January 8, 2024 • 24 mins
In this episode, Erin Friday, a member of Protect Kids California, discusses her daughter's exposure to transgender ideology in school and the subsequent challenges they faced. She recounts how a sex education class introduced gender identity concepts to young students, leading to her daughter and peers adopting various gender identities. Erin expresses concern over the influence of social media and the lack of parental consent in the school's handling of her daughter's identity. After facing resistance from the school and authorities, Erin left her job to support her daughter, who was dealing with mental health issues. SUBSCRIBE NOW to The Truth with Lisa Boothe - new episodes every Monday & Thursday.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I want you to picture this scenario.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
What would you do if your daughter came home from
her seventh grade sex ed class telling you that she
was taught that they could have a female body with
the male brain. That in seventh grade they were being
taught about transgender ideology?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
What would you do?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
That was a reality for one California mom. Her name
is Aaron Friday, and she's going to share her family's
story with us about what happened when she confronted her
daughter's school and why she's now leading the charge to
protect daughters across the country, sons across the country from
this radical ideology.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Aaron Friday is.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Part of the executive committee of Protect Kids California, and
she's also part of or Duty USA. Trust me, you're
not going to want to miss her story. Stay tuned
for Aaron Friday. Well, Aeron, I appreciate you taking the
time to come on the show. You've got an important story,
(01:03):
an important thing that happened to your family to tell
us about. So I appreciate you making the time.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Well, thank you so much for inviting me. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
So, Aaron, take us through sort of, you know, your
journey to to what you're doing today. So your daughter
at one point believed she.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Was a boy.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
She was introduced to transgender ideology in sex class in
seventh grade.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
What was she told in seventh grade?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Well, so they are given a five hour course on
sex ed and there is an entire hour that is
all about gender identity, and it has little cartoons that says,
you can be have a female body with a male
brain and vice versa. You can be transgender, you can
be you know, all these different genders. They use, even
(01:53):
the terms pan sexual, and remember these kids are eleven.
Pan Sexual means you you will engage in sexual acts
with anyone eleven year old kids. So that was my
first opening to that there's something going on at our
public schools. And I was quite shocked because I was
a volunteer at the school, so it's not like I
(02:13):
was a missing parent. I was at that school all
the time, and to learn that they were teaching this
garbage was quite shocking to me. And that was the
opening to something's going on. And all of her friends
came over to my house after the sex d course,
and all of them picked a gender identity that was
different than you know, straight white girl.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I mean I'm thirty eight and I don't even know
what pants, so it's pretty alarming that they're teaching this
to kids that young. So so you said that after that,
I mean the other kids in the class. Now, now
they have adopted in their minds that you know, there
was something that they had previously not thought of before
being indoctrinated with this in seventh grade class.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
That's correct. That's how quick it was. Because I believe
that the kids were taught, you know, it's boring to
be a straight girl, and so they all picked something
on the LGBTQ alphabet, every single one of them, five
out of five. And you know, of course, I was shocked.
I went to the parenting class on what they were
teaching our kids, and I was amazed at the nonsense
(03:20):
that they were teaching. And I was more amazed by
the fact that I was the only person raising their
hand and interrupting and saying, this is not true, this
is garbage. I had no idea that I was supposed
to stay quiet and just listen and be in doctrinate
at myself. And then you fast forward to the pandemic
(03:40):
and when my daughter was living her life in a
virtual reality, not able to go to school, you know,
locked in her room, no friends, loneliness. She spent a
lot of time on the Internet, and that seed that
was planted in seventh grade that you could be born
in the wrong body started to Germany and grow, and
(04:02):
she moved from a very girly girl, where I mean
literally she wanted her room painted pink. She was sparkles
all the time to this dark kid wearing giant sweatshirts,
kind of skater clothes, and then came out with this
transgender identity, which I found out by listening to her
(04:27):
school teachers call her by a male name.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
So they had already started calling your daughter by a
male name and using male pronouns without your permission.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
That's correct. And what's interesting is that she had started
her freshman year during COVID, so these teachers had never
even met her. She never stepped foot into that school.
And these teachers thought that they were better parents than
I was, and thought that they should go ahead and
change her name, change her pronouns, and not bring me
into the conversation, which, of course I went ballistic on them.
