Heretics News Agency (live draft)

This is the live draft for Heretics News Agency on NewgonWiki, a News Aggregation service maintained by and for MAPs and Allies. It will provide material for roughly 2-weekly news aggregator updates to a news-aggregator blog (MAP Alert News), with small (copyright compliant) excerpts and in some cases, editor comments. This will allow regular comment threads to continue in the MAP blogosphere, while MAP bloggers such as Tom O'Carroll, might not be writing.

After a year of operation, the news list featured here will be part-archived and refreshed.

Please post your news story at the top of the list, with any excerpts and comments attached as per normal. Please include each story you select in the blog post, once the aggregator blog is set up.

Material for update ~ 15 Jul

MAPs

• City Councilwoman Jessica Alexander Sparks Controversy over Pride Month Proclamation

"During the meeting, Ottawa County Vice-Chairperson Sylvia Rhodea stated, "I said over 50 different flags are flown under the LGBTQ+ flag, which groups may fall under the plus examples include furries, those who dress as furry animals and may use litter boxes, polyamory also known as polygamy, bestiality, and pedophiles or M.A.P.S., minor attracted persons.""

Material for update ~ 30 Jun

Pride Month is now in full swing, and so is the imagination of the conservative press.

MAPs

Blaze Media recently alleged that the Human Rights Campaign have supported MAPs. Big news, if true, but probably not; Newgon have approached HRC for comment.

• A movement representing "minor attracted people" has adopted a flag that is being integrated into LGBTQ+ advocacy

Comment: "They erroneously use the outdated Snopes piece in the last update."

• New York State Education Department Releases Radical Guidance for ‘Transgender’ Students

"The term “cisgender” was first published by German sexologist Volkmar Sigusch, who had distorted views on human sexuality, including how society views and treats pedophiles. Progressives now echo his claims, asserting that pedophiles should be referred to as “MAPs” or “minor-attracted persons” or “YAPs” which stands for “youth-attracted persons” to reduce stigma. Gender theory, which was developed by several similarly pedophilic psychologists and sexologists around the world, is now public school policy and is taught in classrooms as fact despite a total lack of scientific and biological evidence. Minors do not need to be introduced to concepts that have severe consequences they cannot consent to. "

• Sound of Freedom: The Story of One Man’s War on Child Trafficking

"While there is no denying that multiple factors encourage the sexual exploitation of children, the real-life Ballard believes that one major contributor in our times is the woke political atmosphere in the country. The irony, he says, is that 20 years ago, people could be arrested for giving pornography to minors, but today, teachers supply what is essentially pornography as part of the curriculum. He warns of the harm teachers and school authorities inflict by manipulating children into gender confusion and gender transition treatment without parental approval. “If you can consent to genital mutilation, you can consent to sex with a 50-year-old,” he says, adding that there are attempts to normalize pedophilia by portraying it as “child liberation” rather than abuse and viewing parents as the enemy for limiting access to their children. In a parallel development, pedophiles are insinuating themselves into the LGBTQ movement, reinventing themselves as an alternative orientation - Minor Attracted Persons (MAPs). A book published by the University of California Press and based on interviews with a group that bills itself as ‘Virtuous Pedophiles’ even makes a case for their “pursuit of dignity.” There are attempts to get child exploitation material and child pornography legalized."

• [City Councilwoman Jessica Alexander Sparks Controversy over Pride Month Proclamation]

"Citing a group called “Queer in the World,” Alexander pointed out that over 50 different flags are currently associated with the LGBTQ+ flag, representing various identities, sexual attractions, and sexual behaviors. She expressed concern, particularly about the inclusion of flags representing BDSM (bondage and discipline, domination and submission, sadism, masochism) and flags associated with kink and fetish. Alexander argued that exposing children to such flags could encourage sexual activity and make them susceptible to predators. Alexander also questioned the boundaries of the LGBTQ+ flag’s “plus” designation and called for a discussion among City Council members regarding which groups fall under the “plus” and why? She raised flags such as the Leather pride flag, Rubber Pride flag, Bears and cubs flag, Furies and Beastality flag, and flags associated with polyamory and pedophilia (minor-attracted persons or MAPs)."

"Grooming" hysteria and culture war

• Surge in anti-LGBTQ disinformation targets Pride in Europe

• A majority of Republicans now say same-sex relations are immoral after a year of 'groomer' attacks on LGBTQ people, poll finds

• Charles M. Blow: We’re in an LGBTQ state of emergency

• I grew up in the Satanic Panic — and it’s happening again

• “Hatred, plain and simple”: “Groomer” trope linked to nearly 200 anti-LGBTQ+ attacks in 11 months

• Deranged Christian nationalist protesters call Target shoppers “pedophiles” in shocking videos

"My Children’s Advocate — an anti-LGBTQ+ “parents’ rights” group in Reno, Nevada — has shared video of activists harassing people in a Target parking lot, presumably over the store’s Pride-themed merchandise. In several related videos, the Target protesters call shoppers “pedophiles.” [...] The group’s Instagram page is filled with transphobic memes, including one comparing trans people to Nazis, another claiming that President Joe Biden supports the “chemical castration and mutilation of children,” and yet another claiming that “child transgenderism will pave the way for accepting pedophilia” (echoing a claim recently made by Fox News)."

