Editor’s note: Alaska Senate Majority Leader Cathy Geissel has introduced Senate Bill 90, which seeks to lower the age (from 18 to 16) at which minors can agree to undergo mental and behavioral health services without parental consent. The following letter by Lucas Smith was submitted earlier this month to members of the Senate Health and Social Services Committee, where the bill is currently under consideration.
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I write to oppose SB90.
SB90, sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Cathy Giessel, seeks to establish the age of consent for mental heal care in Alaska as sixteen years old.
Proponents of SB90 will be happy to provide you with volumes of information about how mental health care is urgently needed as a service to support education, in particular, public school students. What those proponents will go to great lengths to hide is the fact that recent provisions – made possible in large part by pandemic related emergency funding – supports an obscure network intent on sustaining and fostering the growth of the transgender youth care industry.
Existing state law, established at a time when the sexual mutilation of children was not a trending fad, facilitates the role of mental health counselors in public schools placing confused children on the pathway to predatory counseling and genital mutilation.
Gender dysphoria is a mental illness. Every effort in conjunction with the support of parents should be made to help children feel comfortable in the bodies they were born with. Instead, the counseling network SB90 proposes to legitimize leads children into secret sexual discussions with mental health care professionals. While unimaginable, such discussions may enable those professionals to justify prescriptions for puberty blockers. These confused children, who are, for all practical purposes, abducted from their parents by the transgender medical industry, are subsequently groomed, manipulated, physically assaulted by puberty blockers, and sexually mutilated by a medical sector professing to offer “care” to children.
In August of 2020, before the Anchorage School District had finalized its unofficial policy entitled, Administrative Guidelines: Working with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students and Employees, the Anchorage School District maintained no budget or staff for mental health care professionals. Under the guise of COVID and a flood of federal funding, the Anchorage School District swiftly moved to establish a substantial mental health element to its administrative support services. Page 92 of the Anchorage School District’s FY26 proposed budget reveals how ASD’s investment in mental health exploded from $0 in FY22 (the 2021-2022 school year) to more than $2.5M in FY25. Should this session’s education bill offer ASD the BSA increase it seeks, ASD’s budget habits suggest it will increase spending for mental health services within ASD schools far beyond the $2.5M level.
ASD’s extreme focus on mental health care is prominently featured within ASD’s published 2023-28 goals and guardrails in association with its commitment to develop a “culturally responsive workforce,” – a goal that can be easily associated with the extreme ideology of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). Citing privacy concerns, ASD remains non-transparent – even to the parents of those students – about the level of success it has attained towards feeding the transgender medical industry with a steady supply of its students.
In an article published on February 21, 2024 by the Alaska Beacon, Giessel was quoted, “’As a nurse practitioner, I volunteer in school-based clinics in [Anchorage School District]. I provide physical health services but screen for mental health issues and refer for services if indicated. Kids are facing many challenges today in this realm,’ she said by email.”
ASD’s mental health care investment may seem small in comparison to ASD’s overall budget, but the recent growth of this investment points to something more stomach-turning. The youth transgender health service industry has become extremely lucrative and influential. School districts like ASD would likely not be making such substantial investments in mental health to this degree if it did not serve the mutual interests of both the trans care industry and the sinister social agenda of the public education system.
Should SB90 pass and be enacted, far too many families and children will unknowingly be submitted to increased vulnerability by a sexually predatory medical industry and the public school system that conspires with it.
It is my belief SB90’s true intent is to benefit the transgender youth care industry to the detriment of public education, and definitely not to the benefit of public school students or their families.
Please do not pass SB90.
The views expressed here are those of the author.
TAKING ACTION
— Click here to contact members of the Alaska Senate Health and Social Services Committee.
12 Comments
“The transgender youth care industry”. Drop your bible Smith and show some empathy and smarts. Quit meddling. Get out of my business.
It is not just your business when other people and tax dollars are involved.
EH. My taxes cover the government services your church receives. Your church doesn’t pay taxes.
The trans cult is like a virus. Like any virus it needs a host body (a healthy society) to survive. With enough time, if the health of that body deteriorates, more disease shall manifest. Once the body becomes too unhealthy, the virus will drain every last bit of energy until the host body dies.
Much like covid, the trans mind virus has been spread unnaturally to take down the healthy societal host.
There are only 2 outcomes with this situation. Either the social immune system kicks in and rids itself of the virus, or the host society falls, and the virus along with it.
Either way, natural order will play out and the virus will be eliminated.
Until that time comes, the dragons sit and watch and wait until they can reclaim Earth for themselves.
Don’t be a virus, be a cure.
Sour. I’m an atheist. I see religion as a corrosive agent blunting the innate critical thinking skills of humans. To me, its equivalent to your virus analogy. Get rid of religion and society can get closer to the wonders of science and tolerance for differing opinions and lifestyles. A lack of critical thinking and a nearly immeasurable MAGA voter gullibility led to the election of Mr Trump. See where THAT got us.
I suggest that trans people should not concern you. Go about your business. Allow others to do the same.
Why are schools now in charge of your children’s mental health? Those that pass these law don’t give a damn about your parental rights, they think they know better. We don’t need the schools doing anything but teaching math, science, civics, and grammar. Any other subject should require parental permission. Unfortunately there are too many busy bodies running our government thinking they are the lords prayer to our salvation. We need school choice in this state and to run the unionized teachers out of the system!
Amen!
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
But Steve, YOU are a good parent and probably give your children all the support they need and opportunities to express their troublesome thoughts to you. Other families are not like that. They are a wreck – poverty, poor education, violence, neglect and abuse and the kids have no loving adult to turn to. No, schools are not in charge of your child’s mental health, but they can greatly assist.
No school anywhere can usurp the right of a parent for the care and nurture of their child. Not one single teacher, counselor, principal or social worker gave birth to my child. Regardless of the failures of some parents, no person, place or thing can come between a child and that child’s parent, unless a law has been broken. Anyone who says different is preying upon that child and should be sent to prison for doing so. Manny, it is clear that you are searching for more victims. Please stop. Grooming is not only disgusting, it is evil. If you so much as touch my child, you will suffer the consequences, and I suspect most commenters here feel the same.
It’s by design. https://mallorymillett.com/?p=37
Why is the school involved in this. I’m so sick and tired of the government spending our tax dollars on wrong things. Our kids can’t even read or write when they graduate! Why isn’t attention paid to this instead of trying to take away parents rights?