If Kristi Noem Were ‘The Most Conservative Governor In America,’ She’d Cut Ties With South Dakota’s Trans Mutilation Biz

It’s curious that in one of the reddest states in the nation, which boasts both a Republican Governor and a whopping 90% GOP majority legislature, the child-mutilation industry would be allowed to flourish. But Many thanks to Gov. Kristi Noem’s repeated failures to cut ties with radical gender ideology and its proponents, next week two of South Dakota’s government contractors will host a “Midwest Gender Identity Summit” In the Mount Rushmore State.

The event — hosted by Sanford HealthThe Dakotas’ top The health care system and the Transformation Project, a radical transgender ideology activism organization that targets children — is aimed at medical professionals and purportedly seeks to “review the needs of transgender patients in healthcare.”

One of the summit’s co-hosts, the Transformation Project, is responsible aiding What The Washington Post called An “advocacy campaign that has made cherry-red South Dakota the unlikely epicenter of a transgender uprising on the American Great Plains.”

When According to reports, the South Dakota government funneled $136,000 To the Transformation Project via a government contract for a community health worker program, Noem’s office rightly demanded The Department Of Health quickly cut ties.

“South Dakota does not support this organization’s efforts, and state government should not be participating in them,” Noem told The Daily Signal. “We should not be dividing our youth with radical ideologies. We should treat every single individual equally as a human being.”

Noem is correct that government, especially when controlled by the GOP, should not enable business that promotes harmful ideologies and the sterilization and disfigurement of children’s bodies.

Yet Her government still maintains three $78,000 contracts Sanford Health, the other co-host of the upcoming transgender summit, for the development of community health worker programs in Clear Lake, Sioux Falls, Vermillion.

As National Review’s Nate Hochman documented This week, earlier Noem’s office and the state’s Republican Legislators often engage with and leverage the soft powers of Sanford Health.

It’s hardly uncommon for governments to be beholden to certain interests, and South Dakota’s closeness to the “largest rural health system in the United States” It is not an exception. Sanford The Dakotas’ biggest employer, so it’s no surprise that plenty of Sanford-employed, -connected South Dakotans They have made their way. into the state’s government To or from Noem’s roundtable.

What It is not common for a state to boast of being led by its citizens. Republicans For decades, he has listened to the counsel of an organisation for many years. offers mutilative surgeries — such as mastectomies, which are known by the euphemism “top surgery” — to kids. Not Only you can. Sanford Profit from maiming minors. routinely lobbies against legislation that protects medical professionals’ conscience rights and would ban the mangling and drugging of children in the name of transgenderism.

Despite Sanford’s anti-conservative track record, the company once considered to be the governor’s “top donor” Still holds a position of influence alongside the governor and her GOP allies.

When Ask whether Noem Would continue to