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Monday 1 March 2021

A storm may be brewing



Mercatornet has a piece on an issue which is familiar enough but a belated storm of reaction may be brewing. 

The battle in the US Congress over transgenderism and minor children could potentially sink the Biden Administration’s first major piece of legislation, the so-called “Equality Act”...

During a contentious confirmation hearing February 25 for the assistant secretary of the federal Department of Health and Human Services, Republican senators vigorously pushed back against the proposed nominee, a “transgender woman” named Dr Rachel Levine – a 63-year-old doctor, once known as Richard Levine, who “transitioned” in 2011...

Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), himself a medical doctor, demanded to know if Dr Levine supported allowing minor children, with or without the consent of their parents, to use puberty-blocking drugs or undergo permanent surgical removal of their sexual organs.

Paul pointed out that virtually every medical and human rights organization in the world, including the World Health Organization, opposes the practice of what he called “genital mutilation” even when undergone voluntarily in societies that openly accept it.

Bismarck may have described politics as the art of the possible, but as we now know, it isn't necessarily the art of the sane. Yet maybe sanity will prevail - who knows? I'm not betting on it though.

5 comments:

Sam Vega said...

This will be an interesting one. How many Democrats are daft or desperate enough to ignore Paul's plea for sanity? I can't imagine them getting this one through, and can only assume that the flush of victory led to a massive miscalculation on the part of whoever plans the legislative business.

Scott alexander has produced an extremely insightful piece on current US politics:

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/a-modest-proposal-for-republicans

it's long, but well worth it.

Scrobs. said...

Pleese don't show this to the awful BBC, they'll shove it in 'The Archers'!

Antonia Wilhemina Daniella - Jack and Peggy's 'daughtson'!

wiggiatlarge said...

What was interesting in that encounter was the fact that Levine skirted round actually answering the question, but the press far from pressing the point, rounded on Paul as being aggressive and naturally trans phobic for having the temerity to ask the question in the first place, we live in quite extraordinary times and not for the better.

Ed P said...

Levine 'skirted' round! - ha ha.

This strange-looking person, whom I believe was once Dr. Richard Levine, seems to have been brought into Biden's gang for mainly 'woke' political correctness.

I am disgusted with the Demons abortion law - it is now legal to take a just-born baby, breathing unaided, with no genetic or health defects, and kill it. This is legalised murder and Levine could not bring him/her/itself to condemn it. Which makes him/her/it an accessory to murder, ripe for prosecution.

A K Haart said...

Sam - maybe they know they won't get it through and this is merely a way to flag up old Joe's credentials with the woke. The piece in your link reads rather like elaborate sarcasm to me, although I could be miles out with that notion because I'm not familiar with the writer.

Scrobs - surely the Archers have a daughtson by now. And in future some transgender chickens perhaps.

Wiggia - yes, extraordinary times. A destructive revolutionary agenda which cannot end well.

Ed - yes Levine does seem to have been brought into Biden's gang as a woke totem. I can see Boris doing something similar eventually.