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Posted on 08/07/2025 10:46:34 AM PDT by lightman
A potential 2028 Democratic presidential nominee has joined a lawsuit that would block President Trump from placing a ban on sex change surgeries for minors. He then took it even farther and criticized his state's Senate bill that would ban biological men from competing in women's sports.
The Governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, in a statement to Fox News Digital, said:
I am suing the Trump administration alongside 16 other states for threatening baseless civil investigations and criminal prosecutions against healthcare providers in Pennsylvania and trying to take medical decisions away from parents and local communities. The freedom to make healthcare decisions should be between parents, their children and their doctor, and I will not stand by while the federal government tries to infringe on the rights and freedoms of Pennsylvania families.
He labeled President Trump and state Senator Doug Mastriano as "extremist politicians" for "trying to legislate a student’s participation [in school sports] and legislate the restriction on freedom the way they’ve tried to do on many other things."
Senator Mastriano is a co-sponsor of the "Save Women Sports Act," which bans biological men from participating in women's sports. He has also authored the "Two-Gender Protection Act" which prohibits the city of Harrisburg from recognizing transgender people.
Mastriano told Fox News Digital:
Josh Shapiro just called Senator Mastriano and President Trump ‘extremist politicians’ for standing up for women’s sports. Let’s be honest. It’s Shapiro who’s extreme. He’s denying science and forcing biological males into women’s sports.
The Pennsylvania state Senate, which has a Republican majority, called it Governor Shapiro's "attempt to ingratiate himself with the Democrats’ radical base [that] puts the health of children at risk."
The Senate Republican Campaign Committee Executive Director, Cody Harbaugh, argued that this was nothing more than a manifestation of Governor Shapiro's presidential aspirations.
The White House said that the lawsuit Shapiro joined is "exactly why the Democratic Party’s approval continues to hit new lows."
Assistant Press Secretary Taylor Rogers told Fox News Digital, "They back radical policies that over 90% of America does not support." She went on:
President Trump took decisive action on day one to stop the despicable mutilation and chemical castration of children, which everyday Americans resoundingly support. The president has the lawful authority to protect America’s vulnerable children through executive action, and the administration looks forward to ultimate victory on this issue.
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Good, good. Let Shapiro tie his flag to the sinking Woke ship.
“Good, good. Let Shapiro tie his flag to the sinking Woke ship.”
This.
I can’t help but wonder if somehow Trump forced Shapiro to make this statement; hard to believe Shapiro did it voluntarily.
Doubt if the Amish community in PA will like this.
I always had an affection for moderate Democrats.
Then they all became Republicans, and every Democrat today is either an honest leftist perverter or a dishonest one, and Shapiro has demonstrated he is one of the latter.
You mean the Amish Amish? 😉
The only thing I can come up with is Voltaire, on absurdity ushering in atrocity. It makes no sense, the devotion and zeal for such a thing.
It’s President Trump’s super power, forcing his political enemies to very publicly reveal their deepest dark side.
So if the parents and doctors are OK with removing healthy breasts from young women who want to pretend they are male, how about if parents and doctors are OK with removing a healthy leg for kids who want to be pirates? Shapiro on board with that?
These sick f***s all belong in jail. Forever.
Born in Pittsburgh. Left when I was a month old. Never been back to Pennsylvania and certainly would not go to that insane place now. Poor Freepers who live there might consider moving.
I am quite sure that Kamala offered him the VP slot in 2024 but he turned it down because he didn't want to be tied to a sinking ship. He will tone down his rhetoric just enough to get over the finish line next year and then tack left to run for the Democrat nomination in 2028. I think he is laying the groundwork for that move here.
I guess some forms of child abuse are morally good according to Shapiro.
Shapiro wanting to get ultra-Left street cred for his primary run in 2028 - at the expense of children.
Preparing to run for President.
By showing they favor the sexual mutilation of children, Shapiro and other Dems are also showing they favor the sexualization of children. The motive is not altruistic.
I won’t speculate on every motive behind the sick insistence that children have “rights” to be sexual beings. But a big motive is profit. From “gender affirming” clinics to surgical centers to pharmaceutical companies to treatment providers even to lawyers a lot of money is involved. This doesn’t just apply to sex change hormones and surgery it applies even more to abortions.
Sexually active children are a boon for Planned Parenthood. They are also a boon for those who argue that Pedophilia should be classified as another sexual orientation and that age of consent laws deny children have rights.
It is evil to corrupt the innocent. To do so for the sake of profiting from it is doubly damnable.
Keep digging, Democrats...
Every major Democrat candidate for President will be asked to state their position regarding men in women’s sports and men in women’s bathrooms. None of them will deviate from the party’s position, because they will be defeated in the Presidential primaries if they do.
Like an albatross 'round his neck.
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