Unholy Alliances: How sex ed gatekeepers crowned themselves king

Modern sex education inculcates children across the U.S. with pro-abortion and transgender ideology – ideas that began among early activists in Europe who collaborated to separate ‘sexual expression’ from procreation to fulfill their mutual legal and societal goals. 

How did these ideas make it to American school systems and into materials targeting children in the first place, allowing Planned Parenthood and other sex education organizations in the U.S. to promote and profit from them today?

(Read Parts One and Three of the series.)

Key Takeaways:

• Activists living under Germany’s Weimar Republic worked to separate homosexuality from pedophilia in the minds of the public, laying the groundwork for what is taught in the U.S. today, like the idea that children are “sexual from birth.”

• The idea of consent was key; these activists said children could consent to things like sex-change surgeries, cross-sex hormones, and sex with adults.

• Sex activist Harry Benjamin believed some people were not homosexuals but were instead “born in the wrong body” and could be ‘cured’ through ‘transition.’

• Influenced by earlier activists, leaders in the transgender movement helped to establish standards for sex education, a model still used today for sex ed curricula in schools. Their ideas infiltrated every institution in the U.S. 

The Backstory:

As discussed in part one of this series, German attorney and author Karl Ulrichs, the so-called "grandfather of gay liberation," maintained the goal of separating homosexuality from pedophilia in the minds of society. However, he failed to draw a clear distinction between minors and adults. 

Ulrichs promoted the idea that mere ‘consent’ (of which he believed even a child was capable) is all that is needed to justify the permissibility of sex, abortion, and 'gender transition.'

Physician Magnus Hirschfeld, heavily influenced by Ulrichs, helped to lay the groundwork for sexual reform in Germany during the Weimar Republic, founding the Institute for Sexual Science (or Institute for Sexology), which experimented with primitive "sex-change" surgeries and the use of early cross-sex hormones. Hirschfeld aimed to establish the field of sexology as a legitimate academic discipline through the Institute, which would be a model for later institutes in Germany and the United States. 

Foundational to the disturbing idea that children are "sexual from birth" is the premise that children can "consent" to any number of things as mentioned above. Early leaders of transgender ideology helped to mainstream and legitimize this idea, which is still promoted by Planned Parenthood and other self-proclaimed sex ed leaders today.

Connecting ideologies:

Endocrinologist Harry Benjamin, a Berlin native, expanded upon theories held by Ulrichs and Hirschfeld about intersex and transvestite identities. He met Hirschfeld in 1907, just six years before moving from Germany to New York. Benjamin returned multiple times to Berlin during the 1920s to continue his studies under Hirschfeld at the Institute for Sexology. (1) 

Benjamin believed that some individuals were not homosexual but rather were “born in the wrong body” and could be “cured” through “transition” — which included invasive 'treatments' such as hormones and surgeries — outdated false theories still echoed today by Planned Parenthood, Advocates for Youth (AFY), and SIECUS in digital media and primary schools across the country. 

This ideology countered accepted theories at the time as it eschewed the typical treatment of using psychotherapy to realign a person's mind with his or her biological reality. 

Benjamin would essentially become the connecting point necessary to ensure that transgender and pro-abortion ideology would infiltrate every major facet of American society, from law to the medical and psychological communities, to academia, making its way into primary and secondary education across the country. 

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Spreading pseudoscience:

In hopes that he would become the face of the sexual revolution in the U.S., Benjamin invited Hirschfeld to tour the country.

During his time in the U.S. from 1930-31, Hirschfeld provided lectures to numerous groups, including the New York Academy of Medicine, and met with influential individuals in New York and elsewhere. These included Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, as well as Clarence Darrow, a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and lead attorney during one of the ACLU’s earliest test cases, the Scopes Trial, who stated, “Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown to beasts that are no longer fit to live.” 

Thanks to Benjamin, Hirschfeld was able to spread his theories across the U.S., helping to set the foundation for the Kinsey Institute, which would go on to provide pseudoscientific legitimacy to the sexualization of children.

It was not Hirschfeld who would become the leading figure of the “sexual revolution” in the U.S., as he was seen by many conservatives as too radical. Instead, wealthy eugenicists seeking to expand abortion, like the Rockefeller Foundation, believed Alfred Kinsey – someone with an outward ‘family man’ persona – would make sexology, abortion, and other ideas easier to sell to the American public. A Darwinistic zoologist turned ‘sexologist,’ Kinsey went on to ‘prove’ his warped sexual theories by secretly recruiting pedophiles to document in graphic detail their molestation of infants and children – and then published it as “science.”

Benjamin became the connecting point necessary to ensure that transgender and pro-abortion ideology would infiltrate every major facet of American society. It was Benjamin’s relationship with Kinsey and Wardell Pomeroy (one of Kinsey's co-authors) which ensured their shared beliefs and joint objectives would outlive them, infiltrating primary and secondary education institutions. 

