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A bill to outlaw the B-word the term for a female dog that is commonly used to slander women is being slammed on both ends of the political spectrum as a case of government overreach and censorship.

While I detest the use of the B-word and the N-word and the word fag, etc., I love the Constitution more and question the constitutionality of bills like this, said Arline Isaacson, co-chairwoman of the Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus. The concern is specifically about the right to free speech, including speech that I hate.

Its a very, very slippery slope and at the end of the slippery slope is the anti-Websters, the dictionary of words we can never use, conservative political consultant Chip Jones told the Herald. We continually replace the right and responsibility of people to defend themselves from physical and emotional harm with government intervention. When we replace an individuals right or responsibility to defend themselves, we weaken people and society.

The bill, along with about 70 others, went before the Joint Committee on the Judiciary for a hearing Tuesday at the State House. House and Senate Chairs Rep. Claire Cronin and Sen. Jamie Eldridge did not respond to requests for comment.

The legislation titled An Act regarding the use of offensive words, states: A person who uses the word bitch directed at another person to accost, annoy, degrade or demean the other person shall be considered to be a disorderly person. Penalties for a disorderly conduct conviction include a $150 fine for a first offense and $200 or 6 months in prison for subsequent offenses.

Rep. Daniel Hunt(D-Dorchester) told the Herald Monday that he filed the measure upon request from a constituent, who he did not identify. He took to Twitter late Tuesday afternoon to defend his decision.

One of the responsibilities of all Representatives is to serve as a conduit for direct petitions from our constituents to the General Court. Its a long-held tradition that gives every Massachusetts resident a voice inside the halls of the State House and a chance to raise their personal interests before the legislature, Hunt wrote. While this specific instance may amuse some and alarm others, it remains a important process for self-representation.

Jones argued that the legislation would not pass constitutional muster and speaks to a national trend of political correctness. He also questioned whether the measure reflects gender equity.

If were going to ban the word bitch, why are we only protecting 51% of the population from having their feelings hurt, Jones posed. Why are my feelings less important than a womans? And the answer is, men have become second class citizens. Toxic masculinity. People dont like men much anymore.

Jones emphasized that it is absolutely unacceptable to call a woman the B-word and that he believes men and women are equal, but I also know that men and women are not equivalent and that the differences between men and women make the world a better place.

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HUD Secretary Ben Carson warns political correctness will DESTROY the US (VIDEO) Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson took aim at political correctness at a contentious committee hearing, warning that the impulse to control speech and expression would destroy the country.

During Tuesdays House Financial Services hearing, Representative Jennifer Wexton (D-Virginia) raised previous comments Carson had made about big, hairy men, widely understood to be directed at transgender women, inviting him to apologize, but the secretary was having none of it.

I think this whole concept of political correctness you can say this, you cant say that, you cant repeat what someone said is total foolishness and its going to destroy our nation, Carson shot back, adding: We need to be more mature than that.

Carson, a Republican, went on to deny that he was referring to transgender women in his prior remark made at a HUD meeting last month arguing that he was merely relating a story a womens group told him about men entering their facility and having to be accepted because of the rules that were in place.

While he said he could not recall the group who told him that story, Carson added that they were based in Alaska.

Wexton later took to Twitter to lament the exchange, slamming Carson for his refusal to apologize and stating that hateful words translate into discriminatory policy.

The Democratic representative has previously quarreled with Carson, decrying a new HUD policy rolled out earlier this year which allowed federally funded homeless shelters to turn away transgender people on religious grounds, a move she called incredibly dangerous.

Carson has been something of an anti-PC warrior for years, well before the highly politically incorrect president entered the Oval Office in 2016, regularly shredding the concept in media appearances and warning of a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe at times even drawing comparisons to Nazi Germany.

