LD227 would permit the state of Maine to hold those in other states liable for violating it; violating what? The law allows human trafficking and protects adults from charges of kidnapping and transporting minors across state lines for gender surgeries. Tennessee pushed back, but not just against the unconstitutionality of LD227.
Tennessee lawmakers in the state’s Senate on Thursday passed a bill on a 25-4 vote that would make it a felony for adults to aid minors in seeking gender transition procedures. It now heads to the GOP-led House, where it is expected to get additional Republican support.
State Sen. Janice Bowling, a Republican, sponsored SB 2782, which would penalize any “adult who recruits, harbors, or transports an unemancipated minor” in Tennessee “for the purpose of receiving a prohibited medical procedure that is for the purpose of enabling the minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex or treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor’s sex and asserted identity, regardless of where the medical procedure is to be procured,” and make it classified as a felony.
Objections are without merit. It is about protecting children from a medical, industrial complex revenue machine that secretly admits the risks and failures of its alleged cures on one hand while cashing checks for its services on the other.
A practice that is rapidly losing support around the world (in just the past few weeks).
- “Experts” Admit That Transitioning Kids Can Result in Cancer or Death
- Night Cap: A Majority of Gender Research Lacks Rigour, Quality, or Evidence
- New Study Confirms that If You Leave Gender-Confused Kids Alone … They Grow Out of It
- UK Bans Puberty Blockers for Everyone Under 18 Years of Age
- Woke Pope Comes Out … Against Trans-Surgery and Gender Theory
A growing institutional force recognizes how dangerous and ineffective this is for children’s mental health.
What About Rights?
Children have very limited rights, historically recognized across almost every culture. No one has a history of deliberately letting kids decide what they are ready for or when they can begin certain behaviors. Results may vary (rural kids are up working the family farm and using equipment many an urban youth would be unable to master without the time and training of their rural peers). Still, when it comes to smoking, driving, vaping, drinking alcohol, tattoos, firearms*, and, until recently – sex, the universal standard has been when the time is right. That time is commonly mid to late teens (these days) or later, which ought to include the elective surgical removal of healthy human body parts.
Every culture can debate when the best time is for marriage and firearms safety, but we don’t typically let adults chop off healthy body parts (theirs or someone else’s) unless it is for sexual reassignment surgery, which, when you consider it, is not the best policy. Recent research affirms that a majority of what gets labeled gender dysphoria in children is a different mental health issue that gender-bending does not address. It would explain why the quick-to-judge gender reassignment solution is failing so badly. Even in accepting communities, those lured into the LGBTQ lifestyle continue to embrace other unhealthy habits, including suicide, in statistically high numbers.
You are not addressing their mental health. You are using it to project your political will. Adults are free to make mistakes for which they must then pay some price (unless they are members of Congress). Children manipulated into those choices, contrary to the rising body of evidence against it, are being abused sexually, politically, and forever. You can’t undo the damage of gender surgery, and hormone treatments are dangerous, leading to disease, cancer, and even death.
Maine Democrats are not just fine with the risks. They would add human trafficking to the list. They are putting children in harm’s way. Tennesse is trying to protect them. More states should do the same.
