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This is so interesting and upsetting. Based on the title I thought it would be some QAnon nonsense but from the blue team, but this is a fantastic piece.

It features racism, pedophilia, the birth rates, and the “patents rights” crap.

liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to

Liberal Currents · We Need to Talk About Pedocon TheoryThe connection between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is no accident, but reveals a deep logic at the heart of reactionary politics.
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'love and respect demand that every human child be treated not as “the property of parenting adults to do with as they wish” but as their own person with their own rights. “When we love children,” hooks reminds us, “we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have rights—that we respect and uphold their rights.” '

Parental Rights: A role-based approach
Hannan & Vernon, 2008, Theory and Research in Education

"If the parental role is justified by the prevention of irreversible damage to future choice, then it cannot, without self-contradiction, include the authority to control future choice in irreversible ways."

journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/1

I get a little frustrated when people act like the Pacific Northwest is perfect for trans folk, like we didn’t pass a #ParentsRights bill this year in Washington.

Yes, it’s better to be trans here than many other places, but we can’t afford to be complacent. We must continually battle the forces of oppression. We gotta tread to keep our heads above the waterline.

The hidden agenda behind the so-called Parents' Rights push
How parents' rights is a tool for Christian nationalism
By Andra Watkins (2023)

"My ignorance was the prerogative of my parents' right to control what I learned about my body."

salon.com/2023/06/08/the-hidde

Salon.com · How Parents' Rights is a Tool for Christian Nationalism

Remember this when you hear #parentsrights

"... the... father... forced him to go for runs in the middle of the night, banned him from shaving, made him show his genitals... took over his social media accounts & began controlling who he spoke to & where he went..."

Parents get sentenced to prison for vicious abuse used to turn their gay son straight - LGBTQ Nation
lgbtqnation.com/2024/01/parent

LGBTQ NationParents get sentenced to prison for vicious abuse used to turn their gay son straight - LGBTQ NationBy Molly Sprayregen

For all the talk of “parents’ rights,” the harshest anti-trans laws trample on the rights of parents who want to support their #transgender children. 😔

If #conservatives were actually worried about the safety of children, they would do something about the number one killer of said population: #guns. But they aren't because they are not really concerned with kids' safety but with manipulating their gullible supporters. 😒

The #ParentsRights ploy is stupid
& #RepublicansAreTheProblem
#Repeal2A

#MomsForLiberty, an anti-LGBT hate group that couches itself as a " #ParentsRights" organization suffered a massive electoral defeat Tuesday with many of their targeted school board races going to #Democratic candidates.

As the #Republican caucuses approach in #Iowa, all but one of the 13 candidates endorsed by Moms For Liberty lost in school board races in that state. The sole winner will serve in a district with less than 1,000 students.

#LGBT
#StopChristoFascism

meidastouch.com/news/moms-for-