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Members of the Missouri Freedom Caucus read Daily Wire host Matt
Walsh�s children�s book �Johnny the Walrus� after Democratic officials
in the state read a book that promoted transgenderism to children for
�National Reading Day.�

A video posted to X by the popular account Libs of TikTok earlier this
month showed the Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Quinton Lucas, city
officials, and council members reading �Introducing Teddy: A Gentle
Story about Gender and Friendship.�

The LGBTQ book is written for children between the ages of 3 and 6 and
focuses on a boy, Errol, and his teddy bear friend, Thomas. In the
story, Thomas tells Errol that he feels like a �girl teddy,� and wishes
his name was �Tilly.� Errol tells Thomas he �doesn�t care� if he�s �a
girl teddy or a boy teddy. What matters is that you are my friend.�
Thomas then puts his bowtie in his hair because he�s �always wanted a
bow instead.�

: This was posted to the official Kansas City, MO page. A bunch of
: elected officials including the Mayor (D) read a book to kids for
: 'National Reading Day.'
:
: The book is about a young kid who decides to be transgender and
: changes his name. The book encourages kids to explore gender�
: pic.twitter.com/rvU8UZ8nDa
:
: � Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 6, 2024

Republican Missouri state Sen. Rick Brattin, along with members of
the Missouri Freedom Caucus, responded to the Kansas City government
officials� video on Friday by posting a video of lawmakers reading
Walsh�s bestselling children�s book.

�Recently, the Kansas City mayor and his goons are reading books to
groom children, and we�re here to set the record straight and put a
stop to this nonsense,� Brattin said. �And we�re going to do this by
reading �Johnny the Walrus.��

: �Johnny the Walrus� by ?@MattWalshBlog?, illustrated by K. Reece.
: #moleg ?@MissouriGOP? ??@SFC_Network? pic.twitter.com/dGKQT1zjiU
:
: � Missouri Freedom Caucus (@MOFreedomCaucus) March 15, 2024

�Johnny the Walrus,� which was published in April 2022, focuses on a
boy who believes he�s a walrus and his mother who goes along with her
child�s desired identity, regardless of how crazy it sounds. Walsh
said the book teaches children to accept who they are biologically,
which is their true self.

�Johnny the Walrus� quickly became the number one best-selling book in
Amazon�s �LGBTQ+� category, outraging LGBTQ activists who called on
Amazon to remove Walsh�s book from the list. Some Amazon employees
even held a �die in� to protest Walsh�s book, along with other books
they deemed �transphobic,� being sold on the site.

�The message of self-acceptance when I was a kid was the most common
message in books we read,� the Daily Wire host said. �Except now on
the Left, what they foist on kids is this false self-acceptance of
actually rejecting who you really are in favor of a delusion.�

https://www.dailywire.com/news/missouri-dems-read-trans-book-to-children-for-national-reading-day-republicans-respond-with-matt-walshs-johnny-the-walrus

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