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by Jackson Elliott,
In a small, conservative town in North Dakota, 12-year-old Rebecca has faced unrelenting pressure from friends to announce an LGBT identity. It’s a pressure she doesn’t want or need, according to her mother, Sarah.
The two asked to have their full names withheld to prevent them from being identified, which, they fear, would exacerbate the problem.
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.
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’t even old enough to mentally process the trauma she experienced.
Among young girls, it’s a common trend now for friend groups to suddenly all announce an LGBT gender identity because it’s cool, experts say. And children often suddenly choose a new gender identity as a result of intense peer pressure, experts say.
Rebecca has experienced this pressure. And for some children, it might be easier to dismiss.
But for Rebecca, every time classmates pressure her to announce a non-heterosexual identity, it returns her trauma to the surface, her mother said.
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.
And that’s harmful, she said.
“A fifth grader often still believes in Santa Claus,” Sanzi said. “They 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.”
Secret Suffering
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.
One day, Rebecca started crying and begged her parents not to send her back to school anymore.
“The other girls that I’m around in school say that they’re gay or lesbian, and they are trying to force me to be like that, too,’” Rebecca confessed to Sarah.
She was shocked.
The school, town, and state generally seem to espouse predominantly conservative values, Sarah said. But it’s 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.
“There’s no reason for any 12-year-old to be talking about their sex life or anything regarding that,“ Sarah said. ”It should be nonexistent” as a topic for children.
But experiences like Rebecca’s 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.
“Schools have become blanketed in political messaging around the topic of LGBTQ,” Sanzi said. And the most concerning aspect of this focus on LGBT sexuality is the “T,” she added. She believes widespread encouragement of transgenderism in school endangers children.
And it’s troubling, she said, when a “safe space” means for girls that “biological 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.”
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.
Source: https://www.theepochtimes.com
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