Texas Trans Pamphlets Aren't 'False' Because They Accurately Reflect LGBT Activist Tactics
Source: Jordan Boyd. "There’s Nothing ‘False’ In The Trans Propaganda Pamphlets." October 22, 2026. thefederalist.com
The Gist
The author says news outlets are wrong to call the Texas trans pamphlets 'fake' just because the group named on them denies sending them. In her view, the pamphlet's advice matches what trans advocacy groups really promote, so it is accurate even if nobody knows who mailed it.
Conclusion
Mainstream media are wrong to call the Texas trans student pamphlets 'false' or 'fake,' because their content accurately represents the goals and tactics of the transgender activist coalition, whoever actually mailed them.
Premises
- Media outlets like the Texas Tribune call the pamphlets 'false' or 'fake' mainly because the Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT) says it did not send them.
- TENT's disavowal covers only authoring, authorizing, approving, or distributing the pamphlets. It does not say TENT disagrees with their content.
- The pamphlet's content (directing minors to out-of-state puberty blocker resources, explaining legal emancipation, and urging kids to seek adult support outside unsupportive families) matches what TENT, the Trevor Project, the Human Rights Campaign, and similar groups actually promote.
- These organizations routinely encourage kids to see activists rather than family as their support system and promote out-of-state care and relocation funds for youth in states that ban such treatments.
- These tactics are part of a broader activist campaign to separate gender-confused children from parents who do not affirm them, shown in ballot measures, school policies, and child-custody cases.
Assumptions
- A document is not 'false' or 'fake' if its content accurately reflects the views and practices of the group it appears to represent, regardless of who produced it.
- Silence about disagreement with the content in TENT's statement indicates TENT agrees with it.
- The author's characterization of gender-affirming support as 'grooming,' 'chemical castration,' and 'kidnapping' is accurate and shared by readers.
- Resources for out-of-state care and emancipation amount to encouraging kids to defy their parents, rather than offering support to kids in unsafe homes.
- The pamphlet's actual origin is irrelevant to evaluating the media's claim that it is fake.