District 211 Enraged by Alleged Bad Faith of OCR
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.05.15
Perhaps I owe an apology to District 211. While District 211 is guilty of egregiously poor judgment in allowing gender-dysphoric students to use opposite-sex restrooms and in agreeing to allow a gender-dysphoric boy into the girls’ locker room to use...
District 211 Leadership: Incompetent, Dishonest or Both?
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.04.15
ACLU attorney John Knight who represents the gender-dysphoric boy in the lawsuit against District 211 has issued this statement about the agreement reached between the district and the Office for Civil Rights (OCR)—a clarification that should deeply trouble District 211...
Pastor Opposes District 211 Policy for Gender-Rejecting Student
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.04.15
Palatine resident and pastor of the Village Church of Barrington, David W. Jones, attended the District 211 Board of Education meeting on Wednesday night and sent the following letter to the District 211 School Board immediately following the meeting. If...
District 211’s Cowardly Surrender to Big Brother
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.03.15
Against the wishes of the majority of community members who spoke at last night’s District 211 Board of Education meeting, the district capitulated to most of the Office for Civil Rights’ (OCR) demands with regard to the gender-rejecting boy who...
Be Thankful for Some Princeton Students
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.26.15
In light of the self-indulgent, self-referential, and oppressive efforts of both students and faculty to impose their ideological views and circumscribe speech on college campuses, it is refreshing and inspiring to see that not all students can be intimidated. A...
Strange Bedfellows in the Bathroom Wars
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.13.15
A stunning rift within the cultural/political movement to normalize sexual perversion has emerged or, more precisely, been exposed. While the leftwing press, with feigned drama as if they’re revealing a state secret, proclaims to the world differences among conservatives, they...
Macro-Tantrums by Mizzou and Yale Students
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.13.15
By now everyone except off-the-grid cave-dwellers has heard about the student protest at University of Missouri which began when thirty black football players and other teammates, supported by the coaching staff, threatened to boycott practices and games until the university...
Salman Rushdie Redefines Censorship, Criticizes Christian Students
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.10.15
I read with amusement a recent Chicago Tribune article about writer Salman Rushdie’s appearance at the Chicago Humanities Festival in which he “railed against censorship.” When asked about censorship, Rushdie waxed irritated about some Duke University students who chose not...
District 211 Children: Chum for Feds
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.04.15
Thousands of parents in District 211, the largest high school district in Illinois, should be outraged. And anyone who rightly fears the ravenous appetite of the slavering dumb beast we call the federal government should be equally outraged. The beast’s...
Planned Parenthood’s Adorable Aborted Baby Hearts
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.28.15
The Center for Medical Progress just released another undercover video exposé of a Planned Parenthood affiliate, this one in Austin, Texas. Dr. Amna Dermish, the sole abortionist at this Planned Parenthood abattoir, performs over 3,000 abortions per year on babies...
Evil Spawn of Anti-Life Dogma: “Post-Birth Abortion”
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.22.15
A troubling video has emerged in which a college student was asked if it should be morally permissible for an impoverished family to kill their 2-year-old or 5-year-old if doing so would improve the family’s condition. He answered that if...
Princeton Law Professor on Classical School’s Endorsement of “Transgenderism”
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.16.15
Princeton University law professor Robert P. George posted an alarming warning on his Facebook page recently about a Christian family who received a letter from the administration of their children’s private “classical” school in which parents were told the school...
A Brief Word About the Incoherence of “Transgender” Locker Room Policy
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.14.15
IFI’s opposition to, for example, a boy in a girls’ locker room is not based on fear that he may rape a girl—though that, of course, is a possibility. Rather, our opposition emerges from the fact that physical embodiment per...
#ShoutYourAbortion
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.24.15
“They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them.” ~Romans 2:15 In the liberal quest for unencumbered sexual license, there remains...
Protest Over Gender Confused Teenage Boy Using Girls’ Facilities
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.02.15
The disordered desires of a gender-confused teenage boy who wishes he were a girl have divided another community. On Monday, the efforts of this boy, who calls himself Lila Perry, to use the girls’ restrooms and locker room resulted in...
Laurie Higgins
Cultural Affairs Writer
Laurie Higgins

Laurie Higgins was the Illinois Family Institute’s Cultural Affairs Writer in the fall of 2008 through early 2023. Prior to working for the IFI, Laurie worked full-time for eight years in Deerfield High School’s writing center in Deerfield, Illinois.

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