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Tuesday, 22 October 2019, 12:46 pmColumn: Gordon Campbell Gordon Campbell on Simon Bridges trying to painthimself as a warrior against political correctnessFirstpublished on Werewolf

Having failed all year atbeing a credible alternative Prime Minister, National leaderSimon Bridges has lowered his aspirational target this weekto something more within his range. On radio yesterday,Bridges did his best to come across as Nationalsalternative to Shane Jones. Yep, another prince of ordinaryblokery willingto take a crack at the forces of PoliticalCorrectness:

The National Party leader told MagicTalk he wants to "make sure that people can say what theythink even where it's a bit un-PC [politically correct] Ithink we've got a situation through education and the media- certain parts of the media - there's things that areoff-limits in New Zealand that we're not allowed to talkabout, and I think that's not healthy.

No, perishthe thought. Perish the thought that we should be at allconcerned about extremist speech online. These days, blokesin Parliament and blokes in boardrooms, and ordinary jokersin the nations pubs never get a chance to get a word inedgeways, what with the feminists and the gays and thegreenies and the migrants from Lord knows where hogging themike. All of them making a bloke feel bad about chucking offat them, and for saying whatever they want to whom so-everthey like.

Thats the New Zealand way. Blokes talk,sheilas listen and gays and Chinamen are nowhere to be seenoutside of hair salons and Chinese restaurants. Perish thethought that in the increasingly diverse 21st century, thatour budding Prime Minister should be trying to take the leadin avoiding us giving unnecessary offence to one another.Bugger the PC brigade, Bridges told his radio audienceinstead. Hes such a maverick.

Bridges chose a peculiarexample to convey to his radio listeners the evils of thepolitically correct. Earlier this year, he explained, hedcopped flak for criticising PM Jacinda Ardern as apart-time leader for visiting the Tokelaus during asitting week of Parliament. But no other sitting PrimeMinister, Bridges noted scornfully, had visited the Tokelaussince 2004! Perhaps the comments below by the government ofTokelau might explain what had really annoyed Bridges aboutthe whole episode:

The Ulu o Tokelau, FaipuleKelihiano Kalolo, on behalf of the Council and people ofTokelau, acknowledges with deep appreciation the recentvisit by the Prime Minster of New Zealand, Rt. Hon. JacindaArdern, to Tokelau.

It was only the fourth primeministerial visit to Tokelau in their 93-year constitutionalrelationship. And Tokelauans have noted that all of thesevisits were by sitting Prime Ministers from Labour-ledgovernments.

The people of Tokelau felt the warmempathy shown by the Prime Minister especially towards ourschool children. Her visit served to remind ordinary Kiwisthat Tokelauans are also New Zealand citizens and part ofthe Realm of New Zealand with Cook Islands, and Niue,stated Hon Kalolo.

Climate change impacts in thePacific. Regional diplomacy. New Zealands personal role(in unison with Australias aid and defence efforts) incombatting Chinas inroads in the Pacific. In short,Arderns visit to these New Zealand citizens in our nearneighbourhood was an entirely legitimate part of the PMsworkload. None of it evidently, had registered with thisparticular blokey bloke.

Week after week the fawningover the Chinese Communist Party, the scoring of anown-goal over an immigration case that actuallyoccurred on Nationals watch etc Bridges has amplydemonstrated his incapacity for the top job. He now seems tobe trying to turn his liabilities into virtues: it is to betreated as just the natural fallout from a straight shooterspeaking his mind. Let the cards fall where they may. Judgehim not by what he says (usually rubbish ) but on how hesays it. Hey, in 2016 it got the current US Presidentelected.

P.C. and History

Politicalcorrectness may have become the phantom menace of the IdiotRight, but it actually began life in the 1970s as a termused by the moderate left, to describe those further totheir left. On one level it is obviously absurd that themost privileged and powerful groups in society whitemales in politics and business should be claiming tobeing muzzled by a few feminists, trans activists andacademics. But that is to ignore the psychological dynamicsof the situation. As the article below reminds us, everydemagogue needs an enemy, and the liberal elites happen toprovide a convenient one. Donald Trumps message on thecampaign trail was that not only had the liberal elitescaused the problems being faced by ordinary folk, but thatthe same elites were now conspiring to prevent thepeoples champion (ie, himself) from even talking aboutit.

