From Daily Caller: Democratic Minnesota state Rep. Leigh Finke claimed during a Thursday hearing that pornography could be “educational” for “queer” children while arguing against a law requiring age verification to access adult web sites.
The legislation HF 1434, would require age verification for sites deemed “harmful to minors,” with sites failing to do so being subject to civil action from the state attorney general and private citizens. Finke, a biological male who identifies as a transgender woman, claimed current sex education was not being provided for LGBT youth.
“The AGs in many states are, are very clear about that they’re almost jubilant about being able to use these laws to ban young people from accessing content that could be educational if they are queer,” Finke stated during the hearing on Thursday.
“You have LGBT students in your school, and we also know that they’re not receiving sex education for queer kids,” Finke continued. “Prurient interest could be for many people the very existence of transgender kids. More and more people are saying there simply are no transgender kids.”
Finke, who authored legislation that would remove an exception for pedophiles when it came to protections against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, received a “Children’s Health Hero” award from the Children’s Minnesota hospital system for authoring a “trans refuge” legislation for child sex change procedures called HF146.
Transgender Minnesota State Rep Leigh Finke opposes age verification laws for adult sites because he thinks it can be “educational” for kids to access it
This dude is a disgusting creep pic.twitter.com/WWqjzMILW0
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 20, 2026
This mentally ill dude is an actual elected Rep in Minnesota
Wtf is going on in Minnesota
The whole place needs to be shut down pic.twitter.com/jfzxUZC1LX
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 20, 2026
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