Yesterday was a new low in the high-stakes debate over child safety, with Joe Biden’s solicitor general in the wrong. Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tennessee’s law banning sex changes for kids, with Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar arguing against the ban. Her argument was as lame as Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s suggestion that the ban was not only sexist but racist. By comparing Tennessee’s law to unconstitutional laws banning interracial marriage, Jackson got everything wrong. Law, morality, race, history, gender, justice—all were effaced in under a minute. Brown ignored or distorted American jurisprudence with ease. If Brown rules against Tennessee, if she is in the majority, the effect will be a reversal of the spirit of Brown v. Board of Education. If the Court sides with the federal government, the effect on children—black children and white children, all children—will be criminal. If the Court says a state may not protect children from elective and irreversible surgery, if the Court says no state has the right to prevent doctors from harming children, the federal government will be free to seize children in the name of equality. The reasoning is without reason, for it leaves children worse off. The case is, however, a final argument against Biden and the left. And because Biden nominated Brown to the Court, the case may be with us long after he leaves.
Here is Brown in her own words, asking if Tenneesse’s law is equivalent to a law banning interracial marriage. She fails to recognize that children are not adults. She fails to recognize that children cannot marry. She also fails to recognize that Tennessee’s law applies to children, not adults. Whether these failures are deliberate or intentional makes no difference, because we discriminate against children all the time. We discriminate against children because it is not only legal but just. We discriminate against 12-year-olds who want to drive and 17-year-olds who want to vote. We discriminate against 13-year-olds who want to drink and 15-year-olds who want to smoke. And yet, according to Brown, we must not discriminate against boys who want to be girls or girls who want to be boys. Either she has no problem with some discrimination against children or she finds all discrimination against children problematic. If she will carve out an exception for children who are delusional, if she believes boys who say they are girls are not delusional, she should say why. If she thinks it is enough to say “sex discrimination” is unconstitutional, she is wrong.
Thankfully, President Trump believes Tennessee is right. He believes sexual mutilation is wrong. As part of his “Day One” agenda, he promises to sign an executive order instructing every federal agency to cease all programs that promote the concept of sex and gender transition at any age. He will then ask Congress to permanently stop federal taxpayer dollars from being used to promote or pay for these procedures and pass a law prohibiting child sexual mutilation in all 50 states.
Nancy Mace shares President Trump’s commitment to stopping transgender extremism. She wants to ban Sarah McBride and all trans women from using female restrooms at the Capitol. Mace wants to protect women from the lie that men may violate the privacy and safety of biological females. She wants to protect herself from the insane notion that gender is a construct. She wants nothing more than the protection of her rights under the Constitution.
Is it wrong that Mace would rather be safe than popular, that her protection matters more than a transgender extremist’s politics? Is it better for her to be politically correct, even if it means she must deny the truth? Must she lie to herself about gender or violence against women?
These questions are fundamental to what we believe. As President Trump said to Megyn Kelly, we must stop the sexual mutilation of children. The question is not whether mutilation is wrong; the question is whether we will allow this wrong—the literal dismemberment and disfigurement of children—to continue. President Trump frames the issue as a question of simple decency. He understands that if children are not safe, no one is safe. He understands that if the sexual mutilation of children is not wrong, nothing is wrong. Like Abraham Lincoln on the evil of slavery, the same applies to sexual mutilation: that it demands condemnation.
President Trump said: “No serious country should be telling its children that they were born with the wrong gender—a concept that was never heard of in all of human history—nobody’s ever heard of this, what’s happening today. It was all when the radical left invented it just a few years ago.”
President Trump is right, which is why he promises to ask Congress to pass a bill establishing that the only genders recognized by the United States government are male and female—and they are assigned at birth.
President Trump promises to make decency supreme, as opposed to the decadence of Joe Biden and Kentaji Brown Jackson.
The decadence of transgender extremism is neither legal nor just.
Protecting children starts with President Trump’s Day One agenda.
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Steve Gruber is the host of America’s Voice Live, which airs daily on Real America’s Voice TV
What do these oral arguments say, not just about Jackson but also about Republicans, such as Lindsey Graham, which voted to approve such liberal idiots who see everything through a filter of racism and not the law, let alone common sense. She is not only wrong on both but does she not see that black children are also subject to permanent damage? Judge Alito pointed out some people try and change their sex back to what nature intended them to be so the change is not immutable. Unfortunately the same can’t be said for Judge Jackson. America is stuck with her thanks to Republicans who didn’t attempt to stop such an idiot even when she made it obvious that she could not define what a woman is. Imagine how Jackson would attempt to interpret the 19th Amendment which, based on her line of reasoning, is now effectively mute.
To say that Ketanji Brown Jackson–the Queen of DEI–is an utter disgrace, is akin to saying water is wet. That Republicans did not at least try to block the ludicrous Supreme Court “justice” is an indictment of their cowardice and fecklessness.
Let us hope sanity–and science–prevails when the high court releases its opinion on this case. And as an added gift, let us hope the majority opinion shreds whatever meager prestige KBJ claims as a Supreme Court “justice”.