New York teacher compelled 7th graders to view deranged pornographic images, damning lawsuit claims



The conservative legal outfit American Center for Law and Justice filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against a public school district in New York after a teacher allegedly subjected seventh graders to pornographic materials on multiple occasions.

The complaint, filed on behalf of two parents and their minor children, alleges that "under the guise of an art lesson," Bridgette Gates — a teacher with the Watertown City School District who "resigned as an art teacher, ... was rehired as an English teacher, and remains on administrative leave," according to Syracuse.com — intentionally exposed around 100 students to "pornographic and sexually explicit imagery over a two-week period in September 2025, without providing any advance notice to parents or offering an opportunity to opt out."

'It's almost criminal.'

According to the complaint, Gates directed her students at Case Middle School to visit the gallery on the Keith Haring Foundation website using their school-issued Chromebooks during class time.

At the time of publication, the gallery contained various sexually explicit images and images of bodily mutilation, including multiple cartoons and paintings depicting men masturbating; a cartoon depicting a man with a fist-tipped penis; a cartoon depicting a man being choked by his penis; a painting mocking the martyrdom of St. Sebastian, depicting him with an erection and impaled by multiple airplanes; a painting of a character with a mouth in the place of an anus; and a painting of a penis wearing a wig.

The deviant agitprop was created by Keith Haring, a hallucinogenic drug-abusing homosexual activist who died of AIDS-related complications in 1990.

A spokesperson for the Haring Foundation told Artnet that it is aware of the conservative group's response to the alleged incident at the school and acknowledged that some of Haring's images may be inappropriate for some audiences.

The lawsuit alleges that Gates acknowledged that "some of the images were inappropriate" yet told her 12- and 13-year-old students to "ignore them and be mature." Gates allegedly continued showing the images to kids despite signs of unease and resistance.

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After learning of the content in late September, concerned parents contacted the teacher, school administrators, and local law enforcement.

Stephanie Boyanski, a plaintiff as well as the parent of one of the plaintiff students, told WWNY-TV in September, "It's almost unbelievable."

"It's almost criminal," said Heather Trainham, another parent.

Plaintiff parent Jessy Roberts noted that her son "knew it was inappropriate, but he wasn't sure if he should speak out or not, because they're of authority."

'Schools are not free to override that authority or to "correct" the family’s moral instruction.'

In the face of parental backlash and concerns raised at school-board meetings, Gates was reportedly placed on paid administrative leave, the assignment link was removed from Google Classroom, and the district admitted to parents that students had "come across inappropriate content." There was, however, no apology from the district.

The ACLJ sent a letter on Nov. 21 to Larry Schmiegel, superintendent of the school district, stating that "because of the District's lax monitoring of its curriculum and teachers, and its deliberate choice to shield the teacher from accountability, the harm done to Mses. Boyanski and Roberts' children is irreparable and ongoing."

The legal group demanded that Gates be issued a formal reprimand; that the school adopt a policy not to show children sexually explicit content without parental notification and to provide an opt-out if future curriculum includes such content; and to provide counseling for kids impacted by the images — and provided the district with a Dec. 1 deadline to act.

The lawsuit filed this week requests that the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York declare that the school violated parents' First and 14th Amendment rights; bar the district from repeating its error; require the district to implement age-appropriate safeguards; and award damages for the alleged constitutional violations.

The district did not respond to Blaze News' request for comment.

"Parents should not be forced to choose between public education and their family’s values. The Constitution draws a bright line: Parents, not the state, decide how and when their children are introduced to sexual content," the ACLJ said in a release. "Schools are not free to override that authority or to 'correct' the family’s moral instruction through compulsory exposure to explicit material. When officials discard that line, the courts must restore it."

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Woke Biden judge blocks Trump ban of transvestites in military, fueling concerns over judicial overreach: 'Lunacy'



Democrat-appointed activist judges appear eager to prevent the democratically elected president from exercising his constitutional authority and realizing his popular agenda.

In the latest instance of judicial overreach, U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes — a Biden-appointed lesbian judge who previously worked as a lawyer to fight the first Trump administration's immigration policy — decided to indefinitely block the implementation of the second Trump administration's ban on transvestites in the military, suggesting it likely violated their constitutional rights.

At issue in Talbott v. Trump, a case brought by GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders and the National Center for Lesbian Rights, is Trump's Jan. 27 executive titled "Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness" and the resulting Pentagon guidance.

Trump underscored in his order that the military's policy to establish "high standards for troop readiness, lethality, cohesion, honesty, humility, uniformity, and integrity" is incompatible with the accommodations sought and health constraints faced by gender-dysphoric individuals.

Trump added that those "expressing a false 'gender identity'" at odds with their actual sex "cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service" and cannot satisfy the soldier's "commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle."