(05:03):
I'm an attorney, so I'm no wallflower, and I laid
into them pretty hard. And their response was, we need
to be the safe space for your child, and that
to me was triggering safe safe from whom from her
loving parents, who she's right down the hall from. And
I got the answer to that because CPS Child Protective
(05:26):
Services showed up at my house, as did a police officer,
signaling to me that these teachers who had never met
me either thought that I was abusive by not accepting
my daughter, who came out of my body, who I
raised as a boy. And that began the journey of
my transgender journey with my daughter, which I was very
(05:50):
blessed because I was able to quit my job and
focus entirely on getting my daughter well, because that's what
it is these children. There are no transgender children. There
are children who are indoctrinated, and there are children with
acute distress over their bodies or something else. Usually it's
(06:13):
something else. So my daughter was severely depressed, and the
Internet told her that all of that depression and all
that anxiety would just magically disappear if she became a boy.
This is the lie. And then they teach these kids
that your mom and dad won't accept your transgender identity.
(06:34):
Are biggot hateful. You should disengage with them. It's so
cult like. So you tell a child that the people
who love them the most actually don't love them, and
now you're creating a child who is severely depressed and
potentially suicidal because now they're hearing their family doesn't love them.
(06:54):
What a horrible thing to do to a child. And
that's what a transgender child is.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
So you raise questions and they send the police and
Child Protected Services to your house and to try to
send you a message.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yes, and they did it under the guys. They said, oh,
we think she's suicidal. So they tried to cover themselves.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
But the guys is shut up, right, I mean, that's
that's what they were trying to do with it. It
sounds like the back down, shut up, get out of this.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Absolutely. It was a sign what they what they didn't
expect is to come to an attorney's home and have
me tell them to bug off. Yeah, and then I
pulled up. Of course, I pulled my kid from the
from the public school. Which is interesting too, because these
teachers who wanted to have a safe space quote unquote
for my daughter, they never called. They never called to
(07:51):
see how she was doing. They didn't care. You know,
it's all a bunch of bs that these teachers care
so much about these children and they want to make
sure these children are pretty tectic from their own parents.
They knew nothing of my daughter. They couldn't tell me
one fact about my daughter. They'd never seen her.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
And is there a point to create a safe space
or a corruptive space?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
It's all language. I mean, they want to have these
kids transitioned. I don't understand why why teachers would be
doing this. Is it virtual signaling. Look, I'm a Democrat,
I'm in California. I was as liberal as they come.
I can't say that anymore. But what they're doing to
(08:37):
families and to kids is just unbelievable. That teachers think
that they have the right to parent our kids. They don't.
Our constitution gives the parents the rights. There are children.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
So when you bring this to the school and you
raise concerns, what was the response?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
You know, what did they say to you?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Exactly what I said, We need to be a safe space.
And then they said, the law requires that we call
her the name that she requests. Well, I asked them
to show me the law, and they couldn't because there
is no law, not anywhere in the United States. There's
not one law on the books that requires schools to
(09:23):
deceive parents, not a one. So they couldn't point it.
They couldn't show me the law. There's policies that are written,
but policy is not law. And I was.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Reading somewhere that your daughter had gotten into anime and
the social media, and those two things played a big
role in sort of confusing her and putting her down
that path. Why do you think those two things specifically
talk about the role they played and why you think
that is and was?
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Well, anime is fantasy world, it's cartoon. It's not real.
Video games not real, Internet not real. You can create
an avatar. You can change your skin in these video games,
so you can be a female and go to be
a male and you can take on that PERSONA anime
(10:11):
moves into henta, which is a pornographic cartoons, really pornographic
and really disturbing. And once a child is into anime,
they get pushed by the algorithms into the hent framework
where older people push them. As soon as a child
(10:32):
puts on their Instagram account FtM female to male or
male MTF male to female. It's a beacon for pedophiles
and for sexually depraved people to find these kids, and
then they push pornography on them. And it's pornography that
would make your hair stand on end. It's so foul
(10:54):
and disgusting, and it's two kids. Kids don't have the
mental capacity to comprehend what they are watching, and it
warps them. When these kids come out as transgender too,
and they post that on the internet, because this is
a badge of honor. This is all related to DEI discrimination,
inclusion and equity, because these kids, they don't want to
(11:18):
be the oppressor. They want to be the victim. What
better way to be a victim than to jump into
the LGBTQ bucket. Once they do that and they put
that online, they get into these communities of LGBTQ communities
and it's not really the L and the G and
the B, it's the T. It's the T and the Q,
and they prey upon these kids. When you talk to
(11:39):
any d transitioner and you ask them about what the
role of pornography was in their transition, they're all going
to say that it played a role. Because this is
all tied in together. This is all about depravity, queering
our country, taking what is normal and turning it upside down.
