Chris Christie is plainly wrong about sex changes for children
Zachary Faria
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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was never a serious candidate in this GOP primary, but if he were, his ideologically mistaken view of sex changes for children should have disqualified him anyway.
Christie again defended sex changes for children on Wednesday during the GOP debate. “I stood up every single time for parents to be able to make the decisions for their minor children,” Christie said. “Every once in a while, parents are going to make decisions that we disagree with. The minute you start to take those rights away from parents, you don’t know, that slippery slope, what rights are going to be taken away next.”
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But, as Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) correctly noted: “As a parent, you do not have the right to abuse your kids.” There is a line that already exists where parents’ “decisions” cross over from simply being decisions to being harmful to children. Pumping them full of hormones and cutting off their genitals as part of irreversible sex change procedures based on the activist delusion that you can change your gender crosses that line.
This should be straightforward. These sex changes for children are irreversible and lead to lasting adverse health effects for no perceivable benefit. Parents should have the right to make decisions for their children about their schools and other things, but they should not have the ability to impose these permanent, irreversible procedures on children based on activist drivel. More importantly, doctors should not have the ability to fearmonger to parents about not “affirming” their child’s gender confusion and make money off of these irreversible, damaging procedures. That is where this discussion really takes place.
Christie, instead, is using parental rights as a shield so that he can avoid angering his liberal media friends. He will probably return to liberal media when his useless campaign ends, after all, and why would (Disney-owned) ABC take him back if he doesn’t toe the line of transgender activism? These outlets want to have their domesticated token Republicans, but that line is one of the few they can’t cross.
Christie can try to dress up his squeamishness on confronting transgender activists and the medical establishment they have corrupted as a parental rights stance all he wants, but he has it wrong. He is a go-along-to-get-along Republican, and that is one of the many, many reasons his vanity campaign never had a chance of winning.