Fleeing Celebs and “Gender-Affirming” Care
Remember when Ellen Degeneres “fled” the country for England? Well Whoopi Goldberg and Megan Rapinoe are threatening to “flee” to Italy. Italy? Huh? Don’t they know that the Italian prime minister is Giorgia Meloni who the leftists hate? Her party is the right wing Brothers of Italy (Meloni is a brother?) and she has been labeled a fascist. Meloni opposes same sex marriage – isn’t Rapinoe a lesbian and married to a woman? Meloni wants a naval blockade to stop illegal immigration – I thought Whoopi called such actions racist. So Italy does not make any sense at all for leftists such as Rapinoe and Goldberg. Maybe pasta and wine outweigh nationalism. However, I really don’t care where they go just as long as they go.
Tom Hanks is also leaving even though he hasn’t yet announced where. Is Jane Fonda going too? She has been whining about leaving for years. Here is a list of celebrities that have said they can’t live in Donald Trump’s America. Barbra Streisand (she likes England too), Cher (she tweeted she was moving to Jupiter – oh boy), Sharon Stone (Italy too) and Samuel L. Jackson (somewhere in Africa, that continent of openness, tolerance, and freedom). Snoop Dogg says he’s going to Canada. BTW, why is all of a sudden Snoop Dogg is on all those commercials? If he is selling, I’m not buying.
There are other “celebrities” who have announced they are fleeing as well but I have never heard of them (Amy Schumer (any kin to Chuck?, George Lopez, Omari Hardwick, Bryan Cranston, Chelsea Handler, Lena Dunham and Ne- Yo. Ne-Yo? I am sure all these and their ilk will find peace, love and happiness in their adopted new lands. Do you think anyone will miss them?
I have written before about the left’s attempt to change the meaning of words. Front and center is the Supreme Court case on Tennessee’s law that minor children cannot be maimed by gender-altering surgery and the use of puberty blockers. The left calls this “gender-affirming care”. Who thinks of these names? How can you affirm a gender that is not yours? Did you see where Sotomayor, who is not the brightest justice, said “Every medical treatment has a risk, even taking aspirin.” This was after hearing arguments that countries like Sweden and Finland have restricted such treatments due to irreversible consequences. This probably means that the fleeing celebs have probably crossed Sweden and Finland off their lists.
There has also been a firestorm over Ketanji Brown Jackson’s – whose husband is white – linking the banning of gender maiming treatments to the laws that once banned interracial marriage. Her argument involved the equal protection clause in the Constitution. Jackson said that the argument for banning treatments was similar to the state of Virginia’s arguments for banning interracial marriage. Although some have blasted Jackson as being as dumb as Sotomayor, others have agreed that there is a parallel. I am not learned enough to make a judgment. Nevertheless, I think the core question being overlooked is about whether such medical procedures should be inflicted on children, regardless of the parents’ wishes. I have no objections to adults making such decisions for themselves. But many children go through phases that they grow out of. A child insisting that he/she is of a different gender will likely grow out of it despite what the advocates say. Those children are also not likely to commit suicide if denied treatments despite what the advocates say. Surely, if a child insisted that he was a giraffe would not have an elongated neck grafted on to his torso along with tattooing spots all over his body.
Again, I was ashamed that Vanderbilt hospital was cited as a leading institution maiming children. One of its officials cited the procedures as money makers. I guess that hospital has decided to “do harm” and I hope there is a special place in hell for the gender-maiming doctors and advocates.
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