Parental rights champion demands answers after Facebook allegedly branded her with child sexual abuse warning



A California-based champion for parental rights recently discovered that searches for her name on Instagram and Facebook prompted a warning stating, "Child sexual abuse is illegal."

Sonja Shaw, president of the Chino Valley Unified School District and a Christian mother, is now demanding answers from the tech giant, which has allegedly done this to parental rights advocates on more than one occasion.

Background

Shaw has won the loathing of radical leftists for cluing parents in to what's happening with their children at school and enabling parents to challenge obscene content made accessible to students.

Under her leadership, CVUSD became the first district in the state to embrace a policy whereby school officials must inform parents if their kids request to use the bathroom intended for members of the opposite sex as well as if their confused children ask to use names and pronouns that don't correspond with reality or their official documents, reported the Los Angeles Times.

Shaw and other CVUSD officials have been threatened for taking this stand.

The Mercury News reported that Berkeley resident Rebecca Morgan was arrested on Aug. 1 on suspicion of threatening Shaw and others. Shaw indicated the vicious threats targeted not only her but her children and pets as well.

Like Morgan, the Newsom administration was also apparently prickled by Shaw's defiance of gender ideology.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta took legal action against Shaw's district on Aug. 28, claiming it violated privacy laws regarding transvestite students. In October, a San Bernardino County Superior Court judge blocked the district from enforcing some of the related policies until the case was resolved.

It's not just deranged threats and an antipathetic state government that Shaw has had to deal with.

Tactically branded

The Liberty Justice Center, which represents Shaw, penned a letter Tuesday to Meta Platforms' chief legal officer, Jennifer Newstead, noting that public searches for Shaw's name turned up the following message: "Child sexual abuse is illegal[.] We think that your search might be associated with child sexual abuse."

"Child sexual abuse or viewing sexual imagery of children can lead to imprisonment and other sever personal consequences," continues the Facebook warning. "This abuse causes extreme harm to children and searching and viewing such material adds to that harm. To get confidential help or learn how to report any content as inappropriate, visit our Help Center."

Users seeking Shaw or information about her on the Meta platforms were then allegedly given two options: see how to report child sex abuse content or get help.

According to the Liberty Justice Center, this "egregiously false statement" implied that Shaw "herself has been associated with child sexual abuse, which of course is FALSE."

Shaw and the legal group are skeptical that this was a mistake, noting that something similar happened to Nick Wilson, a Republican running for election to the California State Assembly.

RedState indicated that the problem affecting the parental rights advocates persisted until various high-profile users began drawing attention to the error.

Alex Villanueva, a former Los Angeles County Sheriff awaiting the results for how he fared in a primary election for the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, noted Monday that "Meta has moved from shadow banning/throttling to outright trolling of those who defend children from abuse and/or support parental rights."

BREAKING: @Meta has moved from shadow banning/throttling to outright trolling of those who defend children from abuse and/or support parental rights: Here is their own fake search engine result:\n@latimes \n@FOXLA \n@KTLANEWSDESK \n@SpecNews1SoCal \n@JohnKobyltRadio \n@jenvanlaar
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Buck Dougherty, senior counsel with the Liberty Justice Center, noted in a statement that "what is additionally troubling about Meta's false publication is that it appears to be calculated to retaliate against Ms. Shaw for her outspoken support and advocacy on behalf of parental rights in pending litigation by the California Attorney General against the Chino Valley Unified School District."

While acknowledging that Meta has since taken corrective action, the Liberty Justice Center said Shaw "has further concerns."

The Liberty Justice Center demanded an explanation as well as written assurance that Meta and its employees would not falsely brand Shaw again.

The firm further noted that "Ms. Shaw intends to exhaust all available legal remedies available to her on her own behalf, as well as Chino Valley Unified School District's behalf" to address the alleged efforts by Meta and its employees to "improperly interfere with ongoing litigation in California courts" involving the parental rights advocate and the CVUSD.

Shaw wrote on X, "Disgusted and horrified by Meta's baseless attack. No proof, just retaliation for defending parental rights???? Stand strong with me against their cowardly and despicable tactics. #TruthPrevails."