• Fox News leaned in on anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, saying the Pride flag promotes 'grooming and pedophilia'

• Twelve-year-olds are being taught about anal sex in school while nine-year-olds are told to 'masturbate' for homework: The shocking lesson plans used by teachers in UK classrooms

"Some Children are:

[...]

• Told that girls as young as 12 can find sexual pleasure from anal, vaginal and oral sex
• Taught that it's normal to want to masturbate during and even before they hit puberty
• Informed that it's normal for prepubescent children to be sexually attracted to anyone

[...]

'It's a mission to sexualise children and people don't understand there's a huge safeguarding risk in that. It is child indoctrination. When you think of cults, the first thing they do is separate people from families. They are trying to put a distance between children and their families.' Mrs Marsh has had personal experience of her child being taught shocking sexual material. She said: 'My daughter came home and asked if she was asexual. I said, 'Well I hope you are, because you're 11!'"

• Activists chant ‘coming for your children’ during drag queen march in New York

• ‘We’re Coming For Your Children’ chant at NYC Drag March elicits outrage, but activists say it’s taken out of context

Miscellaneous

• Colleen Ballinger, the American comedian better known as her red lipstick-wearing internet persona ‘Miranda Sings’, has been accused of “grooming”.

• YouTuber Lewis Buchan Accused of “Grooming” Teenage Fan

"“Me realising being groomed by a YouTuber at the age of 15 was actually traumatic and not something to laugh about with the girlies when I’m drunk,” the TikTok reads as Megan acts shocked for the camera."

• Robin Cook mugshot: Paedophile jailed for raping and grooming teen

Comment: "Raped her over a number of years..."

• Generative AI could automate sexual abuse and child grooming, eSafety Commissioner says

• Japan raises age of consent from 13 to 16 years old

• Child predators are using Discord, a popular app among teens, for sextortion and abductions

"In hidden communities and chat rooms, adults have used the platform to groom children before abducting them, trade child sexual exploitation material (CSAM) and extort minors whom they trick into sending nude images. In a review of international, national and local criminal complaints, news articles and law enforcement communications published since Discord was founded, NBC News identified 35 cases over the past six years in which adults were prosecuted on charges of kidnapping, grooming or sexual assault that allegedly involved communications on Discord. Twenty-two of those cases occurred during or after the Covid pandemic. At least 15 of the prosecutions have resulted in guilty pleas or verdicts, and many of the other cases are still pending."

• Belarus Will Castrate Pedophiles, Russia Prepares to Follow Suit

• Democrat Transgender Lawmaker Arrested on Multiple Child Pornography Charges

• Behind every child sex abuse image, there is a real child

"Infants and toddlers. I know it is hard to stomach. Hard to believe. But I’ve seen it, it is happening and we must not look away. When I was young and being abused, the nightly torture was confined to the oppression of my poverty-stricken family home. Today, the exploitation spreads like a silent, deadly disease from homes all around the world through the darkest corners of the internet. Children who have been raped and violated are betrayed further as their abuse is viewed online, millions of times. [...] Behind every image, there is a real child. A real child in danger. A real child living in fear. A real child being re-traumatised by abuse that will never end until tech companies are held accountable and remove those images. Babies and toddlers are not putting these images of themselves being abused online. We can no longer shrug off this scourge as “just teenagers sexting”. These are images captured by abusers, and shared by abusers."

• Study: Grooming Gangs Facilitated by Irish Government

• PODCAST: Are children a marginalized group?

Material for update ~ 15 Jun

As we are close to having a final product (a blog with comments) lets introduce categories to our news updates.

MAPs

• No, the UN Didn't Tweet 'Pedophilia Is Not a Crime' (Snopes)

• SUNY Fredonia professor who appeared to condone pedophilia wants back on campus

Comment: "This concerns the Stephen Kershnar controversy centering on normalization of pedophilia."

• Beware Pride Month PsyOps from trolls

"The 4chan trolls have already started with their (paraphrased) “Pride is for all gays, lesbians, trans, and MAPs” bullshit that they hope people will retweet in solidarity w/o realizing the MAP is code for “Minor Attracted Person” aka a Pedophile."

• Do 'Minor-Attracted Persons' Use a 'MAPs Pride Flag' To Represent Themselves?

