{"id":1986325,"date":"2023-07-30T17:10:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T21:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-accuse-gop-of-mere-political-pandering-for-protecting-kids-from-trans-agenda-and-mutilation\/"},"modified":"2023-07-30T17:12:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T21:12:00","slug":"democrats-accuse-gop-of-mere-political-pandering-for-protecting-kids-from-trans-agenda-and-mutilation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-accuse-gop-of-mere-political-pandering-for-protecting-kids-from-trans-agenda-and-mutilation\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats claim that the GOP&#8217;s efforts to safeguard children from the transgender agenda and mutilation are merely political pandering."},"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\">38<\/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%2Fdemocrats-accuse-gop-of-mere-political-pandering-for-protecting-kids-from-trans-agenda-and-mutilation%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=1986325&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--><h2>Democrats Accuse GOP of Mere Political Pandering \u200dfor Protecting Kids from Trans\u200d Agenda and \u2063Mutilation<\/h2>\n<p>In an attempt to misdirect \u2062attention from their \u200csupport for mutilating and abusing children, congressional Democrats are accusing Republicans of mere\u2063 \u201cpolitical pandering\u201d by seeking to outlaw medical transgender \u201ctransitioning\u201d of \u2063children.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks were unloaded \u2063by the \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cnns-expose-family-forced-flee-florida-epically-backfires-becomes-perfect-ad-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democrats<\/a> on the House Judiciary committee\u200c during a Thursday hearing\u200d on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/detransitioned-young-man-patient-life-castration-warns-gender-affirming-care\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gender-affirming care<\/a>,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2023\/07\/27\/democrats-complain-gop-gains-opposing-transgenderism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart \u200bNews<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rep. Mary Gay\u200c Scanlon<\/strong>, for instance, claimed that \u2063the hearing wasn\u2019t about protecting kids, but was instead \u200cabout getting votes for Republicans.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s hearing is \u2064not about protecting \u2064children\u2019s or parents\u2019 rights,\u201d the Pennsylvania Democrat blurted out, according\u2063 to Breitbart. \u201cIt\u2019s a cynical and, frankly,\u2063 dangerous\u200c that transgender children and their families, driven\u200d not by science\u2062 or facts, \u200cbut\u200b by polling and political strategists determined to mobilize conservative voters through fear.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Scanlon added, \u201c[It] is fear-mongering at its worst, picking on\u2063 already vulnerable kids in\u2062 order to\u200c stir up chaos that\u2062 they\u2062 hope to ride to\u200c success at \u200bthe ballot box.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New \u200bYork Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler agreed, \u200bclaiming the whole discussion was only about \u201ca <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-regime-targets-red-states-religious-voters-in-latest-push-to-normalize-unpopular-abortion-radicalism\/\" title=\"Biden Regime Targets Red States, Religious Voters In Latest Push To Normalize Unpopular Abortion Radicalism\">winning talking point<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cUndoubtedly, transgender youth participation in sports will\u2063 be discussed because Republicans think it is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-accuse-gop-of-mere-political-pandering-for-protecting-kids-from-trans-agenda-and-mutilation\/\" title=\"Democrats claim that the GOP's efforts to safeguard children from the transgender agenda and mutilation are merely political pandering.\">winning \u2064political talking \u200bpoint<\/a>,\u201d Nadler said, according to \u200dBreitbart.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Democratic Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/rep-steve-cohen-pushes-insane-conspiracy-national-guard-cant-trusted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Cohen<\/a> \u2062of New York went on to say that Republicans are not going by \u2064the \u201cscience\u201d with \u200ctheir opposition to mutilating children\u2019s bodies to fit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/brutal-transgender-hockey-hit-leaves-woman-concussion-muscle-strains\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transgender<\/a> \u2064 agenda.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThese\u200b things need to be discussed and determined in \u2064a scientific\u2063 manner, in a logical \u2062manner, not [via] \u200cemotions, not\u200c behavior, and attitudes\u200d that appeal only to voters and\u200c to\u200c try to gain votes\u2062 at the\u2064 ballot box,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/rep-steve-cohen-pushes-insane-conspiracy-national-guard-cant-trusted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">radical, left-wing Cohen<\/a> said, according to Breitbart. \u201cIt should be \u200cdone\u200b responsibly.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cohen outrageously went \u200don\u200d to compare transgenders to blacks, Hispanics and other minority groups.