All The Laws In The World!

Here in Connecticut we have all the laws the protections for us that you can think of but it is not enough to protect us but it still isn't enough! The long arm of the "Trump" has touched us!

Connecticut schools have less than two weeks to cut DEI programs. Will they?

CT Insider

By Natasha Sokoloff,

Feb 20, 2025

Connecticut schools are in limbo as they once again face a federal funding threat, with less than two weeks to ditch diversity, equity and inclusion programs or risk losing federal funding, the latest move in the Trump administration's attack on DEI.

In a Feb. 14 letter to educational institutions receiving federal funds, the U.S. Department of Education notified school districts that they must stop using "race preferences and stereotypes as a factor in their admissions, hiring, promotion, compensation, scholarships, prizes, administrative support, sanctions, discipline, and beyond."

For Patrice McCarthy, executive director of the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education, the memo was the latest in what she described as a "fire hose of letters" coming out at the federal level.

"It's chaos," she said. "It's an effort to create chaos."

It is called being between the rock and a hard place.

The state Department of Education is currently reviewing the letter, said CSDE spokesperson Matthew Cerrone in an email Wednesday, and plans to communicate with districts upon completion of the review.

Regardless of ripples at the federal level, McCarthy and other state education leaders expressed confidence that districts will remain steadfast in their commitment to all students and equity in education.

They are nervous!

This wasn't the first time Trump cut funding to us...

Trump signs an order restricting gender-affirming care for people under 19

NPR News

By Ayana Archie and Jaclyn Diaz

January 29, 2025

President Trump signed an executive order that seeks to end gender-affirming medical treatments for children and teenagers under the age of 19.

The directive, signed Tuesday, was the latest step the Trump administration has taken that examines social protections for the transgender community. On Monday, Trump signed an executive order to ban transgender troops from serving openly in the military. On his first day in office last week, Trump signed an order recognizing two sexes, male and female, and taking aim at what the order described as gender ideology extremism.

Tuesday's order says the federal government will not "fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support" gender-affirming care for children, as the president claims it leaves them with costly medical bills and regret as they get older, since the procedures may affect their ability to conceive.

However U.S. District Judge Brendan Hurson of Maryland said not so fast! and put an injunction on the EO. But it had a negative effect on Connecticut hospitals... CT Mirror write,

Connecticut Children’s CEO Jim Shmerling said that the political backlash against gender-affirming care is unlike anything he has seen in his 45-year career managing children’s hospitals. 

“There’s a tremendous amount of misinformation and lack of understanding and emotion around this issue,” Shmerling said.

And that is exactly what Trumps wants: to create fear and uncertainly! 

At least three hospitals have made changes to their policies regarding gender-affirming care for children since the executive order published, according to reports from the Associated Press. Denver Health in Colorado and VCU Health and Children’s Hospital of Richmond both confirmed they had stopped or suspended gender-affirming surgeries for people under 19 years old.

And the article ends with,

“It feels like safe spaces are shrinking and that’s a concern,” Kokiasmenos said. “Nobody wants to uproot their lives. … And as [safe haven states] get chipped away, it’s like, ‘Well, what’s left?’ It’s feeling like the rug is being pulled out from under people constantly.”

And now the chaos is spreading to the schools! The CT Insider article goes on to write,

The state Department of Education is currently reviewing the letter, said CSDE spokesperson Matthew Cerrone in an email Wednesday, and plans to communicate with districts upon completion of the review.

Regardless of ripples at the federal level, McCarthy and other state education leaders expressed confidence that districts will remain steadfast in their commitment to all students and equity in education.

But the axe has already fell on a college in Connecticut!

Last week, federal officials stripped Sacred Heart University of a $3.38 million grant that would have funded up to 80 teaching positions over the next five years for a teacher residency program, as part of the DEI crackdown.

There will be many court cases coming out of this EO! We have all the laws protecting us but it still is not enough, I trust our Attorney General to have our backs over this!

There is a Latin phrase that I remember at times like this it say… "Ne permittas bastardus te deprimere"

“Don’t let the bastards get you down!”