The special interests, the arrogant media, and thepolitical insiders, dont want me to talk about the crimethat is happening in our country, Trump said to aSeptember 2016 rally. They want me to just go along withthe same failed policies that have caused so much needlesssuffering. But bugger the PC brigade hewould not be muzzled from speaking out on behalf of ordinaryfolks!

Trump claimed that Barack Obama and HillaryClinton were willing to let ordinary Americans sufferbecause their first priority was political correctness.They have put political correctness above common sense,above your safety, and above all else, Trump declaredafter a Muslim gunman killed 49 people at a gay nightclub inOrlando. I refuse to be politicallycorrect.

Thats the difference. Liberals mayfeel concerned about the impact of language on thevulnerable, but the populist right sees the Language Policeas part of a conspiracy by the elites to keep them down, andto muzzle even the expression of their righteous anger.Routinely, the ideologues of the right in Britain,across Europe and in the US use the politicalcorrectness accusation to exonerate themselves forexploiting that bottled-up anger for their politicaladvantage :

In June 2015, after Trump referred toMexicans as rapists, NBC, the network that aired hisreality show The Apprentice, announced that it was endingits relationship with him. Trumps teamretorted that, NBC is weak, and like everybody else istrying to be politically correct.

In August2016, after saying that the US district judge Gonzalo Curielof San Diego was unfitto preside over the lawsuit against TrumpUniversities because he was Mexican American and thereforelikely to be biased against him, Trumptold CBS News that this was common sense.He continued: We have to stop being so politicallycorrect in this country.During the second presidential debate, Trumpanswered a question about his proposed ban on Muslimsby stating: Wecould be very politically correct, but whether welike it or not, there is a problem.

So thatsthe playbook Simon Bridges was referencing yesterday, albeitwithout the overt expressions of racism and sexism. (Thosefactors lie just below the surface here too, though.) Railing against p.c. is a way of weaponising the widespreadfeelings of blokey inadequacy and hostility to the changesin social and cultural norms. Expect to hear more of itfrom National during the 2020 election campaign.

Jojo Rabbiting

Any negative responseto Taika Waititis new film Jojo Rabbit will alsorun the risk of being treated as political correctness gonemad. With that in mind and since the film hits localtheatres this week, here are a couple of thoughtful reviewsworth your while. First, heres A. A. Dowd inthe AV Club and also heres JonathanRomney in Film Comment.

In case those fairly damningreviews dont wash with you, heresthe happy face response:

Laurie Anderson,invited back

Great news and also kind ofironic that Laurie Anderson should be coming back here toco-curate next years International Arts Festival inWellington. Because in 1986, when Laurie Anderson broughther stunning visual/aural extravaganza to the same ArtsFestival the McGarrigles were also on the programme thatyear the (infamous) response from the organisationalhierarchy was that this kind of rocknroll stuff(Anderson, the McGarrigles) didnt belong in the ArtsFestival, and should never, would never, be a part of theFestival fare ever again. Those darned art elites justdidnt get it. Now they do.

So from those distantmid 1980s, heres her tribute to William Burroughs. Sorrythat the sound quality isnt so great on this clip. Butthe visuals compensate and they do evoke what got peopleso excited about Laurie Anderson, back in the day.

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With Halloween just a week away, many military families will be hurriedly picking through civilian department store and Base Exchange sales racks in the days to come, looking for the perfect trick-or-treating outfit.

Im always amazed by the unbelievable selection of reasonably priced costumes for kids and adults nowadays. Anything goes, from Attila the Hun to Sexy Mr. Rogers, and superhero frocks aplenty. With so much selection, its really not hard to track down the desired duds that will impress friend and candy-distributing homeowners on Oct. 31.

Those of my generation, however, remember it wasnt always this easy.

