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Here’s what I was trying to say at the school board meeting, for those who had trouble understanding my accent: “Will parents ever be thanked—rather than dismissed—when they raise legitimate concerns about SOGI and the materials available to students? Gender Queer and other controversial books have quietly disappeared, while this board claimed parents were ‘misinformed’ and even called their concerns ‘inflammatory, transphobic, and hateful’ for exposing these types of books. Will the board commit to full transparency by releasing a list of all books removed or restricted in the past five years—and the reasons why they were removed?” The point I was making is simple: the board is quietly removing sexually explicit material from schools not to protect students, but to protect itself from accountability. They claim to want to “work with parents,” but that’s a lie. They publicly label parents as “misinformed,” “hateful,” and “transphobic” for raising valid concerns about SOGI and these books. In a public meeting that lasts three or four hours, parents are given only ten minutes in total to speak—under strict rules and policies that limit what we can say. This isn’t collaboration. It’s control.