Gender Mania in Maine. "Women are Real" Today's Taboo
Groups produce group think that leads to mass hysteria. Look what happened to the Salem witches at the hands of the Puritans.
Heresy today for leftist purists is any challenge to the transgender ideology that equates women and transgender women. A new law passed by Democrats in Augusta along strict party lines makes access to “gender-affirming health care services” a legal right, along with abortion.
My crime? Rejecting the quackery of transgender medicine for children and pointing out the absurdity that 18 year-olds living in their parents’ basement, on their insurance, have a legal right to a chest binder while dear old dad has no rights to desperately needed hearing aides or eye glasses.
Other laws erase women all together. Take Maine’s statute to protect pregnant women. The word “woman” was erased and substituted with “person” because, you know, there might be a trans man who is pregnant.
As if it’s perfectly normal for a woman to have a legal right to identify as a man while giving birth, and perfectly reasonable to expect hospitals to provide “gender affirming care” at taxpayer’s expense.
I’m not a doctor, but in my view any woman identifying as a man while pregnant should think seriously about whether parenting is a good choice. Our laws should not support children being born into this chaos.
Equating women to men with gender dysphoria is degrading. It is identity theft.
Another law in Maine that seeks gender parity on corporate boards defines “female” as anyone who self-identifies as woman, without regard to sex. So to diversify corporate boards we mandate more females, and that includes males?
The kicker is the proposed “equal rights amendment” that will codify in Maine’s Constitution “gender expression” and “gender identity” and erase women altogether in the eyes of the law as distinct from men who believe they are women. Remember when the ERA was on the basis of sex?
You are a witch pursuant to today’s gender orthodoxy for wanting to protect kids from irreversible surgery and puberty blockers, or question the credentials of the “World Professional Association for Transgender Health.”
And you are a bitch if you think or dare say that privileged American kids don’t deserve a trophy for their gender identity and expression. Kids deserve a childhood free from gender ideology and labels. Kids deserve to be told the truth. They are beautiful just the way they are.
Under the gender orthodoxy of today’s left - one cannot believe woman and girls are real. It’s a label that can be stuck on anyone like a bright orange price tag. And people wonder why the alphabet-club kids are depressed. It’s a scam! They want us to believe 2 + 3 = 6.
I support rights of transgender people. They have the right to be free from discrimination and express whatever their heart desires and pursue happiness and prosperity like everyone else. I support Maine laws that grant equal rights to all regardless of sexual orientation. Equal rights are not special rights, though, and women are not men with a disorder. People with cancer don’t have rights to chemotherapy. Medical intervention for gender dysphoria should be consistent with all other medical intervention.
It’s radical for a woman today in the Democratic Party to stand up for women and kids, and “progress” that men now can define us to include them.
As if being a woman is fungible and not a divine and mystical connection to the universe.
As if two X chromosomes are not enough.
Women are real and have a right to be defined in law as separate from men. That’s not radical. That the truth.
Speaking up for women and girls is speaking truth to power. I know because I am a witch.