Protecting Our Children

Exposed: The REAL Groomers

Cassie Brighter
Brighter Thoughts
10 min readJan 15, 2023

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The Southern Baptist Church, and their very REAL (and massive) scandal of child sexual abuse

Attacks on the LGBT community have been intensifying. Murders of trans women have nearly doubled year since 2019. Regardless of what bigots like Matt Walsh say, statistics show that trans folk face 2.5 times more likely to be murdered, and four times as likely to experience violence, than cisgender folks. The tragedies of Club Pulse and Club Q speak volumes about the growing homophobia and transphobia in our culture.

The new target: Drag Queen Story Hour — a child-friendly event where families bring their children to hear a drag queen read a children’s book.

The event was created to have more American families come in contact with LGBT folks, to humanize them, to see them as real people. There is nothing lascivious or sexual about Drag Queen Story Hour.

Spurred by all the hate directed at drag queens and trans women, I recently wrote a piece called “The Facts About Drag Queen Story Hour, Groomers, and Keeping Your Children Safe.”

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Cassie Brighter
Brighter Thoughts

Activist. Public speaker. Writer. Community Organizer. Mom. Creator & Host, Empowered Trans Woman Summit. Managing Editor, EmpoweredTransWoman.com