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Written by Gays Against Groomers member Judith Rose The English language is a funny thing. Over time, some words are forgotten, changed or used differently, and others are invented to replace them. The majority of native English speakers likely don’t stop to contemplate their own ever changing language, but anyone learning English knows how confusing it can be to understand the rules, nuances of slang, and how one word can have different meanings depending on the context. For example, when one hears the word ‘coyote’ the image of a small wild dog likely comes to mind. But this word is also used colloquially to denote a person who smuggles immigrants across the Mexico–United States border. The ignorance of many was put on display in 2020 via Twitter when Trump used this word to refer to child trafficking, mocking him as though he’d just implied an actual wild dog was dragging children across the border in its teeth. In 2022, with technology in full swing, the English language is undergoing another transformation. Words are not only being invented, but traditional words the public thought were concrete are being changed and manipulated in real time by the mainstream media, Webster's dictionary and even the CDC. Much like Orwell’s 1984, it seems certain definitions are changed specifically to pull the public opinion into something more acceptable to an increasingly sensitive society. One of the words caught in this Orwellian tug-of-war is ‘groomer.’ While this term can innocently reference an act of self care (i.e. combing your hair, taking a shower, using a face mask etc.), or trimming a dog’s fur coat and nails, it has another definition that many are attempting to change and even censor. Reddit and Twitter have both expressed a ban on the word, recklessly claiming it is an attack on the LGBTQ community. But why? The term ‘child grooming’ has always been used to describe the process a predator goes through to befriend and establish an emotional connection with a minor, and sometimes the child’s family, with the objective of sexual abuse, including but not limited to: trafficking, prostitution, the production of pornography and cyber trafficking. Unless the people attempting to change and censor this word truly believe all gay or transgender people are predators, why on Earth would this word be considered an attack on their community? Convicted pedophile Jack Reynolds, who spent more than 12 years in prison for molesting around 300 children in the 1980’s, agreed to sit down with ABC news in 2017 to discuss his own techniques in hopes of educating the public on how to tell if a predator is after your child. He himself used the term ‘grooming’ to describe the process he went through with his victims. “I fondled them, I groomed them, I groomed their families and I groomed society,” Reynolds said. “I would check out their family situation. I would check out their clothing to see how well they were financially.” [source] While his interview is disturbing, his insight helps the public understand just what goes on in the minds of these child groomers. Reynolds’ final warning was how dangerous social media is, since it facilitates and expands a predator’s reach in a way society has never seen before. Thanks to platforms like Instagram, SnapChat and Twitter, predators have an easier time grooming children than ever. Predators can freely pretend to be someone else and convince minors to send them sexual materials or meet them somewhere. This evolution, though hard to digest, is important to be aware of when it comes to the safety of children in the modern age of technology. Now more than ever, predators are increasingly difficult to spot. They have access to an infinite catalog of potential victims at their fingertips, as well as numerous ways to disguise themselves and blend in with certain communities in order to gain access to minors. Unfortunately, one of these communities they’ve chosen to hide in is in fact the LGBTQ community. Donning an alternative identity is allowing predators to function like a wolf in sheep’s clothing. More and more we are seeing stories of so-called “transgender activists” and even drag queens who are arrested or have already been arrested for sexually abusing children or possession of child pornography. [source] [source] [source] In addition to these predators finding safety in the LGBTQ community, they have become more difficult to call out, noticeably because the mainstream media always seems to come to their rescue, placing them on pedestals and giving them platforms. Suddenly convicted sex offenders are being celebrated in media and given places to speak or perform, often around minors. Why? Because they choose to disguise themselves as drag queens, transgender, or something in between in order to appeal to the ‘queer’ community. The History of the Word Queer: Once upon a time, the word ‘queer’ was a derogatory term referencing gay people. It was considered a slur, something spat at people who were different from the norm. If you look up the word in a thesaurus, you’ll see a range of synonyms that include: irregular, puzzling, weird, mysterious, unbalanced, unhinged and more. The community has since “taken this back,” adding it to their alphabet and using it proudly to describe themselves. But some old-school gays who grew up in the era when ‘queer’ was a slur aren’t so quick to love its transformation. It’s one thing to take a slur back and embrace it, but to claim a term traditionally used to describe predators is now a slur is a dangerous move. When we attempt to censor language in this way, it creates a roadblock in which one must circumnavigate in order to find a new way to define something sinister that was once easy to spot. Attempting to associate the word ‘groomer’ with the entire LGBTQ community is both inaccurate and harmful to those who just want to live their lives. So why the confusion? Why the attempt to associate ‘child grooming’ with our entire community? Well, the obvious conclusion is that they use us as shields to silence all opposition to their agenda; claiming it’s hate speech to criticize those preying upon children. It is a tactic to support predators in their endeavors and normalize pedophilia, which we are dangerously close to now. What some fail to realize is the public is experiencing grooming on a mass scale. We are being groomed to accept these predators into our community, and even told to call them “minor attracted persons” to spare their feelings. [source] Teaching children advanced adult material and exposing them to adult spaces is grooming them for predators, which is something many parents seem to be completely oblivious of when they take their kids to watch a half naked man dressed as a woman dance provocatively in the middle of the day. It is a slippery slope that ends in adult-child relationships normalized in the mainstream. After all, the younger they learn about gender and sexuality, the easier an adult can claim they are “mature enough” for a relationship with anyone older than them. Predators are having their work cut out for them in the form of early, detailed sexual education for minors at a completely inappropriate age. The ideologies coursing through the education system and mainstream media are encouraging a dangerous curiosity in children that leads them straight into the mouth of the wolves. Obviously, not all gay or even transgender people are predators. The attempt to label ‘groomer’ as an anti-LGBTQ slur is not only extremely harmful to our community, as it assumes all of us are groomers and/or support this depraved attack on children, but is also a conflicting association that can distract the public from finding the real predators, and instead inspiring them to accuse the wrong people. But a dangerous movement has begun, a movement ordering the exposure of sexual material to minors at inappropriate ages, and the encouragement of gender transition at a young, underdeveloped age. Children are more vulnerable than ever, looking to fit in and have fun with whatever glitters like gold. Predators know this, which is why they have infiltrated our community. The modern day “Trans Rights Activists” are largely to blame for providing a safe space for predators to hide in. Once an understood rarity, these transgender activists are now attempting to encourage children to follow in their footsteps as early as possible. As the percentage of youth identifying as gay or transgender rises, many are being called “transphobic” for even asking why. Dr. Jane Clare Jones made an excellent point in a tweet from February 2022: “You could have focussed on anti-discrimination. You could have focussed on resources. You could have campaigned for services that you needed. You could have paid for research into medical treatment and the best outcomes. Instead you tried to erase sex, force your way into women's spaces, take our language, take our political movement, destroy our political analysis, demonize us, silence us, intimidate us, and medicalize children without a proper evidence base.” Women like Dr. Jones have every right to speak on the sudden shift in the community, and there is a reason many like her are upset. Instead of respecting boundaries, facts, and adult spaces, many in the modern movement are demanding blatant acceptance, disregarding the opinions of those they disagree with, and even attempting to change words to suit their own twisted reality. Dissenters are labeled “transphobic” for asking questions. Worst of all, they are dragging children into their dangerous delusions. We at Gays Against Groomers will not let this happen. In fact, it's one of the reasons our organization was formed. We want to draw the line and protect what is left of the sane gay community. Not only are we against the indoctrination of children in schools through inappropriate education, we are against the medicalization and mutilation of minors as well, which could make them easy targets for predators on the hunt for vulnerable victims. We were perfectly happy with what the community had already achieved before this dangerous shift occurred. Our minor demographic was already represented well enough, and acknowledged by many. We wanted to leave the children out of it. But it’s as though once we were federally allowed gay marriage, the narrative shifted and was harnessed by something dark and sinister that opened the door for pedophiles and child grooming. The word ‘groomer’ is neither an anti-LGBTQ slur, nor a word to be avoided. It is the most appropriate word to describe not only what predators do, but what is happening to the public on a grand scale. There are those that aren’t even aware they have been weaponized to support this agenda, the same people attempting to demonize the word and gaslight those who disagree. Clearly, our organization is not offended by it, but it’s very telling who IS. It is obvious to us that the main reason this word is under attack is to serve the needs of those interested in normalizing the sexualization of children, and we will not allow that to continue. So with that, we urge you to keep saying the word groomer, and don’t stop until this is all put to an end.

