Democrat state lawmakers in Arizona are beneath fireplace for internet hosting the “first ever” drag story hour, introduced by “gender-nonconforming” Rep. Lorena Austin and Deliberate Parenthood Arizona, within the basement of the Home of Representatives on Tuesday.
Rep. Austin reportedly goes by “she/they/ella pronouns.”
OnenTen Phoenix, a bunch that purports to “serve LGBTQ youth and younger adults ages 11-24,” additionally hosted an “LGBTQ+ Youth Day” for kids as younger as 13 years outdated on the Arizona Capitol on Wednesday. Based on Fox, Austin helped manage this occasion.
Based on Arizona Home Democrats, who celebrated the sexualization and indoctrination of kids, “Round 30 children and youngsters” have been in attendance.
ICYMI: Yesterday was LGBTQ+ Youth Day on the Capitol! Round 30 children and youngsters got here with their dad and mom or guardian to #azleg to be taught in regards to the legislative course of and how you can be concerned of their Home. #lgbtqrights pic.twitter.com/AMS0odLbEu
— Arizona Home Democrats (@AZHouseDems) Could 2, 2024
A video of the drag occasion posted on X exhibits what seems to be a male drag queen telling a narrative about New York-based transgender activist Pauline Park whereas urging drag story hour-goers to “hearken to your children” and explaining his unscientific opinion that adults can change their gender on a whim a number of instances of their lifetime.
Watch under:
“When is it time to decide on a brand new identify? Why does somebody grow to be an activist? How does one start? Who? Pauline Park. What? A Korean American trans activist. Have been? New York Metropolis. When? From the time she was 5. Why? To make sure rights for herself and others. How? One step at a time.
That’s one of many issues when the entire matter of children being trans, come up. ‘Don’t hear.’ Hearken to your children as a result of I can inform you, I knew from a really younger age, very, very younger age. And had the sources been there, had the language been there, had all of the issues which can be accessible immediately been there, issues may need been very completely different for me — as a substitute of ready 35 years. And adults change pronouns on a regular basis. Adults, as we develop, and as we mature, and as we determine sh*t out, we might go from figuring out as, you understand, throughout the binary, after which we determine, ‘You realize what? That doesn’t match me.’ I feel I’m agender. I don’t actually establish as a gender. So, please use they/them pronouns.”
Arizona Senate Republicans reacted on X, saying, “WARNING: THIS CONTENT MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN. Arizona Democrat lawmakers teamed up with Deliberate Parenthood to host ‘Drag Story Hour’ on the Capitol to encourage dad and mom to transition their children. That is forward of LGBTQ+ YOUTH Day on the Capitol tomorrow. Your taxpayer {dollars} are onerous at work to push youngster indoctrination and woke ideology onto our residents. The insanity should cease.”
State Senator Justine Wadsack slammed the Democrats for utilizing tax {dollars} to host this desecration of the Arizona Capitol Chamber and known as on Home Members to file an ethics grievance and expel Loreta Austin. Senator Anthony Kern responded, “I second that movement!!”
I second that movement!!
— Anthony Kern (@anthonykernAZ) April 30, 2024
“It is a desecration of the individuals’s home. I’m LIVID!!!” mentioned Consultant Rachel Jones:
It is a desecration of the individuals’s home. I’m LIVID!!! https://t.co/DPaKNSXTUK
— AZ Consultant Rachel Jones (@RJ4arizona) April 30, 2024
Home Speaker Ben Toma additionally chimed in, saying Rep. Austin “intentionally misled Home management” along with her occasion and introduced that Democrats now not have the privilege of utilizing Home assembly rooms till additional discover.
Democrat Rep. Lorena Austin intentionally misled Home management to order a convention room to host a drag story hour with Deliberate Parenthood.
Use of Home services for radical activism to advertise dangerously perverse ideology won’t be tolerated whereas I’m Speaker.
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— Ben Toma (@RepBenToma) April 30, 2024
In response to criticisms from GOP Lawmakers, Home Democratic Whip Nancy Gutierrez cried “discrimination.”
PRESS RELEASE: ‘Not the individuals’s Home in spite of everything’ — Home Democrats reply to outrageous retaliation for internet hosting drag story hour #azleg pic.twitter.com/MZ6dDzbVWr
— Arizona Home Democrats (@AZHouseDems) April 30, 2024
Rep. Lorena Austin, the lawmaker who organized the occasion, additionally performed the sufferer and claimed the occasion was academic whereas claiming to “stand as much as hate and bigotry.”
PRESS RELEASE: Rep. Austin responds to retaliation over drag story hour #azleg pic.twitter.com/xhkwIrzxXS
— Arizona Home Democrats (@AZHouseDems) April 30, 2024
Fox studies,
In an announcement posted to X, Deliberate Parenthood Arizona mentioned in response to Toma that it’s one other instance “of Speaker Toma exhibiting how out of contact he’s with the values of Arizonans & their assist for the LGTBQ neighborhood.”
“At Deliberate Parenthood Arizona, we’re proud to supply gender-affirming care companies and supply important well being care to everybody,” the group mentioned. “We thank Rep. Lorena Austin for being a staunch ally and for his or her continued assist in our combat for reproductive freedom. We are going to remember to invite Speaker Toma to the subsequent Drag Story Hour.”
State Sen. John Kavanaugh advised Fox Information Digital that it was the primary time something just like the drag occasion had occurred on the Capitol.
“And it wouldn’t have occurred had they been truthful and mentioned they wished to have a drag queen story hour,” he mentioned. “I imply, that in and of itself, is so inflammatory and controversial, which might be why they didn’t point out that. So, it was the truth that they have been misleading within the rationalization.”
Per Breitbart, “The occasion coincides with the Biden administration’s makes an attempt to push gender confusion on kids and adults alike. President Joe Biden’s deputies try to pressure transgenderism into workplaces by way of up to date federal office tips that the Equal Employment Alternative Fee (EEOC) launched. Below the steerage, employers who adhere to organic actuality will likely be committing office “harassment” in the event that they refuse to permit staff to decide on restrooms primarily based on their gender id quite than organic intercourse. Employers will even be committing office “harassment” in the event that they “repeatedly misgender” staff.”
