A Virginia school district official conspired to “skirt” restrictions on transgender ideology in schools, prompting a Title IX “expert” to praise her “clever” workaround, emails shared with The Daily Wire reveal. On January 22, 2025, Leah Bressler, Montgomery County Public Schools’ Title IX compliance officer, corresponded with the Association of Title IX Administrators about ways to respond to Trump’s expected executive actions on transgender ideology. In the email exchange, obtained by Speech First and shared with The Daily Wire. Bressler proposed altering the district’s code of conduct in a way to keep its current “gender identity protections” in place.  In response, Brett Sokolow, the chair of the advisory board for the Association of Title IX Administrators, said that he didn’t know if Bressler’s proposal would successfully “skirt” executive action, but that it may be worth it to “go down fighting.”  The exchange, with the subject line “Implications of EO,” occurred two days after Trump’s inauguration.  “This is just a brainstorm….What if the system just moved to a code of conduct that provided the Title IX framework to any allegation for any reason that violated the Davis standard?” Bressler wrote. “With support services, monitoring, documentation as required in Title IX — but open the gate to entire conduct policy? Our jurisdiction has protections in our policy manual for gender identity – if the policies applied to everything equally across the board- couldn’t the system maintain the protections?” The Davis Standard refers to federal guidelines that stipulate schools can only be held liable for sexual harassment and violations of Title IX if they have knowledge of, and are indifferent to, sexual harassment. In response, Sokolow said that Bressler may have come up with a “clever” way to get past Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s (R) Department of Education, which holds that Title IX allows schools to restrict bathroom use by sex.  “This is too state-specific for me to really be able to opine on, Leah. It’s clever, but I have no idea if it would work to skirt the limitations that VA is enacting. My suspicion is that state legislatures will punish cleverness, in the long run (see Texas). Meaning, that if school officials like you find legit ways to work around the state limitations, the state will learn from this and respond by tightening its limitations,” Sokolow replied.  “This might be a viable strategy for you, or at least a good delaying tactic, but I don’t think it has legs in the long term. I think if it walks like a Title IX duck, it’s not going to matter what container we place it in. But, fight the good fight. I’m just giving you thoughts on whether your idea is a winner…but it might be good to go down fighting,” he added.  That email came two days after Trump signed an executive order on “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism,” which rescinded the Biden administration’s application of Title IX to gender identity. He later signed an executive order that directed federal funding away from schools that push gender ideology on students.  Current Montgomery County Public Schools policies stipulate that students are allowed to use the bathroom or locker room of their choice based on their gender identity, meaning that males are allowed into female restrooms and changing areas. When asked by The Daily Wire if it consults on bypassing federal regulations, the Association of Title IX Administrators said that it does “not provide legal advice.”  “ATIXA often discusses with members the challenges of competing and unclear federal, state, and court standards, and we encourage our members to explore the contours of these challenges fully to best assess how their schools, districts, and institutions should respond to a dynamic legal environment related to sex discrimination,” the organization said.  A similar dynamic has played out across the country as liberal school officials have resisted Trump’s efforts to purge leftist ideology from federally funded schools and empower parents concerned about political indoctrination.   Speech First Acting Executive Director Nicole Neily called for Congress to step into the fight over Title IX. “It’s appalling — albeit unsurprising — that Title IX administrators seem to be determined to circumvent the very laws they’re supposed to be enforcing,” Neily said. “America’s girls are little more than collateral damage in these activists’ larger political war, which is why it’s imperative that Congress steps in to provide certainty and clarity and end these games.”

Rick Burgess just launched a new podcast called “Strange Encounters.” The show aims to educate viewers about the reality of spiritual warfare and equip them with the tools needed to live well in this world that is inhabited by both angels and demons. In this episode, Rick is joined by Blake Prime, who tells a tale equal parts harrowing and incredible about how the name of Jesus saved his daughter, who was suffering from a demonic attack. After the death of a family member, Prime’s 9-year-old daughter, Lane, started experiencing “crippling” anxiety attacks. When her older sister was then diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, the fear worsened. “I started noticing that there was something very dark in just the conversations that I was having with her around this topic of anxiety,” Prime tells Rick, noting that Lane was saying things like “it’s like it’s not me” when she was crushed with anxious thoughts. Prime’s suspicion that this issue was spiritual in nature was confirmed when one day Lane said, “When I'm at school and I'm on the playground, it's like I look out and all my friends are in the light and I'm stuck in the dark." One day, Prime was driving her to school when a “12 out of 10” panic attack hit. “We're in the the truck driving to school, and she is hysterical. … Then all of a sudden, she puts one hand on the console, one hand on the door, and it's like something takes over her body, and she pushes back into the seat and her eyes are looking up, and they essentially roll in the back of her head, and she starts screaming, ‘Why is God abandoning me?"’ Prime recounts. “What I was looking at was not my baby girl.” “So I just started speaking scripture over her. I was reciting Joshua 1:9 over and over again. I was speaking life, and I was not jokingly saying, ‘Not today, Satan,”’ he continues. But it wasn’t working. Lane’s hysteria continued, as she screamed, “God doesn’t love me.” “I said, ‘I rebuke you evil spirit from this car; leave my daughter right now; she is no child of yours; she is a child of the King; she's a child of Jesus, and he is in control of this situation, not you. You have no authority here,’ and it was in that instant that it went from hurricane gale force wind to complete calm,” says Prime. “It was like a movie scene. She sat straight up, and she looked at me. She said, ‘Are we going to school?"’ “All of it was gone. She was breathing normally; the tears stopped; her heart rate calmed down; and she was speaking to me like she had just been resting,” he adds, noting that Lane seemed to have no recollection of the exorcism that had just occurred Today, she still struggles with anxiety, but the name of Jesus continues to be a shield. “It's not that the anxiety has gone away. It's just that we know how to battle it now,” says Price. To hear more, check out the episode above. Want more 'Strange Encounters'?To enjoy more bold talk and big laughs, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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