Virginia Teacher Reveals The Left’s Next Public School Quest: Convincing Autistic Kids They’re Trans

During a county school board meeting in Arlington, Virginia, on Oct. 13, Carly Hughes, a teacher in Long Branch Elementary School’s Multi-Intervention Program for Students with Autism (MIPA), spoke against Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s proposed public school policies for transgender-identifying students. Her reason? She believes her autistic students “may experience gender queerness more than other students.”

“I did my master’s study in queer inclusion in public schools,” Hughes told the school board. “My study told me that including trans students in all spaces is best practice. It also told me there are trans kids of every age — one I actually worked with in my student teaching. He was in the third grade.” 

Youngkin’s model policies specify that taxpayer-funded public schools cannot facilitate a child’s so-called “transition” without written consent from a parent. Additionally, the guidance prescribes that bathroom and locker room access and sports participation should be based strictly on a student’s sex. These policies are a reversal of previous guidance from former Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, which asked schools to hide a student’s “gender identity” from his or her parents. 

Hughes herself identifies as a “queer” special education teacher. “I found that autistic students, the population I work with, may experience gender queerness more than other students,” she said. “These students … have helped me learn so much about myself as well.” 

‘Queer’ teacher at Long Branch Elementary in Arlington finds autistic students “experience gender queerness more than other students.”

They’re not gender queer, Carly, and they’re not trans.

Parents, this teacher might be nice as pie, but she’s a danger to your kids. pic.twitter.com/dZxxda2UhA

— Billboard Chris 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@BillboardChris) October 18, 2022

The Arlington County School Board responded to Youngkin’s model policies with a pledge to “support the rights of our transgender, non-binary, and gender fluid students.”

Hughes isn’t the only public school teacher who thinks it’s best to confuse autistic students by glorifying the transgender craze. Back in 2018, a whistleblowing teacher in the U.K. alleged that autistic students at her school were being persuaded they were trans. At one point, 17 students were in the “transition” process, according to a Daily Mail report.

The teacher said few of the 17 “trans” students were actually suffering from gender dysphoria. Rather they were “tricked” into believing they were the wrong sex as a way of coping with problems associated with their autism. Even older students at her school who had transitioned “groomed” younger autistic students to do the same. 

The report followed another exclusive by the Daily Mail that year, which revealed that a third of the children referred to the U.K.’s National Health Service showed “moderate to severe autistic traits.” As such, 150 autistic teenagers were given puberty-blocker drugs. 

The same phenomenon appears to be happening in America. Syed, a “straight-A” autistic student in Seattle, was checked into a hospital after dealing with severe mental health issues. Hospital staff told Syed’s parents that their son’s distress was due to the fact that he was really a girl, and said he should begin the medical transition

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