AM Show Hr 2 | Tracy Shannon on the Fight for Humble ISD

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Verie Show is on the air. Prisfernest is
our guest. We will continue our conversation with him, and
then we will talk to Tracy Lynn Shannon, who is

(00:32):
a candidate for the Humble ISD position for school board.
She came out hard against the Drag Queen Story Hour.
Now she's running for city council and the folks who
want Drag Queen Story Hour are coming after her. They
have their panties in a riff fellas. Anyway, Victor Perez,

(00:54):
the president of the Katie ISD School Board, is being
challenged by a group of people that has been hosting
rallies against Tesla and probably carving a few of them
up obvious. I support Victor Perez in his re election there.
Chris Ernest is our guest. He's a school board trustee
at Spring Branch Independent School District, which is asking voters

(01:16):
for a six hundred million dollars school bond. Chris, couple
of quick questions. They're direct, they're not personal. The six
hundred billion dollars six hundred million dollars is said to
cost by the time interest is paid, over a billion
dollars taxpayer should know that, right, Is that a question? Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yes, yeah, I mean nobody's hiding behind it. I mean, yes,
it's expensive.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
And I'm looking at the materials that the Harris count
Republican Party came out against, and let's take on one
by one. No classrooms, shocker, no classroom?

Speaker 4 (01:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Can I address that? Can we address them one by one? Then?

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Absolute questionrooms.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
But this is coming on the heels of like we
just have literally rebuilt every single elementary school. We've started
to rebuild Memorial High School halfway done. We've made significant
additions to Stratford and Northbrook High School. We've rebuilt one
middle school. We're building world class career and technical training

(02:20):
center over off of Guthrie that no private school will
be able to offer. We've partnered with HCC. We've got
an early college graduate program that we launched two years ago,
graduating our first group of kids from Northbrook this year
that will have a two year degree when they leave
our high schools. So the idea that oh, there's no classroom, well,

(02:41):
like every bond for the last thirty years in Spring
Branch has been one hundred percent focused on classrooms. At
some point you're going to have to rebuild the football stadium,
and I know that that's always going to be a
political lightning rod, but at some point it does need
to happen. It was built the same year the astronom
was built, and I think the Texans are lobbying for
a new stadium now. Yeah, so I mean at some

(03:02):
point it's going to happen.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, but earlier you said the scoreboard looks like it
came out of the Astrodom. I liked the Astrodom scoreboard.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yeah, I know. Yeah, Rememberck in the.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Seventies, Chris, I know you and listen, yeah, I know
that all you get I get it. But these I
think you can understand. For a lot of taxpayers, especially
if they don't have kids in these schools, they look
at their tax bill and they see it going up
and up and up, and they're frustrated and and there

(03:36):
there are reasonable questions. They're tough questions, but they're reasonable questions.
And you're a smart guy, I know you understand that
there is a lot of frustration over whatever the reason being,
the mistakes made in the past between Some of these
people live in the city of Houston, so they've seen
the City of Houston collapse and they have to pay
for it. They've seen Metro and what they've done, They've

(03:57):
seen all of these things happen. New stadium built for
professional teams, and they're still paying for it. So you're
coming as ten out of ten on the heels of that.
I mean, I'm sure you can understand the frustration that
being said, I think Spring Branch Independent School District probably
has the best public schools uh in the region for

(04:18):
public schools, and Memorial High School is probably the best
public school. You'd have to go out quite a ways
to get to maybe Woodlands or Katie to get to
a public school that rivals it. There's no doubt about that.
And there are kids, I personally know families who've pulled
their kids out of Saint John's, Second Baptist Kincaid, Saint

(04:39):
Francis or others and put them in Memorial for numerous
reasons and felt like they didn't see a drop in quality.
That's something to be proud of. It is are you and.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
That all of our home values around here, no doubt.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
I had a little estate company in the late night.
People people move into areas. Western Diversity was Bolshov's guy
named John Threet, who was the principal at the time,
and I developed a good relationship so that I could
take kids up to the school when they bought into
the district, and that school drove a big part of
the home values there. Bel Air, same thing. Are you
endorsing Jennifer Hihland, Walker Agnew Junior and Carolyn Bennett?

