National Lawyers Guild Has A Resistance Plan For LGBTQ+ Activists In Schools

Leftist legal organization encourages family-disruption cult dynamics of genderwoo

If you have ever been to a public protest event in the United States, you may have seen someone walking alongside the march or standing near the rally in a yellow hat. They are volunteers with the National Lawyer’s Guild, a storied progressive institution.¹ Being officers of the court, they are ostensibly supposed to monitor events and give reliable testimony later, if necessary, but their mere presence is supposed to deter any violence, no matter the actor — police, demonstrators, or random citizens.

It is no secret however that NLG has always been an ideologically left-wing organization. Founded in 1937, it was supposed to be a progressive alternative to the American Bar Association. Civil libertarians spit with the organization, and the NLG was already closely associated with communism, years before the McCarthy hearings of 1954. NLG then became a key resource for jailhouse lawyers, i.e. prisoners using the legal system, as well as the biggest source of funding for the Weather Underground terrorist group.

NLG has institutional opinions on many topics that are beyond the remit of an American litigator, including Palestine, Venezuela, and the World Trade Organization, to name just three examples. In 2024, the NLG published a pamphlet, “Teaching For Belonging: Strategies for Resisting Legalized Discrimination in Classrooms & Beyond,” that the organization has now updated in 2025 to encourage “erasure resistance” by genderwoo activists using public schools as indoctrination centers. “SAY GAY / TEACH TRUTH,” the guide says. Also: lie to parents. It’s fine.

“Transgendered people at present are now actively being erased via the extreme executive orders of a president who has no respect for adherence to the rule of law and the rulings of a Supreme Court that values religious bigotry over diversity and inclusion,” the pamphlet, a creation of the NLG Queer Caucus, explains.

A delicate misdirection is happening here. To date, the Supreme Court has never recognized ‘transgender identities’ as a quasi-suspect class, meaning that laws labeled ‘anti-trans’ by NLG are in fact quite constitutional. Rather than argue from any constitutional footing, then, the NLG Queer Caucus argues that “bigotry” is “erasing” transgender people and holds up “diversity and inclusion” as if they have equal value and authority to the Bill of Rights.

This Know-Your-Risks (KYR) manual aims to empower all educators to resist anti-LGBTQ+ policies, and to advocate for LGBTQ+ students as well as themselves. This manual is not just for teachers in states with active anti-LGBTQ+ laws, but also those who teach in schools and districts without restrictions but fear facing adverse consequences for maintaining truly inclusive classrooms in these times.

NLG understand that they are out of step with the legal mainstream. “Sadly the SCOTUS has ruled in favor of laws that limit access to gender affirming care for minors and that allow parents to opt their students out of lessons and story time that present queer people in a good light,” they complain. To the NLG Queer Caucus, it is a travesty that “parents must be able to opt their children out of participating in these classroom activities.” Because when they say “inclusion,” they mean to include your children in their plans for all that ‘gender affirming care’.

The 24-page pamphlet blames Project 2025 and Florida’s HB 1557, passed in March 2022, for the ensuing wave of state laws prohibiting pediatric sex changes, males in female sports, and so on. Of course, nothing in HB 1557 actually prohibited anyone from saying the word ‘gay’, but this does not stop NLG from high-pitched screeching: “SAY GAY.”

According to the NLG, “anti-LGBTQ+ extremist groups” are “turning law into a tool of fear and confusion rather than order and protection.” According to the NLG, “a small minority is attempting to erase decades of progress people of color and queer folk have made in terms of civil liberties, public leadership, legal equality and proud visibility.”

NLG points to survey results that “one in ten teachers said they experienced fear or anxiety about violating restrictive policies” around LGBTQ+ propaganda and recruitment, “which could potentially cost them their jobs.” No one will be surprised surprised to learn that at least ten percent of America’s public school teachers are ideological agents preying on other people’s children. After all, they introduce themselves to the world via Libs of TikTok all the time, so we already know they exist.

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Being an updated version of the pamphlet, one might expect NLG to take note of both the Skrmetti decision, as well as Justice Clarence Thomas’s concurrence, and conclude that the absurd Biden-era strategy of claiming the total enshrinement of ‘trans rights’ was achieved in the 2020 Bostock decision is over.

