As numerous right-minded (note: those not led by Democrats!) states take legal steps—my home state of Georgia being one of those—to protect children from radical and irreversible medical “transgender” procedures, this past Friday (3/17/2023) the largest newspaper in Georgia, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) published an article that is littered with pro-transgender propaganda.
Of course, this is completely unsurprising. Like almost
every large newspaper across the U.S., the AJC has long been little more than a
left-wing rag. However, it is noteworthy the steps the left across America is
taking to further the evil transgender agenda.
The article is entitled, “Trans kids say they have target on
their back with GOP initiative.” The authors spend many of their words
detailing the lives of several “transgender” youths in Georgia, who supposedly would
be harmed by legislation aimed at protecting vulnerable children. The article
does rightly note that the Georgia bill “would ban health care professionals
from giving hormones such as estrogen or testosterone to transgender minors.
Doctors also would not be allowed to perform surgeries on children seeking to
align with their gender identity.”
One of the biggest bits of propaganda that runs throughout
the piece is the idea that giving hormone treatments and radical cosmetic
surgery to children is “healthcare.” Few things are further from the truth. In
other words, it is not “healthcare” to mutilate and disfigure children. It is
child abuse and should be treated as such.
The article details children as young five years old whose
foolish parents subjected them to a “gender transition.” The authors write:
Jen Slipakoff, a Kennesaw resident, said her daughter first started talking about being transgender when she was 5. Up until then she had been raised as a boy. She’s 15 now.
“We already knew exactly what was happening before she ever said anything,” Slipakoff said. “She has an older brother, so our house was full of traditional boys toys. And our daughter would play with those toys in a very different way than our son was. She would take her little soldiers shopping instead of putting them on the battlefield. She was always drawn to what we would consider traditional girls toys and traditional female clothing.”
When she turned 5, she asked her mother to change her name.
The article also reports on a family with two “transgender”
children:
Someone who is nonbinary doesn’t identify as strictly male or female. Dare, a 16-year-old from Dacula who uses “they” as their pronoun, said they were about 10 when they started to think they may be nonbinary.
“I’ve always been gender neutral my whole life,” Dare said. “My mom talks about how, when I was really little, I would pick toys from the boys aisle and the girls aisle.”
Dare and their sibling, a 13-year-old transgender boy named Jay, told their parents about their gender identities about the same time in 2020.
Imagine that! Two “transgender” kids from the same family! As
historically rare as is “transgenderism,” this would be a near statistical
impossibility. Unless, of course, something else is up, which of course the AJC
completely ignores. On the occurrence of “transgenderism,” Kimberly Klacik recently
asked an important question with a telling answer. She
asked, “Why aren’t kids in the hood transitioning to the opposite sex? I
know the answer, just wanted to see if you knew.”
Interestingly, an excellent answer came from Sara Higdon, a
self-described “transexual, Catholic, Veteran,
minarchist/voluntaryist” who also happens to be a contributor to “Gays
Against Groomers.” Answering Mrs. Klacik, Higdon writes:
Well because the typical demographic is upper middle class white kids of progressive parents. for two reasons. They have time and money to worry about such things, and have been conditioned to believe through Critical Theory that they are an oppressor and there is no way they can ever escape that status, so they see this as a way to join an oppressed class for which they are celebrated for instead of condemned. It’s the relationship between CRT and Queer theory.
Want to guess in what demographic Jen Slipakoff resides? (This will give you
some clues.) The transgender craze sweeping America and various other parts of
the world is not a medical phenomena but rather a social contagion, fueled by
the evil LGBT arm of the radical left, and aided and abetted by
the likes of the AJC.
Of course, the biggest lie behind the transgender agenda is
the notion that one can change one’s sex. Almost nothing is further from the
truth than the grotesque lie that sex-change is merely a medical process. The facts
on who is a male and who is a female is one of the oldest
truths in the history of humanity. We shouldn’t need legislation to protect
children from the wicked lie that sex change is possible, but the left has
brought us to this point.
Lastly, as Mrs. Slipakoff spoke before the Georgia Senate
regarding the legislation, the AJC reported her saying,
“I’m happy to report, she has never been bullied by her classmates,” Slipakoff said. “That’s not to say she doesn’t have bullies. Here in this room right now, they sponsored this bill and they’re the ones that are going to vote for it. ... She doesn’t want and she doesn’t need your protection. She wants you to leave her alone.”
Likewise, in one of the comments on the AJC article—which
was a response to another comment—someone identified as “Benjamin McKoon”
wrote, “Ever thought, hmmm... I wonder if this is any of my business??? Nope?
Then shut the f*ck [without the asterisk] up and leave the kids alone inbred
idiot.”
As the evil LGBT agenda has progressed throughout the U.S.
the last several decades, “Just leave us alone!” or something similar, has been
a frequent cry from LGBT activists. However, as I’ve often
pointed out, “live and
let live” has never
been a hallmark of the LGBT agenda. This is quite evident if we only look
at what’s occurred recently on the issue of “transgenderism.”
“Just deal with it,” was
how a deluded Massachusetts male who’s competing as a female—and helping his
school win a state title this year—put it when asked about boys competing
against girls in sanctioned competitions. To help paint “transgenders” as being
“targeted” in Georgia, the AJC article makes mention of how GA law, and the
Georgia High School Association, requires athletes “to compete based on
their biological sex.” How do you think Atlanta LGBT activists would respond to
being told to “just deal with it” when it comes to this policy?
As was recently
reported at Twitchy, the American left is filled with LGBT “mind your own
business” hypocrites:
The radical trans Left loves to tell anyone who raises moral and ethical questions about the movement to mind their own business. Meanwhile, it’s the radical trans Left that insists on making themselves a part of everyone’s business — literally:
"Now bake us a cake bigot"
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) February 10, 2023
What? No.
"Stop playing that video game bigot"
What?
"Do not misgender me or we will ticket and fine you. Also get you fired"
You said for me to just mind my business.
"Pay for our surgeries"
Georgia’s legislators, and our Governor, Brian Kemp, need to
stand strong in the face of the AJC’s transgender propaganda and protect
children from the hideous lies of the transgender agenda.
(See this column at American Thinker.)
Copyright 2023, Trevor Grant Thomas
At the Intersection of Politics, Science, Faith, and Reason.
www.trevorgrantthomas.com
Trevor is the author of the The
Miracle and Magnificence of America
tthomas@trevorgrantthomas.com
