If Your Kid Trusts A Teacher More Than You, That’s Your Own Fault

Recently, the Florida state legislature considered an amendment to an already controversial bill that would force a school principal to out LGBT students to their parents. The amendment was quickly withdrawn, but the idea behind the amendment is still worthy of discussion, if only because the idea has become popular in Republican circles.

There’s an ad from the Orwellianly named Alliance Defending Freedom warning of the possibility of schools allowing children to change their gender identity without parental knowledge, with specific focus on the school district of Madison, Wisconsin.

The video is filled with many false statements and terrible sources, at one point quoting child pornography defender Stephen B. Levine. Although they also cite the statistic that gender dysphoric children tend to desist later in life — a statistic that is both incorrect and was made up by pedophilia apologist James Cantor — so what do I expect?

I should also note that the quote from Stephen Levine doesn’t actually make any sense. Here is what the they cite Levine as having said:

For a child to live radically different identities at home and at school, and to conceal what he or she perceives to be his or her true identity from parents, is psychology unhealthy in itself.