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Alaska Democrat Voted Against Parental Rights Bill While Taking Tens of Thousands from Anti-Parent Orgs

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A member of Congress from Alaska voted against a bill allowing parents to access the curriculum at their children’s school while accepting thousands from groups that support schools hiding gender identity from parents.

Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola voted against the Parents Bill of Rights Act in March 2023, which would have required schools to allow parents to inspect curriculum and library books; to obtain parental consent before letting a child socially transition at school; and to inform parents of violent activity at school.

Aimed at protecting the right of parents to guide their children’s education, the Parents Bill of Rights passed the U.S. House of Representatives on March 24 on a 213-208 party-line vote. Peltola was one of the 208 Democrats who voted against parental transparency in education.

Peltola has received more than $40,000 from far-left groups’ political arms that support schools socially transitioning kids and giving kids access to sexually explicit library books, like the National Education Association, American Federation of Teachers, and Human Rights Campaign.

Since 2022, Peltola has accepted $20,000 from the PAC of the far-left National Education Association, which also opposed the Parents Bill of Rights. The NEA, America’s largest teachers’ union, recommended that teachers assign “Gender Queer” as summer reading even though the comic book style novel graphically depicts gay sex.

Peltola has received $15,000 from the American Federation of Teachers’s AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education since 2022. AFT President Randi Weingarten said the Parents Bill of Rights “would require schools to divert their limited resources from teaching, censor education, ban books, and harm children who are just trying to be themselves and live their lives in peace.”

The Alaska Democrat also has taken $6,000 from the Human Rights Campaign Fund. The Human Rights Campaign supports irreversible transgender medical interventions for children and peddles the lie that children are less likely to commit suicide if they transition.

The Human Rights Campaign’s Welcoming Schools Program trains elementary school teachers on “creating LGBTQ+ and gender inclusive schools.”

Last summer, Peltola took to X to urge followers to donate to Identity, which helps children get sterilizing hormone treatments and irreversible transgender surgeries.

“Many people feel alienated from their bodies during puberty under the best of circumstances, and for children who are trans* and aware of their sex incongruence, being forced to undergo puberty and have their bodies change into the wrong sex is devastating,” Identity’s website says, promoting puberty blockers for children.

A screenshot of Peltola’s June 2023 post soliciting donations to pro-trans Identity Inc. (Must Read Alaska)

Peltola became the representative of Alaska’s singular congressional district after beating former Gov. Sarah Palin and small business owner Nick Begich in a ranked-choice voting election in 2022.

She will face Begich again in November.

The Alaska congressional race could determine whether Republicans or Democrats control Congress in 2025. Peltola’s race is a key toss-up election, according to the Center for Politics.

Begich told The Daily Signal that his opponent, Peltola, is on board with the Biden-Harris administration’s plans to push gender ideology into the classroom, “forcing teachers to push concepts that are neither rooted in science nor basic logic.”

“Parents trust the school system to educate and protect children while at school, not indoctrinate them in the latest leftwing political fads,” Begich said. “Congresswoman Peltola has been part and parcel with this agenda, voting against the Parents Bill of Rights and even encouraging Alaskans to donate to organizations that support so-called ‘gender transitions’ for children.”

“Parents should have a right to access their children’s curriculum, receive full transparency from the school system, and continue to be the ones responsible for raising their children,” Begich added.

Cindy Glassmaker, an Alaska mother of three girls,was disappointed in her congresswoman’s vote against the Parents Bill of Rights.

“To me, being a parent means having a say in decisions that affect our children until they reach 18,” Glassmaker told The Daily Signal. “I believe our congresswoman should be advocating for greater parental involvement, fostering a partnership between parents and schools to prioritize the well-being of our students.

“I am outraged that she accepted significant donations from anti-parent groups that support schools keeping gender identity issues hidden from parents,” Glassmaker continued.

Peltola told Anchorage Daily News she voted against the Parents Bill of Rights to protect students’ “right to privacy.” The bill prohibits schools from hiding student gender identity from the parents.

“The reason I did not vote for this particular bill, is because I feel like students should have some right to privacy,” Peltola said in 2023. “And I think they should have a right to feel safe at school.”

Peltola did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment about her position on parental rights.

Alaska mother and Anchorage Moms for Liberty Chair Gabby Ide told The Daily Signal she feels Peltola doesn’t stand up for her rights as a parent.

“Mary Peltola isn’t looking out for Alaska’s families,” Ide said. “She voted against the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023. She co-sponsored the Equality Act, which would allow males in female locker rooms and bathrooms. When she does vote, she appears totally out of touch with parents’ desire for accountability in education results and our fundamental right to direct the upbringing of our children.”

Elizabeth (Troutman) Mitchell is the reporting fellow for The Daily Signal and co-host of “The Daily Signal Podcast.”

Reprinted with Permission from The Daily Signal – By Elizabeth (Troutman) Mitchell

The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of AMAC or AMAC Action.

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Cynthia
Cynthia
2 months ago

Mary Peltola is a communist who votes as told. I live in Alaska. She does not represent my family and my values. She was voted in by rank choice voting. Hopefully, we vote that out in November.