When I was a kid, well-made costumes were a privilege of the well-to-do. They were not only pricey for our budget-strapped, middle class families, but also hard to find in department stores that, gasp, didnt even have Halloween displays until early October. This left us with two options: the mass-produced boxed sets containing stamped plastic resemblances of a character that sort of looked like Casper, Fred Flinstone or Bugs Bunny, or wait for it the dreadedhomemade costume.

While quite affordable, the option A of my childhood meant purchasing a product of the lowest quality imaginable. Each came with a mask and a sheath that tied in the back. The latter was nothing more than a 100-percent polyester, paper-thin hospital gown. Not only did the kids wearing these outfits look nothing like the characters they longed to portray, they couldnt go near open flames lest they catch fire and melt into puddles of synthetic goo.

The masks had two round holes to see through and a tiny slit at the mouth not quite big enough to allow breath to fully escape, making it a steamy, uncomfortable affair. Made of eggshell-thin plastic, the masks cracked with the slightest pressure, and the thin elastic band that went around the head had a working life of about 20 minutes.

Wearing one of these masks was like shooting craps. While trick-or-treating, you might gingerly lift the mask to take a bite of yourCharleston Chew, and SNAP, the elastic breaks, the plastic cracks, and youre left with no disguise and a huge, red welt on your face for the rest of Halloween night.

Throughout my childhood, I never got to wear a boxed costume. My first-grade-teacher-mother refused to buy them because, according to her, They require no creativity. Instead, we were set adrift to create our own homemade characters from what we could find around the house. For kids of our Charlie Brown generation, a white sheet with two holes cut in it would do the trick. Unfortunately, all of our sheets had daisies or model Ts printed on them.

So, for a few years, I used my grandmothers grey wig as the basis for disguising myself as an old lady. I added a crocheted shawl (not hard to find in the 70s) and little glasses I fashioned from pipe cleaners. Voila! I looked just like Aunt Bea wearing Converse tennis shoes. Other Halloweens, I was politically incorrect before anyone worried about political correctness, dressing as a hobo or an Indian squaw.

With his paper route money, my brother once ordered a Creature of the Black Lagoon mask from a Mad Magazine ad. He felt it alone sufficed as a costume and wore it with jeans and a sweatshirt. Despite the human clothing accompanying his mask, my brothers get up terrified me because I had recently seen the movie. We watched Chiller Theater double-features every Saturday night after The Carol Burnett Show. One Saturday, we saw The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) followed by The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (1967). Or was it The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934)? Either way, my life was never the same.

Those old horror movies definitely added fear factor to my Halloween experience. My rational side knew the ghouls and zombies in the street were just my brother and his mischievous friends, but my instincts told me they could very well drag me off to a laboratory to be dismembered.

Looking back on those experiences, I now realize it didnt matter whether the costumes were boxed or homemade because trick-or-treating was less about the apparel and more about beingscary. Or, if you were like me, beingscared. And like the Chuckles, Necco Wafers and popcorn balls on Halloween night, there were plenty of each to go around.

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I am never quite sure, when I sit down to write this column each month, whether its going to be a jeremiad or an exercise in looking as much on the bright side as my retinas can stand. At the moment my outlook is generally positive, though I always keep dread within arms reach. To get rid of anxiety entirely is like inhabiting a home without smoke detectors. This is especially true if we occasionally amuse ourselves by setting the couch on fire.

As I stated in a response to a letter last month, I have always been compelled by my own nature to push the envelope. I have never been able to leave well enoughor bad enoughalone. Taking chances is an essential part of creativity. At any rate, it has been for me. Ive loosed dozens of literary and musical creations into the world that range from silly to edgy to frankly offensive. I wont disown my children and I wont apologize for them. These works for the most part were not borne of any political or philosophical agenda, or even of any strong point of view. They were ideas that made me laugh that I carried beyond the threshold of good taste.