According to trans and queer activists, the United States is currently passing an overwhelming amount of “Anti-trans” or “Anti-LGBTQ+” laws. However, upon viewing these bills, it becomes evident that the majority of them are aimed at protecting children from medical malpractice, no longer allowing parents to bring their children to age-inappropriate events, discontinuing the use of dangerous medications that are being banned in multiple countries, prohibiting surgical conversion therapy on minors, and maintaining the legal framework that same-sex rights for gays and lesbians are built upon. Why are laws that benefit homosexuals, gay/lesbian families, gender nonconforming youth, and full equality for lesbian women are being dishonestly labeled as “anti-trans?” Gender Affirming Care for Minors Gays Against Groomers agrees with a lot of the bills being passed in order to end child medicalization and transitioning gender nonconforming children at school without their parents’ permission. Bans on “gender-affirming care” on minors have been put forward in Indiana, Mississippi, Kansas, Kentucky, North Dakota, Missouri,Oklahoma, New Hampshire, Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Tennessee, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, West Virginia, and Wyoming. Medicalizing gender nonconforming children before they reach adulthood is medical malpractice and homophobic abuse. Research shows that the majority of these children will grow up to be gay and lesbian adults. Something that most gay people have in common is that we were gender nonconforming as children and knew that we were different from our peers early on. "Childhood gender variance" is 8 to 15 times higher for gay adults and these results have been replicated in recent studies, as well. Most gay men express more stereotypically feminine traits in childhood (Skidmore et al., 2006).” A follow-up study of nearly 140 gender dysphoric boys showed an 88% desistance rate after going through puberty, and most of them were just gay or bisexual adults. There have been multiple whistleblowers and court cases, warning that “They Are Sterilizing Gay Kids.” There is even one case of professionals implying that “Soon, we won’t have any gay people left.” There have even been parents who claimed that they would rather have a straight daughter than a feminine gay son. If gender (masculinity and femininity) is a social construct, then why does it need to be medicalized at an age when a child still believes in Santa Claus? There is currently an emerging population of gay/lesbian detransitioned adults who were medicalized as kids and dealing with the aftermath of being experimented on when they were not even old enough to get a tattoo. Banning these procedures is protecting more gay and lesbian adults from having to go through what these detransitioners are experiencing. Our community is beginning to suffer because of these inhumane medical practices. Transitioning children is the new Conversion Therapy. Stop Transing The Gay Away. “Family Friendly” Drag Queen Performance Over the past year, there has been a very alarming emergence of public adult cabaret performances, which are being advertised as “family friendly.” These events are provocative, overtly sexual, unsuitable for children, tasteless, and crude. The parents who are enthusiastically bringing their children to these events have been repeatedly made aware of how inappropriate it is and now the government needs to get involved. Referring to these performances as “pro-LGBTQIA+” is an insult. Interestingly enough, a lot of these events are funded by child sex-change services, pharmaceutical companies, and “trans rights” organizations (for children). Drag was always something for gay adults and is now being used by the trans lobby to influence children. If a small child is told that crossdressing and using a different name/pronoun is empowering, then this could encourage them to adopt a trans identity at an age where this is too complicated to understand. Children should not be exposed to this content due to the crude nature of these performances. We do not take issue with people dressing or acting in ways that do not conform to gender stereotypes. We think that everyone should be able to wear whatever they like, in accordance to what is/isn’t publicly appropriate to be shown around children. We support the proposed bills banning these events currently being enacted in Arizona, Arkansas, Tennessee, South Carolina, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, and West Virginia. State Recognition of Biological Sex Multiple states like Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Oklahoma are trying to pass bills that legally define “sex” as being male or female, instead of one’s self-declared “gender identity” or “queer identity.” Replacing sex with vague terms defines gays and lesbians out of existence in the law. By preserving laws relative to state recognition of biological sex, homosexual people are protected on this basis. Same-sex rights are sex-based rights. When clear definitions of biological sex are removed, then the well-deserved equal rights of same-sex oriented men and women are also changed. We fought hard to get legal protections for being same-sex oriented. And now those rights are being taken away. Preservation of these rights is pro-gay. The notion that this is “anti-LGBTQIA+” is a lie, unless you believe that the first two letters of the acronym no longer matter. In Mississippi, this is being done through Bill MS SB2076: The Title IX Preservation Act. Oklahoma’s proposed solution involves “creating the Women’s Bill of Rights,” which was originally introduced in collaboration with a Lesbian-founded organization whose work includes “supporting the needs of lesbian and bisexual women.” The purpose of the bill is to protect females, including lesbians, in schools, sports, and prisons. If fairness and equality for gay men and lesbian women is considered “anti-trans,” then what does that say about how the trans lobby views the rights of homosexuals? We support the proposed bills in these states and would like to see them implemented on a national level and begin to restore common sense and rationality to our community. We have thousands of gay people who are on our side and America needs to do the right thing. Right is right and wrong is wrong. It is not a right to sexualize and mutilate children. It is not anti-LGBTQ to pass legislation to protect them. It is not anti-trans to be in favor of the rights and safety of children, families, gay men, and lesbian women.

Schools have decided to go ignorant about exposing pseudoscientific educational material around biological sex, gender, and intersex conditions to kids. Students from K through 12 learn that sex is a ‘spectrum’ and that you can ‘pick and choose’ your gender like dominoes. We at Gays Against Groomers are not against teaching creative subjects to young students, but we are, in fact, against indoctrinating kids with misconstrued notions about sex, gender, and intersex conditions. Politicizing Sex Education Comprehensive sex education has become more prevalent in schools than ever before. While this might encourage positive discussions of consent, adolescence, and preventative measures among children, it also adds to the existing confusion and social pressure in their school environment. Giving kids the option to choose among 97 genders, 18 pronouns, and 19 sexual orientations is definitely neither age appropriate nor developmentally appropriate. A BBC sex education program from 2021 tells children as young as nine that there are over ‘100 genders’ and that being transgender is a way to be ‘happy’. We don’t want kids learning these concepts in a half-baked fashion at such a tender age. Also, we believe that children would find out there are gay and trans people in the world by themselves - there is absolutely no requirement for forceful indoctrination through sexualized education. We don’t support the indoctrination of LGBTQ concepts during the springtime of their lives when they should be learning algebra and natural science instead. Conflating Gender, Biological Sex, and Intersex Conditions There is no room for a concession when kids are not just taught age-inappropriate concepts but also scientifically inaccurate and conflated definitions of biological sex, intersex, and gender identity. Biological sex, gender, and Intersex conditions are three different concepts from 3 separate domains. Discussions on such topics could be confusing even for a grown adult, let alone a 9-year-old kid. The collage (from above) shows excerpts of student and teacher-training material from real-life classrooms and educational organizations like the National Association of Independent Schools. These depictions of sex and gender only result in unnecessary mental gymnastics for these kids. Ignoring the duality of gametes while teaching about biological sex One could give the benefit of the doubt if sincere efforts are going behind scientific accuracy while teaching biological concepts to children, but we never see that coming to reality. Never. Instead, children get exposed to unwieldy information charts and infographics like the infamous ‘Genderbread Person’ or the ‘Gender Unicorn’. It is where you overstep the line between teaching science and teaching an ideology. While it could be agreeable to teach aspects of gender and sexual orientation (in a non-sexualized way), how is it ever acceptable to misconstrue topics like intersex conditions while using such educational tools? Take a look at the so-called ‘Genderbread Person’ that’s infiltrating elementary classrooms these days: I recently attended a workshop conducted by an NGO that promotes sexual health awareness for LGBTQ people. I had the chance to present some of my thoughts about intersex awareness. In one of the slides, I posted a question to the participants (all of them being pro-trans LGBTQs) about the capabilities of intersex people. Here is the screenshot of the slide: When I posted this question in front of the crowd, the entirety answered ‘Yes’ - which was (obviously) the incorrect answer. Because no such case of the functional capability to produce both sperm and egg cells has been documented in any human individual. As someone with a background in Biology, I find it abhorrent that this kind of politicized infographic is what the children get exposed to in their classrooms on a regular basis. Biological sex is immutable, binary, and defined by the capability of an individual to produce either sperm or egg cells. As Helen Joyce, the author of the beautifully written ‘Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality’ rightly points out - ‘Show me the 3rd gamete, & we can talk.’ - none of the pro-trans-driven educational tools show the duality of the gametes. And we at G.A.G. sternly oppose teaching such pseudoscience to young students. Closing thoughts: These instances of indoctrination and politicization of classroom learning set a precedent for even more sexualization and medicalization of children - which is not far from reality as children have already been placed into this indoctrination cult as we speak. There has been a steady rise in the number of children and Gen-Zers identifying as transgender and nonbinary. Books with explicit sexual content, like ‘Gender Queer’ by Maia Kobabe, show direct sexual acts in the form of cartoons to these young minds. And if standing up against this indoctrination is considered 'anti-LGBTQ', how does that reflect the status of schooling and learning as a whole? We at Gays Against Groomers oppose sexualizing elementary school education in classrooms where children are supposed to learn science, math, and how to treat others with dignity and respect in place of confounding pseudoscientific ideologies.

