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Since the House unexpectedly passed MTG’s anti-mutilation bill, the world began collapsing for the transgender-industrial complex. It began yesterday with the most remarkable HHS press conference anyone has ever seen. First, Secretary Kennedy and Dr. Oz announced the most sweeping and revolutionary package of anti-transgender policies since Democrats (falsely) accused FBI Director Hoover of cross-dressing. It was savage. For instance, nobody’s ever seen a more frank and honest opener than Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill’s...

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“Men are men,” O’Neill began, almost sorrowfully, to stunned silence. “And they can never become women.” The room was so quiet you could hear a drag queen cough a mile away. “Women are women,” he continued sadly, “and they can never become men.” The room broke out in nervous but unrestrained applause. “Children are innocent, and they need our protection.” Boom.

If, during the early Biden Administration, any of us had posted those otherwise unremarkable statements on Twitter, we’d have immediately received a cheerful notification that “Sorry! Your post has violated Community Guidelines for Safety and Violence, so we have deleted your account. Have a nice day!”

But times have changed.

O’Neill’s remarks were even more controversial than that, if you can believe it. Here are the Deputy Secretary’s opening comments, in fuller context (the whole transcript is here). Let me know if you ever thought you’d see the day:

Men are men. Men can never become women. Women are women. Women can never become men. Children are innocent and they need our protection. It takes organized effort to deny these fundamental truths. Sadly, we’ve seen such efforts succeed from time to time. The denial of fundamental truths can destroy nations from within. At the root of the evils we face, such as the blurring of the lines between sexes and radical social agendas is a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived. This ideology does not just deny biology, it declares war against it.
As part of the Biden administration’s war on nature, this department perverted the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. They pretended that gender dysphoria was a disability to force healthcare providers and programs to mutilate minors. Without the reforms Secretary Kennedy made today, more children would be coerced into life-altering interventions that many will deeply regret.
Thankfully, President Trump and Secretary Kennedy are stopping this madness and stopping the war.

Given the stakes, the press coverage was amazingly muted. NBC ran the story below the headline, “HHS moves to slash funding and access to care for transgender minors.” To illustrate why corporate media is trying to bury this story like it was a 2020 election post-mortem, Politico’s headline sneered, “Republicans are trying to change the subject on health care affordability — to transgender care.”

Transgender “care” is intensely profitable for hospitals because it is subsidized by the federal government. When parents of ‘trans’ three-year-olds are forced to pay for their own castration drugs, the problems will resolve themselves.

Following Wednesday’s wonderful news from the House, that it had passed MTG’s bill to criminalize trans “healthcare,” the House did it again on Thursday, passing a second bill that would strip all medicare funding for trans procedures and gender drugs for kids. As we’ve discussed, those bills are wonderful in sentiment, but thanks to the silent filibuster, are probably dead on arrival in the Senate.

Fortunately, therefore, that wasn’t all. President Trump isn’t waiting around for Congress.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his advisers,” Politico said, “announced a slew of rules that would effectively end gender-affirming care at hospitals.” That was just the warmup. ...

“These procedures will fall into the deepest abyss of the darkest periods of American history, like lobotomies,” said CMS Director Dr. Mehmet Oz. (Hilariously, Politico described him as a “former TV doctor,” an epithet it couldn’t locate during covid to describe all its own “experts.”) Then he announced new CMS rules cutting off all funding to hospitals offering gender-rejecting care to kids.

Next, the FDA issued a warning to manufacturers of so-called ‘breast binders,’ which are upper-body corsets given to girls who want to be boys, to squash their chests. Enforcement actions against binder makers, Kennedy said, could include product seizures. Next, HHS will stop classifying gender dysphoria as a disability (at least, without a physical deformity). And HHS plans a new public health advisory to parents, stating that transgender hormones are not safe and effective treatments.

“The Biden era amendments that designated gender dysphoria as a disability served the commercial interest of a predatory multi-billion dollar industry that betrayed the original intention of those laws,” Kennedy said, “engendering widespread public resentments against those laws among the American people, and discrediting the statutes in the public mind.” ...

