Monday, June 06, 2022
DeSantis Blocks Transition Healthcare for Transgenders
Florida is taking major steps to prevent young people from making hasty, life-long health decisions that are being pushed by the woke left.
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) is teaming up with a campaign to ban young people from undergoing transition-related procedures such as sex-reassignment surgery and taking medications such as hormone blockers.
According to a letter from Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, he and DeSantis’ team is urging the state’s Board of Medicine to stop providing transition care for minors and adolescents.
“While some professional organizations, such as the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Endocrine Society, recommend these treatments for 'gender-affirming' care, the scientific evidence supporting these complex medical interventions is extraordinarily weak,” Ladapo said., adding “the current standards set by numerous professional organizations appear to follow a preferred political ideology instead of the highest level of generally accepted medical science.”
Ladapo said that “Florida must do more to protect children from politics-based medicine.”
This comes hours after the state Agency for Health Care Administration said it would ban Medicaid coverage for transgender people regardless of their age. The 46-page report claimed “treatments for gender dysphoria like hormone replacement therapy, puberty blockers and surgeries are under-researched and ineffective.”
Defending its actions, the AHCA said “the research supporting sex reassignment treatment is insufficient to demonstrate efficacy and safety…considering the weak evidence supporting the use of puberty suppression, cross-sex hormones, and surgical procedures when compared to the stronger research demonstrating the permanent effects they cause, these treatments do not conform to [generally accepted professional medical standards] and are experimental and investigational.”
DeSantis has gone full throttle in his fight against the woke mob. In March, he signed the Parental Rights in Education Act banning classroom instruction of gender identity and sexual orientation in kindergarten through third grade while also giving parents the right to know what their kids are being taught. He also banned biological males who “identify” as girls from participating in female sports.
Additionally, the Florida Department of Health pushed back against "gender affirming care" days after the Biden administration said it supports such related-surgeries.
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It's So Bad Even Californians Have Had It: LA DA Loses Appeal After Not Enforcing Law, San Francisco DA Faces Recall
The signs continue to grow that Californians have had enough of “progressive” district attorneys’ soft-on-crime policies as the futures of the top prosecutors of Los Angeles and San Francisco look very uncertain.
On Thursday, an appeals court upheld a lower court’s ruling that Los Angeles DA George Gascon cannot refuse to charge criminals under the state’s three-strikes law, Fox News reported.
After Gascon took office in December 2020, he implemented a series of what he characterized as reforms designed to end “mass incarceration.”
“The measures included barring deputy DAs from prosecuting strikes, special circumstances and sentencing enhancements,” according to Fox.
The Association of Deputy District Attorneys for Los Angeles County responded by suing Gascon that same month to stop him from forcing them to break the law.
“While an elected District Attorney has wide discretion in determining what charges to pursue in an individual case, that discretion does not authorize him or her to violate the law or to direct attorneys representing the district attorney’s office to violate the law,” Michele Hanisee, president of the ADDA, said in a December 2020 news release announcing the suit.
Fox reported, “California’s Three Strike Law was enacted in 1994 after voters approved Proposition 184 by an overwhelming majority.”
The law mandated at least a 25 years in prison to a life sentence for those convicted of a felony after two or more prior convictions, referred to as “strikes.”
A California appeals court sided with the ADDA on Thursday.
“On the merits, we conclude the voters and the Legislature created a duty, enforceable in mandamus, that requires prosecutors to plead prior serious or violent felony convictions to ensure the alternative sentencing scheme created by the three strikes law applies to repeat offenders,” the ruling said.
“The district attorney overstates his authority. He is an elected official who must comply with the law, not a sovereign with absolute, unreviewable discretion,” the judges added.
Eric Siddall, vice president of the ADDA, celebrated the ruling, tweeting: “Today, the judiciary affirmed the rule of law. Gascón’s authority is not absolute. He must follow the rules.
“While we are heartened by the Court’s ruling, we continue to be disappointed that LA’s chief prosecutor forced us to take him to court to stop him from breaking the law.”
The Los Angeles Times reported that homicides hit 397 in 2021, which was the highest number in 15 years and a 50 percent increase from 2019.
Robberies involving firearms were also up 57 percent from 2020 and 60 percent from 2019, and so far 2022 is outpacing 2021 at the same point in time.
“Violent crime of all types through April 23 was up 7.2% compared to last year, with much of the increase from aggravated assaults and robberies, many of which involved firearms, according to police. Robberies are up 18.5% over last year,” the Times said.
Angelinos sought to recall Gascon last year due to his soft-on-crime polices, but failed to gather enough signatures.
A second recall campaign has already collected over 500,000 signatures, with just 67,000 more needed by the July 6 deadline to qualify for the ballot, the group “Recall District Attorney George Gascon” said in Thursday news release.
Gascon was previously the district attorney in San Francisco, a position he was initially appointed to by then-Mayor Gavin Newsom. Gascon served from 2011 until 2019.
His progressive successor, Chesa Boudin, faces major discontent himself, due to a spike in violent crime.