Modern discussions of gender often include statements like, “Sex and gender are different.” or “Gender is something you identify as.” But where did these ideas originate? While many attribute it to feminists, the first person to use “gender” in such a way was John Money in 1955. He is often referred to as “the father of gender identity,” since he is the one who invented the term. While John Money is mostly famous for his work on transgenderism and the infamous David Reimer case, he actually has an extensive history of sexological research that is controversial, to say the least. Scarily enough, his ideas are currently being replicated in the current conversation about sex and gender. John Money’s work on the sexual citizenship of children has earned him the title of “Pedophile Advocate” – rightfully so. His work on “chronophilia” described an erotic attraction to people of different age groups. These age groups included minors, not surprisingly. And he tried to normalize this for years, despite there not being scientific evidence that this exists whatsoever. In 1994, he opposed the classification of pedophilia as an abnormal fetish, even though that is what the overwhelming amount of research has proven (1994, p. 41). Clearly he had an ulterior motive and thought that it was appropriate to include his personal goals of “sexual liberation for children” in his work and label it as science. The same year, he said that he wanted to look at pedophilia “in the broader, cultural purview of sexuality’s timetables” and his reasoning was that pedophilia was historically legal and that society is stigmatizing “attraction to juveniles” in order to fulfill an anti-liberation agenda. His work includes advocating for a reconsideration of sex offender laws (1992) to further normalize child abuse in the law. Just because something is considered legal in some places does not mean that it is good or should be accepted by society, but John Money begged to differ. Not only did he seek the normalization of child abuse – he glorified it. In 1983, he claimed that these relationships should be considered a blend of “devotion, affection and limerence…a comradeship with a touch of hero-worship” and that society’s”rule of age-avoidancy” is negotiable (Money & Weinrich, 1983, pp. 42-43, 46, 53). He proposed the concept of “Lovemaps” and “sexuoerotic age” that include an age range of attraction which may differ from one’s actual age (Money & Clopper, 1974, p. 174). Once again, there was no solid scientific evidence that such a concept exists, but he decided to claim that it did, anyway. The fact that his ideas are reemerging in the current cultural climate and being labeled as “science” is worrisome, inaccurate, and should not be tolerated in any form. Frankly, we think they should be ashamed of themselves. John Money’s work in the mid-1980s included a resurrection of “psychosexual age” (Money, 1986) a term from the 1950s that Money rebranded as “sexuoerotic age” (Hammer, 1954). That same year, he advocated for “erotic age roleplay,” suggesting that some people have an inner-child, making them attracted to minors and that this is something that should be accepted and encouraged…even though he did not have scientific proof to back him up. “Chronophilia” (Money, 1986), a palatable rebranding of his ideas about “age-discrepancy paraphilias” (Money, 1981) can be seen in modern-day concepts like “trans-age.” Queer Theory activists are claiming that people have an inner-child whose age does not match up with one’s “biological age.” It is a concept that they claim is similar to gender incongruence but is classified in terms of age – sometimes referred to as “age dysphoria.” Similar ideas can be seen in Money’s work. He claimed that “the paraphile’s age is discordant with his/her actual chronological age and is concordant with the age of their partner” (1986). He also applied these concepts to include “apotemnophilia” which is a term that describes people with an erotic fixation on amputees and castration fetishes in his work on skoptic syndrome. In 1985, Money claimed that “age matching” is normal and works the same way as a male being attracted to females. Money also advocated for “reciprocal sexuoerotic rehearsal play,” which is just a pseudo-intellectual way of saying “sexual activity for children” (Money, 1989). He was known for making up complicated jargon for pedophilic acts in order to purposely confuse his detractors into accepting his ideas as scientific advancement. To quote an official “trans-age” Twitter page, “Transage is simply the identity we use to explain our experience because it is the most accurate way to describe persistently identifying as an age other than one's chrono age & typically feeling an intense desire to transition in full or part to living as one's identified age." The vocabulary that these groomers use is strikingly similar to Money’s ideas about chronophilia and “Lovemap Age.” The similarities cannot be ignored. Groomer activists will claim that “This isn’t happening,” but we think they’re out of their minds. John Money advocated for the sexual liberation of children, using pornography and kink. He thought that “unrestricted enjoyment of erotica and sex in childhood” would encourage healthy sexual development in adulthood. In his book “Sexual Signatures: On Being a Man Or a Woman” (Money, 1976), he stated that pornographic images for children should be included in sex education. Specifically, he stated that "The best time to introduce such pictures is before a child's biological clock has signaled the start of puberty. Prepubertal children are intellectually capable of understanding sex, and their curiosity about life runs high." They will no doubt find these pictures erotically stimulating, but as the novelty wears off they will soon settle down and accept the information in the matter-of-fact way they accept information about other facets of adult life. If their first exposure to pictures of sexual relations between men and women comes after hormonal puberty has begun, the education will still be helpful but their erotic response will be harder for them to manage and they will need more exposure before the pictures cease to arouse it. In short, it takes older children longer to grow bored with such pictures." (Money & Tucker, 1976). He labeled his retractors as “victimologists” and said that people who oppose his ideas are just moralists who want to stifle the healthy development of children. He even criticized anti-pornograhy lesbian feminists, implying that they were just prudish and did not understand the importance of pornography and kink in psychosexual development. John Money thought that the desexualization of gender was in accord with the Zeitgeist of contemporary sexual politics together with victimology and an expanding criminalization of sex. This is eerily similar to current-day trans activists who claim that pornographic content in schools is a good thing, and those who disagree are just overreacting and trying to harm the psychological development of “transgender children.” Upon learning about the work of John Money, anyone with common sense can see that his ideas are being replicated in schools and child transgenderism. The resurgence of his ideas are concerning, to say the least. His made-up, anti-scientific concepts should be viewed with scorn and be abolished from our culture and public education system before it gets out of hand – it already has. The gay and lesbian members of our coalition believe that the work of John Money will forever be seen as a stain on the moral framework of society. We want his proposed sexual framework GONE. It’s disgusting. Get rid of it. Support our work

On November 20th, a lone gunman entered a nightclub in Colorado with a long rifle and started shooting. There were 5 confirmed deaths at Club Q in Colorado Springs and over a dozen reported injuries. Thanks to the bravery of a few bar patrons, the gunman was tackled to the floor, an act that likely saved more lives. When a tragedy like this occurs, we are left with many questions. What kind of person would do such a thing? Why would they come into a club specifically aimed at LGBTQ people? In 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down all state bans on same-sex marriage, legalized it in all fifty states, and required states to honor out-of-state same-sex marriage licenses, a huge win for our community. Legally, all citizens of the United States of America have a right to pursue life, liberty and happiness within reason, and without hurting others. The Colorado Springs Police Chief Vasquez emphasized this himself when he said: “Every citizen has a right to feel safe and secure in our city, to go about our beautiful city without fear of being harmed or treated poorly.” Unfortunately, there are still unstable individuals who take their pain out on those they disagree with. This is likely why the horror at Club Q is being treated as a hate crime, leaving many of us to ask how something like this could happen considering (or perhaps because of) the progress the gay community has already made. The mainstream media is, yet again, harnessing the tragedy in another empty call for more gun control, while simultaneously inspiring people like Keith Edwards to point fingers at conservative news, Republicans, and LibsofTiktok for exposing extremist behavior within the community. What people like Keith fail to realize is that the gay community is not a monolith, and not all gay people have to agree with what’s best for the community. In addition, there are gay members of the Republican party, meaning not all Republicans are against gay rights. The blame lies largely with the radicalized members of the LGBTQ+ community, who have pushed beyond common sense boundaries and into an invasive space that often courts the idea of normalizing the sexualization of children. If you disagree with these radicals as Gays Against Groomers has, you are slapped with nasty labels and your concern is considered hateful. At the very least, groups like the San Francisco gay men’s choir have taken pleasure in taunting those who dare question the intentions of the LGBTQ community. [source] Their lyrics “we’re coming for your children” was a blatant mockery of concerned parents. The LGBTQ community has been guilty of brushing off parental concerns in the past, but if we truly want respect we must in turn respect those that are different from us, instead of attempting to “convert” them OR their children. This means respecting boundaries and what’s appropriate for developing children. Other dangerous behavior we don’t approve of within the LGBTQ community has included: -Schools and teachers encouraging children to keep secrets from their parents [source] [source] -Schools providing pornographic books depicting gay sex acts [source][source][source] -Parents taking young children to watch overly sexual half naked drag queens [source] -A child being taught how to dance on a stripper pole at a Pride parade [source] -Trans activists giving hormone