Our goal at the Washington Family Rights Coalition is to restore family rights here in Washington state. By family rights, we mean protecting the the right of parents to guide the upbringing of their children - and protecting the right of our children to learn in a propaganda-free environment which also protects their right to privacy and their right to fair sports competition.
Our plan to restore these rights includes three objectives:
First, our parents rights association, the Washington Parents Network, has filed 8 complaints with the US Department of Justice asking them to enforce our rights as parents under the US Constitution and federal laws including FERPA, Title IX and Title VI.
Second, we are working on building a network of free Community News websites to help spread the word on the importance of protecting families and restoring family rights.
Third, we hope to pass one or more Family Rights Initiatives – ideally in 2028 – but if not, then whenever we have built a large enough coalition to gather the 400,000 signatures it will take to put Family Rights on the ballot.
The purpose of this article is to explain four guiding principles behind our decision making process to help anyone who might be interested better understand why we have decided to go in the direction we have chosen.
Our first guiding principle is to seek and promote solutions that will actually solve the underlying or root causes that have led to the denial of our Family Rights. We believe that the root cause is a war being waged by the Trans Drug Cult. We further believe that the solution to this problem requires learning the truth and telling the truth about the harm inflicts on families by the Trans Drug Cult. Claiming to promote Parents Rights while at the same time ignoring the threat to our children due to the Trans Drug Cult takeover of our schools will result in this threat continuing.
Our second guiding principle is to place the long term protection of families above the short term desire to win any particular election. Our goals are to provide voters with the facts in the hope that we can build trusting long-term relationships with parents regardless of their political tendencies.
Our third guiding principle is to seek and promote solutions that comply with the Washington State and US Constitutions. This requires learning about and respecting our state and federal Constitutions – which are not merely a set of guidelines but the bedrock and foundation of our Constitutional Republic.
Our fourth and most important guiding principle is seeking and promoting the Truth. We believe it is essential to “tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.” It says in the Book of John that if we have the courage to learn the truth and tell the truth, the Truth will set us free. We believe we have a sacred duty to learn the truth and tell the truth – even if that truth runs contrary to what folks want to hear.
With these four guiding principles in mind, we will explain six decisions which are likely to cause a lot of people to think we have lost our minds and gone completely crazy. Before we review these decisions, I want to assure you that we will continue to discuss these issues at our Family Rights meetings which you are welcome to attend. Send me an email and I will add you to our list. I also intend to write articles in the coming months explaining these issues in greater detail and I am interested in your feedback on any of these issues we are raising.
To be clear, we are not merely complaining about the details. Instead, with each issue, we have provided better options. In addition, these are not new decisions. We first adopted these positions in June 2025. We published articles explaining our concerns in detail. We also made countless efforts to reach out to those who created these problems in an attempt to fix them. Sadly, our concerns and efforts fell on deaf ears. Still, we remain confident that over time, our decisions below will be vindicated.
Decision #1: We will oppose the Heywood Parents Rights Initiative
In our June 2025 article, we explained that the Heywood Parents Rights Initiative suffers from numerous serious problems. First, it does not actually repeal House Bill 1296. House Bill 1296 is divided into 27 sections and amended 17 laws. The Heywood Initiative only amends one of those 27 sections (Section 501) and only amends one of those 17 anti-parent laws – leaving the other 26 sections and 16 draconian laws intact.
Second, the Heywood Initiative will not actually restore Parental Rights. This is because, in addition to the 16 new anti-parent laws left intact, the Washington legislature during the past ten years has also passed at least 11 other anti-parent laws, including the laws leading to and connected with Policy 3211. It would take repealing all 27 of these still existing laws to restore Parents Rights to what they were 10 years ago.
Third, because the Heywood initiative conflicts with several of those 27 anti-parent laws ignored by the Heywood Initiative, the Initiative violates Article II, Sections 37 and 38 of the Washington State Constitution and is almost certain to be ruled unconstitutional.
In short, the Heywood Initiative fails to comply with any of our four guiding principles. It It fails to address or even acknowledge the outright war that has been waged against parents rights in our state during the past ten years. Families are being assaulted by villains using machine guns. Parents need more than a “fly swatter” Initiative to protect their kids.
Parents deserve more than the right to be “notified” after the fact that their First Grader has been kidnapped by the Trans Drug Cult and brainwashed into changing their name and pronouns. Parents must have the right to protect their kids from being kidnapped in the first place.
Parents need a comprehensive solution that repeals all 27 anti-parent laws passed by the Trans Drug Cult in Olympia during the past ten years – which is why we wrote and will work to pass our Washington Family Rights Initiative. In the coming months, we will publish an article going into greater detail on why the Heywood Initiative violates our State Constitution.