(12:01):
Boy is girl, girl is boy? Non binary? I mean,
what the heck is non binary? You cannot be anything
other than a female or male. That's it. That's it
even intersects people. So it's all designed to pray on
these vulnerable kids' minds. And you know, it hits the
kids who are lonely, who are not the Lululemon sports kids.
(12:22):
This is who it preys upon, autistic kids. It goes
after the low hanging fruit. And of course it makes
the kids' mental health worse. Suicide rates go up when
the child says that they're transgender, because it's confusing, and
it's telling a child that everything is wrong with them.
(12:42):
They were born wrong, they were a mistake. Their voice,
the way they walk, the way they talk, the way
they move their genitals, their hands, their neck, their hair
growth is all wrong. That's a horrible thing to do
to a kid. Everything is wrong with you, child. And
the old way to fix it is to medicalize, is
(13:03):
to cut off part of your body parts, is to
pump experimental drugs into your body, and then you will
be your true self and your wonderful self, but right
now you're wrong. We'll fix you. Though, we'll fix you.
It's such a hateful movement. And that's why I have
now that my daughter is back to believing and celebrating
(13:24):
that she's a female. I mean almost to the point
of where I would maybe take a couple of those
big sweatshirts now. But she's seventeen, and she's very proud
of her female physique and happy being a female. And
how I listened to one of the doctors who told
me to transition her, one of the psychologists, psychiatrists, teachers.
(13:45):
Where would my daughter be right now?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Quick commercial break more with Aaron on the other side.
What does she say about it now? In hindsight, you know,
it's really hard for her to talk about it. She's
still a minor. Her brain is still forming. She doesn't
like to talk about it. I think it's an embarrassment.
She has said thank you multiple times for me working
(14:11):
so hard to get her out of it. You know,
we're in California. She sees it all day long. Does
she still have a brain that thinks that there may
be truly transgender people out there?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Probably? How can she not our buses are raped in
trans flags. Our schools, even our Catholic schools are filled
with trans flags. Teachers are still calling girls boys' names.
It's everywhere. But for her, at least for her, she
doesn't believe that she's transgender. So that's a win. But
(14:47):
you know, this is a long fight. We're gonna we
have to fight this. We see it with Target, I mean,
everyone sees it. It's too biguitous, it's everywhere. So these kids'
minds are still forming, and all the mess to them
is that, you know, being trans is liberating, it's great.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Well, of course, there's not much of a discussion about
the impact two kids.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I've had Chloe Cole on the show before and she's
told me about the pain that she went through, the
struggles she went through, the fact that she still has
pain from you.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Know, the double missectomy and some of these.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Other things, you know, and there's no conversation around what
this does to a child's body, That we're permanently damaging
a child's body, that we're doing potentially a you know,
irreversible harm to these young people.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
They don't talk about it. And I know Chloe really well,
I do a lot of work with the de transitioners.
That's not talked about. I'm working with a gentleman right now.
Who I mean. He had bottom surgery. The doctors don't
know what to do with him. He has infection after infection,
(15:57):
you know, his neo vagina has closed. Because he doesn't
want to be a trans woman anymore. The doctors don't
know what to do. They tell him, we don't know
whether it's better for you to be on estrogen or
testosterone because he doesn't make any natural hormones anymore. There's
(16:18):
so many detrans women whose uteruses have atrophied and so
sex is painful for them. Going to the bathroom is
painful for them. And they're twenty one years old. Their
whole life is going to be filled with pain, and
no doctor knows how to fix it. They're all walking
(16:40):
experiments and it is just absolute Frankenstein medicine. I cannot
believe that we're even having this discussion, that we are
removing healthy breasts of young girls. We have a young
girl in California at the age of twelve. She was
approved for a double mass sectomy. Just weeks into her
(17:03):
thirteenth birthday. They removed her breast. She had a mental
health file that was inches thick, and they still did
it to this young girl. What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
What's crazy about that is if a twelve year old
girl went in to get implants, they would probably be
taken away from their parents and you know that surgeon
would be facing you know, legal repercussions. Right.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
So, we're in.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Such a strange place where somehow the removal of the
breasts or that's not an issue, or the removal of
a you know, it really is just we're in an
upside down world right now, and we need people like
you to help us find our way out of it.