treatment to minors without parental or doctor consent [source] Our community needs to hold itself accountable. Instead of progress, this extreme behavior has set the gay community back into a space where our existence and rights are yet again under scrutiny. Academics seem to have shifted their focus from teaching valuable skills to exposing kids to an overwhelming and confusing amount of adult material related to sexuality. Instead of letting some children grow up and decide for themselves, many are feeling pressured to not only join the LGBTQ community, but change their bodies before fully developing and discovering themselves. It’s as if it wasn’t enough to have the right to marry who we love. The radicals who have hijacked our community have pushed for representation and acceptance in every space you can imagine, even pushing out traditional gays in favor of “non-binary queer folk.” To these extremists, the stranger the better. Every mainstream company you can think of now signals their allegiance to the gay community every June, and even now at the World Cup the US is using a rainbow logo to flaunt their allegiance, despite the fact that same-sex relationships are illegal in host nation Qatar. [source] This kind of disrespect is eroding our community. “Accept us or else” seems to be the Alphabet Mafia’s new slogan. How is this love, and not authoritarian collectivism? As gays, if we want respect we have to respect others’ feelings about us, too. We do not need the whole world to love and accept us, and if we do, it is an indication that we don’t love and accept ourselves first. The validation the radical LGBTQIA+ community seeks, particularly from underage children, is a dangerous symptom of their own internal struggle, and they’ve chosen to make that struggle everyone’s problem. That’s why places like Club Q could be targeted more and more. The more radicals push and invade spaces they have no business invading (and wouldn’t, if they were comfortable with themselves) the angrier it will make extremists on the opposite side of the spectrum. This encourages the divisive media rhetoric pushing civil war, yet again. The modern LGBTQIA+ movement is ruining it for those of us in the gay community who have no interest in participating in gaudy parades or talking to young children about sexuality. Because of them, there may not be safe spaces for any gay people in the future. A line has been crossed, and a target is now on the backs of everyone under the LGBTQ umbrella, not just the radicals. While there will always be hate in the world, our community must address the problems within before we go pointing fingers. We need our boundaries back, or more tragedies like Club Q are likely in our future. This is why Gays Against Groomers exists. We are here to call out the radicals within our community and salvage what’s left of our dignity. And we’re just getting started. ______________________________________________ Update from the author: Let me be clear: What happened at Club Q in CO was a tragedy and should not have happened. It is no one’s fault but the shooter. My concern is the rhetoric being used by media to shield radical extremists within the gay community and push unnecessary gun control. Furthermore, I see this story being weaponized by both sides of the political aisle. Everyone is pointing fingers, though extremists exist on both sides. But if we don’t hold ourselves accountable first, who are we to assign blame? Our society is sick. So many are mentally unwell, and afraid of the future. While normally the first questions I would be asking are about the shooter and his background, I know enough about the media to question how this story is being told. Including how people react to it. No one deserves to die for how they live their life, unless it hurts others. But those who have let their minds turn into weapons for the system are a huge part of our problem. We need to acknowledge that.

Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) is one of the most contentious issues in the current debate surrounding gender ideology. Many throw accusations of “grooming” at these events, which involve drag queens reading children’s books to kids at libraries, schools, and other venues. Others brush it off as harmless entertainment and the accusations of grooming as far-right hysteria—even “stochastic terrorism.” The truth is that DQSH is not harmless, and it is, in fact, steeped in a political and ideological agenda that targets children. Drag itself is adult entertainment full of sexually charged themes meant to be performed at nightclubs. It did not lose these elements when children became the audience. This is all spelled out in a paper called “Drag Pedagogy: The Playful Practice of Queer Imagination in Early Childhood,” which Christopher Rufo called the “manifesto” of DQSH in his investigation into the movement. The paper was co-written by Harper Keenan, an assistant professor who heads the SOGI (sexual orientation and gender identity) program at the University of British Columbia and Harris Kornstein, an assistant professor at the University of Arizona, a founder of DQSH, and a drag queen who goes by the stage name Lil Miss Hot Mess. Keenan and Kornstein were also involved in a SOGI UBC panel discussion on drag pedagogy a few months after the paper was published. Before we jump into the paper itself, let’s take a quick look at what grooming actually is. RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) defines grooming as: "manipulative behaviors that the abuser uses to gain access to a potential victim, coerce them to agree to the abuse, and reduce the risk of being caught." Grooming involves tactics like victim selection, victim isolation, desensitization to sexual topics, the pushing of personal boundaries, and attempts to make the behavior seem normal. These tactics bear more than an uncanny resemblance to the five elements of DQSH as described in Keenan and Kornstein’s paper: “play as praxis, aesthetic transformation, strategic defiance, destigmatization of shame, and embodied kinship. No, not all drag queens and not all drag queens who read books to children are trying to groom them. In fact, most very likely are not. But the movement itself and particularly the “drag pedagogy” it is based on does employ an awful lot of the tactics of grooming once you take a closer look. “Drag queens have historically been relegated to the realm of the night,” Keenan and Kornstein begin their paper. “In the past few years, however, drag performers have made their way from the dimly lit bars of gayborhoods and into the fluorescent lights of libraries and classrooms.” Why? Why did drag queens move from the bars to the classrooms? Well, the paper continues, “DQSH seems to uniquely thread the needle between queer activism and broad cultural acceptance.” The aim seems to be to create little queer activists, and DQSH is an effective vehicle with which to do it: “Many elements of DQSH are common to early childhood schooling: bright colours, music, art, and imaginative play.” “The traditional role of the teacher, transformed into a loud and sparkling queen, becomes delightfully excessive,” Keenan and Kornstein write. “Her pedagogy is rooted in pleasure and creativity borne, in part, from letting go of control.” “Pedagogy rooted in pleasure” and “letting go of control,” are interesting and deliberate choices of phrasing. Keenan and Kornstein also argue that DQST is about exploring “the boundaries of acceptability” and “children’s curiosities about social norms.” “At many DQSH events,” they write, “children ask genuine questions like ‘are you a boy or a girl?’ or ‘why are you dressed like that?’ … In many cases, drag queens may not respond with answers, but with questions meant to complicate perceptions of gender and society.” Why can’t the drag queens simply respond that they are men and that dressing up the way they do doesn’t change that? Why do they have to deliberately confuse children about sex and gender? Well, the aim is not only to create queer activists but to encourage children to be “queer” themselves. “Drag is an imaginative and creative process. It is grounded in building character,” Keenan and Kornstein explain. “This approach can support students in finding the unique or queer aspects of themselves.” They continue: “Drag pedagogy might enact a mode of queer kinship that acknowledges that there is already queerness within the classroom.” By uncovering the queerness that they claim is already there in the classroom, Keenan and Kornstein explain that DQSH seeks to drive a wedge between children and the supportive structures in their lives, like school and family. They say this quite plainly and outright: “We suggest that DQSH offers a queer relationality with children that breaks from the reproductive futurity of the normative classroom and nuclear family.” The “normative classroom” and the “nuclear family” are two main areas of child safeguarding. Why should anyone seek to “break” these relationships? Because, once these relationships are broken, the child is free to be “queer.” “As drag has moved further into the mainstream, some have questioned whether this queer art form has lost its edge,” Keenan and Kornstein lament. “In discussing the work of DQSH within our social circles, we have occasionally encountered critiques that DQSH is sanitizing the risqué nature of drag in order to make it ‘family friendly.’” Not to worry, Keenan and Kornstein don’t agree that drag loses its risqué edge when performed in front of children. “We do not share this pessimistic view,” they write. “Queer worldmaking, including political organizing, has long been a project driven by desire.” The word “desire,” like “pleasure,” crops up repeatedly throughout the piece. Where this all points is to the final of the five elements of DQSH: embodied kinship. DQSH and the drag pedagogy that underpins it is not an innocent program where grown men get dressed up as female caricatures and read stories to children—though that’s strange enough. The ultimate goal, stated clearly at the end of the paper, is to connect kids to a new, “queer” family: “It may be that DQSH is ‘family friendly,’ in the sense that it is accessible and inviting to families with children, but it is less a sanitizing force than it is a preparatory introduction to alternate modes of kinship. Here, DQSH is ‘family friendly’ in the sense of ‘family’ as an old-school queer code to identify and connect with other queers on the street.” By using theatrics, bright colors, appealing stories, and a playful approach, drag pedagogy targets children, desensitizes them to a form of adult entertainment, and seeks to undermine protective elements like school and family. Interestingly, Keenan and Kornstein never actually define pedagogy. While definitions vary, pedagogy, most simply put, is an approach to teaching knowledge or skills, usually to children. Drag Queen Story Hour doesn’t aim to teach, it aims to indoctrinate children into “queerness.” It isn’t pedagogy at all—it’s grooming.

