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Gays Against Groomers made a splash in 2022 by speaking at local school districts around the country, beginning with California. And we are doing the same in 2023. Several months ago, our former Director of Chapters, Mario Presents, attended a meeting in Conejo Valley, California at the request of concerned/bullied parents. Parents, psychologists, and others being pressured into silence about their concerns is occurring all over the country. We have had multiple parents from California fill us in on some that they have with this district. The first situation involves a local clinical psychologist who spoke against gender-affirming curriculum. She delivered a sincere and professional speech about her concerns. She commended the school on being inclusive of students who may feel different or isolated. She encouraged the importance of empathy. But she feels like some of the school’s policies are creating adverse effects on the mental health of students. Before adolescence, children do not have the neural connections of brain architecture to understand the concept of identity. So when third graders are presented with abstract concepts about transgenderism and gender fluidity, they are not able to process these concepts in a rational way. They can only think in terms of black and white. They can only use concrete thought. The schools are introducing abstract concepts years before students are able to mentally process them. Some children have been seeking therapy because the school material is causing confusion and psychological issues. Young girls are developing hatred and insecurity about their bodies. She had a patient who was anorexic because she wanted to delay puberty. She was afraid of developing curves and hips, like females do during puberty. She eventually got the issue under control and developed according to her natural puberty. A few years later, she started testosterone. Her body issues returned and she assumed that testosterone would get rid of or redistribute her body fat. She is now detransitioned, suicidal, full of regret, and her body is irreversibly altered. She was falsely labeled as transgender and prescribed hormones because of pre-existing psychological conditions that were not addressed before allowing her to transition. The psychologist fears that many of these individuals are struggling with other issues that are being clouded by an excessive focus on gender. While she supports diversity and inclusion, she felt the responsibility to voice her concerns because the school policies could be creating more and more cohorts of these girls through what they are learning in school. The psychologist had a complaint lodged with the licensing board for bringing up concerns about the mental health of children to her local school board. A local father went to a school board meeting to voice his concerns about what his daughter was learning in school. He said that his daughter was shown a video and book about transgenderism and became confused. Her friends even tried convincing her to shave her head and identify as a boy. The main takeaway from his speech was that in order to create an inclusive educational environment, PARENTS also must be included in making decisions about what their kids are learning at school. His story was picked up by a local newspaper and the article received a lot of backlash from activists. In May, a local school was vandalized with spray paint because of the radical sexual curriculum being taught to children. Although he had nothing to do with the incident, Schneider’s article in the local newspaper was blamed for “creating hate in the community and encouraging citizens to commit criminal acts against schools.” It was a method of gaslighting parents, claiming that expressing disagreement with the content taught in the classroom is somehow dangerous and leads to violence. In June, Schneider was accused of being the one who vandalized the school. There was no evidence of this, but the accusation was still thrown his way and he was investigated as a suspect. Law enforcement found no proof of him being connected to the crime. Another parent who spoke up at a school board meeting had his business doxxed by Antifa. Gays Against Groomers was recently notified by a concerned parent that the school is currently bringing a transgender student to different classrooms. The school is bringing the student into kindergarten classrooms to influence 5-year-olds about gender identity and encourage them to “explore their gender.” All of these issues lead back to a local activist mother named Megan Goebel. She is connected to the doxxing & harassment of several parents who disapproved of the curriculum and