Comment: "This story is pretty major for MAPs, as it represents an about turn for the fact-checking org, Snopes. As our MAP Flag article explains, they had previously published an error strewn "fact check" 5 years ago, that was in fact nothing of the sort. This article arguably led to the frequent liberal talking point on social media concerning the MAP Movement being a "hoax". In this sense, the revision is most welcome."

Coincidentally, Politifact and Reuters have addressed claims about the progress pride flag".

• Effort to link Warwick Pride with pedophilia under investigation

• Marion County sting operation produces 2 more arrests of men facing child sex charges ... ‘Operation M.A.P. Mirage’ now sees 22 arrests

• In praise of ‘shame’

"Most of the homeless people I’ve interviewed over the years as a journalist say they’ve made a conscious choice to stay on the streets – an uncomfortable truth I learned while reporting for Quillette. The most egregious example, however, is the campaign to normalise paedophilia. No longer child abusers, Minor Attracted Persons are just the evolution of self-expression, right? What’s next? Perhaps rapists will become ‘people with consent disorders’."

• Do not Normalize Pedophiles

• Told you so: Conservatives have warned over and over where LGBTQ narrative will lead

"And in Texas, undercover footage recently revealed a high school teacher’s unapologetically advocating pedophilia to a classroom full of minor children: “We’re gonna call them MAPs, minor-attracted persons,” the teacher said. “So don’t judge people just because they wanna have sex with a 5-year-old.”"

[We covered the truth behind the Amber Parker story and even issued a press release - Editor]

• Instagram Connects Vast Pedophile Network (Wall St Journal)

• There’s a long, disgusting history of right-wingers defending child predators

• Popular YouTuber Vaush Allegedly Has A History Of Making Inappropriate Comments About Pedophilia: "I Don't Think Owning Child Pornography Is Immoral"

• A winner of Missouri’s legislative session: Pedophiles

• Wisconsin Republicans join push to outlaw sex dolls

"A number of states have passed laws outlawing child sex dolls since 2019, including Florida, Tennessee, South Dakota and Hawaii. Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signed a bill Friday outlawing the dolls in her state. Republican legislation banning them nationwide — dubbed the Creeper Act — has been floating around the U.S. House of Representatives since at least 2017. [...] Wisconsin state Rep. Joy Goeben and Sen. Jesse James’ bill would define a child sex doll as an anatomically correct doll, mannequin or robot with features that resemble a minor and is intended for sexual uses. [...] Anyone caught possessing such a doll would be guilty of a felony punishable by up to 3 1/2 years in prison. A first offense involving three or more dolls or a second offense would be punishable by up to 6 years. A third or subsequent offense would be punishable by up to 10 years. If the doll resembles a specific minor the offender would face up to 15 years in prison for a first offense."

• McGill University Researcher Solicits Online Pedophile Communities for “Child Love” Research

"On May 30, Levitan posted a call for participants on BoyChat, the surface web’s longest-running pederast forum. BoyChat caters to adult men sexually attracted to young boys, and has been operational since 1995. The site has been allowed to continue because posts are required to remain within a strict channel of legality, though the men often sign their posts with photos of themselves as children. Men involved in the BoyChat community share tips on how to avoid law enforcement and advocate for sexual offending against minors. The terms “pro-contact” and “no contact” or “anti-contact” are used to differentiate between those who believe sex with minors should be legalized and those who claim to avoid acting on their urge to abuse."

[The article then goes on to make inaccurate statements about Michael Melsheimer and B4U-ACT, labeling the former a rapist - Editor]

• Grandad’s Pride publisher slams ‘offensive and homophobic’ attacks on LGBTQ+ kids’ book

"The activist, however, claimed that a map of the UK, seen in an illustration leaning on the side of an old wooden box, was a reference to the label Minor Attracted Person (MAP) – a synonym for pedophilia that has falsely been associated with the LGBTQ+ community for decades. Others have suggested that – just maybe – it might be a drawing of a map with no meaning whatsoever."

• Ted Cruz Calls Ugandan Execution of Pedophiles a ‘Grotesque’ ‘Abomination’

• Bill Broadening Definition of ‘Sexual Orientation’ Goes to Governor’s Desk

"Grooming" hysteria and culture war

• White House flew controversial new transgender flag that troubles some critics in the gay community

Comment: "This article was originally published under an alternative headline, leading to criticism on social media. Follow up stories provide detail."

