The Truth with Lisa BootheThe Truth with Lisa Boothe: A Parent's Story with Erin Friday
In this episode, Erin Friday, a member of Protect Kids California, discusses her daughter's exposure to transgender ideology in school and the subsequent challenges they faced. She recounts how a sex education class introduced gender identity concepts to young students, leading to her daughter and peers adopting various gender identities. Erin expresses concern over the influence of social media and the lack of parental consent in the school's handling of her daughter's identity. After facing resistance from the school and authorities, Erin left her job to support her daughter, who was dealing with mental health issues. SUBSCRIBE NOW to The Truth with Lisa Boothe - new episodes every Monday & Thursday.
I want you to picture this scenario.
What would you do if your daughter came home from her seventh grade sex ed class telling you that she was taught that they could have a female body with the male brain. That in seventh grade they were being taught about transgender ideology?
What would you do?
That was a reality for one California mom. Her name is Aaron Friday, and she's going to share her family's story with us about what happened when she confronted her daughter's school and why she's now leading the charge to protect daughters across the country, sons across the country from this radical ideology.
Aaron Friday is.
Part of the executive committee of Protect Kids California, and she's also part of or Duty USA. Trust me, you're not going to want to miss her story. Stay tuned for Aaron Friday. Well, Aeron, I appreciate you taking the time to come on the show. You've got an important story, an important thing that happened to your family to tell us about. So I appreciate you making the time.
Well, thank you so much for inviting me. I appreciate it.
So, Aaron, take us through sort of, you know, your journey to to what you're doing today. So your daughter at one point believed she.
Was a boy.
She was introduced to transgender ideology in sex class in seventh grade.
What was she told in seventh grade?
Well, so they are given a five hour course on sex ed and there is an entire hour that is all about gender identity, and it has little cartoons that says, you can be have a female body with a male brain and vice versa. You can be transgender, you can be you know, all these different genders. They use, even the terms pan sexual, and remember these kids are eleven. Pan Sexual means you you will engage in sexual acts with anyone eleven year old kids. So that was my first opening to that there's something going on at our public schools. And I was quite shocked because I was a volunteer at the school, so it's not like I was a missing parent. I was at that school all the time, and to learn that they were teaching this garbage was quite shocking to me. And that was the opening to something's going on. And all of her friends came over to my house after the sex d course, and all of them picked a gender identity that was different than you know, straight white girl.
I mean I'm thirty eight and I don't even know what pants, so it's pretty alarming that they're teaching this to kids that young. So so you said that after that, I mean the other kids in the class. Now, now they have adopted in their minds that you know, there was something that they had previously not thought of before being indoctrinated with this in seventh grade class.
That's correct. That's how quick it was. Because I believe that the kids were taught, you know, it's boring to be a straight girl, and so they all picked something on the LGBTQ alphabet, every single one of them, five out of five. And you know, of course, I was shocked. I went to the parenting class on what they were teaching our kids, and I was amazed at the nonsense that they were teaching. And I was more amazed by the fact that I was the only person raising their hand and interrupting and saying, this is not true, this is garbage. I had no idea that I was supposed to stay quiet and just listen and be in doctrinate at myself. And then you fast forward to the pandemic and when my daughter was living her life in a virtual reality, not able to go to school, you know, locked in her room, no friends, loneliness. She spent a lot of time on the Internet, and that seed that was planted in seventh grade that you could be born in the wrong body started to Germany and grow, and she moved from a very girly girl, where I mean literally she wanted her room painted pink. She was sparkles all the time to this dark kid wearing giant sweatshirts, kind of skater clothes, and then came out with this transgender identity, which I found out by listening to her school teachers call her by a male name.
So they had already started calling your daughter by a male name and using male pronouns without your permission.