We recently took some time to dig around the forum TrevorSpace, which they themselves describe as "an affirming, online community for LGBTQ young people between the ages of 13-24 years old." With over 400,000 members across the globe, they go on to say that "you can explore your identity, get advice, find support, and make friends in a moderated community intentionally designed for you." Although sources say that TrevorSpace was investigated by law enforcement for facilitating inappropriate conversations among children and adults, the problem is still going on. What we found will shock you. TrevorSpace markets itself as a safe space for LGBTQ+ young people to talk about their experiences with identity and peer/familial rejection, which sounds like a great idea. But browsing the website for merely a few minutes makes it abundantly clear what it actually is: an online dating service for children and people aged 13-24. No website or chat room of this nature should cater to minors, especially one that encourages them to talk to adults. Adults in their 20s regularly talk to teenagers about sexuality and gender transition on Trevorspace. Profiles specify whether the user is over or under 18, but there is no procedure to verify whether the user is answering truthfully. Not only is the website specifically for children and adults, but someone of any age can say that they are a minor and have inappropriate conversations with kids. Genspect, an organization which includes therapists, psychologists, researchers, and experts in this field, consistently point out that kids who are being transitioned often exhibit similar patterns of behavior and are victims of a social contagion. The website overwhelmingly consists of this exact demographic of kids. Although some of the theories about the teenage transgender epidemic have been heavily criticized, Trevorspace is basically the social contagion theory come to life. It is full of posts about how these girls are lonely, have little social support, low self-esteem, issues with body image, and have difficulty socializing with others. The two most alarming themes that we observed were that a lot of these kids are autistic and most of them express that they are same-sex attracted. It has been noted that a large percentage of children who are transitioning are autistic or same-sex attracted. They are being targeted. And the people doing the targeting are adults. “Courage Is A Habit,” a parental rights group and friend of GAG, have pointed out that this new wave of child transsexualism can be attributed to a direct pipeline “from the classroom to the operating room.” They learn about various sexual identities as part of their school curriculum and even given surveys which directly ask them what their sexual identity is, pressuring them to pick an option. They are told that if they are confused or unsure about their identity, there are resources to help them, often listing The Trevor Project. Planned Parenthood, the largest distributor of hormones to kids, also recommends this website to kids who are at an age where people first start figuring this stuff out for themselves. The reality is that some kids mature faster than others. Therefore, some of the kids using this service who have not yet reached that point. Children are being pressured at school to pick an identity. It was not surprising that a large portion of their posts are about asexuality and asking for guidance about how to find their place on the “asexual spectrum.” Since they are being forced to choose a sexual identity label at school everyday, as young as kindergarten, when they are too young to even conceptualize such a concept, then they are going to choose labels on the “asexual spectrum” because kids are not sexual beings. This is not a controversial opinion – it is the difference between right and wrong. The predatory website features various “clubs” that kids can join, where they are able to discuss their sexual identities with hundreds of other kids and adults. One of these clubs is called “Furries”, designed for people who are attracted to anthropomorphic animals. The discussions in this group often revolve around fetishism and how the “Furry Fandom” is not inherently sexual, but lets them know that there are a lot of people who engage in this for paraphilic reasons. Most of the conversations in the “Furries Club” are kids asking other users to help them discover their “fursona.” A fursona is a personalized animal character created by someone in the furry fandom. Fursonas may be anthropomorphic personas, idealized versions of their owners, fleshed out roleplay characters, or simply digital mascots. These posts feature cartoon drawings of their “fursonas” and describe different attributes that their character has. It is very easy to see how kids can easily get caught up in something that requires them to watch cartoons and pretend to be the characters they see on their screen. It seems harmless. These kids are probably just playing pretend, which is a normal thing for kids to do. But the people who are encouraging this behavior on Trevorspace are adults. According to a recent study on autoanthropomorphozoophilia, a paraphilic phenomenon where an individual is aroused by the idea of being an anthropomorphic animal and dresses up in animal costumes to live this fantasy, is a fetish in 99% of cases. It is linked to both autism and autogynephilia (fetishistic cross-dressing which develops in adulthood). It is very unlikely that these adults are all just playing pretend and do not have any fetishistic incentive. They also have clubs centered around BDSM and kink. An adult guiding a child and teaching them how to participate in their fetish is grooming and should never be tolerated in any circumstance. It is insulting that a website like this is marketed as a resource for “LGBTQIA+ young adults.” This has nothing to do with being same-sex attracted and is not beneficial to our community whatsoever. Gays Against Groomers would like to publicly denounce The Trevor Project for being an enemy to the people it claims to advocate for. It is outright betrayal and everything that the gay community spent decades fighting against. These adults encourage social transition to these kids, leaving comments about how to dress and how to “pass” as the opposite sex. Social transition is a direct gateway to persistence of their trans identity and subsequent medicalization. They are applauded for taking puberty blockers, which are linked to osteoporosis, brain swelling, and future sexual dysfunction. They are given advice on how to get sterilizing hormones behind their parents’ back. And they are being taught that disembodiment/dissociating from their bodies is a good thing that everyone should try out. A hot topic recently has been pornographic material in school libraries, which are labeled as “LGBTQ+ literature designed to help kids understand diversity and feel more included at school.” We are not sure what pornographic books have to do with being gay, but we completely reject this practice and the fact that it is being done in our name. One of these books is titled “This Book Is Gay” by a transwoman named Juno Dawson, describes how to use dating and hookup apps to children, including meeting up with strangers for sexual encounters. Trevorspace explicitly states that doing this is very unsafe and their website advises against it. After stating this, the next line says, “If you must meet somebody, please use this external guide (it is aimed towards adults, but a lot of it is also good information for teens). Hopefully it’ll help you make a healthy, informed decision!” Trevorspace tells children that they should not do something and then basically says, “But if you want to do it anyway, we have a guide to show you how!” There is never a circumstance in which this behavior is “healthy” for a teenager to engage in. It is a recipe for kidnapping and exploitation and needs to be terminated immediately. If The Trevor Project claims to advise against children meeting up with strangers, then why do they allow kids to make posts about their location and seeking a boyfriend/girlfriend in their area? Why are they encouraging kids to participate in this behind their parents backs and allowing adults to give advice about sex? The Trevor Project is a grooming organization that sexualizes children and puts them in danger. Trans