GOP lawmaker said trans people "harm" children. He just pled guilty to child porn charges.https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/gop-lawmaker-said-trans-people-harm-children-he-just-pled-guilty-to-child-charges/ 🔗Daniel Villarreal (29 Sep 2025)
South Carolina state Rep. RJ May (R) — an anti-LGBTQ+ politician who has accused drag queens and transgender people of harming kids — pleaded guilty last Friday to distributing child sex abuse material (CSAM) after first denying it, Newsweek reported — including images of adults sexually abusing seven-year-olds. The anti-LGBTQ+ "parents' rights" group Moms for Liberty honored the child pornographer as their 2023 Legislator of the Year.
...last Friday, May changed his plea to guilty, thus avoiding an October trial, which would have laid out all the evidence against him — he now faces up to 100 years in prison, fines of up to $250,000, and must register as a sex offender.
Moms for Liberty (M4L) — the anti-LGBTQ+ extremist group regularly seeks to ban LGBTQ+-inclusive children's books as a form of "pornography" and regularly accuses LGBTQ+ people and their allies of "grooming" children for sexual abuse — honored May as their 2023 Legislator of the Year and had him speak at their 2022 event on "Reclaiming Education in America."
