California teachers say they ‘stalked’ kids, pushed them to join LGBT clubs

Why are they 'recruiting' kids to join these clubs in the first place? Shrier claims in her piece that the students pick the topics to be discussed in the clubs, which sounds like a positive thing, but if they're not the driving force behind the formation of the clubs themselves (and if the article is accurate, it would seem that they are not), then how is this any different than, say, having a 'Bible club' on a school campus which the students might be pressured by Evangelical teachers or other faculty to join, but oh, it's okay because we let them choose what passage we read and discuss in the meeting we coerce them into going to? I'm pretty sure that such a setup would be immediately shut down as an illegal attempt to proselytize students on school grounds, but I don't see how this is so different, at least not in that particular regard (the pressuring to join and participate, the monitoring of Google searches and conversations to identify who to approach about the club, etc.).

All this identity stuff is really just religion for the pseudo-enlightened who think that they're too progressive for religion. Pfft. Get outta here with that.

Full disclosure: when I was in high school -- not junior high like the kids these teachers teach -- my friends formed our school's first GSA. They did so because two of them were self-identified lesbians and they knew that there were other students like them as well as not gay students who could benefit from having a place where they could ask questions and support each other in a non-judgmental environment. Granted, this was back in the 1990s when DOMA was a thing, Ellen Degeneres actually risked a pretty sizeable backlash for coming out as a lesbian on her sitcom, etc. So it was actually not taken as a given that we would be allowed to meet on school grounds, since that required the support of an adult faculty member who would agree to oversee -- not drive, and certainly not shore up the membership of -- the club, to make sure that the kinds of things that it seems the activist teachers in the article are bragging about doing wouldn't happen. How things have changed in 25 years!

Michie said:

... while actively concealing these clubs’ membership rolls from participants’ parents.”

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Can't have the unwoke birthers finding out about this stuff and going all terrorist at school board meetings.