The Pentagon's new guidance states:

Military service by Service members and applicants for military service who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria is incompatible with military service. Service by these individuals is not in the best interests of the Military Services and is not clearly consistent with the interests of national security. Individuals who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria are no longer eligible for military service.

Reyes, formerly of the Feminist Majority Foundation, acknowledged in her Tuesday ruling that Trump has the "power — indeed the obligation — to ensure military readiness." However, she figured that it was nevertheless her job to interfere, both characterizing Trump's exercise of presidential authority as an attempt to "deny marginalized persons the privilege of serving" and glossing over the military's prohibition on other medically and mentally compromised individuals enlisting, including those found to be on medications, women with abnormal uterine bleeding, men with deformed genitals, those with chronic anxiety, those who have committed self-harm, and those who have met in the past with psychiatrists.

Reyes suggested in her ruling that it was her responsibility as a judge to keep the executive branch in its proper place, despite acknowledging the "pernicious" nature of judicial overreach.

'Each day the nation arises to see what the craziest unelected local federal judge has decided the policies of the government of the United States shall be.'

Reyes suggested further that the "Military Ban is soaked in animus and dripping with pretext. Its language is unabashedly demeaning, its policy stigmatizes transgender persons as inherently unfit, and its conclusions bear no relation to fact."

Reyes clearly did not bother shrouding her animus toward the Trump administration in the ruling or during past hearings.

The foreign-born judge previously suggested that Trump, through his executive order directing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to update military policy to effectively ban medical and cosmetic transvestites from the military, was "literally erasing transgender people." In addition to claiming that Pete Hegseth, a recipient of two Bronze Stars, had no military experience, Reyes also tried to dunk on the administration with a bizarre distortion of Christian teaching, asking Justice Department attorney Jason Lynch how Jesus Christ would respond to Trump's order — prompting a misconduct complaint.

Fresh off condemning one Obama judge for preventing President Donald Trump from deporting terrorists under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 and another Obama judge for "appoint[ing] himself king of foreign policy," Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff, asked, "Is there no end to this madness?"

After noting that district court judges "have now decided they are in command of the Armed Forces," Miller likened the actions taken by Reyes and other activist judges to "Marxist university professors being able to unilaterally veto, edit or override the exercise of presidential authority."

"Currently, district court judges have assumed the mantle of Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, Secretary of Homeland Security and Commander-in-Chief," wrote Miller. "Each day, they change the foreign policy, economic, staffing and national security policies of the Administration. Each day the nation arises to see what the craziest unelected local federal judge has decided the policies of the government of the United States shall be. It is madness. It is lunacy. It is pure lawlessness. It is the gravest assault on democracy. It must and will end."

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk noted, "We either have a presidency or we have a rule by 677 gavel-wielding dictators."

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) responded, "We don't play 'Hail to the Chief' when they enter the courtroom."

An analysis of nationwide injunctions issued between 2001 and 2023 published last year in the Harvard Law Review revealed that Democrat-appointed judges zealously tried to hamstring the first Trump administration. Of a total of 96 injunctions issued across four administrations, the Trump administration was slapped with 64. Of those 64 injunctions, 59 were issued by judges appointed by Democratic presidents. Over 50% of all injunctions issued since 1963 were issued against Trump administration policies.

It appears that Reyes and some of her peers are keen to pick up where their fellow travelers left off.

When the first Trump administration passed a ban on transvestites in the military, the Supreme Court let it take effect in 2019. It did not, however, rule on its constitutionality. Reyes' latest effort to undermine the president may pave the way to such a ruling.

The Pentagon has until Friday to ask a higher court to stay Reyes' order. Failing that, it can appeal.

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Transvestite teacher with gargantuan fake breasts returns to classroom. His new school issues warning to parents — not about him but about his critics.



A transvestite in the Canadian province of Ontario became an international sensation last year by rankling parents over his preference for wearing massive fake breasts in the company of their children. He was placed on paid leave in March.

It appears he couldn't stay away the classroom for long.

Kerry Lemieux, who calls himself Kayla, is kicking off the fall semester at a new school, where he will be able to make a new generation of students feel uncomfortable.

The head of his new school in Hamilton, Ontario, has since issued a warning to parents, not that a controversial male teacher will be confronting their children with his cartoonishly pronounced nipples, but that his presence may trigger disruptions and protests.

What's the background?

TheBlaze previously reported that Lemieux taught at Oakville Trafalgar High School, where he trotted around an industrial arts class wearing a wig, lipstick, and size-Z fake breasts.

Despite being photographed walking around elsewhere without his costume, Lemieux repeatedly claimed his breasts were real, alleging they were enlarged as the result of a condition that afflicts some real women, "classified as gigantomastia, which can also be referred to as macromastia or breast hypertrophy."

