Steve Kelley for March 17, 2023

How’d ya like to be kid and have someone like SKelley for a parent?

Sheesh, more right wing nonsense.

And, of course, little Donnie keeps saying that he’s a president.

Children aren’t considered mature enough to own firearms, smoke, drink alcohol, vote, get married, drive, not go to school, be charged as adults in most cases BUT they are allowed to mutilate their bodies, permanently destroying their ability to have or care for children because of FEELINGS?

This is why people can’t trust or believe liberals and Democrats. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.

Men are celebrated for pretending they are women thus marginalizing and destroying women’s sports and liberals celebrate this as some men prey upon women in sports and their locker rooms and prisons? This is called EVIL.

What is it with Kelly and trans kids? The ones that transition are an exception. The teasing and bullying guarantee that nobody is going to do this on a whim. Kelly, are you hiding something?

Over 80% of children who are mutilated like this grow up to realize they made a mistake.

More distraction. The “won’t someone please think of the children” crowd would be more credible if they also cared as much about things that DO impact the young. Maybe put fully funding education evenly across districts, keeping the work age appropriate to their development, not to mention addressing the epidemic of guns that ACTUALLY have deadly (and psychological) consequences on children on their agenda. But, that doesn’t rile up the base, does it?

Steve, if its a child you are raising I completely believe the kid thinks he is a dinosaur.

Sounds like apples and oranges, to me.

So what’s the excuse of some men in congress, military academies & Fox News? Evil…yes!

“Well, that’s just ludicrous. It’s a scientific fact that child wasn’t born a T-rex” Flanagan spat back.

Good one! Kids need guidance, the good Lt. Governor has forgotten that!

A hack as bad as Gorrell.

The problem is, this over dramatization of the issue makes people tune out legitimate issues… “boy who cried wolf” and all.

Here is a legitimate concern that people on the left might want to be aware of, and people like SKelly will unfortunately drool over and shout from the rooftops as if it validates their bigotry:

Youth who are autistic are three to six times more likely to experience “gender dysmorphia” i.e. they don’t feel that they belong in their body, and to their biological sex. The problem is… when these youth decide to identify as the opposite gender, they find after time that they don’t identify with the opposite gender either. The thing is, with autism, many people don’t feel like they belong in their body as a human at all. They find other humans confusing. As a youth, many make the mistake of thinking “oh, it is because I am this gender, I would fit in if I was the other gender”… but that doesn’t help either.

There is nothing wrong with this, but we just need to be careful about rushing things. It is very important to discover if this is the case before life altering surgery, not after.

There are sources that support that that aren’t crazy trans-phobic people

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/15/1149318664/transgender-and-non-binary-people-are-up-to-six-times-more-likely-to-have-autism#:~:text=Press-,Transgender%20and%20non%2Dbinary%20people%20are%20up%20to%20six%20times,how%20society%20views%20these%20identities.

Mike Lester pointed out that there are 42,000 diagnosed cases of gender dysmorphia in children last year. Of course he conflated that with gender affirming surgery, but that’s Lester for you. But his numbers seem legit. The thing is that there are somewhere around 60 million school aged children in this country and the number of children this applies to is less than 0.0007% of children. That’s less than 7 out of 10,000. The amount of ink the Right is spending on this issue is far beyond it’s importance.

They could spend their time on childhood hunger which affects 20% of school aged children. They could address the fact that 8000 children are shot every year. There are dozens of other issues that are either larger or more pressing, but they choose the trans issue with children.

Is anyone really surprised by that?

I’d really like to know the psychology of those who scream about infringement of their parental rights to not wear masks, not get vaccines, not teach Black, Native American, Asian, other minority history, ban books, force childbirth on any woman regardless of age, health, or viability of fetus and yet decide they can choose whether or not a family can decide how to deal with family issues. I guess, in the usual way, conservatives think rights and freedoms are for “me, not thee”.

A boy who plays with dolls is still a boy, and a girl who plays with trucks is still a girl. Rigid gender stereotypes have to go. And parents who subject their kids to this “sex change” madness should be arrested for child abuse.

You can equate the term transgendered to a cupboard where a three-year-old removed all labels from the cans; you don’t know what you are going to get until you open each can. Why would somebody take such a diverse population and try to consolidate them into one term, other than to confuse other people as to the reality of who they are. Is it a transvestite; is it a cross-dresser; is it a transgenderist (which is nothing more than a full-time cross-dresser); or is it a transsexual who actually feels compelled to go from one sex to the other; too much diversity to cram into one word. FYI the individual who coined the term transgenderist did so in order to confuse people because that individual did not like transsexuals.

Does anyone have statistics of the number of sex change operations by age? Oh, and whether or not those that occurred were because the sex of the child was ambiguous to begin with? Contrary to what most people believe, sex at birth is not always obvious – some get assigned a sex due to the ambiguity.

About 7 in 100,000 people are gender dysphoric. An American can expect to meet 10,000 different people in a lifetime. The chances that you’ll meet at least one gender dysphoric person your lifetime are about 50/50. So there’s a good chance you may never meet one, and if you do, you can just say “hey”.

It just doesn’t seem like much of a big deal to me.

Dylan Mulvaney on The Price Is Right. Introduction by Salty Cracker:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ySl2xZ_I5H0