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'They want to trans children so badly': Maine's 'transgender trafficking bill' likely to pass and trigger interstate battle



Democratic state Rep. Anne Perry's LD 227, dubbed the "Transgender Trafficker Protection Act" by critics, is a radical piece of legislation that would codify the right to sex-change mutilations and abortion in Maine, shield sex-change surgeons from consequence, and bar authorities from notifying parents of the locations of their kidnapped children if those kids are said to be seeking "gender-affirming care" in the state.

In recent weeks, LD 227 was condemned by Republican lawmakers, the Maine Sheriffs' Association, and 16 state attorneys general who indicated that it was unconstitutional.

The parental rights advocacy group Courage Is a Habit led a massive campaign this month to raise awareness about LD 227 and get it killed in committee.

The eight Democrats on Maine's Joint Standing Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services were evidently unswayed by parents' concerns and the overwhelming backlash, voting Thursday to advance LD 227.

Fellow travelers in the Maine Legislature and the governor's mansion will now likely see LD 227 through to becoming law, thereby setting up an interstate battle.

"This was already defeated in January," Courage Is a Habit president Alvin Lui told Blaze News, referencing the death of LD 1735, a similar piece of legislation killed in committee. "But they want to trans children so badly, and they want to separate them from their parents so badly, that they're getting it through by piggybacking on the abortion bill."

The bill

Blaze News previously reported that in addition to codifying the legal right to sex-change mutilations and abortions without age or time limits, LD 227:

  • helps health care practitioners escape professional discipline and legal accountability for crimes related to sex-change procedures performed in and outside Maine;
  • authorizes persons targeted with criminal or administrative action to sue those seeking to hold them accountable;
  • requires insurance companies to cover sex-change procedures but not the health care needs of detransitioners;
  • effectively prevents law enforcement from reuniting parents with children who have run away or been taken to Maine for abortions or sex changes; and
  • allows virtually any adult to take a child across state lines for "gender-affirming care" even if the kid is not their own or is "incapacitated."

Republican state Rep. Laurel Libby confirmed that under LD 227, an individual could take a child "from another state against the parents' wishes" to Maine for sex-change procedures.

"And Maine law enforcement would have their hands tied. Maine judiciary would have their hands tied — would not be able to actually help return that child to their lawful parents," added Libby.

Lui previously told Blaze News, "This is the nastiest bill I've ever seen. Even worse than anything that I've seen come out of California. I never thought I would say that."

The opposition

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti and 15 other state attorneys general, convinced the bill was animated by a "totalitarian impulse to stifle dissent and oppress dissenters," told Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills in a March 11 letter that LD 227 is unconstitutional and "seeks to contravene the lawful policy choices of our States' citizens by imposing on the rest of the country Maine's views on hotly debated issues such as gender transition surgeries for children."

The attorneys general indicated they would take action if the bill was passed and ratified. Now that federal battle is all but guaranteed.

Mary-Anne LaMarre, executive director of the Maine Sheriffs' Association, stressed to the committee members Thursday that LD 227 "has unanimous opposition of Maine Sheriff's Association's legislative policy committee."

LaMarre noted that the association was "unable to find anyone that was consulted on the language of the bill."

Maine law enforcement fully rejects this horrendous Transgender Trafficking bill, LD 227
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Courage Is a Habit, various individual parental rights advocates, and some critics of gender ideology, including All-American swim star Riley Gaines, rallied against LD 227 and attempted to focus pressure on the Democratic committee members who ultimately supported the legislation.

The result and response

The bill cleared committee in an 8-4 vote along party lines.

Sens. Donna Bailey (D) and Cameron Reny (D), along with Reps. Poppy Arford (D), Anne Perry (D), Sally Cluchey (D), Anne-Marie Mastraccio (D), Kristi Michele Mathieson (D), and Jane Pringle (D) voted in the affirmative.

It will now go to the state House floor for a vote.

Video of the vote, with all 8 Democrats voting for the revamped Trans Trafficking bill to pass committee
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Planned Parenthood, an incentivized champion of the legislation, celebrated the advancement of LD 227.

Lis Margulies, vice president of public affairs for Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, said in a statement, "Mainers can be proud today that 8 elected leaders said loudly and clearly: We will protect our state's health care providers and access to care from extremist attack."