Parents and students took issue with Lemieux's hypersexualized costume, which his neighbor said he wears "extremely infrequently" while outside school.

In late 2022, the school board refused to implement a dress code, suggesting that doing so would be discriminatory, reported the Toronto Star.

In March, one mother blasted the Halton District School Board at a board of trustees meeting, stating, "Parents and schools alike teach children about the importance of boundaries and consent. Boundaries define professionalism in the education system and must be upheld for all in order to restore public trust."

The mother's view was evidently widely shared, including by Education Minister Stephen Lecce of the Progressive Conservative Party, who similarly blasted the school board, stressing it "abdicated its responsibility by failing to put the interests and safety of students first."

The district ultimately put Lemieux on paid leave.

Heather Francey, a spokesman for the board, said, "While not currently on an active assignment, the teacher remains employed with the HDSB."

The school board added that it continued to "support the teacher in partnership with OSSTF (Ontario Secondary School Teacher's Federation)."

New stomping grounds

After several months of what essentially proved to be a paid vacation, Lemieux is now working for the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board and is set to begin teaching in September.

Tom Fisher, the principal of Nora Frances Henderson Secondary School in Hamilton, recently issued a warning to parents concerning the school's new teacher, obtained by the Toronto Sun.

"We are writing to you today because we anticipate the school your child is attending this year, Nora Frances Henderson, may receive some level of public attention, and we want to communicate what this means for you, your children and our school," wrote Fisher.

Fisher's cautionary note does not warn parents that the school's new teacher dresses like a caricature of a woman or that he has been the subject of various concerns about safety risks to children raised by the parents of past students.

Rather, the memo reportedly stated that the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board has an "obligation to uphold individual rights and treat everyone with dignity and respect," and "should the school be subject to any disruptions or protests; we are committed to communicating with you as openly and as frequently as possible to ensure student safety – and to share any operational plans."

Fisher detailed some of the various ways the school would accommodate Lemieux and make life harder for parents and students.

For instance, parents must now "email or call before coming to the school if they wish to visit to speak to an employee." Anyone seeking to enter or exit the building, including students, must also use an intercom system to do so, and exterior doors will henceforth remain locked during school hours.

These security measures appear to be prompted, in part, by the criticism Lemieux has faced and the bomb threat his previous school received via email during a week he had been noticeably absent from class — around the same time he lost his wig skydiving with male porn star Alexandre Boisvert.

Concerning the memo, the school board told the Sun, "In an attempt to be transparent with our community, HWDSB communicated about steps we are taking to facilitate a smooth return to school for students and the broader community. ... We recently communicated to some parents to inform them of the possibility their child’s school may receive heightened public interest."

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Bloomberg hit-piece targeting anti-child-trafficking film 'Sound of Freedom' was penned by LGBT activist who opposed stigmatizing pedophiles



The author of Bloomberg's Saturday smear of the massively successful anti-child-trafficking film "Sound of Freedom" was penned by a radical LGBT activist who has argued in favor of destigmatizing pedophilia.

Noah Berlatsky's apparent eagerness to brand the film's popularity as "ominous" has prompted others online to both consider his possible motivations and review his past writ on the subject of pedophilia.

The critique

In his July 15 Bloomberg article, entitled "QAnon and 'Sound of Freedom' Both Rely on Tired Hollywood Tropes," which has since been republished by the Washington Post, Berlatsky suggested that the film "has been embraced by the far right and Christians" in part because the "far right is motivated by myths of corrupted innocence and corruption avenged."

Berlatsky rehashed claims advanced in a similar hit-piece by a senior writer at Rolling Stone, intimating that the film's presentation of trafficking is "misleading."

As if to reassure, Berlatsky claimed that the majority of children sexually trafficked are actually between the ages of 15 and 17, adding that "in 41% of the cases, a family member was involved. Behind those numbers are often stories of addiction, disowned LGBTQ+ people and trading sex on the street to survive."

"That's why experts worry that Sound of Freedom's stranger danger narrative, and the way it centers on victims who are as innocent and as sympathetic as possible, may make it more difficult to organize help for less perfect victims when they are targeted by those close to them," he continued.

Just as the depiction of victims as innocent or sympathetic are allegedly problematic, so too are the Hollywood depictions of good and bad — where the "bad guys are unremittingly evil, and the good guys are sensitive and unfailingly virtuous."

"Is Sound of Freedom a QAnon dog whistle, or is it just another thriller? The answer is that — whatever the filmmaker's intentions — it functions as both," wrote Berlatsky. "These narratives do little to help victims. But they can create coalitions of feeling, disgust and righteous rage that connect conservative conspiracy theorists with the mainstream. That's why Trump's screening it. And that's why its popularity is ominous."

The critic

Noah Berlatsky of the "Everything Is Horrible" Substack is a prolific writer of LGBT agitprop and leftist screeds, often finding "fascism" lurking behind opinions he doesn't like.