Speaker 3 (05:19):
I have not. You know, when I ran the first time,
I literally felt like I ran against the board the
first time. So I have not publicly endorsed any school
board candidate, but I likely will be voting for those
three years.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Fair enough, Is there anything else you want people to
know about this bond package? Early voting started today, by
the way.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
Oh look, look, these are legitimate needs. There's four proposals
out there. You know, if we get two or three
out of the four, I think it'll be a major
improvement for our community. Our entire community. Michael uses these facilities.
When you walk into any one of our four high
schools on a Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday night, you're
going to find it full of elementary age kids playing

(06:02):
basketball from you know, before Thanksgiving until February March I
mean literally full of our kids, whether they're second Baptist kids,
Kinkaid kids. I mean, anybody that lives in our community
goes through SBMSA, and SBMSA uses all of our facilities.
So this isn't just for Stratford High School or Springwood's

(06:23):
High School or Memorial. This is also an investment in
the community. And the other thing is is this is
the front yard of our district. You know, I can't
tell you how many times it irritates me that I've
had a friend to come and watch Memorial High School
play a baseball game and be like, like, this is
Memorial High School, Like this is the storied you know,

(06:43):
like what everybody hears about the reputation that you just
alluded to, Like this is it? Like really, I mean,
it's just we have fallen so far behind that it's
become embarrassing when you go into Tolley Stadium and we
can't you know, sometimes you have to have a neutral
site for a Katie High School play. We can't host
anybody there because the stadium is so deteriorated. Memorial High

(07:07):
School is the number one rated baseball team in the
state of Texas right now in six a and we're
not going to host any playoff games because our field
is in such poor condition. I mean, it just can't
be made. It's just embarrassing. It's embarrassing, understand. So it's
just time to do something about it.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
And Spring Branch has done a wonderful job with the schools,
and I think Spring Branch in the last few years,
particularly throughout the district, has seen great improvements with new
folks on the board and new blood over there. I
would just encourage you, Chris. I know you're frustrated. I
felt this way on city Council that it seemed like
all I ever heard was bitching and nobody appreciated the

(07:45):
good work we were doing and the best of intentions.
I think you have to understand that. I would just
I would urge you to keep a smile on your
face and be a positive front of that and understand
that you can win voters over. But there is a
great frustration over property tax increases, in that massive check
they pay for the school district, and just carry on.

(08:06):
You know, if you feel good about what you're doing,
there's no shame in it.

Speaker 5 (08:12):
To the keeper the storm and dissolve.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Occasionally, I will pulled forth as a way to give
guidance to folks as to how to pitch a story
to me. Not because I'm so important, but if you
want to get your story guest issue on the air.
I don't take very many interviews today. Happens to be
a bit of an anomaly. But in order to get

(08:48):
an issue before me or anyone else to whom you're
making a pitch, there are a couple of things you
should do. And the email that landed our next guest
is a master class in how you do this. This woman,
she had another she pitched me on something else that

(09:10):
got my attention. She's good, She's very good. Her first
name is Angie. I can't remember her last name. I'll
find it in a moment, but here was the email. Czar.
My Aggie college roommate is a conservative running for the
Humble ISD board. She's being attacked because of her past
work against drag Queen story time that point, so she
got right to it. She doesn't get to the ask

(09:33):
until later, but let's cut some slack there. Then a
link to the article from the Texas Observer, which is
a liberal newspaper. Tracy Shannon mass resistance drag Queen story Time, Texas.
So she doesn't just tell me what happened, she puts
a link to it. She gets right to the point,
easy to read and understand and make a decision. Her
name is Tracy Shannon and a link to Tracy Shannon's

(09:54):
Facebook page. And I think she'd be a great guest
on your show. Other interesting highlights of Tracy. This is
where it gets interesting. Number one, Tracy is a transgender widow.
Her ex husband Andy is now Andrea. That can't be easy.

(10:15):
Your husband decides he's a woman and he's killing it
on the Virginia Women's Golf Circuit. Again a link to
an article about Andrea. Number two, she had a viral
moment with she Jack because Tracy asked she Jack a
question at a town hall and she Jack took a

(10:39):
phone call. Do you remember this the audio?

Speaker 6 (10:44):
If he hadn't happened without approaching on someone else's civil
liberty and if your conscience allows you for see the direction,
do you think simply because you think it's good for America?

