently, we received conference literature that was distributed to public school teachers attending a California Teachers Association conference entitled “Pride in Education—Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Conference.”

Conference presenters and program materials propagated the idea of “gender liberation.” In other words, male-female distinctions must be eliminated in order to “liberate” children from unnecessary “stereotypes.” This is not a movement seeking “equal rights,” but a movement seeking to obliterate our God-given distinctions between male and female. It appears that this powerful group of leaders within the CTA wants to brainwash children into believing that gender neutrality is ideal for society. The conference literature included this instruction on “gender etiquette”:


• “Please do not assume anyone’s gender, even people you may have met in the past.  A person’s external appearance may not match their internal gender identity.” 

• “You cannot know the gender or sex of someone by their physical body, voice, appearance or mannerisms.” 

• Pay attention to a person’s purposeful gender expression. We consider it polite to ask: “What pronoun do you prefer?” or “How do you identify?” before using pronouns or gendered words for anyone. 

• One way of acknowledging the needs of all people is to designate restrooms as gender neutral.

• “Respectful allies, who learn from and with everyone and then educate others, are important for successful gender liberation.”

• Each of us can decide for ourselves in which bathroom we belong.


This is the CTA’s vision for our public schools, and we must fight to expose and challenge this agenda. How will our children be allowed to learn and grow in a safe environment when something as fundamental as gender is being redefined? 

 The circumstances are so significant that we are in the midst of preparing a booklet to expose this propaganda titled “HIGHJACKED: K-12.” The booklet will help to educate parents, grandparents and other concerned citizens and prepare them to counteract this anti-family initiative, “gender liberation.” We will inform parents of numerous other concerns threatening their children as well, including laws that allow schools to take children off California campuses, without parental consent, for counseling and abortions. Additionally, SB 48 which is a new law set to go into effect on Jan. 1 that mandates schools to teach the “contributions” of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons in social studies curriculum, will be addressed. This booklet will soon be available on our website if it is not already posted as of the date of this publication.

It is time for parents of public school children to take back their schools—to become the presidents of their PTA, to sign-up as a room-parent or to run for the school board. Likewise, it is time for Christian teachers to take over the CTA or, at minimum, send an exemption letter to the CTA in order to redirect their union dues from the CTA’s political causes to a well-deserving charitable cause as allowed by law.


Tyler is founder and general counsel of Advocates for Faith & Freedom in Murrieta. He has been a featured guest on Fox News, MSNBC, TBN and PBS. For more information, visit www.faith-freedom.com.