NLG has defied this expectation. Their “understanding of federal law stems from the Supreme Court’s ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, written by Justice Gorsuch in 2020, that sex discrimination prohibited by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 included discrimination based on transgender status and/or sexual orientation,” the Queer Caucus says. Ignoring Gorsuch’s own words that limited the Bostock ruling to the narrow question at hand, the Biden administration sought to impose an expansive interpretation across the country. Now NLG is passing out the same copium:

A series of court cases across the country has applied this ruling to Title IX, protecting transgender students from discrimination on the basis of gender identity, allowing them access to sports teams, and bathrooms that matched their gender identity. Additionally, on March 26, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division issued guidance to all federal civil rights offices and general counsels that, because of Bostock, Title IX’s prohibition on discrimination on the basis of sex also includes discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation.

The Biden administration issued Final Rules to change Title IX in January 2024 and dozens of Republican state attorneys general immediately sued. A federal court threw out the Final Rules in January 2025. “The year 2025 began with a preposterous legal situation in which the Federal Government was blocked from enforcing legally-enacted Federal Law in all but one of the Southern states,” the NLG Queer Caucus says, clearly hoping Democrats can get the White House back some day and restore gender communist utopia.

“This has not happened since the 1950’s during the Civil Rights Movement when Southern states fought against racial integration of schools.” Get that? Federal courts are being racist against the trans. Worse, “the current administration has threatened cuts to federal funding of schools that offer social support to transgender students.” Of course, what they mean by “social support” is permission for boys to cheat at girls’ sports, for both sexes to expore the others’ bathrooms and locker rooms, and most important of all, to keep every child’s new pronouns and cult-name secret from mom and dad.

The NLG Queer Caucus prioritizes the drama triangle of keeping secrets from parents. “Notably, North Carolina stands as the only Southern state where the Final Rules could be enforced, arguably blocking SB49’s requirement to out students, use biological pronouns and legal name only unless given parental consent,” the pamphlet says, hopefully.

Helpfully, the authors suggest that “nothing prohibits states from enacting their own laws protecting transgender students and educators.” Colorado Democrats did pass HB 25-1312, the Kelly Loving Act, a speech code purporting to “protect” the invisible gender-gremlins inside every child by mandating pronouns or else. NLG is excited by laws that infringe on free speech, now, because genderwoo ruins everything.

The pamphlet decries “state laws that are sowing the most fear and confusion among educators who strive to maintain inclusive and supportive classrooms, and believe in public education’s ability to deeply improve the lives of students and the trajectory of our democracy.” They are saving democracy. They are saviors. They are here to save us.

We cannot be neutral, or allow our schools to be neutral. We must all take a stand, otherwise the bad guys win. “It is paramount that any institution, from the state level to local school boards, that supports full inclusion of all people in America’s schools resist these orders and refuse to comply,” the NLG Queer Caucus says of Trump’s executive orders.

For resources, they point readers to the Southern Poverty Law Center, ‘Law Dork’ Chris Geidner, and the execrable propagandist Erin Reed. We cannot be neutral, after all. We must rely on the most tendentious activists as our only sources.

Wisely, the writers of this pamphlet do not encourage rulebreaking. Instead, they encourage readers to ruminate on any changes that upset them. “Staying in your job is powerful. Each time you have to violate your own consciousness to stay in your job you can make a written statement to this effect to send to HR or your administrator,” they write.

“You can also privately, outside of your instructional time, let queer students know that you disagree with state policy.” Because a teacher should definitely discuss politics with students outside of instructional time. No way that could ever go wrong, or lead to ideological grooming. No way it ever ends in sadness, or litigation.

The pamphlet includes a number of “resistance” ancedotes that reveal more about the NLG and the Queer Caucus than they teach about resistance. “Having grown up in rural East Tennessee where gay and transgender people were never included in stories at school or in public spaces in her community,” a librarian “felt morally compelled to do better for her students.”