Talk about what you're doing with protect kids California and
(17:56):
what people should know about it.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Yeah, so in California, we're really we get to make
our own laws through the ballot initiative because none of
the lawmakers in Sacramento are listening to us. There's only
one lawmaker, Republican assembly Member Bill A. Sale, who put
forth a law to safeguard our kids. Everyone else sits
there silently. They might give us the thumbs up, but
(18:22):
they won't do anything because they're too afraid. So we
the people are doing it on our own. So I'm
on the Executive Committee for Protect kidsca dot com. It
is a ballot initiative that will get boys out of girls' sports,
bathrooms and changing rooms. It will ban all gender interventions
(18:42):
on miners, and it will prohibit schools from keeping secrets
from their parents when the child is struggling with gender issues.
So it's a big initiative. It has polling in California,
the liberal state of cal California, seventy five percent of
(19:02):
voters are against mutilating children, sixty eight percent are against
schools lying to parents, and sixty four percent are against
boys being in female sports. We have the polling even
in a liberal state. We just need to get it
on the ballot, which takes millions of dollars. Anyone can
(19:27):
donate to. Anyone in any state can donate, and they
should because here's the thing. California is a trans sanctuary state.
That means all the bands, the band in Tennessee, a
child from Tennessee, if he or she can make her
way to California, we take them in and we will
(19:47):
transition them, even away from their parents. So no child
is safe until California has bands. Any kid can come
to our state. We will take them in, put them
into foster care, and transition them. We also will hide
all the doctors that violate other states laws. We just
(20:09):
passed a bill this year. Gavin Newsom signed a bill
that will hide those doctors in Florida who do these
monstrous surgeries on kids. As long as they get to California,
they're safe. The long arm of the law will not
capture them. So nothing ends until it ends in California.
(20:30):
So TECHTKIDSCA dot com has to be a national issue.
We have to pass this. We have to get it
on the ballot. It's the only way we change our
country back to reality. And I'll tell you, if California
comes back to reality and safeguard's kids, so will the
rest of the country and potentially the rest of the
(20:52):
world because people watch what we do. And again, I'm
a Democrat fighting this. There's a lot of Democrats that
are against this, and we're all lining up. We're holding
hands with conservatives and we're going to get this done
because parents, they messed with the wrong people when they
went after our kids. We lay down our lives for
our children.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
You know, before we go, you talked about the numbers
and how you know majorities are with you on this,
yet you had talked about before. When you're asking questions,
parents remained silent or you know, lawmakers might give you
the thumbs up, but they're.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Not being vocal about it.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
So what do you think creates kind of this culture
of fear and what do you think we should do
about it?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Well, I think there's fear, but when you are filling
out your ballot, you're doing that in your home and
nobody knows what you're voting. People are afraid. Look, I've
been dockxed. I could care less. I didn't even know
it happened. That's how much it affected me. I used
to use a pseudonym because I was afraid. We have
(21:57):
to stop being afraid. It's really a fringe group that
is pushing this gender identity garbage. We're way more numerous
and people have to stop being afraid about losing their jobs.
Lose your job in soup, you're afraid about losing friends.
Lose your friends and make new ones. What is more
important than safeguarding kids? Where are people's morality If they're
(22:20):
not going to stand up for kids, they have none.
I'm tired of hearing that people are afraid. I've been
doing this for four years, relentlessly, sixteen hours a day,
with very few breaks. If everyone who was against the
transgender movement would write a check, would put some time in,
this could be over in twenty twenty four. We can
(22:42):
end it this year, quick commercial break.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Stay with us.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
It's hard to even wrap our heads around that this
is real and it's going on, and it's disturbing and
it has long lasting impacts on so many young people,
both from a physical perspective and then also just you.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Know, mentally.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
So the website is protect kidsca dot com.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
And then also where else can they go to help
and to follow your work.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
I'm also a co lead of a group called Our
Duty dot group and that is turning into a nonprofit
and that's where parents can go when they need help,
grandparents and people who want to volunteer. Our Duty also
has a sub stack that I mainly write for. And
then where can they find information about Our Duty? Is
(23:31):
their website? They could go to, Yes, it's Our Duty
dot group dot com.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Great Aaron Friday, appreciate you sharing your family story with
us and just leading the charge on this really important issue.
