Speaker 1: Aaron Lee, who was just a mom minding her own beeswax, like,
Speaker 1: not trying to cause a problem, just you know, going
Speaker 1: about life, and things started to She started to find
Speaker 1: out things about stuff that was being kept from parents
Speaker 1: by the school district and sort of the infiltration of
Speaker 1: gender ideology to our kids, and it made Aaronly a
Speaker 1: warrior for kids. And Aaron joins me now to talk
Speaker 1: about you know, Aaron, I feel like saying, what are
Speaker 1: you doing now?
Speaker 2: Erin?
Speaker 1: Because there's always something new, isn't there?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Thanks for having me many I'm down a rabbit hole
Speaker 2: that has no end with what's going on in the
Speaker 2: public school district.
Speaker 3: I mean, for me, it started with a personal story.
Speaker 2: I was minding my own business like most parents, and
Speaker 2: they came from my little girl, my twelve year old
Speaker 2: daughter in a secret gender and sex club that they
Speaker 2: told her was an art club where they brought in
Speaker 2: outside predators from our community who still harass my daughter
Speaker 2: today three years later, and taught her things like if
Speaker 2: you're not comfortable in your body, that means you're trands
Speaker 2: and if you don't know who you're sexually attracted to,
Speaker 2: that means you're queer.
Speaker 3: They taught her about Pollyamory how.
Speaker 2: To access puberty blockers, and reiterated over and over that
Speaker 2: parents aren't safe and we're one of the lucky families
Speaker 2: that found out this was happening and was able to
Speaker 2: help our daughter through the confusion, although it took about
Speaker 2: a year to heal her from what they had done
Speaker 2: to her. But that woke me up and as I
Speaker 2: started to pay attention. Like I said, it's a rabbit
Speaker 2: hole that has no end. I mean, there are very
Speaker 2: bad things happening in our public schools. And so now
Speaker 2: I'm founding the alarm and fighting back with law fair
Speaker 2: and you know, by exposing other family stories who've been
Speaker 2: through what we have, because it's a very pervasive issue.
Speaker 1: It's it's shocking to me when I hear stories like
Speaker 1: the one of your daughter. I am still shocked because
Speaker 1: I know so many public school teachers, and I know
Speaker 1: that for the ones that I know and the ones
Speaker 1: that I've interacted with throughout my daughter's career, these are
Speaker 1: people who went into teaching because they love kids, they
Speaker 1: liked being if, they like helping children and things of
Speaker 1: that nature. And to see the speed with which some
Speaker 1: of those people with a helping heart have just turned
Speaker 1: to inserting themselves in between students and parents. Is alarming
Speaker 1: to me, and I'm not sure how you put that
Speaker 1: genie back in the bottle.
Speaker 2: A lesser known fact about me, my undergrad is elementary education,
Speaker 2: and I spent two years as a teacher. And when
Speaker 2: this incident happened with my daughter, I should also mention
Speaker 2: I was a liberal voter. I was a moderate, but
Speaker 2: I voted for Polus, I voted for Biden. And then
Speaker 2: this thing happened, and it became personal, and I started
Speaker 2: to really dig into this ideology, and I firmly believe
Speaker 2: that we've pandered to human kindness.
Speaker 3: That yes, most teachers are good people, but just as
Speaker 3: I was taught.
Speaker 2: At university, that this is the right kind thing to do,
Speaker 2: that if a child tells you their identity, you embrace it.
Speaker 3: If they ask you to keep it a secret, you
Speaker 3: keep secrets. This is what our.
Speaker 2: Teachers are being taught when they're going to school to
Speaker 2: become teachers.
Speaker 3: And most of them are not bad people.
Speaker 2: They're good people stuck in a very very broken system
Speaker 2: from the top down.