In fact, Tuesday San Franciscans will vote whether to recall him, and polling suggests he is going down.
Like Gascon, Boudin has followed a soft-on-crime approach at a time when a firmer hand was needed, and the results were predictable.
“In 2021 homicides in San Francisco were up 36% compared to 2019. Last year 222 people were wounded or killed by gun violence in the city, compared to 137 in 2019,” according to The Wall Street Journal.
“Motor vehicle theft is up 36%, arson 40%, and larceny up 20% in 2021 compared to 2019. These official property crime numbers are likely low, as some victims no longer bother to report crimes they know won’t be investigated or punished,” the news outlet added.
Walgreens spent 46 times the chain average on security for its San Francisco locations and five have closed due to the high theft rate, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.
And it appears city residents are finally fed up.
A May San Francisco Standard Voter Poll showed 57 percent of respondents favored recalling Boudin, while a mid-May poll conducted by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce found that 67 percent want him out.
In should be noted that in January, San Franciscans ousted three school board members from their city’s district who had become overly woke.
All this taken together means that “progressives” have apparently gone too far even for deep-blue California’s liking — and they’re going to pay for it at the polls.
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Biden Admin Holding Children's Lunch Money Hostage to Force Schools to Push Transgenderism
The Biden administration is holding lunch money for schools hostage to secure concessions on LGBT issues, conservative advocacy group Fight for Schools said.
Schools receiving federal money under the Food and Nutrition Service are now required to investigate allegations of what the Biden administration considers to be “discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation,” the Department of Agriculture announced in a May 5 news release.
The USDA will require those schools to change their “non-discrimination policies and signage” to include bans on what the Biden administration considers “discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation,” the news release stated.
The agency would also expect schools that receive federal money for school lunches to allow transgender students to use bathrooms of the opposite sex, Fox News reported.
“What you’re seeing here is really the Biden administration saying ‘you’re going to do what I want or I’m going to take your lunch money,'” Fight for Schools Executive Director Ian Prior told Fox News.
“For the federal government to come in and really tie school nutrition and school lunch programs to this radical ideology is terrifying, and it’s appalling.”
“They discuss equity nonstop in the Biden administration,” Prior said. “But in reality, if you want to talk about equity or equal opportunity, the best way to do that is to make sure that every child has the opportunity to succeed.”
“One way to do that is to make sure that they are properly fed,” Prior added.
The Food and Nutrition Service is a federal agency under the USDA tasked with helping administer domestic nutrition assistance and food security programs nationwide.
School lunches under the National School Lunch Program, which helps low-income families across the country get access to at least one nutritious meal every day, fall under the FNS’ purview.
“I honestly have no idea how providing food to children in schools is somehow connected to transgender policies. What we see here is the Biden administration using children as pawns in this social justice, gender ideology game that they are playing,” Prior said, according to Fox News, slamming the USDA policy as a “vast overreach of federal power.”
The USDA justified its actions, according to Fox News, by pointing to an Executive Order President Joe Biden signed that, according to the Biden administration, helps “support the mental health of transgender children, remove barriers that transgender people face accessing critical government services, and improve the visibility of transgender people in our nation’s data.”
“Children should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to the restroom, the locker room, or school sports,” the order stipulates.
However, allowing students to access the bathrooms of the opposite gender simply because they claim they are of that gender even if they don’t biologically belong to that gender threatens the privacy rights of the students of that gender biologically.
“We will not allow Biden to force Floridians to choose between children’s food and parents’ rights,” Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s press secretary Christina Pushaw told the Washington Free Beacon. “That is the kind of ‘decision’ that a totalitarian regime would force upon its citizenry.”
Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem vowed legal action from her state against the USDA order.
“Joe Biden has threatened to take away children’s school lunch money to pursue his radical agenda,” Noem told the Free Beacon. “He’s targeting states like ours that make it clear biological men do NOT belong in girls’ bathrooms and sports. If you act on this, Joe, we’ll see you in court and we will win.”
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Australian mother loses kids after spanking child with wooden spoon
Excessive government intervention. Smacking a child is allowed in Queensland as long as the force used is "reasonable under the circumstances". That would seem to be the case here. As the child was autistic, smacking was probably needed to get his attention
A single Gold Coast mum who smacked her 10-year-old with a wooden spoon has been placed on probation and she is now fighting to get her kids back.
The mum, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty in the Southport Magistrates Court on Thursday to assault occasioning bodily harm.
The court was told the mum hit the 10-year-old once on the bottom with the wooden spoon after she found out he put $600 on her credit card through mobile phone games.
The child, with autism and attention deficit disorder, was left with bruises on their bottom.
The court was told after the incident the Department of Child Safety got involved and she lost both of her children. It is not clear how the smacking incident came to light.
She is currently having supervised visits with the children.
Magistrate Mark Bamberry placed her on nine months’ probation. No conviction was recorded.
Outside of court Antonious Abdelshahied, of Abdelshahied Lawyers, said: “It was a one off incident. “There was no previous violence.
“She is extremely remorseful and her focus is on trying to get her children back.”
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