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Commentary By Leor Sapir

Trans Extremism and the Weak American State

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As Europe’s progressive welfare states are reversing course on pediatric gender medicine, the American Democratic party is circling the wagon around the controversial practice. Democrat lawmakers in California recently proposed a bill that would turn it into a “sanctuary state” for minors seeking puberty blockers. The law instructs state authorities to disregard not only the laws of other states but even court rulings on child custody if the custodial parent happens to be unapproving of medical transition.

California has been reported to use Child Protective Service to threaten parents of trans-identified teens who would like to explore alternatives to “affirming” care before transitioning their kids. It is the site of a grotesque court battle in which a trans-activist judge with a “trans child” of her own stripped a father of his custody rights for no reason other than his infidelity to the new gender fashions. Given that the Golden State has also effectively banned (by shoehorning “gender identity” into “homosexuality”) “conversion therapy” (read: exploratory talk therapy) for cross-gender identified kids; that it allows minors over twelve to consent (subject to certain conditions) to their own mental health treatments; and that it instructs medical providers and insurance companies to keep that information secret from parents, the new law has the potential to turn California into a child-driven, no-gatekeeping-allowed conveyor belt into lifelong medicalization.

Continue reading the entire piece here at Genspect

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Leor Sapir is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute. 

This piece originally appeared in Genspect