We really appreciate your time and just appreciate the work
that you put into this, and I'm sure so many
parents across the country really do well.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Thank you so much for having me, and everyone can
do something to end this, and everyone must.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
That was Aaron Friday. What a story with what she
went through with her daughter and her family and just
fighting against this. We appreciate her taking the time. Appreciate
you at home for listening every Monday and Thursday.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
You can listen throughout the week.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I want to thank my producer John Castio and Drew
Steele who stepped in this week for putting the show together.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Until next time.
I want you to picture this scenario.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
What would you do if your daughter came home from
her seventh grade sex ed class telling you that she
was taught that they could have a female body with
the male brain. That in seventh grade they were being
taught about transgender ideology?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
What would you do?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
That was a reality for one California mom. Her name
is Aaron Friday, and she's going to share her family's
story with us about what happened when she confronted her
daughter's school and why she's now leading the charge to
protect daughters across the country, sons across the country from
this radical ideology.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Aaron Friday is.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Part of the executive committee of Protect Kids California, and
she's also part of or Duty USA. Trust me, you're
not going to want to miss her story. Stay tuned
for Aaron Friday. Well, Aeron, I appreciate you taking the
time to come on the show. You've got an important story,
(01:03):
an important thing that happened to your family to tell
us about. So I appreciate you making the time.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Well, thank you so much for inviting me. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
So, Aaron, take us through sort of, you know, your
journey to to what you're doing today. So your daughter
at one point believed she.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Was a boy.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
She was introduced to transgender ideology in sex class in
seventh grade.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
What was she told in seventh grade?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Well, so they are given a five hour course on
sex ed and there is an entire hour that is
all about gender identity, and it has little cartoons that says,
you can be have a female body with a male
brain and vice versa. You can be transgender, you can
be you know, all these different genders. They use, even
(01:53):
the terms pan sexual, and remember these kids are eleven.
Pan Sexual means you you will engage in sexual acts
with anyone eleven year old kids. So that was my
first opening to that there's something going on at our
public schools. And I was quite shocked because I was
a volunteer at the school, so it's not like I
(02:13):
was a missing parent. I was at that school all
the time, and to learn that they were teaching this
garbage was quite shocking to me. And that was the
opening to something's going on. And all of her friends
came over to my house after the sex d course,
and all of them picked a gender identity that was
different than you know, straight white girl.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I mean I'm thirty eight and I don't even know
what pants, so it's pretty alarming that they're teaching this
to kids that young. So so you said that after that,
I mean the other kids in the class. Now, now
they have adopted in their minds that you know, there
was something that they had previously not thought of before
being indoctrinated with this in seventh grade class.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
That's correct. That's how quick it was. Because I believe
that the kids were taught, you know, it's boring to
be a straight girl, and so they all picked something
on the LGBTQ alphabet, every single one of them, five
out of five. And you know, of course, I was shocked.
I went to the parenting class on what they were
teaching our kids, and I was amazed at the nonsense
(03:20):
that they were teaching. And I was more amazed by
the fact that I was the only person raising their
hand and interrupting and saying, this is not true, this
is garbage. I had no idea that I was supposed
to stay quiet and just listen and be in doctrinate
at myself. And then you fast forward to the pandemic
(03:40):
and when my daughter was living her life in a
virtual reality, not able to go to school, you know,
locked in her room, no friends, loneliness. She spent a
lot of time on the Internet, and that seed that
was planted in seventh grade that you could be born
in the wrong body started to Germany and grow, and
(04:02):
she moved from a very girly girl, where I mean
literally she wanted her room painted pink. She was sparkles
all the time to this dark kid wearing giant sweatshirts,
kind of skater clothes, and then came out with this
transgender identity, which I found out by listening to her
(04:27):
school teachers call her by a male name.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
So they had already started calling your daughter by a
male name and using male pronouns without your permission.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
That's correct. And what's interesting is that she had started
her freshman year during COVID, so these teachers had never
even met her. She never stepped foot into that school.
And these teachers thought that they were better parents than
I was, and thought that they should go ahead and
change her name, change her pronouns, and not bring me
into the conversation, which, of course I went ballistic on them.
(05:03):
I'm an attorney, so I'm no wallflower, and I laid
into them pretty hard. And their response was, we need
to be the safe space for your child, and that
to me was triggering safe safe from whom from her
loving parents, who she's right down the hall from. And
I got the answer to that because CPS Child Protective
(05:26):
Services showed up at my house, as did a police officer,
signaling to me that these teachers who had never met
me either thought that I was abusive by not accepting
my daughter, who came out of my body, who I
raised as a boy. And that began the journey of
my transgender journey with my daughter, which I was very
(05:50):
blessed because I was able to quit my job and
focus entirely on getting my daughter well, because that's what
it is these children. There are no transgender children. There
are children who are indoctrinated, and there are children with
acute distress over their bodies or something else. Usually it's
(06:13):
something else. So my daughter was severely depressed, and the
Internet told her that all of that depression and all
that anxiety would just magically disappear if she became a boy.
