EXCLUSIVE: These ‘Trans Families For Harris’ Believe Harris And Walz Will Help Trans More Kids

Pro-transgender activists are eagerly anticipating a Kamala Harris-Tim Walz administration, which they say will protect their ability to help children identify their undiscovered gender and undergo irreversible gender transitions, video obtained by The Daily Wire shows.

The “Trans Families for Harris” Zoom call featured parents of young girls who believe they are boys, including Jeff Bender, the creator of a gender-neutral clothing line, and Jeanette Jennings, the mother of a boy who identifies as a transgender girl named Jazz Jennings. The call also featured activists like far-left, trans-identifying candidate Ashley Brundage, a man who identifies as a woman.

Each speaker urged voters to support Kamala Harris who has promised to pass the Equality Act, which would allow males in girls’ spaces, force employers, workers, and hospitals to comply with state-mandated ideology, threaten the integrity of families who refuse to allow their children to undergo gender transitions, and more.

Though Harris embraces so-called “gender-affirming care,” often a euphemism for puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries, she has carefully avoided specifically addressing whether she supports transgender surgeries for minors, a far-left position that most Americans do not support. But Walz, as governor of Minnesota, signed an executive order establishing a “right” to transgender hormones, puberty blockers, and surgeries.

This won him, and Harris, the full-throated endorsement of activist groups that endorse attempted child sex changes, including the Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD, and the American Civil Liberties Union.

During the “Trans Families for Harris” call, organizer Cassie Brighter, a man who identifies as a transgender woman, said his strongest reasons for voting for Harris are “actually not Kamala Harris.”

Brighter, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment, expressed strong reservations about Donald Trump and even stronger support for Tim Walz, “a beacon of LGBTQ rights for decades.”

Brighter was not the only person on the call to indicate stronger support for Walz than Harris.

Marie Newman, a former congresswoman from Illinois who helped her now-24-year-old son decide that he was a girl when he was going through puberty, stressed it was “critically important” for voters to elect a “Walz-Harris” administration so that kids in red states would be able to transition like her son.

“We are in a very blue state, and we have blue laws. … It is critically important [that] everybody on this call has to call five friends in a different state to make sure that they vote for Walz, Harris.”

Her son was struggling with mental health issues, Newman said, to the point where he began articulating that he was suicidal in 8th grade. So he began seeing a therapist — and Newman said she was delighted when her son came home from therapy after three days and announced he was a girl.

“We put her in group therapy, it was a three month program, 12 hours a day, to help her find her true authenticity,” Newman explained. “She did, she came home that night, it was just three days into the therapy…and she said, ‘I think I know what it is. I’m not a boy, I’m a girl, and my name is Evie.'”

“I threw my arms up in the air, and I was so excited,” Newman continued excitedly. “I said, ‘That is the best news I’ve ever had!'”

Jeff Bender shared with the “Trans Families for Harris” cohort that his son decided he was a girl after a teacher encouraged him to begin identifying as transgender. Bender, who is soon taking his 11-year-old son out of state to begin his so-called “gender-affirming care,” cited the story as a positive example of why parents should allow teachers to discuss gender issues with children.

Bender argued that families wishing to help their kids transition need to “fight back” to turn their states blue, because “Our kids’ lives depend on it.”

“The reason she chose ‘she, her’ pronouns was because of her second grade teacher,” he explained of his son. “When we limit our teachers’ access to our kids — they spend more time with our children than we do as parents — when we limit that access, what they can do and how they can help our kids grow, I can only imagine the hurt and the struggles that some of these kids are going to end up going through.”

“Trans Families For Harris” had a Zoom call this week. This guy says that his 11 year old son started using female pronouns “because of [his] second grade teacher.” This is why we shouldn’t “limit our teachers access to our kids,” he says. He’s happy that his son was transed. pic.twitter.com/9KwUVNqLDV

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) October 8, 2024

Bender further noted that some children come from families that don’t want teachers to discuss gender — and it is even more important for kids from these families to have access to teachers who will talk to them about gender.

“A lot of these kids don’t get to go home to a welcoming household, welcoming parents, or a welcoming family or community, and they are welcomed at school by their teachers,” he said. “If we allow red states to continue to limit access that teachers have to our kids, my own child would still be struggling to find their identity.”

He continued: “But because she had a second grade teacher that stepped up and let her know: ‘You decide who you want to be. It’s not about what your parents say or your grandparents say. You know you. So from this moment forth, in this school, who do you want to be?’ And in second grade, my daughter chose ‘she, her.’ And the entire school has been using ‘she, her’ now, she’s now in 5th grade.”

Jeanette Jennings, a mother who pushed her son to live as a girl, stressed the importance of parents of trans-identifying kids heading to the polls. Jennings’ son has gained viral media attention and has been profiled by major media outlets like TIME Magazine.

“We need more help than ever to support our babies,” said Jennings. “Us mama bears, we wanna do the best for our children. … Down here in Florida with DeSatan, I mean, DeSantis, it’s been a nightmare and I want to see things change.”

Jennings then argued against laws protecting girls’ spaces, like bathrooms and restrooms, from boys who identify as girls.

“I don’t want to have to worry about my daughter going into the restrooms at the beach and having to wonder if somebody is going to say something, or the colleges down here in Florida, she’s not allowed to use the bathroom at the airport,” Jennings said. “So, these type of laws are just ridiculous, I don’t want to see this happen in our country.”

“We can stop that, by keeping the country blue,” she added. “Making the country all blue would be really nice, but we just need to get out there and vote for our wonderful, wonderful, VP, who will be the next president, she will be a wonderful president. Our whole family is joining forces, speaking out, doing whatever we can on our end.”