Fighting Drag With Drag ｜ Kimberly Reicks
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Summary
Kimberly Reichs, a stay-at-home mother of 7 children, wears a wig and make-up to a school board meeting wearing the same outfit worn by a drag queen at the kids' school that very same year.
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There's a great Family Guy clip where there's a transvestite sitting at a bar and the transvestite
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is looking at pornography on his phone. And the bartender comes over and says, ma'am,
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you can't look at pornography at this bar. And the transvestite says, no, no, it's okay,
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I'm transgender. And the bartender says, oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize that. Okay,
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do whatever you want whenever you want to do it. And that is very much what seems to occur
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in our culture, whether we're talking at a bar or in public or even at schools. And one mother has
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had enough of it. One mother, an absolute hero mom, showed up to a school board meeting wearing,
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frankly, a shocking, scandalous, completely inappropriate outfit to the meeting.
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It just so happens that it was the same outfit that had been worn by a drag queen
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at the kids' school that very year. And so why is it that a giant hulking dude can wear
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a silly leotard, but a mother cannot? Why is it inappropriate for a woman to wear the woman's
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clothing and not for the man's? School board didn't seem to have much of an answer. That
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mother is Kimberly Reichs, a stay-at-home mother of seven children. We call that a small Catholic
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family. Kimberly, thank you for coming on the show. Thank you so much for having me on,
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Michael. I'm honored to be on your show. I am so pleased to hear that. And I absolutely
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adored your stunt. What was the reaction in the room?
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Mouths dropped to the floor and there was one lady in particular sitting behind me
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just making snood remarks like, I can't believe she's in that. Ew. Put some clothes on. I'm like,
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yeah. And that's when I turned around and addressed her actually and said, yeah, if this ticks you off,
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then it should because this guy came into our school dressed like this and that seemed to be
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okay. This is what the man dressed like in front of our kids. So this makes your head spit. This
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pisses you off in any way, shape or form it should. Because I'm embarrassed to stand here in the outfit
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that I am in today, but I have a point to prove and that is that this outfit should not be ever
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accepted in our school. By the way, it's not even just what's good for the goose is good for the
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gander because you are a very nice looking lady. You still probably shouldn't wear those things at
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school, but it makes more sense for a very nice looking lady to wear ladies' clothing. Makes a
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whole lot less sense for a big hulking dude to wear that clothing. So it's actually much more
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inappropriate, much more grotesque for the guy to do it. Can you explain what actually happened
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So what happened was that back in May when I exposed the drag queen show for what it was and
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asked our school board then, like, why did this happen? How did this get into our schools? What are
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you planning on doing to ensure it doesn't happen again? They flat out ignored me. They brushed me
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under the rug. They tried to censor me and I was not going to have it. And me, along with hundreds of
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parents here in Ankeny, Iowa, we're wanting to know a hundred and some odd days later now and 40 days
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into the school year, why have we not heard the investigation results of that GSA program? Who let
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them in? Why was it allowed? And why didn't that guy not get a background check? I can't go eat lunch
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with my kids, let alone walk into a school half dressed and perform for them. So what's good for
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them is not good for me. So you mentioned the GSA, which stands for the Gay Straight Alliance. It's
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one of these LGBT clubs in the schools. And you mentioned this drag show. And I get that there are
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more questions probably than answers, but what actually happened with the club and the drag queen?
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So the GSA hired this guy to come in to perform for the children as young as 12. He was a 21-year-old
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male exotic dancer. He does not attend the school. He never attended the school. And for him to come in
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to perform for our children was just outstanding. And like, why? What was the purpose of that? And so
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that's questions that we still have no answers to. How old are the kids in this club? The youngest
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one that attended the show was 12. It's sick. That is absolutely sick. I assume the club has a faculty
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advisor. Is that right? Yes, they are supposed to. So the GSA is a school credited, but not funded
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program. It's funded actually by the CDC. And there's teachers that overlook this GSA program that is
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supposed to be monitoring it. And so there was two teachers in particular that are still teachers
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there in Ankeny School today. The one is the choir teacher, and there's one that is a, I believe she's
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an English teacher. And far as we know, there's been no repercussions on what they did and why they
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better when you said, yes, the school has given accreditation to this club, but they don't give
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the club any money until you told me that the club is funded by the federal government. That actually makes
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me feel a lot worse. But okay, I'm not going to blame a 12-year-old for making a stupid choice and
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inviting a drag queen into a club. 12-year-olds make stupid decisions all the time. That's pretty
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much the definition of being a 12-year-old. But you're telling me there are two faculty advisors
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here. So then my question is, one, did they know? What did they know and when did they know it? And
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two, if they did not know, then what kind of negligence is that for a club advisor?
