The Left’s war against children took a tiny hit recently when a North Carolina County took an unusual step. The Library board had just dismissed concerns from parents and taxpayers about an inappropriate book in the children’s section.
In Randolph County, North Carolina, the public library’s board of trustees voted to keep a child grooming book called Call Me Max on the shelves. The book presents gender identity ideology to kids—not adults, not even teens, but elementary-aged children—framing the idea that a child can simply declare themselves the opposite sex and expect affirmation from the world around them.
Being a conservative county in NC, as expected, parents objected. Loudly. Repeatedly. But the board reviewed the complaints, cited its internal policy, and shrugged. At that point, the county commissioners stepped in. In a narrow 3–2 vote, they dissolved the entire library board.
The review board process is something of a Potemkin village. The groomers and their political support system responded to the rising outrage of parents by adding a layer of bureaucracy. We understand your concern, they say. We take this very seriously, they say. Let’s create a panel of “community members” who can field concerns, review the material and the objections, and make a non-partisan decision about the content.
I’ve reported on more than a few of these board or panel reviews. We’ve published letters and op-eds from parents and taxpayers. Not once, that I recall, did that review process agree to remove any title, no matter how sexualized or inappropriate, and that’s key.
The issue is about access.
You can’t include the content read aloud in a local Television news broadcast. Reading it in public at a board meeting or any public gathering, including legislative bodies, is often a breach of decorum. But objecting to providing children access to it is censorship.
The same people who walk out of the room when it is read in public insist that it has to remain publicly accessible, or you’re banning it. It is true that any adult, and quite often any teen or child, can order these books on Amazon or any number of places and have them delivered the next day. More than a few platforms make content available digitally almost immediately. As in, within moments, limited only by download speeds and internet connections.
Not only is it not banned or censored, there is expedited accessibility.
Very little separates anyone from anything, including material for which developing minds are not nearly ready.
The groomers, and yes, that is what you are, would never let a child do a long list of things that also happen to be in some of these books they want them to “read.” Sex with adults, drug use, smoking, cutting, prostitution or sex trafficking, and more often than not, questioning the body they were born in.
As I’ve repeatedly noted, the latter, in particular, is a significant deviation from past rhetoric. Born that way has fallen out of favor. It is now the job of alleged role models to insist on the possibility or even the likelihood that you were born the wrong way.
Also common is my insistence that the new narratives contradict a foundational objection of the progressive sex cultists. Conversion therapy is illegal in many blue states, but introducing a child or a teen to the mental gymnastics of groomer theory is conversion therapy. You are asking them to challenge the body they were born in and perhaps even the sexual identity they’ve adopted in favor of one that requires chemical or surgical modification and a lifetime of drugs and treatment to sustain it.
All without accepting the scientific facts.
If you left them alone, they’d never need any of that. By securing the content you use to introduce a mental health crisis whose cure is chemical and surgical castration, they would never consider it. By leaving the content available based on age appropriateness, kids might one day consider it when they reach the age of majority, when it becomes their choice, not yours.
Science has shown that your conversion therapy does nothing to address the mental and physical problems you created with your grooming. They are no less likely to respond to your brainwashing with suicidal ideation. Most of them are more likely to embrace drug use, smoking, and unhealthy behaviors – almost as if they are emulating the content you exposed them to.
Smart people acting in the best interests of children would never do that. Only damaged adults or those with ulterior political motives could justify the militant defense of exposing kids to this sort of content or object to removing a library board of trustees. And while this is a step in the right direction, it is the least invasive course of action among a long list of things that need to happen to protect children from the misery that follows their exposure not just to the material but to the transgender culture.
Criminal statutes exist almost everywhere for addressing exposing minors to sexualized content. They need to be exercised against the adults who approve, encourage, protect, and expose kids to it.
That includes school boards, library boards, teachers, administrators, and librarians. Every one of them is a gatekeeper who could protect kids. We elect, appoint, and pay them with tax dollars for that purpose. When they fail, firing them isn’t enough.
