Truth or Lies?
This month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow Idaho to continue enforcing its ban on puberty-blocking drugs, hormone therapy, and “sex-change” surgeries for minors. This decision, while tremendous, was merely a response to an emergency request where Idaho asked the Supreme Court to remove the U.S. District Court’s ruling that halted the enforcement of the law. The six justices who ruled in favor signaled that the injunction was too broad. It may not be a decision that has a domino effect across the country, but it reveals a crucial pivot in the direction of our nation.
The perverse gender ideological movement has seeped into our culture, usurping parental rights and endeavoring to flip the definition of abuse on its head. The gaslighting of gender ideologues is to twist parental rights to serve as a shield for parents putting their children through puberty-blocking drugs, hormone therapy, and body-mutilating surgeries; leaving them permanently scarred and forever traumatized. However, the U.S. Supreme Court has long decided and affirmed what parental rights are. Sorry not sorry, it doesn’t allow for chemically castrating one’s child and permanently mutilating their body.
Troxel v. Granville (2000) made clear the standard of parental rights, stating, “So long as a parent adequately cares for his or her children (i.e., is fit), there will normally be no reason for the State to inject itself into the private realm of the family to further question the ability of that parent to make the best decisions concerning the rearing of that parent's children.” Should this law or one like it make it to the Supreme Court and be argued based on merits, the Court has decades' worth of precedent on parental rights to stand on and glean from, starting with Troxel. These cases establish that the State has a level of authority to intervene. However, it’s only in cases where removing a child from the family unit would save them from danger.
It should be widely acknowledged that fueling a child’s gender confusion, giving them permanently altering drugs and chopping off healthy body parts is not “adequately caring” for one’s child. Rather, it’s putting them in danger. Yet that does not stop the drivers of this ideology from attempting to reverse the script and marketing this abhorrent behavior as “care”. Even going as far as to say that not pushing the child further into their confusion will cause them to be more likely to commit suicide, instead of the other way around.
This decision whispers of the hope that the Supreme Court will soon address this issue head-on. The lies must be addressed and the Court has to reckon with it, deciding whether or not to play into its deception. Our nation has barreled down a cliff in its acceptance and embrace of this devastating practice. The barbaric nature of “gender transitioning” will forever leave a generation marred. We head down a darker path if our judicial system swallows the lies of the contorted ideology. Yet this case has sparked a promising hope for the future.
