Colorado Mom’s Battle Against School System Exposes Transgender Activist Teacher Targeting Vulnerable Teen

A Colorado mother’s desperate fight to bring her daughter home from an LGBT activist teacher exposes alarming failures in the systems meant to protect families, while banker Jay Davidson delivers a compelling case for constitutional freedoms and taxation limits, and Professor Kurt Gerwitz explores what legacy truly means. Parental Rights Under Siege in Durango Lori Gimelshteyn of the Colorado Parents Advocacy Network introduced Cindy Stein, a Durango mother whose story illustrates how transgender activism can infiltrate schools and target vulnerable children. While Cindy battled aggressive cancer treatment, math teacher Joanne Smotherman allegedly befriended her autistic daughter and convinced her she was born in the wrong body. “I just didn’t realize how far this had gone and how much Joanne Smotherman was apparently whispering in her ear, telling her that all of these problems of being a misfit, of being an outcast, are because she was born into the wrong body.” Cindy Stein The situation escalated when Cindy’s daughter ran away to live with the teacher and her transgender husband. Despite Cindy having full custodial rights, La Plata County deputies refused to return her daughter, with body cam footage showing officers mocking the distraught mother before delivering the news that they would not help. “The body cam footage of the police on scene is available on our X account. It’s so alarming how the system has failed this mom. She has full custodial rights.” Lori Gimelshteyn, Colorado Parents Advocacy Network Rocky Mountain Summit on Safeguarding Children Gimelshteyn announced the Rocky Mountain Summit on Safeguarding Children from Gender Affirming Treatment on April 6th at the Inverness Hilton in Englewood. The first Colorado event offering physicians CME credit on this topic will feature Dr. Miriam Grossman, Deputy Counsel Candace Jackson from the U.S. Department of Education, and for the first time publicly, 16-year-old Chloe Lee speaking about her experience. Constitutional Freedom and Government Overreach Jay Davidson, founder of First American State Bank, delivered a wide-ranging discussion on individual liberty, government waste, and what it means to live in a constitutional republic rather than a pure democracy. “You have the inalienable right to freedom of choice to your own decisions. This is gratitude by your creator, whether you call him God or Jehovah or Elohim. So you have that right, and I would ask you to exercise it judiciously, but do exercise it.” Jay Davidson, First American State Bank Davidson praised DOGE and Elon Musk’s methodical approach to exposing government waste, noting his astonishment at the extent of wasteful spending uncovered, including USAID funding for Hamas transgender training programs. He framed excessive taxation as theft, particularly when combined state, local, and federal taxes approach 50 percent of income. “When taxation gets to the point of 50% of your income, that is absolute theft. And that’s where we are right now at the very high end of the scale with all the state, local, regional, and federal taxes.” Jay Davidson, First American State Bank