Erin Friday, California attorney and co-lead of Our Duty USA, a nonpartisan advocacy group, joins me to talk about the radical transgender ideology being taught in California's public schools. She shares her personal story of how her daughter was brainwashed by the ideology and how she was able to save her daughter.
00:02:40.000They're reading stories to children that they could be born in the wrong body.
00:02:44.000And they're getting that dose all through their academic careers, even in private schools, as you know.
00:02:51.000And when that child is then going through, you know, puberty, which is distressful, especially for girls like my daughter, they suddenly decide that they want to, you know, jump ship.
00:03:05.000They no longer want to be a girl because it's uncomfortable getting hips, getting breasts, getting their period.
00:03:12.000And they think that boys have it easier.
00:03:15.000And so they think that they can just wave this magic wand and become a boy because that's what their teachers have been telling them.
00:04:10.000And then there's no, there's no help in the medical community whatsoever.
00:04:16.000Every doctor I took my daughter to told me to affirm her.
00:04:19.000Every psychiatrist, psychologist told me to accept that I had a new son and to celebrate it and to forget those 13 years that I had raising her as a girl with, you know, really girly tendencies.
00:04:36.000That that all was a charade and that she was just waiting to come out as the boy that she is.
00:04:43.000So parents, you know, we walk this alone.
00:04:46.000It is a lonely, difficult journey because everyone is against the parent, from the teachers to the doctors, to even sometimes your own family members and your, your friends.
00:04:59.000And it's a lonely, difficult task to swim upstream and pull your child out of what I call the gender cult, because that's what it is.
00:05:33.000And when I called the school to read them the riot act, not really knowing what I was getting myself into, because, you know, I was a, I was a good little liberal.
00:05:43.000I read the New York Times and never heard anything about this gender ideology that was underfoot.
00:05:50.000But I called the school and I, you know, laid into them.
00:05:55.000And they told me that the school needed to be a safe space for my daughter.
00:06:01.000Now, my daughter is going to school down the hall for me.
00:06:21.000Well, they did it under the guise of we think she may be suicidal, but it was definitely a signal of, listen, parent, we're in charge here.
00:06:31.000And if we want to call your daughter a male name and male pronouns, that's what we're going to do.
00:06:39.000I mean, when you because I was talking to this other mom yesterday, it wasn't her child, but a friend of hers is just going through this.
00:06:46.000And I said, you know, please tell me that she hasn't started the puberty blockers into cross sex hormones.
00:06:51.000She said no, but she's socially transitioned the daughter.
00:06:55.000And I was like, oh, you know, that's very hard to pull back from, too, which a lot of people don't know how dangerous and how big a step social transition is.
00:07:06.000I'm just guessing in California, absolutely nobody flagged any of that for you.
00:07:43.000But yeah, social transition is so dangerous.
00:07:47.000I tell parents who come to me and I work with thousands, do not capitulate.
00:07:53.000Do not call your child by another name and pronouns.
00:07:58.000If anything, use no name or use a pet name you used as a child.
00:08:05.000But the parents have to be the off ramp for the child to come back to biological reality.
00:08:11.000And if the parents buy in, even if they're doing it just to go along, to get along, it is a huge mistake and it gets concretized even more.
00:08:21.000And as soon as that child turns 18, they are going to be off to Planned Parenthood and getting those syringes of testosterone or estrogen, no questions asked.
00:08:32.000And they will be lining up to get those irreversible surgeries.
00:08:48.000Still in California, to get any type of medical intervention, such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones or surgeries, you need parental consent.
00:08:59.000But here's the opening, here's the really frightening part of this.
00:09:03.000We have a law that allows 12-year-olds to leave their family home for any reason and go into a residential facility.
00:09:11.000And if that child goes into that residential facility and then becomes a dependent of the state, at the age of 12, that child can then dictate their own medical treatments.
00:09:24.000And so this is what California is doing.
00:09:27.000It's pushing forth all these bills to make children be autonomous little adults and be able to leave their family home if their families are non-affirming.
00:09:38.000And this is coming to every state in the nation.
00:09:41.000We're going to say goodbye to the SiriusXM audience in a minute and take this over to podcasts and YouTube.
00:09:46.000But before, I want the Sirius audience to hear what help you need before we sign off.
00:09:51.000So just bottom line it for us before we sign off.
00:09:56.000What help, I'm sorry, can you repeat that?
00:09:58.000I mean, because you want support with a ballot initiative.
00:10:03.000And it's, as I understand, protectkidsca.com.
00:10:08.000And I'll just give you the last minute to explain to the radio audience what that is, what that will help with.
00:10:14.000So this is a California ballot initiative at protectkidsca.com.
00:10:19.000Anyone in the state of California can go to the website, download the petition, sign it, and send it in by May 15th.
00:10:27.000What it will do is it will stop all sex changes, so-called sex changes on children under the age of 18.
