School Board President runs "All-Ages" Sex Shop

A guest post by Genevieve Gluck.

Parents of children attending a US Washington state elementary school had their concerns about discussions of childhood ‘transitioning’ dismissed by school board President Jennifer Mason, who runs a sex shop in the area called Wink Wink Boutique that she advertises on Instagram as for “all-ages”; children are allowed in the store to peruse, but products are sold to those who are 16 and over -- 16 being the legal age of consent in Washington.

Concerns were raised after a first-grade teacher read I Am Jazz to the class, a book based on the story of Jazz Jennings, a boy who was groomed into believing he is a girl beginning from the age of 2 years old. Jazz has since become an American reality TV star and every aspect of his “transition”, including surgery, is discussed on national television. In the children’s book I Am Jazz, a variety of stereotypes about girls are listed, along with the conclusion: “I have a girl brain but a boy body. This is called transgender. I was born this way!”

In 2019, Jennings suffered complications from his surgery, causing the surgeon to comment, “When I looked, the whole thing had just split open.” Medical professionals had previously warned that there was “not enough material” for the procedure due to the effects of drugs used to halt Jennings’ puberty. Naturally, such harsh realities are not mentioned in the book.

Bellingham school board president Jennifer Mason sells I Am Jazz in her “all-ages” sex shop, along with coloring books aimed at children which promote gender ideology. Mason’s Instagram, used to advertise her products, reveals materials related to sex education for children. Among them is a manual titled Sex Positive Talks to Have with Kids by Melissa Pintor Carnagey, a sexuality educator who uses she/they pronouns, which provides tips to parents for discussing sex with children of all ages. On a page titled “Birth to Age 3”, Carnagey suggests replacing the words of a children’s song with words for genitals, saying: “The next time you sing Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes, add some genital anatomy terms to make it sex positive.”

Recommendations for children aged 4 to 8 include “teaching about the importance of privacy when enjoying the pleasures of self-touch” and provides a brief script for introducing the topic: “It’s so important that we get to know and respect our body, especially the parts that we usually keep private behind clothes. Let’s do an activity that helps us learn more about genitals.”

Another book available through Wink Wink Boutique is Trans + Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You, co-written by Kathryn Gonzalez, a trans-identified male who describes previously believing himself to have been a gay man prior to deciding to appropriate a female identity. “I came out as a little gay boy at 13… When I was 19... Bravo was showing ‘Priscilla Queen of the Desert’... Bernadette, the trans woman, lays back and floats for a while. Bob offers his hand to help pull her out of the water. He says, ‘Can I help you, ma’am?’ or something like that. At that moment, I was like, ‘Oh, got it, that’s what I am. I’m Bernadette.’”

The book, aimed at teenagers, includes thought experiments referred to as methods for “developing your understanding of your own identity”, posing questions such as: “How do you know the difference between boys, girls, and non-binary people? Are you a boy? Are you a girl? Are you nonbinary? Are you something else? How do you know? If your body changed from female to male or male to female or binary to non-binary, how would it change how you thought and felt about yourself?”

During an interview with local media, Mason said she also sells breast binders for girls and ‘penis packers’ for teens -- silicone members intended for adolescent girls -- and provides in-store fittings. In addition, she sells ‘transmasc pumps’ designed to extend female anatomy by means of suction; included with the product is a ruler to measure size.

Moreover, Wink Wink distributes materials that endorse fetishes and sadomasochism. A BDSM manual featured on the Instagram account lists fetishes such as “school girl uniforms, little red riding hood costumes, adult babies, f-cking stuffed animals,” and “being auctioned off for charity”. Bear in mind that children of “all ages” are welcome in the store.

A sex education book posted to the shop’s Facebook page gives illustrated instructions on “hand techniques for girl-dick” which refers to men as “non-op trans women,” and reduces women to “vulva-havers”. Furthermore, it refers to male anatomy as a “trans clit”. This is the sort of terminology that is frequently used to gaslight lesbians and pressure them into accepting men as sexual partners.

Those who work in education should be encouraging boundaries, rather than projecting their own sexual fantasies onto adolescents. Moreover, children are suggestible and look to adults as role models; promoting the sex trafficking industry, as Mason does via her advertising and events at her shop, sends the message that being sold for sexual access is something to aspire to.

There is something particularly sinister about a sex shop grooming children into gender ideology, much less the president of a school board. The approach seems to be to first confuse children about reality and their own bodies, beginning in early childhood; second, affirm their confusion as a sign that their bodies must be altered; third, sell products aimed at body alterations. The one doing the grooming can reap the profits by sowing seeds of insecurity by suggesting, and therefore potentially inducing, dysphoria.

More troubling still is that these products and ‘educational’ materials are not limited to one shop, but are part of a highly profitable trend that is conveniently peddled alongside a ‘sex positivity’ movement that can easily be hijacked by predators seeking to erode boundaries and groom children for abuse. When education is predicated on a lie -- that biological sex is irrelevant to the act of sex -- and requires the surrendering of critical faculties, even the best of intentions can facilitate exploitation.