It’s common this time in a heated election year for mailboxes to yield an alarming amount of brightly colored mass mailers from campaigns and PACs making a last-minute appeal to potential voters. Texans, however, were shocked more than usual this week when they received a blue and pink pamphlet purporting to be a “Texas Trans & LGBTQ+ Student Resource Guide.”
The brochures, addressed to the “students” of said households, were reportedly distributed across the state, including to families in Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs, the greater Houston area, Longview, Lubbock, and Midland. They effectively serve as a grooming guide that encourages gender-confused kids to stealthily seek the counsel and “support” of other adults who will facilitate their attempts to secure “transition” in the form of chemical castration or physical sterilization.
Corporate media such as the Texas Tribune claim that the pamphlets are “false” or “fake” simply because the Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT), the transgender activism organization prominently featured in the brochure, claims it didn’t send the pamphlet. Some wondered if it was an election stunt designed to hurt Texas Democrats’ trans children-loving Senate candidate James Talarico.
Yet, nothing in the mailers misrepresents the trans coalition’s tactics. In fact, some pages of the were taken straight out of the radical transgender ideology playbook.
“This and school choice are my two major reasons for casting a vote today,” one Texas mother told The Federalist.
The What
The first page of the transgender pamphlet points children with questions about “out-of-state” puberty blockers or genital mutilation to several transgender organizations. The next page of the unfurled brochure explains what minors should do if they desire to be legally emancipated from parents deemed unsupportive of their gender confusion or homosexual desires.
“If you’re trans, nonbinary, or questioning and your family, school, or community isn’t supportive, you don’t have to figure everything out by yourself,” the first paragraph of the brochure’s inside fold states.
The pamphlet concludes by reassuring kids “you don’t have to know whether you’re definitely trans,” “you don’t have to convince your parents,” and “your job right now is to stay safe, find people who will listen to you, and give yourself time to figure out who you are.”
“There are other kids in Texas going through this too – and there are adults whose actual job is to help you. Even if your family doesn’t accept you as you are, groups like these are ready to become your found family,” the message reads.
The back of the mailer links to the TENT’s now-scrubbed resources page, which featured its youth resources partnership with Lambda Legal and ACLU of TX and links to a list of “anti-trans bills” and “voting while trans” advice.
Also printed on the brochure is a schedule of TENT’s “Trans Texas Takeover,” a statewide tour dedicated to build “power within our community for the Texas legislative fight this coming spring.”
The Who
It’s unclear exactly who mailed the guides, an ordeal that likely cost tens of thousands if not millions of dollars. The return address on the pamphlet claims to belong to the “Texas Transgender Student Union,” but that entity was only created in September in Wyoming. Further research suggests the “1611 W Airport Blvd, Suite 123 Meadows Place, TX” address listed in the return location on the envelope is just a handful of digits off from the address listed in an archived version of the TENT website.
And while the brochure relies heavily on imagery and resources from TENT, the trans activist group disavowed involvement in “authoring, authorizing, approving, or distributing” the pamphlets and texts.
The organization’s now-scrubbed website simply features a one-page statement claiming that the texts specifically “do not represent the official position or communications of the organization” — no word on the mailers. The message concludes with a gif of Mariah Carey singing “why you so obsessed with me?”
Notably missing from that statement is any indication that TENT disagrees with the contents of the brochure. That’s because, based on their archived website and social media activity, they and the other pro-LGBT organizations listed likely don’t.
The Why
One of the most jarring claims made in the brochure is that gender-confused kids with parents who question their confusion or refuse to indulge it should look for affirmation from other adults. The idea that parental rights mean nothing if a kid decides he or she stakes their identity on delusions about their sex is a pillar of the transgender coalition’s activism.
The results of the years-long campaign to isolate and then liberate gender confused children from their pesky parents is evident: deceitful ballot measures designed to override parental consent laws so gender-confused kids can get on cross-sex hormones or secure genital amputation without permission, taxpayer-funded and covert grooming operations in schools and military bases, and even state-sponsored kidnappings by social workers who use parents’ beliefs about sex as justification for ripping children from their custody.
It’s not uncommon for large LGBT organizations to encourage kids facing so-called “rejection, discrimination, or a lack of understanding” to see activists (instead of friends and family) as their support system. The Trevor Project page about “support systems” evens features a “quick exit” function that allows children researching transgenderism to swiftly ditch their discoveries if a nosey parent interrupts their web-surfing.
It’s also not uncommon for those same organizations to promote out-of-state options for kids who live in states where chemical castration and transgender mutilation are banned. The Human Rights Campaign’s website features an entire page dedicated to “Emergency Funds for Relocating and Supporting Families and Transgender Individuals,” including the The North Texas TRANSportation Network, which claims to “provide travel and relocation grants to North Texas families seeking out-of-state health care for trans and gender-expansive youth.”
We don’t know and we might not ever know who mailed these pamphlets. What we do know is that even though the social contagion that is transgenderism is losing its appeal with younger generations, the radical LGBT activist arm that touts it is still going strong.
Organizations such as TENT might not have personally signed off on or paid for these brochures, but even they didn’t quibble with the content of the handout. Election stunt or not, the end goal of transing kids against their parents’ or states’ objections has remained the same regardless of how Texans find out about it.
