Leave it to mainstream media to take a simple moral question and make it into a repulsive crusade:
Tennessee's GOP-controlled Statehouse on Thursday gave their final approval to legislation penalizing adults who help minors receive gender-affirming care without parental consent, clearing the way for the first-in-the-nation proposal to be sent to Gov. Bill Lee's desk for his signature.
"Gender-affirming care."
The question here is whether or not medical officials and activists should be able to help underage people access synthetic sex hormones and life-altering genital surgeries without their parents' consent. I don't think this one is too hard.
Violations of the law, according to the pearl-clutching AP, "could range from talking to an adolescent about a website on where to find care to helping that young person travel to another state with looser restrictions on gender-affirming care services.
Frankly I don't think the bill goes far enough. It should criminalize, not just "penalize," this kind of activity — and it should be outlawed even if the minors in question have "parental consent."
It should not be legal at all to do that to your kid. It's properly called "child abuse."
Note that Tennessee is passing this law as other places are going in precisely the opposite, and wrong, direction:
But these sorts of laws are necessary. They need to happen. The consensus around transgenderism — particularly as it applies to children — appears ready to break:
There are still far too many kids being subject to these inhumane, inhuman treatments — by doctors, by parents, by twisted ideologues. We need way more laws like Tennessee's.
Glad to see Republicans taking a stand like this. It's a good start. Let's see more!
