Covert Propaganda Promotes Children Getting Surgery Behind Their Parents Backs
Chalkbeat is a national publication with eight branches that is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Gates Family Foundation, Bezos Family Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and Poynter-Koch Media Fellowship, among others. They also have a very close relationship with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) national union headed by Randi Weingarten.
According to their website, their mission is “the effort to improve schools for all children, especially those who have historically lacked access to a quality education.”
Their New York branch published a piece this week to discuss how difficult it is to get parents – especially black and brown parents – to consent to “therapy” for their children. The article goes on and on for over a thousand words before mentioning how New York has pending legislation to assist in this troublesome area.
Chalkbeat says “(t)here’s a bill pending in New York’s state Assembly that would give minors more freedom to consent to their own health care, including therapy."
What they don’t say is that the legislation will allow kids to consent to surgery, vaccination, psychotropic medication and all medical procedures without parental knowledge or consent.
This bill – A6761 in the New York Assembly – is so dangerous, and so unpopular that no one will say what it actually does. Even on the bill itself, the summary states that it “Allows homeless youth to give effective consent to certain medical, dental, health, and hospital services; provides for insurance coverage of such health care services consented to by such youth.”
But this part too is a lie.
New York has already passed a law allowing homeless and “runaway” youth to consent to all medical procedures without parental knowledge or consent. John Gilmore, the founder of Autism Action Network who has lobbied in Albany for over 20 years, told Honest Media, “They already passed that legislation in just 10 weeks, which is lightning fast for Albany.”
Gilmore has put out an action alert for New Yorkers to call their Albany lawmakers and ask why the official websites for the Senate and Assembly in New York are promoting a lie. The Defender recently published an informative article detailing the deception that Albany is currently engaged in surrounding bill A6761.
Teachers for Choice has published a list of all the lawmakers who are supporting this bill, with their emails and phone numbers, encouraging New Yorkers to call and ask why they are supporting such a bill to become law.
The Chalkbeat article quotes a social worker at a charter school in Brooklyn, Chelsea Trout, who says, “The kids are all on TikTok or the internet and understand therapy speak [emphasis added] and that this is something that could be helpful for their mental health and are interested in, but don’t have the explicit buy-in from their parents.”
Therapy can do wonders for almost anyone, including children. But there is a big difference between talking to a therapist, or a school guidance counselor, and getting major medical interventions without parental consent; the bill seems to equate the two and Chalkbeat never mentions the more controversial aspect. Considering the ties between Big Pharma and the funders of Chalkbeat, it’s hard not to suspect some sort of conflict of interest in the publication’s agenda, similar to the one that Honest Media has highlighted between the AP and its private funders like the Lilly Foundation (a philanthropic arm of Big Pharma giant Eli Lilly).
We live in a world where Chalkbeat and many mainstream publications act as though they care about children while promoting lies and deceptions that ultimately cater to the goals of the masters that fund them.