activists can claim that there is no social contagion all they want, but the gay people in our coalition prefer to recognize it for what is is: a transgender grooming epidemic. The kids who use this predatory dating service have threads and forums about how the website has “too many groomers and pedophiles,” yet the adults that they trust in their lives are telling them that it is a good source for social support. It is an identity crisis in a nutshell. The service is full of frantic posts from teenage girls freaking out over the fact that they are unsure of their sexual identity and how this is something that they need to figure out immediately. Since when is that considered appropriate? The most disturbing part is that a lot of these girls express that they are same-sex attracted. Instead of being told that there is nothing wrong with being gay and that they will figure this out eventually, The Trevor Project tells them that they are actually boys trapped in female bodies and minors need to be chemically castrated as soon as possible or there is a 40% chance that they will kill themselves. This overused statistic is a lie and The Trevor Project is facilitating the spread of this lie. There are posts where girls say that they realized they were attracted to women and transitioned into boys in order to become straight. This is a new form of conversion therapy. Studies show that nearly 80% of these children will reach adulthood and realize that they are just gay, lesbian, or bisexual. Trevorspace is a grooming nightmare come to life. It is a direct contribution to an impending health crisis in the gay community – an epidemic of detransitioned people whose lives have been ruined by this new form of teenage conversion therapy, which they were groomed into partaking in. Over the next decade, there is going to be a huge wave of detransitioners who realize that they were victims of conversion therapy and grooming. The wave has already started and is going to forever be a stain on our community that we look back on in horror. Given recent events in the UK and Mermaids, it is probably a smart idea to consider the possibility that a similar phenomenon is occurring across the pond. Detransitioned people are usually shunned from the trans community and harassed by queer activists if they try to discuss their experience publicly. This is present in the Trevorspace forums. Kids who were permanently altered have made posts about feelings of regret. They are then chastised about how the detransitioner problem is a hoax and that recognizing their existence is considered hateful, invalidating, and harmful to the transgender community. If the transgender and queer community are so hung up on validation and accuse people of “denying their existence,” then why are they demanding that we deny the existence of gay people who were converted as kids and face medical/bodily harm for the rest of their lives? My community deserves better than that. Detrans people have a lot of important perspectives to contribute and they are welcome at our table any day. Upon finding out that kids are using a website to connect with strangers and form polyamorous relationships with multiple anonymous individuals, people in our community are absolutely horrified. Most of us want nothing to do with these people and will not stop fighting it until it is shut down. The gay community is going to put an end to this and morally mandate it out of existence. And we expect everyone involved to be held accountable. Gays Against Groomers believes that calling out The Trevor Project, schools, child transsexualism, and the budding detransition epidemic should come from within our community. We all had the teenage experience of figuring ourselves out and becoming happy, confident, successful, and comfortable gay adults. Being given access to a website like Trevorspace would have made that process much more difficult, confusing, and dangerous. This is directly harming our community and is only going to get worse. We are going to talk about it until it is abolished. ______________________________________________________ Support our movement

...You know what's even more devastating? That line being used as emotional blackmail to get someone to comply to your demands. Suicide rates in trans people are at their absolute highest 7-10 years AFTER sexual reassignment surgery. And it's because most of the time these surgeries are botched. They're experimental. These folks lose their sex drive, their mental health issues were only AFFIRMED and not DIAGNOSED AND TREATED and with hormones in the mix (raising risk of cancer), untreated depression mixed in with constant infections, tragic dating sex life, doctors not fixing their fuck ups, etc . These surgeries have a 67% complication rate. Once you do this, you become a chronic medical patient. Show me one person who's had all these surgeries and treatments who has made it to old age. I'll wait. Puberty is ESSENTIAL for our growth. Kids going on puberty blockers are being sterilized. They're giving themselves osteoporosis because they're not allowing puberty to do what it's supposed to. Bones, muscles, tendons, heart, BRAIN, lungs, blood, sexual reproduction, skin, EVERYTHING relies on puberty. Blockers are NOT reversible. You can say it 1000000000 times but it won't make it true. You cannot reverse puberty blockers. Saying you can is absolutely false and dangerous. There is zero proof to back up those claims that puberty blockers are reversible. For proof that they aren't, you just have to go to any real medical website and read peer reviewed studies. Stay off the bs affirmation websites that are littered with false claims. They give the same puberty blockers to sex offenders to castrate them. They're also giving these drugs to children. Listen to literally ANY detransitioner and you will QUICKLY learn how wrong it is to be saying these things and pushing these narratives. $1.3 million dollars is what big pharma makes off of EACH trans child going through treatment. $70k is what sexual reassignment surgeons make PER surgery. Some make even more. When you follow the money, you find the highest levels of corruption. And unfortunately they're targeting children. Gender dysphoria only affects 1 in 30,000 or 1 in 110,000 people. There's no reason we should be seeing upwards of like 30 kids per school claiming to be trans or non binary or whatever. It's all indoctrination. And it's a huge disservice to the ones who actually suffer with it. They truly need treatment because it isn't a trend for them. It isn't a way to fit in with their peers. I feel for them. But majority of what is going on right now is NOT authentic and a lot of children are ALREADY speaking out about their experience and what influenced them to think this way. 99% of the time it was someone else telling them who they are purely based off of gender stereotypes. I'd would have been told I was trans if I grew up in today's society. Luckily I was just allowed to be a kid. Wear dresses one day, pretending to be the queen of the land and be rolling in the mud the next day collecting bugs with my friends. I was a gymnast but also a baseball player. I was a competitive cheerleader but also a sgt in cadets. I wore a pinstripe suit to my grade 8 grad and cut my hair in a pixie cut and I wore a Marilyn Monroe inspired dress with long curly hair and a flower pinned beside my ear for my grade 12 prom. I am 34 now and I go to metal concerts and thrash but I also am a boudoir photographer who loves to get girly and sexy and do makeup and hair and all that good stuff. I'm still a woman. I'm bisexual but that's it. Where's kids being told it's okay to like trucks if your a girl or its okay to like dolls if your a boy?? That isn't happening anymore. Kids are being told if they don't love themselves they can become someone else. Or if they like dolls then they're a girl. It's fucking stupid. THAT is confusing for a kid on its own and it's ugly when parents put that in their heads just so they can feel like they're part of something. Why did I spend the last 34 years trying to break stereotypes and stigmas and labels only for those exact things to be used as a stepping stone to castrate and mutilate kids for a buck? If you're an adult, you do you boo boo. Be informed, ask questions. Know your rights. If you're a kid, GO BE A KID. Leave the children out of it.

