Posted on 07/09/2015 6:33:47 PM PDT by markomalley
Some days I really feel like I’d do better if I could switch jobs for a while and just go mow lawns or something. (I know… many of you have been suggesting the same thing for me for some time now.) If I made a move like that, maybe I wouldn’t find myself having to read stories like this. (Fox News)
The list of things 15-year-olds are not legally allowed to do in Oregon is long: Drive, smoke, donate blood, get a tattoo — even go to a tanning bed.
But, under a first-in-the-nation policy quietly enacted in January that many parents are only now finding out about, 15-year-olds are now allowed to get a sex-change operation. Many residents are stunned to learn they can do it without parental notification — and the state will even pay for it through its Medicaid program, the Oregon Health Plan.
“It is trespassing on the hearts, the minds, the bodies of our children,” said Lori Porter of Parents’ Rights in Education. “They’re our children. And for a decision, a life-altering decision like that to be done unbeknownst to a parent or guardian, it’s mindboggling.”
In a statement, Oregon Health Authority spokeswoman Susan Wickstrom explained it this way: “Age of medical consent varies by state. Oregon law — which applies to both Medicaid and non-Medicaid Oregonians — states that the age of medical consent is 15.”
You may be wondering at this point how the good citizens of Oregon ever voted for something like this. If there is any small sliver of comfort coming out of this story… they didn’t. The state did it on their own without notifying anyone.
While 15 is the medical age of consent in the state, the decision to cover sex-change operations specifically was made by the Health Evidence Review Commission (HERC).
Members are appointed by the governor and paid by the state of Oregon. With no public debate, HERC changed its policy to include cross-sex hormone therapy, puberty-suppressing drugs and gender-reassignment surgery as covered treatments for people with gender dysphoria, formally known as gender identity disorder.
All I can say is that as a nation, collectively, we have lost our minds. Or at a minimum we have lost our way. We simply can’t have state sponsored mutilation of children. This is beyond insanity. I happen to agree that a fifteen year old child shouldn’t be able to get a tattoo, at least without parental consent. (And really, you should wait a few years anyway.) It’s also too young to vote, which I agree with too. They should probably be able to get an aspirin if they need one, but we can discuss that later. One thing they should absolutely not be able to do is be diagnosed with “gender dysphoria” and have their genitals surgically removed or rearranged in a way which will never be able to be fully restored.
We previously talked about the story of the 10 year old “transgender” boy whose parents had found a doctor who was going to inject the child with hormones to stave off puberty. (By the way, “puberty suppressing drugs” are covered by the state in Oregon also, but thankfully it seems you still have to wait until the age of 15.) How far is the country going to allow this to go in the name of not offending the politically correct SJW crowd? Is there no red line which can not be crossed?
These are children we’re talking about. It is the parents’ obligation, first and foremost, to protect them. But if the parents fail, at some point the state needs to step in and prevent a disaster, not promote one. Even if you happen to believe that “gender dysphoria” is a physical medical condition where a person is born in the wrong sort of body rather than a psychological condition which might be treatable through other means, it doesn’t have that short of a fuse on the “disease.” If you are “diagnosed” at the age of fifteen, it’s not going to kill you in the next three years the same way cancer or heart failure or some other actual physical malady might. You can wait until you’re an adult and then decide to do it, providing you are willing to live with the consequences.
I’d write more, but I really need a drink. Join me for a martini and a bout of depression if you’d like.
This will soon come to every state and be federally funded/enforced. Save your kids from this indoctrination. Homeschool them and keep as far away from the medical system as possible. That is, if you care about their souls...
> Oregon is more screwed up than I thought.
The number of serial killers from that part of the country is significantly higher than other parts of the nation. I think that speaks volumes in itself....
15 year olds getting kicked out of the house
Sorry; Cut your Peter off....... you’re still a boy...
Sew a Peter on......... you’re still a girl..
Do either and you’re also STUPID..
The HERC that approved this is appointed by Oregon Governor Kate Brown. She is the nation’s first openly bisexual governor. Surprise!
She became governor when Kitzhaber was forced to resign in some sort of scandal which I haven’t yet googled details of, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he was schemed out for exactly this reason.
Oregon is where the Christan bakery owners are being harassed by Brad Avakian, head of Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI.) The Kleins have publicly refused to pay the $135,000 fine by Monday; Avakian is threatening to seize their home and has ordered them not to speak publicly about it.
Further proof why Oregon is not on my vacation list.
good. God needs a full concupiscence to condemn our willful denial.
I think the new spelling of that state is “Ore-GONE”. What a degenerate oozing cauldron of pus that legislature is. I wonder how accurate a read on the character of Oregone residents it is.
More legislation by alphabet administrations. Why do we even bother electing representatives and senators anymore?
Great news, Oregon. 15 year olds can now get govt funded sex change surgery without parental...But those kids better hope they don't get caught with Aspirin at school
This also is part of the NWO.
Tin foil you say?
Don’t they want to reduce the population? Genetic dead-ends are perfect.
There are no words to express my disgust over what this country has become, that it could do this to it’s own children. What makes it worse is that you have to turn to an ex-KGB thug to find a leader who is protecting his people from this.
Welcome to postmodernism lived out. We've passed through post-Christianity and post-Rationalism. We have now entered the post-Reality era.
“Anyone know how the people feel about child mutilations?”
From the kids I see on the street downtown Portland, I’d say they’re fer it.
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