• Fox News says LGBTQ+ Pride flag shows support for “grooming & pedophilia”

• Fox News Says White House Flew ‘Pedophile,’ ‘Groomer’ Pride Flag

• ‘Peddling porn’: Virginia parents outraged over sexually explicit children’s books at public library

• Small town Pride organizer forced to flee state after “groomer” group targeted him

Comment: "Boom and bust cycles occur when market participants and stakeholders fail to address the underlying problem and offload it on to future generations. The LGBT community, similarly are reaping what they sowed by pursuing a short-term assimilationist strategy in the 1980s"

• US pride celebrations forced to scale back amid growing backlash

• Tucker Carlson laments pedophilia 'is teetering on the edge of acceptability'

• Texas governor signs “sexually explicit” book ban in schools

• U.S. high schoolers on the front lines of the growing fight against book bans

• Community shocked as students destroy school’s Pride celebration chanting “USA are my pronouns”

• The Balenciaga Comeback Is Happening

• Selena Gomez slammed for wearing Balenciaga, deletes post

• Thieves of Innocence

"Children are entitled to their full, uncorrupted latency and innocence. We are obligated to protect them in this way. Instead, ours is an age full of cruel, perverted thieves who are celebrated, protected, and applauded. We are savages because the ones who draw the scorn and punishment of our society are those who refuse to applaud the violation of children by sexually deviant adults. There surely aren’t enough millstones to go around."

Misc

• The Jeffrey Epstein Files: Trove of never-before-seen emails and calendars gives unprecedented insight into late pedophile's network of power and influence that includes Chris Rock, Peter Thiel, and Richard Branson

• Inside Jeffrey Epstein's final days: Sleepless nights, 'calling' his DEAD mother and sitting in the corner of his cell covering his ears... as new records also reveal he'd been treated for chlamydia and admitted how many women he'd slept with

• Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein called himself a COWARD and sent a letter to fellow convicted pedophile Dr. Larry Nassar in the final days before he killed himself, shocking new records reveal

• U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear bid to sue Reddit over child porn

Material for update ~ 30 May

Disturbing EP Cover Appearing to Feature Kids Sparks Outrage—'Grooming'

The Phillip Schofield controversy is worth mentioning, because although his partner was of legal age at the time, he was accused of Grooming in the aftermath of the revelations.

• Two paedophile hunters face becoming the first in the UK to be jailed after wrongly accusing innocent father of being a rapist and sexting a child in humiliating 14-minute livestream

• Who is Kathleen Stock? Grim reality of gender-critical academic’s trans-exclusionary views

• Legal experts say change to Minnesota Human Rights Act won't protect pedophiles

• Florida sex offenders could be required to have special colored license plates

• Connecticut Passes Bill to Ban ‘Discrimination’ Against ‘Minor Attracted Persons’

Comment: "Conservative Christians appear to live in some kind of 1970s virtual reality RPG, in which the Rockefellers have acquired NAMBLA."

• Pedophile conspiracy theory enters Connecticut anti-discrimination law debate

• Eagle Valley community split on education of gender, sexuality in public schools

Comment: "Apparently, the Minor Attracted People have had enough, and are rising up..."

• Fairfax County Schools Peddle Deviant Porn to Kids; Mom Tells Youngkin, Miyares to ‘DO SOMETHING!’

"A mom in Fairfax County, Virginia is blowing the whistle on the deviant porn being peddled to kids by their local public schools while calling on GOP Governor Glenn Youngkin and Attorney General Jason Miyares to “do something” about rampant public school grooming."

• Seattle official refuses to resign after defending convicted pedophile's nomination for board seat

• Calling drag queens ‘groomers’ and ‘pedophiles’ is the latest in a long history of weaponising those terms against the LGBTIQA community

Comment: "Proportionally, we are not seeing too many of these stories, and the treatment is unoriginal and defensive. It shows that mainstream liberals simply aren't engaging or dealing with the topic yet."

Material for update ~ 15 May

Due to delays in the way submissions were handled, this post covers the month from mid-april to mid-may, as opposed to a 15-day period.

• Research: Child sex abuse is not more common among priests

• Billionaire LinkedIn founder and Dem mega-donor Reid Hoffman spent night on Jeffrey Epstein's 'pedophile island' AFTER financier's conviction, with Woody Allen visiting his home and Harvard president asking for cash

• Israel is trying to legalize pedophilia - Avi Maoz

• 16-year-old beauty queen defends marrying 65-year-old millionaire mayor

• BBC to Restore Eric Gill Statue Vandalized Last Year to Protest Artist’s Admitted Pedophilia

• Is There a Link Between Animated Pornography and Pedophilia? (by David Ley)

• Children targeted by WHO ‘Standards for Sexuality Education in Europe’

• New UN-backed legal recommendations normalize sex with minors, outraged critics say

""Sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual in fact, if not in law," the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists wrote in March with an assist from UNAIDS and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights."

• UN-Backed Organization Claims Minors Can Consent

• International legal group calls for legal pedophilia

• GOP senators urge UN ambassador to denounce report they say is supportive of pedophiles

• A Modern History of 'Groomer' Politics

Comment: "This one, we caught a little late. But still, a long article written from a cynical and adultist perspective, but showing a good grasp of the political background of the topic."

