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January Littlejohn, a parent and 1 of President Donald Trump’s guests astatine his address to Congress connected Tuesday night, shared a peculiar connection to the president successful an interrogation with Fox News Digital.
During his address, Trump recognized Littlejohn and thanked her for advocating against transgender ideology, which helium called a "form of kid abuse."
"My medication is besides moving to support our children from toxic ideologies successful our schools," said Trump. "A fewer years ago, January Littlejohn and her hubby discovered that their daughter's schoolhouse had secretly socially transitioned their 13-year-old small girl. Teachers and administrators conspired to deceive January and her hubby portion encouraging her girl to usage a caller sanction and pronouns, they-them pronouns actually, each without telling January."
Trump touted his caller signing of an executive order that helium said bans nationalist schools from "indoctrinating our children with transgender ideology."
During his address, the president urged Congress to walk a measure "permanently banning and criminalizing enactment changes connected children and everlastingly ending the prevarication that immoderate kid is trapped successful the incorrect body."
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"This is simply a large prevarication and our connection to each kid successful America is that you are cleanable precisely the mode God made you," said Trump.
Littlejohn told Fox News Digital that she was "extremely grateful" to the president but that the combat is acold from over.
Regarding Trump, Littlejohn said, "I would conscionable similar to convey him and proceed to talk information that determination are 2 sexes, antheral oregon female, and nary substance what 1 does to their body, that tin ne'er change. Sex is binary."
"It's truly important that parents recognize however destructive successful quality societal modulation of children is," she said. "It's the archetypal measurement toward aesculapian intervention, and it makes the kid little apt to desist."
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She explained her girl arsenic a 13-year-old successful mediate schoolhouse and immoderate friends became fixated connected their gender identity.
"The schoolhouse took it upon themselves to intervene and socially modulation my child. And this goes mode beyond sanction and pronouns. They beryllium the kid down, and successful our lawsuit it was down closed doors with 3 adults that consisted of the schoolhouse counselor, the adjunct main and a societal idiosyncratic I had ne'er met, and they did an authoritative ‘gender enactment plan.’"
Littlejohn said that successful this session, the schoolhouse unit asked her girl what bath and locker rooms she wanted to use, which enactment she wanted to country with during overnight trips and whether she wanted her parents to beryllium notified oregon not.
"They enactment the load connected her arsenic to whether oregon not my parental rights would beryllium honored by deciding she was the sole determination shaper arsenic to whether oregon not my hubby and I would beryllium notified of the meeting," she explained.
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Littlejohn said that erstwhile she made inquiries astir the league to the schoolhouse she was told "they could not springiness maine immoderate accusation astir that meeting" and "that my girl was present protected by a nondiscrimination law."
Today, Littlejohn says her girl has worked done her sex confusion. But she said the school’s actions created a "huge wedge betwixt america and our daughter" that "took galore years to repair."
"If you springiness these children the acquisition of time, if you let them to spell done their earthy puberty, the immense bulk of these kids volition resoluteness their distress naturally, conscionable similar my girl did," she said. "My girl is simply a shining illustration of that, though she inactive does grieve the clip that she lost, years that she lost, dedicated to the prevarication of this ideology to go thing that she could ne'er become. So that portion is truly tragic."
Despite each this, Littlejohn said she was "humbled and honored" to beryllium invited to be the code arsenic the president’s guest.
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"I felt the value of not conscionable representing my household and what we've been done but of each families who person been harmed by this sex individuality ideology," she said. "And it's inactive happening. I get telephone calls play from parents whose children are being seduced by the mendacious thought that they were calved successful the incorrect body."
Though she said the acquisition near her feeling "filled with specified hope," she said, "executive orders unsocial volition not alteration this, due to the fact that this ideology has infected each institution, including our schools."
"There are inactive 21,000 schoolhouse districts crossed our state that person these concealed societal modulation plans. And it's truly bittersweet … due to the fact that these children, this individuality situation is being forced connected them. It's creating disorder wherever nary erstwhile disorder would person existed," she said. "But the bottommost enactment is, is we person information and world connected our side. And I'm precise grateful that we are moving successful the close direction."
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