The government's Center for Disease Control (CDC) offers a chat room for children to discuss issues such as transsexuality, polyamory and other more adult aspects of sexuality.
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The program, called Q Chat Space, is promoted on the CDC's LGBT youth health resource website. As Breitbart reveals, it is a space run in part by Planned Parenthood, an organization that promotes abortions and transgender education for children. The chat room is described as "a community for LGBTQ+ teens" and its navigation is designed to be easily hidden on a computer or cell phone in the presence of an adult.
Q Chat Space features conversations about "having multiple genders," "youth queer activism," "gender affirming surgeries" or "hormone replacement therapies"; and they are not the only content. The platform mixes chats about tarot and astrology with content that appeals to young children, such as video games, StarWars or Pokemon.
The sexually rich chat room is specially designed to hide the content from parents, a skill praised in a scholarly article published on the National Library of Medicine's website. In this regard, each section has a large button at the bottom of the screen that says "Tap here for a quick exit" and shows a stick figure running toward an exit. When clicked, the button takes users to the Google home page, hiding the site. This shows too much interest in leaving no trace.
In addition to Planned Parenthood, the chat is supported by CenterLink, which develops LGBT community centers, and PFLAG, which promotes itself as "the largest organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) people, their families, parents and allies." The website warns that none of the moderators of the chats are mental health experts.