Speaker 5 (10:56):
Then okay, seriously, really, I mean to ward, if we
are conscious allows your if promise is conscious of my often.

Speaker 4 (11:20):
Do you think do you think it is good for you?

Speaker 6 (11:24):
And where are my passive tyranny? And when does it
stop if commerce has no conscious to stop it simply
because we think it's good. I am a cancer spider.
I was treated, indeed, two cancers in one day after
diagnosed this, and I love.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
The healthcare system I have.

Speaker 6 (11:40):
I'm currently divorcing and unemployed and facing having to get my.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
Own health care insurance.

Speaker 6 (11:45):
I do not want a government solution.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Sheila Jackson Lee was criticized for many stupid acts, but
you remember passions were high. This was against Obamacares teen
years ago. Sixteen years ago. It was so bad for
Sheila Jackson Lee that she posted this video trying to
explain her behavior.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
And then there's a little thing called a cell phone
or in this instance, a BlackBerry, something that many of
us use. That as a member of Congress, I really
used this to keep in touch with my consisuent, to
get information, to make sure that, in fact, as a
representative of the United States Congress, you're only a phone
call away. As a mom and a wife, yes, I'm
concerned about my family and take emergency call. Well, let

(12:32):
me tell you what I was doing on August eleventh
at our town hall meeting. Someone asked a question. I
wanted to be sure that I was correct, so I
called the Congression hotline on HR thirty two hundredths. All
they do there is point you to the page and
the line so that they're able to provide you with
an answer. So it wasn't that I answered a phone.
I dialed a phone because my consistuents are so important

(12:56):
that I wanted to make sure that I got them
the right answer. Now I'd listened to all of them.
Every single person that came to this town hall meeting
had an opportunity to listen Tocilo Jacksonale, And if I listened
to them, was to get questions answered. That's what America
is all about. That's what democracy is all about. I
wish the Republican National Committee would get it right. It

(13:17):
was a phone call of what I was, in essence,
making a call to ensure that everyone there had a
right answer through our hotline.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yes, that's Sheila Jackson Lee. She just wants to get
the truth out. And sometimes in the middle of your
question that she can't answer and won't answer, she has
to take a call because there is an incoming truth
bomb and she must intercept that and share it with
the people, because that was Sheila, and I think we
should name Terminal E for her, so as the planes

(13:47):
are coming in, we will remember the incoming phone call
that she took, and that will be our reminder that
as we come into the terminal and we disperse into
the public, we are like the water drop its from
lis bad breath mouth, and we are being disseminated upon
the crowd as little little truth puddles. Wherever she may go,

(14:08):
May her memory live forever. Tracy Shannon Y, I'm not
even sure where to begin with you.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
Well, I'm ready for school boys.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
That's the least interesting thing I get about you. All right,
let's let's say it as your friend Angie. Your friend
Angie should teach courses.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
You know.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
I get stupid pitches from pr agencies all day long,
all across the country, and they want to get this
or that guest on, and they're paid by book publishers
and movie actors and movie screens. And I almost never
take them because the I don't know the person, they
don't know me, and it's stilted, and it's but it'll
it'll begin with some Hi, how are you? I hope
you're doing well, Comma, and then in a different font,

(14:58):
Michael is just awful. This woman is the second time
she's pitched a story to me that I loved that
stuck out from a thousand emails to day. This woman
is good. Your friend Tracy's good. One of your friend
Angie did good.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
Angie. Yes, she's my college roommate. We've been friends for
over thirty years and she's really awesome.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yeah, I would say, Angie Peters, I guess is that's right.
And her husband's the one that held the punks on
the ground that were still in the guy's powerwasher. If
you remember that, y'all are just y'all are just y'all
are made for Mari Povich or something. I mean, there's
this all sorts of interesting thing that goes things that

(15:40):
go around y'all through. Really, I guess no thought fault
of your own. Okay, let's start with the fact that
you were attacked because you were working against drag Queen
story hour. Let's start with there. Oh, we're up against
a break hold with me for just a moment. It
took us an entire segment to introduce this woman. I
don't think that's ever happening now. I mean cancer survivor

(16:02):
running for city council, fought against drag Queen's story outer.
Now they're out to get her. Husband becomes a woman
and he's a professional golfer. She's on what she made
national news? Was Sheila Jackson Lee? Good lord?