"We have seen over the past few weeks that people both inside and outside of our state who are opposed to this safe, legal medical care will not stop their attempts to take away our rights and freedoms, and the protections provide [sic] by LD 227 are a step forward in ensuring Maine's clinicians can continue offering safe, legal medical care without fear of hostile actions from out-of-state actors," added Margulies.

When previously blasting the state attorneys general for taking issue with LD 227, Planned Parenthood recycled the now-debunked suggestion that sex-change procedures amount to "life-saving medical care."

The LGBT outfit Equality Maine similarly was delighted by the result, calling it "great news."

LGBT activist Erin Reed, Montana Democratic state Rep. Zooey Zephyr's boyfriend, tweeted, "A huge number of people emailed the legislators to let them know that bomb threats and the 'terrorists veto' should not be respected in Maine. But the work isn't done for those seeking to make Maine a safe state for all."

Courage Is a Habit responded on X, writing, "This is an all out war on children."

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Lui told Blaze News that there are two big takeaways for Americans. First, it is important to recognize that gender ideologues are playing a "long game." Accordingly, they are not dissuaded by short-term losses. By the same token, conservative victories — such as the defeat of LD 1735 — cannot be taken for granted or treated as definitive.

Second, Lui indicated that while critical battles are fought at the legislative level, the bulk of the war against radical gender ideology is cultural and fought locally.

"It's a good reminder that people transform their culture. [Gender ideologues] will stop at nothing to come after your children — until the cult is completely dismantled, until they're sued into oblivion," said Lui. "The transgender social contagion begins at school with school counselors; pronouns; keeping things from parents; all the transgender propaganda within the culture of the school; the teachers; the social workers; equity policies."

"So if parents really want to dismantle the cult, to end the social contagion, [they have to do it] at the school level," said the parental rights advocate.

Lui further suggested that a failure to prevent the indoctrination of younger generations in schools will guarantee more victims for the "cult" and an uphill battle in legislatures around the country.

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Maine Democrats push 'totalitarian' rebuild of defeated 'transgender trafficking bill' — with national implications



Democratic lawmakers in Maine attempted to pass a radical bill earlier this year that threatened to allow the state to seize custody of children whose parents — both in and outside Maine — refused them sex-change mutilations and other irreversible medical interventions.

Following a successful pressure campaign led by the parental rights advocacy group Courage Is a Habit and some mild Republican pushback, LD 1735, dubbed the "transgender trafficking bill" by critics, was killed in committee.

Maine Democrats are evidently not finished with their apparent attempts to break up families, shield sex-change surgeons from consequence, and altogether codify gender ideology in the state. In fact, they have doubled down, rolling some of the most consequential elements of LD 1735 into a new bill, Democratic state Rep. Anne Perry's LD 227.

A state committee will consider whether to advance LD 227 Thursday, affording critics just one more day to make their opposition known and potentially stop the initiative in its tracks.

Overview

Courage Is a Habit president Alvin Lui told Blaze News, "This is the nastiest bill I've ever seen. Even worse than anything that I've seen come out of California. I never thought I would say that."

LD 227 — referred to by Lui and other critics as the "Transgender Trafficker Protection Act" — would prohibit "interference" with abortions or sex-change mutilations, protect medical practitioners from lawsuits, and conceal the known whereabouts of interstate child runaways from their parents, among other things.

Already 16 state attorneys general have threatened action against Maine if the bill passes, noting in a March 11 letter to Maine Gov. Janet Mills that LD 227 "seeks to contravene the lawful policy choices of our States' citizens by imposing on the rest of the country Maine's views on hotly debated issues such as gender transition surgeries for children."

Extra to underscoring the federal implications and unconstitutional nature of the bill, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti and the other attorneys general suggested LD 227 is animated by a "totalitarian impulse to stifle dissent and oppress dissenters."

If passed and ratified, then the fates of LD 227 and the children it would victimize might ultimately be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. However, Courage Is a Habit has stressed that there is time left for Maine residents and other objectors to help sink it.

