In a now deleted tweet, the Libs of TikTok account - which has more than 1 million followers - called the Trevor Project a “ grooming organization.” The account, run by an attendee of the Jan.
Mark my words,” wrote Lindsay on Twitter, later adding, “Groomer Project posing as suicide prevention.” They don't mobilize to protect anything unless there's something really bad going on there that they don't want anyone to find out. “Only a matter of time until solid evidence of serious wrongdoing emerges regarding the Trevor Project. Yet the term has recently emerged as a popular buzzword on the political right, where it’s been wrongly conflated with discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity. “Grooming” is a relatively new term used to describe tactics that have long been used by sexual abusers, mostly against young children but also vulnerable adults, to gain access to potential victims, coerce them into abuse and then avoid getting caught.Īccording to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, “Sexual assault is in no way related to the sexual orientation of the perpetrator or the survivor, and a person’s sexual orientation cannot be caused by sexual abuse or assault.”
systems and policies) last year before pivoting to a series of YouTube videos about “groomer schools.”Ī crisis service coordinator at the Trevor Project call center in West Hollywood, Calif., in 2017. One of the leading critics has been author and commentator James Lindsay, who published a book criticizing critical race theory (the study of racism in U.S. Similar protections are provided by domestic abuse services.īut a number of conservatives - many of whom hyped concerns about the teaching of race in school - have recently recirculated it as proof that the nonprofit is engaging in grooming. The feature is meant to help those with anti-LGBTQ parents.
The cartoon explains that those who want to chat with a counselor can do so with the ability to quickly exit and erase browser history. In late April, conservatives began to circulate a cartoon from the Trevor Project, the world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention program for LGBTQ youth, according to its website. Conservatives pushing anti-LGBTQ “grooming” attacks have turned their attention to the Trevor Project, a nonprofit that provides counseling for teens.