Democratic Minnesota state Rep. Leigh Finke claimed during a Thursday hearing that pornography could be “educational” for “queer” children while arguing against a law requiring age verification to access adult web sites.
The legislation HF 1434, would require age verification for sites deemed “harmful to minors,” with sites failing to do so being subject to civil action from the state attorney general and private citizens. Finke, a biological male who identifies as a transgender woman, claimed current sex education was not being provided for LGBT youth.
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“The AGs in many states are, are very clear about that they’re almost jubilant about being able to use these laws to ban young people from accessing content that could be educational if they are queer,” Finke claimed during the Thursday hearing. “And you’re a principal, you have LGBT students in your school, and we also know that they’re not receiving sex education for queer kids. We know that. Prurient interest could be for many people the very existence of transgender kids. More and more people are saying there simply are no transgender kids.”
President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring the government’s recognition of the “biological reality of sex” and defining terms like male, female, man, woman, boy and girl within hours of taking the oath of office on Jan. 20, 2025. He later issued an order targeting child sex change procedures.
In 2023, Finke authored legislation that would remove an exception for pedophiles when it came to protections against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, later claiming that the backlash was from people who “used the opportunity to amplify the hatred of trans people.”
Finke received a “Children’s Health Hero” award from the Children’s Minnesota hospital system for authoring HF146, the “trans refuge” legislation for child sex change procedures. Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, who was his party’s nominee for vice president in 2024, signed the legislation into law on April 27, 2023.
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