On Thursday, the following eight Democratic Maine lawmakers will determine whether to advance the bill in committee: Sens. Donna Bailey (D) and Cameron Reny (D), along with Reps. Poppy Arford (D), Anne Perry (D), Sally Cluchey (D), Anne-Marie Mastraccio (D), Kristi Michele Mathieson (D), and Jane Pringle (D).

Courage Is a Habit has created a simple form for individuals looking to share their thoughts about LD 227 with Maine lawmakers.

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'Transgender Trafficker Protection Act'

According to a recent draft of LD 227, the bill would apparently:

  • codify the legal right to sex-change mutilations and abortions without stipulating any age or time limits;
  • hinder efforts by states and persons to take legal action against health professionals involved in the facilitation or execution of sex-change medical interventions and abortions, apparently even in the case of medical malpractice;
  • spare health care practitioners from professional discipline based on crimes, civil actions, or convictions in other states for sex-change or abortion-related actions deemed acceptable in Maine;
  • authorize persons targeted with criminal or administrative action for their hand in "engaging in or for aiding and assisting legally protected health care activity" to "bring a civil action in this State for damages, punitive damages and equitable relief" — ostensibly meaning surgeons could sue detransitioners who bring malpractice suits;
  • prevent Maine law enforcement from notifying the parents of those child runaways said to be pursuing abortions or sex changes;
  • enable virtually any adult to take a child across state lines to Maine for "gender-affirming care" even if the child is not their own or "incapacitated"; and
  • prevent the arrest of persons "if the arrest is related to criminal liability that is based on legally protected health care activity or aiding and assisting legally protected health care activity."

"It's everything that LD 1735 was supposed to be, except it adds a bunch of other things," Lui told Blaze News.

For instance, Lui indicated LD 277 forces insurance companies to cover all sex-change procedures, but not the health care needs of detransitioners or therapy to resolve existing comorbidities before taking sterilizing sex-change drugs. It also "adds in protection for the transgender traffickers."

"So if somebody's blue-haired liberal aunt or some neighbor takes a child over to Maine, [the state] won't contact the parents — which was in the original transgender trafficking bill," continued Lui. "But now ... the parents can't sue. They can't say, 'Wait a minute, that adult has kidnapped my child to Maine so that they could get a surgery.'"

Republican state Rep. Laurel Libby recently confirmed that the blue-haired aunt from Lui's hypothetical who takes her "niece from another state against the parents' wishes would be allowed to do that. And Maine law enforcement would have their hands tied. Maine judiciary would have their hands tied — would not be able to actually help return that child to their lawful parents."

Libby emphasized that LD 227 is the "worst bill [she] has ever seen come through the legislature."

"The worst bill I have ever seen." \n\nRep. Laurel Libby expertly destroys the left-wing narratives regarding the revamped Transgender Trafficking bill.
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Federal implications and junk science

Attorney Joel Thornton, the COO and director of Advocacy for Child and Parental Rights Campaign, said LD 227 "is pretty outrageous as it extends the state's authority throughout the United States to protect what Maine is declaring to be the law in Maine, and effectively making it the law of the land to anyone who happens to be in Maine."

According to the letter from the opposed state attorneys general to Gov. Mills, "LD 227 not only purports to shield from liability those offering or aiding the provision of unlawful services to citizens located in our States — a provision Planned Parenthood asserts would 'safeguard' Maine providers and patients from 'out-of-state laws that ban or restrict care that is legal in Maine.'"

"The law also creates a private right of action for damages against law enforcement, prosecutors, and other officials in our States who are enforcing our own valid state laws, even laws whose constitutionality has been confirmed by federal appellate courts," continued the letter. "On top of that, LD 227 purports to block valid orders and judgments from our state courts enforcing laws upheld by federal appellate courts."

The attorneys general reduced Maine's proposed law as an unconstitutional and "novel effort at a state-sanctioned culture war litigation tourism."

Extra to likely running afoul of federal law, Lui highlighted how LD 227 relies on junk science, namely that given a gloss by the World Professional Association for Trangender Health.

The understanding of "gender-affirming health care" central to the legislation is, after all, defined in accordance with supposed expertise "in the field of gender-affirming care including in the Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People ... published by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health."

