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For nearly   500 years , the worst thing that ever happened to Anne Boleyn was being beheaded. That is no longer true. Dylan Mulvaney, the   trans influencer  whose fame was manufactured through viral caricatures of “girlhood,” has now been cast as Anne Boleyn, the Queen of England, in   Six , the pop-concert-style   Broadway  musical that reimagines Henry VIII’s six wives as a modern girl group. The   show , written by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, has spent years marketing itself as a female-centered retelling of women’s history, framed as a reclamation of women’s voices through contemporary “girl power.” Dylan Mulvaney, a man who claims to be living a life of girlhood, is now occupying one of the most recognizable   female roles  in a production explicitly built around women telling women’s stories. He celebrated the casting on Instagram with the kind of breathless self-congratulation that has become his brand, writing “YAY BROADWAY” and   announcing  his debut as playing a “fellow polarizing woman.” The announcement was paired with the revival of his “ Days of Girlhood ” series. Of course. The premise of   Six  was never subtle. Women’s stories. Women’s pain. Women’s voices. The entire hook depended on the female experience being real and distinct. By casting Mulvaney as Anne Boleyn, the production erases the obvious struggles that come along with being raised as a female, thus commodifying girlhood and treating the female experience as just another aesthetic that anyone with enough Instagram followers can wear. Anne Boleyn was   executed  because she failed to produce a male heir – she could not give Henry VIII the son needed to secure the Tudor dynasty with a legitimate male successor. His first marriage to Catherine of Aragon produced only one surviving child, a daughter, which he considered insufficient. He broke with the Catholic Church, annulled that marriage, and married Anne Boleyn in 1533 precisely because he believed she would bear him sons. Anne suffered at least two   miscarriages  or stillbirths – the most devastating one was in 1536, with the loss of a male fetus (around 15 weeks of gestation). The 1536 miscarriage was a turning point: it shattered Henry’s hope that Anne would give him a son, and she was beheaded a few months later. Anne Boleyn is a woman whose life and death were directly tied to her reproductive capacity. Her biology mattered. That is why she was beheaded. To strip her of that reality and hand her role to a man performing his version of girlhood is not “stunning and brave.” Mulvaney’s rise to prominence did not happen in a vacuum. In 2023, he became a household name after partnering with   Bud Light  for a trans activist campaign that triggered one of the most visible consumer revolts in recent years. The   backlash  was swift and measurable. The world’s largest brewer may have lost as much as   $1.4 billion  in sales and lost its status as America’s top-selling beer. The lesson should have been obvious, but now we see   Broadway  repeating the same mistake. If theatergoers respond the same way   beer drinkers  did, the industry will once again act shocked that people noticed. Mulvaney’s celebrity is built on a very specific formula. Infantilized mannerisms. Exaggerated stereotypes. A reduction of girlhood to squeals, outfits, and consumer products. His “Days of Girlhood” series was never intended to empower youth. It was about flattening female experience into a marketable parody, then monetizing it through brand deals. He was rewarded for all of it.   Attitude  magazine crowned him “Woman of the Year.”   Tampax  enlisted him as a spokesperson. Corporations lined up to pay him handsomely to play dress-up with female biology. Real women, meanwhile, were told to shut up. Moms and dads were sidelined. And anyone who pointed out the hypocrisy was called transphobic. Mulvaney’s brand has been inseparable from child-focused messaging, and that is where the concerns become impossible for parents to ignore. Mulvaney has repeatedly claimed, including in a   Variety  interview, that he “came out as trans” at age four, even though he did not start his “journey into girlhood” until he was a grown man. His messaging is designed to tell parents that their child’s curiosity about identity and pronouns is somehow evidence that they were born wrong and need to be fixed with puberty-disrupting drugs and plastic surgery. Mulvaney can claim that he was always a girl, but he did not publicly express any desire to change his gender until transgenderism became a lucrative social-media commodity, especially for influencers with child-focused audiences. The timing tells the truth and reveals the holes in the narrative that the talking points cannot simply explain away. Dylan Mulvaney’s influence has been actively leveraged by political power. Mulvaney   interviewed  President   Joe Biden  in a forum focused on “trans rights.” During the exchange,   Joe Biden  condemned states that restrict so-called gender-affirming medical interventions for minors. This was not an accident. The White House chose a TikTok influencer whose brand revolves around performative girlhood to promote policies that involve puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and irreversible medical procedures for children. That is not advocacy. It is indoctrination and child abuse. Dylan Mulvaney’s access to political power did not end there. Former Vice President   Kamala Harris  sent him a   personal letter  celebrating his “365th day of living authentically,”   thanking him  for his “dedication and courage.” No woman in history has received a congratulatory letter from a Vice President for being a woman. A fully grown adult male playing dress-up did. Mulvaney’s   corporate partnerships  further reveal the safeguarding concerns. His collaboration with   LUSH  produced a bath bomb called “ Late Bloomer ,” explicitly referencing his so-called “second puberty” that he advertises online. The product was marketed as a celebration of transition and tied to his memoir. At the same time,   LUSH  became embroiled in controversy after   reports  emerged that “trans kid”   propaganda leaflets  were placed into party bags for girls as young as seven at a children’s birthday event held in a   LUSH  store. The leaflet, produced with a   trans advocacy  group, promoted extreme ideological claims, dismissed legitimate   medical  reviews, and framed dissent as a coordinated attack. LUSH defended the   campaign . Mulvaney benefited from it. This is what queer subversion looks like in practice. Adult ideology gets smuggled into child-adjacent spaces. Puberty is reframed as a product. Identity confusion gets treated as a branding opportunity. Greedy corporations create chaos and profit off the destruction. Mulvaney’s obsession with tampons and menstruation has followed the same pattern. A grown man injecting himself with hormones and presenting it as “I’m a girl going through puberty, I’m a late bloomer” sends a grotesque message to teenage girls who are actually navigating puberty. For girls experiencing discomfort with their changing bodies, the implication is corrosive. Womanhood should be viewed as something girls grow into. Instead, it is advertised as something to escape, rebrand, or medically override. When   Tampax  became the subject of boycott calls after transgender messaging sparked public backlash, it was part of the same cultural shift. Female biology, once understood as real and sex-specific, has been reduced to a performance prop. Girls watching this in real time are not liberated. They are taught that their reality is negotiable and their bodies are political toys. When you create a culture where girlhood is presented as   Dylan Mulvaney , many girls who do not relate to that shallow, sexualized, performative caricature will opt out. Increasingly, that opt-out is being sold as a customizable identity, complete with medical pathways and lifelong consequences. Anne Boleyn was not a symbol. She was not a vibe. Her life was not a costume. She was a woman whose reproductive capacity and refusal to submit ultimately cost her life. To hand her role to a man skinwalking her on stage is not bold casting. It is an insult to women and an assault on their history. The trans agenda is not about freedom. It is about the degradation of motherhood, the commodification of female anatomy, and the queer subversion of boundaries that protect women and children. It demands that girls applaud their own erasure…or else. Broadway can cast whoever it wants. But women are not required to pretend this is empowering, and parents are not required to ignore the warning signs. Anne Boleyn was beheaded once. Turning her legacy into a prop for a movement that sexualizes our daughters and targets childhood innocence is a second execution, performed in sequins and sold as progress. If   Six  wants to be a celebration of women again, it can start by actually prioritizing women and girls.  References   Attitude. (2023). 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The new DOJ email disclosures connect Jeffrey Epstein to key institutional nodes during the rise of modern transgender medicine in ways that go beyond a medical   scandal . A major   player  in trans surgery was a plastic surgeon who visited Epstein’s island and proposed bringing three young children, aged eight and under. We took a   deep dive , and here's what we found. Department of Justice Records Newly released Department of Justice records, published under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, show Jeffrey Epstein funding research tied to key figures in transgender medicine, encouraging academic work on “transgender biology,” and circulating the topic through elite institutional networks during the exact years the industry’s power structure was consolidating. The DOJ files show a surgeon building a flagship academic transgender surgery program, updating Epstein, and soliciting support as the program and its promotional documentary were taking shape. They show a prominent academic dependent on Epstein’s money being pushed toward producing work on “transgender biology,” alongside correspondence that reduces human beings to sexualized biological objects and discusses earlier intervention for children. And they show Epstein treating “transgender” as a managed category across elite channels, including MIT’s Media Lab and Obama-era legal power networks, during the years the industry expanded into mainstream institutional dominance. Independent  outlets like 11thHourBlog  had already mapped out billionaire funding pipelines that built out the infrastructure of gender clinics, advocacy organizations, and media narratives. The DOJ files are primary documentation that can move claims beyond commentary and into evidentiary territory. These newly surfaced emails do not prove that Epstein built the modern transgender medicine industry, but they do show that he maintained direct relationships with people positioned at key institutional nodes, while actively commissioning and steering “research” to share this topic with Epstein’s high-powered contacts. It shows the influence and architecture provided by corrupt individuals who financed, shaped, and legitimized a medical and political machine that increasingly pushed past parental involvement and treated children as a market. Dr. Jess Ting Dr. Jess Ting is a plastic and reconstructive surgeon affiliated with New York’s Mount Sinai Health System. In 2016, he became the surgical director of Mount Sinai’s Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery, which was described at launch as the first “full-spectrum academic program” in the U.S. focused on transgender surgery and care. According to DOJ-linked reporting, Ting’s relationship with Epstein predates his rise in transgender medicine and included years of contact and logistical coordination through Epstein’s staff. The Island Visit In March 2013, Ting accepted an invitation, facilitated by an Epstein assistant, to visit Epstein’s private island, Little St. James, in the U.S. Virgin Islands. In correspondence, Ting proposed bringing a female friend and her three young children aged eight and under, and the assistant later wrote: “I hope you had a nice visit to Jeffrey’s island last Friday.” The $50,000 Grant The emails also document Epstein’s funding in Ting’s professional orbit. Ting informed Epstein in May 2016 that “the research you supported with a $50,000 grant has borne fruit,” referring to breast cancer research. The funding was attributed to the Jeffrey Epstein VI   Foundation  in a Mount Sinai announcement archived in the files. In the same May 2016 exchange, Ting told Epstein he had been named surgical director of Mount Sinai’s transgender surgery program and described it as groundbreaking. Later communications show Ting describing his career shift as a complete pivot. In July 2017, he wrote that he had “given up plastic surgery” and jumped into transgender surgery, calling it the most “gratifying” work he had ever done.  Epstein Emails – Politico Then came the ask: Ting directly solicited Epstein’s support for a   documentary  about the Mount Sinai program, the film that would become   Born to Be  (released 2019), later nominated for two Emmys. The available records do not establish whether Epstein funded the film. A DOJ-record-referenced email preserved as   EFTA02667053  shows Ting updating Epstein again in April 2018, telling him he had switched specialties into “gender-affirmation surgery (AKA transgender surgery)” and pointing him toward a documentary site about the new center. Epstein later forwarded that message to an associate with the subject line “Fwd: Film project.” The Emails The emails also show Ting seeking guidance from Epstein’s assistant when Reuters contacted him in January 2015 about Epstein’s philanthropy, asking whether Epstein wanted him to respond and proposing to route written questions to Epstein first. When The   Advocate  contacted Mount Sinai in February 2026 asking whether the hospital reviewed the newly released emails and what safeguards governed outside donors, Mount Sinai’s spokesperson did not answer substantively and said only: “We’ve encouraged Dr. Ting to respond to your questions.” Epstein Client List Ting told The Advocate he recalled treating only a few adult female associates referred by Epstein, described the origin of the relationship as a professional wound-care referral, and stated there were “no concerns about consent.” The record does establish a multi-year relationship that included island travel, donor money and fundraising outreach during the years Mount Sinai’s program was being built and promoted as a national model. Robert Trivers and “Transgender Biology” If the Ting paper trail shows donor proximity to surgical infrastructure, the Robert Trivers correspondence suggests something more explicit: Epstein pushing a topic agenda and using funding leverage to steer it. Robert Trivers is an evolutionary biologist known for major contributions to reciprocal altruism, parental investment theory, and self-deception. The newly reported email   archive  shows Epstein and Trivers corresponding back to 2009, after Epstein’s 2008 conviction, and continuing for years. Reporting based on the DOJ releases describes Epstein inviting Trivers to Florida in 2009 and offering to pay travel and accommodations. By 2015, Epstein wrote to Noam Chomsky claiming he was Trivers’ “major funder,” around the time   Rutgers  suspended Trivers from teaching after he refused to teach an assigned class. The key issue is not simply that Epstein funded Trivers, but that Epstein pressed him toward a specific lane. In an email, Trivers thanked Epstein for “extra money and appointment as an advisor” to Epstein’s foundation, and Epstein replied: “i want to see you [sic] piece on transgender in the bio world.”  