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Emotional Extortion Emails: The 'Courage Campaign' Wants You Terrified For 'Trans Kids'

Emotional Extortion Emails: The 'Courage Campaign' Wants You Terrified For 'Trans Kids'

'Send lots of money so we can save them from their parents'

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Aug 29, 2023
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“California has more than two dozen chapters” of Moms for Liberty, the email continues in full fluster, “including in Los Angeles and San Diego. And slowly but surely, these extremists are making gains in our state.” Where do I sign up? -
William A. Ferguson

“A school board is on the verge of forcing teachers to out their students to their parents if a student begins going by a different name or pronoun,” the ‘Courage Campaign’ fearmongers in a recent fundraising email.

“You’d think this school board is in Texas or Florida, but no. It’s Orange Unified School District in California,” they cry. You’d think that this would maybe tell the Courage Campaign they should calm down and read the room, but no.

No, they must fight the ‘extremism’ of school boards (checks notes) aligning their policies with established Supreme Court precedents as well as federal laws. Parental rights are now redefined as ‘conversion therapy.’

“Extremist policies targeting LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities are gaining ground in California, driven by hate groups like Moms for Liberty, but there has not been a unified progressive effort to push back,” the Courage Campaign writes. “That changes now.”

Again: they are attacking another nonprofit organization because school boards a…


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