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis is an easy \u200bway \u200dfor people to try to get points: Pick on a minority group that is the most minority and least understood in our \u200dcountry,\u201d he bloviated, according to Breitbart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s gone on for centuries. One <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/buttigieg-claims-racism-is-physically-built-into-u-s-interstate-system\/\" title=\"Buttigieg Claims Racism Is \u2018Physically Built\u2019 Into U.S. Interstate System\">hundred years ago<\/a>\u200b it was\u2062 African-Americans. Later, it was Hispanics. Then it was \u200bgay people. Now \u200ctransgender people. Find a group that is not understood\u200b and it\u2019s\u200d easy\u200b to use to gain political power. It\u2019s bad for \u2063politics,\u200b it is\u2062 bad for people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Chairman\u2064 Rep. Mike Johnson, a \u200dLouisiana Republican, blasted right back at\u200c Democrats and\u2064 called the GOP position \u200dthe \u201cmorally and ethically right\u201d one.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cContrary to \u2063what some\u2063 of my Democratic colleagues believe, \u200bthe \u2062scourge of radical gender ideology is very \u200breal. The efforts to cover up what\u2019s being done to our \u200cchildren are \u200dextreme,\u201d Johnson said, according to Breitbart. \u201cI look\u200b forward to the testimony\u200d from our witnesses as\u2062 we unravel\u200b the narratives surrounding the so<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-doj-warns-red-states-not-to-restrict-gender-affirming-care-for-trans-kids\/\" title=\"Biden DOJ Warns Red States Not To Restrict \u2018Gender-Affirming Care\u2019 for Trans Kids\">-called gender-affirming care<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The hearing\u2063 also featured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-detransitioners-desperate-plea-congress-enough-children-already-victimized-barbaric-pseudoscience\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">testimony from Chloe Cole<\/a>, a young woman \u2064whom doctors tried to turn into a \u200dboy when she was\u2064 younger and who is now \u200cdecrying the establishment\u2062 for\u2062 abusing her trust and permanently and painfully altering\u2064 her body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI \u2064speak to you \u2063today \u2063as \u200da victim of one of the\u2063 biggest \u200dmedical scandals in the history of\u2062 the United States of America. I\u200d speak to you in the hope that \u200byou will have\u2062 the courage to\u2064 bring the scandal to an end, and ensure that other \u2063vulnerable teenagers, children and young adults don\u2019t go through what \u2063I went through,\u201d she said during the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Cole marked \u200cher 19th birthday testifying before the \u200ccommittee, according to the New York Post, which <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/07\/28\/detransitioner-chloe-coles-full-testimony-to-congress-is-a-final-warning-to-stop-gender-surgery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published her\u2064 testimony<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Cole began suffering medical intervention at the tender age of only 13.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy childhood \u200dwas ruined,\u201d she said, adding, \u201cThis needs to stop.\u200b You alone can stop it. Enough\u2062 children have already been victimized by this barbaric pseudoscience. Please\u200d let me be your final warning.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\">\n<\/div>\n<p>The U.S.\u2062 lags behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/govt-bans-lgbt-surrogacy-begins-ripping-sex-birth-certificates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Europe<\/a> on the issue as\u200d many of the same European countries where \u200bthe \u2062transgender craze caught an early foothold are beginning to reverse their once automatic support for altering children medically.\u2064 Many European countries are beginning to pull back and \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/countries-begin-outlawing-transgender-surgeries-minors-biden-democrats-going\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">put more limits<\/a> on transgender surgeries and drug therapies.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I explain WPATH\u2019s recent\u200d about-face \u200dand evidence that American gender\u200c docs who claim that the U.S. is following the Dutch protocol\u2064 are dishonest or incompetent. I also summarize some \u2062key differences between\u2062 the Dutch and affirmative approaches. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/axQllOjvCl\">https:\/\/t.co\/axQllOjvCl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u200cLeor Sapir (@LeorSapir) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeorSapir\/status\/1600251022240276481?\">December 6, \u20622022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, Democrats in the U.S. are still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/disgusting-minor-mutilation-bill-goes-effect-january-1-children-great-danger-moment-enter-california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amping up<\/a> \u200ctheir \u2062unquestioning \u200dsupport for sexually\u2062 transitioning younger and younger children, permanently altering their \u2063bodies while still not addressing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/9-year-old-girl-pepper-sprayed-during-interaction-with-rochester-police\/\" title=\"9-Year-Old Girl Pepper Sprayed During Interaction With Rochester Police\">mental health issues<\/a> that caused\u2064 their transitioning desires in the \u2064first\u2062 place.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s obvious that it is Democrats, rather \u200cthan Republicans, that are trying to\u200b demagogue this issue in order to get votes, \u200cand \u200ctheir actions are endangering vulnerable children all across this country.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/democrats-accuse-gop-mere-political-pandering-protecting-kids-trans-agenda-mutilation\/\">Democrats\u200d Accuse GOP\u2062 of Mere Political Pandering for Protecting Kids from Trans Agenda and Mutilation<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional Democrats are deflecting criticism of their endorsement of child abuse by accusing Republicans of engaging in &#8220;political pandering&#8221; for wanting to ban medical transgender &#8220;transitioning&#8221; of children. 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