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Republican Extremists Author Children’s Books Targeting Black, Transgender, Gay Communities

Phaylen Fairchild
4 min readJul 28, 2021

“Elephants are not Birds” is an unapologetic rebuke of transgender acceptance!” Says author Ashley St. Clair.

The Conservative Author and avid Trump Supporter’s newly published children’s book pushes a nefarious and cruel anti trans agenda onto kids, inundating them with transphobic propaganda.

Elephants are not Birds / Brave Books

The book features a primary character named Kevin. Kevin is a young elephant who simply enjoys singing. However, a dark and sinister creature by the name of Culture Vulture preys upon the naïve child elephant and tells him that only birds can sing, so that Kevin must not be an elephant at all, but a bird instead. Believing this to be true, young Kevin allows the evil Culture Vulture to affix a fake beak on his nose hiding his trunk and sticks on a pair of fake wings on his arms.

As a result of Kevin submitting to Culture Vulture’s manipulation, Kevin proceeds to fail at everything he tries to do as a bird and is consequentially publicly humiliated in front of onlookers.

The book is rife with false equivalencies and a dumbing down of the reality trans people…

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Phaylen Fairchild
Phaylen Fairchild

Written by Phaylen Fairchild

Actor, Filmmaker, LGBTQ+ & Women’s Rights Activist All work copyright phaylens@gmail.com

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