Written by Gays Against Groomers member Haley Shane Remember seeing tomboys? Girls that played in the mud, played sports with the boys teams, and would rather wear cleats than be caught in heels? I remember. I was one. My mom and dad tell a very colorful story of me throwing a dress on the floor after my grandmother practically forced it on me. I was 4. I had no idea what a gender was. Or sex. Or a sexual orientation. I just knew I didn't like dresses. I liked football. And playing in the mud. And working on cars with my dad. (I use the term "working" loosely) Now? I'd be labeled a boy trapped in a girl body. I'd be recommended puberty blockers, hormones (DRUGS — call them what they are), and maybe even Gender Reassignment Surgery. That's horrifying to think of as an adult. What makes no sense to me on top of it, is the same crowd that would tell me to do all that, would also preach that gender is a social construct. But it made me wonder, what would my life look like had I been "transed" (transed - verb - assuming someone who is attracted to the same sex, or has interests of the opposite gender, that they are trapped in the wrong body. Example: "Haley got transed into being a dude cause she likes football and vagina.") Well, I know I wouldn't be as healthy as I am now. I wouldn't be as grounded, stable, secure. I wouldn't accept myself for who I am. I'd have LOADS of identity issues, and my dating pool would be cut to 0. But, I grew up in a different time. (That sounds weird to say, I'm only 29.) I want to say, if you're a woman or a girl reading this and you like sports, and playing football, and shooting guns, and anything else considered "masculine" or "manly"... You might be a lesbian. But you're definitely a tomboy. And tomboys are fucking rad. Own it. Embrace it. BE PROUD OF IT. To answer the question in the beginning of this post; "Where did all the tomboys go?" They went to gender identity clinics cause someone told them they were probably a man. And they sadly, believed it. #SaveTheTomboys

Reddit, the social bookmarking website, is known for hosting a wide variety of content from politics to porn that virtually anyone can access. These topics are organized into forums known as subreddits, where users can interact with one another using text, links and photos. While users are required to be a minimum of 13 years of age to use Reddit, the social site has no fool proof verification process to keep out even younger users who wander in with a simple lying click. This is the first of many red flags on Reddit and other sites that simply can’t verify age while simultaneously hosting a plethora of mature content. Founded in 2005, Reddit has been through its fair share of drama and scandals amongst users and moderators (also known as ‘mods’) alike, and is often the source of radicalized thoughts that have spilled into real life behaviors. While subreddits have typically been perceived as safe spaces for specific topics, as social justice movements have ramped up over the years this has proven to be false. In 2020, a subreddit for detransitioners and questioning transgender people was suspended. Detransitioners tend to experience a lot of censorship and hate due to the fact that their perspective often perturbs the LGBTQ+ community by raising too many questions and concerns about the transition process. Remember, you’re no longer “allowed” to question or criticize the new LGBTQs. The suspension was devastating for detrans people who already feel homeless, rejected by the LGBTQ community for even suggesting that transitioning isn’t a magical cure for gender dysphoria. Detransitioners like Chloe Cole, who is barely an adult, often receive violent comments including death threats for expressing heartache in hopes of saving youth from the same fate. So the destruction of the one space detrans folks thought they had was an overwhelming stab in the back. Users flocked to other sites to express their sadness over the suspension. On a site called mumsnet.com, user rogmum lamented: “I’m so upset about this [suspension]. It was the one community and support group detransitioners had…Reddit is nothing more than a TRA/MRA platform now.” After numerous complaints and protests, the r/detrans subreddit was subsequently brought back, and detransitioners tentatively rejoiced, resuming their criticism of the new LGBTQ narrative so dismissive of their questions and pain. Even now, users in the r/detrans subreddit cannot fathom why they are considered pariahs by the trans community specifically, who can’t seem to handle healthy discourse. “It seems to me like the trans community and its allies are just being willfully ignorant at this point,” user Enough-Process-2373 wrote in a recent thread. “There is absolutely NO tolerance of other perspectives and any attempts at critical discussion get immediately shot down. If their ideology is so unquestionably correct, then why won’t they defend it? When they do defend it, it’s so easy to poke holes in their arguments…I can understand it on a surface level, but I only believed in their rhetoric for so long because I was actively in denial. So many pro-trans arguments are so contradictory and straight up illogical. An entire community can’t be THAT stupid.” The discussion thread above has been labeled in red as CONTROVERSIAL by Reddit, who haven’t exactly been hiding their bias for the neo gay movement. Other threads that have been suspended in the past include r/ActualLesbians, r/GenderCritical and r/truelesbians after several popular LGBTQ+ subreddits experienced prolonged attacks in 2020. These attacks, known as brigades, occur when users from other subreddits coordinate to infiltrate other boards with spam and derogatory comments, manipulating any current polls and otherwise creating a hellish scenario for moderators. One moderator, Aimee Knight, dealt with the fallout of a long brigade on the r/lgbt subreddit at the end of April in 2020, banning 473 users, and removed 1,403 posts and 11,323 comments with co-moderators. There’s just one problem: Aimee Knight is a pedophile sympathizer. Previously known as Aimee Challenor, Knight is a British trans rights activist who is trans herself. According to Google, Aimee was “assigned” male at birth, discovering her trans identity at just 10 years old. In 2018, she was suspended from the Green Party after appointing her father, David Challenor, as an election agent, despite him having been arrested and charged with sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl in 2016. Aimee feigned ignorance and claimed she did not know the full details of the charges against her father before appointing him as her election agent. The Green Party was forced to make a statement and question their safeguarding processes. Among the dangers children face on a platform like Reddit, access to cross-sex hormones without a prescription is on the list. An account called libsofreddit has taken to Instagram to expose Reddit’s illegal trafficking of HRT and puberty blockers to minors, who are looking to bypass health professionals and disapproving parents. The subreddit known as r/TransDIY has taken steps to avoid legal repercussions, stating their Reddit policy against directly marketed goods, including giveaways and private sales. They’ve also stated that “exact age should be largely irrelevant to the discussion.” This hasn’t stopped mods from funneling their followers to medical websites like transfemscience.org, which includes a disclaimer that the writers are not medical professionals nor academic researchers, despite the extensive advice and recommendations for readers as to which drugs to take, where to find them, and a list of related subreddits they call “articles” which are medical in nature. One of the mods on r/TransDIY in question funneling subs to this site is a user called spitirual_cowboy, who also participates in a satire subreddit called r/transgendercirclejerk, where they have expressed a love for “tranny porn.” Not only does the r/TransDIY subreddit funnel users to channels where they could potentially access cross-sex hormones illegally, the thread features a “pharmacy” called Okotokono, an illegal pharmacy from Brazil ran by a MtF known as “Lillian.” Okotokono has been caught at least once by authorities for illegal HRT shipping, and Lillian, who goes by “Lil_lily” on Reddit, has had to beg users to remove posts referring to Otokonoko deliveries and payments, which include cryptocurrency. Mods of r/TransDIY try their best to keep up and moderate posts about illegal drug trafficking and including minors, but can’t always dig deep enough. Minors can still be found asking for help and advice in certain subreddits that inevitably funnel to the same threads. Every parent needs to know the possibilities on Reddit. Much like many other social websites, it is a double edged sword where users can lift each other up and enable potentially harmful behaviors so they feel “less alone.” We feel responsible to raise the alarm regarding Reddit’s protection of predators in the name of LGBTQ. Children should not have access to this kind of encouragement to make life changing decisions with no adult supervision. These people do not represent all of us, and we find these behaviors shocking and abhorrent. From questionable mods, to selling drugs to children, to censorship of traditional gay people, Reddit has no shame in sanctioning reckless behaviors. Please be aware of these red flags on Reddit. Written by: Judith Rose | Images provided by Michael Costa

Disclaimer: The purpose of this article is not to conflate all transgender people as predators. We acknowledge that not all transgender people are a threat to society. But simply put, no demographic is exempt from scrutiny, and one has to admit there is a rising pattern of concerning behavior by people who claim the trans identity. We at Gays Against Groomers believe the special treatment of murderers and rapists should not go unquestioned, and will not be respecting the “preferred pronouns” of the violent undeserving criminals in this article. As we watch the decline of modern society into a fever dream of affirmed delusions, censorship of truth and applauded violence, there is one trend we can’t help but notice: violent transgender prisoners who are clearly using their trans identifier as a shield. Our society is actively participating in the destruction of female spaces, boundaries, and safety by attempting to blend the binary prison system in particular. Multiple criminals have not only decided to transition from male to female only when they become incarcerated, but don’t bother to become rehabilitated citizens, instead committing further crimes with help from a collapsing system that enables their fantasies. Let’s start with the story of Xena Grandicelli, a biological male born Jeffrey Willsea who now identifies as a woman. After pleading guilty to 11 counts of sexual assault against a 3 year old girl and serving just four months in Rikers Island state prison, Grandicelli went on to become a “trans rights activist” in New York. Despite being a level 3 sex offender in the state (which does not permit being within 1,000ft of a school), Grandicelli spoke at numerous panels and workshops, partnering with the Sylvia Rivera Law Project after they actively recruited him from prison. Claiming the female identity after serving time brought Grandicelli a lot of attention and sympathy as recently as 2021 by the Women & Justice Project for being a “woman who survived sexual assault