classroom material. She is the head of LGBTQ District Advisory Council for Conejo Valley School District. She is the mother of the transgender child being brought into kindergarten classrooms. And she is connected to the doxxing of the parents and professionals who spoke up at these school board meetings. A video of Goebel recently went viral on Libs of TikTok, where she claims that her child started showing signs of cross-gender identification before the age of two. This mom transed her 2-year-old son because he liked to dress up in dresses and makeup. On her social media, most of her content is promoting child transition to her audience of parents and young people. On her website, she even has a recommended list of books that promote gender ideology to children. Some of these books, including “Call Me Max” have been read to students, causing parents to become concerned. In December 2020, she founded Unity Conejo – an organization whose mission is to fulfill the 2016 Ca Healthy Youth Act: Teen Talk and to spread transgender education to K-5. Clearly, she is determined to force gender ideology in schools in every way that she can. Goebel is the lynchpin for LGBTQ affirmation in Conejo Valley and is adamant about introducing this material to all other children in the district. The district currently has an affirmation-only model or gender identity. She also works closely with the ACLU and is connected to Antifa. This is being done in our name, even though gay people loving one another has absolutely nothing to do with indoctrinating children into a cult of disembodiment and nonsense. After being contacted by multiple parents in his own school district Mario Presents went to yet another school board meeting to notify them about how Gays Against Groomers feels about all of this: “Children fantasize about being princesses, or superheroes all the time. We indulge children because to them the world is a beautiful and wondrous place and we want to preserve that innocence. Last Friday, your children’s innocence was shattered because the actions of an adult created a lockdown situation, terrifying them, and that is not okay. I’ve uncovered a school official in another District who began the process of affirming their 18 month old son because he likes wearing fingernail polish like his older sister. That child’s mother is LGBT Director for the district, and now trotting the child to the elementary schools as a living incarnation of the “I am Jazz” story. This is indoctrination. “Gay & Lesbian" refers to men and women who are same-sex oriented. It is not a belief, not socially influenced, and requires participation of consenting adults...It is about who you love. Trans is a belief that requires everyone to participate in your identity...even at school. It is a social & medical process that starts at any age. Jazz Jennings began this process as a child and now suffers from severe health problems as a young adult. Not to mention a 100-pound weight gain from depression & a binge eating disorder. Luka Hein, a detransitioner from Nebraska had her breasts removed at 16 because she was affirmed and given cross sex hormones immediately after. Now at 21 she suffers constant joint pain and uncertainty about her ability to even have a child. She will never breast feed a baby because of a choice she made as a minor who could not understand the long term consequences of her actions. Scott Newgent is a trans man who underwent the process at 42, a grown adult, and now lives with constant infections and complications from these experimental processes. If Scott Newgent, Luka Hein, Chloe Cole, Jazz Jennings, Cat Cattinson, Oli London, Sinead Watson, and countless others are having this experience, what chance do your children have if an educator is willingly, deliberately, and directly influencing your children? Listen to these parents because they will pay the medical bills, you… you’ll be responsible for the litigation when the finger is directed at the culprit of indoctrination.” When parents send their kids to school everyday, they should not have to worry about what teachers are going to do behind their backs. And they should not have to be afraid to voice their concerns. The repeated doxxing, reporting, and defamation of concerned parents are not just isolated incidents. There is a pervasive issue caused by aggressive activists running the system, using schools to push their beliefs onto children, and intimidating people into silence. An education system that caves to the demands of aggressive trans activists, despite mental health and safeguarding concerns, is not a system that parents, gay people, or taxpaying citizens should support. We are going to keep speaking out about this until it is resolved.