Blaze News recently noted that leaked internal documents reveal there are serious concerns behind closed doors at WPATH over the debilitating and potentially fatal side effects of sex-change procedures as well as over the inability for children to provide informed consent for so-called "gender-affirming care."

The pseudo-scientific nature of "gender-affirming care" has become all the more clear in recent months:

  • England's National Health Service banned puberty blockers for minors, highlighting both their dangers and a dearth of evidence to support their efficacy.
  • Finland's leading child psychiatrist Riittakerttu Kaltiala told her government that the vast majority of kids will grow out of the delusion that their gender and sex are misaligned.
  • A massive Finnish studypublished in the esteemed quarterly journal BMJ Mental Health concluded that "medical gender reassignment does not have an impact on suicide risk."

Blaze News reached out to the sponsor of LD 277, Demoratic state Rep. Anne Perry, for comment. She did not, however, provide a response by deadline.

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Domestic extremist or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the mom



The powers that be wanted to lock up Innocent Smith or have him committed. After all, the protagonist of G.K. Chesterton's "Manalive" — who figured a rooftop the ideal spot for a picnic and bullets life-giving "pills" for pessimists — had been accused of burglary, polygamy, desertion, and attempted murder.

Investigators soon discovered, however, that as his name would suggest, Smith was innocent.

Smith broke into his own house; had a torrid love affair with his own wife; walked "round the world" only to develop a greater appreciation for his home; and provided a nihilistic depressive with a newfound desire to live by way of the cocked-hammer tactic Tyler Durden would later embrace in "Fight Club."

Smith ruffled feathers and risked imprisonment because he "distinguished between custom and creed. He has broken the conventions, but he has kept the commandments." His peers considered him to be an extremist because he was radically in the right.

Peachy Keenan, contributing editor to the American Mind whose throwbacks to Chesterton prompted mine, hasn't waved a six-shooter threateningly at ghoulish intellectuals or consumed meals on her rooftop — not to my knowledge, anyway. She is, nonetheless, like Smith, another radical from that creedal bunch, who understands that life is better following ten God-given rules than chasing the 10,000 fads presently held dear by today's powers and principalities, especially when those fads lead to misery and ruin.

In her must-read 2023 book, "Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War" — for which a paperback edition is forthcoming — Mrs. Keenan indicts the fads and conventions that have ailed the United States and other Western nations, then offers a prescription for a way to turn things around.

Much ink has been spilled in recent years elaborating on grandiose strategies for fixing the nation. There has been, for instance, talk of regime change in Washington, reining in big business on Wall Street, and a reconquest of the universities.

Mrs. Keenan, a former pro-choice atheist who is now the God-fearing matriarch of a large Catholic family, alternatively makes a strong case for a solution much closer to home.

In "Domestic Extremist," Mrs. Keenan catalogs everything that feminism and the corresponding -isms on the left have taken away from or suppressed in Americans, American women in particular. These include parental authority; child-bearing years and fertility; the maternal instinct; female virtues such as modesty and chastity; mental and spiritual well-being; and the natural complementarity between the sexes.

While the clock has sadly run out for multitudes of victims and useful idiots, Keenan stresses that not all alive today are condemned to a similar fate — especially not if they act now.

Her thesis, in a word, comes down to "domesticity"; as in, all Americans should fully embrace it and never let go.

There are strong indicators that domesticity is the way back to sanity and victory, not only because it served our forebears well enough for eons, but because of what evils can be directly linked to its suppression.

Mrs. Keenan notes with precision and biting humor precisely how feminism transformed countless female adherents into the Borg: dispirited, sterile, and interchangeable units of labor encouraged to suppress instinct, abort children, and ape supposedly masculine traits in pursuit of meaningless status and the benefit of their antihuman overseers; the noncommittal men happy to swipe right on the next conquest; employers spared from having an employee depart for maternity leave; and a fertility industry all too keen to bankrupt careerists who delayed child-rearing to live the "Sex and the City" lifestyle.

The victims at the outset appear predominantly to be those women who have rejected God and nature, but it's clear that everyone is ultimately affected, including the innumerable persons who will never be conceived and all those persons conceived who have been destroyed in Planned Parenthood's abattoirs.

"It's time to try something new, folks. And by new, I mean old," writes Keenan. "To fight back, some of us are going to have to reorient ourselves. Shift our mindsets. We're going to have to become ever so slightly more domestic."