I try not to inflict my questionable humor on readers of The Syncopated Times, since this is not the place for it. I used to run a few milder items as filler before I had enough contributions (from more conscientious writers than I am) to plug those wide open spaces. Readers who follow me on Facebook do see some of my characteristic commentary. And yet, there is so much that I dont say there. Bad boy that I am, I realize that certain of my unfiltered observations would not go unpunished.

The freewheeling days before social media do evince a feeling of real nostalgia, even in one who recoils at the word. A generation ago I could read a poem or sing a song and offend a whole room full of people; today the outrage would travel halfway around the world almost instantaneously. And the denizens of the internet have developed the ability to detect and call out all who merely appear to behave untowardly. Villagers today have brighter torches and sharper pitchforks.

Moral outrage is a hell of a drug, and there is enough of it on both sides to keep things unduly warm. To be irreverent without faction, one might as well just paint a target on oneself. During the recent Dixie controversy covered in these pagesand which we address (I hope) one last time this month before moving on to other businessripe produce and brickbats came at us from both directions.

One commenter expressed the wish that I die slowly and painfully from a lingering disease. Others no doubt regarded me as the nasty uncle they have to physically restrain themselves from strangling at Thanksgiving dinner. No one knows quite what to make of a gadfly without portfolio. Thats why God made flyswatters.

And this essay is not aimed simply as a polemic against Political Correctness. Certain people have a legitimate grievance, having been marginalized and beaten up on for ages. As scurrilous a humorist as I am, I wont heap my satire on the pain of others. And as for my stumbling and blurting in the course of my (all-too infrequent) revels, I can understand how my maladroitness might be perceived as abusive. Comparing clumsiness to actual evil, evil comes across as the lesser of the two evils.

In a quote usually attributed to Oscar Wilde (though, like everything else he said, he probably never said it), A gentleman is one who never hurts somebodys feelings unintentionally. The editor of this periodical is certainly no gentleman, though he admits to being a poet and a peasant; a troubadour and a troublemaker. And he never can tell just how his jokes will land. Cleverness is its own reward; frequently, there is no other.

I chose an illustration for page 14 in this issue. I think its brilliant and illustrates the point of the surrounding text eloquently; it asks the question and answers it. Yet I do keep my dread by my elbow. By including it, its hard for me not to come across as a smart aleck (or a smart something else that begins with the letter A). But there it is. If you didnt want me to push that particular envelope you shouldnt have left it out on the counter.

Perhaps too late in lifeand as one whose alleged wit ensures he is a target for such attentionsI begin to realize that it hardly matters what anyone says to me. I find that while Ive constantly agonized about everyone elses feelings, I can honestly say Ive been roundly scolded by the absolute best. However benign my intentions, I was there to take itand I took it. As a wielder of a considerable public megaphone, it really is my business to be sensitive to the sensibilities of others while toughening my expansive hide to their abuse. The Editorial Office is also the Complaint Department. Its part of the job and one gets used to it.

I still cant say whether this is a litany of woe or a hosanna. Whatever turmoil Ive experienced over the past two months, Id say the bright side somewhat prevails.

The envelope may indeed push back, but we maintain our prerogative to push it slyly forward again when the opportunity presents itself. And for that, at the very least, we may be thankful.

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Richard French is a senior fellow at the graduate school of public and international affairs at the University of Ottawa. He spent nine years as an MNA in Quebec.

With Donald Trump in the United States and Boris Johnson in Britain, why does the re-election of Justin Trudeau leave us all feeling so empty?

He is a nice enough fellow, a relief after the lugubrious Conservative government that preceded him. One cannot doubt the sincerity of his commitment to gender equality and protection of minorities. He is getting better behind a lectern. We can hope that recent revelations of his past may calm his ardour for sharing the pieties of political correctness. He is a masterful retail politician, an artist who surfs on the 30-second encounter, selfie included.

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He is not hard to like, but he is hard to respect. He leaves us hungry for some depth and some gravitas, and, it would seem from the evidence, he leaves his ministerial colleagues in the same state.