As I was picking up my eight-year-old son from school, I noticed that the high school across the street had a flashing sign, wishing students a “Happy Pride Month.” I instantly rolled my eyes. Thankfully, my son's elementary school did not have any flashing signs, no “progress” flags hanging out front, and no “Happy Pride” newsletter. Part of me was hopeful…until I pulled into the parking lot and saw his teachers wearing LGBTQIA+ shirts, with painfully stereotypical slogans printed across them. I was later made aware that they wore clothes like this every day throughout June. As a preschool teacher, I need to be very careful about my clothing choices. I often wear t-shirts that provoke conversations with my students about their favorite movies and characters. At the same time, there are things I actively avoid, like wearing something scary, political, or provocative. I am a bisexual mother of three and it would NEVER cross my mind to wear pride merchandise to school. As a teacher, it is important to keep in mind that you should not put something in your classroom that you are not willing to have discussions about. My son's school might not have LGBTQIA themes listed in their formal lesson plans, but the fact that teachers were wearing these outfits daily confirms that it is being discussed, at least to some extent. It all seems to strange to me. When I was growing up, I never had a teacher explain to me what the terms gay, lesbian, or bisexual were. I never had a teacher imply that one should label themselves, according to who we were attracted to. The reason for this is because we never needed them to. Kids do not feel different or excluded unless people make them feel that way. I knew that I liked girls from a very young age. And trust me, I did not need a teacher to explain that to me. Learning about sex and gender can be confusing for a child. They especially do not need to be hyper-focused on correctly fitting into their "gender identity” labels that they adopt in the classroom without parental consent. We do not need to teach LGBTQIA themes for the purpose of tolerance. Teaching kindness and acceptance does not include singling out groups of people and putting them on display. Instead of focusing on how they are different, maybe it would be more effective to highlight what they have in common. We do not need teachers to wear shirts “in support” of a group of people and make them feel oppressed and victimized. And regardless, people eventually figure out their orientation without anyone's help. Schools are not a place for virtue signaling. Another worrisome trend that is being normalized in the classroom is the conflation of biological sex and socially constructed gender norms. From David Bowie and Joan Jett, we have long worshiped cultural icons who are willing to step out of traditional gender norms and embrace who they are. This is not new. However, we are witnessing a cultural phenomenon where fashion and clothing are the determinants of one's "identity." Androgyny, by definition, is the quality or state of being neither specifically feminine nor masculine. It also includes those who express both feminine and masculine characteristics. Androgynous people have always existed, but they were never under told that maleness and femaleness is dependent on how you look. In numerous states, including mine, the school curriculum begs to differ. When Gerard Way wears a feather boa on stage and performs like the sassy king he is, he has never denied that he is male. More importantly, he is loved and appreciated for being a man with feminine qualities. He also appeals to thousands of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals because he challenges the boundaries of how men and woman should look and act. The same can be said of Joan Jett, who paved the way for women in rock music. With her leather jackets, swagger, and confidence, she showed America that women do not need to align with Hollywood beauty standards to be successful. She showed women that having a more androgynous aesthetic and being tough does not make you any less of a woman. Women like her are not a different gender, nor do they require different pronouns just for not adhering to unattainable beauty standards placed upon women in the music industry. It was empowering to see people wearing what makes them happy without caring about who disagrees with it. Her greatest hit speaks for itself: "A girl can do what she wants to do and that's what I'm gonna do. I've never been afraid of any deviation. And I don't really care if you think I'm strange. I ain't gonna change." Somehow, we have created a world where one cannot break such boundaries without being labeled and told that they are not male or female. This so-called progressive idea that females who like sports, have short hair, or date other women makes them less of a female. These confusing and nonsensical identities are regressive, to say the least. Androgyny has now been redefined to reinforce the outdated concept that males need to be masculine and females need to be traditionally feminine. Children are taught that gender is a spectrum and those who do not feel masculine enough to be a boy or feminine enough to be a girl are stuck somewhere in the middle. In some cases, they are encouraged to undergo irreversible surgical procedures. They are being encouraged to hide behind a label instead of embracing who they are. Androgyny has always been more common among gays, lesbians, and bisexuals. Because of this, they were demonized, referred to with derogatory terms, ostracized, and looked down upon. It was a long and treacherous battle to finally have society be open-minded enough to expand their view of acceptable fashion choices, regardless of whether they were considered masculine or feminine. Despite their appearance, androgynous men were not stripped of their manhood or considered to be anything other than males whose appearance was different than others. The hard truth is that men and boys have always been male. Women and girls have always been female. Stating otherwise is blatantly regressive. Girls who like baseball caps and baggy jeans are being told by their teachers that they can change sex and need to adopt an imaginary gender label to validate themselves. We are raising a generation of children who are under the impression that this regressive worldview is a good thing. It reinforces the very same regressive stereotypes that the LGB community fought against. It backhands the numerous icons who have paved the way for future generations. And frankly, most can agree that they look ridiculous while doing it.

