TEXAS🚨 When “parents’ rights” bills become kids’ losses 🚨

Texas’ new Senate Bill 12 is already closing down student-run LGBTQ clubs, banning school-sponsored GSAs, and even blocking teachers from using students’ affirmed names and pronouns.
Districts are scrambling to interpret the law; the result is confusion, fear, and the loss of one of the only safe spaces many kids had at school.

For some students, school was the only place they could be themselves.
Now, because of a political agenda dressed up as “protecting parents,” that space is being stripped away.

This fight isn’t limited to Texas.
Across the country, we’re watching well-funded religious-political movements push laws and programs that chip away at inclusive public-school environments.

👉 LifeWise Academy is part of that ecosystem.
Its curriculum and public statements openly promote a narrow, conservative Christian worldview that has condemned LGBTQIA identities as sinful.
Bringing that ideology into the public-school day — even off-campus during “released-time” hours — tells LGBTQIA students they don’t belong.

SEA’s mission has always been clear: public schools must remain secular, inclusive, and evidence-based.
Every child deserves a school day free from proselytizing, free from prejudice — including LGBTQIA kids who too often lose their one safe space.

📣 We’re urging parents, educators, and allies everywhere:

• Watch for bills like SB 12 in your own state — they spread fast and often get new names.
• Pay attention to what’s happening with outside programs like LifeWise in your district.
• Speak up at board meetings when “parents’ rights” rhetoric is used to justify excluding or marginalizing kids.

Our kids deserve classrooms where they’re safe to learn and grow — not where their identities are debated or erased.

#ProtectPublicEducation #SeparationOfChurchAndState #LGBTQIAYouth #StopReleasedTimeProselytizing

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