Speaker 5 (16:13):
This one?

Speaker 2 (16:13):
She probably won the lottery too. The Republican Party of
Texas endorses candidates in city council races, and it is
very rare that there'd be two Republicans running for the
same city council seat. Those endorsements tend to be a

(16:35):
solid way to know, particularly because city council races are
typically nonpartisan. So, for instance, you've got a guy running
against Victor Perez, who I support, and that guy is
out there acting like he's a Republican when in fact
he's on every blue mailer. He's part of a group
that called Indivisible Katie that shows up at Tesla dealerships

(16:59):
to spout craziness. It's a part of It's a group
of people that desperately want drag time, Drag Queen story
time back in the schools and don't like Victor Perez
for bringing some common sense back to the school district.
He's done a great job. The problem is a lot
of the teachers, many of them are whack jobs. Vote

(17:19):
on this early voting, and so you've got to get
parents of kids because it's hard to get nonparents, just
taxpayers out to vote. But I hope you will. Let's
talk about the humble ISD. The endorsed candidates are Gracie
de Leone, Christine Chris Parker, and Tracy Lynn Shannon, who

(17:40):
is our guest. She's a doozy, Tracy Lynn sheennon this one.
I don't know what to do with you. Tracy Lynn Shannon.
You've got so many things I could talk about at length,
but let's get into it. Why did you decide to
run for city council? I mean for a school board.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
Yes, I'm a mom of four in my district and
a grandmother with kids coming up in this district. I've
been involved in watching what's going on in my community
with the school board. I've been engaged at the school
board meetings, have been active in getting books reviews that
were potentially unsuitable for children in our district, and some
of those were absolutely inappropriate to be in the schools

(18:21):
because they were sexually explicit or sexually graphic, and so
seeing my board be unable to pass motions to increase
transparency to the community, or even be able to see
the contract that they're voting on before they vote on it,
or be able to hear the concerns of the teachers

(18:42):
in the district through the Teacher Advisory Council and have
that brought up for the board to see those concerns
and maybe act on them. We're not able to get
measures like that passed, not able to have a discussion
on the DAAIS about backroom security to make sure that
the integrity of sex segregated bathrooms are respected in our district.

(19:05):
These are just a few of the things. And reinstating
Megan Mooney, who was a radical gender ideologist known throughout
the state of Texas for fighting the state over trying
to protect children from radical gender modification procedures that leave
and sterilized She was actually interacting with children in our district.
Who knows what goes on behind closed stores with someone

(19:28):
like that in our district, but I know it was
on her website. Was very disturbing, and when I showcased
it at a school board meeting, I'm the one being
attacked over that because people were shocked that a doctor
was promoting on her website a prosthetic penis for little
girls to put in their underwear so they could pretend

(19:51):
to be a boy. And I wanted the district to know, like,
this is a liability, so I brought one to the
school board meeting. And you would think that my campaign
slogan is now I brought my penis to the school
board meeting. By the way people act, and they are
actually calling me a child predator because I went undercover
at Drag Queen Story Hour. I exposed Drag Queen sex

(20:13):
offender in the Houston Public Library and several other nefarious
actors in that program and around the state, shutting down
Drag Queen Story Hour all over Texas to protect children
from these people who are not good role models. That's
not a good role model for any child. I don't
care how that child identifies. That is not a good
role model for children. And by the way, children are

(20:35):
not the emotional support animals for adults who have various
sexual identities. We need to protect children, not indoctrinate them
or scandalize them. And you know that's part of the
reason why I'm running because I feel like our school board,
you know, they say they're conservative. Everybody on there right
now ran as a conservative, and they are not governing

(20:56):
as conservatives. They're not able to get enough votes to
do things, to just have simple policy that upholds the
rights of parents to direct the moral upbringing of their children,
or so that parents know that when their children go
to school, their reasonable expectation that they're not going to
be exposed to sexually explicit content or content that violates

(21:19):
their primal rights by introducing them to concepts and themes
that are not appropriate for the school district to weigh
in on that they're the domain of the parents. And
I've been really disappointed watching my school board. So when
the incumbent that I'm running against didn't have anybody running
against him on the final daya file, I decided I

