One Nation is referring the Classification Board to a Senate inquiry regarding the creep of inappropriate content that has made its way into the hands and onto the screens of children.

Recent decisions to approve soft-porn and sexually explicit content for kids is being justified via the glitter of ‘rainbow politics’. It follows a new social ideology that says children must be exposed to queer adult sexual behaviours – including kink – and those who oppose risk being labelled as hate-fuelled bigots.

Within this mindset, the very concept of ‘age appropriate’ has been redefined as a far-right tool of oppression that ‘harms’ children. This is how we end up with parents in the US State of Florida struggling to keep soft-porn queer picture books off the shelves in school libraries while a veritable army of activists ‘protect’ schools from conservative ‘book burners’.

Australian schools are on the same path.

According to radical gender theory, which has infiltrated our education system, the idea of denying children access to adult sexual content, or daring to shield their eyes from naked men wearing dog masks as they whip each other in the public street during ‘Pride’, is seen as tantamount to a hate crime.

The better question is – and one that we need to start asking – why do adults want children to supervise and partake in these sexual activities? What are the adults getting out of the child-gaze? Why do adults spend their time reading sexually explicit books to children or accepting tips from toddlers at drag queen shows?

Elon Musk said it best: ‘You are the government. They are NOT your kids.’ His tweet received 436K likes. Musk also said, in response to a tweet about those who practice the sterilisation of children, ‘Those who push it should be in prison for life.’

Instead of seeing dysphoria as a serious condition from which children should be encouraged to recover, the medical profession, the government, and the education system treat it as something to be validated, affirmed, and celebrated. Children are handed a trans flag and paraded as heroes while destructive parents ‘document’ their transition on social media in exchange for fame and cash in a new iteration of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.

This situation is not acceptable to a civilised society. When Australian families signed up for ‘diversity and inclusion’ they were not told this would include predatory activists capturing their children.

Western Culture used to pride itself on moving beyond the historic abuses of children which we still see in the third world. Child brides, genital mutilation, young boys treated as sex slaves – these are all things that our culture outlawed many centuries ago. We even attempted to eradicate the behaviour from other cultures in pursuit of the United Nations’ lofty idea of universal human rights.

Today, the West leads the world in the predation of children. We have a growing medical industry operating in broad daylight that markets the surgical and chemical castration of children as ‘affirmation’ that can be done with or without the approval of parents. Australian state governments are all but salivating. The truly sad thing is that even if these children change their mind after surgery – all the better. They will require another round of expensive surgery and ongoing life care. There are no punishments for surgeons or institutions that transition children who regret the choice.

While many feel this appalling state of affairs has come out of nowhere, the ideology that seeded its creation has been lurking in the halls of the entertainment industry for decades, subtly normalising the obscene.

Hollywood has always leered toward children as a means of commercial exploitation and personal gratification. Increasingly, we are hearing stories about great works of so-called ‘art’ being created to satisfy disturbing fetishes. The Netflix show Cuties received well-deserved condemnation, and this problem stretches right back to Brooke Shields who was photographed at age 10 for Playboy and later went on to star in the 1978 movie Pretty Baby as a child prostitute, as though it is normal.

There are increasing numbers of (now adult) stars talking about the abusive systems in which they were forced to partake as children – systems that many believe are still operating without much interest from US authorities.

While we continue to consume Hollywood’s filth, it will continue to be created. Conservative boycotts of networks that promote borderline illegal content has had a small impact, yet we must be aware that the majority of consumers are not critical adults … they are other children growing up to believe that this is normal and acceptable. Children flick through digital film and TV catalogues largely without adult oversight and even if you can install a content-lock, the children’s programming is saturated with disturbing activist content.

This issue for the West is not limited to putting underage, scantily-clad girls on the cover of entertainment magazines and dressed up as ‘sex icons’ while they’re in school. Nor is it contained to the disturbing cycle of physical abuse that both young girls and boys say that they suffered at the hands of directors and co-stars during their climb up Hollywood’s ladder.

