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<\/p>\nIn a small, conservative town in North Dakota, 12-year-old Rebecca has faced unrelenting pressure from friends to announce an LGBT identity. It\u2019s a pressure she doesn\u2019t want or need, according to her mother, Sarah.<\/p>\n
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The two asked to have their full names withheld to prevent them from being identified, which, they fear, would exacerbate the problem.<\/p>\n
Rebecca has helped care for a terminally ill relative, and wants to be a nurse one day, said Sarah. The middle-schooler values her friends and does great in school.<\/p>\n
But a few years ago, she was sexually abused by another girl close to her in age, who made unwanted advances and touched her inappropriately, Sarah said. She feels Rebecca isn\u2019t even old enough to mentally process the trauma she experienced.<\/p>\n
Among young girls, it\u2019s a common trend now for friend groups to suddenly all announce an LGBT gender identity because it\u2019s cool, experts say. And children often suddenly choose a new gender identity as a result of intense peer pressure, experts say.<\/p>\n
Rebecca has experienced this pressure. And for some children, it might be easier to dismiss.<\/p>\n
But for Rebecca, every time classmates pressure her to announce a non-heterosexual identity, it returns her trauma to the surface, her mother said.<\/p>\n
As the promotion of LGBT sexuality sweeps American schools, vulnerable children like Rebecca face increasingly sexualized environments, Erika Sanzi, director of outreach for Parents Defending Education, told The Epoch Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n And that\u2019s harmful, she said.<\/p>\n \u201cA fifth grader often still believes in Santa Claus<\/em>,\u201d Sanzi said. \u201cThey are just young, and usually the only reason they have mature topics on their minds is because adults have made it so that they have to think about these things<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Secret Suffering<\/strong><\/p>\n Under pressure from classmates who wanted her to join in on the trend, Rebecca got moody and depressed, she said. She started to physically attack her parents, because she was too immature to communicate her feelings in other ways, Sarah said.<\/p>\n One day, Rebecca started crying and begged her parents not to send her back to school anymore.<\/p>\n \u201cThe other girls that I\u2019m around in school say that they\u2019re gay or lesbian, and they are trying to force me to be like that, too,<\/em>\u201d Rebecca confessed to Sarah.<\/p>\n She was shocked.<\/p>\n The school, town, and state generally seem to espouse predominantly conservative values, Sarah said. But it\u2019s no protection, because of the way LGBT ideology spreads to children over TikTok, she added. The messaging is prevalent on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and other popular social media platforms, as well.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s no reason for any 12-year-old to be talking about their sex life or anything regarding that<\/em>,\u201d Sarah said. \u201cIt should be nonexistent<\/em>\u201d as a topic for children.<\/p>\n But experiences like Rebecca\u2019s have become common for American youth, Sanzi said. Due to LGBT influences on social media platforms and in schools, children spend a lot of their time in spaces characterized by a focus on sexuality, she said.<\/p>\n \u201cSchools have become blanketed in political messaging around the topic of LGBTQ<\/em>,\u201d Sanzi said. And the most concerning aspect of this focus on LGBT sexuality is the \u201cT,\u201d she added. She believes widespread encouragement of transgenderism in school endangers children.<\/p>\n And it\u2019s troubling, she said, when a \u201csafe space<\/em>\u201d means for girls that \u201cbiological males can come into my bathrooms, come into my locker room, sleep in the same room as me on an overnight field trip, and compete against me in sports<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Increased focus on LGBT sexualities in schools also has led to increased pressure on peers to take on an LGBT lifestyle, Sanzi confirmed. This pressure, she added, hits girls especially hard.<\/p>\n Sanzi shared several stories parents told her of groups of girls that fell one after the other into LGBT identities.<\/p>\n \u201cI talked to a dad who said that his daughter was quitting her travel team for soccer, because all the girls were suddenly identifying as some sort of sexual gender identity. And that the pressure on his daughter to do the same was so ridiculous<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Often, children face pressure to become LGBT from a number of sources at once, said Sanzi. A child might hear about a gender identity online and have questions. Mentioning those to friends brings quick approval. Mentioning questions to some teachers or school counselors can lead to encouragement to assume new pronouns, Sanzi said.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s why so many parents talk about how they feel so ganged up on,<\/em>\u201d she explained. \u201cThey\u2019re like, \u2018I went to the school. They were against me. I took my kid to a therapist. They work against me.\u2019 Everyone is going along with what the parent feels like is a delusion<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n In Front of Children<\/strong><\/p>\n Today, the LGBT ideology is the \u201creligion<\/em>\u201d of American life, said Delano Squires, life, religion, and family expert at The Heritage Foundation.<\/p>\n \u201cWe already live in a religious society<\/em>,\u201d Squires said. \u201cThe most dominant denomination right now is everything having to do with the LGBT community.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Christianity should rule America\u2019s \u201cpublic square\u201d because America\u2019s government was built to run on Christian culture, Squires said. There\u2019s no such thing as an empty public square.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat a more Christianized public square would look like in this most immediate term would be to bend back some of the craziness that we\u2019ve been riding for the last five to 10 years<\/em>,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n In contrast, the dominance of the \u201cLGBT religion\u201d has unleashed \u201ca wave of confusion, particularly for young people<\/em>,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He said he opposes \u201cDrag Queen Conservatism,\u201d the perspective that anyone should have the right to do anything in public.