Looks like Texas is taking long overdue aim straight at “non-human behavior” in schools.
Yes, that’s right: By 2025, Democrat-run public schools have apparently made a strong effort to coddle so-called “furries,” or children who identify as animals.
As if identifying as a different gender was bad enough.
Apparently, some schools have gone as far as to encourage “self-care” for furries, complete with litter boxes and “self-licking” … rather than gently guiding students to the reality that they are, in fact, young humans.
Needless to say, Texas has had enough of that, which is precisely why it has opted to take aim at “non-human behavior” in schools with a rather pointed bill, as reported by the New York Post.
Texas State Representative Stan Gerdes issued a rather telling tweet, making it clear that schools across Texas are meant to be centers of learning.
Not centers of deranged self-expression likely originating from inattentive parenting and excessive social media influence.
“Our Texas classrooms should be places of learning, not distractions,” Gerdes began.
A revolutionary concept for Dems, that’s for sure.
“That’s why I’ve filed HB 4814, the FURRIES Act (Forbidding Unlawful Representation of Roleplaying in Educational Spaces) to ensure that public schools are not accommodating or allowing disruptive ‘furry’ roleplaying behaviors. No distractions. No theatrics. Just education,” Gerdes continued.
Astonishing, isn’t it, that such a bill actually has to pass in 2025 … frankly, in what educational universe would acting like a “furry” result in actionable learning outcomes for students? Truly, in which universe?
And, assuming that the liberals were likely to go completely mad and start portraying a rather sensible law as an attack on school mascots, Gerdes already anticipated – and addressed – these concerns in the same tweet.
“While school mascots, theater performances, and dress-up days remain part of school spirit, this bill ensures that students and teachers can focus on academics – not on bizarre and unhealthy disruptions. Texas schools are for educating kids, not indulging in radical trends. Let’s keep the focus where it belongs – on preparing students for success in life,” Gerdes continued smoothly.
Cue the calls for Dems and other woke-minded types to start ranting against sensible measure designed to prepare students for success in life … rather than set them up for imminent failure.
And coddling various beliefs regarding fake genders and equally fake animal identifies is not the best way to prepare students for success.
While the mainstream media has vehemently denied that the coddling of “furries” has taken place, at least on a wide scale, publications from woke guidance school counselors and scientific researchers suggest otherwise.
In a remarkably woke 2018 blog post – “Making a Safe Place for Students Who Identify as Furries, Therians, & Otherkins” – a remarkably woke guidance school teacher effectively wrote an entire argument in favor of Gerdes’s bill, given how completely out of touch with reality it was.
Starting her blog post by declaring that “there are whole communities of people who self-identify as animals, elves, vampires, dragons, and so on,” the guidance counselor proceeded to pressure other school employees to engage in the same damaging behavior – accepting students’ total fantasy as reality.
“I decided it would be helpful to write about these subcultures that are often hidden in our mainstream culture and schools,” the woke guidance school counselor wrote.
Actually, what would be more helpful is writing about how certain “subcultures” disrupt the entire educational process for many people of various beliefs and value systems, but that would be too sensible for a public school employee to write about.
And it is quite clear that sense is in short supply as the guidance counselor continues to ramble on about students’ “attraction” to animal realms. That’s right: attraction.
“Now that we know an attraction to the animal and mystic realms is real, I want to share a little bit about these subcultures of students who truly identify as animal, elves, and fairies. I believe in order to be a culturally informed school counselor, it is important to know the appropriate terminology of students who self-identify as animals or other beings, so you are prepared if they show up at your door,” the woke guidance school counselor continued.
“Know the appropriate terminology.” Absolute yikes, on a grand scale.
After all, “the appropriate terminology” for transgender militants went as far as “zee” and “zir” … per the Biden/Obama-backed State Department.
Of course, there is also the insufferable “they” and “them” for a single person with apparently multiple gender identifies.
Or, in most cases, a single child, as the Dems have deliberately pushed the transgender madness on children.
Who knows what the “appropriate terminology” for children who identify as “furries” would be?
By 2023, “the science” had also stepped in to further defend the “furries,” insisting that furries did not have a documented higher prevalence of mental disorders than other students.
In a supposedly “scientific” article – “The Kids are Alright: Furry Well-Being and Mental Health” – woke university professors argued in favor of “furry” behavior amongst children, claiming that their mental health is just fine despite “popular misconceptions suggesting otherwise.”
“This suggests furries generally report fairly good well-being on average, with differences between furries and other fan groups being fairly small differences of
magnitude rather than big, categorical differences. In other words: furries seem to be doing about as well as other fan groups, despite stigma and popular misconceptions suggesting otherwise,” the “researchers” wrote.
Is that so?
Something “suggests otherwise” that parents might be more inclined to listen to Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who clearly is not having it with the furries.
“If you have a child in a public school, you have one expectation: your children’s going to be learning the fundamentals of education – reading and writing and math and science. If they’re being distracted by furries, those parents have a right to move their child to a school of their choice,” Abbott declared.
Absolutely.
In other words, parents should receive the right to school vouchers for more sensible institutions that don’t put out litter boxes for so-called “furries” to use, despite the Democrats’ ranting and raving about federal funds going to “religious” schools.
Frankly, parents likely don’t want “furry” beliefs pushed on their own children any more than woke parents want religious beliefs pushed on theirs, so it seems like a sensible compromise for all parties involved.
That said, hopefully Gerdes’s bill will ultimately serve as a blueprint for other states to follow, slowly ending the “furry” craze over time.
Author: Ofelia Thornton
