{"id":1555881,"date":"2022-07-15T07:50:57","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T11:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1555881"},"modified":"2022-07-15T07:51:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T11:51:17","slug":"what-planet-am-i-on-stumbling-across-the-protect-trans-youth-booth-in-my-small-town-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-planet-am-i-on-stumbling-across-the-protect-trans-youth-booth-in-my-small-town-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018What Planet Am I On?\u2019: Stumbling Across The \u2018Protect Trans Youth\u2019 Booth In My Small Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhat-planet-am-i-on-stumbling-across-the-protect-trans-youth-booth-in-my-small-town-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1555881&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_6912-scaled-1-1.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>There is a scene from the original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vDpDhofRoXA\">Star Wars<\/a> where Luke Skywalker stumbles into a cantina on the planet Tatooine with Obi-Wan Kenobi and C-3PO. With carnival-sounding music playing in the background, one of the bar patrons resembles lucifer \u2014 with horns on his head. Another one looks sort of reptilian.<\/p>\n<p>As Skywalker scans the room in awe of all the different shaped and sized alien life forms he finds crammed into one bar, it is clear that he is very out of place. Sometimes I picture that scene as the future radical leftists want for our kids.\u00a0Sometimes it feels like I stumbled into that bar.<\/p>\n<p>Over the Fourth of July weekend, like a typical American family, some family members of mine celebrated with bonfires, cookouts, and fireworks. One of the sons \u2014 15 years old \u2014 asked to have a sleepover.\u00a0It does not get much better than that at 15 years old in the summertime.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after midnight, the parents at the party began the tedious task of navigating through the conversation with one of the partygoers who is \u201ctransitioning.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A 15-year-old girl who identifies as a male said she too wanted to spend the night with the rest of the boys at the party. The child sports a buzz cut \u2014 although it was coupled with high heels at the party.<\/p>\n<p>Her mother, while supportive, still refers to her by her female name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe father is not much in the picture, I don\u2019t think,\u201d said the dad hosting the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course not,\u201d I responded.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks prior, I had walked through the farmer\u2019s market\/pizza palooza event in my hometown in the middle of June \u2014 dog on one arm, fruit and today\u2019s breakfast in the other.<\/p>\n<p>As I passed through the picturesque square and gazebo where the farmer\u2019s market takes place, I was taken aback by one of the booths.\u00a0Not by the rainbow colors that adorned this particular tent, which has become relatively commonplace, but by the \u201cprotect trans youth\u201d signs that were being passed out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven in little old Medina, Ohio?!\u201d I thought and almost said out loud.<\/p>\n<p>I was stunned and wanted to ask the people at the booth what they mean by that when they say it? Do they even know?<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cProtect trans youth?\u201d\u00a0What is a trans youth exactly?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Are you for puberty blockers for adolescents and teens?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Are you for castrating children?<\/em> <em>Having \u201ctop\u201d or \u201cbottom\u201d surgeries<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>As I was standing there thinking about asking some of these questions, I heard a friend I haven\u2019t seen since the pandemic started, who tapped my shoulder from the booth she was working at as I stared in a bit of disbelief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am sorry,\u201d I said shortly after we exchanged pleasantries.\u00a0\u201cI am sort of shocked by the \u2018protect trans youth\u2019 signs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah,\u201d she said.\u00a0\u201cThey were kind of worried about it.\u00a0They wanted to be sure there were enough police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to a rude reception, the booth was well attended and supported by those in the crowd. As I walked past, I spotted my old high school honors English teacher at the booth, picking up material and showing her support.<\/p>\n<p>A child, perhaps 3 or 4, approached to get some of the pride \u201cbling\u201d being passed out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou want to take a (rainbow) flag or we have these stickers? Those have been flying off,\u201d the middle-aged woman said to the child.<\/p>\n<p>The organization was OutSupport, based out of Ohio, and a quick cursory visit to its <a href=\"http:\/\/outsupport.org\/\">website<\/a> boasted of its plans for that day:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA limited supply of Hate Has No Home Here and Support Trans Youth signs will be available for a donation of any amount!\u00a0Also, stop by the Pizza Palooza for your favorite rainbow bling!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It mentioned that the local library would offer a monthly LGBTQIA+ Teen Craft Club. From schools, to libraries, to the local farmer\u2019s market, we appear to have gone all in on the idea that the trans movement is something we should mix well and often with our kids.<\/p>\n<p>I do not know how in 2022 the idea that children or teens should not make decisions with regards to \u201caltering\u201d their gender, reproductive organs, or genitalia became remotely controversial, but it has. And the bulk of people remain silent out of fear of being labeled bigots.<\/p>\n<p>The leap we have made since I went to high school in the late \u201990s and early 2000s \u2014 when it seemed easy to conclude that someone like Matthew Shepard in no way deserved to die for what was ostensibly his sexual preference \u2014 to present day, force-feeding children gay and trans propaganda 20 years later in elementary schools, is extraplanetary.<\/p>\n<p>As a society, we do not let these children drive, vote, get married, drink alcohol, or buy a gun, but they are ready to make permanent alterations to their development or mutilate their genitals?<\/p>\n<p>In so many instances, it seems these children need love, care, and a mom and dad. Instead, we are indoctrinating them on the trans movement and offering a sex change as the solution.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most horrifying indictment of the whole transitioning children phenomenon comes from our very own assistant secretary of health, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uw2Pbh2b7d8\">Rachel Levine.<\/a> Levine, born Richard, is the first openly transgender federal official.<\/p>\n<p>Levine openly advocates for puberty blockers, chemical castration, and physical alterations to underage children.\u00a0\u201cMost children\u2019s hospitals will be doing this,\u201d Levine boasted in 2017 at Franklin &#038; Marshall University:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cFirst phase, at a young adolescent age-is to give what are called a pubertal blocker\u2026 so you don\u2019t go through the wrong puberty and then to continue some counseling and then somewhere between 14-16 to start slowly cross-gender.\u00a0Under 18 and there not an emancipated minor\u2013 meaning if they\u2019re under 18 and they\u2019re on the street\u00a0 or they\u2019re completely emancipated from their parents then you can do treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The targeting of and emphasis on at-risk youth or emancipated minors seem especially cruel and predatory. In the same speech, Levine jokingly told the story of a boy named \u201cJohnny\u201d referring to his testicles as tentacles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis little boy was great\u2014he said, \u2018Puberty was awful. My body changed from what I wanted. I grew hair and tentacles,\u2019\u201d Levine recounted. \u201cAnd I went, \u2018Johnny you grew tentacles? you mean testicles.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd he went, \u2018Oh, yeahhh. Yeah, testicles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Levine laughed.\u00a0The audience laughed. I just want to know what planet I am on?<\/p>\n<p>Confusing testicles with tentacles is a good indication that perhaps Johnny was in no way prepared to make this permanent and monumental change.<\/p>\n<p>Levine is a divorced father of two children who was married to a woman until 2013 and did not make the decision to transition until he was in his 50s. Levine experienced childhood, adolescence, puberty, and adulthood before deciding to \u201ctransition.\u201d\u00a0Levine should afford these children the same opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty years from now, as the first generations in this \u201cnew frontier\u201d of \u201ctrans children\u201d reach their infertile adulthood and their genderless \u201cgolden years,\u201d perhaps we will look back on this period of human history and realize that even though we were capable of taking a scalpel to today\u2019s youth or placing them all on puberty blockers, that does not mean we should have done so.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Matt Keener is a writer, small business owner, and journalist from Ohio concerned about the state of affairs. His writings have also been featured in American Spectator, American Greatness, American Thinker and Real Clear Politics. 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