For women specifically, this shift entails remaining "authentically female, as in, the timeless ways of being female: as a daughter, mother, and a wife. … It also means turning away from the diseased offerings of the elites, the media, Hollywood, your child's school, and Big Tech, and towards a more human lifestyle."

Mrs. Keenan reckons this natural, "organic" remedy will generate a social tsunami great enough to override the last ruinous waves of feminism, save our civilization from collapse, and thwart what Pope John Paul II elsewhere deemed the "culture of death."

In a brief exchange about "Domestic Extremist," Keenan told Blaze News, "The left had 100 years to accomplish their goals, and we just started fighting back recently."

While the title of the book might prompt some to imagine the pseudonymous mother lowering the armored plating onto her Killdozer, muttering something about un-governability, then taking tread to the gathering forces of darkness, Keenan, like Smith, has a "mostly peaceful" solution in mind.

Mrs. Kennan recommends having at least three kids, if physically able; marrying young, staying married, and remaining faithful; thwarting efforts by private and public forces to usurp your parental authority; and, should circumstances allow it, "Stay home with your babies as long as you can."

Winning is largely dependent upon more domestic extremists steeling that institution upon which all civilizations depend and every tyrant reviles — what Chesterton called the "triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child."

While ostensibly a defensive move in the short run, Mrs. Keenan makes expressly clear that the nuclear family is "radioactive to the Regime." A good offense often requires a great defense.

Once a domestic extremist has established her family such that it might register on the state's Geiger counters, Keenan told Blaze News that the best way to further harden your perimeter is "to flee government schools and do whatever it takes to ensure your kids keep their genders and minds intact from the brainwashing. And go to mass!"

"We must do our best to become more domestic than they could ever imagine. We must cling bitterly to our families, our men, our homes, our children, and our own identities," Keenan underscores in the book. "We will refuse to believe the Big Lies of feminism. We reclaim our children, and what we teach them. We will assert ownership and agency over our lives."

As any parent knows, battles can be won on the daily, but a victory in the broader war will require a multigenerational effort. Like Moses, most alive today will not enter the promised land. That doesn't mean there aren't some ways to expedite the process.

For those wishing to speed up the transition to extreme domesticity, Mrs. Keenan gives a nifty "shortcut": traditional religion.

"When you become a 'person of faith,' like I did years ago, you get to jump ahead of all the laborious steps involved in becoming extremely domestic," wrote Keenan.

In addition to arguing the "Ten Commandments pretty much sum up the rules for a happy life," Mrs. Keenan suggests religious orthodoxy helps inoculate children against "the most depraved ideas of mainstream culture."

Just as Mrs. Keenan manages to infiltrate heavy subject matter with humor, the book is also saturated with her own faith and hope. She appears genuinely convinced that breaking with disordered convention, keeping the commandments, and becoming a domestic extremist is a winning formula and that victory is all but guaranteed.

When pressed about her certainty, Mrs. Keenan told Blaze News, "Humans don't want to live in abject misery, although our leaders want us to. I have faith that we will, in the end, win bigly, but it may get much worse before we do. And if we don't, you still win if you get to heaven."

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Moms for Liberty reveals what was missing from '60 Minutes' hit piece



The co-founders of Moms for Liberty, former Florida school board members Tiffany Justice and Tina Descovich, spoke to "60 Minutes" host Scott Pelley in October 2023 about their organization and its work reinforcing parental rights, protecting children from being subjected to pornography at school, and combating grooming efforts in the classroom.

The interview was ultimately packaged as a hit piece and released Sunday. When it went air, the MFL duo noticed something was missing.

The parental rights group noted that critical details and comments they allegedly shared with Pelley and his producers — insights that may have vindicated their efforts in the court of public opinion — were omitted from the final product.

'60 Minutes' removes obscene books from its special

According to the parental rights group, its co-founders provided "60 Minutes" with an extensive list of books that have been reported at schools, "[n]ot just local libraries or retailers," containing lewd, obscene, or pornographic material.

