America has tolerated the sexualization of children for far too long, and we have reached a breaking point—between 2019 and 2023, almost 6,000 minors underwent surgical mutilation for a “sex-change” to the cheers of the American medical community, and almost 9,000 children received experimental puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
Teachers hang LGBTQ flags in elementary classrooms, and public school libraries lend pornographic books detailing gay sex acts to children. The average age of first pornography exposure is 11 years old, and 41 percent of programs rated for children on Netflix contain LGBTQ content, characters, and themes.
I have seen this crisis up close. Last year, I attended a school board meeting in the suburbs of Chicago where a girl had been forced to change with a trans-identifying boy in a locker room. The board meeting was full to the brim with LGBTQ advocates waving pink, white, and blue flags, and the first speaker walked to the mic from the seat behind me—he had on a knee-length dress, dark red lipstick, a little too much blush on his cheeks, and a long, grown-out comb over.
His two-minute testimony about “inclusivity” for “trans kids” was met with enthusiastic applause, but my gut reaction to this old man in a dress was worlds different: I want this man as far away from children as possible. Later that night, I found the man’s Facebook page, and I was unsurprised to see it was filled with fanciful pictures of little girls.
A question lingered with me in the days following: Why did an old, trans-identifying man attend a school board meeting to demand that a boy have full access to the girls’ locker room? Soon enough, I found that a look at history proves that LGBTQ ideologues have been sexualizing children for decades.