Speaker 1: So does that have to I'm glad you brought up
Speaker 1: the colleges, the education colleges, they tend to be the
Speaker 1: most liberal slash progressive. In any university setting. You're going
Speaker 1: to have a disproportionate number of women, and you will
Speaker 1: have a very politically active sort of person that is
Speaker 1: now going through the schools of education. Is that where
Speaker 1: we need to start? And how do you even address that?
Speaker 2: Well, you know, as I dug in, we didn't get
Speaker 2: here overnight. Our education system has been infiltrated for decades,
Speaker 2: and yeah, we need to look at the university system.
Speaker 2: I'm a huge advocate for not putting your kids in
Speaker 2: traditional government schools. I mean, clearly my rights were violated,
Speaker 2: my child was harmed, and then I was vilified for
Speaker 2: speaking up about it. And like I said, as I
Speaker 2: dug in, I realized it's a very broken system.
Speaker 3: I mean, I tell parents, start with the fact that sixty.
Speaker 2: Percent of Colorado kids cannot read or do math YEP
Speaker 2: at grade level. And we wonder why because we're focusing
Speaker 2: on mental health and social emotional learning and comprehensive sex
Speaker 2: ed and all these other areas that aren't helping them
Speaker 2: be successful academically. So that should have been my first
Speaker 2: red flag as a parent. That most kids are not
Speaker 2: even meeting grade level.
Speaker 3: For basic studies. It's an issue.
Speaker 1: I might have a fifteen year old daughter and she's
Speaker 1: in a public high school and she loves it and
Speaker 1: she's doing really well there, but all of her friends
Speaker 1: sit around, they sit around, when they talk, they sit
Speaker 1: around and diagnose everybody else's mental disorders, Like we have
Speaker 1: focused on mental health, where they think any bump in
Speaker 1: the road is a diagnosis. You know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: Oh you're sad, that's a diagnosis. Oh you're angry, that's
Speaker 1: a diagnosis. Oh that person is a jerk. There's a diagnosis.
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, what if we've done to these kids
Speaker 1: erin We weren't thinking about that stuff when we were kids,
Speaker 1: and now it's all these kids are talking about. It's crazy, and.
Speaker 2: It's not just at the individual school level. So last
Speaker 2: year I fought against a bill ten oh three that
Speaker 2: is now law that mandates mental health screenings for all.
Speaker 3: Six through twelfth graders. The results go to the school,
Speaker 3: not the parents, and.
Speaker 2: If a child is deemed high risk, they get sent
Speaker 2: to the state's mental health counseling program. I matter where
Speaker 2: all of the counselors are LGBTQ affirming and sex work
Speaker 2: positive as I found out when I took the assessment
Speaker 2: myself and was deemed high risk, which tells me everyone's
Speaker 2: deemed high risk.
Speaker 3: So were these directives.
Speaker 2: Are being pushed down from the state level that's now
Speaker 2: mandatory in all schools. And I don't know if you've
Speaker 2: looked at the first grade curriculum that's now part of
Speaker 2: the new social studies stances, but we're teaching first.
Speaker 3: Graders about Harvey Milk and sex work.
Speaker 1: Now, well, what's interesting and when the sex work thing
Speaker 1: is the one that got me in the first grade standards, right,
Speaker 1: Because anybody that's ever had a first grader in their
Speaker 1: life knows that when you say something like and they
Speaker 1: know that trans Because the portion of the first grade
Speaker 1: social studies curriculum that we're talking about says that the
Speaker 1: two men who were they were just drag queens. They
Speaker 1: were not transpeople. They were just drag queens. They also
Speaker 1: ran a boy's sex ring out of their apartment because
Speaker 1: they would find these confused gay kids on the street
Speaker 1: and then they would exploit them. And in this first
Speaker 1: grade social studies unit, it says that they would take
Speaker 1: these boys in because trans kids often turned to sex work. Now,
Speaker 1: if you've ever had a six year old, you know
Speaker 1: what's going to happen. Next, question number one, what's a
Speaker 1: trans kid? Question number two? What sex work? How do
Speaker 1: you explain that to a six year old in an
Speaker 1: age appropriate manner?