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Oh, they knew for sure because they posed in front of, on the stage at the end. There was a huge photo
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at the end of the stage that showed all the teachers happily standing there with all the
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students that performed in that drag queen show and who attended.
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So without question, the teachers need to be fired, I would imagine.
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And you and the other parents have asked for this?
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Yes, we have. We have demanded it and they refused to do it.
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Have you been able to speak to any political leaders right now? I mean, I'm pleased that you
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can come on my show. We'll spread this as far and wide as we can. It's a national program. We
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have international listeners. So I think absolutely that people who are listening right now should
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call in and put a lot of public pressure on to get these teachers fired, get this club shut down
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and keep the transvestites out of the 12-year-olds' classrooms. But has anyone spoken to your member
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of Congress, senators? No one is speaking up against this who's actually in elected office?
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No. But I did have five state reps did call me or text me saying that they were proud of what I did
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and they hope that I come up to the Capitol this session and start protesting to help get them
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to get a law passed so this doesn't happen any further.
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How long do you think this has been going on at your kid's school?
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I'm guessing at least two years since COVID started. And it's just bringing to light because
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a lot of this stuff we saw online. And so a lot of the kids are more open about talking about it.
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And so I don't think if without COVID, we would have seen it as quickly. But since with COVID and
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since we had to go to like online stuff when the lockdowns were in place, that's when we started
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realizing this agenda that they are pushing on our children.
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What is so spooky to me is that you're not in New York. You're not in California. You're not in
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Chicago or Washington, D.C. You're in Iowa. Or do you just happen to be in an extremely radical left
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wing town or county? Unfortunately, yes. I'm in one of the liverless towns in Ankeny. But that's okay
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because last session, we actually got the town flipped from blue to red. We ended up getting
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six seats overturned in our city. We had three school board members overturned, one city mayor
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and two city councilmen. So we do have more of a conservative running now. But they have a huge
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mess to clean up. And I think that they're just getting buried left and right.
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Right. And I have to imagine no matter how left wing the town is, I mean, obviously it can't be
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all that left wing if the political tides have shifted so much. But no matter how left wing
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your neighbors are, I think if you did a public opinion poll of your neighbors, I can't imagine
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that most of them are going to support drag shows for 12-year-olds, right? Am I giving too much credit
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to your county? No, there's a very small amount of them that will actually want that in our county.
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Most people do not want it, but most people it gets hidden from. So like the GSA program
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was not made public that this was going to happen. It was not made known to all students. It was
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basically exclusive for those students and the GSA. And it did happen after hours, but then
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that just means us more questions. It just makes us ask, how did they get into the school building
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after hours? Who let them in? Who approved all this? Because there's protocols that you have to
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go through in order to be able to host any kind of show in the school. And the administration of the
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particular school has to sign off. You have to have the approval of the superintendent. And none of that
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happened here. And it all just got brushed under the rug. Like, why is that okay?
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You know, I sometimes see this issue approached from the perspective of, you know, well, what's the
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big deal? What's the big deal? Why do you guys care so much about this? And I think, well, you can
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obviously flip that on the other side and say, well, you know, we're not the ones changing the way that
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we view sex and education and kids. You guys are the ones changing it. And you're spending so much
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time and energy and money doing that. You're obviously very focused on it. It's another
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question. Why can a child not see a drag show? Why a child must see a drag show? But then the
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question I have is, what about this drag queen himself? What is it about this guy that makes him
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so determined to prance around half naked for little kids? Right. And that's our questions too,
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as concerned parents. Like what makes an adult want to perform and get the approval of children?
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Like, why would you want to do that if you don't have an alternative motive?