(21:42):
would file. I knew that was going to start up
a lot of conversation about me in my district, but
I never imagined that there would be lies about me,
vicious lies saying that I've sexually assaulted children, and not
only that, the teachers are spreading that lie in the
district and at the very school where my grandson I'll
go next year. That is just beneath the dignity of

(22:04):
the profession of teachers to be doing that.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
You are very brave to take on this fight and
to undergo what you have undergone. Tracy Lynn Shannon is
our guest. She's a candidate for school board Humblelias d.
Where do you think you got the strength you were
going through? We'll talk about your husband in a moment.
You know he's leaving the household. So you're a single

(22:32):
mom four kids. That's tough. Where do you think you
found this strength? Did you have a dad who invested
in you, a mom who invested in you, a coach,
a teacher, Because this is rare. Most people would look
the other way and turn the other cheek and just
hope somebody else fixed it. You're the if it is
to be, it's up to me person.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
Well.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
I would definitely credit my mother for being an example
of fighting for its rights. Dragged me to protest when
I was just a baby, and of course she was
also an undercover and I went with her while she
while she did undercover research to find out what was
going on in our community when I was just a kid,

(23:15):
And definitely I leaned on my faith to just survive
the hard times that came with what my ex husband
did to me and my children, and knowing how painful
that was and how nobody really understands it even fully today,
how it's damaging to women, how destructive this is to
family and children. I knew that I had to be

(23:37):
a voice for this, against this movement because it's so harmful,
and nobody was. And I was watching it, you know,
post Bruce becoming Caitlin, just watching this devour families and children.
And I was one of the ones who first exposed
in Texas way back in twenty nineteen that children are

(24:00):
actually undergoing child gender modification procedures, actually getting surgeries, and
nobody's believed it up in the Texas Texas legislature. So
by twenty twenty one, I brought audio and shared it
with everyone in the legislature so they would hear a
doctor's office and telling me that they are doing orchaectomies

(24:21):
on fourteen year olds in Texas. It's just so hard
to get people to realize what's going on. No one
wants to believe what's going on in our schools or
what's going on in Texas because I really wish Texas
lived up to the conservative reputation that it has, but
we're just so in the dark.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
Hold on just a moment. Prascy Lynn Shannon is a
candidate Humble ISD school board in a Very Brave Lady,
Very Brave Mommy. Yeah's Michael Barry's show. A nearly Republican
Party of Texas As endorsed candidates in these school board

(25:04):
races that are going on now. I encourage you to
get out and vote because these are low turnout off
year local only elections, which makes your vote count much more.
Those endorsements have tended to be pretty solid, with very
rare exception, because there is typically only one person running

(25:24):
who I would consider a Republican or more importantly, a conservative. Now,
if you get someone who's a real fire breathing taxpayer advocate,
tough mommy, teach my kid right person, then you get
real excited. But often you have to settle for somebody
who's just at least not as bad as the other person.

(25:47):
Those endorsements for Harris County are for Spring Branch ISD,
Jennifer Highland, Walker Agnew and Carolyn Bennett for Humble ISD.
Gracie Daleon, Christine Chris Parker, and Trey Lynn Shannon, who's
our guest for Pasadena ISD. Mary Davis, Tammy Nielsen, Paul
of Alasko and Thomas Shanebine for Clearcreek ISD. Scott Bowen

(26:12):
for League City City Council, Scott Higginbotham for Waller ISD.
Cassandra Gonzalez Posey, and for Katie ISD. My guy, Victor
Perez or bettis if you prefer Ramon, Who's done a
wonderful job there, Tracy Lynn Shannon, Let's go back to

(26:36):
you going undercover during Drag Queen's Story hour. Walk me
through to take about a minute, walk me through what
that event looks like because we see video that's taken.
But to be there, I can't imagine.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
Go ahead, Well, to get in you had to have
a kid that was twelve or under at the time.
I believe my daughter was fourteen, almost fifteen years old,
but she looks younger than she is. So she went
in with me, and she videotaped the beginning before it started,
the whole point of her even videotaping that was to

(27:11):
show that Mayor Turner's office was going to make us
stop videotaping. At the time, I was a member of
the National Press Photography Association, and they were going to
help me make sure I had a right and anyone else
I right to record at this public event. I did
have a lot of hitting camera as well, in case
anything went down that needed to be exposed, But she