during incarceration.” Not only were Grandicelli’s crimes overshadowed by two of the most prestigious universities in the nation giving him a platform to speak on, he was also presented with a Community Hero Award by the Anti-Violence Project, which sounds suspiciously like Orwellian double-speak. Grandicelli was not the only violent criminal the Sylvia Rivera Law Project supported, either. In 2014, the SRLP advocated for child rapist and murderer Synthia China Blast (born Luis Morales) to be released from isolated confinement by launching a petition to New York's Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. Blast/Morales brutally raped and murdered a 13 year old girl and bragged about it afterwards to his friends. It is worth noting that Xena Grandicelli has been known to use a community outreach program for an organization that advises incarcerated men on how to legally change their identification by declaring transgender status. It is also worth noting that transgender actor Laverne Cox spoke up as a representative of SRLP in support of Blast/Morales. But apparently Cox was not initially aware of Morales’ crimes due to the name change, later stating “If I had been made aware of these charges, then I would not have [shown support].” In California these self-ID prison policies have given male sex offenders the ability to sneak their way into a female juvenile detention facility. A 26-year-old man who went to jail for violating a minor is being housed in a juvenile detention facility for girls. Hannah Tubbs admitted to assaulting a 10-year-old girl in the restroom of a Denny’s restaurant. The assault stopped upon somebody else entering the restroom. Tubbs is spending the remainder of his two year sentence in Dorothy Kirby Center/Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall. If Tubbs was able to manipulate the laws in this way, then future criminals might be a be able to use the same loophole. Rapist Adam Graham was the image that one might conjure when thinking of a hardened criminal: bald, muscular, tattooed and prone to violence. He was like the vision of a henchman of a mob boss in a heist movie. However, after facing rape charges in Scotland’s court in 2020, Graham decided to become a woman named Isla Bryson, slapping on a wig and starting female hormone therapy. Conveniently, Graham/Bryson was then held at Cornton Vale women’s prison, where they claim he’ll undergo a rigorous risk assessment to determine if he will serve the final sentence in a men or women’s prison. In Scotland, people as young as 16 can seek a gender recognition certificate to confirm a change in one’s legal sex after living in their new gender for just three months, and a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria is not required. Ever heard of The Frankston Serial Killer? Infamous Australian serial murderer Paul Denye went through a “trans phase” in prison while serving a 30 year sentence for strangling and stabbing three women to death in the early 90s. Denye confessed to the crimes in shocking detail. In letters sent to his brother, Denye allegedly stated that he’d committed the crimes “in anger over not being born female.” In 2021, he began openly identifying as a woman, asking to be called “Paula,” a phase that faded out within about a year after his application for gender surgery was denied. Was Denye expecting special treatment based on something he’d heard from someone like Xena Grandicelli? Did he truly kill women out of jealousy? Or was it just autogynephilia, the transvestic fetish some men suffer from that gives them arousal at the idea of being or becoming a female? Why do so many men who rape and transgender women share the common denominator of being sexually assaulted themselves in their past? Demi Minor, formerly Demitrius Minor, is another self identified trans woman from New Jersey who is now known for impregnating two fellow (but biologically female) inmates, forcing a transfer to a men’s prison in 2022. Countless media platforms referred to Minor as a “she,” despite the extreme breach in conduct that is forbidden at the women’s prison Minor was housed in, as well as the gruesome murder Minor committed at age 16. It seems no matter what they do, self-declared “trans women” in the prison system all around the United States as well as other parts of the world are being protected and respected by media platforms and Senate Bills alike. Take California Senate Bill 132, for example. Known as the Transgender Respect, Agency and Dignity Act, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the bill into law, effective January 1, 2021. The bill essentially lets prisoners choose their gender identity for the purpose of placement–regardless of sex assignment surgery or proof of hormone therapy. This means that biological men can take full advantage of this law by simply proclaiming themselves as women. There is currently an ongoing lawsuit between the state of California and female inmates of the state’s prison system, who are arguing that the law is unconstitutional in that it requires forfeiting any safety women in female facilities have left. These women want the world to know how unsafe they really feel. Inmates at the California Institute for Women (CIW) have been reaching out to the media in hopes that their cries of help are heard, but the mainstream media is busy uplifting these predators by painting them as “stunning and brave survivors of the prison system.” These are women with very little rights left who now feel completely disregarded as men are allowed into their spaces. Studies suggest that as many as 1 in 4 incarcerated women in the US experience sexual violence, typically by male staff members. Now these women have a new threat: biologically male bunk mates who could potentially impregnate them with or without their consent. Why are so many male murderers and rapists getting respect by shielding themselves with the trans or non-binary label? Why are chronically online leftists defending child murderers like Audrey Hale, demanding we use her “preferred pronouns”? Moreover, why is our system allowing this insanity? Why is our media agreeing with it? Once upon a time, society wanted to believe and protect women, but now that anyone can proclaim themselves a woman, the safety of women is being completely discarded in favor of, yet again, men. Society has taken sympathy too far. While there are those who make mistakes that deserve a second chance (and want it), clearly there are corrupted individuals who take advantage of the sudden saintly status of all who claim they’re transgender. Sadly, states like California and New Jersey are allowing biologically male rapists into female prisons with no signs of stopping. And across the world in Ireland, a transgender woman named Barbie Kardashian (formerly Gabriel Alejandro Gentile) was sent to a women’s prison in Limerick for over five years for threatening to rape, torture and kill his mother, and was later deemed “a serious threat to both female inmates and staff.” Something is seriously wrong here. Where are the mental health professionals who can find psychological red flags sooner? Where are the lengthy assessments and tests to get to the bottom of why these sick individuals are choosing to identify as female to avoid a harsher sentence or environment? We can only assume the goal is chaos, not safety. The solution would be to keep the prison system binary, requiring all convicted offenders to be placed with their true biological sex. Prison inmates should not be allowed to transition while incarcerated, and should instead be placed into regular therapy to assess the true intentions of a transgender claim. Solitary confinement may seem inhumane, but could be a must to keep all parties safe. Furthermore, their records should be carried over with their new legal name should they transition outside of the prison system. Criminals should not have the right to warp and hide their identities in a way that not only separates themselves from their crime, but creates a whole new image for the public to associate them with, a devious psychological tactic to distract from their dirty past. If these ideas and more are either broken down or not implemented to keep women safe, we are that much closer to the breakdown of society as we know it. The boundaries and safety of female inmates should still matter. If this is going on in the prison system, imagine the kinds of things predators who haven’t been caught are doing outside of it. We can’t keep letting men use the trans identity as a shield. Why are we bowing to the demands of rapists and child killers? It is harming not only women, but the trans community, which loses sympathy more and more each day as dishonorable people commit atrocities in the name of the LGBTQ+ cult. We implore you, transgender or not, to speak up and call out evil when you see it. Listen to the women speaking out and don’t dismiss them for fear of being “transphobic.” These are murderers and rapists who have no remorse. Why do they deserve respect? They don't.

Gays Against Groomers Florida Travel Advisory Miami, FL— Today, Gays Against Groomers Florida took the extraordinary step of issuing a travel advisory, warning of the risks posed to the health, safety and freedom of predators and groomers looking to travel or relocate to Florida. The advisory comes in response to several new bills that have been passed to allow the death penalty for child abusers, the expansion of parental rights in education and the broadening awareness of how children are being targeted. The state government has made it clear that sexualized events marketed for and featuring children will not be tolerated. Governor DeSantis, who has made these policy moves a cornerstone of his administration, is dedicated to making Florida the least hospitable place for child predators and anyone seeking to abuse or coerce children into radical social ideologies. Many reports are circulating that these moves have already had the desired effect of pushing predatory people that are indoctrinating kids to consider relocating away from Florida. A major victory. This should show anyone that thinks they can get away with these grotesque behaviors in relation to children will have a rude awakening in Florida. Florida stands opposed to the permanent medicalization of children and has passed laws to ensure that kids aren’t abused by the medical system coercively forcing gender affirming care into their lives. If that is a deal breaker for you to be in the state of Florida, then do not come here. This level of social harm will not be visited on the children of Florida any longer. Groomers and Predators will not be allowed to infiltrate the school system with their ideologies to ensnare vulnerable youth. Classroom materials that glamorize and glorify radical fringe lifestyles will not be projected onto kids. Pornographic content will NEVER be permitted. If that is a deal breaker for you to be in Florida, then do not come here. After the exposure to the world of what happens at drag events with children, there are real world consequences to the assault on children. Organizers of Drag Queen story hours are not permitted to have their events any longer. The citizens of Florida have spoken and they have forcefully rejected these predatory ideological forces from existing in Florida. And if predators and groomers still choose to travel to Florida, please be aware that your crimes of abuse against children are now punishable by death. Groomers beware.