That's correct. And what's interesting is that she had started her freshman year during COVID, so these teachers had never even met her. She never stepped foot into that school. And these teachers thought that they were better parents than I was, and thought that they should go ahead and change her name, change her pronouns, and not bring me into the conversation, which, of course I went ballistic on them. I'm an attorney, so I'm no wallflower, and I laid into them pretty hard. And their response was, we need to be the safe space for your child, and that to me was triggering safe safe from whom from her loving parents, who she's right down the hall from. And I got the answer to that because CPS Child Protective Services showed up at my house, as did a police officer, signaling to me that these teachers who had never met me either thought that I was abusive by not accepting my daughter, who came out of my body, who I raised as a boy. And that began the journey of my transgender journey with my daughter, which I was very blessed because I was able to quit my job and focus entirely on getting my daughter well, because that's what it is these children. There are no transgender children. There are children who are indoctrinated, and there are children with acute distress over their bodies or something else. Usually it's something else. So my daughter was severely depressed, and the Internet told her that all of that depression and all that anxiety would just magically disappear if she became a boy. This is the lie. And then they teach these kids that your mom and dad won't accept your transgender identity. Are biggot hateful. You should disengage with them. It's so cult like. So you tell a child that the people who love them the most actually don't love them, and now you're creating a child who is severely depressed and potentially suicidal because now they're hearing their family doesn't love them. What a horrible thing to do to a child. And that's what a transgender child is.
So you raise questions and they send the police and Child Protected Services to your house and to try to send you a message.
Yes, and they did it under the guys. They said, oh, we think she's suicidal. So they tried to cover themselves.
But the guys is shut up, right, I mean, that's that's what they were trying to do with it. It sounds like the back down, shut up, get out of this.
Absolutely. It was a sign what they what they didn't expect is to come to an attorney's home and have me tell them to bug off. Yeah, and then I pulled up. Of course, I pulled my kid from the from the public school. Which is interesting too, because these teachers who wanted to have a safe space quote unquote for my daughter, they never called. They never called to see how she was doing. They didn't care. You know, it's all a bunch of bs that these teachers care so much about these children and they want to make sure these children are pretty tectic from their own parents. They knew nothing of my daughter. They couldn't tell me one fact about my daughter. They'd never seen her.
And is there a point to create a safe space or a corruptive space?
It's all language. I mean, they want to have these kids transitioned. I don't understand why why teachers would be doing this. Is it virtual signaling. Look, I'm a Democrat, I'm in California. I was as liberal as they come. I can't say that anymore. But what they're doing to families and to kids is just unbelievable. That teachers think that they have the right to parent our kids. They don't. Our constitution gives the parents the rights. There are children.
So when you bring this to the school and you raise concerns, what was the response?
You know, what did they say to you?
Exactly what I said, We need to be a safe space. And then they said, the law requires that we call her the name that she requests. Well, I asked them to show me the law, and they couldn't because there is no law, not anywhere in the United States. There's not one law on the books that requires schools to deceive parents, not a one. So they couldn't point it. They couldn't show me the law. There's policies that are written, but policy is not law. And I was.
Reading somewhere that your daughter had gotten into anime and the social media, and those two things played a big role in sort of confusing her and putting her down that path. Why do you think those two things specifically talk about the role they played and why you think that is and was?
