Attorney Mary McAlister sits down with Stella to talk about the ongoing battle in courts to protect what parents decide for their children, especially against this wave of gender ideology slipping into schools across the U.S. McAlister shares stories from her role at the Child & Parental Rights Campaign. There, she represents families whose children have been secretly transitioned by schools without parental knowledge. The conversation traces the ideological roots of current policies back to the controversial research of Alfred Kinsey, whose work Mary studied alongside the late Dr. Judith Reisman. From secret school transitions to the weaponisation of Child Protective Services, Mary explains how Kinsey’s ideas laid the groundwork for today’s attacks on parental authority, and how the legal tide is finally beginning to turn.
Mary E. McAlister is Senior Litigation Counsel for the nonprofit group, the Child & Parental Rights Campaign, launched in 2019. She’s been in the legal game for almost 30 years now - handling trials, pushing appeals, championing family choices and free speech rights, all the way up to the Supreme Court.
Mary holds a J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law and a B.S. in Journalism (summa cum laude) from California Polytechnic State University. Before her public interest work, she was a journalist and later a commercial litigator in California. She previously served as Senior Litigation Counsel at Liberty Counsel.
Starting in 2010 and right up to when Dr. Judith Reisman passed away in April 2021, McAlister teamed up closely with her. Together, they penned scholarly pieces that spotlighted how Alfred Kinsey’s shadow still hangs over society. These days, McAlister runs The Reisman Institute as its president, picking up where Reisman left off, probing the roots of the sexual revolution.
Topics Discussed
Child & Parental Rights Campaign and the cases they take on
Secret school transitions without parental knowledge or consent
Women’s sports and male inclusion in female athletics
Child Protective Services being weaponised against parents who won’t affirm their child’s declared gender identity
State bans on pediatric gender interventions (26 US states have now passed laws)
Recent Supreme Court rulings upholding state laws and parental rights
The shift in the Department of Justice under the new presidential administration
Dr. Judith Reisman and the personal tragedy that started her research
Alfred Kinsey’s 1948 book and the controversial Chapter 5 data on childhood sexuality
Table 34 documenting data on children sourced from pedophiles
Rex King, the serial child rapist who provided Kinsey with data on over 800 children
The Kinsey Institute and its continued influence on sexuality research and education
Hugh Hefner, Playboy, and the direct connection to Kinsey’s work
SIECUS and its role in school sex education
Comprehensive Sex Education and how Kinsey’s ideology entered classrooms
The 1955 Model Penal Code and how Kinsey’s data was used to weaken child protection laws
How the idea that children are sexual from birth connects to today’s gender ideology and school secrecy policies
School choice as a solution for parents
The Maryland case (Mahmoud v. Taylor) where religious parents challenged mandatory LGBTQ curriculum without opt-out
Links & Resources
Mary McAlister
Official bio: https://www.childparentrights.org/team/mary-mcalister
Child & Parental Rights Campaign (CPRC)
Website: https://www.childparentrights.org/
Key CPRC Cases
Littlejohn v. School Board of Leon County (Florida secret transition case, Supreme Court petition): https://www.childparentrights.org/happening/cprc-takes-historic-fight-to-the-supreme-court-join-us-to-protect-parental-rights
Foote v. Ludlow (Massachusetts secret transition case, Supreme Court petition): https://www.childparentrights.org/happening/supreme-court-in-foote-v-ludlow
Mahmoud v. Taylor (Maryland parental rights victory, June 2025): https://www.childparentrights.org/happening/supreme-court-affirms-parental-rights-in-6-3-mahmoud-v-taylor-victory
United States v. Skrmetti (Tennessee gender medicine case, June 2025): https://www.childparentrights.org/happening/reason-triumphs-at-the-supreme-court-a-historic-win-for-kids-parents
The Reisman Institute
Website: https://www.thereismaninstitute.org
Dr. Judith Reisman’s Books
Kinsey, Sex and Fraud (1990): https://www.amazon.com/Kinsey-Sex-Fraud-Indoctrination-People/dp/091031120X
Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences (1998): https://www.amazon.com/Kinsey-Crimes-Consequences-Queen-Scheme/dp/0966662415
Stolen Honor, Stolen Innocence (2013): https://www.amazon.com/Stolen-Honor-Innocence-Betrayed-Scientist/dp/1937102025
Academic Articles by McAlister and Reisman
Deconstructing Dignity by Eradicating Shame: The Pernicious Heritage of Alfred Kinsey (2018): https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/psych_fac_pubs/4/
Materials Deemed Harmful to Minors Are Welcomed into Classrooms and Libraries via Educational Obscenity Exemptions (2018): https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/lu_law_review/vol12/iss3/3/
Documentaries Featuring Mary McAlister
The Mind Polluters (2021): https://www.fearlessfeatures.org/themindpolluters
Dysphoria (2023): https://www.fearlessfeatures.org/dysphoria
Connect
CPRC on X: https://x.com/cprc_official