This is the lie. And then they teach these kids
that your mom and dad won't accept your transgender identity.
(06:34):
Are biggot hateful. You should disengage with them. It's so
cult like. So you tell a child that the people
who love them the most actually don't love them, and
now you're creating a child who is severely depressed and
potentially suicidal because now they're hearing their family doesn't love them.
(06:54):
What a horrible thing to do to a child. And
that's what a transgender child is.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
So you raise questions and they send the police and
Child Protected Services to your house and to try to
send you a message.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yes, and they did it under the guys. They said, oh,
we think she's suicidal. So they tried to cover themselves.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
But the guys is shut up, right, I mean, that's
that's what they were trying to do with it. It
sounds like the back down, shut up, get out of this.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Absolutely. It was a sign what they what they didn't
expect is to come to an attorney's home and have
me tell them to bug off. Yeah, and then I
pulled up. Of course, I pulled my kid from the
from the public school. Which is interesting too, because these
teachers who wanted to have a safe space quote unquote
for my daughter, they never called. They never called to
(07:51):
see how she was doing. They didn't care. You know,
it's all a bunch of bs that these teachers care
so much about these children and they want to make
sure these children are pretty tectic from their own parents.
They knew nothing of my daughter. They couldn't tell me
one fact about my daughter. They'd never seen her.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
And is there a point to create a safe space
or a corruptive space?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
It's all language. I mean, they want to have these
kids transitioned. I don't understand why why teachers would be
doing this. Is it virtual signaling. Look, I'm a Democrat,
I'm in California. I was as liberal as they come.
I can't say that anymore. But what they're doing to
(08:37):
families and to kids is just unbelievable. That teachers think
that they have the right to parent our kids. They don't.
Our constitution gives the parents the rights. There are children.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
So when you bring this to the school and you
raise concerns, what was the response?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
You know, what did they say to you?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Exactly what I said, We need to be a safe space.
And then they said, the law requires that we call
her the name that she requests. Well, I asked them
to show me the law, and they couldn't because there
is no law, not anywhere in the United States. There's
not one law on the books that requires schools to
(09:23):
deceive parents, not a one. So they couldn't point it.
They couldn't show me the law. There's policies that are written,
but policy is not law. And I was.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Reading somewhere that your daughter had gotten into anime and
the social media, and those two things played a big
role in sort of confusing her and putting her down
that path. Why do you think those two things specifically
talk about the role they played and why you think
that is and was?
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Well, anime is fantasy world, it's cartoon. It's not real.
Video games not real, Internet not real. You can create
an avatar. You can change your skin in these video games,
so you can be a female and go to be
a male and you can take on that PERSONA anime
(10:11):
moves into henta, which is a pornographic cartoons, really pornographic
and really disturbing. And once a child is into anime,
they get pushed by the algorithms into the hent framework
where older people push them. As soon as a child
(10:32):
puts on their Instagram account FtM female to male or
male MTF male to female. It's a beacon for pedophiles
and for sexually depraved people to find these kids, and
then they push pornography on them. And it's pornography that
would make your hair stand on end. It's so foul
(10:54):
and disgusting, and it's two kids. Kids don't have the
mental capacity to comprehend what they are watching, and it
warps them. When these kids come out as transgender too,
and they post that on the internet, because this is
a badge of honor. This is all related to DEI discrimination,
inclusion and equity, because these kids, they don't want to
(11:18):
be the oppressor. They want to be the victim. What
better way to be a victim than to jump into
the LGBTQ bucket. Once they do that and they put
that online, they get into these communities of LGBTQ communities
and it's not really the L and the G and
the B, it's the T. It's the T and the Q,
and they prey upon these kids. When you talk to
(11:39):
any d transitioner and you ask them about what the
role of pornography was in their transition, they're all going
to say that it played a role. Because this is
all tied in together. This is all about depravity, queering
our country, taking what is normal and turning it upside down.