Among the titles they allegedly brought to the attention of Pelley and his producers was Juno Dawson's "This Book is Gay," which contains the following entry: "Blowies: Oral sex is popping another dude's peen in your mouth or, indeed, popping yours in his. There is only one hard and fast rule when it comes to blow jobs—WATCH THE TEETH. Lips and tongue, yes; teeth, NO."

The parental rights group cited several other damning books they had previously flagged in American schools that "60 Minutes" did not bother to mention, including Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan's "Let's Talk About It," which contains detailed graphics on how to self-stimulate in a section entitled, "Things to Try!"

MFL wrote on X, "Would exposing minor children to these sexual images & texts by someone who is not their parent be grooming? It certainly is not educational. So, why did @60minutes censor this material from tonight's piece?"

Justice wrote, "We read graphic sexual content on camera to @ScottPelley from books found in public school libraries all over the country. Do you think that @60minutes will air that footage? We've got the transcript and a video of the interview."

We read graphic sexual content on camera to @ScottPelley from books found in public school libraries all over the country. \n\nDo you think that @60minutes will air that footage? We\u2019ve got the transcript and a video of the interview. \n\nRight @TinaDescovich?
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While "60 Minutes" neglected to detail these titles and MFL's specific concerns with them, the program singled out a supposedly "banned" title dealing with anti-Semitism in Tsarist Russia. However, by CBS News' own admission, this title hadn't actually been banned but rather held for review on account of parental concerns over mature subject matter.

Revisionist histories and imagined bans

Critics suggested that the special was misleading from the start. When introducing the topic, Pelley stated, "Moms was founded as a reaction against COVID mandates."

Referencing her transcript of the conversation, Descovich indicated she had made clear to the the "60 Minutes" host that was not the case.

Moms for Liberty, a conservative group, seeks to limit teaching on race, sexual orientation, and gender. 60 Minutes spoke with two of the founders, who also say teacher\u2019s unions have too much influence on education \u201cand that has to change.\u201d https://t.co/0jZpmwGi6V
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"Moms began as a, let me see. Yeah, [M]oms began as a movement to protest mask restrictions in schools with regard to COVID. And I wonder how you got to books?" said Pelley, according to the transcript shared online by the interviewee.

Descovich apparently responded, "Well, I'd like to say, first of all, we didn't start to protest masks. Mom for Liberty's mission is to unify, educate, and empower parents to defend their parental rights at all levels of government."

According to the transcript, Descovich underscored that during the pandemic, she and her co-founder began observing parents "coming to school board meetings, more than they ever had in our terms, and speaking up. But they didn't really know what they were doing. They were getting flustered, they were saying they were gonna report the school board to the County Commission which has no authority in Florida. They didn't understand the process or the polices or how to change a policy or how to be effective."

"And so we formed Moms for Liberty when we came off our terms to help parents in any circumstance be effective in impacting the government when it came to their children," added Descovich.

Extra to apparently providing an alternate history for the group, "60 Minutes" appears to have misrepresented the facts around book bans both in its special and in its corresponding social media communications.

In the lead-up to its special, "60 Minutes" tweeted, "There were over 3,000 book bans in U.S. schools last year. That rise is inspired, in part, by the conservative group Moms for Liberty."

Dr. Jay Greene, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation's Center for Education Policy, suggested this claim was "simply false, even if one accepts the loose definition of ban as 'no longer available in a school library.'"

"60 Minutes" appears to have been regurgitating a debunked narrative advanced by the organization PEN America.

Greene, Max Eden, and Madison Marino noted in a report last year that they had gone through PEN's 2022 list of 2,532 banned books. After determining that 1,868 books were actually in districts with public card catalogs, the researchers confirmed that 1,378 books, "or 74 percent, are listed as available in the school district libraries from which PEN said they had been banned. Of the 1,261 books PEN labeled as 'Banned -- Pending Investigation,' 1,015, or 80 percent, were present in school libraries."

With the exception to 203 books in Texas and 174 books in Florida, the report revealed that only 113 books had been "successfully challenged in a calendar year amongst more than 10,000 school districts."

The 10 most "actually banned" books were found to "contain sexually explicit, if not outright pornographic, passages that few reasonable people would insist belong in a school library," according to the report.

Blaze News reached out to "60 Minutes" for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

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