Kim
Kim
2 months ago

Of all things, why are these horrible radical leftists exposing young children or anyone under the age of 18 to these lifestyle/medical/psychological decisions that teachers and the public school system have no business getting involved with??!! They wouldn’t dare do this with religion, would they?

This is disgusting. I’d say it’s child endangerment and psychological abuse. One of our teachers was fired from her job this year because she supported escorting children to doctors for hormone therapy without parental consent. She and I had a short “discussion”, and I adamantly told her it’s the parents’ responsibility to raise their own children, and that she has no right to inject herself into these kinds of family decisions. Good riddance!

WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO??!!! I think part of the reason they’re doing this is to create a rift between children and their parents. What better wedge to use between a mom and dad and their teenager than the topic of sex? That could drive the kids right into the open arms (ugh) of an influential teacher…and closer to the communist vision of government being everything to everyone. No more family unit in that scenario.

We must not stand for this. If it takes a bunch of parents and some homemade posters condemning this, do it! Write to your congressmen today and let them know “in a very firm manner” that this will not be tolerated by the taxpayers who pay their, the teachers’, and the school board’s salaries.

Let’s fire the bas… idiots this November. Promise me that every one of you will vote!

W P
W P
2 months ago

Banning books is one thing, knowing when it’s filth and throwing it out is something else entirely. What has happened to public schools when this is even a question? Dissolve the Dept of Education and leave education to the individual states where it rightfully belongs! Use the savings to help pay off Congress’s reckless spending.

Michael J
Michael J
2 months ago

How do these twisted people get into office? But a better question would be who’s supporting and allowing this mindset?

Michael Stevens
Michael Stevens
2 months ago

Seems to be a well written article with the facts to back it up. I do hope the Alaskan residents learn about these facts. My take on it is that Alaskan politics is as corrupt as Chicago’s in the early part of last century! Gives a whole new meaning to ‘pay-to-play’.

June
June
2 months ago

Does Mary have a bible and does she ever read the good book ? How can anybody live in America and believe like that? People wake up before God moves in ways that we will not believe. The devil is working overtime in this world and if we don’t stop him- we will lose the land of the free that He gave us. WAKE UP AMERICA.

FedUp
FedUp
2 months ago

Bank robbers and rioters wear masks to hide who they are because the know what they are doing is wrong. Democrats fight against parental notification because they know that their long-term objectives are evil and what they are doing to children is flat out wrong. Therefore, they must hide what they are doing. Its as simple as that.

Betty
Betty
2 months ago

These people are Evil and Demon possessed. This is child abuse, mentally, physically, and sexually. Parents better stand up for their children, fight back and put a stop to this.

Juneau
Juneau
2 months ago

Stick it up your Alaskan dumb ass Peltola, you are sick!

judy setran
judy setran
2 months ago

When said students pay their own way then they have right to privacy..if mom and dad pay for the roof over said childs head,the food in their stomach,the Dr they visit when I’ll the insurance on said child, the sports activities, the electricity they consume etc..that child is a dependent and as parents whose responsibility is that dependent they have every right to know what’s being done in that class room

Elizabeth Cheever
Elizabeth Cheever
2 months ago

All of our Democratic politicians seem to be for sale to the highest bidders! Great way to join the millionaires class! The Democratic party that most are familiar with is no more…it is the new Democratic-Marxist-Communist Party! They are stealing our freedoms, one by one, even the freedoms of our children! It is all Evil! But I heard someone say over the weekend that there is a special place in hell for these people, politicians if they choose not to repent and turn from their wicked ways! I tend to agree.

Rosa Anderson
Rosa Anderson
2 months ago

How come they keep getting in it’s very sad they take advantage of the working class the left keeps getting richer every minute

David Millikan
David Millikan
2 months ago

Very informative. The Fascist democrats have been against American parents ever since Carter federalized the Department of Education when it went into effect on September 1, 1978.

Molly
Molly
2 months ago

Education: BACK to the States!!!

Robert Zuccaro
Robert Zuccaro
2 months ago

What! What what!? A Democrat… taking money… say it isn’t so? The official campaign slogan for all groomer Democrats should be “Don’t Tell Your Parents or You’ll Get In Trouble!”

Kyle Buy you some guns,and learn how to shoot
Kyle Buy you some guns,and learn how to shoot
2 months ago

Things keep goin like they are, you will seem your child at age 5 off to school. Then return home at age 18 fully a communist. Maby the child will be the same Gender as when it left.. Of course the New World Order will be n place by 5hen. Kyle L.

Michael K
Michael K
2 months ago

Michael J makes personal attacks with his posts.

Michael K
Michael K
2 months ago

Banning books is banning books and it is wrong.

Michael K
Michael K
2 months ago

The author of the article should be ashamed because it is a very low quality article filled with non truths.

Michael K
Michael K
2 months ago

Book bans do not align with freedom and having a few activist parents of any party demanding book bans is awful. It’s up to the parents to watch their own children, but not other children. The left as well as the right can try to ban books and it shouldn’t be allowed.

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