Trump’s 91 felony charges, hybrid genders, and 22 states outlaw sex change surgeries for children.
From what I have read, many of these charges are bogus and others are a stretch. But some could stick. For example, I don’t think anyone denies that Trump called the speaker of the Georgia House in an attempt to persuade him to call a special session to appoint a new slate of pro-Trump electors. Well, that pretty clearly is “soliciting” a public officer to violate his oath of office to abide by the laws of his state. And that’s against the law. It’s a felony that carries a mandatory one year prison sentence.
If that’s the only charge that sticks and he is acquitted of the other 90, he would go to jail. But some of the others might stick also.
Yes, his opponents are out to get him. Yes, the decision to file such discretionary charges was politically motivated. Yes, prosecuting political opponents in the middle of a campaign, no less, is a tactic of banana republic dictators.
The fact remains, though, that now that the charges have been filed and will go to trial, Trump is in genuine legal jeopardy. And if he is found guilty of even a few of these charges, and if he is elected, he may have to govern the country from a prison cell.
And Now, Hybrid Genders
The transgender movement is not just about males identifying as females and females identifying as males. It’s not just about a male or female identifying as being “non-binary,” as having no gender.
Diane Ehrensaft, the director of mental health and chief psychologist at the University of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital gender development center and a professor at the UCSF medical school, opens new horizones. She says that people–specifically, children–can have “hybrid genders.”
She gives this list:
- Gender Prius: Half girl and half boy
- Gender Minotaur: One gender on top and a different one on the bottom
- Gender by Season: One gender during the school year and another over the summer
- Gender by Location: At home, one gender, elsewhere another
In a Prius, like other hybrid vehicles, sometimes the gasoline engine is engaged and sometimes the electric engine is engaged. So Gender Prius must mean that sometimes the child acts like a girl and sometimes acts like a boy.
A minotaur is the creature from Greek mythology that has a bull’s head and a man’s trunk. So Gender Minotaur would mean someone whose mind is one gender, but whose sexual physiology is the other.
Gender by Season and Gender Location would mean that gender identification changes from time to time and place to place. (Which is a good reason–as are all of these–NOT to subject children with gender dysphoria to mutilative surgery, as practiced at the Benioff Children’s Hospital.)
(Also, read this commentary.)
Twenty-Two States Outlaw Trans Mutilations for Children
Speaking of which, now that North Carolina legislators have over-ridden their governor’s veto, there are now 22 states that have passed laws banning castrations, masectomies, and sterilizing chemicals and hormones for the purpose of gender-reassignment for minors.
That’s progress and in line with the medical rethinking of transgenderism that has taken place in England, France, Finland, and Sweden.
But what will really change the medical profession will be a series of successful malpractice suits on behalf of permanently harmed children who have been manipulated into life-changing surgeries but then changed their minds.
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