• Florida set to seek death penalty for pedophiles

"The bill that seeks the death penalty for those who sexually assault minors has been approved by the Florida Senate and House of Representatives. The measure is heading to Governor Ron DeSantis’ office for approval."

• A New Florida Bill Could Spell Literal Death for Queer and Trans Citizens

• Throwing the book at pedophiles’: DeSantis signs law allowing death penalty for child rapists

• Need Proof That Pride Events Are About Grooming Children? Here It Is

• Transgender Minnesota lawmaker introduces bill removing anti-pedophile language from state's Human Rights Act

• Posts misinterpret Minnesota bill that redefines sexual orientation | Fact check

• Shameless Dems Are Trying to Validate Pedophilia

• Minn. House amends Democrat's bill to remove anti-pedophile language from state's Human Rights Act after pushback

• Yes, The Trans Movement Is Coming For Your Kids

• The Next Frontier For The Hypersexualized Left: Normalizing Pedophilia

• Illinois closes the book on book bans

• Musk bans 'genderfluid' 'Anti-Christ' promoting pedophilia flag from Twitter: 'Not tolerated on this platform'

• Musk bans self-proclaimed ‘genderfluid Demon’ from Twitter for promoting pedophilia flag

• Twitter suspends 'genderfluid anti-Christ' user for image of pedophile pride flag

Material for update ~ 15 April

Michael Dolce had a distinguished career, as a child sex abuse attorney, before he threw it all away in a flick of the wrist

• Woke critics won't stop me from tackling grooming gangs, pledges Suella Braverman as she rolls out plans for a new taskforce

• Florida lawmakers appear poised to pass legislation allowing the death penalty for pedophiles

From the original report:

"This bill invites a longer, costlier (legal) process for the victim and their family that they will endure," Wayt said. "While this crime, anyone convicted of it is vile, heinous, the Constitution itself, the case law, the Supreme Court demands a maximum of life in prison. And so while it's not the vengeance we all want, it's the justice that the Constitution demands."

[...]

"This is a life sentence that is handed down to young children," Book said. "We're talking about the youngest of the young in this bill. I was one of those kids. I still to this day at ... 38 years old deal with the very, very real lasting effects of this crime. It never goes away. Sometimes you close your eyes and you see it. I don't get a chance to make it stop."

• A Missouri lawmaker defended child marriage, saying kids he knows who got married at age 12 are 'still married'

• Dalai Lama regrets asking boy to "suck my tongue"

• ‘Massive red pill’: QAnon influencers think Dalia Lama video will convince the world elite pedophiles are real

• Marjorie Taylor Greene defends calling Democrats 'pedophiles'

• Keep child abusers off the rainbow flag (Julie Bindel)

Comment: "Scroll down for a fairly balanced debate in the comments".

• OPINION: Stop correlating drag queens with pedophiles

• Don't fall for the 'groomer' slur - it's an old trick used to stir hatred of LGBTQ+ people

Comment: "Contains the usual misinformation from Snopes, and concerning pedophiles and their sympathizers being on the edge of the gay liberation movement they founded."

• YOUR OPINION: LGBTIQ+ divide growing

"The rift has been growing for a while. Activists who started with such things as drag queen story hour, renaming pedophiles as M.A.P.s which stands for Minor Attracted Persons and trans activists who say there is no such thing as homosexuals because they are just in the wrong bodies have triggered a backlash movement. This new fast growing movement has many organizations and activist groups of their own. LGB, LGB-(minus), LGB Alliance, LGB patriots, Gays against Groomers, LGB Alliance U.K. are just to name a few."

• ‘Naked Education’ Reality Show Draws Fire Over ‘Pedophilia’ Accusations

"U.K. media regulator Ofcom is considering launching an investigation into “Naked Education,” a Channel 4 show in which teenagers are confronted with naked adults in a classroom in the name of body positivity. The show, which is produced by U.K. production company Betty, first aired on April 4. Ofcom revealed yesterday it had received 930 complaints about the show, by far the highest number of complaints for any U.K. broadcast in the past week. [...] The show, which Betty describes as “a body-positive, educational series aiming to normalise all body types,” includes a segment in which a group of teenagers aged between 14 and 16 sit in a classroom to discuss different aspects of the human body, including public hair, STDs and body image. They then look on as a group of adults with a particular trait – such as body hair – troupe into the room and remove their robes as the teens look on."

• Children Are Not Property The idea that underlies the right-wing campaign for “parents’ rights.”

Comment: "Are statist liberals finally abandoning the battle over who owns children in favor of fundamentally questioning parental rights?".

• Here’s why a South Jersey man won’t be tried for sex fantasies written over girl’s photos

"A South Jersey man who repeatedly scrawled sexual fantasies over photos of a young girl can’t be prosecuted under a state law against “child erotica,” an appeals court has ruled. The man was accused of using photos of a friend’s child to express sexually explicit thoughts, including some that he shared in Facebook conversations, the appellate ruling said."

