How far is this madness going to go? It started with the increasingly common assumption that newborn babies are “assigned” a gender at birth, as if doing so were an arbitrary bureaucratic process that could often be erroneous. Now the Pennsylvania state Office of Child Development and Early Learning is going even farther, requiring social workers to report on the gender identity of newborns: forms now ask whether the baby is Male, Female, or “Gender Non-Binary.” How on God’s weary earth is a social worker supposed to be able to tell whether or not a tiny just-born baby is a budding Rachel Levine? The Pennsylvania Office of Child Development and Early Learning did not deign to explain that little detail.
This outrageously woke nest of Leftist bureaucrats, which, according to a Friday report in the Washington Free Beacon, “funds health and social programs for young children,” has scrapped that tired old male/female sex distinction. Among the information it now requires on its data collection forms about newborn babies and their “caregivers” is the “gender” of both the caregivers and the child, and it offers the possibility of marking the child as “Gender Non-Binary.”
Asking about this for those who are taking care of the child is one thing, but for the infant himself or herself or itself? That is indeed the requirement, as one Pennsylvania social worker explained: “I have to ask clients, ‘Is your 10-day-old male, female, or nonbinary?’” Residually recognizing how ridiculous this woke fantasy must appear to still-normal people, Ali Fogarty, the communications director for Pennsylvania’s Department of Human Services, of which the Office of Child Development is a part, denied what is as plain as the nose on your face: “This is a field for data collection,” Fogarty insisted. “There is no directive or expectation that parents be verbally or explicitly asked if their children are nonbinary.”
Fogarty was being a bit Bidenesque here, that is, not exactly honest, for the form itself, which is headed “Office of Child Development and Early Learning/Family Supports/Family Support Program Data System/Data Collection Forms,” couldn’t be clearer. Under the heading “Child’s Gender,” it offers three choices, and three choices only: Male, Female, and “Gender Non-Binary (includes enrolled participants who do not identify as either male or female, which may include participants who identify as gender non-binary and/or genderqueer).”
How does one tell if a newborn infant is “Gender Non-Binary”? Is the hapless newborn supposed to reach out and grasp the rainbow flag, or that weird blue-and-pink trans one? Are females (yes) supposed to show a predilection for cigar-smoking and bowling night out with the boys? Are baby boys (again, no apologies) supposed to express a desire to become champion swimmers even if their abilities in the pool are only mediocre? How is all this supposed to be communicated?
This form makes it abundantly clear that this whole gender madness is based on superstition and hysteria, and not on “The Science” that the Left professes to revere. In addition to that, the form is also nothing less than a recruitment tool. The Pennsylvania social worker observed that “these questions plant the seed in parents,” and that is likely what they’re intended to do. Then the most woke among them can start their toddler on the path to “gender dysphoria” and trans madness. The parents can preen about how open-minded and forward-thinking they are, and the child, having grown up with the idea that he or she was “trans,” will have no ability to refuse what is being done to his or her body.
Through it all, the Office of Child Development will be there to help. It has, says the Free Beacon, “gone all in on that project of legitimization. Its data collection guide lists several ‘resources’ that home visitors can use to familiarize themselves with gender identity—including the now-infamous ‘gender unicorn’ diagram, which describes ‘agender,’ ‘bigender,’ and ‘two-spirit’ as examples of ‘the many genders.’” As if all that weren’t enough, “the list also includes a guide to ‘being an ally’ to ‘nonbinary young people,’ as well as the website pronouns.org, which warns against making ‘assumptions about the gender of another person’ based on the person’s ‘appearance or name.’”
Why, yes, heavens to Betsy, we must avoid that at all costs. Destroying children physically and emotionally, mutilating their bodies, and making adolescent confusion about their identity into a lifelong affliction — all that is not only fine, it’s cutting-edge wokeness. But “misgendering” the hacked-to-pieces and stitched-together victims of this monstrous lie and deception? That’s the real evil, according to Pennsylvania’s monstrous Office of Child Development.
Perfect image of a stupid mother wearing her face diaper whilst deciding that her son or daughter should be abused by pedophiles.
While it is clear that the Biden administration has made this worse, it is also clear that government officials love this sort of nonsense, they can write report after report after report and introduce pointless regulation after pointless regulation which gives them a lifetime of doing nothing other than ticking boxes until they retire from their public service and sit on their fat backsides staring at their phones until…
Pointless regulation after pointless regulation. Written by unelected bureaucrats. Who, except in rare circumstances, sail , anonymously under the radar. :-\
From the left’s point of view, it might not be pointless. They might intend to put subtle pressure on parents – especially left-leaning ones – to declare their children non-binary so as to be “open minded” and politically correct. Then – voila! – in ten years the statistics will “prove” that 20% of babies are “non-binary.” This “scientific” data will then be used for further mischief.
Wokeys just get stupider and stupider….to the point where everything will eventually fall apart
It seems more than somewhat obvious that sufferers of runaway mental disorders should not be setting, or enforcing, any public policy whatsoever.
Convince me otherwise.
Bio 1 should be compulsory at birth of first child.
The infant has Y or X chromosomes. Everything else is cultural insanity which is just in one’s head. End of story.
That accurately describes where these fools are at – avoiding truth and reality at every turn.
Leftists took over Pennsylvania with mail vote fraud and this is beginning of what you will get from it.
It will get worse.
Liberal Democrats are virus upon America
if democrats cant tell you what a woman is [ they arent biologists ] how can they determine what non binary is ?? same crowd as trust the science in getting stabbed with a non vaccine . ! apparently biology isn’t science . I’m sure im missing something .
The scam here is allowing the parent to make the determination of gender. At this time, in our rotting culture, there are enough parents signing on to this gender perversion crap to, as the author notes, signal their subscription to woke ideology and scientism. As Steven Triesch says above, there will be enough to tick the “non” box to, thereby, swell the numbers to further validate the lunacy. It proves if you give a fool enough choices he will mostly pick the wrong one.
And what is the rationale of staying in an union with such people?
I can’t find any
If you see something say something…..
What I am seeing I cannot believe. I cannot unsee. My mind boggles at the evil we are perpetrating by our inactions on defenseless children. Let’s call this what it is…. on our watch we have stood by an done nothing.
We really are in the grip of mass formation psychosis.
How else can you explain
Mothers
Women
Daughters
Females
She
Her
Participating in this madness against flesh and blood that came from their wombs?
This is bullying. I thought we were supposed to call out the bully? WTF is going on?
Madness! Absolute madness!
We are a nation in search of its balls.
Looking…..
It begs the question; Where are the men? Nowadays it seems you have to ask someone to lift their skirt to find a set of balls.