The number of policies that we live under is astounding. CPL follows and addresses policies in line with our mission to protect children from exploitation, indoctrination, and violence.

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Public Policies

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
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Open Records Requests (ORR)

It is your right to view public records.

  •  Government Records
    Citizen engagement is essential for good government. You have the right to request public records from your government both federal and state.

Minnesota Legislation

  • Minnesota Legislative History 2016-2024
    CPL has been instrumental in support and opposition to specific legislation that affects children and their families. Many legislative bills are successfully adopted or defeated but then pop up again in new sessions in following years.

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Title IX Sex Discrimination Rules

Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments was written to ensure that “no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” The US Department of Education appears set to use Title IX as the legal authority for creating a new prohibition against discrimination on the basis of “gender identity.” Draft Policy (regulation begins on page 651)

CPL hosted Eileen O’Connor, representing the Network to Stop Title IX Biden Regulations, to give a briefing on the intent of Title IX, the implications of changing the definition of sex to gender identity and what to do.
Recorded Briefing: A must watch!
(54 minutes with Q&A)


YouTube video link

Women’s Sports

Ohio House Bill 68 – a bill that prevents transgender athletes from playing women’s sports.
Ohio Senate overrides DeWine vetoes on trans youth gender-affirming care and local tobacco bans • Ohio Capital Journal

New Hampshire HB 1205 – a bill protecting participation on female K-12 sports teams based on sex.
https://nhjournal.com/sununu-signs-bills-protecting-girls-sports-banning-sex-change-operations-for-minor-children/

Parental Rights

Tennessee SB 2749 – ‘Families’ Rights and Responsibilities Act,’ which establishes that “[t]he liberty of a parent to the care, custody, and control of the parent’s child, including the right to direct the upbringing, education, health care, and mental health of the child, is a fundamental right.”
Parental Rights Win in Tennessee! – Parental Rights Foundation

Bans on Pronoun Mandates

California bill A.B. 1955, the Support Academic Futures and Educators for Today’s Youth, or SAFETY Act,  California school districts can no longer adopt parental notification policies that require teachers to inform parents if their child asks to use a name or pronoun different than what was assigned at birth.
https://www.californiafamily.org/2024/07/newsom-signs-parental-secrecy-bill-endangering-child-safety/

Louisiana House Bill 121 prohibits the use of transgender and nonbinary youths’ chosen names and pronouns in K-12 public schools without parental permission.
LA governor signs bill to protect speech, conscience at public schools

Tennessee SB 1810 – a bill that requires schools to alert parents if their child has requested to go by a name, or set of pronouns, that differs from their school forms.
https://www.wkms.org/government-politics/2024-05-07/gov-bill-lee-signs-law-requiring-tennessee-schools-to-out-transgender-students

Idaho House Bill 538, bars teachers from referring to a student by a name or pronoun that doesn’t align with their birth sex, unless parents consent. It also broadly enacts protections for public employees, including teachers, who are unwilling to use someone’s preferred  name and pronouns.
Idaho Gov. Brad Little signs bill to ban compelled pronoun use • Idaho Capital Sun

Stop Gender Transitioning of Underage Youth

Idaho House Bill 668, a bill banning the use of public funding to cover sex-change procedures.
https://idahocapitalsun.com/briefs/idaho-governor-signs-law-to-ban-medicaid-state-insurance-coverage-for-transgender-gender-care/

Ohio House Bill 68, a bill which blocks gender-affirming care for trans youth.
Idaho governor signs law to ban Medicaid, state insurance coverage for transgender gender care • Idaho Capital Sun

Wyoming bill SF0099, a Children gender change prohibition bill which bans physicians from performing procedures for children related to gender transitioning and gender reassignment.
Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon

South Carolina bill H4624 places a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors. The law also bars health professionals from performing gender-transition surgeries, prescribing puberty blockers and overseeing hormone treatments for patients under 18.
South Carolina governor signs into law ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors

New Hampshire HB 619 – a bill that “ensures that life-altering, irreversible surgeries will not be performed on children.”
https://nhjournal.com/sununu-signs-bills-protecting-girls-sports-banning-sex-change-operations-for-minor-children/

  • What is a Woman? Handout (PDF)
    This handout explains succinctly the ramifications if Title IX is changed. It was NOT intended to be applied on the basis of gender identity. Print and pass out this handout so others are aware of the consequences if these changes are made.
  • TITLE IX: The Transformation of America
    Save has an extensive list of the attorneys general, lawmakers, organizations, and commentators who have come out in opposition to the draft policy.  CPL signed on to this list as well.
  • Coalition Letters
    • Coalition Letter May 26, 2022 (PDF)
      Child Protection League joined a coalition of 27 organizations through Parents Defending Education to send a letter to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona expressing concerns with a forthcoming rewrite of Title IX sex discrimination rules.