In 2019, the pressure appears again in a more transactional form, with Epstein encouraging Trivers to “focus on transgender biology,” offering funding tied to that focus. The emails include dehumanizing and sexualized descriptions of transgenderism, as well as discussion of earlier medical intervention for children framed in speculative, experimental terms. When a convicted sex offender funds, influences, and platform-manages academic production, the public should be skeptical about how “knowledge” that is manufactured, sold to the public as settled science, and then used to justify institutional power.  Emails Showing Experimental  Procedures The DOJ emails also suggest that transgenderism was a topic that Epstein tracked and routed through elite contacts during the period when transgender medicine and activism were scaling rapidly. In an August 10, 2017 email cited from   EFTA01038315 , Epstein advised Joi Ito, then director of the MIT Media Lab, on how to pitch Bill Gates on science funding, telling him to “forget transgender” and pivot toward what Epstein labeled “transcience,” framed as “cutting edge.” Epstein played a part in curating what topics should be elevated, deprioritized, or repackaged for one of the world’s most influential philanthropic donors. In October 2017, Epstein emailed Kathy Ruemmler, former White House Counsel under President Obama, and included the line: “transgender not yet on wall street.” It is further proof that Epstein was tracking transgenderism as a coming force in finance and corporate power centers, in direct conversation with a figure embedded in elite legal and political networks. In November 2016, an email  cited as EFTA02669232 shows someone asking Epstein  for term-paper topics for “Brynn,” and Epstein replying with a list that began with: “transgender?” followed by topics like life on Mars, self-driving cars, genetic engineering, and living to 120 years old.  Separate from Epstein, investigators like Jennifer Bilek  have argued that billionaire philanthropy and aligned institutions helped scale pediatric gender medicine, legal frameworks, and cultural messaging into a durable industry. In-depth coverage shows the Pritzker family has been framed as an example of elite money shaping the “gender” ecosystem through donations and institutional influence, including funding connected to pediatric medicine. Whether Epstein was peripheral or a more central node in this broader architecture remains unanswered, in part because only a portion of the total archive has been processed and publicly released.  Epstein Client List On December 18, 2025,   HHS  announced a series of proposed regulatory   actions  tied to an executive order, including CMS rulemaking to bar hospitals from performing what the agency called “sex-rejecting procedures” on minors under 18 as a condition of participation in Medicare and Medicaid, and additional steps involving Medicaid and CHIP funding limitations. The press release also stated that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. signed a declaration, based on an HHS peer-reviewed   report , finding these interventions do not meet professionally recognized standards of care, and cited claims data that nearly   14,000  minors received such procedures between 2019 and 2023.  Robert Trivers – “Transgender Biology” But some questions remain unanswered. For Mount Sinai: Did the institution review Epstein-linked donor activity connected to Ting’s research support when the transgender surgery program launched in 2016, years after Ting’s island visit and the donor relationship? What due diligence governed acceptance of money linked to the Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation? For MIT and the Gates orbit: Was transgender science part of any subsequent pitch ecology after Epstein advised Ito on how to frame topics for Gates, and what internal safeguards existed, given MIT’s later public reckoning with Epstein-linked funding? For Congress and federal investigators: How much additional transgender-related correspondence remains in the unreleased portion of the archive, and has it been systematically searched and catalogued as potential evidence in oversight inquiries? For parents: If informed consent means understanding not only the claimed benefits and risks but also whether the supporting “science” was produced in good faith, what does it mean when Jeffrey Epstein is caught steering and incentivizing the production of “transgender biology” content in the first place?  Epstein Client List   As more information is released, we hope to have these questions answered and to uncover more evidence of Epstein’s involvement in the transitioning of   kids . But until then, it is up to us to sound the   alarm  about what is actually going on. Parents deserve the truth about what is happening to their children. 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Fox Varian, a young woman who had her breasts removed at the age of 16  in the name of “gender-affirming care,” was   awarded  $2 million in late January in the first of what is hopefully dozens of successful detransitioner   lawsuits  that have already been filed. In 2023, Fox Varian filed a lawsuit against her psychologist and surgeon for   malpractice  after they skipped important steps when evaluating whether she should go forward with the surgery and failed to inform the teenage girl of “the risks, hazards, and alternatives” to the procedure. Varian’s attorney argued that she was not correctly diagnosed. Varian no longer identifies as transgender and was awarded   $2 million  in damages, which includes $1.6 million for future pain and suffering, and another $400,000 for future medical expenses. Fox Varian’s case  is hopefully the first of many successful lawsuits  involving children who were subjected to irreversible procedures. This case in particular was specific to the patient. Varian’s attorneys were not arguing that gender transition surgeries should not be performed on minors, only that Varian was not properly informed about the risks. This groundbreaking ruling challenges the "affirmation-only" model, establishing a legal precedent for liability if medical professionals are found to have bypassed rigorous evaluations before providing these services. Fox Varian's mother was against  the surgery at the time, but she consented to it out of fear her daughter would commit suicide, New York Post  reported. "Psychologist Kenneth Einhorn and surgeon Simon Chin were held responsible in Westchester County Supreme Court in White Plains for ignoring standards of care and procedural guardrails by pressuring the minor into addressing gender dysphoria with permanent surgery. Lawyers for Varian pointed the finger at Dr. Einhorn, saying he 'drove the train' and was 'putting the idea in Fox’s head' that she needed to change her gender with surgery." This lawsuit , along with dozens of other lawsuits that have already been filed, will hopefully deter doctors from recommending these “treatments” for minors. “Fox Varian, now 22, has been awarded $2 million in damages with $1.6 million for past and future suffering as well as $400,000 for medical expenses going forward.” – The Post Millennial   Prisha Mosley , another young woman who suffered similar malpractice, celebrated  the win: “The jury’s ruling is very encouraging for detransitioners like me. This is another step towards justice for all of us!” After the decision was announced, Mosley posted on 𝕏: “ First detransitioner lawsuit to go to trial WINS $2 million. May justice prevail! ” Prisha Mosley filed a lawsuit in 2023,   alleging  that her therapists, physician, surgeon, and their medical facilities pressured her into gender transition surgery when she was 16. Prisha Mosley accused the medical professionals of fraud,   medical malpractice , infliction of emotional distress, and the use of unfair and deceptive trade practices during her treatment. She also alleged that they convinced her that transforming her body to look more like a boy’s body would somehow help her mental health. As a result, she was injected with large amounts of testosterone and had her breasts removed. Source: (Daily Telegraph New Zealand, 2026 ) “When I was a teenager, I was introduced to transgender ideology, which led me into a series of irreversible decisions that I still live with today. Doctors and activists told me my body was made up of interchangeable parts, easily removed or added on. That lie cost me healthy parts of my body I can never get back. And the worst part is that I believed it—because that’s what my doctors told me,” Prisha Mosley  wrote in a recent opinion piece. In a 2023 Fox News op-ed,  Mosley wrote, “This ‘gender-affirming care’ was anything but. Instead of addressing my severe mental health issues and helping me feel comfortable in my feminine body, my doctors and counselors pushed me into the belief that damaging my body was the answer. It was not the answer. Their ‘care’—in the form of testosterone injections and breast surgery—left me broken, with extreme physical injuries and without my body parts. It did not cure my mental health problems and instead made them worse.” Mosley’s   attorney  argued that there are many vulnerable people who go through similar circumstances and are subjected to the same type of treatment. It is imperative that medical professionals adhere to appropriate standards when treating youth. The law firm specializes in legal services for those seeking justice after being harmed by “gender-affirming care.” Source: Benjamin Ryan  on Substack Independent journalist Benjamin Ryan , the only reporter to attend the entire 3-week, historic trial , compiled a list of 26 other lawsuits that have been filed, in addition to Mosley and Varian, in which children as young as 12  underwent these harmful procedures. One of those cases involves   Kayla Clementine Breen , who is suing Children’s Hospital Los Angeles  after being given life-altering puberty blockers and testosterone, and having her breasts removed when she was just 14. These stories are among hundreds of cases involving minors; this should be a major wake-up call. These types of surgeries come with extremely serious risks, both physical and mental, and should never be performed on minors.  References Carolina Journal Staff. 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Brave Trails  is an adult-run grooming ground wrapped in campfire aesthetics, built to cultivate a captive audience of minors and keep them in the cult long after the tents come down. Founded in 2014,   Brave Trails  is a national nonprofit with a blunt mission statement: “Build the next generation of LGBTQ leaders.” That mission alone should raise eyebrows, because this is not what most parents think they’re purchasing when they pay thousands of dollars to send their child to sleep-away camp. Source:   Brave Trails On paper, Brave Trails markets itself as accredited summer camps, backpacking trips, family camps, meet-up groups, year-round leadership programming, and queer-affirming mental health services. In practice, it functions as an adult-managed pipeline that pulls kids into a narrow worldview built around dependency-building, pronoun culture, and social justice programming, with plans to keep them tethered year-round, all while corporate sponsors help foot the bill. Brave Trails claims everything it offers helps LGBTQ+ youth find “their people, their place, and their passion.” Translation: build belonging first, then build belief. Because once a child’s entire social world is anchored to a “community” defined by labels and affirming authority figures,   Brave Trails  doesn’t need to persuade anyone. The kids self-police. The culture enforces itself. And parents on the outside are treated like the problem if they dare ask what exactly is happening inside. Source: Brave Trails Brave Trails  operates as a 501(c)(3) under EIN 46-4530883, with plenty of corporate funding.   Brave Trails  claims 2,220 youth served, representation from 50 states and 19 countries, and $125,000 in financial assistance given to camp attendees each year. For 2025, it reports seven weeks of overnight leadership camps in California, New York, and Georgia. One Georgia event reportedly featured 31 staff and 67 campers. Brave Trails also says it gave $200,000 in financial support that year, hired 50 paid staff and 90 volunteers, ran family camps in Los Angeles and Georgia, and provided 950+ hours of queer-affirming mental health services to youth in California. That staffing ratio is not normal. And Brave Trails doesn’t hide why: the entire environment is designed for supervision, containment, and total immersion. Brave Trails frames its flagship offering, Camp Brave Trails, as a traditional summer camp “with an LGBTQ+ twist,” calling it a “safe haven” where youth meet “caring adult mentors” and develop “leadership skills.” Brave Trails —   Instagram It also offers a seven-day LGBTQ+ backpacking program for ages 14 to 19 and LGBTQ+ Family Camp weekends in Los Angeles and Georgia. Its year-round programming includes free to low-cost meet-up groups, online activities, and leadership workshops designed to keep campers connected long after the campfire. Brave Trails even spells out the tether in its own words: free-to-low-cost year-round programs that provide meet-up groups, online activities, and leadership workshops “to keep our campers connected and thriving beyond the campfire.” Brave Trails is creating an infrastructure where children’s identities, friendships, mentors, and worldview become inseparable from the organization. Brave Trails makes its business model clear. A nine-day camp is listed at $2,600 full price. Their own “Tuition Includes” list states that tuition covers staffing, year-round administrative labor, an ACA-accredited facility, and a long list of services and programming. But the most   revealing line  is also the one they seem proudest of: Genderless Lodging. Right there. Not hidden. Not subtle. That single phrase tells you what this camp actually revolves around. Not hiking. Not archery. Not arts and crafts. Gender ideology — institutionalized and sold at $2,600 per nine days. Queer Prom Fundraiser —   Instagram Campers are not divided by gender.   