Well, anime is fantasy world, it's cartoon. It's not real. Video games not real, Internet not real. You can create an avatar. You can change your skin in these video games, so you can be a female and go to be a male and you can take on that PERSONA anime moves into henta, which is a pornographic cartoons, really pornographic and really disturbing. And once a child is into anime, they get pushed by the algorithms into the hent framework where older people push them. As soon as a child puts on their Instagram account FtM female to male or male MTF male to female. It's a beacon for pedophiles and for sexually depraved people to find these kids, and then they push pornography on them. And it's pornography that would make your hair stand on end. It's so foul and disgusting, and it's two kids. Kids don't have the mental capacity to comprehend what they are watching, and it warps them. When these kids come out as transgender too, and they post that on the internet, because this is a badge of honor. This is all related to DEI discrimination, inclusion and equity, because these kids, they don't want to be the oppressor. They want to be the victim. What better way to be a victim than to jump into the LGBTQ bucket. Once they do that and they put that online, they get into these communities of LGBTQ communities and it's not really the L and the G and the B, it's the T. It's the T and the Q, and they prey upon these kids. When you talk to any d transitioner and you ask them about what the role of pornography was in their transition, they're all going to say that it played a role. Because this is all tied in together. This is all about depravity, queering our country, taking what is normal and turning it upside down. Boy is girl, girl is boy? Non binary? I mean, what the heck is non binary? You cannot be anything other than a female or male. That's it. That's it even intersects people. So it's all designed to pray on these vulnerable kids' minds. And you know, it hits the kids who are lonely, who are not the Lululemon sports kids. This is who it preys upon, autistic kids. It goes after the low hanging fruit. And of course it makes the kids' mental health worse. Suicide rates go up when the child says that they're transgender, because it's confusing, and it's telling a child that everything is wrong with them. They were born wrong, they were a mistake. Their voice, the way they walk, the way they talk, the way they move their genitals, their hands, their neck, their hair growth is all wrong. That's a horrible thing to do to a kid. Everything is wrong with you, child. And the old way to fix it is to medicalize, is to cut off part of your body parts, is to pump experimental drugs into your body, and then you will be your true self and your wonderful self, but right now you're wrong. We'll fix you. Though, we'll fix you. It's such a hateful movement. And that's why I have now that my daughter is back to believing and celebrating that she's a female. I mean almost to the point of where I would maybe take a couple of those big sweatshirts now. But she's seventeen, and she's very proud of her female physique and happy being a female. And how I listened to one of the doctors who told me to transition her, one of the psychologists, psychiatrists, teachers. Where would my daughter be right now?
Quick commercial break more with Aaron on the other side. What does she say about it now? In hindsight, you know, it's really hard for her to talk about it. She's still a minor. Her brain is still forming. She doesn't like to talk about it. I think it's an embarrassment. She has said thank you multiple times for me working so hard to get her out of it. You know, we're in California. She sees it all day long. Does she still have a brain that thinks that there may be truly transgender people out there?
Probably? How can she not our buses are raped in trans flags. Our schools, even our Catholic schools are filled with trans flags. Teachers are still calling girls boys' names. It's everywhere. But for her, at least for her, she doesn't believe that she's transgender. So that's a win. But you know, this is a long fight. We're gonna we have to fight this. We see it with Target, I mean, everyone sees it. It's too biguitous, it's everywhere. So these kids' minds are still forming, and all the mess to them is that, you know, being trans is liberating, it's great.
Well, of course, there's not much of a discussion about the impact two kids.
You know.
I've had Chloe Cole on the show before and she's told me about the pain that she went through, the struggles she went through, the fact that she still has pain from you.
Know, the double missectomy and some of these.
Other things, you know, and there's no conversation around what this does to a child's body, That we're permanently damaging a child's body, that we're doing potentially a you know, irreversible harm to these young people.
They don't talk about it. And I know Chloe really well, I do a lot of work with the de transitioners. That's not talked about. I'm working with a gentleman right now. Who I mean. He had bottom surgery. The doctors don't know what to do with him. He has infection after infection, you know, his neo vagina has closed. Because he doesn't want to be a trans woman anymore. The doctors don't know what to do. They tell him, we don't know whether it's better for you to be on estrogen or testosterone because he doesn't make any natural hormones anymore. There's so many detrans women whose uteruses have atrophied and so sex is painful for them. Going to the bathroom is painful for them. And they're twenty one years old. Their whole life is going to be filled with pain, and no doctor knows how to fix it. They're all walking experiments and it is just absolute Frankenstein medicine. I cannot believe that we're even having this discussion, that we are removing healthy breasts of young girls. We have a young girl in California at the age of twelve. She was approved for a double mass sectomy. Just weeks into her thirteenth birthday. They removed her breast. She had a mental health file that was inches thick, and they still did it to this young girl. What are we doing?
What's crazy about that is if a twelve year old girl went in to get implants, they would probably be taken away from their parents and you know that surgeon would be facing you know, legal repercussions. Right.
So, we're in.
Such a strange place where somehow the removal of the breasts or that's not an issue, or the removal of a you know, it really is just we're in an upside down world right now, and we need people like you to help us find our way out of it. Talk about what you're doing with protect kids California and what people should know about it.
