Posted on 03/01/2026 11:32:16 AM PST by karpov
‘Fifteen years ago if somebody was up here and said that, they’d say ‘What’s wrong with him?’ ” President Trump said Tuesday in his State of the Union address. Said what? “Surely we can all agree no state can be allowed to rip children from their parents’ arms and transition them to a new gender against the parents’ will.” When Democratic lawmakers declined to stand in assent to that statement, the president declared: “These people are crazy.”
Mr. Trump had introduced Sage Blair, 19, and her adopted mother (and biological paternal grandmother), Michele. Their story is unbelievable—and part of a horrifying trend.
Sage was 14 and a high-school freshman when she declared she was a boy. Her Virginia school “transitioned” her without informing Michele. The school counselor told her to use the boys’ bathroom, where she was assaulted. Police and school officials met with Sage without her parents, warning she could be sued for making the hyperbolic statement that “all the boys are rapists.” Fearing harm to her family, Sage ran away. She was kidnapped by a sex trafficker.
When the Federal Bureau of Investigation rescued Sage in Maryland, a state judge denied Ms. Blair and her husband all contact with their traumatized daughter and withheld custody on claims of abuse related to “misgendering.” The judge ordered her to be housed in a group home for high-risk male teens and young adults. Sage ran away again, only to be abducted by another trafficker and exploited for months until Texas law-enforcement officers found her and returned her to her mother. Why did she claim to be a boy? “Everybody was doing it,” Sage later explained. “I just wanted to have friends.”
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It will still be impossible to organize any conservative protest in front of any school doing this, any state Department of Education or the Federal Department of Education.
Which was promised to be abolished. Congress is still not being asked to pass an abolish bill.
I think that general sentiment is basically at the core of this. They are people unhappy in their lives, and nothing says "shuffle the deck and re-deal the cards" quite like changing sex.
I suppose another element of this is that they feel they fall short of the expectations associate with their sex, so maybe it would help to change. But of course, they are biologically unable to meet the expectation of the other sex as well, so that is doomed to fail too.
This is Nuremberg Code/ Crimes Against Humanity stuff. But we will not see any justice
Sounds like the WSJ has finally come out of their 20 year slumber.
Now if Faux News would just wake up.
States Rip Families Apart to Serve Transgender Ideology
Regarding anti-Christian activist states, consider that the very corrupt, post-16th and 17th Amendment ratification Congress that Democratic and Republican Trump supporters need to primary in 2026 midterm elections is stubbornly refusing to make sure that 14th Amendment (14A)-related laws protecting our Bill of Rights protections are being enforced against such states.
Excerpted from 14A:
Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
In fact, here's a law that I believe applies.
18 U.S. Code § 242 - Deprivation of rights under color of law: Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom [all emphases added], willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death. —18 U.S. Code § 242 - Deprivation of rights under color of law
Consider that since the ratification of 14A, 1st Amendment religious protections limit state power public schools in the following way imo. Mark 7:1-13 for example, particularly verse 13, shows that Jesus reprimanded the religious leaders of his time for driving a wedge between parents and their children with unscriptural rules, nullifying the "Honor your Father and Mother" Commandment by doing so.
So juvenile delinquency aside, if religious authorities don't have a scriptural basis to interfere with parental authority, then neither can state governments easily breach such authority imo, parents protecting their children from activist state pro-LGBT indoctrination reasonably found under the umbrella of constitutionally protected religious expression imo, at least for Christians.
On the other hand, it's good that parental rights are not expressly constitutionally protected since some "parents" do not deserve to be parents imo.
Yes, “spare the rod and spoil the child.” But also heed that Ephesians 6:4 teaches us that the Holy Spirit led Apostle Paul to warn fathers not to exasperate their children.
The bottom line is this. Even if faith-based parents are a local voting minority, they still have 1st Amendment religious expression protection over their children from activist state actors who are allegedly deliberately trying to weaken the Christian family unit.
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