A group of trans activists appeared to disrupt a New York City school board meeting by humming and hollering loudly as attendees attempted to discuss a policy that would ban transgender athletes from playing on women’s sports teams.
Wednesday night’s meeting was held by Community Education Council District 2, Manhattan’s largest school district.
The meeting was scheduled to discuss a controversial measure passed in March that would require the city Department of Education to allow a public review of its policy on transgender athletes.
Since the measure passed, trans advocates have shown up at every school board meeting to protest and even discuss moving forward with the review, which is what happened Wednesday night when anyone with a contrary opinion tried to speak.
A video of the bizarre humming and howling performance by trans advocates — many of whom were wearing jeans and matching white T-shirts — showed that the woman whose voice they were drowning out is Amaya Perez, a bisexual black woman who leads the New York Chapter. by Gays Against Groomers.
Trans activists in matching suits hum loudly to drown out speakers with whom they disagree at a Manhattan school board meeting on Wednesday.
The video was posted by Kara Dansky, a self-described “democratic feminist fighting for the sexual rights of women and girls,” who also described the hummers as the “cult of trans people.”
In her narration of the short clip, she says: “I’m in New York City, at a hearing to discuss a resolution asking the city to reevaluate the policy allowing male athletes to compete in women’s sports.
‘A speaker is trying to speak on behalf of that resolution and this is how the trans cult responds. This is the cult of trans people, New York, June 12, 2024. This is the end of the speech », he concludes.
Beneath his voice, a loud, low hum can be heard echoing through the school gym, where the meeting is taking place. The tone is periodically accentuated by the sound of someone howling like a wolf.
One of the school board members, Maud Maron, joined the discussion about the meeting at X, posting several of her own videos and criticizing the rowdy group.
‘The creepy humming in this video is from a group of trans activists who most hypocritically complained that I didn’t give them my full “attention” as they paraded their slogans and talking points for the fourth month in a row, but refused to listen to these women who do not agree with them,’ Marón wrote about a video of Amaya Pérez trying to speak at the meeting.
“The sheer strangeness of this cult-like behavior was shocking,” she wrote, adding that she was the one who drafted the March resolution, which her committee overwhelmingly approved by a vote of 8 to 3.
“My views on academic improvement and gender ideology were well known when I was elected to my third term,” she said, hinting that her concerns on the issue are likely shared by many parents of children in the district’s schools.
‘The trans activist class, with the full support of New York’s elected Democratic politicians, has reacted in full swing to this non-binding request to create a committee. Because? Because the cult of gender ideology is very fragile.
‘When examined at all, it begins to fray. So no questions can be asked. The censure of the crowd was something to behold,” she wrote, before describing the behavior of the trans activists at the meeting.
“They booed and shouted at all speakers who did not pay obsequious homage to their gender-cult religion, forcing the council to suspend public speeches for a time.”
Activists have reportedly taken over every school board meeting since a measure passed in March that would require the city to allow a public review of its policy on transgender athletes.
Amaya Pérez, a Black and bisexual representative for Gays Against Groomers, was choked out at the meeting as she tried to speak on behalf of the controversial measure.
At the late March meeting, when the controversial measure was first approved, some parents spoke out against the resolution.
Jared Danker, a gay father and Department of Education employee who has a child in a District 2 school, said the measure would “marginalize and discriminate against a group of students who need our affirmation and support,” according to the New York Post.
New York City Council member Erik Bottcher also condemned the effort as “absolutely shocking,” “regressive” and “harmful.”
“We are outraged that they are considering a resolution targeting transgender girls and sports,” she said.
The objective of the controversial measure (resolution 248) is to carry out a review of the Department of Education’s guidelines and provide space for parental participation in some key decisions.
District 2 parents who support the resolution seek transparency when it comes to policies that affect their school-aged children. Many say it is unclear to them how the initial guidelines were established.