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New Mexico mom moves to Missouri after school installs 'gender-inclusive closets': 'Enough is enough'

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Rachael Hein made the bold move to relocate her family from New Mexico to 
Missouri after learning about a local high school’s gender-inclusive 
“closet” and other controversial ideas.

Speaking to Fox News Digital, Hein explained how she discovered what she 
called “the transgender closet” at Las Cruces Centennial High School where 
her daughter attended.

“There’s the transgender closet, which really was the last straw. I think 
we saw that pop up on Facebook, and I looked into it because I’m not one 
that’s like ‘oh, it’s on Facebook. It’s truth.’ I went on Google and I see 
this. Yeah. Las Cruces, New Mexico, Centennial High School transgender 
closet. They were approved for this grant,” Hein said.

She added, “And I thought, no, enough is enough. We’re not going to 
subject our daughter to that. I don’t want my kids who knows what hearing 
different messages pushed by counselors or teachers within a setting that 
I don’t have ears in. I do know some teachers, but it doesn’t mean that my 
kids will always have a trusted teacher that’s unbiased or not pushing 
that agenda.”

The It Gets Better organization previously gave the high school a grant in 
2022 to “[b]uild a gender-inclusive closet providing affirming supplies 
and clothes for trans and gender non-conforming students.”

Hein explained that the gender-inclusive closets came after years of 
frustration with the public education system.

Beginning with the pandemic, she became more involved with her four 
children’s education, alternating between homeschooling and online 
learning.

Once her kids returned to school, she began paying greater attention to 
their education.

One initiative she took issue with included the school district’s addition 
of 10 extra school days to the 2022-2023 calendar to make up for the 
pandemic shutdowns.

Hein and other parents were frustrated with the decision, referring to 
them as “party days” where there was no real schoolwork.

When defending the extra days during a town hall meeting, New Mexico 
Public Education Department’s Deputy Secretary for Teaching, Learning & 
Assessment, Gwen Warniment, also said that kids needed to spend “more time 
with the adults who matter” and that “the adults who matter are the 
teachers in their classrooms.”

Hein added that the school boards did not respond to their complaints and 
were not helpful after voting in favor of the extra days.

“It felt like [school boards] heard you, but they really weren’t 
listening. They would say the platitude of ‘I hear your concerns and I 
might be concerned about that too.’ But really, they were just on their 
own path, their own trajectory, and didn’t really matter. What community 
members said didn’t really matter what students or teachers even wanted,” 
Hein said.

By contrast, Hein complimented Missouri for the schools and community 
being more open to parents and her younger children.

“It’s been completely different for us here. I’m not saying that it’s not 
going to be coming this way, or there aren’t certain districts that are 
moving in that same direction. But I think there’s a lot more willingness 
to listen to parents and teachers and students in this area than there 
were in New Mexico,” she said.

Hein added, “It’s been a positive change, for sure. Very different here in 
the sense that the neighborhood we’re in. My kiddos can just go out and 
play with neighbors and it’s safe. It’s just very much more of a 
togetherness.”

She noted that she still knows some parents and teachers who have remained 
at the Las Cruces schools. 

“I would really encourage them to be involved. Volunteer, go to school 
board meetings. I knew teachers, people who love their kids in Las Cruces, 
but they wouldn’t set a foot within the school board meetings. And it’s 
sad because that’s the only way you’re going to see change is if you are a 
voice instead of just someone sitting disgruntled in the background,” Hein 
said.

“It’s going to impact the future generation, and there’s going to be so 
much confusion if we’re not willing to stand and say, no, enough is 
enough. This is not what we want within our schools. And it’s not about 
hate. It’s not about wanting to keep others out. It’s about using school 
for the purpose that it’s intended,” she concluded.

Fox News Digital reached out to Las Cruces Centennial High School for a 
comment but has yet to receive a response.

W.C. Fields
1 hour ago

I commend and applaud this Mom! Protect your children from this insanity 
at all costs!

James Sykes
1 hour ago

That's an ugly school set in the wasteland, it looks like a county jail.  
They'll like Missouri.

INNS BRUCK
2 hours ago

Americans are plain nuts with all this nonsense with gender

Git a Rope
1 hour ago

If we’re not careful we might end up resembling a European Union nation. 
We need to stop this nonsense now before it’s too late. 

https://nypost.com/2024/03/08/us-news/new-mexico-mom-moves-to-missouri-
after-school-installs-gender-inclusive-closets-enough-is-enough/

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