(27:35):
did the One of the staffers for the mayor's office
asked my daughter to turn off her phone and no recording.
All that was recorded was the back of some heads
and one kid turned around. You could see his face
because he was in his mom's lap, and you could
see the two drag queens at the front. This particular
one was not one of the most scandalous ones. It
was Christmas. They knew all eyes were on them in

(27:58):
the community by this time, so they were trying to
tone it down. It was just a few months later up.
I mean, they did make some type of innu window
jokes that the parents lacked at. And I must say
that these events are really for the entertainment of the adults.
This is not something that's really promoting literacy. These are
some parents who really need to get a night out,

(28:20):
you know, go get a babysitter and just and get
of the house instead of dragging their kids to be
scandalized at the drag Queen story hour. But it especially adults,
mostly women, bringing their children to this, and there were
some men going following the women and young girls into
the restroom at the Houston Public Library back then that

(28:42):
nobody seemed to care. This did not seem to bother
our city Council at all. I actually put together almost
three hundred page documents the time showing various ways that
the Euston Public Library was violating their own policies. One
of the policies they violated was they weren't doing background checks,
which is how they ended up having a sexfender entertaining
kids at the library.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
The drag Queens could read to anybody. The elderly would
love to have somebody come in. They're reading to the
children for a reason. Tracy Lynnshannon, candidate for Humble ISD Board.
Early voting this week all the way through next Tuesday
seven eight to seven p and then Saturday, May third
is election day. Please don't wait until that day to vote.
Take up a minute and sixty seconds because the other

(29:26):
things I want to get to and talk about your husband, Andy,
who became Andrea and how that transition occurred and how
you and the family dealt with that.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
And initially started with him cross dressing at home and
that's it. And we went to a therapist in Houston
to address that, and I thought she would probably tell him,
don't do that, it's hurting your marriage. Instead she told
me I was close minded and possibly a lesbian. He
continued to see her behind my back after I said
we weren't going to go to this person, and ultimately
she wrote a letter for him to legally transition and

(29:59):
medically transition behind my back. He was taking hormones for
eleven years. He tried to breastfeed my daughter. He also
so we ended up going to court after several years
of marriage and him having a secret life behind my
back and deciding he was going to go through with
a transition. We went to the family court in Texas

(30:20):
where I was divorcing a legal woman on paper because
the state of Texas allowed his documents and ID to
be falsified, and so in court I was pressured every
day to use preferred pronouns or potentially be held in contempt.
And this was back in two thousand and ten, so
it could only be worse today, and so how did
we deal with that? It was just us against the world.

(30:42):
Should we even speak out about that? We were seeing
as the insensitive people. There was no compassion for us.
There's no special therapy for us. My kids were court
ordered into therapy where they're told they can know while
they're no longer call their father dad anymore. And this
was all at the hands of the State of Texas.
That's why I'm advocate for children and women against this
ideology which is so harmful and there's just nobody's rights

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that can coexist with this ideology.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
I can't imagine. I don't know how to express this,
but the thought that's going through my mind. Forgive me
if it sounds callous, but it seems like it might
have been easier if he was killed in a car
wreck then to go through this.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
Well, the children have actually expressed that sentiment. Of course,
they love their father. I taught them that love their
father in spite of everything, and to respect their father.
But that doesn't mean they have to respect that decision
that he made, or believe in trans ideology or any
of that their experience is valid and that this hurt

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them as valid, and they should be allowed to say
that because it's the truth. In the world we're living
in right now, for them to speak the truth of
what their experience is, they'd be shut down and called
a bigot. And this is why I speak out so
loudly against all of this. It's not because I hate anyone.
It's because my experience and experience of my kids is

(32:14):
valid too. In women, we don't have anything as long
as men can falsify their sex and identify as women.
That includes women's business certifications, any business or any kind
of women's organization, anything female, any female spaces or places,

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or anything, awards categories, we don't have it. If a
man can be a woman, we don't have anything for women.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
You are a tough lady, and you have that character
that I think we need most in people willing to
serve publicly, and that is you are fearless. I hope
you win. I wish I could vote for you. Tracy
Lynn Shannon is running for Humble ISD.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
You know, thank you.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
These bad experiences that people can go through or go through,
the goal is to turn that to channel it for
good for other people. And I get this sense that's
what she's doing a bakery for sale coming up.