Is this article conflating Gender Norms with Sexual Norms?

"Public Library Deletes Pictures Of Drag Queens Fondling Children At Story Hour"

Off course they only show children hugging and laying on drag queens with the later not putting their hands on children, but that isn't the important part:

“Most parents want their children to become kind, empathetic self-confident adults, and exposure to diversity is an important part of that social and emotional development,” Amer said. “And gender non-conforming kids, and trans kids, and kids with trans and non-binary and queer parents are everywhere.”
Couched in the language of diversity, empathy, and kindness, which parents typically get behind, is how ideologues manipulate parental compassion because they see children as full participants in concepts of adult sexuality. If parents don’t get on board, they imply, then parents are doing their children a disservice. This is how ideas that feminists had been fighting to do away with come back in full force.

But this assumes that heterosexuality isn't "adult". This assumes that "not-normal" ie. "non-heterosexuality" is "adult"

Makeup tutorials, photos of kids laying atop grown men who are wearing sexualized female costumes, and encouraging gender fluidity gives truth to the lie that drag story hour isn’t about sexuality or sexualizing children. Children are drawn to sparkles and glitter, and using those things to make sexuality seem like mere play is nothing more than grooming kids to be sexual objects, not participants.

But that doesn’t make these ideas correct. That’s why the Multnomah County Library took down their photos. Children laying on the floor with adult men dressed up in sexually provocative and fetish clothing looks like what it is: grooming kids for participation in adult sexual life.

Besides, this standard is never equally applied in this context. The moms who are speaking up around the country against drag story hour and the sexualizing of children in a queer context are being shouted down by men in dresses and librarians, and being told that sexuality is about rainbows and unicorns, not about real bodies, emotions, and responsibility. Moms know better, and they know how to use their words.

Sexuality is about sex. Children’s sexuality isn’t about makeup tutorials, and their bodies are not inclusive. Children need to know not about sexuality first, but about sex first, their rights, their privacy, and their responsibility to protect themselves from predators. That’s why the library took down the photos: men in dresses cavorting intimately with children is very obviously pedophilia in action, and it’s a horror that it’s being presented as education.
 

This assumes that the costumes in most drag queen story hour events is "fetishized" when that isn't the case most of the time. How many of this pics count as sexual? Again this assumes that "gender-noncomformity=adult sex". 

It is an unhealthy view that sexuality is all about sexual activity, and not who you are attracted to. That is conflation/equivocation I think.

To answer your question: In my opinion, yes, that is what the author is doing.

To break it down a bit more, it appears that the article puts forth a lot of arguments to support that conclusion, and I see a lot of unsupported claims in there. The one blatant example of false equivalence I see in there is the bit comparing drag queens interacting with children to pedophilia. Pedophilia is the sexual attraction to children by an adult, but there's no real indication that that's occurring here. If that same photo was a guy in a T shirt and jeans, and the kids were his own or younger relatives (or, for that matter, a woman with any kids), it would be viewed as pretty normal.