Moms for Liberty hosted a Harrisburg-area town hall on Tuesday entitled “Giving Parents a Voice” that focused on education and parental rights and featured four Pennsylvania legislators.

“There are a lot of things happening in the state of Pennsylvania,” event coordinator Lisa Bowden said. “The people of Pennsylvania want their voices heard.”

Rep. Barb Gleim, R-Cumberland County; Rep. Joe D’Orsie, R-York County; Rep. Jamie Walsh, R-Luzerne County; and Rep. Marc Anderson, R-York, spoke on a legislative panel at the event.

Gleim, D’Orsie and Anderson are on the state House Education committee. Gleim is the Republican chair for the Subcommittee on Basic Education, and D’Orsie is the Republican chair for the Subcommittee on Special Education.

Holly Magalengo, a mother in Bucks County, and Bucks County Moms for Liberty Chapter Chair Jamie Tromba also spoke on a panel.

Magalengo made headlines after requesting a restraining order to stop transgender student athletes from participating in girls’ sports in January. She filed a lawsuit after her daughter, representing Quakertown High School, competed against a trans person in a high school cross-country meet.

The town hall, held at Progress Fire Company in Susquehanna Township, was free. An event flyer said all viewpoints were welcome. The panels were moderated by Moms for Liberty CEO and co-founder Tina Descovich.

Moms for Liberty is a conservative group founded in 2021, focused on parental rights. It specifically targets curriculum that mentions LGBTQ+ rights and critical race theory, and has advocated to ban books that address aspects of gender and sexuality in schools.

There are multiple chapters in the central Pa. region.

The event started with the singing of the national anthem, a prayer and then the organization’s “Madison Minute,” where they read words written by the Founding Fathers. At this event, those included a reading from Noah Webster and part of the prologue of Charlie Kirk’s book “Right Wing Revolution: How to Beat the Woke and Save the West.”

Magalengo and Tromba then spoke.