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Although I did not stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, I do identify as a biologist. Hey, I’m just playing by leftist rules.
I haven’t studied biology in the three decades since my junior year of high school. Nevertheless, as a self-declared and fully qualified biologist, I can tell you that there are two sexes — always have been, always will be. The leftist effort to separate gender from sex is an assault not just on biology but the English language.
I can also tell you that true gender affirmation means affirming someone’s birth sex. Like George Orwell’s newspeak in 1984, the Left has turned this on its head. When a leftist says “gender affirmation,” he means a futile attempt to reverse God’s created order — to change, not affirm, gender, often through scientific and medical experimentation.
Don’t ever call what the Left wants “gender-affirming care.” That is a lie.
As Noah Rothman explained, “The ‘gender-affirming’ bit is meant to establish the legitimacy of a minor’s potentially fleeting but passion-fueled self-conception. Transgenderism in kids cannot be an ephemeral thing produced by a mercurial mind — it must be the fruition of a destiny conferred at birth. The ‘care’ part is self-explanatory. What kind of ghoul would deny ‘care’ to the deserving and needy?”
The Supreme Court considered some of these things yesterday in United States v. Skrmetti, a case regarding the constitutionality of a Tennessee law that rightly bans gender mutilation of young people. Twenty-six states have similar bans. Specifically, notes Fox News, “At issue is whether the equal protection clause — which requires the government to treat similarly situated people the same — prohibits states from allowing medical providers to deliver puberty blockers and hormones to facilitate a minor’s transition to another sex.”
It’s astounding that society and reality itself have devolved to the point that we’re arguing over whether to ban such things.
Giving a child puberty blockers, opposite-sex hormones, or — God forbid — lopping off healthy body parts is demented and evil. It serves the fetishes and attention-seeking of parents and the bank accounts of doctors who can rake in money by creating lifetime patients. It is child abuse, plain and simple, and it darn well should be illegal. The worst pagan societies should never allow it, never mind a nation founded on Judeo-Christian values.
Yet the Rainbow Mafia and its obsequious fans not only promote such behavior but aim to crush all opposition and dissent.
Their strategically chosen representative to argue yesterday’s oral hearings was an ACLU attorney who goes by the all-too-apt name Chase Strangio. You see, Strangio is a woman “identifying” as a man, and her given name is hidden well enough that I declined to spend more than three minutes unsuccessfully searching for it. Choosing her as the first “transgender” attorney to argue a case before the Supreme Court was certainly a strategic play to make sufferers of this particular mental illness seem more sympathetic and normal in a case the Left desperately hopes to win, despite a 6-3 conservative majority.
That conservative majority indicated some skepticism about the Left’s argument in favor of giving kids hormones that permanently alter their bodies, including often causing infertility, and that create or exacerbate underlying psychological issues. Sometimes, this “treatment” includes irreversible surgery that kids grow up to regret.
“It strikes me as a pretty heavy yellow light, if not red light, for this court to come in, the nine of us, and to constitutionalize the whole area when the rest of the world, or at least … the countries that have been at the forefront of this, are pumping the brakes on this kind of treatment,” said Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Chief Justice John Roberts expressed similar reservations. There are conflicting medical opinions here, meaning the justices are “not the best situated to address issues like that.” In fact, he asked, “Doesn’t that make a stronger case for us to leave those determinations to the legislative bodies rather than trying to determine them for ourselves?”
Justice Neil Gorsuch, who wrote a constitutionally offensive controlling opinion in a transgender” case back in 2020, remained silent during the two-and-a-half hours of oral arguments.
On the other hand, the left-wing justices are quite content to argue that the naked emperor is wearing clothes. “The evidence is very clear that there are some children who actually need this treatment,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor falsely asserted. Therefore, she “reasoned,” courts must check the legislatures’ rationale for enacting laws “to ensure that those children who are going to suffer all of these consequences will be made to do so only when it’s compelling.”
Her most inexplicable comparison? “Every medical treatment has a risk,” she noted. “Even taking aspirin.” Uh, permanently altering physiology is not even remotely like taking aspirin.
Sotomayor also defaulted to the Left’s suicide trope. “Some children suffer incredibly with gender dysphoria, don’t they?” she asked. “I think some attempt suicide?”
Even Strangio admitted that there is “no evidence” that gender mutilation reduces suicides.
Huge moment at SCOTUS. Alito pulled up Page 195 of the Cass report, showing that child sex-changes don’t actually prevent suicide. ACLU attorney Chase Strangio admits in response that there’s “no evidence” that these procedures actually reduce suicides.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) December 4, 2024
No one is saying these children aren’t suffering. The real questions are why it’s happening, who’s causing it, and what should be done about it. The Left is wrong on all three.
It is true that the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Psychiatric Association have all endorsed medical experimentation on youths. There are three reasons for this: They see a lot of money to be made, they are simply bowing to the withering pressure coming from the Rainbow Mafia, and/or they are true believers in (and sometimes victims of) the gender cult.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who once famously admitted that she is not a biologist, bizarrely asserted that she sees “parallels” between banning hormonally and surgically altering children’s healthy anatomy and banning — [checks notes] — interracial marriage “back in the day.” She criticized the “same kinds of scientific arguments” made back then, but she has the comparison exactly backward.
One exchange yesterday illustrated the Left’s struggles against reality especially well. Essentially, Justice Samuel Alito asked if “transgender status [is] immutable.” Strangio said “yes,” pointing to a “biological basis” for that test, but she agreed when Alito asked if “some individuals [can] change gender identity” even after having already done so in the other direction. You know where this is going. “So, not immutable,” Alito concluded.
The question of immutable characteristics is critical. Discrimination against people on the basis of things they can’t change, such as race, is illegal. The Rainbow Mafia and its devotees demand an end to “discrimination” against so-called “transgender” people based on immutable characteristics, but by the Left’s own convoluted definition, gender is the opposite of immutable. It’s a heads-they-win, tails-you-lose proposition.
Fortunately, the general consensus from watchers of the Supreme Court’s hearing yesterday is that a majority of justices at least seem to be hesitant to overturn Tennessee’s law. That outcome would be great news in the states that see fit to protect children.
Ask former transitioner Chloe Cole. “If a law like this were in place in my state while I was growing up — if this were just federally banned across the board when I was going through this — this never would have happened to me,” Cole said. “My mom and dad wouldn’t have been betrayed by our doctors, and I wouldn’t have lost my breasts or so many of my formative years to a dangerous medical ideology.”
That dangerous medical ideology should die a well-deserved death.
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