Decision #2: We will oppose the Heywood Girls Sports Initiative
As we explained in our June 2025 article, the Heywood Girls Sports Initiative also suffers from numerous problems. First, it will not actually restore fairness in girls sports. Instead, it ignores and therefore attempts to silently amend at least 6 other Washington state laws – all of which allow boys who pretend to be girls to participate in girls sports as well as enter girls bathrooms and locker rooms. These six “gender identity” laws include the laws leading to and connected with Policy 3211. Silently amending even one existing law through an Initiative is contrary to Article II Section 37 of the Washington state constitution.
As just one of many examples, Section 103 of House Bill 1296 amends RCW 28A.642.010. The amendment prohibits “discrimination in Washington public schools on the basis of… gender identity.” Gender identity means that if a boy claims he thinks he is a girl, he must be allowed to participate in girls sports and enter girls bathrooms and locker rooms.
Because the Heywood Initiative fails to correct this conflict, it is an attempt to silently amend this existing law. Therefore, the Heywood Girls Sports Initiative will certainly be challenged and overturned in court should it pass the voters in the 2026 election. The end result will be that, rather than restoring fairness in girls sports, the Heywood initiative will wind up delaying fairness in girls sports.
Our solution, which will actually restore fairness in girls sports - as well as restoring privacy in girls bathrooms and locker rooms - is to seek federal enforcement of our Title IX complaint with the US Department of Justice. Again, we will write a more detailed article about the problems of the Heywood Girls Rights Initiative after the 2026 legislative session.
Decision #3: We will seek to revise the Walsh Voter ID Initiative
Our primary problem with the Walsh Voter ID Initiative is that it clearly violates at least two federal election laws. It would therefore also be challenged and overturned if it ever passed the voters. We would love to support a Voter ID Initiative. But it will need to be rewritten to comply with federal election laws before we can support it.
Decision #4: We will encourage the US Department of Justice to seek a solution to our US Attorney debacle here in Washington state
In the past year, the Washington Parents Network has filed seven complaints – all of which are needed to restore Family Rights here in Washington state. These complaints require a valid US Attorney in our state to investigate our claims and then file charges in federal court. Unfortunately, Washington Senator Patty Murray has used an illegal Blue Slip Policy to block the appointment of both US attorneys for Washington state. Therefore, on January 21, 2026, the Washington Parents Network filed a complaint with the US Department of Justice to end the US Senate Blue Slip Policy. Our complaint explains why the Senate Blue Slip policy violates Article II, Section 2 of the US Constitution. The only way to restore Parents Rights in Washington state is to seek a ruling from the US Supreme Court which will end the Senate Blue Slip policy.
Decision #5: We will scale back our efforts to create Community News websites
We need a way to build relationships with and better inform Independent voters in our state in order to replace the Trans Drug Cult currently running Olympia. However, given the time and effort it will take to end the Senate Blue Slip crisis, we are being forced to put our Community News website course on the back burner. Instead, we will work one building just one Community News website under the direction of Shari Newton – who has a news website already running but in need of some modification. We will encourage those in our News Website course to assist Shari in running her website after we have made the needed modifications. We will then restart our Community News website course in a few months after we have taken all of the steps needed to restore our valid US Attorneys here in Washington state.
Decision #6: We will scale back our meetings from once a week to once a month
There are several reason to scale back our meetings for a few months. First, it will take time for the US Department of Justice to take action to resolve our 8 federal civil rights complaints.
Second, it will take time for the Washington Supreme Court to issue an opinion on the Natural Gas Initiative. We expect a ruling this summer finding that the Natural Gas Initiative violates Article II, Section 37 of the Washington State Constitution.
Hopefully, the Supreme Court ruling will also clarify why the Natural Gas Initiative violates our State Constitution – making it more obvious that the Heywood Initiatives both suffer from the same problem. Third, by this summer, we will have a much better idea about the scale of the crimes being committed in Olympia by the Trans Drug Cult. Fourth, we hope that if we are able to end the US Senate Blue Slip policy, it will help more parents in Washington become aware of and join our Washington Parents Network. We also hope to get more parents interested in taking our Community News website course.
We need Patience, Persistence and a Positive Attitude
Our state and our nation are in the middle of a struggle between the right of parents to guide the upbringing of their children – and the greed of drug companies and corrupt politicians hell bent on making billions of dollars by destroying families and children. This is a war that we can and will win. But given the powerful forces we are up against, it will take time to restore the rights of parents and families. It is up to each of us to continue to seek the truth and tell the truth. As it says in the book of John, the path to freedom comes from having the courage to learn and tell the Truth.
Thank you for helping us restore and protect the rights of families here in Washington state. As always, I look forward to your questions and comments.
Regards,
David Spring M. Ed.
Director, Washington Family Rights Coalition