• (Opinion) Lift statute of limitations in child sex abuse civil cases in WA

• Kansas lawmakers pass bill to help child sex abuse survivors

• I Was 15 When I Started Partying With Rock Stars. I Told No One What They Did To Me — Until Now

"In the early years after the assaults by those famous men, I had little insight into how they had affected me. I didn’t even recognize I had been assaulted until I landed in that therapist’s office."

• A 5-Year-Old Pulled Down a 3-Year-Old's Pants. The Preschool Workers Are on Trial

Comment: "A reminder that in some states, it's still 2003".

• Award-winning Florida attorney, 53, who represents sex abuse victims is arrested for having thousands of child pornography images on his computer: He founded 'Protect Our Kids First' committee and was named as one of America's '500 leading lawyers'

• Former Ohio D.A.R.E. Officer Sentenced In Child Porn Case

Comment: "This is essentially Sexual Harassment Panda going to jail for gooning over CP".

• Canada police arrest ‘pedophile hunting’ group over child abuse images

Material for update ~ 31 March

In a bizarre video and Twitter thread that follows, this Arizona Senator from Tucson declared war on child sex dolls. See: Lawmakers consider child sex dolls

• Senators push Pinterest exec for answers on pedophiles’ alleged use of platform

Comment: "Despite political divisions, the "bipartisan" neocon-neolib "self-regulatory" online child-protection circus continues. This time, they have set their sights on "sexually suggestive image boards of otherwise innocuous images", which must mean that desperation has hit a peak in the era of self-made youth erotica. Blumenthal has form when it comes to rabble-rousing for evidence-devoid, age-based censorship, but now it appears his efforts are directed towards protecting the institution of childhood, rather than actual young people. Some may remember his campaigns against MySpace and other platforms almost 20 years ago. These were also based on half-truths.

• How SCOTUS Promoted Pernicious Myths About Sex Offender Registries

"This Sunday marks the 20th anniversary of Smith v. Doe, a Supreme Court decision that approved the retroactive application of Alaska's sex offender registry, deeming it preventive rather than punitive. That ruling helped propagate several pernicious myths underlying a policy that every state has adopted without regard to its justice or effectiveness. Writing for the majority in Smith, Justice Anthony Kennedy took it for granted that collecting and disseminating information about people convicted of sex offenses made sense as a public safety measure. But that premise was always doubtful. The vast majority of sexual assaults, especially against children, are committed by relatives, friends, or acquaintances, and the perpetrators typically do not have prior sex-offense convictions. That means they would not show up on a registry even if someone bothered to check. It is therefore not surprising that research finds little evidence to support Kennedy's assumption that publicly accessible registries protect potential victims. Summarizing the evidence in a 2016 National Affairs article, Eli Lehrer noted that "virtually no well-controlled study shows any quantifiable benefit from the practice of notifying communities of sex offenders living in their midst.""

• Man charged with murder for killing former sex offender with a shovel and an antler

"A Minnesota man was charged with second-degree murder Friday after he bludgeoned a previously convicted sex offender to death with a shovel and a large moose antler. The suspect, 27-year-old Levi Axtell, believed that the victim, Lawrence Scully, had been stalking his then-22-month-old daughter on her walks back home from a local daycare since 2018. [...] Axtell made public posts on social media expressing violent thoughts towards people like Scully starting in 2020. He posted a photo on Facebook featuring someone holding a gun with the caption, “Only cure for pedophiles. A bullet." He added additional thoughts in the comment thread below the photo, saying, "People always ask me why I hate pedophiles. They assume I've been abused. But really I think being protective is just an Axtell trait." [...] He told law enforcement that he grabbed a shovel off of Scully’s porch and used that to hit the victim in the head “15-20 times” before he “finished him off” with several more blows from a moose antler in the vicinity."

Comment: "The Daily Mail also picks up on this story. The back-slapping he has received since murdering his victim appears to be a disturbingly open celebration of his mental illness, and hateful delusions."

• San Francisco Teacher Sparks Outrage with Disturbing Tweets in Support of Inappropriate Conduct

"A San Francisco Bay area teacher went viral on Twitter last weekend after posting a lengthy thread arguing that sex between a child and an adult is not “intrinsically harmful.” Zara Degeneres, a self-described “pagan witch,” faced widespread condemnation from parents. According to her LinkedIn page, she specializes in “teaching sex-positive values to middle and high school students through sex education."

Comment: "The article goes on to quote her. This story also made a number of other minor outlets, and Townhall (1, 2, 3)."