Then she asked her principal to explain how these books provided “instruction” on these topics by simply including gay or trans characters or stories? The principal couldn’t answer this question and just responded that she didn’t want to be in the news. Kendra held her ground saying, “Then let’s keep these books available to students and let’s stay out of the news,” impling [sic] that if the principal prohibited the books Kendra would go to the media to let their community know of the principal’s decision to censor stories of only one minority group. This ended the discussion and her K to 4 public school library continues to be a place of safety and inclusion for all of her students.

Children ages six to ten are far too young to be reading any book about gay or trans characters or stories. Children are demonstrably unsafe in a school library where the librarian extorts ideological compliance from the principal. A lawyers guild has no business promoting such “resistance,” which parents recognize as “grooming.”

Indeed, the pamphlet propagandizes parents. “Seeing her this way made students feel safe and many students over the years came out to her,” reads another anecdote. “Nearly all of them always asked that she not tell their parents.” Because parents are unsafe, whereas schools are ‘safe spaces’.

Trans kids in particular, would ask her to use their biological pronouns with their parents and chosen pronouns at school. It was never about trying to hide something from a parent; it was about safety.

“It is not reasonable or prudent to assume that a child’s home is safe from abuse or neglect, to assume that all children are being treated with healthy care, support and respect every day at home,” reads another testimonial in this tract. “It is not reasonable or prudent to assume that a child’s home is free from complex physical and emotional trauma, to assume that one would always know if a child is not safe at home.”

We must instead assume the worst, and of course we can never second-guess ourselves while we ‘resist’. “It is not reasonable or prudent to believe that a child who is not communicating openly with their own parents/caregivers is safe with their own parents/ caregivers,” the anonymous correspondent writes. “That is facts. No cap, as the kids say.”

It is not reasonable or prudent to assume that teachers keeping secrets from parents is ever a good idea, or eeven legal. While the NLG Queer Caucus is contemptuous of parental rights organizations, the more insidious contempt is for parental rights in general. This is after all the Queer Caucus, so destroying capitalism by destroying the family unit is intrinsic to their praxis.

One teacher writes that “if a child states a gender stereotype, then I can point out that this may not be true for all and remind students that we all have our own preferences and ways to express who we are.” This is the singular point of good advice in the entire pamphlet: stop reifying stereotypes of what a girl or boy is supposed to be, because no one is ‘born in the wrong body’. Of course, the authors didn’t mean it that way.

In the most amazing anecdote NLG provides, we learn that pediatric transition is not in fact a cure for suicide. A woman writes that she “walked into [her] bedroom just as [she] stuffed a handful of sleeping pills into [her] mouth,” referring to a trans-identified daughter. “[Her] suicide note, decorated with peach stickers and the drawing of a beautiful tree, explained that while [she] knew [she] was safe as my child [she] didn’t want to live in a world where [she] could not be free, or where [her] friends could be forced to come out to abusive parents.” Dysphoria cured, hooray?

As described, the scene sounds, well, staged, frankly.

Thankfully my parental instincts had kicked in just at the right time. When I fell to my knees and threw my arms around him, he spit the pills out of his mouth and crumpled into my arms sobbing. While I had found him excellent mental health care that saved his life, neither he nor I had a community of support for the trying times we found ourselves in.

And then everyone clapped. These anecdotes have a very old feel to them. They strike me as very like the infamous email forwards that conservative relatives were sending around 20 years ago, all containing some variation on an urban myth, or anecdotes in which students shame their teachers for not believing in God. They have that energy.

“We are living through an actual attempt to erase transgender people from our country by our federal government,” the pamphlet concludes. “Our nation needs educators who can look past rhetoric with bravery and personal conviction and do what is best for students.” The National Lawyers Guild thinks the best thing for your child is to keep secrets from you.

“School is sometimes the only place queer children can be themselves and find support and acceptance,” they write. The National Lawyers Guild thinks that schools exist to make children feel supported and accepted, not educated. Actual education — reading writing, mathematics — is not interesting to them, since it only serves the capitalist system and the war machine, anyway. Save the trans kids, save the world.

1. Neat plot twist, I interviewed then-NLG president David Gespass in 2010.