Growing up in a Baptist home near Dallas Texas, there were few things I dreaded more than a Sunday morning. Sunday morning meant brushing a week’s worth of knots out of my hair and being forced into a frilly dress for the entire day. I never felt like I fit in with the other girls at church. They liked lip gloss, perfume, nail polish and talking about boys. I liked riding my bike, playing video games, Dragon Ball Z and rolling down the big dirt pile in my grandma’s front yard. I wore baggy shirts, basketball shorts and hated anything pink. When I’d play make believe with my brothers, I always wanted to be a boy character because girls aren’t supposed to fight. When I would say my prayers, I would secretly ask God to make me a boy instead. If anyone had told me that I could actually turn into a boy back then, I would have traded anything for it. The teasing from the other girls was awful and most boys didn’t want to be friends with a girl. Going into puberty was hell and I felt ugly every single day as a preteen. I wanted to crawl out of my skin and into a body that could enjoy traditionally masculine activities and still fit in. I was depressed and didn’t understand why I was so different. Lately, we’ve all noticed the massive rise in transgender youth. You can’t scroll on your phone, watch the news or simply walk around any major city without hearing something about it. According to a study conducted by the Williams Institute in 2022, “Approximately 1.6 million people ages 13 and older—0.6% of the population—identify as transgender in the United States….This includes 1.4% of youth ages 13-17 (about 300,000 youth).” This is a huge leap compared to the 0.7% of 13-17 year olds that the Williams Institute had found in their 2017 study. Why is this happening and what should be done about this? Those are the big questions. As of now, there is a huge push towards fast tracking these children into gender transition in order to keep them from becoming suicidal. When you frame it as the only two options are transition or die, the choice seems obvious. Is this really the best method for protecting them though? Is there any data to back up the claim that transitioning children is the best way to improve their mental health in the long run? There is no substantial evidence linking gender affirming care for minors to a decreased rate in suicide. All of the current studies used to argue on behalf of medically transitioning our youth are small, short term, lacking a control group and/or frequently have other major flaws. Youth suicide rates have only been going up alongside the rate of trans identifying youth and the acceptance of transgender people all together. Personally, I do believe that there is a small percentage of folks out there struggling with gender dysphoria. I was one of them. I’m not trans though, I’m gay. A 2018 study posted in the National Library of Medicine states that “80% of children who meet the criteria for GDC, the GD recedes with puberty. Instead, many of these adolescents will identify as non-heterosexual.” This is just one of many studies showing evidence that the vast majority of adolescents who experience childhood gender dysphoria will simply grow out of it while going through puberty and/or come to the realization that they are homosexual or bisexual. I am a woman. I’m a somewhat masculine woman, but a woman none the less. I shop for my clothes in the men’s section, have thick calluses on my hands, go shooting, play drums and sometimes forget to put on deodorant. I spend my mornings in a warehouse and the rest of the day delivering heavy boxes for a living. I’m in love with a woman and I have learned to love myself exactly how I am. I’m alive and healthy as an adult because rather than being chopped up and pumped full of hormones or puberty blockers, I was given the chance to realize that being a woman doesn’t mean living in a pink and feminine box. I was a tomboy who grew up into a gay chick and there are so many others out there just like me that are being told they are trapped in the wrong body. They are being told that medically reconstructing their bodies with drugs and a surgical blade is the only way to end their hurt and confusion. They don’t need any permanent and life altering procedures to live a long healthy life. They need to be told that they are perfect and loved exactly as they are. It takes time to figure it out, but it will get better. Tell the feminine boys that they can play with a barbie and still be a boy. Let the tomboys know that they are awesome and being a girl doesn’t mean you can’t roll around in the dirt. Let the extremely small percentage of those who continue to experience gender dysphoria into adulthood make their own decisions when they are old enough to fully consent to permanent and life altering procedures. Don’t butcher the gay kids before they have a chance to grow up. Works Cited “New Estimates Show 300,000 Youth Ages 13-17 Identify as Transgender in the US.” Williams Institute, 21 June 2022, williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/transgender-estimate-press-release/ Kaltiala-Heino, Riittakerttu, et al. “Gender Dysphoria in Adolescence: Current Perspectives.” Adolescent Health, Medicine and Therapeutics, U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2 Mar. 2018, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5841333/