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The Supreme Court hearings on U.S. v. Skrmetti should have been the Left’s moment to provide a compelling defense of the transgender movement. Especially Justice ‘Not a Biologist’ Jackson. Instead the country witnessed Justice Sotomayor comparing transgender mutilation of children to taking an aspirin (good thing there’s no government agency regulating those) and Jackson comparing the regulation of transgender interventions to interracial marriage.
Both of those are dumb arguments, but they’re also notable for being the high points of the debate.
After a massive election defeat driven in part by the Democrat Party’s extreme position on the transgender movement, the party and its people show that they’re unable to grasp the harm caused by the transgender movement to children and women.
Deploying a law to argue that 2-year-olds are empowered to ‘change’ their sex and justices who don’t even seem to grasp the issue, the hearings ably showed why Democrats embraced the transgender movement. They did it by refusing to see the costs and the harms, and insisted on seeing the issue through the narrow civil rights prism of an oppressed minority. And no matter how many women or children they threw under the bus, they were incapable of changing.
In a case where Democrats have to argue why governments shouldn’t be able to regulate one particular set of medical interventions (well two sets, including abortion) but can regulate all others, they proved unable to understand why anyone would even want to regulate them.
And so the reckoning with the harm they’ve caused continue to play out in political consequences.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Well, I’m no medical expert but surgery is serious business.
Things like aspirin, quinine, the first vaccines … were close to nature. As time went by things got further and further from nature. Changing the definition of vaccine was like crossing the Rubicon 🙂
That’s one of the things I notice when reading history, namely, what remedies were used in olden days. I was astonished when reading British Naval History at how much the sailors in olden days loved the ship surgeons, despite the dreadful, abhorrent (to me) things they sometimes had to do centuries ago. Sometimes the sailors wouldn’t go to sea if no surgeon was aboard.
Steve Kardas says
Oh please, 2-year-olds can not even decide what time to go to bed or what to eat so the premise they can decide their sex is patently absurd. That this even has be discussed in court is more proof of a world gone mad.
Spurwing Plover says
The 2 Year Old’s should remain with their parents without the Liberal Ninnies sticking their nose in
CowboyUp says
Like aspirin? The same aspirin these same people forbade school nurses from dispensing? How can they sustain such self-contradictory arguments? “The issue isn’t the issue. The issue is the revolution.”
Chris Shugart says
It’s an impossible subject to debate if you consider that the whole transgender movement relies on altering accepted dictionary definitions of pronouns. How can one argue with those who use fictional thought constructs? Well. you can’t. They are impervious to logic and reality. They need to go back to their dictionaries and look up the word “dysphoria.”
Onzeur Trante says
Is Sotomayer really that clueless? No, it’s all a shameless act. Both she and Jackson Brown are appalling. One claims not to know the difference between a puberty blocking hormone and aspirin and the other cannot define what a woman is, biologically speaking. What a travesty that they are on the Supreme Court.
Kasandra says
The same people arguing against a ban on “gender conversion” medical procedures for minors, with permanent consequences, have no trouble supporting a ban on conversion psychotherapy, including talk therapy, for homosexuals including adults, which many states have enacted. How odd. I’m searching in vain for a neutral principle here.
Justice B. Served II says
Did Sotomayer and Jackson really pass the law school entrance exams and the bar exams? By themselves?
Perhaps they went to the same school as Kamala Harris – the University of Woke Snowflakes in San Francisco?
Robert Smith says
I’ll never look at a pair of dull scissors the same way again .