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Conservatives pushing anti-LGBTQ grooming attacks have turned their attention to the Trevor Project, a nonprofit that provides counseling for teens.
In late April, conservatives began to circulate a cartoon from the Trevor Project, the worlds largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention program for LGBTQ youth, according to its website. The cartoon explains that those who want to chat with a counselor can do so with the ability to quickly exit and erase browser history. The feature is meant to help those with anti-LGBTQ parents. Similar protections are provided by domestic abuse services.
But a number of conservatives many of whom hyped concerns about the teaching of race in school have recently recirculated it as proof that the nonprofit is engaging in grooming. One of the leading critics has been author and commentator James Lindsay, who published a book criticizing critical race theory (the study of racism in U.S. systems and policies) last year before pivoting to a series of YouTube videos about groomer schools.
Grooming is a relatively new term used to describe tactics that have long been used by sexual abusers, mostly against young children but also vulnerable adults, to gain access to potential victims, coerce them into abuse and then avoid getting caught.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/right-wing-groomer-attacks-target-suicide-prevention-service-for-lgbtq-youth-130037286.html
Sick fucks!
canuckledragger
(1,664 posts)The purity ball crap where they sexualize their own daughters as they come into puberty and get them to pledge that their daddy will be their only boyfriend for some length of time.
THAT'S fucking grooming. These sick assholes ALWAYS project!
Turbineguy
(37,365 posts)doesn't prevent James Lindsey from committing suicide.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)They're adept at finding some new term that titillates them and makes them feel oh-so-naughty.
iemanja
(53,066 posts)opposes suicide prevention.