Yeah, so in California, we're really we get to make our own laws through the ballot initiative because none of the lawmakers in Sacramento are listening to us. There's only one lawmaker, Republican assembly Member Bill A. Sale, who put forth a law to safeguard our kids. Everyone else sits there silently. They might give us the thumbs up, but they won't do anything because they're too afraid. So we the people are doing it on our own. So I'm on the Executive Committee for Protect kidsca dot com. It is a ballot initiative that will get boys out of girls' sports, bathrooms and changing rooms. It will ban all gender interventions on miners, and it will prohibit schools from keeping secrets from their parents when the child is struggling with gender issues. So it's a big initiative. It has polling in California, the liberal state of cal California, seventy five percent of voters are against mutilating children, sixty eight percent are against schools lying to parents, and sixty four percent are against boys being in female sports. We have the polling even in a liberal state. We just need to get it on the ballot, which takes millions of dollars. Anyone can donate to. Anyone in any state can donate, and they should because here's the thing. California is a trans sanctuary state. That means all the bands, the band in Tennessee, a child from Tennessee, if he or she can make her way to California, we take them in and we will transition them, even away from their parents. So no child is safe until California has bands. Any kid can come to our state. We will take them in, put them into foster care, and transition them. We also will hide all the doctors that violate other states laws. We just passed a bill this year. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that will hide those doctors in Florida who do these monstrous surgeries on kids. As long as they get to California, they're safe. The long arm of the law will not capture them. So nothing ends until it ends in California. So TECHTKIDSCA dot com has to be a national issue. We have to pass this. We have to get it on the ballot. It's the only way we change our country back to reality. And I'll tell you, if California comes back to reality and safeguard's kids, so will the rest of the country and potentially the rest of the world because people watch what we do. And again, I'm a Democrat fighting this. There's a lot of Democrats that are against this, and we're all lining up. We're holding hands with conservatives and we're going to get this done because parents, they messed with the wrong people when they went after our kids. We lay down our lives for our children.
You know, before we go, you talked about the numbers and how you know majorities are with you on this, yet you had talked about before. When you're asking questions, parents remained silent or you know, lawmakers might give you the thumbs up, but they're.
Not being vocal about it.
So what do you think creates kind of this culture of fear and what do you think we should do about it?
Well, I think there's fear, but when you are filling out your ballot, you're doing that in your home and nobody knows what you're voting. People are afraid. Look, I've been dockxed. I could care less. I didn't even know it happened. That's how much it affected me. I used to use a pseudonym because I was afraid. We have to stop being afraid. It's really a fringe group that is pushing this gender identity garbage. We're way more numerous and people have to stop being afraid about losing their jobs. Lose your job in soup, you're afraid about losing friends. Lose your friends and make new ones. What is more important than safeguarding kids? Where are people's morality If they're not going to stand up for kids, they have none. I'm tired of hearing that people are afraid. I've been doing this for four years, relentlessly, sixteen hours a day, with very few breaks. If everyone who was against the transgender movement would write a check, would put some time in, this could be over in twenty twenty four. We can end it this year, quick commercial break.
Stay with us.
It's hard to even wrap our heads around that this is real and it's going on, and it's disturbing and it has long lasting impacts on so many young people, both from a physical perspective and then also just you.
Know, mentally.
So the website is protect kidsca dot com.
Is that correct?
And then also where else can they go to help and to follow your work.
I'm also a co lead of a group called Our Duty dot group and that is turning into a nonprofit and that's where parents can go when they need help, grandparents and people who want to volunteer. Our Duty also has a sub stack that I mainly write for. And then where can they find information about Our Duty? Is their website? They could go to, Yes, it's Our Duty dot group dot com.
Great Aaron Friday, appreciate you sharing your family story with us and just leading the charge on this really important issue. We really appreciate your time and just appreciate the work that you put into this, and I'm sure so many parents across the country really do well.
Thank you so much for having me, and everyone can do something to end this, and everyone must.
That was Aaron Friday. What a story with what she went through with her daughter and her family and just fighting against this. We appreciate her taking the time. Appreciate you at home for listening every Monday and Thursday.
You can listen throughout the week.
I want to thank my producer John Castio and Drew Steele who stepped in this week for putting the show together.
Until next time.
