Lorena Biassotti, a candidate for Clark County School Board, District E, gestures toward a display of books during a Moms For Liberty informational event at the Mesquite Republican Women’s club in Mesquite, Nev. Wednesday, July 31, 2024. The books, available in Clark County School District libraries, contain content that is not appropriate for students, she said.
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Parents who are part of Moms for Liberty in Clark County have been a constant at school board meetings over the past two years. Some have been so disruptive that on multiple occasions they’ve been escorted out of the meeting chambers by school police.
Here are samples of what they’ve said:
• “The diversity-equity-inclusion agenda is a reverse racism lie. It promotes the toxic ideas that lead to student violence by removing the hard standards of justice and teaching students to segregate each other by the color of their skin, that Black and brown kids are oppressed by white kids. No wonder minority students and gangs feel emboldened to kill lone white kids. Talk about decolonization.”
— Tim Underwood, candidate for Nevada State Board of Education on Dec. 14, 2023, at a CCSD school board meeting
Note: This was in reference to the 2023 beating murder of a Rancho High School student in an alley near campus.
• “Now we have 317 impressionable schoolchildren on gender plans being supported to permanently damage their healthy sexual organs and breast tissue.”
– Underwood on Feb. 22 at CCSD school board meeting
Note: Gender support plans do not involve medical transitions, including medications and surgeries, for transgender students, per CCSD Policy 5138. The policy is a roadmap to address the needs of students with diverse gender identities.
• “She’s right. We’re leaving our kids to be molded by teachers like her who praise and encourage homosexuality, gender confusion and racism.”
— Lorena Cardenas Biassotti, candidate for CCSD School Board, at a July 8, 2021, CCSD school board meeting
Note: This was in response to a teacher who said students “are not OK” during pandemic closures.
• “By affirming gender dysphoria instead of treating it you’re normalizing mental illness. Pedophilia is also a mental illness. With so much inclusivity, why would you leave out pedophiles?”
— Lorena Cardenas Biassotti, a candidate for CCSD School Board, on Sept. 28, 2023, at a CCSD school board meeting
Note: The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders defines gender dysphoria as “a marked incongruence between one’s experienced/expressed gender and their assigned gender.” It says treatments include social, legal and medical affirmation that may include adopting pronouns, names and gender designation on government identification. CCSD’s gender support plans allow for social affirmation and, if also changed by court order, legal affirmation.
• “Did you know that Clark County School District is actively involved in helping students as young as 8 years old get sex changes? (Regulation 5138) CCSD is currently helping over 300 minors get puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, etc., with the final goal of changing their sex.”
— Moms for Liberty handout
Note: Gender support plans do not involve medical transitions, including medications and surgeries, for transgender students, per CCSD policy.