Speaker 3: How do you do that? My daughter in first grade
Speaker 3: wanted to be a unicorn.
Speaker 2: Kids clearly at that age are not capable of comprehending
Speaker 2: these concepts. And I'm a firm believer it's not really
Speaker 2: the public school's business to be teaching any child about
Speaker 2: sex work at any age, but it's certainly not appropriate
Speaker 2: for six and seven year olds. And you know, parents
Speaker 2: like me showed up at the State Board of Ed
Speaker 2: and we tried to push these standards up to fourth grade,
Speaker 2: where it seems more appropriate, But the State Board of
Speaker 2: Ed voted to start them in first grade, which is
Speaker 2: six and seven years old. And this is in his
Speaker 2: history in Civics class. Now, for example, there's a lesson
Speaker 2: about Jared Polis being the first.
Speaker 3: Openly gay governor.
Speaker 2: Why wouldn't we talk about Jared Polis's accomplishments and it's
Speaker 2: okay to talk about its accomplishments, but it's not appropriate
Speaker 2: to talk about his.
Speaker 3: Sexual orientation with six year olds.
Speaker 2: Their brains are just not fully developed in a way
Speaker 2: that can comprehend these subjects the way they're being presented
Speaker 2: now as a state mandate, It's not optional.
Speaker 3: Yeah, either.
Speaker 1: Aaron Lee is going to be part of the incredible
Speaker 1: speakers lineup at the Stop the War on Children rally
Speaker 1: put together by Gays Against and so many other organizations
Speaker 1: are now doing these all over the country, and the
Speaker 1: speakers include Aaron. She's going to speak, Janette Cooper is
Speaker 1: going to share her thoughts on gender affirming care in
Speaker 1: the industry behind it. Jennifer Say, who was also on
Speaker 1: this show, is going to be speaking there, along with
Speaker 1: many many other including Lady Maga, who we interviewed last week,
Speaker 1: and he is dynamite. He is just so, so so good.
Speaker 1: It's all happening at ten am. What do you guys
Speaker 1: hope you're participating? Aaron, what is your hope for this rally?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: My hope is that it continues to bring people together.
Speaker 2: I so appreciate you platforming Gays against Groomers. They are
Speaker 2: such an amazing organization who has demonstrated real DEI right,
Speaker 2: where it doesn't matter what side of the political spectrum,
Speaker 2: or your sexual orientation or your religion, we all agree
Speaker 2: that a men aren't women, and that parents shouldn't be
Speaker 2: lied to and children shouldn't be mutilated in the name
Speaker 2: of gender ideology.
Speaker 3: These are not radical concepts.
Speaker 2: And what's so great about GAG and about my organization
Speaker 2: Protect Kids Colorado that I co founded, is that we
Speaker 2: want to bring people together from all different areas and
Speaker 2: backgrounds on these very common sense issues. So my hope
Speaker 2: is that people from all sides of the spectrum will
Speaker 2: come out to this event and see that you know,
Speaker 2: we're all very different, but we are unified on these issues.
Speaker 1: Aaron Lee, I appreciate your time today. I appreciate you
Speaker 1: just continuing to relentlessly do what you do because I
Speaker 1: do think that more parents are starting to be aware
Speaker 1: and are awake, but they still need a little more
Speaker 1: courage in some respects. So your organization, this rally Gaze
Speaker 1: against Groomers, I hope, continues to give people the courage
Speaker 1: to stand up and say these things are not real,
Speaker 1: and we cannot allow men in girls' bathrooms and boys
Speaker 1: in girls sports and all of the craziness that is
Speaker 1: supposed to be normalized in our society now, and I
Speaker 1: just don't get it.
Speaker 3: Aaron.
Speaker 1: I appreciate your time today.
Speaker 3: Thanks Mandy. All Right, that is Aaron Lee