Kinsey, Pomeroy, and others were the creators of a ‘sliding scale’ that ranked a person’s sexuality, ranging from heterosexual to homosexual with varying degrees in between. Shortly after, Benjamin built upon this scale with his own “Sexual Orientation Scale” (or S.O.S, p. 15) in his book “The Transsexual Phenomenon.” 

The concepts of the Kinsey and Benjamin scales are similar to the ‘gender spectrum’ currently promoted by Planned Parenthood and others to children in schools. 

Self-anointed experts: 

At a recent conference for Genspect — an organization reportedly focused on raising awareness of the dangers in transgender ideology and advocating for appropriate psychosocial support to treat gender distress — plastic and reconstructive surgeon, Patrick Lappert, M.D., questioned the ideological capturing of academia.

Lappert asked, “How is it that every credentialing body, from teachers, to nurses, to doctors, to lawyers, they’re all singing from the same song book?” The answer: They are all connected through organizations and standards created decades ago to ensure that every major institution in the U.S. – from academia, medical professionals, media outlets, government entities, and K-12 education – are all following the same propagandized script.  

In order for American society to become willing to accept abortion, homosexuality, transgenderism, pedophilia, and other issues, several things had to fall into line: 

• Infiltration into every prominent field, which included academia, legal, medical, and (potentially the most important) primary education or the K-12 American school system. 

• The creation of a scientific field of study (“sexology”) and subsequent scientific studies (conducted at the Kinsey Institute) to attempt to prove its legitimacy.

• A system for accreditation and standards used to self-legitimize those in prominent fields for the created field of “sexology.”  

Inspired by Hirschfeld, the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research was established in 1947.

By 1948, Kinsey and his co-authors would publish their ‘studies’ conducted at the Institute including in the books “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male” followed by “Sexual Behavior in the Human Female” in 1953. Kinsey and his coauthors in "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" — a work that documented the aforementioned egregious sexual child abuse by pedophiles (including the molestation of infants) and then presented the children's severe distress (crying, jerking, fainting) as purported evidence of sexual pleasure — commended Hirschfeld’s theories while critiquing his methodologies. (2) 

Integration into prominent fields across the U.S. was already underway along with the creation and establishment of the field of study. What was left was a method of ‘accreditation’ to legitimize themselves and the idea of sexology for widespread acceptance. 

In the 1950s, Benjamin helped to found the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS), aiming to foster alignment among the scientific community, the educational community, and the legal and medical communities in supporting access (including for minors) to sexually explicit materials (p. 17) for ‘educational’ purposes. (3) 

The society's vision statement, "sexuality science inspires justice," is reminiscent of Hirschfeld’s motto, "Through science to justice." The irony, of course, is that injustice has been done to children in order to promote the perverse desires of adults.

Establishing 'standards'

American ‘sexologist’ Wardell Pomeroy was a close colleague of Kinsey, Benjamin, and former Planned Parenthood medical director and founder of SIECUS, Mary Steichen Calderone. Pomeroy's goal, just like Kinsey, Benjamin, Calderone and others, was to normalize sexual identities like pedophilia and the use of pornography which was once widely understood as abnormal and wrong–and that they did.

He was a co-author in both of Kinsey’s books regarding sexual behavior for males and females, and the third publication, “Pregnancy, Birth and Abortion,” which was published nearly two years after Kinsey’s death. Pomeroy became a founding SIECUS board member and a president of the SSSS.

Live Action News previously reported on Pomeroy’s attempts to justify incest, bestiality and pedophilia; he even claimed that "Incest between… children and adults… can sometimes be beneficial.” 

Pomeroy, Calderone and others would go on to establish “accreditation standards” for sex educators and other professionals, still widely used and accepted across all major areas of society in the U.S. and the world. (4)  

In 1967, fellow SIECUS leader Patricia Schiller and SSSS co-founder Albert Ellis launched the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) which applied the Kinseyan Model and utilized groups like Planned Parenthood to embed its members into primary schools and academia, the legal system, and the medical and mental health professions.

The Bottom Line:

Hirschfeld, Benjamin, Kinsey, Pomeroy, Calderone and others self-legitimized their disturbing ideology by creating the field of sexology, fabricated ‘evidence’ to support their theories using their ‘institutes’ declaring themselves as experts, then became the gatekeepers — ensuring that every major institution in the country was infiltrated by those beholden to their disturbing pseudo-scientific theories.

Consequently, the United States — and the world — would never be the same.     

1. Beachy, Robert. 2015. Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity. N.p.: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 178-9. 

2. Kinsey, Alfred C., Pomeroy, Wardell B., and Marin, Clyde E. 1948. Sexual Behavior In The Human Male. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 34, 618-620, 651, 775. 

3. Reisman, Judith A. 2003. Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences: the Red Queen and the Grand Scheme. N.p.: Institute For Media Education, 174-5. 

4. Ibid.