Let Kids Be Kids and Penny Marie
Let Kids Be Kids is a New Zealand-wide grassroots network of people who ask questions, conduct research, focus on solutions, and support one another. We are mums, dads and grandparents who are committed to the well-being of NZ children.
On first look, we thought this was a media stunt. A lefty-liberal promotional strategy from extreme trans activists. However it has been confirmed to Let Kids Be Kids by Protect Kids Colorado that this is in fact a true story. (Both organisations are members of the International Coalition4Children).
In July 2025, a Colorado family immigrated to Queenstown, New Zealand because they felt terrified for their child’s safety after Trump announced that there are ONLY TWO SEXES. Read their story in 9 News USA and Daily Mail UK.
“The day that Donald Trump returned to the White House and signed an executive order declaring there are only two genders, their fears crystallized into action.” – explain parents of the nine-year-old child they claim to be protecting.
President Trump signed a sweeping Executive Order Monday during his first hours in office recognizing only two sexes, male and female, and directing federal agencies to cease promotion of the concept of gender transition.
The order, which Trump signed from the Oval Office, is part of a broader campaign promise to rid the nation of what he has called “transgender insanity” and reverse diversity and inclusion initiatives instituted by the Biden administration. – the Hill
At Let Kids Be Kids we agree that ‘transgender insanity’ needs to be eradicated from our children’s minds. The intense and harmful political and cultural ideology (listen to James Lindsay explaining ‘Queer Theory is Queer Marxism’), which presents exactly like a cult.
It is an ever-expanding profitable industry of all things trans and ‘pride’, and has engulfed New Zealand and other Western nations. It has been a slow creep for decades and in the post-Covid era has spiralled completely out of control.
The ‘fear inducing’ Executive Orders
Read Trump’s Executive Orders relating to gender ideology vs biological reality, and decide for yourself if the EOs are more likely to HARM or PROTECT the children of America:
- Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government – 20 January 2025
- Protecting Children From Chemical And Surgical Mutilation – 28 January 2025
- Ending Radical Indoctrination In K-12 Schooling – 29 January 2025
“It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female. These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality. Under my direction, the Executive Branch will enforce all sex-protective laws to promote this reality.” – Trump EO 20 January 2025
EOs in action – US children’s hospitals are closing their ‘trans’ services for youth
Trump’s Executive Order Protecting Children From Chemical And Surgical Mutilation was signed on 28 January 2025, and by July hospitals in multiple states across the US are putting their child mutilation scalpels down. MSM outlets call this ‘bullying’.
Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions. This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end. – Trump EO 28 January 2025
Follow the money – the taps have been turned off!
It is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called “transition” of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures. – Trump EO 28 January 2025
But isn’t Colorado ‘progressive'?
Penny Marie recently interviewed Sven Scharpen, a young autistic man from Colorado. They discuss how the trans industry has co-opted all autistic organisations and is pushing their agenda on this vulnerable population. Trump’s Executive Orders are doing more to put a halt to the money and harm than anything else we have seen, but it’s a long battle ahead of us all, including Colorado.
The quickest way to protect our children from the trans cult is to turn the money off. Which is not happening in New Zealand at present. NZ First leader Winston Peters says they are winning the war on woke, but are they?
New Zealand’s reputation as a ‘safe haven’ for the LGBTQ community, in particular, children?
The most disturbing part of this family’s story is that they are confident New Zealand is going to be the answer to their problems.
“A friend who had moved to New Zealand years earlier encouraged them to consider the island nation – known for its progressive values, inclusive education policies, and public support for the LGBTQ+ community. They began to research what life there might look like, particularly for a transgender child.” – explain the parents of the nine-year-old.
Why might that be?
A brief summary of the current New Zealand situation:
- Politics: The Greens and Labour parties, and some of National Party (main party) push, promote or party PRIDE.
- Transgender ‘Healthcare’: NZ has a ‘gender affirmation’ model as its gold standard of healthcare. Puberty blockers are on offer for children. Therapy/counselling ‘affirms’ gender dysphoria.
- We receive regular reports that under-16-year-olds are being given hormone medication in school, some without parent knowledge or consent.
- We hear regular reports of healthy under-17-year-old girls getting their breasts removed. Some parents even take them overseas to get their own children’s bodies mutilated. YES, in New Zealand.
- You have to see this to believe how many professional bodies and individuals recently signed a letter to Health NZ to push for gender guidelines to be updated to increase ‘safe healthcare to transgender and non-binary patients’ in NZ.
- The WPATH Files and CASS Report has been ignored by NZ legacy media, health authorities and almost all politicians in NZ to date.
- NZ legal system: The Births, Deaths, Marriages and Relationships Registration Act 2021 – makes it easy for people to change their names and sex marker, and the Conversion Practices Prohibition Act 2022 stops anyone, even parents, from questioning a child who thinks they may be ‘born in the wrong body’, or stopping them from social or medical ‘transition’.
- NZ education system: While the Ministry of Education removed and will replace its Relationships and Sexuality Education Guidelines earlier this year, reports from parents in our network are that explicit and troubling sexual material is still being taught in schools across NZ, and parents are still struggling to get adequate information about lesson content out of teachers.
- NZ businesses: Take a look here, here and here at all the corporations and organisations who push ‘pride’ policies and activities in their workplace, undergo ‘rainbow’ training for staff, and donate to the ‘rainbow’ industry. Pride Pledge has an inordinate amount of Queenstown businesses listed. Is it a coincidence that the Colorado family chose to move there?
It’s a very disturbing day when international news headlines tout New Zealand as a safe haven for families who shunt their children down the path of social, medical, and surgical ‘gender transition’.
This article was originally published by Let Kids Be Kids.
