Lithuanian writer misrepresents English article

Lithuanian writer Mindaugas Peleckis recently published a piece on ekspertai.eu, in which he misrepresented the nature of a camp for gender nonconforming boys in the United States that was featured in an ariticle on Slate.com. Specifically, Mr. Peleckis began by using the Lithuanian word lageris to refer to camp instead of stovykla, where the former is most often used to refer to a “prison camp” or “concentration camp” and the latter refers to the kind of camp children attend for educational and entertainment purposes. Additionally, Mr. Peleckis stated that it is homosexual parents that take their boys to this camp, forcing them wear makeup and girls clothing for the purpose of indoctrinating them to become gay. None of these assertions can be found in the original Slate.com article, and, in fact, that article indicates that it is a voluntary camp for boys who do not conform to standard gender roles, where they can feel safe and open with their supportive parents involved. Nothing is stated in the original article at all about whether  those parents are gay or transgender themselves.

In the opinion of this ekspertai.eu contributor, if Mr. Peleckis does not have other sources confirming the assertions he made about this camp, then he either has a very poor understanding of written English or is willfully pushing an anti-LGBT agenda. In either case, he must correct his errors because he has misrepresented the facts.