The Chilean government under leftist President Gabriel Boric has sponsored Ariel Is a Girl, a transgender-themed children’s book by the LGBT group Movimiento de Integración y Liberación Homosexual (MOVILH), promoting “trans childhoods.” With an initial 5,000 copies for kindergartens and libraries, it’s backed by entities like the Sub-secretariat of Childhood, Defensoría de la Niñez, and universities including the University of Chile.
MOVILH, founded in 1991 and ILGA-affiliated, has received over 279 million pesos in government funding since 2001, plus international support from the EU, Norway, the Netherlands, and Spain.Boric’s administration has pushed progressive reforms, legalizing same-sex marriage in 2022 and launching a “National Plan for LGBTIAQ+ Social Rights” to embed LGBT themes in education, healthcare, and workplaces.
This marks a departure from Chile’s conservative traditions, with Boric advocating gender identity laws and non-binary recognition. The book aims to influence young children amid surging trans-identification in the West, sparking fears of ideological grooming in early education. MOVILH faces scrutiny for pedophilia links, notably via founder Rolando Jiménez, who opposed ILGA’s 1994 expulsion of pro-pedophile groups like NAMBLA after ILGA lost UN status.
Jiménez, expelled in 1994 but influential, defended adult-child relationship advocates, while MOVILH backed a trans activist later revealed as a child rapist. Critics like Senator-elect Vanessa Kaiser and Congresswoman Sara Concha condemn the book as harmful indoctrination, demanding children be shielded from gender ideology in kindergartens.
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