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GENDER POLITICS
Blocked: Florida’s new ban on giving puberty blockers to minors
Tuesday, Clinton-appointed federal Judge Robert Hinkle temporarily blocked portions of Florida’s new ban on giving puberty blockers to minors, declaring that “gender identity is real, the record makes this clear,” and the state has no rational basis for denying patients “treatment” (quotation marks my own.)
The ruling applies only to three children who are already receiving this quackery, and the judge claimed they would "suffer irreparable harm" if they were not allowed to continue their “treatments” (I'd argue the opposite.) The Governor’s press secretary said the law would be enforced on everyone else pending appeal, and “We will continue fighting against the rogue elements in the medical establishment that push ideology over evidence.”
Of course, “trans” activists said they hoped the judge’s ruling would be extended to everyone and claimed that these treatments are “aligned with every major medical organization — not a rogue few, but all of them.”
While it’s true that a number of medical organizations and hospitals that seem to have too much concern with their bottom lines have allowed political activists to bully them into violating their duty to “do no harm,” a growing number of doctors, medical organizations and governments around the world are waking up to the dangers of treating confused children as lab rats and are banning or reversing previous approval of these barbaric experiments.
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/06/07/norway-this-gender-bending-stuff-isnt-science-n556178
Nobody disagrees that “gender identity” is real, but if immature children claim to identify as the opposite gender, that doesn’t mean adults responsible for their well-being should subject them to permanent disfigurement via chemicals and surgery. Anorexia is a real condition, but that doesn’t mean we should allow doctors to treat it with liposuction.
As for the argument cited by this judge that “banning treatment for minors ignores risks patients might face” and that research suggests transgender youth and adults are prone to stress, depression and suicidal thoughts, here is some context: Maybe people suffering from gender dysphoria would be prone to the risks of stress, depression and suicidal thoughts even if doctors didn’t mutilate their bodies. Studies in Europe found that such treatments had no discernable effect on rates of suicidal thoughts, which is one reason why various nations there are turning against these practices.
And if someone claims their problem is not mental and demands that they be given drugs and unnecessary surgery or else they’ll kill themselves, doesn’t that seem like a pretty good indicator that they have a mental condition? The proper prescription for that is therapy. Or should we now prescribe drugs and surgery based on blackmail? Because I’ll bet a lot of people would threaten to kill themselves if it would get them a prescription for heroin, but that wouldn’t be a very sound medical practice, would it?
SPLC targets Moms group
America’s most lucrative hate group, the Southern Poverty Law Center, must not be generating enough income from putting mainstream conservative and Christian groups on its bogus list of “hate and anti-government groups” that it peddles to woke corporations. So now they’re adding moms who protest school boards that indoctrinate their kids with leftist and racist propaganda.
The SPLC’s latest target is Florida-based “Moms for Liberty,” a group they accuse of "galvanizing supporters around supposed ‘parental rights’ and ‘family values’” (the horror!) They’re described as part of an “anti-student inclusion movement” that “targets any inclusive curriculum that contains discussions of race, discrimination and LGBTQ identities” with “hard-right attacks.” They say Moms For Liberty’s primary goals are to “fuel right-wing hysteria and to make the world a less comfortable or safe place for certain students – primarily those who are Black, LGBTQ or who come from LGBTQ families."
Wow, they sound scary! And how are they advancing this Nazi-like campaign? I’ll let the SPLC elucidate: “They can be spotted at school board meetings across the country wearing shirts and carrying signs that declare, ‘We do NOT CO-PARENT with the GOVERNMENT.’ The group hijacks meetings, preventing officials and parents from conducting their normal proceedings." (Oh, so they're challenging what they see as destructive curricula and demanding to speak at open public meetings. Those MONSTERS!!)
Shock of shocks, Moms For Liberty co-founders Tiffany Justice and Tina Descovich take exception to this hysterical depiction of them: "Name-calling parents who want to be a part of their child’s education as ‘hate groups’ or ‘bigoted’ just further exposes what this battle is all about: Who fundamentally gets to decide what is taught to our kids in school - parents or government employees? We believe that parental rights do not stop at the classroom door and no amount of hate from groups like this is going to stop that."
I make no secret of my utter contempt for the SPLC, a once-noble organization that used to fight real villains like the KKK. As that threat receded into history, and their own sex scandals and financial shenanigans were exposed, they had to keep ginning up fear and hysteria among paranoid liberals to keep the donations flowing. It worked. So now, they’re in the business of crying wolf, and according to them, any group to the right of Bernie Sanders is the next Klan.
Maybe if their own parents had raised them right and sent them to better schools, they would have grown up to be decent human beings.