Brave Trails  explicitly states campers are not divided up by gender. Each room has 9 to 10 peers in the same age group with two counselors. Then it immediately pivots into pronoun enforcement and exploration. Campers and staff are encouraged to share names and pronouns, and everyone wears nametags listing pronouns. Brave Trails openly says they welcome campers and staff to try out new names and pronouns while at camp. This is a program that places minors into mixed-sex lodging, encourages gender experimentation, and surrounds kids with trained adult mentors in an affirming, radicalized environment. The secrecy is a feature, not a bug. Brave Trails anticipates pushback and describes a privacy and security strategy that reads less like a normal camp and more like an undercover operation. It states the physical camp location is confidential and shared only with registered families and staff. Geotagging or location sharing is strictly prohibited. Brave Trails says it will maintain a low profile by avoiding visible signage or exterior decor that could reveal it as an LGBTQ+ camp from public roads or surrounding areas. Brave Trails —   Instagram Then it boasts “community screening,” where every camper and staff member undergoes a video screening process to ensure they are part of the LGBTQ+ community or affirming allies, plus ID checks for all folks entering the camp space. They claim staff are rigorously screened through interviews, background checks, and reference verification, and that staff receive extensive online and in-person training. They also claim collaboration with local and federal authorities to address and mitigate threats or harmful rhetoric received by phone, email, or online. Source:   Popsugar They brag that they won’t post photos or media to public social media until camp sessions have concluded, framing it as “media mindfulness.” Why? Because Brave Trails understands its model cannot survive daylight. When something is wholesome, it doesn’t require secrecy. Brave Trails  has strict rules about physical boundaries. It demands consent before touching anyone, even for high-fives or hugs. It explicitly avoids wrestling, cuddling, and intimate hugs. It mandates what it calls a “Truddy System,” requiring campers to move in groups of three or more. Two campers should never be alone together. A staff member must always be present if campers enter cabins or buildings. It also has a “Camper Relationship Code” stating that camp is for emotional connections, not physical ones. No PDA, including kissing, cuddling, or excessive hugging. And it tells campers to keep conversations age-appropriate, avoiding stories that glorify alcohol, drugs, illegal activities, or violence, while warning older campers to be mindful of younger campers’ maturity levels. Brave Trails is admitting, in writing, that when you create this type of environment for minors, you need heavy supervision and strict boundary controls to keep it from going off the rails. And yet Brave Trails still insists on genderless lodging, trans experiments, pronoun culture, and adult queer mentorship. That should terrify parents. The identity labels are the point. Source: Brave Trails Brave Trails publishes demographic breakdowns that reveal exactly what kind of ecosystem it’s cultivating and measuring. Summer Camp Statistics (2025) for attraction orientation include: Multiple (90) | Bisexual/Biromantic (34) | Gay (31) | Pansexual/Panromantic (31) | Lesbian (31) | Queer (30) | Unsure (12) | Omnisexual/Omniromantic (3) | Straight/Heterosexual (11) | Other (7) | Asexual/Aromantic (8) Gender identity includes: Trans Masc (72) | Multiple Genders (61) | Non-binary (42) | Cis-Female (23) | Trans Femme (27) | Gender Fluid (14) | Unsure (19) | Cis-Male (11) | Agender (11) | Genderqueer (7) | Other (9) Brave Trails —   Facebook   Brave Trails tries to shield itself with biased research. Its Reports and Research page includes 990 forms and   resources , including a broken link for a Journal of Homosexuality report. It also highlights “Virtual Camp: LGBTQ Youth’s Collective Coping” (International Journal of Communication), conducted by researchers connected to Washington State University and the University of Oregon, and published by USC. The abstract describes how   COVID-era  school closures removed social supports, and the research examined “collective coping” among young LGBTQ people, with the “majority transgender/nonbinary.” It reports two studies with ages ranging from 12 to 19, and claims outcomes including reduced depressive symptoms and friendships influencing self-esteem. This is a psychological intervention space, wrapped in “diversity,” then used as proof-of-concept to justify expansion. It also collapses gays and lesbians into the broader LGBTQIA+ umbrella and treats it all as one big alphabet club. Corporate sponsors are part of the machine. Brave Trails promotes queer-affirming therapy in partnership with TOMS. In a referenced video about a camper who identifies as they/them receiving gender-affirming mental health counseling at Brave Trails, TOMS Chief Brand and Impact Officer Amy Smith reportedly said TOMS donated over $350,000 to Brave Trails’ efforts. Other corporate supporters named include The North Face and Brooks. A “WOKE ALERT: THE NORTH FACE, TOMS, BROOKS” post from   Consumers’ Research  included phone numbers for consumers to call: Call TOMS at 1 (800) 975 8667 Call Brooks at 1 (855) 427-6657 Call The North Face at 1 (888) 863-1968 This is the pattern. Corporations write checks. Brave Trails runs brainwashing programs on minors. Anyone who questions it gets smeared while donors brag about “impact.” Brave Trails —   Instagram Brave Trails’ leadership bios and board composition show what this organization is actually about. Jessica Weissbuch (co-founder and executive director) is described as creating supportive spaces for queer youth, including the mental health program COLORS, and starting her career at the LA LGBT Center and its Lifeworks Program, focused on resources, support, and mentorship. Her wife is named as a co-founder. Coby (director of finance and operations) spent three years volunteering for the Trevor Project. Jake Young (director of communication and culture) uses they/he pronouns and is nicknamed “Mama Bear.” Blake is focused on corporate DEI and programs. He previously worked at Google in diversity and inclusion, learning and development, and recruiting operations, and he worked on Stacey Abrams’ campaign in 2022. Max (associate director of strategy) orchestrates workshops on Anti-Racism, Equity, and Inclusion in the camp space. Kiersten (administrative assistant) has a non-binary child and has a nonprofit background in HIV/AIDS service organizations and social justice groups. Micah (outreach coordinator) leads the Nashville Gender & Sexuality Alliance for LGBTQ+ adults. Brave Trails also lists   Pattie Gonia   as an honorary board member, described as a drag queen, environmentalist, and advocate for inclusivity and diversity who climbs, skis, surfs, and hikes in drag. Pattie Gonia founded the Pattie Gonia Community, which exists to uplift LGBTQIA+ people and allies through events, Pride festivals, and outdoor programming, is co-founder of the Outdoorist Oath, founded the Queer Outdoor and Environmental Job Board, and has film projects, including Birds Tell Us and Everything to Lose. Source:   GCN The endgame: a permanent LGBTQ youth compound. Brave Trails is working on a   Forever Home  property: a 150-bed capacity site with 12 buildings, a pool, a firepit, and an amphitheatre, and it is currently asking for financial support for renovations. Brave Trails plans on building “gender-neutral spaces that celebrate LGBTQ+ culture, champion social justice causes, and promote sustainability,” plus plans to “provide year-round health retreats, educational programs, community-building events,” and branding it as “Introducing the world’s first LGBTQ+ nature space.” The website also features a land acknowledgement of the Fernandeño Tataviam First Nation. Camp is not the end. Camp is the on-ramp. Brave Trails can dress all this up in nonprofit buzzwords, therapy partnerships, and glossy “leadership” branding. But its own materials describe a recruitment pipeline for minors: genderless lodging, pronoun experimentation, narrative screening, confidentiality policies, and year-round indoctrination sessions, now moving toward a permanent campus. Thank you to our investigative team, led by Mandy, whose work allows us to deliver robust investigations and well-sourced reporting. References   Brave Trails. (2025). Brave Trails — Camper FAQ.   https://www.bravetrails.org/camper-faq   Brave Trails. (2025). Brave Trails — Dates + Rates + Aid.   https://www.bravetrails.org/dates-rates-aid   Brave Trails. (2025). Brave Trails homepage.   https://www.bravetrails.org/   Brave Trails. (2025). Brave Trails — Reports, 990 Forms, Research.   https://www.bravetrails.org/reports   Brave Trails. (2025). 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An elderly woman named   Monique Gilbertson  was found dead inside a locked freezer in her   Las Vegas  home. The man accused of killing her was not a stranger. He was her former roommate,   Daniel “Jazlynn” Roush , a 39-year-old man who identifies as a   transgender  woman. What followed was not just a homicide investigation, but a   horror story  of entitlement, fixation, and a deliberate attempt to erase a woman and take her place. According to multiple reports, the victim met   Daniel Roush  at Home Depot and agreed to let him stay in her home in exchange for rent and handyman work. The arrangement deteriorated quickly. Court records and reporting describe Monique Gilbertson complaining about Roush’s drug use, filth, and sanitation issues. She had reason to be concerned. “Las Vegas cops found a woman’s body in a locked freezer” –   New York Post She eventually kicked him out, changed the locks, and told him to leave. Records show she even attempted to have his belongings removed from her home. Prosecutors allege that instead of leaving, Daniel Roush   force-fed  Monique Gilbertson massive amounts of   fentanyl , smothered her with a pillow, and killed her. After her death, the   suspected killer  did not call 911. He did not report an overdose. He folded her body into a freezer, locked it, and continued living in her home as if nothing had happened. Monique Gilbertson was found “folded up” in the freezer during a wellness check ( video ). “I put her in the icebox, because I didn’t know what to do,” Roush   allegedly  told police. “Until I could figure it out, I had her in the icebox,” according to   reporting  by Law&Crime. Daniel “Jazlynn” Roush – alleged trans killer. ( Facebook ) Investigators believe Roush lived in the mobile home for roughly two weeks with Gilbertson’s body in the   freezer . During that time, he drove her car, slept in her bed, intercepted her mail, and took over her home while her body remained hidden just a few feet away. Daniel Roush’s wife,   Gina Roush , was not an unwitting observer. Gina Roush was operating under the alias “Gina Lopez” and according to arrest reports and grand jury transcripts, Gina Roush was staying at Monique Gilbertson’s house on and off after the fatal overdose. Daniel and Gina Roush –   Fox 5  Las Vega s Gina Roush admitted knowledge of the body while living in the home and actively participated in concealing the crime. She knew that the owner of the home was stuffed in the freezer – she helped Daniel Roush move the dead body. She later told police that Roush provided Monique Gilbertson with the drugs, claimed the elderly woman overdosed, and then he smothered Monique Gilbertson with a pillow before placing her body in the freezer. Gina Roush is currently   incarcerated  at the Florence McClure Women’s Correctional Center after her probation was revoked in an unrelated child abuse case (Offense Code 2144). She has been previously charged with child endangerment, neglect, and abuse. Gina Roush was indicted on multiple   charges , including residential burglary and multiple drug possession counts. Prosecutors allege she obstructed justice by helping conceal the murder. When police conducted a welfare check at Monique Gilbertson’s home, after she went silent for days, they encountered Daniel Roush. He answered the door, dressed in women’s clothing and claimed that he was “house sitting.” Officers later   discovered  methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl inside the home. Roush initially denied giving Monique Gilbertson the drugs, but then later admitted to purchasing the narcotics. He claimed panic. Prosecutors allege intent. Daniel “Jazlynn” Roush – Genevieve Gluck for   Reduxx Clark County Deputy District Attorney James Puccinelli told the court that   Daniel Roush  deliberately committed the crime because he had plans to take over Gilbertson’s life and home. In one blunt statement, Puccinelli said Roush gave Gilbertson massive amounts of fentanyl “so he could go into her house and take over her life.” Daniel “Jazlynn” Roush –   Instagram This case is not just about taking a victim’s life. It is about taking over  the victim’s life.   