(12:01):
Boy is girl, girl is boy? Non binary? I mean,
what the heck is non binary? You cannot be anything
other than a female or male. That's it. That's it
even intersects people. So it's all designed to pray on
these vulnerable kids' minds. And you know, it hits the
kids who are lonely, who are not the Lululemon sports kids.
(12:22):
This is who it preys upon, autistic kids. It goes
after the low hanging fruit. And of course it makes
the kids' mental health worse. Suicide rates go up when
the child says that they're transgender, because it's confusing, and
it's telling a child that everything is wrong with them.
(12:42):
They were born wrong, they were a mistake. Their voice,
the way they walk, the way they talk, the way
they move their genitals, their hands, their neck, their hair
growth is all wrong. That's a horrible thing to do
to a kid. Everything is wrong with you, child. And
the old way to fix it is to medicalize, is
(13:03):
to cut off part of your body parts, is to
pump experimental drugs into your body, and then you will
be your true self and your wonderful self, but right
now you're wrong. We'll fix you. Though, we'll fix you.
It's such a hateful movement. And that's why I have
now that my daughter is back to believing and celebrating
(13:24):
that she's a female. I mean almost to the point
of where I would maybe take a couple of those
big sweatshirts now. But she's seventeen, and she's very proud
of her female physique and happy being a female. And
how I listened to one of the doctors who told
me to transition her, one of the psychologists, psychiatrists, teachers.
(13:45):
Where would my daughter be right now?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Quick commercial break more with Aaron on the other side.
What does she say about it now? In hindsight, you know,
it's really hard for her to talk about it. She's
still a minor. Her brain is still forming. She doesn't
like to talk about it. I think it's an embarrassment.
She has said thank you multiple times for me working
(14:11):
so hard to get her out of it. You know,
we're in California. She sees it all day long. Does
she still have a brain that thinks that there may
be truly transgender people out there?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Probably? How can she not our buses are raped in
trans flags. Our schools, even our Catholic schools are filled
with trans flags. Teachers are still calling girls boys' names.
It's everywhere. But for her, at least for her, she
doesn't believe that she's transgender. So that's a win. But
(14:47):
you know, this is a long fight. We're gonna we
have to fight this. We see it with Target, I mean,
everyone sees it. It's too biguitous, it's everywhere. So these kids'
minds are still forming, and all the mess to them
is that, you know, being trans is liberating, it's great.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Well, of course, there's not much of a discussion about
the impact two kids.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I've had Chloe Cole on the show before and she's
told me about the pain that she went through, the
struggles she went through, the fact that she still has
pain from you.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Know, the double missectomy and some of these.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Other things, you know, and there's no conversation around what
this does to a child's body, That we're permanently damaging
a child's body, that we're doing potentially a you know,
irreversible harm to these young people.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
They don't talk about it. And I know Chloe really well,
I do a lot of work with the de transitioners.
That's not talked about. I'm working with a gentleman right now.
Who I mean. He had bottom surgery. The doctors don't
know what to do with him. He has infection after infection,
(15:57):
you know, his neo vagina has closed. Because he doesn't
want to be a trans woman anymore. The doctors don't
know what to do. They tell him, we don't know
whether it's better for you to be on estrogen or
testosterone because he doesn't make any natural hormones anymore. There's
(16:18):
so many detrans women whose uteruses have atrophied and so
sex is painful for them. Going to the bathroom is
painful for them. And they're twenty one years old. Their
whole life is going to be filled with pain, and
no doctor knows how to fix it. They're all walking
(16:40):
experiments and it is just absolute Frankenstein medicine. I cannot
believe that we're even having this discussion, that we are
removing healthy breasts of young girls. We have a young
girl in California at the age of twelve. She was
approved for a double mass sectomy. Just weeks into her
(17:03):
thirteenth birthday. They removed her breast. She had a mental
health file that was inches thick, and they still did
it to this young girl. What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
What's crazy about that is if a twelve year old
girl went in to get implants, they would probably be
taken away from their parents and you know that surgeon
would be facing you know, legal repercussions. Right.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
So, we're in.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Such a strange place where somehow the removal of the
breasts or that's not an issue, or the removal of
a you know, it really is just we're in an
upside down world right now, and we need people like
you to help us find our way out of it.