00:10:34.000So no child can get puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or surgeries.
00:10:38.000It will get all the male bodies out of our girls' sports, bathrooms, changing rooms in the state of California, both for minors and for collegiate athletes.
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00:12:02.000If we can just go back to your daughter's story, this piece of it reminds me so much of what I experienced at my daughter's all-girls school in New York City before we pulled our kids and moved to Connecticut.
00:12:17.000My daughter was young in grade school, maybe third grade, but there was a contagion happening in the 10th grade.
00:12:26.000And it was out of maybe a class of 60 girls, there was something like 10 or 11 girls who had suddenly said they're trans, that they're actually boys at an all-girls school.
00:12:36.000Never before anything like this at this school or any of the other private schools in New York.
00:12:41.000And as you know, the gender confusion was always typically a male issue, almost never a female issue.
00:12:48.000And I spoke with another mom at the school, a very committed lefty, saying it's a social contagion.
00:12:55.000She was offended and told me I was wrong.
00:13:33.000About half of the Girl Scout troop came out as trans or something on the LGBTQ spectrum.
00:13:41.000And that was very typical because these kids are given this whole list of different identities that they can jump into.
00:13:50.000And it's intriguing, especially when they're learning that being a white middle class girl with two parents that are together and own a car are now oppressors.
00:14:04.000The way that they can jump in and become a victim is to glum on to some LGBTQ plus identity.
00:14:40.000And causing what Abigail Schreier accurately termed irreversible damage to them, whether it's losing our sex organs or creating infertility in a perfectly healthy child or the inability to have a normal sex life.
00:14:54.000I mean, all of this to minors who can't possibly consent to it.
00:14:59.000One of the many reasons you're now fighting back in the bluest of blue states.
00:15:04.000You mentioned groomers on the Internet.
00:15:07.000I think that's of interest to our audience.
00:15:09.000So how how does that happen, especially because you seem like an attentive, loving, involved parent?
00:15:16.000So I think attentive, loving, involved parents think this can't happen to them.
00:15:47.000They get in touch with each other on Google Live Docs.
00:15:52.000And these older kids like there's 16, 17 year old girls who say that they're non-binary or trans are teaching the 12 and 13 year old girls.
00:16:04.000And so there's this grooming going on among these young kids themselves.
00:16:11.000And then there are the adults that hop in.
00:16:14.000So I was able to look at things on my my daughter's Instagram that would, you know, curl your your toes.
00:16:22.000It was so foul, older men telling her to send naked pictures of her because it's not her body after all.
00:16:32.000She's going to have a male body in the future.
00:16:35.000So this is the predatory aspect of the trans movement.
00:16:57.000And these young boys are being exposed to it and they can't distinguish reality versus acting or, you know, predatory behavior.
00:17:08.000And so these boys are getting confused and thinking that they are women now, too, because of the porn that's being fed to them.
00:17:16.000I mean, the porn that my daughter was exposed to is just draw jaw dropping.
00:17:22.000And as I looked through it, I was inundated with more disgusting material because there's an algorithm that pushes this deeper and further.
00:17:33.000And so these young kids are being exposed to really just fetish, horrible material that confuses them and also makes these girls, as they watch what happens to women in these porn sites, they don't want to be that woman.
00:17:55.000They don't want to be subjected to women.
00:17:56.000They don't want to be subjected to it.
00:17:58.000So you see this non-binary identity or asexual identity emerging.
00:18:09.000Of the rise in choking of young women as sex partners and how, I mean, the numbers were stunning.
00:18:19.000I don't have them in front of me, but it was like a majority, a high majority of young girls have seen this, have been asked to do it, say that they've asked their partners to do it to them.
00:18:33.000It's choking where they go online and they look at videos on how to get choked, where to have your partner choke you exactly so you can, you know, live.
00:18:43.500And I just think of these young girls who are having this gender confusion as a result of the social contagion, seeing the videos like that, like in order to please your lover, you have to let him nearly asphyxiate you.
00:19:03.500And I thought it was interesting to Aaron, how you talked about the body changes.
00:19:06.500I hadn't really considered it, but, you know, the prepubescent girls look very much like boys in their body type.
00:19:14.500You know, they're straight, straight down for the most part from the shoulders down.
00:19:18.500And for them, pausing puberty and maintaining that shape may feel like just normalization.
00:19:26.500You know, I'm I'm just going to stay normal if I pause my puberty and I take a cross sex hormone to stop these changes from happening to me.
00:19:35.500I'm going to stay in the place I'm comfortable, which is like the place I've been up to age 11, which makes it especially dangerous.
00:19:41.500Right. I'm going to stay in this safe body and I'm not going to become the girl who has to get anally raped or choked in order to have a womanhood, which is what they're being fed via these vile
00:19:59.380Absolutely. These girls want to escape womanhood because of the belief that this is what they have to subject their bodies to.
00:20:08.380And there's also, you know, these girls develop at a younger age than their mental health that their brains can comprehend.
