I think he needs to consider anger management training. It's really helped me tone down my rhetoric.
Illinois Taxpayers to Pay Millions in Damages for Pritzker’s “Gender Affirming” Politics
By John Kass
Sunday Jan. 5, 2025 u
Politicians love to talk and heap cheap glory upon themselves. But what they don’t say is that voters will have to pay and pay for gruesome policy, like the forced sterilization of minor children through so-called “gender affirming” care.
As other nations turn away from the leftist fetish practice and see America as a desperately sick culture, several U.S. states controlled by left-wing Democrats are pursuing the policy with a vengeance. Included among them are California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, Vermont and Washington.
And Illinois, where Gov. J.B. Pritzker wants to be president, plans on turning his state into a Josef Mengele theme park.
After Republican President Donald Trump was re-elected in the greatest political comeback in American political history, Pritzker would not be outdone. He used “transgender week” in November to polish his presidential appetites.
“This Transgender Awareness Week, I want you to know that I see you and have your back as governor,” said Pritzker in a press release. “Illinois has enshrined protections for gender-affirming care to meet this moment — and because of that, you will have a home here always.”
Pritzker’s cousin, Jennifer, was born a male but now he identifies as a female, and is an outspoken proponent of transgender treatment. Jennifer (née James) Pritzker was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army National Guard and is a father of three. With part of the Pritzker hotel fortune, Jennifer Pritzker leads the Chicago-based Tawani Foundation, which awards grants to organizations that support “gender and human sexuality,” according to its website.
Gov. Pritzker pushed the policy through his Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHR) in December 2021 about non-discrimination protections for “transgender, nonbinary and gender nonconforming students” under the Illinois Human Rights Act of 1979.
“Ensuring every Illinois student has access to a safe, validating learning environment where they can be their true self is a top priority for my administration,” Pritzker said in a release. “This guidance from the Illinois Department of Human Rights will provide students, caregivers, and educators another tool to ensure classrooms are welcoming, affirming, and inclusive for all students.”
But what he doesn’t say is what we’re all thinking: these are children and by definition they’re incapable of making such irrevocable life decisions. They’re not some middle-aged hotel billionaire who plans on campaigning for president on a platform of abject horror and cruelty.
They’re not a spouse hateful enough to use a young son’s castration against some divorced husband. They’re not some Democrat politician promising sexual utopia without consequence. They’re not a teacher on a power trip who wants to strike a blow against “the patriarchy.” And they’re not leaders of a left-wing school union making a deal with a politician who wants to be president.
They’re just kids, often confused as most kids are.
And they’re just too young, simply helpless against a roomful of lawyers and a judge.
Before we became a sick society dominated by the control freaks of the left, we’d properly treat such people as monsters. Now we smile as they campaign for president?
What’s the rush? European nations are pulling away. Why does the United States allow this monstrosity?
A year or so ago, as I was editing a column on this subject by the brave physician and retired Iowa Republican Congressman Greg Ganski, I heard snippets of a fascinating interview on “The Morning Answer” radio program hosted by my friend Dan Proft, the well-known conservative.
Proft was interviewing the Irish journalist Helen Joyce. She also spoke to Peter Boghossian about the differences between men and women. One clip discusses how the parents of transgender children will not be able to face what they have done.
Her quotes are clear and unambiguous.
“Something you may not have thought of is that there are a lot of people who can’t move on from this,” says Joyce. “And that’s the people who have transitioned their own children. So those people are going to be like the Japanese soldiers who were on Pacific islands and didn’t know the war was over. They’ve got to fight forever. This is another reason why this is the worst, worst, worst social contagion that we’ll ever have experienced.
“A lot of people have done what is the worst thing you could do, which is to harm their children irrevocably, because of it. Those people will have to believe that they did the right thing for the rest of their lives, for their own sanity, and for their own self-respect. So, they’ll still be fighting, and each one of those people destroys entire organizations and entire friendship groups.
“Like, I’ve lost count of the number of times that somebody has said to me of a specific organization that has been turned upside down on this, “Oh, the deputy director has a trans child.” Or, oh, the journalist on that paper who does special investigations has a trans child. Or whatever. The entire organization gets paralyzed by that one person. And it may not even be widely known at that organization that they have a trans child. But it will come out, people will have sort of said quietly, and now you can’t talk truth in front of that person, and you know you can’t, because what you’re saying is: “You as a parent have done a truly, like, a human rights abuse level of awful thing to your own child that cannot be fixed.”
There is nothing to fix. It is broken beyond repair. Once a parent has participated in such a thing, there is no place for them to go. They are beyond redemption. It would be best for them, their children and our broken culture that a giant millstone be tied around their necks, and that they be thrown into in the deepest part of the ocean. You want redemption? Ask Jesus. But don’t ask me.
The chilling thing is that it’s not only being done to children, it’s being done by doctors for money. Hippocrates, father of modern medicine, had an oath for new physicians. These political castrators must have forgotten it.
And mix all this with a growing popular resentment of trans-gender athletes using their muscle mass to unfairly compete in athletic competitions with women, denying female athletes the chance to fairly compete decades after most of us thought the issue was settled only adds to the confusion. What parent could forget President Obama weighing in, bringing the weight of his federal power against high schools in support of the left’s argument?
“But the fact is that just simply by saying we will never accept natural males in women’s spaces, well it is their son that we’re talking about,” Joyce said. “And they’ve told their son that he can get himself sterilized and destroy his own basic sexual function and women will accept him as a woman. And if we don’t, there’s no way back for them and that child.
“They’ve sold their child a bill of goods that they can’t deliver on. And I’m the one that has to be bullied to try to force me to deliver on it.
“So those people are going to be the people who will keep this bloody movement going, I’m sorry to say, because they’ve everything to lose, and it is a fight to the death as far as they are concerned.”
Joyce argues that because of what they’ve done to their children, there is no way back home for them. You can see this, can’t you? They are lost and angry and they would rather strike you down than look into their own eyes in a mirror. As GK Chesterton said many years ago, “When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they become capable of believing in anything.”
In Europe, trans-activists had the upper hand, with parents who opposed such barbarism unable to withstand the social onslaught and shaming. censorship and silencing from the left. In recent years however, European nations have pulled back, rethinking the approach toward “gender-affirming” care. The United Kingdom, Sweden and Norway are changing guidelines.
But not in Pritzker’s progressive paradise of Illinois, the Democrat state dominated by the politics of the Chicago Teacher’s Union, a state that ranks as one of the highest tax states, a state where public school students of all races rank at the bottom when it comes to math and reading. But Illinois has no shortage of lawyers who’ll swoop in like vultures when it is time for them to feed on taxpayers.
Those who support such gruesome horrors are desperate to rationalize their behavior. They are perfectly modern. And in their pride, they fashion themselves as their own gods. They strike out at all who dare say otherwise and continue striking because they must. All they leave behind is chaos and pain.
But castrating a little boy or removing the fertility organs of a little girl is something only the monstrous Mengeles would understand. And any government that allows such a thing will be forced someday to pay reparations for what they have allowed.
Josef Mengele Auschwitz
The great American songwriter Bob Dylan asked this of the “Masters of War” And so in that spirit I ask it also of physicians who practice such barbarity against minor children not even old enough to vote:
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good?
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could?
Pritzker and the Democrat bosses won’t pay for what they’ve done. They won’t be held responsible. They’re politicians. But the taxpayers will be held responsible. They’ll pay for the Josef Mengeles who practice medicine and tell us and themselves that they are men of science. And that they are civilized.
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