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s always been a \u2018closet\u2019 in every society since the beginning of time<\/em>,\u201d Squires said. \u201cSome things, people only do in the privacy of their homes<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n An America dominated by the public religion of the LGBT movement will face cultural cataclysm, he said. And a generation raised on this religion will experience immense suffering when their beliefs clash with reality.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re going to have a generation of children who look back on this period of time with not just regret on a personal level, but intense anger, on a more systemic level, directed towards the adults who would not tell them \u2018No,\u2019<\/em>\u201d Squires said.<\/p>\n No Escape<\/strong><\/p>\n According to Sarah, the Internet means that every American shares the same public square.<\/p>\n \u201cThe kids are getting all their values and morals from social media<\/em>,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Rebecca\u2019s classmates see it as normal to discuss sexual orientation with fellow fifth graders, Sarah said. They often pressured Rebecca to declare an LGBT identity, and they showed her inappropriate media she was too ashamed to reveal to her mom. And Rebecca has refused to name the girls pressuring her.<\/p>\n So her mother suggested requesting a new lunchtime at school and proposed looking for other ways to avoid those children.<\/p>\n \u201cEven if you do that, they\u2019re gonna find a way to get to me<\/em>,\u201d Rebecca fretted. \u201cThey\u2019re not going to leave me alone<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Eventually, Rebecca told her classmates she was bisexual so they would stop bothering her, Sarah said.<\/p>\n \u201cShe knew that she didn\u2019t feel that way. She knew the abuse that she had when she was younger, that she hated that. She felt such shame that she didn\u2019t want to do that. She had this huge inner turmoil. And it came out by literally hitting us, literally biting us. Crying. She didn\u2019t know how to verbalize what was going on<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Continued exposure to talk about sexuality makes Rebecca\u2019s problem worse, Sarah said.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat about those kids that are similar to my daughter, who have had things forced upon them?<\/em>\u201d Sarah worries. \u201cAnd now they\u2019re all talking about sexuality like it\u2019s supposed to be a part of a 12-year-old\u2019s life<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Sarah plans to work with the school to protect her daughter. Between classes and during breaks, the plan is for Rebecca to be allowed to listen to music on headphones, so she doesn\u2019t have to hear talk of LGBT issues. She\u2019ll eat lunch with a friend in the library, and she\u2019ll attend special classes to help with emotional issues. The school also changed her schedule to help her avoid the girls who were pressuring her.<\/p>\n Pronoun Problems<\/strong><\/p>\n But the problem stretches far beyond the school hallways of North Dakota.<\/p>\n A student at Maine\u2019s Gorham High School told The Epoch Times<\/em> that he faces an overwhelming amount of pro-LGBT posters, pamphlets, school requirements, and pressure from students in his \u201cpublic square.\u201d<\/p>\n The student asked to be identified only as HB because he was worried about the repercussions of telling his story.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s gotten to the point where it\u2019s kind of annoying, because they\u2019re plastering it all over their walls<\/em>,\u201d he said of the school\u2019s pro-LGBT messaging, which includes \u201cposters showing gender pronouns on how you should address one another<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n A worksheet at Gorham High School in Gorham, Maine asks students to share information about \u201cattraction\u201d with teachers that they haven\u2019t talked about with others. (Courtesy of HB)<\/em><\/p>\n The Epoch Times<\/em> reached out to Gorham High School, but did not receive a response.<\/p>\n Teachers at Gorham spotlight LGBT ideology to students in many ways, HB said.<\/p>\n \u201cThey showed us one video where they would have a bunch of teachers say their names, and some of them were mentioning their pronouns<\/em>,\u201d he said. \u201cThey do the same thing with papers, too. They ask you what your pronouns are<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n The school held a \u201cBanned Books Week<\/em>\u201d where it handed out the \u201c13 Reasons Why<\/em>\u201d to students, HB said. The book includes obscenities, such as a teenager stroking a girl under her underwear, and shares plans on how to commit suicide.<\/p>\n On impressionable high school students, this consistent focus has a huge effect, HB said. He estimated that about a third of his classmates strongly promote the use of preferred gender pronouns.<\/p>\n Internet Warriors<\/strong><\/p>\n Students often also adopt an aggressive attitude in promoting their new sexualities, especially online, HB said.<\/p>\n \u201cYou have to get their pronouns down and get them right, or they\u2019re gonna be angry at you like it\u2019s the end of the world<\/em>,\u201d HB said.<\/p>\n In person, however, the LGBT students tend to be less aggressive, he added. Even so, students often display outrage over the incorrect use of their preferred pronouns.<\/p>\n \u201cSome of them just, like, go crazy about all the pronoun stuff. Like, I could hear them in class talking about it<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n HB thinks that announcing \u201cpreferred gender pronouns<\/em>\u201d is here to stay. He figures he\u2019ll most likely enter adulthood in a world where employers, schools, and others demand his pronouns from him.<\/p>\n \u201cI hope it\u2019s just the trend and people will eventually get over it<\/em>,\u201d he said. \u201cBut with the amount of people that are doing it, it\u2019s probably not going to be over for a little bit.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Students who don\u2019t believe in constantly announcing their pronouns have learned to cope with the madness, HB said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve just lived our normal lives, and when we see all the crazy stuff happening around us, we just look at it and we laugh<\/em>,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd then we just move on with our day. We act like it never happened.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n yogaesoteric <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a small, conservative town in North Dakota, 12-year-old Rebecca has faced unrelenting pressure from friends to announce an LGBT identity. 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