Grieving Skrmetti: An Adult Movement Processes The Loss Of Their 'Trans Child'

SCOTUS decisions end the days of 'no debate' forever

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Last week, my friend Brandon Showalter quoted me for a piece at the Christian Post. Many thanks to Brandon for the interview. In the piece, I say that what Joe Biden called “the civil rights movement of the 21st century” gave the Democratic Party a “perfect ersatz belief” that subsumed and replaced the old civil rights struggles.

It is ersatz, he says, because the substitute is not as good as the real thing. “Trans rights are not as good as the real civil rights movement of Selma Bridge,” he says, “because the agenda demands that the project infringes on the established civil rights of other people,” women’s sports being “one glaring example.”

With intersectionality all the rage, the trans issue became useful for seizing and wielding the power to punish wrongthink inside the party. This has fueled increased polarization on the left. Even in Alabama, the reddest of the red states, stalwart Democrats champion trans rights. Osborne says that every Democrat in Alabama who still talks to him admits that things have “become unrecognizable.”

As I told Brandon, Democrats must experience more election losses before they finally dispense with all things trans. Or as I recently put it in this essay for premium subscribers, the Democrats must complete their political suicide pact before the cult of genderwoo can die. In the meantime, they are doubling down on genderwoo.

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The Democratic Party Civil War Makes It Even Harder To Give Up Genderwoo

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Democrats are good at canceling one another over these ideological impurities. Adam Jentleson, Sen. John Fetterman’s former chief of staff, wanted to burnish his own reputation with Democrats who consider Fetterman “toxic” for his support of Israel and tough border policies. Jentleson peddled a story to New York Magazine a few months ago in which he claimed to have emailed the Senator’s doctor with concerns about his mental health.

According to Fetterman, his doctor never received such any such email. The entire NYMag.com story was a bogus hit job against an ideological heretic. Fetterman recently told Bill Maher about his experience:

Several weeks ago, Fetterman’s new chief of staff, Jason Smith, threw a group of women out of his office because they told him about men being housed in women’s prisons. Smith, who is the gatekeeper to the Senator, does not want his boss taking on yet a third “toxic” disagreement with the reigning ideology of his own party. Political courage is hard to find when the party is in crisis and the knives are out for each other.

Until the Skrmetti decision by the United States Supreme Court, the Democratic Party planned to make a comeback and impose their most unpopular agenda items as “the will of the people” afterwards. The Court dealt a further blow last week in Mahmoud v. Taylor, which affirmed parental rights over the public school education of their own children. A series of losses has begun, and the left are grieving the loss of their ‘trans kids’ project. We can even categorize their responses according to the five-stage grieving process as modeled by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.