As the biennial Texas legislature reached its climax, militant transgender protesters and parliamentary delay tactics by their allies in the Texas state house twice blocked a key vote on a good bill protecting against harmful transgender child treatments, which had already passed the state senate. While the mostly peaceful Trump supporters who entered the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 received stiff prison sentences as long as 14 years, favorable publicity showered the transgender militants who disrupted the Texas Capitol. Charges were even dropped against one transgender protester accused of assaulting an officer there, in sharp contrast with the over-prosecution of Trump supporters in D.C.
The transgender activists in Texas were interfering with a vote on SB 14, a bill to ban the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapy in children. Similar laws protecting children from irreversible treatments and mutilation have passed in 16 states, while 8 states have prohibited persons from using bathrooms of the opposite sex. The transgender forces also worked to stall a Texas bill to protect women’s college sports. Opposition came from the pro-transgender NCAA, which insists on using only testosterone tests as a way to pretend to protect women’s sports.
Don’t let these rambunctious militant crybabies distract you from the common sense of the bills they are crying over. Using puberty blockers and hormone therapy on minors is child abuse. Children are too young to understand the long-term implications of such treatment, and they rely on their parents to steer them away from these destructive concoctions. Those that claim children “know what they want” clearly have never grown up themselves. Who among us doesn’t look back on some part of our childhood or teenage years and recognize in retrospect how our parents saved us from ourselves? That is their job and everyone knows it.
The militant transgenders who shut down the Texas state house are clearly no strangers to bad decision-making. However, rather than being treated with kid gloves, they should be made to suffer the full legal consequences of their criminal actions. Grandstanding to disrupt state legislative bodies from protecting our children should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
