A transgender music teacher at University Elementary School in Shreveport, Louisiana enjoys confusing the young students about gender identity. Blaine Banghart posted on Facebook about the enjoyment the confusion brought. Then, when the students ask questions, they are ignored so that the teacher “doesn’t get into trouble.”

“The kids are all confused and asking why I have a mustache if I’m a girl, if I’m Mr. Banghart now, why am I trying to look like a boy, etc.,” Banghart wrote. “I’m just ignoring these questions/redirecting, so I don’t get in trouble.”

Banghart continued, “Though some of the reactions are hurtful (I’m not mad- they’re kids and don’t mean harm), I’m mostly just enjoying the confusion about ‘what’ I am.”

This teacher claims that she enjoys causing her students to be confused about her gender identity. pic.twitter.com/SQNZEtazGs

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Banghart is non-binary, as far as I can tell. The story caught my attention because I grew up in Shreveport, back when the dinosaurs roamed. I can’t imagine what the parents of these children must be thinking when they have to deal with this kind of indoctrination on the elementary school level. Just like in cities across the country, there are adults who support the transgender agenda in schools, using tolerance and acceptance as their reasoning.

Last March, parents discussed Banghart’s behavior and dress code during a Caddo Parish School Board meeting. Banghart posted a video on TikTok about the inability to be out at work. I’m not sure exactly what she/he was complaining about, though, as we can clearly see a mustache in photos. She/he also wrote in the Facebook post that she couldn’t wait to wear a dress later in the week with the mustache for further confusion. Yet, supporters persist.

“I have never spoken here as a citizen or parent of a student, but I am here today because this is important to me, my family and, most importantly, to her,” Keith Hanson, Chief Technology Officer for Shreveport, said in defense of Banghart. “Let everyone see on public record that there are good people here ready to defend other good people from vile, bigoted hate.”

So, are the actions of Banghart to be treated as performance art? She seems to be performing, not acting in a professional capacity at the school. How can she expect to be taken seriously if it’s all giggles and laughs at the expense of confused elementary school children? How does that advance her agenda? This is all about a selfish agenda, not educating young children. There is something particularly sinister in indoctrinating very young children. This is controversial enough at the high school level but there’s no place for it in the elementary school level. That’s my “vile, bigoted” opinion.

If children too young to understand what the hell is going on here are not told what is going on, what’s the point? To educate, a teacher has to explain and discuss what the subject is, right? This subject belongs in sex ed class or health class or whatever it’s called now, not in music education class. It’s actually quite cowardly of Banghart to just present herself as a male/female and not answer questions, just amuse herself with the confusion.

Banghart goes by MX, as opposed to Mr. or Ms. According to Merriam-Webster, “‘Mx.’ is a gender-neutral honorific for those who don’t wish to be identified by gender. Though the earliest print evidence dates to 1977, the word has only recently become popular.” Yes, I looked it up. It’s a new honorific to me.

This behavior should be discussed with those of appropriate ages. The transgender community is a tiny percentage of the population, not the norm. To insist on shoving it on young children, without discussion, is not right and certainly not beneficial to the children she is supposed to be trying to educate. There is nothing vile or hateful in opposing such behavior.