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The trans kids madness needs to stop
The Spectator ^ | 9/9/23 | Lionel Shriver

Posted on 09/10/2023 8:12:39 AM PDT by CFW

The Texas Supreme Court just upheld a state law banning so-called gender-affirming care for minors, to explosive consternation from predictable quarters. Progressive commentators portray this and similar laws passed by more than a dozen Republican — controlled state legislatures as “anti-LGBTQIA+.” In truth, the laws are aimed not at that whole bramble of capital letters, but solely at the “T.”

Slamming these bans histrionically as “genocide” (four in 15,000 patients of the Tavistock Clinic or on its waiting list committed suicide between 2010 and 2020, but according to propaganda it’s up to 50 percent of trans kids who try to kill themselves), the American left claims withdrawal of cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers and sex “reassignment” surgery for children violates the “rights” of trans kids. Yet progressives never seem indignant over the gross unfairness that children can’t buy alcohol, purchase cigarettes, join the army, get a tattoo, work in factories, marry or consent to sex with an adult. Why doesn’t being prevented from snagging a packet of Marlboros violate children’s rights?

(Excerpt) Read more at thespectator.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: childabuse; childendangerment; children; journalists; malpractice; mutilation; texas; trans; transgiblets
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The lede:

"I’m still not proud that I kept my journalistic mouth shut for three years"

1 posted on 09/10/2023 8:12:39 AM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

Porn in schools. Make the arrests.


2 posted on 09/10/2023 8:14:25 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: CFW

A five year old may want to be a dancer one day and a cowboy the next and a dinosaur the next. A parent’s job is to guide them gently to reality and not to indulge their confusion.


3 posted on 09/10/2023 8:18:49 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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“... it’s up to 50 percent of trans kids who try to kill themselves...”


Aren’t suicide rates higher amongst crazy people?


4 posted on 09/10/2023 8:20:45 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: CFW

“Explosive consternation!” Good. Let the explosions continue, unabated, until this monsterous mentality has been neutralized in it’s power and in it’s scope.
Direct challenge in the courts will be the only way.
Most of those currently brainwashed will not suddenly awaken from their trance on their own.


5 posted on 09/10/2023 8:22:52 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: CFW

If a 17-year-old is too young to legally consent to have sex with an adult prince she is too young to legally consent to have her boobs chopped off.


6 posted on 09/10/2023 8:27:54 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: CFW

Yes, it needs to stop. To make it stop is going to take to than just saying somebody needs to do something. People, real men, need to stand up.


7 posted on 09/10/2023 8:37:37 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: CFW

The judges will end up allowing this gender changing for kids maybe not the US Supreme Court but notice the “ethics” intimidation following the abortion ruling aimed at the high court.

The evil forces know the battles ultimately play out in the judiciary they are afraid of “The Five” Alito, Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Thomas.

Politics aims for the compromise of “adults only” for gender mutilation but there’s no guarantee of that being the final outcome of the judicial battles.


8 posted on 09/10/2023 8:37:42 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: CFW

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9 posted on 09/10/2023 8:39:17 AM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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To: CFW

New Business sign:

“IF YOU ARE NOT SURE IF YOU ARE A GUY OR A GIRL,
I AM NOT SURE IF I CAN SERVE YOU.”


10 posted on 09/10/2023 8:41:38 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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It’s all a derivative of normalizing one man banging another in the rear. LGBT is deviant and degenerate. There’s a reason that queers have generally been ‘oppressed’ throughout history; they’re very harmful to children and society.

Force them back underground where they belong.


11 posted on 09/10/2023 8:42:10 AM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: Brian Griffin

“If a 17-year-old is too young to legally consent to have sex with an adult prince she is too young to legally consent to have her boobs chopped off.”

Perhaps that’s somebody’s point/goal. Perhaps they want to be able to say that if a 17-year-old (or younger) is old enough to legally consent to have her boobs chopped off, she’s old enough to legally consent to have sex with an adult.


12 posted on 09/10/2023 8:42:54 AM PDT by KrisKrinkle (c)
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To: CFW
This is playing out in my own back yard. The following link is a left leaning news report about a local protest against a ‘pride fest’ event that included drag show for kids.

https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/next/next-with-kyle-clark/able-shepherd-faces-blowback-for-anti-lgbtq-protest-douglas-county-colorado/73-5a553ff3-c18f-4918-ab6c-ca93544eb9a8

Media tries to paint the good guys as the bad guys. Jimmy Graham, founder of Able Shepherd and former Navy Seal, someone I know personally, responds below.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O03vS-kUC8M&t=1s

The reporter in the interview is left leaning and Jimmy takes him on.

13 posted on 09/10/2023 8:50:22 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: hanamizu

there was a time when only nutcases would be transvesticle or whatever the heck it was called.

today, these children are being forced to be what they biologically cannot be. They are going to be EFFED up BIG TIME if they ever grow up.
when John hits puberty and his genuine male desire when he sees a babe will get confused as he now has boobs and has been wearing skirts and has been poisoned with all sorts of meds/procedures, but he wont be able to function in the world. he will be angry/violent/enraged/revengeful/scared/dangerous. you name it. These people will be offing themselves when they realize what they were forced into. and yeah, many will kill their parents / groomers etc......
just look at what people do to their own families to win the war. it is more and more common for someone to kill the entire family to spite the spouse—and these are generally man/woman relationships. just wait till this trans mess blossoms into reality. oh it’s going to be soooo ugly.


14 posted on 09/10/2023 9:00:31 AM PDT by Jaysin (Trump can’t be beat, unless the democrats cheat)
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To: CFW

This entire crap was done as a distraction and it has worked.

Combined with the liberals wanting to rape children, abuse them and destroy any chance they have of wanting to have a family when they get older equals to them just being outright satanic.


15 posted on 09/10/2023 9:01:05 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: CFW

16 posted on 09/10/2023 9:12:09 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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Why doesn’t being prevented from snagging a packet of Marlboros violate children’s rights?

While I agreee wholeheartedly with the author's point, it should be mentioned that throughout almost the entirety of the 20th Century, children could indeed buy cigarettes.

17 posted on 09/10/2023 9:18:13 AM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins..)
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To: Libloather
"Porn in schools. Make the arrests."

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If a child went to visit a friend and the friend's parents provided them with porn to watch and read, they would be arrested. Why are teachers exempt?

Also, get a load of this editorial:

Republican extremism will cost us our democracy if we don't fight it

[Scroll down at the link to get to the section that contains the following]:

"Some extremists, such as Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, are even trying to strip funding from children's hospitals that provide gender-affirming care to trans youth. But, as Caraballo explained, gender-affirming care starts with creating a loving environment that includes therapy and support."

18 posted on 09/10/2023 10:07:08 AM PDT by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: Drew68

“it should be mentioned that throughout almost the entirety of the 20th Century, children could indeed buy cigarettes.”

To be fair, until recently it was not thought that there was a need for such a ban, just as it was with child sex changes. The difference is that neither political party is fighting tooth and nail to hook kids on cigs.


19 posted on 09/10/2023 11:07:50 AM PDT by beef (The pendulum will not swing back. It will snap back. Hard.)
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To: CFW

BTT


20 posted on 09/10/2023 11:55:21 AM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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