Useful Idiots: Kamala's Mansion Misery, the Mysterious Suez Penis Crash, and Dr. Erica Anderson Decries the Arkansas Trans Ban
Plus: what's the best way to pack a suitcase full of rare turtles?
The Arkansas Senate just passed a bill with a title straight out of dystopian fiction: the Arkansas Save Adolescents from Experimentation Act, or SAFE. Roundly denounced as the most extreme law of its type ever passed, the bill is one of about two dozen laws aimed at trans care currently being considered at the state level. To find out what’s actually in these bills, Katie and I spoke with Dr. Erica Anderson, a trans clinician and psychology professor from the University of California, San Francisco.
Anderson, who also once starred on a popular reality show in Sweden, calls efforts like the Arkansas bill, an “ominous development in the culture wars” that “reveals a lack of understanding of trans youth care.”
Anderson talks about the challenges of talking in public about such a politically charged issue, and offers her thoughts on how the cultural divide might be bridged. “Fewer people in America know personally a transgender person,” she says. “As more and more of us are out, and known, the stereotypes are going to be blown up.”
Also this week: Vice President Harris’s intolerable wait in the Presidential Guest House, a terribly alliterative tale of turtles, and the amazing true story of the penis-in-the-sea drawn by the Suez-clogging crew of the Ever Given.
Very sympathetic to trans people. Unlike most , I have met several in the years of attending 12 step meetings. I am however absolutely not willing to consider administering drugs, not to mention surgery or amputations to minors. Many are coming from broken families, suffering emotionally, have psychological problems and are desperately trying to fit someplace, get some approval, and want to please. Their brains are not fully developed. That is why we do not execute them when they commit capital crimes. Prison terms for adults conducting these procedures are fine with me. I hope the the kids who change later in life their minds about their surgeries can sue. The absurdity of a society where you commit a crime by giving 13 year old a glass of a red wine but not for cutting her breast off is manifest. Finally, how do you decide if the adults involved are not out to satisfy their own psychological and ideological needs by convincing these kids?
You need to have on experts who talk about the real health implications of transing children, such as Drs. William Malone, Marcus Evans, Michael Laidlaw, and Michael Biggs. It is beyond believable that the Trans Cult has so much power that the obvious extreme risks of halting puberty and all the maturation processes that go along with it (bone, brain, sexual organs, etc) are treated as unimportant or not real. Let alone the obvious extreme medical and psychological implications of cross-sex hormones and cutting off genitals and breasts. You need to have powerful, highly informed gender critical voices on your show such as Kara Dansky, Keira Bell (detransitioner), Lily Maynard, Meghan Murphy, and representatives of Fair Play for Women, 4th Wave Now, LGB Alliance USA, WHRC USA (Women's Hum.RightsCampaing).