Daniel Roush  himself referred to his   alter-ego , “Jazlynn,” as a separate person, telling police that Monique enjoyed Kahlua and pain pills, but “Jazlynn” didn’t party with her. Reports allege that after Gilbertson’s death,   Daniel Roush  attempted to step fully into her life and take over, using her home, her car, her belongings, and her routines while wearing her identity as a costume. This is what Daniel “Jazzlyn” Roush looked like while living with Gina. The details of this case align with warnings long raised by   trans widows  – the estranged   wives  of trans-identified men. Trans widow testimonies reveal a pattern: their husbands would obsessively observe, mimic, and ultimately attempt to replace their wives by transitioning. “Most relationships in these cases involve   married heterosexual males , many of whom have fathered children,” says journalist Donovan Cleckley. They come out as transgender and start identifying as women after many years of crossdressing behind closed doors. “It is their wives who suffer,”   Andrea Dworkin  wrote in 2003. This is what Roush looked like while living in Monique Gilbertson’s house. Married men with transvestic disorder often feel sexually aroused at the idea of turning themselves into their wives and assuming the role of motherhood. Their autogynephilia fetish empowers them to take over the lives of their victims completely – usually a woman they’ve been living with. Some women   embrace  this fetish and have   TikToks  that celebrate the fact that their husbands want to become them. The Daniel “Jazlynn” Roush case shows how that obsession escalates to homicide. Daniel “Jazlynn” Roush’s   social media  history is very alarming. It is evidence of a   warped mindset  – the very same mindset that the trans agenda funnels into community messaging, school programming, and family life. Multiple   posts  celebrate “ Trans Parent Day ” as a   substitute  for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. Substitute. Not “additional,” not “support,” not “celebrate parents who are trans.” It is framed as a REPLACEMENT for motherhood and fatherhood, as if some of the oldest roles in human society are just outdated labels in need of a woke update. It is the same rhetorical move we see everywhere: take a social reality, call it “exclusionary” or “oppressive,” then insist it must be deconstructed for the comfort of mentally unwell adults and their paraphilic obsession with objectifying the bodies of women and girls. Erasing moms and dads has nothing to do with inclusivity and everything to do with destruction. The   posts  glorify “affirmation” as a virtue, while quietly redefining what love is. One post praises parents “affirming their trans kids,” claiming these parents “advocate for trans rights.” It reads like applause for activism, not good parenting advice. It turns raising a child into a political job description, and it frames any hesitation as betrayal. Daniel Roush –   Facebook The next part reads: “Trans kids who have been made to feel that a parent’s love is conditional.” Daniel Roush’s social media activity must be formally documented. It sends the message that moms and dads who do not play along with their kids’ new special gender pronouns they learned at school are bad parents who do not love their kids. Emotional blackmail is used to shame parents into compliance. One infographic attempts to reassure the reader that “big changes are always stressful for kids,” so adults should “answer all their questions,” as if the only responsible path is to normalize drastic identity upheaval inside the home. Another claims there is absolutely no evidence of influence or indoctrination…while simultaneously encouraging parents to model “diversity of gender identities and gender expressions” to their kids as something to be taught, celebrated, and repeated. You cannot have it both ways. You cannot insist there is no influence, then market the influence as the whole point. The most disturbing aspect is Daniel Roush’s fixation on little girls. Roush   posted : “Everyone Has A Little Girl Version, See Yours.” paired with an image of a young girl wielding a gun. That is NOT the same as an adult saying, “I was a tomboy,” or “I liked dolls when I was a kid,” or “I liked both blue and pink when I was growing up.” This is a man with a fetish disorder projecting his paraphilic delusion onto a little kid…and then inviting others to do the same. The girl in Daniel Roush’s post is pictured holding a rifle and smoking a cigarette. If “trans kids” can consent to having their healthy body parts amputated, then why not let children smoke or buy guns? Daniel “Jazlynn” Roush –   Instagram When a grown man’s identity is built around “little girl” imagery, that is not a civil rights story. It's a public safety issue. Little girls are not a concept for twisted men to inhabit. No one is claiming a social media post is a crime, but it must be noted that some report that David Roush has a young daughter, and any normal society would treat it as a glaring safeguarding red flag when a father publicly romanticizes “a little girl version” of himself and pushes “protect trans kids” content, while also having a documented criminal history that includes a prior felony child abuse conviction. Daniel “Jazlynn” Roush –   Instagram The pattern across these posts is the same pattern that keeps showing up in larger institutional messaging: 1. Language Contamination – erase sex-specific terms (like mother and father) and replace them with gender-neutral labels or therapeutic word salad. Language Contamination —   Courage Is A Habit 2. Dehumanize Moms and Dads – erode parental autonomy by redefining mothers and fathers out of existence. 3. Deconstruct Childhood Innocence – force adult sexuality onto children and expose them to inappropriate concepts they are too young to grasp. 4. Child Sexual Autonomy – allow minors to make decisions with their bodies that they are not mature enough to properly consent to. 5. Affirm…or Else – label parents who disagree with pediatric transgender procedures as harmful or unloving. 6. Abolish The Family – diminish parental authority and childhood innocence as outdated concepts, demonize parents as oppressors, form a wedge, and then claim to “liberate children from their families.” 7. Wrap it all in feel-good slogans like “you are changing the future!” so anyone with objections looks cruel. This is social conditioning at its finest – training society to see boundaries as bigotry, while treating little girls as props to affirm sick adults. Clark County  Police Charge Records for Daniel Roush. Daniel “Jazlynn” Roush has been indicted on multiple felony charges, including murder and abuse of an older or vulnerable person resulting in death, residential burglary, administration of a drug to aid in the commission of a felony, and more. His wife, Gina Roush, has been indicted for her role in the cover-up. A preliminary hearing has been rescheduled, additional   hearings  are pending, and prosecutors have indicated in the past that the case could be reviewed to determine whether the death penalty will be pursued. “ Daniel Roush  faces a second-degree murder charge in the death of a woman whose body was found in a freezer in her home.” (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal) Monique Gilbertson tried to   remove  a   dangerous  person from her home. Court records and prosecutors say he responded by killing her, hiding her body, and stepping into her life. The entitlement, objectification, and refusal to accept NO for an answer have earned Daniel “Jazlynn” Roush a spot on our watchlist. The alleged killer murdered an elderly woman, stole her home, her property, and her identity, and then attempted to wear her life like a costume. Men’s fetishes do not make them women. Women and girls are female. No substitutes. When the harsh reality of transvestic sadism is ignored, to “Protect The Dolls,” it is women like Monique Gilbertson who pay the price. References Thank you to Mandy and our Research Team, whose work allows us to deliver robust investigations and well-sourced reporting. 8 News NOW. (2025). Ex-roommate accused of storing Las Vegas woman's body in freezer will not face death penalty. https://www.8newsnow.com/crime/ex-roommate-accused-of-storing-las-vegas-womans-body-in-freezer-will-not-face-death-penalty   8 News NOW. (2025). 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Equality Arizona  sells itself as a friendly neighborhood “civil rights nonprofit,” but peel back a single layer, and you find a political machine pushing gender ideology into every school, youth space, faith-adjacent program, and institution in the state. The group was founded during the HIV and AIDS crisis, but it has since mutated into something else entirely: a statewide influence network that blends activism, academia, electoral mobilization, and youth recruitment under the soft-focus banner of “equality.” Their mission statement uses warm words like “community building” and “safety,” but their operations tell the real story. Equality Arizona is forcing gender identity ideology into every aspect of civic life, fueled by academics, filmmakers, DEI consultants, and activists who treat children like raw material for their cultural project. The organization hides behind a PO Box in Phoenix and a generic email, yet proudly brags that it has shaped Arizona elections for years by galvanizing voters for preferred “pro-equality candidates.” This isn’t a grassroots charity. It’s a top to bottom political operation plugged directly into Arizona State University, GLSEN, the DEI bureaucracy, and a web of youth-focused events  marketed as “faith affirming.” Each piece of this network serves one aim: to embed gender ideology where parents can’t see it until it’s already done. President Michael S. C. Soto  illustrates this pipeline perfectly. Soto has cycled through every internal role (intern, volunteer, CEO, and more) before taking the top spot. With a BA in Women and Gender Studies, an MS in Justice Studies, and ongoing PhD work in the same field at ASU, Soto  is the definition of the modern activist product: trained in postmodern theory, deployed into politics, and funneled back into academia and institutions that reinforce the ideology. Online, Soto  relentlessly promotes the Belong Youth Conference , an identity-based event  designed for ages 13 to 18 . Nowhere does he disclose that he is part of the conference leadership. Instead, he advertises it as just another “community resource,” glossing over the fact that he is helping run an event aimed directly at minors. Sessions are marketed as “faith affirming,” with planned expansion  into Arizona and Utah in 2026. It’s political outreach dressed up as spirituality and support. Soto also uses the company's Instagram  to promote Phoenix Pride, eroding the boundaries between adult sexuality-based events and activism aimed at children. Board member Dr. Quan  provides another ideological anchor point. A professor  of Justice and Social Inquiry at ASU’s School of Social Transformation, Quan works at the intersection of radical resistance, identity politics, and anti-capitalist themes. Quan’s films , including Queer, Broke & Amazing! ( 2024 ) and America’s Home  ( 2012 ), serve as political vehicles for “progressive” messaging. Quan  co-founded No Alibis Radio and collaborated with Third World News Review , building a career on amplifying ideological content. Fellow board member CA Griffith  carries the same mission. An associate professor at ASU’s Sidney Poitier Film School, Griffith publishes in journals focused on feminist futurism, transnational solidarity, and identity activism. Together, Quan and Griffith  run QUAD Productions , using film as a cultural delivery system for their worldview. Board member Trey Jenkins  brings GLSEN’s influence in through the side door. A doctoral candidate in ASU’s School of Social Work, Jenkins specializes in research on “black transgender  and queer people,” the exact niche GLSEN weaponizes to push gender ideology into K to 12 schools. Jenkins previously sat on GLSEN Phoenix’s board and now co-chairs the 2025 Let’s Get Better Together Conference , Arizona’s statewide  2SLGBTQIA+ health and advocacy event. Jenkins also works within ASU’s Office of Inclusive Design for Equity and Access, placing Equality Arizona’s agenda inside the machinery of university-level DEI policy. Board member Monica Phillips  is a transhausen-by-proxy parent of two children who identify as “LGBTQ,” including one who identifies as transgender. She previously served on the board of North Star International , which encourages Mormon families to merge religious life with gender ideology. Phillips reacted to the U.S. v. Skrmetti ruling  with pure virtue signaling, condemning limits on child gender transitions. She has appeared on a podcast  to discuss raising “transgender and nonbinary children.” Her involvement with One Community , a DEI  consulting group, shows how she brings this ideology into the corporate world. Board member Dr. Sarah Suhail  stretches Equality Arizona’s activism into international terrain. Suhail’s work began in Pakistan with “trans and queer communities” and now focuses on colonialism , imperialism, gender studies, and land and labor resistance. Her academic framework blends queer politics with anti-imperialist rhetoric, giving Equality Arizona a global ideological through line. Advisor Iese Wilson  uses choral music as “empathy-based advocacy,” another example of how even the arts have been roped into the ideological mission. Wilson earned a Master’s in Choral Conducting from ASU and speaks at LGBTQ-themed religious events like the Gather Conference in Utah. Advisor Peter Burgoyne brings solar and battery engineering into the mix, adding a corporate-tech angle to the group’s “responsible business” activism. After the Skrmetti decision that upheld restrictions  on sex-rejecting procedures for minors, Equality Arizona’s social media erupted with panic, rage, and political calls to action. They portrayed the ruling as an attack on “youth safety,” never acknowledging that the case was about protecting children from irreversible medical harm. They called the decision “morally bankrupt,” which shows just how out of touch with reality this organization is, since most people would describe mutilating children with castration drugs as “morally bankrupt.” But clearly, they are willing to push whatever suits their narrative. Board member Phillips echoed the same sentiment, using the decision to mobilize parents and call for political resistance. This is Equality Arizona’s true function: use every cultural flashpoint to escalate activism and energize voters. Equality Arizona consistently targets minors. The Belong Youth Conference , promoted by the president without disclosure, is aimed directly at children aged 13 to 18. GLSEN-linked board members push school programming. DEI operatives shape campus policy. Film professors generate ideological content and package it as education. Academics turn activism into coursework under labels like justice studies and social transformation. Parents on the board normalize transition narratives for children. This is not “support.” It’s recruitment. And it works. Equality Arizona openly admits it has shaped state elections by mobilizing voters for its chosen candidates. With leadership embedded inside ASU, advisors tied into corporate DEI systems, and messaging tailored to youth and young adults, the organization has positioned itself as a political force with cultural reach far beyond its small public footprint. Equality Arizona is not a “civil rights nonprofit.” It is a coordinated ideological network stretching from universities to film studios, from DEI training to youth conferences, from international activism to state elections. Its board is not a “diverse group of community advocates.” It’s a roster of professional activists, academics, and organizers who view Arizona’s institutions, corporations, and children as levers for their political project. Behind the polished language of “equality” is an operation engineered to inject gender ideology into every corner of public life. Their place on the Gays Against Groomers Naughty List is well deserved. 