PR: NC budget affords families the freedom to choose the best educational path for their children
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September 22, 2023
Contact: Laura Macklem
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NC BUDGET AFFORDS FAMILIES THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE THE BEST EDUCATIONAL PATH FOR THIER CHILDREN
North Carolina’s newly approved budget expands Opportunity Scholarships to all families in NC, empowering parents to choose the school which best fits their children. Education funding will now allow every child to break away from our current one-size-fits-all approach to education, regardless of household income.
“Parents know what’s best for their own children, and now economics will no longer be a stumbling block for families who want to escape failing public schools rife with indoctrination,” said NC Values Executive Director Tami Fitzgerald. “Public schools also now have incentive to put learning ahead of the far left’s radical agenda which does not reflect the values of most North Carolinians. An overwhelming majority of people in our state want choice so that every child gets a chance for a quality, unbiased education.”
NC Values Coalition and NC Faith & Freedom Coalition conducted a statewide poll which showed almost 70% of North Carolinians across the board wanted Opportunity Scholarships. The January 2023 survey found almost 69% of black and white residents supported opportunity scholarships, along with 80% of Hispanics and Asian Americans.
The most recent findings on “The Nation’s Report Card” published by the US Department of Education show that only 35% of North Carolina fourth grade students were proficient in math, and only 32% were proficient in reading. Parents across North Carolina have been scrambling for alternatives to public education because of performance rates, indoctrination and pornographic books in school libraries. School board meetings around the state have been packed with concerned parents who are outraged at the politically driven curriculum and vulgar language, sexually graphic images, and racially divisive tone of assigned and available books in schools.
“Students will no longer be trapped in schools not serving their best interests,” said Fitzgerald. “NC Values worked with other school choice advocates and organizations to advance measures which allow money to follow the students, every one of them. We are thankful for the legislators who recognized the overwhelming popularity of school choice and fought for this funding.”
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PR: NC Values applauds decision to take casinos out of the budget, urges lawmakers to vote against expansion of gambling
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September 20, 2023
Contact: Laura Macklem
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NC VALUES APPLAUDS DECISION TO TAKE CASINOS OUT OF THE BUDGET, URGES LAWMAKERS TO VOTE AGAINST EXPANSION OF GAMBLING
NC Values Coalition Executive Director Tami Fitzgerald made a statement today about the General Assembly’s decision to separate the budget from legalization of casinos:
“NC Values Coalition is pleased that legalization of casinos and video lottery terminals is no longer a threat to funding for pregnancy care centers or Universal Opportunity Scholarships in the budget, and we thank lawmakers who stood against predatory gambling. We issued a letter laying out our concerns urging our representatives not to support casinos and video lottery terminals, as it would create a cesspool of addiction, crime, human trafficking, family breakdown, and drunk driving. Predatory gambling erodes the social fabric of communities and hurts families, especially the poor. We also asked our coalition to contact legislators and voice their opposition to holding the budget and good policy in the budget like Universal Opportunity Scholarships and funding for pregnancy care centers hostage just to legalize casino cesspools and video lottery terminals. We will continue to advocate for legislation to protect North Carolina values, and against legislation which will have devastating consequences on the family.”
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PR: Legislation protecting minors from experimental, harmful medical transitioning becomes law
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August 16, 2023
Contact: Laura Macklem
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LEGISLATION PROTECTING MINORS FROM EXPERIMENTAL, HARMFUL MEDICAL TRANSITIONING BECOMES LAW
A bill protecting gender confused minors from genital mutilation and chemical transitioning which leads to sterilization, became law today after a veto override. North Carolina is now the twenty-second state to enact legislation protecting minors from medicalized transitioning.
“HB 808 is a compassionate bill which will protect gender confused youth from medical and trans activists, who urge children with mental health issues to permanently change their bodies by cutting off healthy body parts and consume cancer drugs not FDA-approved for gender transitioning,” said NC Values Coalition Executive Director Tami Fitzgerald.
“NC Values has worked closely with detransitioners, and we have heard their tragic stories of being lured into the trans cult which grooms and mutilates children, and sometimes emotionally blackmails parents. These treatments are experimental, and other countries such as Norway, England, Sweden, Hungary, Finland, and France have abandoned medical transitioning for minors due to its poor results. Because 85% of minors with gender dysphoria desist, medical intervention that is so drastic and permanent, should be forbidden. We are thankful North Carolina has taken this step to protect vulnerable children from greedy medical professionals who care only about lining their pockets by advancing an extremist agenda.”
NC Values brought detransitioner Prisha Mosely to testify at the General Assembly to give an account of her experience with medical transitioning. She was chemically transitioned at age 15 and had a double mastectomy at age 18 in North Carolina. Mosely was groomed by trans activists on social media, and doctors manipulated consent from her parents by falsely telling them she would commit suicide if they didn’t allow her to take hormones and have a double mastectomy. They said to her parents, “You can either have a dead daughter or a live son.” Mosely testified about the emotionally and physically painful consequences resulting from her transition that she experiences every day.
“Legislation preventing children from undergoing such life-altering procedures could have protected me and many others like me,” said Mosely. “I was utterly convinced by adults that I had been born in the wrong body, and that hormones and surgery were the cure. No doctor should remove healthy body parts or prescribe sterilizing drugs to children for a social contagion of mental suffering.”
Gender dysphoria is a mental health disorder and a social contagion, as “clusters” of trans kids are found in friend groups and schools. Many detransitioners say they were groomed on social media and encouraged to go “no contact” with parents who won’t affirm their transition to the other sex. Some also testify their parents were emotionally blackmailed by doctors who promised non-compliance would mean certain death of their children via suicide, although research shows that suicide increases by 40% for those who medically transition.
“Eighty-five percent of youth who do not medically transition desist from their dysphoria. Even though the billion-dollar industry abusing children with experimental surgeries and chemical treatments know this, they continue to line their pockets while devastating the physical and mental health of children,” said Fitzgerald. “I’m thankful to the bill’s sponsors, Prisha Mosely for testifying, and all who stood up for truth, science, and our youth.”
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