The following letter was sent to the Fillmore Unified School District
Good afternoon, Superintendent and School Board Members,

I am writing you as a concerned parent. Please note that there are several other Fillmore community members CCed in this email. Some have kids in the district, some have kids growing up in the community and not yet at school age, have had kids in the district or have chosen to school their children elsewhere due to their own reasons. There has been a general consensus amongst us, while not every case and point is of the exact opinion of each person involved in the email.

The general concern is that Fillmore Unified School District (FUSD} has a group on the high school campus that coincides with One Step A La Vez. The concern comes after last week’s Pride event that One Step hosted at their main location. During the Pride event One Step hired a drag queen to perform; this is a club for 13-19 year old’s. During the drag queen’s performance, they emulated a strip tease. While the drag queen went down to a bathing suit or leotard, was it appropriate? Why would FUSD choose to affiliate themselves with an organization that deems this type of behavior at a community outreach informational fair? Drag queens are performers for adult type of shows. This was in the presence of children during normal working hours. Even Ru Paul does not live his life in drag. I don’t know what drag queens stripping and dancing provocatively in front of children have to do with Pride Month. I want to you to think about this very carefully.

Would FUSD have their teachers or staff do a simulated strip tease down to their bathing suits for the children they are meant to teach and protect? Would it be appropriate for the cheerleaders to simulate a strip tease with a trench coat down to their bathing suits during a football game? Would it be ok if FUSD endorsed any group whose mission is to groom our children (and YES, normalizing a strip tease by any adult for children is GROOMING)? What if there was a hunting club and at their event they had women who came in trench coats, simulate a strip tease down to skimpy bathing suits and pole danced while community members, FUSD staff and others cheered on at a kid’s event. Would this be appropriate? Would FUSD associate with this club? Would they have this club as a resource for children on their website. Would they announce that club’s activities in their calendar. I think NOT. I know NOT. Why would this be any different?

I am not asking FUSD to control One Step A La Vez, it is pretty clear they do what they want over there. Their mission seems to teach our community’s children what their beliefs are on gender fluidity. I believe there is even a poster on their wall when you walk in that walks you through how to identify if you’re a girl or boy. I think simple genetics are enough for any school or organization affiliated with the school for that matter.
Gender Dysphoria is a mental health condition and probably should be discussed in psychology, which I don’t remember taking until college.

I take my children’s safety and education very seriously. I do NOT want my children exposed to this sort of club. I think you are employed or voted into office to protect our children, not to give into this recent new cool thing to be, which is transgender. Frankly this thing has gotten out of control. I can hit you with actual statistics etc. But frankly that doesn’t matter either.

What does matter is what/who FUSD chooses to affiliate with. And if it is groups that host child grooming by normalizing strip teases for children then it has a really serious problem on hand.
I hope this email has not landed on deaf ears. I was going to mention all the families moving into the town, but I will leave it at myself. But this is a CHILD SAFTEY ISSUE.

I also skipped all the information on family values or Christian values. I will entrust for now that FUSD will carefully choose who they affiliate with for appropriate behavior at club events. So far Mrs. Scheifele has been nothing but an upstanding superintendent. She is a breath of fresh air after the last.
Concerned Parents