A significant subset of people I know believe that the uprising against alphabet ideology is the result of a moral panic.

Moral panics are very real and a pervasive theme in history. The Salem Witch Trials, for instance, were the result of a moral panic. In the 1980s millions of Americans became convinced that daycare facilities were run by Satan-worshipping child molesters, and while nobody was burned at the stake some people went to jail, and lives were ruined. The New York Times called it, aptly, the Satanic Panic.

There were no witches or Satan-worshipping child-care workers draining blood from babies, yet lives were ruined and millions of people bought into the story.

In this case, though, to the extent that there is a moral panic going on it is the myth that there is a “trans-genocide” and that social conservatives are engaged in a witch hunt in which kids are psychologically tortured, books are banned, and drag performers are being driven out of society.

There is no "genocide against trans people":
FBI crime stats for 2020: a total of 266 hate crimes against transgender people, 44 murdered. Murder rate of 2.66/100,000 transgender vs. general population of 6.52/100,000.’ In 2021 32 were murdered, so lower:https://t.co/FLy3EHJ8KL

— Michael Shermer (@michaelshermer) April 29, 2023

None of this is remotely true. Nobody cares about drag shows except when they are aimed at children; not stocking books in middle-school libraries is not banning them, unless you believe that 99.999% of all books are banned (since so few books can be held in any library, no less a middle-school one), and the only people psychologically torturing kids are those who are telling them that they will kill themselves unless they go on puberty blockers, hormones, and eventually get mutilated.

What is happening is something very different: children are indeed being groomed, sexualized, and psychologically ruined for the pleasure and self-satisfaction of adults. “Diversity” is not being celebrated; “tolerance” is not being promoted (quite the opposite!); pornography is being shoved in the faces of children; and kids are literally being recruited to perform for the sexual delight of adults.

Like this:

Pedophiles. They’re fighting for the “rights” of a 13 year old to do drag so they can fulfill their wicked, deviant fantasies. These adults in attendance belong in prison.

— T.J. Moe (@TJMoe28) April 29, 2023

This performance–and I assume it was one of many since there is active recruitment of children to perform drag, including summer camps–was sponsored by a gay dating application named “Jack’D.” Not sure how much clearer one can be regarding the intention behind the performance.

This would be no different than a heterosexual hookup app recruiting pubescent girls to do non-nude stripteases for the visual pleasure of an audience. Surely everybody would recoil at that. At least I hope so.

Governments are sponsoring drag summer camps for kids, subsidizing the recruitment of kids as young as 7 to become drag performers.

Objecting to this is not a war on drag. That would be like arguing that preventing 7-year-olds from going into R-rated movies is a war on art. I love the John Wick movies but wouldn’t take a young child to one, and wouldn’t consider taking a kid under 13-15 either. I am perfectly fine with theaters denying entrance to minors without a parent.

It is simply a recognition that age-appropriateness matters. The same with books. Shoving a book that informs kids about how to log onto Grindr in the face of a 10 or 12-year-old is grooming them, and preventing these books from being distributed in schools is hardly extreme.

Anybody who can look you in the eye and claim that this movement is not turning kids into sexual objects is either lying to you or is willfully blind. There are plenty of both types; more of the latter than the former, I am certain, because opposing the sexualization of kids puts you on the fast track to being canceled in modern America.

A 13-year-old drag queen performs at an event as adults cheer him on pic.twitter.com/ovzpR22jvP

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 24, 2023

The alphabet people and their advocates are calling us “book banners” for removing certain books from school libraries. One of the most defended of the books–and most attacked by parents and people who want to defend children–is “This Book is Gay.”

The title is genius because it makes anybody who objects to providing the book to kids seem homophobic. But the gay part of the book isn’t the truly objectionable part, but rather it is a surfeit of practical advice it gives to kids about hooking up with adults to have sex. Literally, it does that.

This book does not belong in school libraries. Nobody is suggesting it be “banned” from purchase in bookstores. Any parent who gives this to their kid is insane, but no laws will prevent it.

But the state should not be promoting it to children, and yet it is prominently featured and promoted by school libraries as a book for LGBT-curious kids to check out.

Unsurprisingly, given the pro-groomer ideology, it is actually very controversial for parents to object to their kids encountering this book in schools, no less being encouraged to read it. But it is.

Somehow arguing that middle-school kids shouldn’t be hopping onto sex hookup apps makes you a medieval witch hunter.

The agenda, if you pay attention, is easy to see. But nobody wants to see it, or if they do they are scared to confront it. Those of us who speak up are vilified as homophobes and transphobes.

The photo on the article you're quoting features a book with explicit illustrations of sex acts, a book about incest, one a sex story about two 10 year old boys, one about a man raping and isolating a 12 year old girl, one about a teen girl who seduces a man who kidnaps her… https://t.co/5nmzaXAWTU

— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) April 30, 2023

You have probably heard the mantra that “trans kids are under attack,” which is the opposite of the case. Critics of transgender ideology are desperately trying to save children from sexual abuse.

It is true, in a sense, that so-called “trans” kids are under attack, but it is by those promoting this hideous and destructive ideology.

Gosh, @kevinbacon really wants drag queens reading to your kids.pic.twitter.com/2B0pEeNKaC

— Billboard Chris 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@BillboardChris) April 25, 2023

Unfortunately, you can’t wake people up by screaming in their faces “Don’t you see?!” You come off as seeming crazy. It never ever works. It takes patience and repetition, gently force people to confront the reality that is before their eyes. The fact is that this is permitted because the vast majority of people are either ignoring it is happening (true of some), or telling themselves that this is a rare aberration.

I fear my kids are too old to begin any kind of drag careers. I’m worried about their futures in entertainment. pic.twitter.com/t3LcTbZLjp

— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 29, 2023

It is not fringe, though. It is everywhere. In schools, in libraries, on TV, and in government-sponsored camps. It is everywhere.

As you know, I am in the screaming from the rooftops mode 24/7/365, but let’s be frank: the Hot Air audience is not the group that needs persuasion, so there is no point in being patient or sugar-coating my message. My role is to, in the very limited way that any one person can, reach others who have family members and friends who should be converted to our cause through reason.

All of us need to be armed with examples so we can reach the reachable, and that is what I am trying to do.

I pray that it does some good.