The first requirement for a prime minister in a Westminster system is to keep his cabinet and his caucus together, all more or less united and pulling in more or less the same direction. But our Prime Minister apparently does not talk to his colleagues; they have to deal with his staff in the Prime Ministers Office, who apparently protect him from being unduly involved in his own government, even while they engage in the detailed policing of ministers and MPs speech and behaviour.

Whether one considers the SNC-Lavalin affair a matter of corruption or simply the product of a well-meaning but clumsy attempt to protect employment, it clearly establishes one sobering conclusion: the Prime Minister is out of touch with his colleagues, his government and his own staff.

In his defence before the ethics commissioner, he pleads ignorance of his underlings actions and, indeed, of the progress of the file in general. It is not, apparently, his fault if they were too keen in pursuing his objectives. Instead of their falling on their swords, he pushes them. So he just did not know. Another thing he apparently did not know is exactly how damaging such an admission is.

Weve heard of ministerial responsibility. Mr. Trudeau is writing a new chapter in the unwritten Westminster constitution: prime ministerial non-responsibility.

The entire unedifying SNC debacle showed, first and foremost, that he had no idea of the person he had named as his minister of justice, no sense of who she was and how she thought and behaved. This is stunning.

It was not as if the crisis emerged in the months following her appointment. There was lots of time and many occasions for the Prime Minister to get to know her. An intimate knowledge of the character and personality of fellow politicians is the bread and butter of public life.

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Mr. Trudeaus political heritage and his attractive persona may have absolved him of such a requirement during his political apprenticeship; if so, this was an unfortunate flaw in his preparation for higher office.

Advisers can palliate lack of substantive knowledge. High political office involves such a diversity of issues that no one can master any significant proportion of them. We pay our politicians to take expert advice and decide how to reconcile it with a myriad of other factors they must legitimately consider, certainly including public opinion, the global environment, the legislature, the caucus and so on.

But only the politician can evaluate the motivations, values, reflexes, abilities and pressures of other key political actors. Here, the Prime Minister has failed spectacularly.

Someone has to explain to Mr. Trudeau that he is not the head of state of a republic, whence he can embody the nation while floating above the gritty realities of politics; rather, he is the head of government and the captain of a team deeply and necessarily enmeshed in those same realities.

Once Mr. Trudeaus father, Pierre Trudeau, was humbled by a minority government in 1972, he recovered. He brought some important new personalities into his entourage. He went on to become one of our longestserving and most influential prime ministers.

Justin Trudeau will never have his fathers intellect. He is indeed our Prime Minister, but it remains to be seen if he has the courage to become a true leader.

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With a 96% critic score and a 46% audience score, the public opinion on HBOs Watchmen is noticeably divided. Critics applaud Watchmenfor the artistic and creative avenues Damon Lindelof travels down. They like how it confronts racism, corruption, and gun control things that are all top of mind in 2019.

So why does the audience think Watchmenis 50% worse than the average critic?

Ever since press releases came out forWatchmen, a chunk of Alan Moore loyalists have canned responses to why the HBO sequel is a disgrace. They say things like:

Theres a reason Alan Moore didnt put his name on this project. The movie was horrible. So why bother with another lame attempt? The comic was very specific to when it came out in 1986what makes you think it can be adapted today?

These people think the comic book is perfect as it is. They dont want any prequels, sequels, adaptations, continuations, or remixes. Theyre somewhat right. Why didnt Lindelof just make his own show, with everything but the baby squids, Rorschach masks, and Robert Redford?

Watchmenis a complicated comic. Morally messy, symbolic, and political, its the kind of literature that leaves a lasting impression on readers whether they love it or hate it.

Watchmen series creator Lindelof is a loyalist to the comic book, and hes directing the show from that perspective. He tries to fill in the gaps for people who havent read the comic. There are newspaper headlines like Adrian Veidt Confirmed Dead. Theres tributes to Richard Nixon in classrooms and trailer parks. Theres ads for a TV show about Americas first vigilantes like Hooded Justice and Silk Spectre. Its established early on that Vietnam is a state.