    • Title-IX Coalition Letter May 10, 2023 (PDF)
      Sent to Dr. Miguel Cardona, Secretary of the Department of Education, from 41 national and 31 state organizations of the Title IX Network, and 34 state lawmakers, who have expressed their deep concerns with the upswing in the threats of violence, and incidents of actual violence by transgender activists.

School Choice

School choice sounds attractive and alluring but is it really the best path to educational freedom or could it be a trap?  Vouchers Skekels to Shackle (PDF) explores this issue with each chapter written by a different author.

The Church and Politics

School Policies

Transgenderism

  • How Schools’ Transgender Policies are Eroding Parents’ Rights (PDF)
    The increasingly common practice of rushing to “affirm” and facilitate a transition at school without informing parents, and even refusing to follow their wishes, runs directly against a strong body of case law recognizing parents’ constitutional right to raise their children.
  • The Trevor Project
    At many schools, the student ID cards and other sources of student information must provide contact information that goes to the 988 Suicide & Crisis LifeLine which often links to the Trevor Project which in turn directs students to resources and groups that promote transgender surgeries, gender spectrum ideology, Planned Parenthood, and CRT-based organizations. The Trevor Project is a pipeline to transgender surgery. Read more at Transgender.

Protection of Rights

  • Legal Codes
    • 20 U.S. Code § 1232h
      This US code protects the rights of students in conjunction with parents.  As we battle for parental rights, this code may be of importance.
    • 18 U.S. Code § 2252A
      Certain activities relating to material constituting or containing child pornography.

School Boards are the Front Lines

School boards are often the gate keepers for the school districts. The new strategy of those pushing radical agendas to “fundamentally transform our nation” is to do so locally, through our children. Local community leaders are often hostile to the values and virtues of the family.

Parents are beginning to rise up! They want reading, writing and arithmetic – not lessons on Critical Race Theory, equity, gender identity, to name a few. Learn ways you and your community can make a difference at the school board level at School Boards—The Key.

Racial Quotas in School Discipline

Minnesota Goes Full Radical on Race Based School Discipline
Minnesota is full steam ahead implementing the racial quotas in school discipline in schools throughout the state. Upon recommendation of the Federal Commission studying school safety, acting U.S. Attorney General Whitaker rescinded the Obama-era “Racial Equity in School Discipline” directive that disregarded federal law and subjected public-school students to two-tiered discipline based on race. In October of 2017, the MN Department of Human Rights (MDHR) sent a letter to 43 school districts informing them that they have a “racial discipline disparity” in violation of the MN Human Rights Act. Unless they entered into a “settlement agreement” with the state, they would file charges and investigate them for civil rights violations.

Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Equity

Schools are integrating Critical Race Theory (CRT) and equity into all aspects of curriculum, even math! Is your child being exposed to this detrimental theory?

According to Britannica, CRT is the view that race, instead of being biologically grounded and natural, is socially constructed and that race, as a socially constructed concept, functions as a means to maintain the interests of the white population that constructed it. Read more details on this hot topic at Critical Race Theory and Equity.

History of Significant Policies

Policies of the past follow us into the future. These policies continue to have repercussions today.

  • MN State High School League (MSHSL) Transgender Policy
    The issue of transgender was addressed by the MSHSL in 2014 which, as predicted, opened the door for girls’ sports teams to biological males. The Child Protection League was active in sounding the alarm. Take a look at the ads CPL produced that are just as relevant today and read the history about this policy at MSHSL Transgender Policy.
  • The Bullying Bill
    Anti-bullying was never the real purpose of the “Safe & Supportive Schools Act” commonly called the Bullying Bill. Anti-bullying was the pretext used by powerful forces to import, mainstream, and normalize a “social justice,” politically driven agenda.

This law established an entirely new “School Safety Technical Assistance Center” (SSTAC) within the Department of Education, presumably to stop bullying. In reality, it promotes a politicized diversity including, for example, teaching multiple genders, teaching Islam, normalizing boundary-free sexual behaviors and social emotional learning.