Posted on 03/16/2023 6:56:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed back on President Joe Biden’s characterization of legislation banning sex-change surgeries for minors as “sinful” by sharing graphic images of bodies maimed by such procedures.
In an interview with actor Kal Penn on “The Daily Show” Monday, Biden decried Florida's efforts to protect youth as “sinful” in response to a question from Penn about trans-identified “kids who are dealing with all these regressive state laws.”
While Biden did not specify which laws he was taking issue with, Florida has passed a law banning trans-identified male athletes from competing on women’s sports teams and Florida Boards of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine's ban on puberty blockers, opposite-sex hormones and sex-change surgeries for youth. <
Biden suggested that the federal government should pass legislation prohibiting states from enacting such laws. DeSantis, widely seen as a contender for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, took to Twitter Tuesday to push back on the president’s analysis. “It is not ‘sinful’ to prohibit the mutilation of minors. It is not acceptable for the federal government to be able to mandate that procedures like sex change operations be mandated for kids,” he wrote.
The DeSantis War Room, a Twitter account that describes itself as a “rapid response” unit, responded to Biden’s condemnation of laws passed in Florida and other states as “sinful” by showing footage from his interview with Penn alongside graphic images of mutilated bodies after skin and tissue are removed from girls' forearms to create a fake, flaccid penis that doesn't function and the lifelong scars left after removing girls' healthy breast tissue.
Concerns about the cruelty of irreversible sex-change surgeries are among several reasons why Florida and seven other states have passed laws banning the experimental procedures. Puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, which are frequently prescribed to children expressing confusion about their sex, also have adverse longterm effects on patients' mental, physical and emotional health.
The American College of Pediatricians, which describes itself as a “national organization of pediatricians and other healthcare professionals dedicated to the health and well-being of children,” has identified the side effects of puberty blockers as “osteoporosis, mood disorders, seizures, cognitive impairment” and sterility. Potential longterm impacts of cross-sex hormones include “an increased risk of heart attacks, stroke, diabetes, blood clots and cancers across their lifespan.”
Other than Florida, states that have banned some or all sex-change procedures for minors include: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Mississippi, South Dakota, Tennessee and Utah. Texas' Commissioner of Family and Protective Services Jaime Masters and the state’s Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton have issued formal opinions characterizing the procedures as a form of child abuse.
Polling has consistently shown that most Americans support banning sex-change procedures for minors. A survey released by Rasmussen Reports last month measured approval of “legislation making it illegal to perform sex-change surgeries on minors” at 58% as 34% expressed disapproval of such laws.
Summit Ministries, in conjunction with McLaughlin & Associates, has conducted multiple surveys over the past year examining public attitudes toward gender transition surgeries on minors. A poll conducted last spring found that 78% of Americans believe children should “be required to wait until they are legal adults” before undergoing gender transition surgeries, while just 9% thought children with gender dysphoria “should be encouraged to undergo permanent gender alteration.”
According to an October poll from Summit Ministries, 65% of Americans think “the transgender movement has gone too far by encouraging minors to use drugs and surgery to transition to the opposite sex.” By contrast, 21% disagreed with that assertion.
A survey released Monday revealed that 59% of Americans agreed that “pharmaceutical companies and doctors who promote puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for underage children should be legally liable for any harmful side effects that arise.”
DeSantis is getting it done!
I'm not saying he should stop protecting kids, I am saying he needs to find a way to get his other accomplishments out there in the public eye before the narrative gels.
So basically 1 in 5 Americans think it fine to alter a minors sex, without parental permission?
I will weed out any of those people I know, to never be around them again.
This idea was used before with abortions. Instead of using words like “choice” or “abortion,” real photographs of aborted babies were used to illustrate what was happening.
There were terms like “genocide,” “extermination,” “gas chambers,” “concentration camps,” and “torture” to describe what was happening in Europe in the 1930’s and 1940’s. But the words were empty until photographs explained them.
Sadly, in both cases, the populace seemed more outraged at those providing the evidence than those creating the evidence.
So far, the populace hasn’t gotten enraged hearing about the mutilations, the sexualization and corruption of our children and society. Maybe this imagery will do that, but with our current media, I’m afraid Governor DeSantis will be made the villain for showing us what we should be seeing . . .
Bidens existence is a sin.
The photos are horrible enough but nothing compared to the genital mutilation that goes on. I suppose those pics would be too gross for public viewing but they should be shown.
Such people have been given up to a reprobate mind, and are satan’s tools here on earth.
In high school our history teacher said towards the end of a society eunuchs become more prominent. Since they don’t reproduce they have no stake in continuing their civilization.
No pictures below the waist to show the really weird, grotesque mutilations. Whatever happened to the disgust over sex predator castrations and Islamic female genital mutilations?
This is exactly what is needed. You’ll never convince the hardcore SJWs that they’re wrong, but people who just blindly follow the herd need to see exactly what it is they’re voting for.
Maybe your 17 year old should at least read DeSantis' bio and go to his web site.
Maybe your 17 year old should at least read DeSantis' bio or go to his web site.
After having 3 17 year olds in the house I can say… if she thinks this, you have a very, dry serious authority problem. The schools n experts have replaced you. It’s never too late, but it does get harder.
De santis is doing the right thing, standing.
I understand 85% of this country obeys the left within question. The vax is proof we are at a holocaust level obedience.
Even if I am the only one saying Stop! I still have to do it
Biden calling something sin… is hypocrisy.
Evil e gets.. and even flourishes and becomes a tidal wave when good men are silent.
Is there no principle for which you are willing to stand up and say No to.
That is indeed how these horrors become commonplace.
Even if it loses, it is still worth shouting.
No not normal person would think any of this is okay. It’s as simple as that.
The fact that we are in fact in a desperate spiritual war has never been more evident as it is today.
+1 DeSantis
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