But these clues come in quick flashes on the screen. Without reading Watchmen before watching Watchmen, the average viewer is walking into a surprise party where everyone in the room is naked. The show (like the comic) is too surreal or too subtle for their taste.

The most significant group of people who dont like Watchmen cant properly debate about political or social issues. These people have extreme political beliefs on opposite sides of the spectrum, yet theyre one-and-the-same.

Both kinds of people in this one group agree that political correctness goes beyond being respectful to marginalized people. But to one side, it means shaming people who have controversial or (as they deem it) unacceptable opinions on social media. To the other side, political correctness is a symptom of an overly-sensitive generation of people, and an unconstitutional constraint on their speech.

These people cant debate about politics. They cant listen and respond to those with different beliefs. Instead, they lose their temper and hijack the conversation.

They cant sympathize with the masked police in Watchmen who have to request permission to use firearms during a life-threatening situation. Or they roll their eyes at how the show has another female protagonist especially a black one.

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When Ed Morrissey wrote about the story of seven-year-old James Younger in Texas, the outrage among readers was immediate and palpable. Thats completely understandable, given the circumstances. A jury recently decided against his father, Jeffrey Younger, in his attempt to gain custody of his twin sons to prevent their mother from transitioning James into a girl. This would be done through a process of administering dangerous puberty-blocking drugs, female hormones and eventual chemical castration. The story made national headlines and people were up in arms.

The judge in the case has postponed the final ruling and perhaps there is still hope for James. Governor Greg Abbott has announced that the state is investigating the case, hopefully as potential child abuse. (Washington Examiner)

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that two government departments are investigating after a jury returned a verdict against Jeffrey Younger, who was petitioning for full custody of his son, in part to avoid his ex-wifes plan to infuse him with puberty-blocking hormones.

Abbott waded into the controversy surrounding Mondays verdict, which gave Anne Georgulas sole custody of James and his twin brother, Jude. Georgulas, who has been telling her son he was a girl since he was 3, supports giving hormones that would block his adolescence. She also wants the court to mandate that the boys father call James Luna.

FYI the matter of 7 year old James Younger is being looked into by the Texas Attorney Generals Office and the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, Abbott said on Twitter Wednesday night.

Launching an investigation is one thing, but the state will need to act quickly. If the jurys verdict is allowed to stand and the father is denied his parental rights, young James could be off to whatever deranged doctor the mother is working with before anyone is the wiser. If theres ever been a case crying out for intervention by child protective services, its certainly this one.

The doctor should be investigated as well. The medical profession has succumbed to some form of mass hysteria over the past few years, driven by political correctness more than science. If the AMA wont step in on this matter then some form of legal remedy should be sought in Congress.

While I dread saying this aloud, this case may turn out to be precisely what the nation needs. James Younger is still in jeopardy and we dont yet know if he can legally be rescued, but an important issue is finally being brought to light at the national level. How any civilized human being can hear this story and not be outraged is beyond belief and this unfolding tragedy may be what it takes to finally spur Congress to action.

This childs unbalanced mother began telling him he was a girl at the age of three. Allow me to emphasize that. The child was three years old. How on Earth is any three-year-old child possibly mature enough to start making decisions about things like gender? Most teenagers struggle with issues of puberty and sexuality. And at only seven years of age, the mother is preparing to have her son filled up with unnatural hormones and puberty-blocking drugs, followed by chemical castration that can never be undone. By the time the boy is old enough to actually become interested in sex, he will be permanently sterile and likely unable to engage in sexual activity.

And all of this would be allowed to happen under the hands of a licensed medical professional. The woke brigade and the trans mafia have managed to throw centuries of progress in medical science out the window and turn some doctors offices into the Island of Dr. Moreau.

These practices need to be outlawed nationally. What adults choose to do to their own bodies is up to them, even if they wish to permanently mutilate themselves. But the government has an obligation to protect children who are unable to provide informed consent for such horror shows.

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