Sam’ Fabulous’ Brinton has been released from his job as the “Deputy Assistant Secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy.” Brinton faces two felony counts of theft, and while that’s as it should be, there’s something more ghastly for which he is responsible.
First.
[A] felony arrest warrant was issued in Las Vegas for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy on a second felony charge for stealing luggage from the Harry Reid Airport.
Brinton was first charged with a felony in November for stealing a woman’s Vera Bradley suitcase reportedly worth $2,325 from baggage claim at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport on Sept. 16, according to court documents. Brinton at first denied the charge, but later said he took the designer luggage by mistake.
Sam likes to steal ladies’ luggage. It’s like shopping without paying, plus you get great luggage. And while that’s amusing on some level, this is the real issue. Brinton’s story about being abused in therapy motivated many LGBT activists to push for “conversion therapy” bans, but some in the movement suggest he was probably lying.
Brinton testified in support of therapy bans, claiming that he suffered from “conversion therapy.” However, even LGBT activist Wayne Beson — who vehemently opposes “conversion therapy”—noted in LGBTQ Nation that Brinton’s story was “too good to be true” and faulted LGBT activist groups and the press for failing to verify it before championing his cause. …
According to the LGBT group The Movement Advancement Project, “conversion therapy” bans have become law in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Washington, D.C.
According to “Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, Jr., a licensed psychotherapist,” “Brinton’s testimony about his alleged experience played a key role in banning legitimate practices across the nation.”
In New Hampshire, it is illegal for a therapist (coach, teacher, pastor, or just about anyone) to help someone who has gender dysphoria choose to be their biological gender. In other words, they were born male, and they decide they want to be and feel and live as a biological man and need some help, but no one can legally provide it.
Years later, diversity-hire Brinton appears to have other mental health issues, including support for an illegal prostitution site called Rentboy (no longer in service) and the desire to steal expensive luggage. And while he might suffer some consequence for that though I doubt it(do you put him in the men’s or women’s prison), how do we repair the damage done to the mental health profession?
Therapists have been gag-ordered even when their patients want the treatment they are prohibited from providing. And how do we undo that damage?
I think someone who is dysphoric and wants help to maintain their biological gender needs to seek therapy they can’t get. They and their therapist could challenge the law.
I’m not sure that will happen, but short of our legislature having the votes (they do not have them this session) or the stones (will they ever?), people with mental health issues will be denied treatment.