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I don't know what to tell parents. When parents write into me all the time and they say,
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you know, I don't know what to do with my kid. My school's gone really woke. And
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obviously now you've got sexual performances for 12 year olds by guys who are obviously
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little on the perverted side if they're prancing around in women's clothing. So this is a
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genuinely a dangerous situation. You've got seven kids. Do you feel comfortable sending them to
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this public school? I don't. And that's why I pulled them for this year. So they- You did.
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I just have, I did. So I have my one son, he's still in, he's a freshman. And so he's pretty,
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he's like, mom, I know what's going on. I'm okay. I just want to go. And so I did pull my younger
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two that are in school out. I have two of them. I have two kids that are out of school and I have
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three kids in school. And so they are out of the school system.
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But it creates a problem. I mean, you, you know, you've taken the charge to be fruitful and multiply
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very, very well. And, you know, you're doing your, your part to, to, you know, outflank the left,
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not only by persuasion, but also by outbreeding them, which I understand to be much more fun. So
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good on you for doing that. But it creates a sort of a financial problem too. It's, it's not as though
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most people in this country can afford to send seven kids to private school. It's not as though
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a lot of mothers can even afford to stay home and homeschool all day long. I mean, these are,
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this is very, very expensive. And so for a lot of people, there's not a whole lot of choice here.
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It's just either send your kid to the school with the trannies or don't send your kid to school at
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all. Right. And that's exactly the tough part we are in. We are in that tough situation right now,
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just with like trying to make financial ends meet because of the fact that, you know, I can't work
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anytime outside the home during the, during the school hours, because I'm home with the kids
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watching them now. And it does make it a little difficult, but God will provide, and we will make
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sure that we can keep going. And I will make sure that my kids are not indoctrinated and as they can
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to shield them from what's happening in our schools. Have any teachers spoken out against this?
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Obviously there's the two faculty advisors to the club who are bringing these, this weirdo in and
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taking weird pics with the kids, but surely there've got to be some good teachers here who are joining
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you at the school board meeting and speaking out against it. No, I'm a lonely person standing up there
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and anytime they see my name on the agenda, the board will actually stack the, stack it against me.
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So when I first brought this to the attention, I'm good at making posters. I like to make posters
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and held them up cause that's my thing. And so the very first time I addressed them after the GSA
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program happened, they actually cut life feed. They had technical difficulties. And so, but as soon
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as the first person that they brought in was on, it worked. And so there's three of us that spoke up
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against it. And there was about 20 of them that they brought in to spoke, to speak for the GSA and how
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they needed to have it in school. How does this work with the federal funding? Because, you know,
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I was a member of a ton of clubs in school. I ran a bunch of clubs. You know, I was very involved in
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the extracurriculars. And I don't remember the federal government giving me money for my, for the
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choir club or the band or the plays or the student government or any of that. So what is it about the,
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the gay club that gets federal dollars? I'm guessing it's a mental illness and that's why the CDC's got it.
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And I mean, I don't know what other way, why they would have it besides it's a mental illness and
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that's why the CDC is funding it. Right. Well, yes. If you're a man who thinks that he's a woman,
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I guess by definition, that's a mental illness. And so, but, but, you know, usually you would hope
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that the CDC or the, the more medically inclined agencies of our government would be spending their
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money trying to cure mental problems, not, uh, toward exacerbating them.
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because I bet you, I told you, I bet you if you did a poll right now, 90% plus of the parents would
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be on your side in terms of do you think these drag queens should dance around for kids? How many
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are actually standing up with you at the meetings? None. None even of the parents? No, there was about
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two of them when we first started, when I first brought it to the school board meeting. And
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there's maybe five of us that will stand up at all, like all the time. But when I went up against
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them just this last Monday, it was just me and another mom. Why do you think that is?
