Parents living in blue states are urging their kids who attend college in swing states to register and vote in the swing state. The College Fix provided the heads up in an October 15 article by Virginia King, Texas State University student contributor. King exposed a “Georgia Tech Parent and Community Forum” on Facebook where parents from Democrat-majority states are telling their kids to register to vote in Georgia “because their child’s vote would matter more” there. “I’d rather have my daughter vote in a swing state than home in Illinois where her vote won’t have much of an impact,” one group member posted in response to another parent who asked, “Why don’t you get your child registered to vote in their home state?” Yet another said of her daughter: “[I’d] rather have her vote in [a] swing state. Massachusetts is guaranteed blue.” A New York mom posted: “GT students absolutely CAN vote in Georgia — my NY son registered there the minute he got to school three years ago and has been voting in every election ever since.” The College Fix received screenshots of the Facebook postings from a member who questioned “whether the tacit [advice] was appropriate or legal.” Another parent posted that the rule on the secretary of state’s website reads: “Your student is not a legal resident of a GA county if they are out of state so legally is not able to vote in GA,” and included a link to the state’s online voter registration portal. King included in her article the image of a voter registration event flyer available on the Georgia Tech campus alleging that even out-of-state students need only provide “a GA driver’s license or [the] last four digits of [their] SSN.” When contacted, the left-leaning sponsors of the flyer admitted “the process is a little more complicated” for out-of-state students. Georgia Tech is located in Fulton County, which “has served as a hotbed of election integrity concerns for several years.” Neither the Georgia GOP nor the Fulton County GOP responded to The Fix’s request for comment.

A new medical watchdog database shows 14,000 youngsters have undergone sex-change procedures in recent years. National Review reported that the nonprofit medical watchdog group, Do No Harm, has created a database to quantify “the extent to which American children are undergoing gender-transition procedures.” The “groundbreaking” data show that 13,994 minors “received gender-transition treatments, with 5,747 undergoing sex-change surgeries and 8,579 getting hormones and puberty blockers,” during the period from January 2019 through December 2023. Minors under the age of 15 received “the majority of the body-modification procedures.” Do No Harm’s website describes its purpose as protecting healthcare “from the disastrous consequences of identity politics.” Led by chairman Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, Do No Harm was previously featured in Education Reporter for exposing the efforts of medical schools to push “the destructive, woke [CRT] agenda” on students.

National Review explained that Do No Harm’s database methodology “matched gender and prescription medical codes to a diagnosis code for gender [dysphoria], the often temporary medical condition where teenagers feel trapped in the wrong body.” The article noted that the database “likely undercounts the true number of trans medical interventions because it excludes ‘gray area’ cases and lacks data from certain health-care providers.” Goldfarb emphasized that his organization has really been meticulous in trying to make sure the data are as clear and accurate as possible. “If anything,” he explains, “we’re showing the lower limits of what’s going on in this whole arena.” Do No Harm’s database has an age range of zero to 17.5 years old and does not disclose any personal details about the patients in order to comply with federal HIPAA laws. The database spotlights medical facilities located “almost entirely in blue states where transgender procedures are entirely legal and gender-transition activists have political support from elected officials.” Look for more information to come in Education Reporter on this disturbing trend.

In a victory for Charlie Kirk’s organization, Turning Point USA (TPUSA), a federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction precluding the University of New Mexico from charging conservative students exorbitant fees to bring speakers or host events on campus. According to Fox News Digital, the Southern Legal Foundation (SLF) filed the complaint last February against UNM officials after the university “attempted to charge students over $5,000 in security fees” for inviting women’s sports activist and former NCAA swimmer, Riley Gaines, to speak on-campus. SLF’s website shows that the litigation was filed on behalf of TPUSA and the Leadership Institute (LI), “a nonprofit organization that aids students with planning and funding events.” SLF explained in its complaint that UNM officials unlawfully required student members of TP-UNM to pay the security fee “even though Ms. Gaines had her own privately funded security.” The university then told the students they would have to pay for staffing the event “with every single officer it had” at a cost of more than $10,000. In a press release following the court’s issuance of the injunction, SLF Executive Director, Kimberly Hermann, stated: “This is a major win in the battle to protect the First Amendment rights of college students, regardless of the viewpoint they express.” While the injunction is preliminary, it nonetheless means the university “cannot collect fees from Turning Point USA (TPUSA) until the case is resolved....” SLF’s website laments that many if not most U.S. colleges and universities fail to allow “true diversity of speech.... Colleges are afraid of the woke mob, so they use all sorts of tactics to scare conservative students into silence, claiming that their views are just too controversial.” UNM has agreed to comply with the court’s order.

Want to be notified of new Education Reporter content?
Your information will NOT be sold or shared and will ONLY be used to notify you of new content.
Click Here

Return to Home PageEducation Reporter Online - October 2024