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Zinnia Jones is not a confused teenager on Tumblr or some anonymous Twitter crank. Jones is an adult activist  who has spent more than a decade building an online empire dedicated to normalizing the medicalization of minors, erasing sex-based protections, and reframing basic facts about human development as bigotry. Using multiple aliases (Zinnia Jones, Lauren McNamara, and earlier names like Zach or Zachary Antolak and Zack Sklar), this self-described “trans researcher, writer, and activist” presents as a neutral analyst of “gender science,” while pushing some of the most extreme positions in the movement. Behind the professional branding and curated persona is a sprawling, very online life and a fixation on restructuring childhood around gender ideology. Jones lives in Florida with his partners, Heather and Penny, and his children. Jones operates a content network that includes the personal hub , “ Gender Analysis ” blog, Atomic Gender, and a relic of the atheist-blogging era on The Orbit . The sites promise deep dives into “transgender sociology, public health, psychiatry, history of medicine, and human rights,” with Jones describing his work as rigorous “technical writing” guided by his own lived experience and “the lived experiences of transgender people.” In reality, the platform functions as a defense shield for puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and pediatric transition. He uses it to attack anyone who questions the affirmation model. Each page sells the same message: puberty blockers are safe, dissenters are malicious, and parental authority is an obstacle to be worked around. Before rebranding as a trans policy expert and self-appointed gender identity authority, Jones spent years as an online personality in atheist and “secular social justice” circles, blogging at The Orbit  under the banner “Secular Trans Feminism.” Platforms like YouTube, Patreon, Tumblr, and other funding streams amplified the voice, giving Jones an early megaphone inside progressive spaces. Over time, the focus narrowed to one central project: turning controversial medical practices on minors into the unquestionable standard of care, then smearing all critics as bigots or conspiracists. GenderAnalysis.net  now serves as Jones’s main research storefront. The site is packed with long posts defending puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries, while framing parental concerns and exploratory therapy as “conversion practices.” Jones writes extensively about litigation and policy battles in places like Florida and Ohio, always on the side of expanding medicalization, shutting down gatekeeping, and treating caution as cruelty. It is presented as a detached “analysis.” It reads like an activist campaign brief. Jones’s name also shows up in the ecosystem of gender-identity self-help materials, including a contribution to Dara Hoffman-Fox’s book, You and Your Gender Identity: A Guide to Discovery , a text frequently promoted to questioning youth and adults looking for “validation” rather than cautious assessment. That blend of research branding, self-help consulting, and political agitation is the pattern: wherever vulnerable people are asking serious questions, Jones works to make “gender affirmation” the only acceptable answer. If you want to understand why Zinnia Jones is on the Gays Against Groomers Naughty List this year, start with the puberty blocker rhetoric. After the UK’s High Court raised serious concerns about whether children can consent to experimental medicalization, Jones responded  with one of the most revealing statements  in the entire debate: if kids supposedly cannot consent to puberty blockers, then, in Jones’s view, every child, “every single cis and trans person,” should be put on puberty blockers until they are deemed capable of consenting to their own natural puberty. This was not satire. This was a serious policy position from someone regularly cited by journalists as a trustworthy source. Jones has a track record of giving minors workarounds to parental authority, including a detailed guide on acquiring cheap alternatives to puberty blockers in order to circumvent parents who do not agree. 4thWaveNow , a site tracking transition harms, has highlighted this pattern of advising distressed minors on how to get medicalized behind their parents’ backs. Jones has also published instructions for minors on how to circumvent parents who do not approve of blockers or cross-sex hormones, even recommending low-cost alternatives. The attempt to detach children from parents and attach them to ideological “care models” is not subtle. It is the core function of Jones’s activism. It is a set of instructions for undermining families and normalizing sterilizing interventions on teenagers and children. Jones’s activism does not stop at medicalization. He is not just pushing blockers and hormones; Jones also pushes the idea that people should learn to shift their sexual boundaries in order to accommodate gender ideology. Jones has argued publicly  that straight males who are not attracted to trans people should “work through” their biases, treating normal sexual boundaries as a form of bigotry that must be corrected. Consent, in Jones’s world, is not a boundary. It is a bias to be corrected. The message is clear: your personal orientation and consent are subordinate to his belief system. This merges with a pattern of belittling or endorsing harassment of critics. When a 60-year-old woman was assaulted at an event, Jones responded on social media with, “Lol did a TERF get punched,” followed by smug justifications that the woman “deserved it” and, “I have almost no doubt the TERF was doing something that warranted it. Like terfing.” It is emblematic of Jones’s contempt for anyone, especially women, who disagree with his worldview. This is a man who believes your sexual boundaries, your children’s bodies, and women’s physical safety should all be rearranged around his demands. Zinnia Jones  claims that trans-identified males who “pass as women” effortlessly “save lives,” simply by being attractive. The self-congratulation is revealing: Jones views personal transition not just as self-expression, but as a heroic act that supposedly benefits society. He claims transitioning is equivalent to “helping others,” an outlook that reframes medical abuse as a moral obligation for the rest of the world to validate.  Jones frequently writes about detransition and regret, but not to understand it. Instead, Jones insists that most stories of regret are fabricated by people who “don’t want adults to transition.” The analysis  of Walt Heyer’s detransition, for example, frames regret as propaganda rather than a real phenomenon experienced by thousands of people. This is the pattern: deny regret, deny harm, deny that youth are being misled, and insist that every detransitioner is either lying or irrelevant. The goal is not to understand why some people come to regret irreversible procedures. The goal is to make sure their stories never threaten the narrative. Jones’s public-facing brand focuses on research, policy, and “community advocacy.” His online footprint long predates the polished “researcher” persona. Under the alias “Satana Kennedy,” forum discussions and archives describe a now-defunct pornography project, hosted at satanakennedy.com , which users reported  as explicit fetish  content before it disappeared. None of this would matter if Jones were a random adult with strange online hobbies. It matters because the same person is now positioned as a trusted authority on youth transition, mental health, and what parents should do with their confused children. The same figure who allegedly ran explicit porn content is also cheering on puberty blockers for all kids and telling minors how to dodge their parents to obtain cross-sex hormones. That should terrify you. Jones frames this work as “arming the trans community” and allies with information, analysis, and living resources to reshape law, medicine, and culture. This branding softens the image and makes Jones look like any other progressive parent advocate. Underneath, the message is relentless: expand youth transition, treat gatekeeping as abuse, smear exploratory therapy as conversion therapy, pressure institutions to treat skepticism as hate, and turn forced compliance into a moral duty. Zinnia Jones is not a doctor, not a clinician, not a psychiatrist, not a scientist, and not an unbiased or neutral researcher. Jones is an activist who has chosen children’s bodies, families, and basic boundaries of consent as the battlefield. He uses research aesthetics to promote a model of childhood that revolves around blockers, hormones, and cult indoctrination. It is necessary for concerned parents who have a child struggling with their identity to know who is shaping the so-called “science” and rhetoric behind trans medicalization. Zinnia Jones is not just another blogger. This is a radical extremist actively promoting experimental interventions to children, trying to detach kids from their parents and attach them to an ideological care model, and trying to shame or bulldoze anyone who refuses to participate. His behavior is unacceptable, and it is up to us to shine a light on what is actually going on and who these woke charlatans really are. References Thank you to Mandy and our Research Department, whose work allows us to deliver robust investigations and well-sourced reporting. 4thWaveNow. (2018). Zinnia Jones. https://4thwavenow.com/tag/zinnia-jones/   DataLounge. (2018). 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Dr. Daniel Shumer is a pediatric endocrinologist who has built an entire career on medicalizing “trans kids.” Trained under Dr. Norman Spack at Boston Children’s Hospital’s gender clinic, he says he “became a clinical expert in the field of transgender medicine within Pediatric Endocrinology,” then was recruited to replicate that model at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor. In October 2015, he founded the hospital’s Child and Adolescent Gender Services Clinic. According to his own affidavit, the clinic has treated over 600 “gender diverse and transgender” patients since its founding. He admits he has personally evaluated and treated over 400 children and adolescents with gender dysphoria; that “the majority” are between 10 and 21 years old; and that most come from Michigan or Ohio. He estimates  400–500 active patients in his state, with around 100 new patients every year, many with co-occurring anxiety or depression. As Clinical Director, he oversees a team of physicians, a psychiatrist, a nurse practitioner, social workers, and research staff. He brags that he lectures on “Puberty,” “Transgender Medicine,” and “Pediatric Growth and Development.” He is deeply invested in the theory that “gender identity” lives in the brain and has turned that belief into an aggressive program that targets autistic youth, blocks normal puberty in children as young as eight, and pushes irreversible hormones and surgeries on teenage girls. On top of that, he has been caught plagiarizing in his lucrative “expert witness” work. This is not neutral medicine. It is his entire professional identity, and it is aimed squarely at vulnerable children. One of the most disturbing aspects of Shumer’s work is his focus on autistic and neurodivergent children. He co-authored a paper that argues all youth diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders should be systematically screened for “gender issues.” The paper states: “Given the increased incidence of gender issues among people diagnosed with ASD, youth with ASD should also be screened for gender issues. Screening may be accomplished by including a few questions about gender identity on an intake form and/or by including some content about gender issues in the clinical interview. If gender concerns are noted, a referral should be made to an appropriate gender specialist for assessment and supports.” In other words, being autistic becomes a reason to hunt for “gender issues” and funnel these kids into a gender clinic. This is especially chilling in light of cases like Jonni , diagnosed with autism  at age four, and later put on cross-sex hormones as a young teen. This is not a one-off. Shumer is the primary author of another study  specifically targeting youth with Asperger’s, reinforcing the idea that neurodivergent kids are a key market for “gender care.” He is also the primary author of a manuscript  on the medicalization of gender non-conforming children, shifting the frame from helping kids accept themselves to pathologizing ordinary differences in personality and interests. He later co-authored a study  that used 180 “transgender youth” as young as 12 years old, treating children as a cohort to be categorized rather than as emotionally fragile individuals who deserve real psychological care. In public comments , he describes cases like “Timmy,” socially transitioned at six and brought to the clinic at eight for gender non-conforming interests, and “Sarah,” a girl described as a childhood tomboy who, by fourteen, is socially withdrawn and cutting herself. Instead of investigating trauma, family dynamics, or mental health, he presents them as candidates for affirmation and eventual medicalization. He also cites Boston Children’s Hospital data  on the first 158 trans-identified pediatric patients: 45 percent had a psychiatric condition prior to being seen    About 35% of those had more than one (representing 16% of the total sample)   32% were on psychiatric medications   8.2% had prior psychiatric hospitalizations   18% had a history of self-mutilation   11% had a history of suicide attempt   Instead of treating these numbers as a warning sign that something is deeply wrong in how these kids are being handled, he suggests that transitioning them could reduce these problems. He even acknowledges  the recent rise in rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD), yet continues to cite his own Asperger’s study to justify moving children on the spectrum toward medicalization. In his clinical writing, Shumer lays out a roadmap for stopping normal puberty and reshaping children’s bodies with powerful drugs. For female-to-male (FTM) patients, he promotes starting puberty suppression with GnRH agonists at Sexual Maturity Rating (Tanner stage) 2, which can occur as early as eight years old in non-precocious puberty, then escalating to testosterone at Tanner stage 3, around age twelve. He writes: “For example, a FTM patient who starts on GnRH agonist medication at SMR 2, and then starts on testosterone in later adolescence, may not require masculinizing chest surgery and will also forgo menstruation. If suppression occurs at SMR 3 or 4, prior to full breast development, a less invasive chest surgery (for example, through an areolar incision rather than an inframammary incision) may be considered. A FTM patient presenting after full breast development has occurred would get less benefit from GnRH agonist treatment. While a GnRH agonist would suppress dysphoric menses, other, more cost-effective interventions, such as treatment with a progestin, may accomplish a similar result.” Natural puberty is treated as a design flaw to be interrupted early for maximum cosmetic impact. For male-to-female (MTF) patients, he is just as blunt: “For MTF, use