• Florida Principal Out After Viewing Of Michelangelo's 'David' Upsets Parents

"The principal of Florida’s Tallahassee Classical School is out of a job after parents complained that their sixth-grade children were shown Michelangelo’s 16th century “David” sculpture, with one parent calling it “pornographic,” the Tallahassee Democrat first reported. The now-former principal, Hope Carrasquilla, told HuffPost the situation was also “a little more complicated than that,” noting that the usual protocol is to send parents a letter before students are shown such classical artwork. [...] One parent was “point-blank upset,” Carrasquilla continued, and “felt her child should not be viewing those pieces.” The board of the charter school decided Monday to give the principal the choice to resign or be fired after less than a year in the job. She was the school’s third principal since it opened in the fall of 2020, per the Tallahassee Democrat. [...] Carrasquilla said she had taught in classical education for a decade and knew that “once in a while you get a parent who gets upset about Renaissance art” — hence the letter. [...] “Parental rights trump everything else,” [School Board Chair] Bishop said. [...] “They didn’t like the woke indoctrination that was going on,” [he added] [...] “We don’t use pronouns,” Bishop said. “We don’t teach CRT and we don’t ever mention 1619 — those are not appropriate subjects for our kids.”"

• Sexuality has nothing to do with pedophilia. Stop conflating the two

"It’s eerie to see a man who was once looked upon as a leader in our community, now sitting in a jail cell awaiting trial for 56 counts of possession and distribution of child pornography charges. I feel as though this entire city has been betrayed. This situation has also made me worried about the backlash the gay community could unjustly incur because of Wojahn’s alleged actions. Wojahn is a gay man, which is an inextricable part of his identity. However, it doesn’t mean his abhorrent behavior is an inextricable part of the LGBTQ+ community. [...] Wojahn’s sexuality has nothing to do with his arrest — a fact these outlets choose to ignore. This reporting poses a tremendous setback in developing an open, inclusive environment for the entire LGBTQ+ community in College Park, and potentially across the country. The LGBTQ+ community has been fighting the harmful stereotype of being child abusers since the 1970s. When the Save Our Children movement emerged as a powerful anti-gay group, it worked to overturn an ordinance that prevented housing discrimination based on sexual orientation. Their leader, Anita Bryant, asserted that homosexual teachers would likely molest children. Since then, the trope of gay men committing pedophilia has pervaded both media and politics."

Comment: "Is the desperation among the gay community in the "Grooming" era, and their attempts at revising history something we can monopolize upon? Perhaps some conservatives should swat up on historical examples of LGBT-MAP unity, as this would appear to be a useful angle of attack."

• California ‘Teacher of the Year’ faces 14 charges in child sexual abuse case

"A teacher in National City who won a Teacher of the Year award in August was arrested and booked into county jail for an “inappropriate relationship” with a 13-year-old former student, police said. Jacqueline Ma, 34, was a teacher at Lincoln Acres Elementary in National City — just south of San Diego — where she taught fifth and sixth grades. On Monday, a “concerned parent” reached out to the National City Police Department saying she was afraid her 13-year-old was being treated inappropriately by Ma, according to a news release. The next day, detectives developed probable cause to arrest the teacher. [...] The teacher is charged with seven counts of possession of child pornography and four counts of sexual exploitation of a child. She is also charged with two counts of committing lewd or lascivious acts with a child. Finally, Ma is charged with attempting to dissuade a witness from testifying."

Comment: "More wasted talent. How comical, we are still "counting" the amount of CP someone has in 2023. Even if you are against CP, the amount someone "has" is pretty much meaningless in the digital age where things are called up and downloaded in an instant."

• 'A nightmare that's never going to end': child porn takes a toll on justice system

Comment: "A piece that could have been from fully 15 years ago shows where the local media is with respect to this issue. Tropes abound, from the self-exploiting child to the porno-cop suffering from "burn-out"."

• Age of Consent and Child Porn Debated at 8th Circuit

""In this case there was no abuse. The underlying conduct was legal," Gilg said, pointing out the age of consent in Nebraska is 16 – the age of the girl when when she met Rouse at Omaha hotels for sex over a five-month period. Gilg argued the sexual acts Rouse engaged in, along with images taken during those acts, deserve First Amendment protection. [...] Senior Judge C. Arlen Beam, a Ronald Reagan appointee, remarked that Rouse’s sentence for distributing the videos was “somewhat nonsensical” and “troublesome” for what he sees as an “innocuous offense.” Beam noted Rouse and the teenager only sent the videos to each other and did not disseminate them publicly."

