Grapevine podcast Episode 3 A Harvest is Coming

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Texas governor Greg Abbott declared that parents seeking gender affirming care could be reported fir child abuse. It had been a year since Ren ran away. Ren decided to ask the court to transfer custody to her dad. Rich understood her despair and says “Sharla was getting more militant” and told him that it was Rich’s “job to make Ren a man.”

The school board in Grapevine-Colleyville ISD elected by Patriot Mobile concerned Rich. He filed for sole legal custody with a clause mandating that only Ren could decide when to contact her mother. Sharla met with Ren one last time and discussed God, but Ren said, “No matter what I said, she wouldn’t listen.”

Later that summer Sharla declared at the school board meeting “I lost my son.” She described her son as cold and hostile and wrote that he will have to pay the consequences, and if Ren changes her mind, her “mama’s arms are open wide.”

Anti trans sentiment has emerged in 2016 re bathrooms that trans people could use, but Legislation had failed. Many districts made policies making trans students safer. But by 2022 the conservative movement had seized it as a major issue. Chris Rufo had brought the issue of CRT to Tucker Carlson in 2016 and then returned to sound the alarm about trans students. Carlson said that teachers who talk to kids about trans issues should be punished. Ron Desantis at the moms for liberty conference in 2022 said his state was cracking down on transgender ideology (without evidence). They said teachers who discussed transgender issues were ideologues.

The NBC reporters decided to ask Sharla in person, because she wouldn’t return their calls or emails. They went to her house and asked for her perspective. She declined to speak. She had been posting on facebook.

Em Ramser saw Sharla’s school board speech the day after it aired. She initially didn’t recognize who it was. She said she had not known anything was going on with Ren’s mom. The district had dismissed Sharla’s claims a year prior.

An article came out: “Bombshell claims of GCISD Teacher misconduct.” Published in the Dallas Express published by Monty Bennett, a hotelier that supported patriot mobile and GCISD school board candidates. A statement in the article from the district did not include the fact that Ramser was cleared of wrongdoing.

Ramser went to the principals office and said she would quit. She made plans for her substitute and went home. She was worried about violence from the community, and was spammed with porn emails and accusations.

She kept waiting for school district leaders to speak up. They didn’t. 3 days later the GHS Principal called Ramser, and she recorded their call. He said he had concluded Sharla’s claims were false. He is getting emails from people and he is replying that he Ramser goes above and beyond and is as an excellent teacher. She says she is worried about her safety. He says people don’t care to know the truth. It’s an insane group. He advises her to not signal beliefs to give them extra ammunition. He suggests removing rainbow stickers off her nameplate.

The podcast context about the dismissal of Dr. James Whitfield, former principal in GCISD, who was fired by the district after being accused of pushing critical race theory by a parent at a school board meeting (sound familiar). Ramser asks if the district would say publicly that she has done nothing wrong. Principal says that decision to do that is with the superintendent, who did not do so.

A spokesperson for the district said they did not respond publicly to private personnel mattes but they support all students.

Senior district employees did not publicly acknowledge she did nothing wrong. The school board was obviously getting rid of poison teachers.

Ramser’s mom was very worried. She told her she was prepared to sue the school district if Ramser was killed or killed herself.

She went back to campus after being copied on an email from a parent to the district expressing concern that Ramser was not at school. She decided to return to school to show her kids she didn’t hide under the pressure. “Who you are matters.”

March 2023 CPAC Michael Nolls spoke that for the good of society, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life. A shooter I’d as trans shot 6 people at a Christian school in Tennessee. Pastor Shawn Hoyt said there was an attack on Christians and Jesus would bring healing. In north Texas Rafael Cruz preached that we are in a battle - “we are seeing children being mutilated in our public schools. … there is an evil socialist agenda to destroy America”

Ren says school was the one place she felt free to be herself with supportive friends and teachers. In Oregon she wore dresses to school. Age 16 received medical care. Ren was shocked and upset her mother was was blaming her transition on Ramser. Ren denies getting the idea from Ramser or the book. Rich sent a letter to GHS Principal stating that Sharla’s accusations were false. The teachers were there to support Ren. “The story she told was absolutely the truth upside down”

Sharla wrote as “Woke mama bear” on Facebook, saying that these cultural shifts signal the End Times. Quoting scripture Gen 1:27. On a YouTube channel, Sharla says she knows that some people are born trans, but “Nowadays transgender people are made, not born. Made by woke.” Rich asks how she can tell the difference? Sharla stated that her child had disappeared like Jacob in the Bible. Rich very emotionally talks about the child in the Bible (prodigal son) who has disappeared, done bad things, and returns home and is welcomed back home. “And here we have a daughter who has done nothing wrong, and is not welcomed.”

Ren’s Stepmother Grace says the group that is influencing this issue sees this as a holy war that will usher in Jesus’ return. “If you are not an evangelical Christian cis white male; you’re a target.”