of GnRH agonist medication prior to the development of male secondary sex characteristics can dramatically improve gender attribution, the ability to pass as the affirmed female gender. For example, a MTF who starts on GnRH agonist medication at sexual maturity rating 2, who continues on it as estrogen therapy is initiated in later adolescence, and then proceeds with gonadectomy and vaginoplasty after age 18, will never develop masculine facial and body hair, will not have a deep voice, and will not have masculinization of the facial bones and skeletal frame.” Dr. Daniel Shumer’s focus is not on resolving distress or addressing underlying mental health. It is on “gender attribution,” passing, and ensuring the body never looks like the child’s actual sex. He openly supports puberty-blocking GnRH agonists for adolescents at Tanner stage 2, acknowledging that this typically occurs at ages 9–14 in males and 8–12 in females. Your daughter’s normal breast budding becomes a “problem” if she says she is “trans.” He then insists that “GnRHa have no long-term implications on fertility,” even as he recommends these drugs at the very start of sexual development. He admits  that puberty blockers stop not only secondary sex characteristics but also bone and brain development. He concedes he is not sure if children will “catch up” once they are put on hormones, saying it “requires more investigation,” yet still insists the treatment is reversible. In addition to puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, Dr. Shumer also advocates a range of other medications for minors: medroxyprogesterone acetate (Depo-Provera, Provera), norethindrone (Micronor, Aygestin), estradiol plus progestins, and androgen-suppressing drugs. He calls progestins “especially helpful” when a girl has completed breast development and started menstruating but is “too young” or not ready for testosterone, or when a male-to-female patient cannot access GnRH agonists and needs extra suppression to promote breast development and minimize further masculinization. He even mentions cyproterone acetate as another anti-androgen used abroad, without mentioning serious concerns such as hepatotoxicity, blood clots, loss of fertility in males, and meningioma. The Endocrine Society suggests cross-sex hormones “around age 16.” Shumer explicitly undercuts  this caution: “The Endocrine Society suggests that cross-sex hormones can be considered ‘around age 16.’ In our practice, we have found that for many patients, there is a significant psychosocial risk in waiting until age 16 years to start cross-sex hormones if the patient is otherwise stable in their transgender identity. It is therefore our practice, and the practice of similar institutions, to consider cross-sex hormone treatment initiation as young as age 14 years.” He is also clear that underage girls can be considered for irreversible breast removal: “Genital surgeries are typically not recommended until the patient has reached the legal age of majority. Chest surgery in FTM patients can be considered earlier.” His own case examples show what this looks like in real life: An 11-year-old boy was given puberty blockers, then put on hormones at 14, and sent for surgery at 18. A 10-year-old girl with “characteristically male interests and behaviors” who becomes distressed by breast budding; she is put on blockers, then testosterone at 15, and has a hysterectomy at 19. A 15-year-old boy was given androgen suppressors after insurance rejected a puberty blocker prescription. A 16-year-old girl was given norethindrone specifically to stop her periods. A 12-year-old boy who was started on puberty blockers, stopped them at 14, and decided he is “genderqueer” and uses they/them pronouns. In his treatment protocols, Shumer describes adolescent transition as a process that “typically includes” social transition and medications, “including puberty-delaying medication and hormone therapy.” He insists that after puberty starts, puberty-delaying medications and hormone-replacement therapy “both individually and in combination"—can significantly improve mental health, align physiology with gender identity, and reduce misidentification with a child’s actual sex. He repeatedly warns that without medicalization, these kids will be depressed or suicidal; he cites low reported rates of regret in highly screened cohorts. He leans on longitudinal data and his own clinic’s experience to claim that when “transgender adolescents are provided with appropriate medical treatment and have parental and social support, they are more likely to thrive and grow into healthy adults.” At the same time, he acknowledges the rise in rapid-onset gender dysphoria and admits that many of the patients he treats have co-occurring anxiety or depression. Rather than addressing those drivers, he doubles down on blockers and hormones. For “non-binary” youth, he suggests that medicalization  can be completely customized. Secondary sex characteristics are treated like menu options; kids pick what they want from each sex, and he structures medication regimens around personal preference. He even compares  the parental hurdle of a child declaring a trans identity to something as trivial as a kid choosing to play soccer instead of baseball. Beyond the clinic, Shumer is a paid “expert witness” in litigation aimed at striking down state protections for children. According to one federal court document , “Dr. Shumer has provided expert testimony in at least 13 other cases on behalf of transgender plaintiffs and is being compensated for his time spent on this case.” In every affidavit, he notes that he is being paid hundreds of dollars per hour for “any review of records, preparation of reports, declarations, deposition, and trial testimony.” He has opposed: Georgia  Senate Bill 140, which restricts gender procedures on minors, telling the court, “Over time, I watch patients flourish and grow.”   Texas’ attempts to restrict gender-affirming interventions on minors in Loe v. Texas .   Kentucky’s SB 150 in Doe v. Thornbury, where he claims  that discontinuation of GnRHa will simply “result in commencement of puberty” and cites low regret rates.   Utah’s protections for girls’ sports in Roe v. Utah High School Activities Association. Across these cases, he repeats the same script: puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones are safe, effective, reversible, and life-saving; regret is rare; and the alternative is depression and suicide. He cites the same studies, including his Asperger’s research, and reuses the same framing across multiple states. In Arizona’s Doe v. Horne , his “expert” image took a serious hit. As an expert witness challenging the state’s Save Women’s Sports Act, he was confronted with evidence that he had plagiarized portions of his report. Confronted under oath with his university’s definition of plagiarism, he admitted: “All that being said, I think that it’s clear that some of the words I used were used from other sources without appropriate credit and that that meets this definition.” Legislative leaders followed with a letter  to Pam Bondi detailing a second instance of plagiarism , noting that the Department of Justice had terminated him before the State of Washington retained him. A Motion for Miscellaneous Relief  and related filings lay out multiple instances where his language mirrors other experts’ work. One response describes his opinions as “not reliable because he plagiarized them, he lacks the qualifications to offer them, and he has presented no objective proof that his opinions represent good science.” Although the court ultimately allowed his testimony to remain admissible in that particular case, the record of plagiarism, double-speak, and cut-and-paste “expertise” is now public. In a separate video clip , he smirks and says, “I can be pretty convincing,” while bragging about persuading insurance companies to cover his medicalization of children. The tone is chilling, given the stakes. Dr. Daniel Shumer has built an entire career on the idea that children as young as eight should have their puberty chemically blocked, that fourteen-year-olds should receive cross-sex hormones, that teenage girls can be considered for irreversible mastectomy and even hysterectomy, and that autistic, anxious, and self-harming youth should be screened and funneled into gender clinics. He promotes puberty blockers as harmless and reversible while admitting they halt brain and bone development, and he claims they have “no long-term implications on fertility.” He leans on the debunked suicide narrative to justify aggressive interventions, treats “non-binary” identity as a build-your-own-body project, and trivializes parents’ concerns by comparing them to choosing between soccer and baseball. Meanwhile, he profits as an expert witness, reuses the same framework across states, and has admitted under oath to plagiarism. Dr. Daniel Shumer is on the Naughty List this year because he has turned distressed children into test subjects, marketed sterilizing drugs and irreversible surgeries as “affirmation,” and cashed in as an “expert” whenever lawmakers try to protect minors. This is not safeguarding children; it is an industrial-scale experiment on vulnerable kids. References   Associated Press. (2023). Transgender ban lawsuit in Georgia heads to hearing. 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University of Michigan Health. https://www.uofmhealth.org/profile/1780856195/daniel-evan-shumer

Maria TopCatt is the drag  persona of Anthony Mauriello, an adult burlesque performer who has turned his nightclub routine into a children’s attraction across Philadelphia. Marketed as a “ local drag superstar ,” he is regularly placed in front of toddlers and grade-schoolers at Mister John’s Music  for Drag Queen Storytime. The event blends runway walks, drag slang, gender ideology, and adult performance aesthetics…all repackaged as enrichment for preschoolers. Maria TopCatt ( Anthony Mauriello ), born and raised in Winslow Township, New Jersey, grew up immersed in theater, singing, and dance, later earning a degree in Theatre and Dance Performance from Stockton University. He taught ballroom, Latin dance, and other styles at Society Hill Dance Academy before moving into the drag and burlesque scene. On social media , the drag queen openly jokes about drug use, and his “ Devil Drag ” performances include routines where he dresses as Satan and mocks Christianity. This is the public persona now funneled into children’s spaces. In an interview with Philadelphia Gay News , the performer described his drag  persona as an “old-school showgirl” inspired by Hollywood glamour. He boasts of hosting drag events “back when we were still freaks,” before drag  went mainstream. He has won several drag awards , including the 2016 Philly Drag Award for Best Dancer and Miss Fancy Brigade 2016, and has worked with both drag and burlesque  troupes such as Philly’s Foxes and the Peek-A-Boo Revue. Promotional materials praise his “polished intensity” and theatrical flair.  All-ages events where adult nightlife performers dance and read  books to toddlers have become a trend across the country, but Mister John’s Music  has institutionalized it. Their Drag Storytime features Maria TopCatt  leading kids through a curated program of gender-themed books, dress-up, and drag-style performances. The school markets it as a celebration of “diversity” and “acceptance,” encouraging families to “come dressed in bold fashion choices.” At these events , the drag queens physically interact with children, hold them for photos, and teach them to “walk the catwalk.” Parents are told this is harmless fun – even empowering. In reality, it normalizes adult sexual aesthetics and performances  for very young children. A glowing article from Philadelphia Magazine  reveals exactly what happens at Drag Storytime. Maria teaches children to chant “YAAASSS QUEEEEN” with their fingers in the air. The reporter calls this the new “Baby Shark,” urging parents to have their toddlers use drag slang in everyday life, even at the grocery store. The highlight of the event is the catwalk. Children, some as young as THREE, walk an illuminated runway while Maria TopCatt describes their outfits and “what makes them special.” One girl strutted in a sparkly dress and Crocs, and a pair of siblings were praised by everyone in the room for using “they/them” pronouns. At the event, Maria TopCatt stripped down to a sparkly outfit, sat down in fishnets, and read “ I Like Myself ” as children gathered at his feet.  This is NOT a literacy program. It is drag culture : costumes, runway modeling, adult vernacular, and exaggerated stereotypes, delivered directly to small children. Mister John’s Music frames Drag Storytime as part of its mission to destigmatize hard conversations with children about gender and sexuality. Parents are encouraged to model participation and embrace the adult-driven messaging woven into the activities. Listings on parenting websites  promote drag queens “showing off their breasts” during story time as if this were normal and wholesome. Maria TopCatt  is on our Naughty List because parents deserve to know exactly who is being presented as a role model to their kids. A cross-dressing nightclub stripper has been repackaged as a children’s educator. Even without a criminal record, this performer's public behavior raises red flags. He: • performs burlesque routines for kids, including religious mockery • jokes about drug use • parodies womanhood as a sexualized costume • inserts children into inappropriate drag performance dynamics Child drag shows blur the line between adult club culture and children’s spaces, and queer activist organizations get paid to cheer it on. Maria TopCatt coaches little kids to use crude slang, perform runway modeling, experiment with pronouns, and view exaggerated, sexualized femininity as empowering. None of this represents healthy modeling for children. The issue is not whether drag exists; it is whether an adult performer steeped in burlesque culture should be instructing kids to strut and dance for a crowd of cheering adults. This is an issue of boundaries, and Anthony Mauriello’s persona is rooted in adult entertainment, NOT childhood development. 