TheBlaze previously reported that Berlatsky made a fuss earlier this year about his "queer family" after his wife came out as "bisexual and nonbinary" and his son determined that he was a lesbian transgender.

In addition to writing "Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism," advocating for pandemic school shutdowns, and smearing then-student Nick Sandmann in 2019, Berlatsky has written a number of articles for the Protasia Foundation.

The Protasia Foundation touts itself as a "child protection organization" that allegedly seeks novel ways of curbing child sexual abuse, while admittedly working with pedophiles. It also differentiates on its website between "pedophile" and "minor-attracted person," claiming that "not everyone who experiences attractions to minors is a pedophile."

The organization's values include "sex positivity" and "kink awareness."

In a Dec. 13, 2021, article for Protasia, Berlatsky argued that "treating pedophiles as monsters who are chiefly responsible for abuse actually makes it more difficult to recognize and combat [child sexual abuse]."

"Stigmatizing pedophiles or MAPs makes it harder for pedophiles to seek help, which puts children at risk. And it distracts our attention from the most prevalent forms of child abuse and child sexual abuse, which also puts children at risk," wrote Berlatsky. "As long as we are focused on stigmatizing pedophiles, we will fail to sufficiently recognize and condemn the actions which harm children."

In an April 4, 2021, article, Berlatsky compares the historic curtailment of women's voting rights to prohibitions now on children's ability to do certain things, claiming, "If we refuse to let young people advocate for themselves, or refuse to grant them bodily autonomy, it is not because there is something wrong with their decision-making capacity. It’s because there is something wrong with ours."

Writing for the blog LiberalCurrents in 2021, Berlatsky denounced the "tyranny of parents" and suggested ways the state can help "liberate children" from parental care.

In a July 2021 interview, he discussed one feminist's exposure to pornography at the age of eight and characterized it as a "positive experience."

Andy Ngô, senior editor at the Post Millennial, noted that in 2017, Berlatsky wrote, "Pedophiles are essentially a stigmatized group. Certain people get designated as deviants, people hate them."

"Sound of Freedom," the popularity of which Berlatsky characterized as "ominous," has demonstrated that Americans still don't mind the "stigmatization" of pedophiles. After all, the film has sold over 7 million tickets, exceeding 300% of Angel Studios' stated goal. It has a 100% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes with well over 10,000 verified ratings.

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Leftist Maryland mayor arrested and charged with 40 counts of possession of child porn, 16 counts of distribution



The leftist mayor of College Park, Maryland, was arrested Thursday morning and charged with the possession and distribution of child pornography.

Patrick Wojahn, 47, an LGBT activist who states his pronouns (i.e., "he/him/his") on his Twitter profile and has supported Democrat causes, reportedly submitted his letter of resignation just prior to his arrest.

According to Prince George's County Police Department, Wojahn is charged with 40 counts of possession of child exploitative material and 16 counts of distribution of child exploitative material. He is presently being held at Prince George’s County jail.

Local police were notified by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children on Feb. 17 that a social media account operating under their purview possessed and disseminated child pornography. Images and videos had been uploaded to the offending account in January, said the PGCPD.

It was determined following a PGCPD investigation that the social media account belonged to none other than the city's mayor.

\u201cDetectives arrested and charged 47-year-old Patrick Wojahn with 56 counts of possession & distribution of child pornography. https://t.co/Dn9H1kzkh9\u201d
— PGPDNEWS (@PGPDNEWS) 1677769698

Detectives served a search warrant at Wojahn's home on Feb. 28, during which they recovered multiple cell phones, a storage device, a tablet, and a computer. The PGCPD subsequently charged Wojahn with 56 counts concerning the possession and distribution of child pornography.

Wojahn's resignation is effective immediately. He has been replaced by Mayor Pro Tem Denise Mitchell until a special election is held sometime in the next 65 days.

The alleged pedophile had been mayor since 2015 and served on the city council since 2007.

Last March, Wojahn was appointed vice chair of the National League of Cities Race, Equity and Leadership program, reported the Diamondback. In the role, Wojahn was tasked with achieving "racial justice through city planning and design."

He noted on his website that he was working "to instill principles of equity and justice in all of our policies and practices, and to pursue restorative justice."

In addition to dabbling in identity politics, Wojahn is also a climate alarmist, suggesting that the specter of climate change "presents one of the greatest threats to our city and our community," as well as an LGBT activist, having served as a team member of Capital Pride Alliance and worked for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.

In his resignation letter, Wojahn noted that he has cooperated fully with law enforcement, adding, "While this investigation does not involve any official city business of any kind, it is in the best interests of our community that I step aside and not serve as a distraction."

Wojahn also suggested that he was "stepping away to deal with my own mental health."

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