“Hospitals rake in millions of dollars,” Kennedy continued, “by convincing boys and girls that a lifetime of off-label prescriptions for estrogen and testosterone blockers, chest reconstruction surgeries, and more are the only way to achieve true happiness and belonging in life.”

“It’s wrong,” the Secretary flatly declared. “The Trump administration will not stand by while ideology, misinformation, and propaganda push vulnerable young people into decisions they cannot fully understand and that they can never reverse.”

When he took the podium, Dr. Oz asked what sounded like a joke, “You know what you get when you mix politics and medicine?” He answered promptly: “you get politics. There is no medicine left.” ...

It’s astonishing how quickly the transgender revolution is imploding. Half of the reason is that the Trump Administration is pulling no punches, and just attacking it all-out. The Trump team is obviously unafraid of how the media will react. They sense that corporate media has lost its confidence. That’s the other half of the equation— the media has been neutralized, terrified to strongly criticize the anti-trans agenda, because it might help Trump. ...

Media, unsure of its footing, is leaning into an incoherent attack: Republicans are only promoting this hugely popular policy to distract from the healthcare crisis that Democrats created. Even taking their irrational argument seriously, it still doesn’t make sense. Wouldn’t halting funding for the trans revolution necessarily also reduce costs? I’m just asking.

Yesterday, the New York Post ran a terrific story headlined, “Federal judge slaps down California’s trans child secrecy law.” Last year, California’s oleaginous Governor Gavin Newsom signed a perfectly absurd law banning school district employees from informing parents whenever their kids show symptoms of gender dysphoria, such as asking to be called different names, weird pronouns, or asking to move in with their trans teachers. Yesterday, a federal judge struck down the new statute as unconstitutional.




As a practical matter, the judge ordered California schools to prominently include —in bold face type— the following disclaimer in all staff training materials related to sexual identity or gender expression:

“Parents and guardians have a federal constitutional right to be informed if their public school student child expresses gender incongruence. Teachers and school staff have a federal constitutional right to accurately inform the parent or guardian of their student when the student expresses gender incongruence. These federal constitutional rights are superior to any state or local laws, state or local regulations, or state or local policies to the contrary.”

Among other silliness, California had argued that even if the secrecy law was unconstitutional, it would simply be too hard to train teachers and staff in how to communicate with parents. It’s too complicated, the officials complained, especially since all our training materials have already been printed. The judge was having none of it. “When the State drops an elephant in the middle of its classrooms, it is not a defense to say that the elephants are too heavy to move,” he wrote in his order.

The ruling found it beyond dispute that parents —not teachers— hold the fundamental right to direct how their own kids are raised. “The history and culture of Western civilization reflect a strong tradition of parental concern for the nurture and upbringing of their children. This primary role of the parents in the upbringing of their children is now established beyond debate as an enduring American tradition,” the judge explained.

It’s not just any old fundamental right. The judge quoted the U.S. Supreme Court: “The liberty interest at issue in this case—the interest of parents in the care, custody, and control of their children—is perhaps the oldest of the fundamental liberty interests recognized by this Court.”

It was also shocking how hard California fought to preserve the right to keep secrets from parents. The judge only ordered that teachers may (but are not required to) tell parents about gender-related issues with their children, which was all the relief requested by the Christian parents who filed the lawsuit.

That was still too much for California officials, who have promised to appeal. We’ll see, but the appeal goes to the Ninth Circuit, which —thanks to Trump 1.0 appointments— was reliably pro-parent throughout the pandemic. We’ll see; but I like our odds. The tide is going out on trans insanity, even if Democrats are still clutching onto their cross-dressing dolls with both arms.

We have much to be grateful for. Spend a moment today considering how very far we have come in such a short time. It’s been all good news this week. Not only that, but the clerks at the stores aren’t wearing surgical masks this year. What a wonderful Christmas gift.