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12/11 The Campaign for Southern Equality wants you to believe it is fighting for equality and representation. But in reality, this nonprofit has built a sprawling infrastructure that connects children to medical transition, trains schools to socially transition them behind parents’ backs, and helps families work around state protections that restrict experimental “gender-affirming” procedures. From small “emergency grants” to K–12 policy toolkits, the group positions itself as a one-stop shop for trans activism in thirteen Southern states. Its focus is clear: embed gender ideology in schools, churches, and clinics, then provide the money and navigation that keep minors on the medical conveyor belt even when voters and legislators say no. Campaign for Southern Equality ( CSE ) was founded in 2011  by Reverend Jasmine Beach Ferrara, an ordained minister in the liberal United Church of Christ. InfluenceWatch  describes CSE as a “left of center activist organization” based in Asheville, North Carolina, operating across the South to finance and organize LGBT activists, litigate, and lobby for policy change. Beach Ferrara is not just a local pastor. She served on the Biden Foundation’s advisory council for “Advancing LGBTQ Equality” and has built CSE into a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) with revenue topping $1.3 million in 2020. Through its Southern Equality Fund  and related programs, CSE has distributed tens of thousands of dollars in grants to LGBT grassroots groups, including non-charitable activist organizations, while simultaneously running its own litigation and lobbying campaigns against traditional marriage laws, adoption protections, and state-level safeguards for children. On its homepage , CSE frames its mission as creating “a South where LGBTQ+ people are equal in every part of life,” presenting anti-grooming and child protection laws as “unprecedented” attacks. The site calls on supporters to help “build political power through long-term strategies,” including funding and training local activists, creating “rapid response” campaigns, and mobilizing voters. The centerpiece of CSE’s current work is the Southern Trans Youth Emergency Project ( STYEP ), branded as a “regional effort” that gives “rapid response support” to families of trans-identified youth impacted by bans on “gender-affirming care” in the South. The project offers emergency grants and patient navigation to help parents locate providers willing to prescribe puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, then helps pay to get kids there. CSE’s own site describes STYEP as the largest national program of its kind, providing one-on-one logistical support so families can identify out-of-state options and receive travel grants. The Advocate  reports that CSE has disbursed roughly 350 grants of $500 each to families of trans-identified minors across Southern states. These grants are explicitly used for travel, insurance co-pays, and “gender-affirming clothing and supplies” for children. One Alabama mother describes stockpiling a $500 CSE grant in a savings account while her teenage daughter rationed testosterone injections. Another Mississippi family received $1,000 in CSE funding to drive across state lines in search of a clinic willing to continue their child’s transition, before ultimately deciding to uproot and move across the country. In state after state where lawmakers have restricted or banned sex-rejecting procedures for minors, the Campaign for Southern Equality steps in to: Tell parents that “help is available,” even when their own states have outlawed these procedures for minors. Provide cash to cover travel, lodging, and medical costs so families can bypass local protections and find clinics willing to treat children. Offer “patient navigation” so families can interpret the shifting legal landscape and identify workarounds. In short, CSE is positioning itself as a shadow insurance provider for child transition, paying families to keep kids on hormones and puberty blockers regardless of what voters or legislatures decide. CSE ’s “Trans in the South Guide: A Directory of Trans-Affirming Health & Legal Service Providers” boasts “more than 400 Southern health service providers who are trans affirming.” The directory  lists “trans-friendly” mental health professionals, primary care doctors, endocrinologists, HIV specialists, Planned Parenthood clinics, attorneys, and more across thirteen Southern states. The searchable database allows users to filter by provider type, state, and services offered, including options such as: Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) “Informed consent” clinics Telehealth appointments Sliding-scale fees All-gender restrooms Providers who have completed CSE’s “trans sensitivity training” The guide also includes a “ Funding Your Transition ” section with information on financial resources and insurance navigation, turning economic obstacles into solvable problems for anyone pursuing medical transition. CSE acknowledged that many providers are suspending services “because of anti-transgender laws or policies,” then encouraged users to treat the guide as a starting point and contact providers directly. Crucially, CSE directs trans-identified youth and their families in states with gender medicine bans to STYEP, which offers “patient navigation services, $500 emergency grants, and more” to keep minors in the pipeline. Taken together, Trans in the South and the Southern Trans Youth Emergency Project function as a coordinated system. The directory tells families where to go. The grants and “navigation” pay for it and walk them around state-level protections. CSE’s reach does not end at the clinic. Through its Supportive Schools Program,  the organization trains administrators, teachers, and students to embed gender ideology into K–12 policy and daily school life. The program describes its mission as helping schools become “more inclusive and welcoming” for “students of every sexual and gender identity,” while advising on youth policy issues, backing school Gender and Sexuality Alliances (GSA), and targeting “anti-LGBTQ state laws.” The flagship document , Supportive Schools for LGBTQ+ Students: A Guide to Policies and Best Practices, was published in September 2022 as a roadmap for public, private, and charter schools across the United States, with a special focus on the Southeast. Administrators and school boards are urged to use it to craft or revise school policies, while students and parents are told to treat it as a “know your rights” advocacy tool. In the guide, CSE lays out a detailed checklist for “gender-inclusive” culture at school. Among its recommendations: Create a campus culture that actively educates all students and staff on “gender identity and expression,” including training and resources on pronouns, “affirmed names,” and gender identities. Normalize having every student and staff member share their pronouns if they wish. Replace sex-based language such as “boys and girls” with neutral terms like “students,” “friends,” or “scholars.” Use a student’s “affirmed name” in virtually all school records, reserving the legal name only where absolutely required. Treat accidental “misgendering” or “deadnaming” as minor slips that should be quickly corrected and moved past, specifically to avoid “drawing attention” to the transgender student. Guarantee that “transgender and non-binary students have a right to use the bathrooms and locker rooms which correspond with their gender,” as defined in a gender support plan. The guide goes beyond internal culture and directly attacks parental rights laws and curriculum protections. CSE characterizes book censorship, “harassment legislation,” and so-called “Don’t Say Gay” laws as attacks on the “inclusion of LGBTQ+ identities” in school curricula, and dedicates an entire resource hub to opposing North Carolina’s S.B. 49 , a parental rights bill that restricts curriculum and school secrecy around sexuality and gender. The Supportive Schools page also promotes: “ Mirrors and Windows ,” a toolkit for “affirming and bias-free classrooms” that frames book bans and DEI rollbacks as stripping students of their right to see themselves in the curriculum. “ Teachable Moments ,” prewritten scripts activists can read at school board meetings to pressure boards into adopting LGBTQ-centered policies. A Title IX  complaint guide that teaches activists and students how to frame opposition to gender ideology as discrimination under federal civil rights law. A “Using Professional Ethics” resource that encourages school staff to cite their professional codes of ethics as justification for refusing to comply with “unethical” laws or policies, and even provides instructions for filing complaints against professionals who do not affirm these norms. In practice, CSE is coaching educators and activists on how to resist democratically enacted protections, keep parents in the dark, and treat sex-based boundaries as discriminatory obstacles to be dismantled from the inside. CSE’s own materials, including its Trans in the South resources, acknowledge a broader ecosystem of organizations that help fund transition. The group thanks partners such as the Jim Collins Foundation , Rizi Timane Ministries , Point 5 CC Surgery Fund , Trans Love Fund , TopSurgery.net , Out 2 Enroll , and transguys.com  for supporting the trans community and contributing to the information used in their guides. Many specialize in financing or facilitating irreversible procedures like “top surgery,” while others focus on enrolling people in insurance plans that cover cross-sex hormones and experimental interventions. CSE’s role is to pull these strands together, then direct families and youth to them through its directories, training, and “emergency” programs. In the medical sphere, CSE builds directories of “trans-affirming” providers, trains them in “trans sensitivity,” and funds youth travel to clinics even when state law has tried to close that door. In schools, CSE rewrites policy language, installs pronoun and bathroom mandates, equips students and activists with scripts and complaint templates, and frames parental rights laws as human rights violations. In politics and law, CSE litigates against measures passed to protect children from radical gender ideology. All of it is wrapped in soft language about “equity,” “healing and resilience,” and “a South where all of us can thrive.”  Underneath, the Campaign for Southern Equality is building the infrastructure that keeps kids on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, trains schools to socially transition them, and teaches adults how to defy laws meant to protect children. Parents, lawmakers, and community members in the South need to understand what CSE really is: an activist-sponsored machine that exists to entrench gender ideology, override democratic safeguards, and medicalize children in the name of “equality.”  Welcome to the Naughty List, CSE! Leave the kids alone.  References Thank you to our brilliant investigative team, led by Mandy, for their thorough investigation and for providing all the sources to share with our readers. 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Roblox is one of the most popular online platforms in the world, marketed as a fun, creative space for kids to play games and build worlds. With millions of daily users, it is a virtual playground where children as young as five can dive into endless user-generated content. Roblox has recently come under fire for failing to protect children from sexual predators and grooming  on its platform, leading to sexting, extortion, sexual harassment, "pixel pedophiles," attempted rape, and possible child abduction. State-level lawsuits have been filed by attorneys general in states like Texas, Louisiana, and Kentucky, plus over 30 family lawsuits  alleging Roblox enables child exploitation through weak age verification, easy bypassing of chat filters, and user-generated content exposing kids to predators . Beneath the colorful avatars and blocky graphics lies a dark underbelly: Roblox  is infested with adults preying on minors, making it a notorious hotspot for child grooming. Nearly everything on the site (games, groups, and chats) is created by users, leading to rampant unchecked content. Many experiences include voice chat and even camera options, allowing strangers to interact directly with kids in real-time. And when it comes to LGBTQ+ themes, the moderation is virtually nonexistent, with groups openly pushing transgender ideology on vulnerable children. Predators target and groom their victims on Roblox and pressure children into moving the conversation to Discord  or Snapchat, which are private and less monitored than Roblox." We have seen this pattern before: platforms that claim to be safe for kids but end up funneling them into off-site Discords filled with explicit discussions and predatory behavior. Roblox takes it further by allowing groups, including those targeting "trans" youth, to publicly advertise these external servers and links, often loaded with inappropriate content and suspicious motives. Our attempts to contact Roblox developers about these issues were met with silence; they just pointed us to generic moderation articles on their site, none of which address grooming, queer content, or the blatant risks to minors. It is clear: Roblox is not protecting kids. It is enabling the predators. Players reserve Pride booths with custom neopronouns. Roblox thrives on user-made communities, where players can build groups with custom logos, descriptions, dedicated servers, roles, and leadership teams. These are not just innocent clubs; many explicitly target minors identifying as transgender or LGBTQ+, guiding them toward radical ideologies and off-platform dangers. Roblox labels many of these as "Minimal Maturity," meaning they are deemed "suitable for everyone," including ages five and up. You read that right: content accessible to kindergarteners that leads straight to explicit Discords. Take the LGBTQ  group, with over 29,000 members. Their club meeting server, titled " LGBTQ | Resource Center ," is labeled "Minimal Maturity" by Roblox, appropriate for ages 5+. It owns both a Discord  and an X account , and the Discord is a nightmare.  