• Paris Hilton Says She Had an 'Inappropriate' Relationship with 8th Grade Teacher: 'He Made Me Feel Noticed'

"all the girls in my class were crushing on this handsome young teacher" [who had a] "very Abercrombie" [look] "Everyone loved him, including the nuns" / "I've got a crush on you." [he said] / "He made me feel noticed in an important, grown-up way" / "He flattered and teased me and said that all the other girls were talking about me behind my back because they were jealous." / "and we talked for hours about how amazingly mature, beautiful, and intelligent I was, how sensual, misunderstood, and special" / "I climbed into the passenger seat. Teacher pulled me into his arms and kissed me" [her parents then came home and saw Hilton and her teacher in the driveway] / "Somehow, people [at school] seemed to know." / "I don't know if there were any repercussions to the teacher or if there was any attempt to prevent him from choosing another little girl," / "My parents never volunteered any information, and I never asked, but I assume the fear of bad publicity would have prevented them from making a scene or pressing charges." / "I never allowed myself to talk or even think about what it really was or why I climbed out the window to kiss that stupid pedophile. It took decades for me to actually speak the word pedophile," / "Casting him in the role of child molester meant casting myself in the role of victim, and I just couldn't go there." / [what hurt her was] "the fact that I had enjoyed something that was, in reality, utterly vile." / "Even now, knowing in my grown-up mind that no child is ever to blame for inappropriate adult behavior, my face is literally burning as I sit here telling you this terrible secret," / "I'm not sure I'll ever be able to fully shake it off. But it's a key part of my story."

• The horrifying rehabilitation of paedophilia

"One of the problems with the victim-driven ideology of the Left is that real victims get ignored. There’s no place for children in the elbow-jostling arena of the grievance industry, they will never be heard. Kids can’t speak up, but their silence does not mean consent, as so many advocates of paedophilia would have you believe, it just means they’re kids. Childhood abuse is a human rights issue, but it’s never couched in those terms. It’s the first betrayal that anyone can experience, but there are no social justice warriors highlighting it. There are few programs to help those affected, and no widespread push-back in the general community against those wanting to promote paedophilia as a harmless lifestyle choice. We’ve ceded too much in the cultural Marxist/woke take-over of Western society, realising too late what we’ve lost. It’s time to draw a line in the sand and declare that our children will not be ceded."

• The Term "Cissexual" Was Coined By Pedophile Sympathizer Volkmar Sigusch Who Said "Good Sex Can Be Anything"

"Volkmar Sigusch was born in 1940 and became a renowned sexologist and physician who played a big role in the 1960s sexual revolution. He was the director of the Institute for Sexual Science at the clinic of Goethe University in Frankfurt. He was a writer and editor for cultural magazines that focused on sex and psychology. @heyitsjuderose called him a "pedo sympathizer" in her video and pointed out that he's the first person on record to coin the term cisgender "as an antonym to transgender." However, Sigusch actually coined the term cissexual as an antonym to transgender. The term cissexual first came up in a peer-reviewed paper called "The Neosexual Revolution." Sigusch is also "credited as some kind of pioneer for the LGBTQ movement" as well as the sexual revolution in general. (It should be noted that the word cisgender, which has become the preferred term, was allegedly coined by Dana Defosse, PhD, a retired research and physician educator, in 1994 when she was a graduate student.)"

• Neo-Nazis descended on a drag queen story hour event shouting “Sieg heil”

"In a scene that is becoming all too common around the U.S., white supremacist and far-right anti-LGBTQ+ protesters descended on an Ohio park where a drag queen story hour event was taking place over the weekend, clashing with supporters and descending into chaos and violence. [...] rainbow umbrellas to shield children from anti-LGBTQ+ protesters at similar events. [...] According to local newspaper The Gazette, Christian conservative protesters chanted “18-plus gets rid of us.” Some claimed they were not anti-LGBTQ+ but merely wanted to ban children from drag events."

• DeSantis revokes Miami hotel’s alcohol license for letting children attend sexual drag show. Also covered on Breitbart.

Comment: "For Lifesite News, it was the condoms that did it. The DILDOS and the condoms. This is beyond the pale and children must be protected."

• Playwright David Mamet claims on Fox News that teachers 'are inclined' toward pedophilia

"Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet dove headfirst into the classroom culture wars by claiming that teachers "are inclined" toward pedophilia and that students are being "groomed" for sexual abuse — while offering no evidence to back up his charges. Echoing attack lines that Republican politicians have been using of late to push legislation that would ban discussions of sexual orientation or gender identity in classrooms, Mamet insisted "we have to take back control.""

• For 1st time, scientists create mice with cells from 2 males

Comment: "This is going to be a hard one for the radfems to swallow".

• Utah man granted bail amid accusations of ritualistic child sex abuse

Comment: "SRA never went away. Mormons are at it in Tim Ballard's home state".

• Kids in Utah will need parents’ OK to access social media

• Doctor kicked out of Texas Senate after calling trans people 'pedophiles'

• Most in new poll oppose laws restricting drag shows or performances

• Latina mom fights Texas school over 'seducing hooker' game played with middle-school students

• Palais de Tokyo Can Show Ukraine Protest Painting Accused of Pedophilia, French Court Says