Perverse architects have shifted Culture itself.

The art they make with their seedy hands shapes the morals and ideals of the next generation who are sadly the least equipped to judge the quality of what they’re being exposed to. With the saturation of social media and electronic devices streaming content straight into children’s hands, the entertainment industry’s influence has never been stronger. Children see these figures as their role models and adopt their behaviour.

A similar trend is taking place in the gaming industry, where video games are becoming increasingly violent and sexualised despite the players being children aged well below their recommended classifications. And while there is nothing wrong with playing the odd game, daily immersion and absorption into the gaming world can have a negative impact on children’s perspective and behaviour– just as marathoning gruesome horror films for months on end can desensitise any individual to violent acts.

If a child spends all of their free time glued to the screen playing games that involve killing things, problems can arise. In a similar fashion, our children spend their lives trapped in an education system and social circle that tells them to surgically alter their body if they feel – even briefly – uneasy about the biological process of growing up.

The abuse of the West’s children is institutionalised and industrialised. Protecting them is going to take a mammoth effort from the adults of society. Every small victory, every retraction of the activist agenda, is another child saved.

Cracking down on the Classification Board is a necessary step to open the wider discussion about the quality of the culture we project onto children.

We need to start asking questions of these regulators, such as: why hasn’t there been greater care taken with the arrival of graphic novels into the mainstream? Many of these adult graphic novels sit near the children’s section in bookstores and, with the style of their art appealing to a young audience. This is despite imagery within them often treading water with hardcore magazines, going a step further in the way they depict very young or underage girls in explicit sexual fantasies.

With school mandatory and university attendance widespread, educators have taken on the primary influence in a child’s life. These are the people shaping the values, aspirations, and morals of the next generation. Unfortunately, there is a section of the teaching community – the activist gang – that is leading the conversation.

The root cause can be seen amongst those teachers that take to TikTok to gloat about their classroom conquests – the teachers that bawl their eyes out because their preschool students ‘affirmed’ their gender and validated their political position – the teachers that force their students to recite their preferred fictional pronouns instead of learning how to count.

This trend is exceptionally disturbing. It represents socially regressive adults using young children to validate their behaviour – no doubt because the last time they tried to have this conversation with an adult they were met with ridicule. Using children as the basis for personal acceptance is an abuse of power in the teacher-student relationship and leads to an environment rife with emotional manipulation that has nothing to do with education and everything to do with social obedience and suppression.

Children that grow up in an environment of mandated ‘affirmation’ – even for the most inappropriate and ridiculous behaviour – have no concept of the word ‘no’. Failing to learn this as a child leads to abusive and violent adults.

Education is the antithesis of activism – it’s why we suddenly have kids sticking themselves to the road instead of sticking their heads in textbooks.

Activism is easier to achieve than the gift of knowledge. Lowering the standard for teachers has left unqualified individuals striving to fill their days with something. And that is how we end up with the industry-wide endorsement of gender activism and a bizarre obsession with teaching kids about their gender despite it never being a requirement in the entirety of human history.

The behaviour of these misguided and dangerous educators does not erase the natural human desire to ‘compete’. The ‘everyone’s a winner’ mentality robbed children of academic and sporting competition leading children to decide to compete with gender, pronouns, and perceived mental illnesses – all of which afford them access to social media clout.

As a society, we have fallen a great distance from the idea of giving children love, boundaries, structure, and rules within which they can grow their minds safely.

At the same time, we have made it more difficult for the traditional family structure to endure and survive as the cost of living crisis sends both parents into the workforce, leaving even the youngest children in the hands of preschools that blanket their walls in rainbow flags and invite adult men in sexualised attire to read books designed to make children uncomfortable about their growing bodies and toss them into the arms of extreme activist movements that advocate the intervention of sterilising hormones and surgery.

One Nation is prepared to say what needs to be said – boldly and confidently without fear – to do what needs to be done when it comes to the protection of children.

Leave our children alone!

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