Moms alarmed over transgender picture books targeted at children
Since society has grown more accepting of the LGBT community, the transgender lifestyle is now being featured in movies, TV shows, commercials, and even books. However, the Christian watchdog group One Million Moms refused to stand idly by after publishing giant Scholastic Inc. decided to release transgender picture books for children.
"Everyone is familiar with Scholastic Inc. Their book fairs are popular fundraisers at your child's school. However, Scholastic is not safe for your child and parents should be warned," the group wrote on its website.
As the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books, 1MM believes Scholastic Inc. should utilize its platform to provide children with books that promote good values, not pro-homosexual and pro-transgender ideology. So when the corporation decided on the latter, 1MM got furious.
"The corporation, for example, published a pro-transgender book called 'George' for 3rd graders. 'When people look at George, they think they see a boy,' the book reads. 'But she [George] knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl,'" the group shared.
With its reach of six million children per week, 1MM is disappointed that the topics they are pushing include "Books for Two-Mommy Families," "Great Books for Two-Dad Families," and "6 Picture Books About Transgender Children."
"Scholastic does not have our children's best interests at heart. Tell Scholastic to stop harming children," they urged.
1MM is not the only group concerned about the negative impact transgender books will have on children. Chris McGovern, Chairman of the Campaign for Real Education, earlier told Charisma News that the books, which promote the transgender agenda, are "damaging and cruel" to children.
"They are inflicting adult neuroses about gender on to children who are not interested in gender. Children do not have issues about their gender in 99.9 percent of cases," said McGovern. "Adults need to stop thinking children see the world the way they do. They do not. They may play at being a goblin one day, a dragon the next."