Minors as young as 5, but mostly 11-15, roam freely with adults. A video of furries was shared in the main chat, showing one sucking on another's neck. The club's information board  and regulation board  instruct users to have "admiration" for all staff members and bizarrely consider religious content NSFW or inappropriate. They have staff members as young as 13 , hosting seminars where they boast about "presenting growing and developing individuals with the resources and opportunities to make a change." This is grooming disguised as empowerment. Even larger is All For Love LGBTQ+ , boasting over 90,000 members. Their server, " Club Pride ," is also "Minimal Maturity," in this case meaning suitable for everyone. With over 500,000 player visits, it allows voice chat  and assigns roles for all sorts of LGBTQ+ identities to players of any age. No barriers here; kids are thrown in with adults under the guise of "inclusivity." Then there is Transgender Haven , with over 1,500 members. The group wall is a cesspool of disturbing discussions, all seemingly involving children. One girl is told she might be genderfluid; another is encouraged to take testosterone. Kids openly talk about dysphoria, with custom pronouns everywhere. It links to a Discord server , openly available from Roblox , explicitly for children/minors only, per server rules. Parents beware. Transgender Pride  follows suit, with another easily accessible Discord from Roblox. Group roles promote transgender themes, and wall chats feature a girl wanting a haircut to "pass" as a boy, her Discord username publicly linked. More conversations reveal the same predatory encouragement, all aimed at minors. The biggest "LGBTQ+" group? The Furry Project , with over 202,000 members. Yikes. Their Discord  and game, " Furree Islands ," are labeled "Moderate Maturity" for ages 13+, but includes voice chat  with no real age restrictions. Furries often overlap with explicit content, and this massive community funnels kids right into it. These communities are not isolated; they are interconnected, with Discords hosting unregulated chats where adults mingle with minors. Roblox's hands-off approach means these groups advertise off-site links without consequence, leading kids to places with zero oversight. At its core, Roblox is not one game. It is a hub for user-created "experiences," many laced with transgender and LGBTQ+ themes that influence children of all ages. Ratings range from all-ages to 13+ or 17+, but enforcement is laughable. Countless games push these agendas, complete with voice chat and cameras that turn playtime into potential grooming sessions. One prime example: [PRIDE] LGBTQ+ Vibe  by Marizma Games, with over 51 million visits. It has voice chat, and characters spawn with default "they/them" pronouns. Players (ages 13+) can customize with a wide variety of LGBTQ+ identities. We could not find a trans-focused server with age restrictions; minors are allowed everywhere, chatting with adults.  Pride flags are available for purchase with real money. Predators  bribe children with gifts to gain their trust and take advantage of them. LGBTQ+ Hangout , with over 121 million visits, features voice chats with no age verification. Pride-themed minigames round it out, all open to minors. Pride flags and custom labels dominate these games, turning the space into a virtual pride parade for children and adults. And let's not forget the dating games. One game explicitly aims to help players find partners, with voice chat and camera, still rated "minimal maturity." There have been at least three lawsuits filed against Roblox by state attorneys general and over 30 individual lawsuits have been filed by families of children who were exploited by groomers on Roblox. Some of the groomers were already on sex offender registries or had been accused of abusing minors. As of November 2025, efforts are ongoing to consolidate  the individual cases into a federal multidistrict litigation  in the Northern District of California, with a hearing scheduled for December 4 before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation . The state-level suits include one filed by Louisiana  Attorney General Liz Murrill in August 2025, alleging Roblox facilitated systemic sexual exploitation through inadequate safety measures, chats, and games that enable grooming, including the distribution of child sexual abuse material and failure to protect or warn users despite known risks. Kentucky  Attorney General Russell Coleman followed in October 2025, claiming the platform prioritizes profits over moderation, creating a hunting ground for predators to extort and abuse minors, and labeling it the website of choice for child predators due to weak safeguards and deceptive marketing as safe for kids. Texas  Attorney General Ken Paxton filed in November 2025, accusing Roblox of violating safety laws, deceiving parents, and allowing exposure to explicit content and grooming for corporate gain, specifically putting pixel pedophiles and profits  over the safety of children by not implementing effective measures against predatory threats. Among the family lawsuits, a wrongful death case filed in California  involves a 15-year-old boy groomed via Roblox chats and blackmailed on Discord with explicit images (sextortion) , leading to his suicide, with claims that Roblox's inadequate systems enabled the abuse. In New Jersey , a man was charged with abducting an 11-year-old girl he met on Roblox. A 10-year-old  girl from California  was abducted and assaulted by a man who groomed her on Roblox . A man was arrested in Florida  for sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl he met through Roblox games. In Iowa , a 13-year-old girl was KIDNAPPED, trafficked, and sexually assaulted by a man she met on Roblox. The man created a fake account that made him look like he was a minor. He then befriended his victim and, after gaining her trust on Roblox, persuaded her to move their interactions to Snapchat. He discovered her personal information and kidnapped her while she was at a family member’s house. The kidnapper was able to send the victim sexually explicit and romantic messages on Roblox, even though the victim’s account had parental controls on and should have blocked this type of content.  A Georgia  suit from September 16, 2025, details a six-year-old girl groomed in-game by an adult posing as a peer, then coerced into explicit images on Facebook due to design flaws and lack of safeguards. Another Georgia  case on September 11, 2025, describes a 10-year-old boy targeted at age nine by multiple predators with explicit messages, images, videos, and extortion threats, blaming unrestricted communication and poor moderation. A Michigan lawsuit filed August 28, 2025, alleges an 11-year-old girl was groomed in a military-themed game by a predator posing as a 14-year-old, coerced into explicit images, and assaulted in person at a motel after moving to Discord, highlighting voice chat and off-site escalation risks. One girl alleges  that she was lured into pornographic Discord chats where strangers asked her for sex. An emerging pattern across these lawsuits is minors being lured off Roblox onto other platforms like Discord, often escalating to real-life dangers such as sexual assault, extortion, or suicide. For instance, a California suit from August 24, 2025, involves a 12-year-old exposed to explicit condo games and manipulated via private messaging, leading to exploitation and claims of negligence in removing abusive content. A North Carolina case on August 19, 2025, claims a 10-year-old was groomed with Robux incentives before explicit demands on external apps, accusing Roblox of lacking age verification and exploiting its economy for abuse. An Alabama lawsuit filed July 10, 2025, details a 14-year-old groomed on Roblox by a predator pretending to be a peer, escalating to explicit content on Discord and an attempted real-world rape stopped by police, blaming design failures and poor enforcement. A Florida suit from May 7, 2025, alleges a teenage girl who started at age 12 was groomed via games, leading to explicit content, blackmail, emotional trauma, depression, and a suicide attempt, citing lack of safety controls despite known risks. Many of the remaining cases follow similar trajectories, highlighting Roblox's alleged negligence  in moderating user interactions, age verification, and off-site links, particularly in user-generated communities that funnel children to unregulated spaces with predators, though Roblox maintains it has strong systems and has introduced new AI age verification tools in response to these concerns. In a recent interview  on The New York Times Hard Fork podcast, Roblox CEO David Baszucki walked into a barrage of questions about the platform's endless child-safety scandals: predators grooming kids, lawsuits from multiple states, and reports showing how laughably easy it is to bypass every filter. What was supposed to be a victory lap for his shiny new AI face-scanning age verification turned into an instant disaster  when Baszucki described the entire predator crisis as "not necessarily just a problem, but an opportunity  as well" to reinvent how kids communicate. Hosts Casey Newton and Kevin Roose hammered him on Hindenburg's accusations of growth-over-safety and actual child abductions tied to the app, only for Baszucki to get defensive, brag that Hindenburg had collapsed, demand high-fives for tiny concessions, and complain that he thought they were going to talk about fun stuff instead. His answers poured gasoline on the fire. He kept repeating that Roblox  is "an amazing platform right now for your kid" while dodging every example of simulated rape experiences and child-accessible strip clubs, then pivoted to pitching "brilliant" educational prediction markets that sounded a lot like gambling for ten-year-olds. Critics instantly branded the whole thing a car-crash PR catastrophe , with the CEO coming off clueless, combative, and completely unprepared for scrutiny his own team scheduled. Instead of calming worried parents or lawmakers, the interview  only proved how deep Roblox's problems run and left the company's image more radioactive than ever as demands for real regulation get louder by the day. Roblox CEO  David Baszucki knows kids are the core audience but pushes ahead with his vision of Roblox as an adult-oriented platform, including as a dating app. In a podcast interview with TechStuff , he highlighted metrics for popular games on Roblox , while doubling down on adult appeal: "he also highlighted his continued vision for Roblox as a more adult-oriented platform." He knows there are children using Roblox, but he still wants to bulldoze ahead and use it as a dating app, allegedly for adults, yet the reality is a free-for-all where predators thrive. From Discords full of sexual chats involving 11-year-olds to games encouraging testosterone injections and sexual topics, the evidence is overwhelming. Roblox's minimal maturity labels expose ages five and up to this filth, and their developers ignore pleas for real moderation. With voice and camera features, they are gateways to real-world dangers and child abduction. Roblox has landed itself on this year's Gays Against Groomers Naughty List. It remains an active danger to millions of kids. Parents: delete the app today. Lawmakers: keep the lawsuits coming and put them out of business for good. We encourage all political leaders to come together and ban this monstrosity on a federal level. Until then, keep your kids far away. Roblox is a pedophile-infested death trap, and your family could be next. References   Thank you to Sophia and our investigative team, led by Mandy, whose work allows us to deliver robust investigations and well-sourced reporting. Altman LLP. (2025). Roblox sexual abuse lawsuit: child sexual abuse claims. https://www.altmanllp.com/personal-injury/sexual-assault-victims/roblox-sexual-abuse-lawsuit-child-sexual-abuse-claims/   Anapol Weiss. (2025). Complaint. https://www.anapolweiss.com/2025-07-30-complaint.pdf   Anapol Weiss. (2025). 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Dr. Brett Cooper, a Dallas, Texas pediatrician, surrendered his medical license in October 2025 amid the ongoing battle with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. In the fall of 2024, Paxton filed lawsuits against three doctors ( May Lau , M. Brett Cooper, and Hector Granados ) for allegedly violating SB 14, which took effect in September 2023 and aims to prevent doctors from performing or prescribing gender-transition treatment for minors, including hormone therapy and puberty blockers. Cooper allegedly prescribed testosterone to at least 15 minors who wanted to transition, despite it being banned under SB 14. The lawsuit also alleged that Cooper falsified medical records, prescriptions, and billing records in an attempt to “intentionally conceal the unlawful conduct,” Fox 4  reported. Source: Texas Attorney General Paxton Paxton’s office is now accusing Cooper of violating the Rule 11 Agreement, which restricts  Dr. Cooper from practicing medicine on patients during the proceedings. In October, Cooper’s attorneys alleged  that Paxton’s office “issued two misleading press releases, insinuating that evidence showed Dr. Cooper had ‘knowingly’ and ‘illegally’ prescribed hormones for the purposes of gender transition,” attorneys said in the filing. “If the State continues to make unrestrained, misleading, and defamatory statements to the public, it will prevent Dr. Cooper from obtaining a fair and impartial jury.” Cooper’s case is expected to go to trial in May 2026. Photo: Texas Medical Association ( TMA ) The problem isn’t just with Dr. Cooper and goes much deeper. When Cooper was on TMA’s Board of Trustees in 2022, he proposed  a policy to prevent non-physicians, hospitals, and health systems from interfering in the “practice of evidence-based medicine.” That same year, the Texas Medical Association  implemented a similar policy. Despite internal calls for reforms and concerns about Dr. Cooper over the last several years, the Texas Medical Association has silenced debate and refuses to even look at the “evidence-based” medical practices in question. Studies show that interventions like puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones are harmful to children and can cause a variety of health issues, such as infertility, cardiovascular complications, and bone-density complications, just to name a few. Texas State Rep. Steve Toth told Blaze Media  in November that one of the biggest failings of SB 14 is that it only bans chemical and surgical transitioning but does nothing to ban social transitioning. Toth alleges that the Texas Medical Association is continuing to teach doctors that you can continue to put children on puberty blockers as long as you claim that it’s not meant to “transition” the child; it’s just for “precocious puberty.” Toth also noted that after the child goes through puberty, cross-sex hormones are readily available and can be easily ordered from other states. At the time of the article, the Texas Medical Association was still offering a course  called “Providing Evidence-Based Transgender Care,” which was listed for $199 and meant for both adults and adolescents, although that course appears to have now been removed. When we reached out to the Texas Medical Association for comment, pretending to be the parent of a transgender child, they confirmed that SB 14 “does not prohibit puberty suppressants or medically necessary procedures for the treatment of premature puberty, and it does not prohibit treatments to children who were born with a genetic disorder of sex development or to children who do not have male or female sex chromosome structures as determined through genetic testing,” before telling us that if we had any further questions, we should contact a pediatrician for guidance. While SB 14 took major steps to protect Texas children, much more needs to be done, and serious reforms are needed to ensure that organizations like the Texas Medical Association are protecting children. References   Blaze TV Staff. (2025). Texas child gender transition still happening despite statewide ban. Blaze Media. https://www.theblaze.com/shows/sara-gonzales-unfiltered/gender-transition   Figliolia, J. (2025). 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