‘Art Club’: Family tells ‘horror story’ after school staff tried to make their daughter transgender

Since removing their daughter from a public school that secretly practiced transgender indoctrination, Jon and Erin Lee have been exposing the godless, anti-family agenda that nearly destroyed them. Now they’re fighting their battle in court.

The Lee family’s nightmare began in May 2021, when a teacher invited her daughter Chloe, who is in sixth grade, to what was supposed to be an art club meeting. In reality, it was a secret forum on gender and sexuality run by a lesbian woman who was not part of the school her daughter attended.

The woman, a state-certified foster mother and public health worker in Colorado, exposed Chloe to radical ideas about gender, sexuality, polyamory and even suicide without her parents’ consent, Erin said.

She and her husband Jon felt anger, sadness and fear within hours of hearing about their daughter’s experiences with a complete stranger who had told her lies.

A substitute teacher also explained to Chloe that the discomfort in her 11-year-old female body was due to her being transsexual. She then gave Chloe a transgender flag to take home.

Chloe Lee’s last day of school was in May 2021.

With the help of films, lobbying, the legal system and hopefully new laws to protect parents and children, the Lees hope that their lawsuit against the school will eventually be heard by the Supreme Court.

The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals is currently reviewing the Lees’ case against the Poudre Valley School District in Fort Collins.

Three years after Chloe was surprised by a complete stranger who attacked her femininity, God and family, the Lees’ journey from depression and conversations about suicide to a place of faith, hope and love inspires others who hear their story.

A documentary film produced by the Lees, featuring expert testimony from professionals in a variety of fields, is being distributed in churches, voter forums, media and on the Internet.

This July, Jon, Erin and 14-year-old Chloe were baptized, while the rest of the family – a son and a daughter – experienced an encouraging sign of spiritual life in their parents and older sister.

With God and the church, a new school, counseling, guidance and support, Chloe is full of life and emotional and spiritual clarity, caring for girls who are going through experiences she remembers from this painfully dark time in her past.

In a film produced by Erin Lee and directed by a former Colorado state senator, the family reveals personal details that contributed to Chloe’s mistaken belief that she was transgender.

“I grew up in a family where there was no religion. I had no faith in my life,” Jon said, holding back tears.

Erin finished her husband’s sentence. “We failed to give our children a Christian foundation beforehand…I think if we had that foundation before this incident, we could have avoided it. We failed to give Chloe the understanding that she was perfectly and wonderfully created by God,” Erin said.

Looking back, the Lees are convinced that God turns what the devil intended for evil into good.

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In the film, Chloe speaks confidently about her experience. “I’m not gender confused anymore, although it was very difficult for me and my family,” she says, expressing her disbelief at her former school and the woman who told her she was transgender.

“I am happy and grateful that my parents helped me,” she says.

The film, “Art Club,” focuses on the Lees’ personal story and also highlights former Congressman Kevin Lundberg’s commitment to parental rights. It also includes testimony from experts in the fields of medicine, mental health, media and theology.

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“We made the film to show, so to speak, the happy ending of this horror story,” said Lundberg.

The documentary also informs Colorado voters about two ballot measures – one requiring parental notification when a student expresses gender confusion; the other an initiative to bar boys from participating in competitive women’s sports.

They hope to collect 200,000 signatures by the end of July to qualify the two voter initiatives for the November ballot.

Together they founded Protect Kids Colorado after Governor Jared Polis signed a law requiring all public schools (charter schools are explicitly excluded) to use non-legal names for gender-confused students.

Lundberg, a devout Christian, believes that teaching transgender ideology is intended to eliminate a biblical view of the family. During his 16 years in the Colorado legislature, including 14 years on a health committee, Lundberg witnessed firsthand the development of sex education curricula that he believes promote transgender indoctrination.

“The first institution God created was the family. That is the structure of a man and a woman raising their children. If you look at what the agenda proposes, it is about abolishing that whole concept,” Lundberg said.

It is a spiritual battle as well as a political and cultural one, he added. “In almost every political battle there is a division between Christians and those who do not accept God’s Word,” Lundberg said.

In January, Chloe accompanied her mother and a group of concerned protesters to a drag show featuring child performers, saying it was important to be there.

“When she saw these gender-confused little girls – ages 10, 12, 14, 15 – walking into this drag show, most of them with their families – Chloe sought them out like a heat-seeking missile,” Erin said.

Chloe approached them and began a deep conversation about the label “transgender,” telling them that she had been confused until God saved her.

Erin said her daughter asked the girls how they found out they were transgender. Most of the children said they had always known. “Chloe then asked, ‘Where did you learn the word transgender? As an adult, right?'”

To support his wife as she fights for their children, Jon is determined to lead the family he loves – even if that means the shy, introverted engineer in the film speaks bravely and sometimes with tears.

The film “Art Club” features testimony from journalist, author and speaker Alex Newman, nationally recognized counselor January Littlejohn, evangelical author and speaker David Barton, founder of WallBuilders, pediatric endocrinologist and former president of the American College of Pediatricians, Quentin Van Meter, MD, clinical consultant at the Center for Family Studies/Family Research Council, and Michael Ferris, JD, former president of the Alliance Defending Freedom.

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