Maria Keffler is a co-founder of Advocates Protecting Children and the Arlington Parent Coalition, a watchdog group in Arlington, VA, which works to safeguard parents’ rights and children’s safety in public education. An author, speaker, and teacher with a background in educational psychology, Ms. Keffler has fought to support families and protect children from unethical activism and dangerous policies around sexuality and transgender ideology since 2018. She is the author of multiple books, including Desist, Detrans, & Detox: Getting Your Child out of the Gender Cult. She lives in Arlington, Virginia, with her husband and three teenage children.
Erin Brewer, Ph.D., is co-founder the Compassion Coalition, an international group for those fighting to ban invasive, harmful, unproven medical interventions for gender-confused children; and Advocates Protecting Children, which raises awareness and supports efforts to stop the unethical treatment of children by schools, hospitals, and mental and medical healthcare providers under the duplicitous banner of gender identity affirmation. Always Erin is a children’s book about Erin’s childhood gender dysphoria and Transing Our Children is a primer book about the transgender ideology. She and Maria Keffler have produced two video series, Commonsense Care for Parents and Teacher Talks for educators. She has a YouTube channel, Truth Is the New Hate Speech, which she uses to raise awareness about how the transgender movement is harming children and society. She has a BS from Hampshire College and a MS and Ph.D. from Utah State University.
