A new conservative documentary and a series of essays are making sweeping and inflammatory claims: that Democrats and their leftist allies are waging what they describe as a “war on children” โ from abortion policy and classroom instruction to gender transition procedures and immigration practices.
The documentary, Robby Starbuck’s The War on Children, and accompanying commentary by writer Terry O’Brien in American Thinker, allege a coordinated effort to “seize control of the next generation’s minds and bodies.” The claims range from abortion access and school curricula to medical transitions for minors and the handling of unaccompanied migrant children.
Abortion and the ‘body count’ argument
O’Brien’s essay opens with the assertion that Democrats “abort the unborn by the hundreds of thousands” and argues that even after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, blue states have continued to expand late-term abortion access and allow minors to obtain abortions without parental notification.
“The same party that lectures about ‘bodily autonomy’ denies it to the most vulnerable humans,” O’Brien writes, framing abortion as the first front in a broader conflict.
Classroom content and ‘grooming’ allegations
The essay makes several claims about classroom practices, alleging that Democrats and teachers’ unions defend explicit materials in elementary schools and that curricula introduced during the Obama era brought sexual content to five-year-olds. It references Libs of TikTok, a conservative social media account, as documenting educators boasting about such practices.
O’Brien cites a recent case of an Illinois high school teacher arrested for allegedly grooming and sending nude photos to a student, and cites psychologists noting “rising educator sexual misconduct.”
Gender transition procedures on minors
According to the essay, Oregon has seen rates of cross-sex hormone prescriptions for children at “three times the national average,” and the state adopted WPATH standards and shield laws that “in practice” allow 15-year-olds to consent to treatment without parental involvement.
It also alleges that Vanderbilt and other clinics performed “mastectomies and chemical castrations on minors,” and references detransitioners who describe “lost organs and lifelong regret.” The essay notes that the Cass Review in the UK and European pullbacks have cast doubt on the evidence base for pediatric gender medicine, while “American Democrats doubled down.”
Critical Race Theory in schools
The opinion piece describes Critical Race Theory as “not history” but rather a framework that “casts America as irredeemably racist, whites as oppressors, and minorities as permanent victims,” alleging it infects subjects including math. It says Democrats deny teaching it while “embedding its concepts everywhere.”
Parents, government, and school board controversies
The essay alleges schools hide social and medical transitions, abortions, and explicit curricula from parents, and warns that “non-affirming parents” risk being labeled unfit. It references the Biden-era Department of Justice and FBI targeting parents at school board meetings “as potential domestic terrorists,” and mentions Title IX violations in Virginia districts that allowed biological males into girls’ facilities, resulting in assaults and harassment. It credits the Trump Education Department with “forcing accountability.”
Migrant children and trafficking claims
O’Brien says “record numbers” of unaccompanied alien children crossed the border under the Biden-Harris administration, and that many were released to “improperly vetted sponsors” โ including those who paid smugglers or fraudulently claimed kinship. He alleges the result was labor trafficking, sexual abuse of children, and girls impregnated by their “sponsors,” and claims the new administration’s Department of Homeland Security has “uncovered widespread exploitation that the previous regime enabled.”
Response and broader context
The essay and documentary have generated significant attention. The piece quotes Elon Musk calling the film “worth watching, especially for parents” and Donald Trump Jr. saying every parent needs to see it. It alleges the film was “initially banned” from platforms, then quietly restored on Amazon.
Critics, however, are likely to push back on the essay’s framings, noting that its allegations frequently blend documented incidents with contested claims drawn from conservative activism and opinion. The phrase “war on children” itself has been used in political discourse with little evidence of the kind of coordinated conspiracy the essay describes.
The essay explicitly frames itself as an opinion piece meant to rally conservatives: it calls readers to “vote out every Democrat who enables it, reclaim school boards, demand transparency, reject the medicalization of healthy children, secure the border, and restore the simple truth that adults protect children.”
O’Brien’s companion piece, published on his Substack, goes further, calling Democrats “the party of groomers and enablers of pedophilia,” citing explicit library books, “minor-attracted persons” rhetoric in activist circles, and reduced penalties for certain sex acts with minors in California.
The documentary features whistleblowers, survivors of childhood medical mutilation, trafficking victims, corporate executives, and figures including Sen. Rand Paul, Riley Gaines, and the creator of Libs of TikTok.
Parents’ rights movements like Moms for Liberty, along with school choice advocates and governors like Ron DeSantis, who has banned gender transition procedures for minors, are cited as evidence of a grassroots pushback.
For readers encountering these claims, it’s worth noting that the essay is an explicitly partisan opinion column. While it presents its assertions as a “documented record,” its sourcing relies heavily on advocacy groups, whistleblowers, and activist accounts that are themselves subjects of ongoing political and legal debate.
Source: www.americanthinker.com โ https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/09/the-democrats-war-on-children-a-systematic-assault-on-innocence-family-and-the-future-of-america/