TESTIMONY
Amaya Perez, Co-Chapter Leader from Gays Against Groomers Testifies on Explicit Content in Youth Literature
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Amaya Perez, Co-Chapter Leader for Gays Against Groomers, addresses concerns over explicit content in youth literature, focusing on two specific books: 'Gender Queer' and 'This Book is Gay.' Perez critiques the graphic and sexually explicit material found within these books, arguing that such content is detrimental to children’s welfare and mental health. She emphasizes the need to protect children from sexually explicit material and questions the impact of such content on the community and young adults. Perez advocates for parental rights in controlling access to such material for their children.
Amaya Perez
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My name is Amaya Perez.
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I am a co chapter leader for New York for an organization called case against groomers.
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We are an organization of gays and others in a community who opposes sexualization, the indoctrination, and medicalization of children under the guise of LGBT QIA plus inclusion.
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I'm here to discuss 2 books that are currently on the banded list for New York.
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Genderqueer, and this book is Gay.
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I remember someone mentioning that this is a wholesome book for children to have access to.
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This is an example of a picture of inside the book itself.
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Of gender clear.
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And I'm gonna read a quick episode expert of this book is gay.
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And in this section, it describes how to have sex So a good handpiece is all about the wrist action, rub the head of his cock back and forth in your hand.
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Try different speeds and pressures until he's positive.
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He responds positively.
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As you can see, these materials extremely sexually explicit and graphic I've heard testimony on that this is discriminating against LGBTQ people and how it's limiting information that is overtly graphic and sex sexual to children discriminating against anybody.
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Don't think that is discriminating against anybody for limiting and having standards for children and protecting them against sexually expensive material.
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If anything, it's safeguarding children as well as protecting my community's image that is already under fire.
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As you saw, the material is extremely graphic and and sexual in nature.
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Having books that show them how to give blow jobs in normal normalized part of gay gay culture as a promiscuous culture is not being mindful of teaching kids how to be mindful of their own sexual activities.
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But it's supporting armed security, which has been a lethal problem in our community.
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Books describing identity to the point of normalizing hating ones body and natural processes are detrimental to the mental health of teenagers, especially young girls.
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In a culture with a major mental health crisis, we must be careful at the material we're giving them.
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As a bisexual woman, I never had to read a book to discover who I was.
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I never needed a book to teach me how to give oral sex to a girl.
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It was meant it was also mentioned that everyone should have the freedoms her breed what they want.
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It's not a right or a need for a child to have free access to sexually explicit material.
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The rights and freedoms of kids to read whatever they want do not supersede our duty as an adult to protect them from age inappropriate material.
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Parents who want their child to have access to these materials can very well buy these books or visit school library or public libraries.
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But putting these books on school shelves supersede the rights of the parents who want to protect their child from this material.
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I asked the counsel to consider what the content of these books are telling young adults.
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Consider the material I read in these books.
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Consider the impact is having on both the schools, the community, and the the community it's claiming to help.
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Thank you.