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  "description": "While in Wales, our Penny Marie sat down with Steve James to discuss the New Zealand educational landscape and her deep dive research into the ‘industry’.",
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  "textContent": "Let Kids Be Kids\n_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 wellbeing of NZ children._\n\nIn a powerful new interview, Penny Marie, founder of **Let Kids Be Kids** , chats with England’s Steve James of Edge of the Matrix about the research and personal journey that led her to challenge the growing influence of gender ideology in New Zealand schools and beyond.\n\nWhat began as a single speech at a school board meeting has evolved into a national movement to restore transparency and protect the truth for our children.\n\n### The pipeline of profit\n\nPenny explains her specific shift in language, away from the term “trans community” to what she calls the **“trans _industry_ ”**. This highlights the **commercialisation** of ‘gender issues’, where vulnerable children are funnelled into a lifelong pipeline of:\n\n  * **Pharmaceutical interventions**\n  * **Surgical procedures**\n  * **Government-funded activist programmes**\n\n\n\nThis industry profits from the indoctrination of children who are being told they were “born in the wrong body” – a narrative Penny argues is a political ideology rather than a biological fact.\n\n> “Our children are being assaulted by things that we would never comprehend.” – Penny Marie\n\n### The strategy of silence\n\nThis conversation reveals how schools and activist groups use legislation, such as the Privacy Act and ‘conversion practice bans’, to keep parents in the dark. Penny discusses how these laws are often part of a global strategy – influenced by international bodies like the United Nations – to force through legislation that prevents parents and therapists from questioning a child’s sudden gender distress.\n\n### A call to action for parents\n\nPenny emphasises that parents are the ultimate experts on their own children. She urges mums and dads (and grandparents) to:\n\n  * **Stay (or get) in tune** with your children and watch for signs of withdrawal or online obsession.\n  * **Affirm biological truth** by reminding your children daily that they are “beautifully and wonderfully made” and that there are only two sexes.\n  * **Demand transparency** from schools regarding sex education and gender policies.\n\n\n\n> “Parents are the best people to know what’s going on with their child.” – Penny Marie\n\nWatch the full interview**to learn more about the research behind the “trans industry” and how you can protect your family. Please share it around too!**\n\n_Watch Penny’s 2023 school board speech_\n\n> I was the first parent in New Zealand to speak at a school Board meeting about the sexuality/gender curriculum and the vaccine-only narrative as a response to health risks. This was in May 2023.\n> This 10 minute speech changed the course of my life, and now I help others to find… pic.twitter.com/5SmMBvZSSN\n>\n> — Penny Marie NZ (@pennymarienz) February 2, 2024\n\n_Read our earlier article, where Steve James is with Eugene Garvin from Natural Woman’s Council in Ireland, taking about the Critical Social Justice…_\n\nAn Introduction To Critical Social Justice: Why Ideology in Our Schools Isn’t AccidentalLet Kids Be Kids and Penny Marie 30 Apr Read full story\n\nThis article was originally published by Let Kids Be Kids.",
  "title": "Protecting Our Children: Unmasking the Industry",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-19T00:30:21.972Z"
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