00:20:19.380So they're not sexual beings, but their bodies become sexualized on the exterior.
00:20:24.380So they have men looking at them and they don't want that.
00:20:27.380We're also raising a bunch of kids that don't want to have distress.
00:20:32.380So having a period every month is distressful and doctors are now giving out, you know, period suppression medicine at a child's whim because she just doesn't want to go through what it's like to be a woman.
00:20:48.380I mean, we're normalizing all this very, you know, predacious activity where we're turning children into young sexual beings, which they shouldn't be.
00:21:04.380We see this in every state with the books that are being exposed to our kids.
00:21:10.380And then we're telling kids also that they don't have to grow up at the same time.
00:21:20.380This is from a New York Times op-ed by Peggy Orenstein, who wrote the book, Boys and Sex.
00:21:25.380Nearly two thirds of women in her most recent campus representative survey of 5,000 students at a major Midwestern university, nearly two thirds said a partner had choked them during sex.
00:21:39.380One third in their most recent encounter.
00:21:42.380The rate of those women who said that they were between the ages of 12 and 17, the first time it happened, had shot up 40 percent, 40 percent from her last survey.
00:21:53.380Another sophomore confided she enjoyed being choked by her boyfriend, though it was important for a partner to be properly educated, pressing on the sides of the neck, for example, rather than the trachea.
00:22:03.380Note, there is no safe way to strangle someone.
00:22:06.380A male freshman said girls expected to be choked.
00:22:10.380And even though he didn't want to do it, refusing would make him seem like a simp.
00:22:14.380And a senior in high school was angry that her friends called her vanilla when she complained that her boyfriend had choked her.
00:22:22.380She was vanilla because she didn't want to be choked.
00:22:26.380We're down a lane here, but just one example on what's being fed to young girls online for people who don't understand what they could possibly see that might make them say, I don't want to live life in this body or be a member of the sex to whom this happens.
00:22:50.380I know it sounds like, oh, you should have a firmer foundation than that.
00:22:54.380But as you point out, most of these girls who will see this will have already been fed a vile diet from backdoor sites.
00:23:03.380I mean, when you mentioned Google Live Docs and Pinterest, even I, who spend a lifetime talking about these websites, did not know you could backdoor those sites with this type of filth.
00:23:15.380Yeah, and there's no parental blockage that you can put on these phones to protect your kids.
00:24:58.380I know that there's somebody at that WPATH, which is the organization to which states and schools look for guidance on how to handle all of these issues.
00:25:15.380And there is someone named Laura Jacobs, who's a contributor to WPATH and the so-called standards of care.
00:25:25.380This guy you found on fetish sites and has some weird obsessions that you found as well.
00:25:37.380And maybe you can tell us what they are, but this is one of the people connected with this WPATH, which is supposedly the gold standard in advising those in charge.
00:25:48.380This ban is a contributor for the adolescent section non-binary for the WPATH so-called standards of care.
00:26:23.380I made it very clear to her that I love her and that I would lay down my life for her, but I would not buy into this ideology.
00:26:35.380I started to protest and I left my signs all over the house.
00:26:40.380I left all my books all over the house.
00:26:43.380I counted on the fact that for 13 years we had a great loving relationship and that she would respect me and that her real self was truly in there.
00:27:09.380Oh, you give me the chills as any mother would, but most just don't know what to do there.
00:27:17.380They stop with the psychiatrist who says affirm or she's going to kill herself.
00:27:22.380It takes a very strong and very well informed mom or dad to say, no, I'm not doing that.
00:27:32.380That's right, but it has to be done and it can be done.
00:27:37.380And there are there are actually thousands of parents who've gotten their children out of the gender cult.
00:27:42.380They just don't speak about it or they're silenced.
00:27:46.380I've been silenced by the left media, you know, non nonstop since I started speaking about four years ago because we're the best kept secret because we're we're liberals and we're Democrats and we don't believe in this gender ideology garbage.
00:28:03.380And we don't follow the narrative and they try to silence us.
00:28:11.380And that brings me to what's happening in California and the effort that you have underway.
00:28:15.380And please, please listen to this, folks, because Aaron needs your help.
00:28:19.380We should all be paying attention to California.
00:28:21.380Not only did all these wacky car standards that we're now looking at that the Biden administration is enforcing on us, like no more EVs by a certain year, 2033, whatever it is, or only EVs, I should say.
00:28:33.380Right. That's all based on California.
00:28:35.380Like and I know you've said, Aaron, as California goes, so goes the nation.
00:34:42.380If you're registered to vote in California and, and you've moved to another state, you know, there's laws in your state on when you have to re-register in your state.
00:34:53.380Um, so if you moved to Florida, lucky you, I, I, if you haven't changed your registration, I think there's some rules that you would have to follow.
00:35:01.380Um, I want basically if you're still permitted to vote in California, then you can, that's right.