Talk about what you're doing with protect kids California and
(17:56):
what people should know about it.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Yeah, so in California, we're really we get to make
our own laws through the ballot initiative because none of
the lawmakers in Sacramento are listening to us. There's only
one lawmaker, Republican assembly Member Bill A. Sale, who put
forth a law to safeguard our kids. Everyone else sits
there silently. They might give us the thumbs up, but
(18:22):
they won't do anything because they're too afraid. So we
the people are doing it on our own. So I'm
on the Executive Committee for Protect kidsca dot com. It
is a ballot initiative that will get boys out of girls' sports,
bathrooms and changing rooms. It will ban all gender interventions
(18:42):
on miners, and it will prohibit schools from keeping secrets
from their parents when the child is struggling with gender issues.
So it's a big initiative. It has polling in California,
the liberal state of cal California, seventy five percent of
(19:02):
voters are against mutilating children, sixty eight percent are against
schools lying to parents, and sixty four percent are against
boys being in female sports. We have the polling even
in a liberal state. We just need to get it
on the ballot, which takes millions of dollars. Anyone can
(19:27):
donate to. Anyone in any state can donate, and they
should because here's the thing. California is a trans sanctuary state.
That means all the bands, the band in Tennessee, a
child from Tennessee, if he or she can make her
way to California, we take them in and we will
(19:47):
transition them, even away from their parents. So no child
is safe until California has bands. Any kid can come
to our state. We will take them in, put them
into foster care, and transition them. We also will hide
all the doctors that violate other states laws. We just
(20:09):
passed a bill this year. Gavin Newsom signed a bill
that will hide those doctors in Florida who do these
monstrous surgeries on kids. As long as they get to California,
they're safe. The long arm of the law will not
capture them. So nothing ends until it ends in California.
(20:30):
So TECHTKIDSCA dot com has to be a national issue.
We have to pass this. We have to get it
on the ballot. It's the only way we change our
country back to reality. And I'll tell you, if California
comes back to reality and safeguard's kids, so will the
rest of the country and potentially the rest of the
(20:52):
world because people watch what we do. And again, I'm
a Democrat fighting this. There's a lot of Democrats that
are against this, and we're all lining up. We're holding
hands with conservatives and we're going to get this done
because parents, they messed with the wrong people when they
went after our kids. We lay down our lives for
our children.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
You know, before we go, you talked about the numbers
and how you know majorities are with you on this,
yet you had talked about before. When you're asking questions,
parents remained silent or you know, lawmakers might give you
the thumbs up, but they're.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Not being vocal about it.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
So what do you think creates kind of this culture
of fear and what do you think we should do
about it?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Well, I think there's fear, but when you are filling
out your ballot, you're doing that in your home and
nobody knows what you're voting. People are afraid. Look, I've
been dockxed. I could care less. I didn't even know
it happened. That's how much it affected me. I used
to use a pseudonym because I was afraid. We have
(21:57):
to stop being afraid. It's really a fringe group that
is pushing this gender identity garbage. We're way more numerous
and people have to stop being afraid about losing their jobs.
Lose your job in soup, you're afraid about losing friends.
Lose your friends and make new ones. What is more
important than safeguarding kids? Where are people's morality If they're
(22:20):
not going to stand up for kids, they have none.
I'm tired of hearing that people are afraid. I've been
doing this for four years, relentlessly, sixteen hours a day,
with very few breaks. If everyone who was against the
transgender movement would write a check, would put some time in,
this could be over in twenty twenty four. We can
(22:42):
end it this year, quick commercial break.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Stay with us.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
It's hard to even wrap our heads around that this
is real and it's going on, and it's disturbing and
it has long lasting impacts on so many young people,
both from a physical perspective and then also just you.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Know, mentally.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
So the website is protect kidsca dot com.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
And then also where else can they go to help
and to follow your work.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
I'm also a co lead of a group called Our
Duty dot group and that is turning into a nonprofit
and that's where parents can go when they need help,
grandparents and people who want to volunteer. Our Duty also
has a sub stack that I mainly write for. And
then where can they find information about Our Duty? Is
(23:31):
their website? They could go to, Yes, it's Our Duty
dot group dot com.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Great Aaron Friday, appreciate you sharing your family story with
us and just leading the charge on this really important issue.
We really appreciate your time and just appreciate the work
that you put into this, and I'm sure so many
parents across the country really do well.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Thank you so much for having me, and everyone can
do something to end this, and everyone must.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
That was Aaron Friday. What a story with what she
went through with her daughter and her family and just
fighting against this. We appreciate her taking the time. Appreciate
you at home for listening every Monday and Thursday.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
You can listen throughout the week.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I want to thank my producer John Castio and Drew
Steele who stepped in this week for putting the show together.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Until next time.
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