A Rhode Island mother who’s against LGBT indoctrination was reportedly forced to spend $1,200 out of pocket for police protection before she could hold an event at a public library last Monday about said indoctrination.
Why? Because of the mob that left-wing activists had sicced on her.
“I organized this event but I became the target of this onslaught on social media. Rhode Island legislators and college professors began defaming me and bullying me. They made calls for people to harass me and the library,” Nicole Solas of the Independent Women’s Network said to the Daily Mail.
“The Cranston Police Department then received intel that violent protesters were going to be attending — people with a history of violence and prior arrests. The police said I could not host the event unless I had five police details because it was a threat to public safety.”
Solas added, “Everyone who attended had to be checked for weapons and explosives. My car was also hidden when I attended the library. It ended up being this very intense experience when it was supposed to be community outreach and a civil and open dialogue.”
Let it be known: hate is not welcome here in Cranston. We won’t allow children and teachers to be used as props to spread anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry and right-wing propaganda. We will defend the right for anyone to live as who they are. And we will be there to defend our LGBTQ+ friends. https://t.co/dcBIqBUR1C
— Brandon Potter (@BrandonPotterRI) September 19, 2022
I am extremely concerned about the event taking place tomorrow night at the Edgewood Library, which appears to be intended to spread transphobic propaganda.
— Bill Bartholomew (@BillBartholomew) September 19, 2022
Large counter protest at Cranston Library pic.twitter.com/7dFQsrSqJ4
— Bill Bartholomew (@BillBartholomew) September 19, 2022
The effort to defame her was led in part by local media, which went out of its way to frame Solas as someone who’s opposed to the so-called “rights of transgender youth” and as someone who spouts so-called “hate speech.”
Local media even questioned library director Ed Garcia about this alleged “hate speech.”
“Asked whether the library was tacitly endorsing hate speech, Garcia said the law isn’t clear on what constitutes hate speech,” The Providence Journal reported Monday.
The outlet then proceeded to quote from a litany of radical LGBT activists who believe the library is indeed endorsing so-called hate speech, including Wendy Becker of LGBTQ Action Rhode Island.
“The people who are speaking are anti-transgender activists. Their goal is to stir things up, to promulgate transphobic beliefs. Their argument is trans people don’t exist. This is hate speech that causes harm,” Baker said to the paper.
Meanwhile, a coalition of various far-left groups released a joint press release slamming the library for “hosting an event fueled with anti-trans hatred, even though it violates their own policy against hate speech.”
Transgender people and allies urge @CranstonLibrary to cancel harmful, anti-trans panel@TGINetworkRI@LGBTQActionRI@WomanProjectHQ@hausofcodec@RIDWomensCaucus@Y_P_I@edgarcia401https://t.co/hYpLtBfLLA
— Steve Ahlquist (@steveahlquist) September 19, 2022
“We would like the Cranston Public Library to explain how they are providing a safe and inclusive space for all visitors including trans young people while hosting a speaker who proclaims that transgender kids do not exist. How are transgender people supposed to feel safe in this library before, during and after this event?” activist Jaye Watts said in the press release.
“The library is a trusted public institution that disseminates information; people are going to assume the information from these speakers is true. Our public libraries cannot be in the business of legitimizing hateful, false speech,” activist Ethan Huckle added.
But Solas isn’t pushing hate. She and her allies are, instead, raising valid concerns about children being indoctrinated into believing they’re transgender and thus need transgender surgery.
“Schools are planting seeds in children’s heads to lead them to surgery if they are brainwashed enough,” Solas said at the event Monday, according to The Boston Globe.
Meanwhile, Solas’ guest speaker, Chris Elston, also pushed back on the claim that they’re denying the existence of transgender people.
Listen:
“Now, people say that I am trying to erase transgender people’s existence, as if one could do such a thing. What does that mean?
“I say there is no such thing as a transgender child, because there isn’t. There are boys and there are girls, and that is it …” pic.twitter.com/DjZmlxt9kQ
— Billboard Chris 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@BillboardChris) September 20, 2022
“… just like the previous 200,000 years of our existence on this earth. That doesn’t mean there aren’t children who are struggling with gender distress.
“Gender dysphoria, it probably should be called sex dysphoria, is real, and we need to help these kids.”
— Billboard Chris 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@BillboardChris) September 20, 2022
If an adult wants to call themselves transgender and adopt that title, that’s one thing.
When you call a little boy or girl a ‘transgender child,’ you are locking in an identity.
The vast majority of children would see their gender dysphoria desist if left alone.
— Billboard Chris 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@BillboardChris) September 20, 2022
Note what he wrote above about the “majority of children” desisting. This is factually accurate.
“The phenomenon of transgender children ‘growing out of’ their transgender identity by the time they are adolescents or adults is called ‘desistance’ by gender researchers,” according to PBS member station KQED.
“For decades, follow-up studies of transgender kids have shown that a substantial majority — anywhere from 65 to 94 percent — eventually ceased to identify as transgender.”
But because facts such as these offend far-left LGBT activists, you’re not allowed to mention them, lest you be harassed and accused of spouting so-called “hate speech.”
But according to Solas, this is bull.
“It’s not hate speech to be exposing medical abuse of children. This is what we believe, Chris and I, that this is greatest child abuse scandal in history,” she said to the Daily Mail.
Watch her full event below:
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