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I think it's because of the backlash that people get here in our town. And I don't think people
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like that negativity. They don't like to be themselves out there. So especially if you own a small
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business, if you own a small business in this town and you're speaking up against what they want
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you to, they'll find a way to shut you down. Of course, of course. And you even think with some
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parents, I bet they don't want their kids' grades to be affected. You know, everyone wants to get into
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college and, you know, just kind of check that box. And so I see this everywhere. When people come up,
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they'll ask me at speeches, Michael, should I speak out or should I keep my head down and get the good
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grade and move on? And there's so many incentives just to keeping your mouth shut. I guess I'm just
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so surprised really that this is going on, not just in the big cities, but even in small towns and
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states that are supposed to be pretty normal. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, the city definitely comes
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after me. I mean, they are at my doorstep at all times. The police are after me. And I mean,
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this is whatever, you know, I have thick skin and they can throw whatever daggers they want at me
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and I'll take them because if it helps save our kids, that's what I'm here for. And I will never
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stop working for our kids. What do your kids think about it? They love it, actually. They're like,
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my mom's a superhero. And it was funny because like when my little Olivia, when we got the mass law passed
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in our state, she was a huge part of that. And I remember her going up to her principal
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after we got the law passed that they can't mandate mask on. And she walked up to the principal. She's
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like, Ms. Ryan, Ms. Ryan, guess what? And she's like, what Olivia? And she's like, my mom made a
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rule and you can't put a mask on me. And she flipped her hair and she walked into that school. I was so
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proud of her because she felt so empowered. And it was just like, yep, that's my kid.
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Wow. That is fabulous. Oh my gosh. I love it. So, oh, I wish we had more time even to touch on
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that. But you also helped spearhead the effort to get rid of the stupid mask rules.
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Yes. I was the mom that was talking about my daughter had the staph infection and it caused
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staph infection on her face four times. So we got a medical exemption to not have a mask in school.
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And that's when they segregated her. They literally put her on one side of the room compared to everybody
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else on the other. And so I am suing the Ankeny School District for the retaliation they're doing
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with my child. A judge did come in and dismiss my case saying there wasn't enough evidence. So we
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are appealing it and we are moving forward with the case. Wow. Oh, I just absolutely love it. You
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just think of the irony here. The same people who are saying that it's of the utmost importance that
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poor little kids cover up their face entirely with the mask are the same ones saying that you don't
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need to cover up your legs or your midriff or anything else if you're a crazy guy dancing
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around for the GSA club. Yep. Absolutely insane. Well, Kimberly, I wish you all the best of luck.
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Where does the effort stand now? I mean, is it just at an impasse and you're waiting for a response
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from the school board? Or how can people, as I suspect they're going to want to do, how can people help you?
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Um, they can go to our website at iowamamabears.com and that's iowamamabears.com and they can help by
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supporting or donating whatever you feel God leading you to do to help out. We are appreciative
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of everything. Uh, that that's really wonderful. And since you're willing to give some advice
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and, you know, help lead this kind of movement, I would be remiss if I didn't ask given all your
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political activity. When are we going to see you run for office? I hope so. Cause honestly,
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I think that's where God's leading me. And I mean, maybe in 2024, when I get everything off my,
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all the spears off my back for now, but I think my fight right now is to focus on the schools.
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And so this next year, I think that's my biggest thing is I have to be boots on the ground in your face,
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um, to these people because yes, I can get a lot done being running, but I can also get a lot
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more done without having my hands tied, just being a mom. Right, right. You, you, you clearly are,
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are getting stuff accomplished right now would be absolutely fabulous. If you could run, I think
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it's a really, really important issue. And I think, I think the left is running scared here. I think it's
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totally a house of cards. You saw what happened in Virginia in particular, this transgender issue
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in the schools, people across voting demographics realize that it is completely insane. And I know
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that the squishes, even the squishy conservatives, even the squishy normal people, they, they, they
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want to back away from it. They say it's a culture war issue. Oh no, I don't want to be called a phobe
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or a bigot or whatever. Keep your head down. Normal people realize that this is insane. No sane person
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with two brain cells to rub together and a moral conscience thinks that a pervert in a dress should
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be dancing around for 12 year olds at the GSA club. Okay. So this is a completely winning issue.
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I think you were doing a great job leading the way on it. And I think you're doing it in a way
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that's very, very funny, but it's calling attention to a very, very serious issue. Kimberly Reichs,
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I look forward to seeing the launch of your campaign and I look forward to seeing more
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accomplishments in the meantime. Thank you so much.
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