California attorney general’s priorities on protecting children should be questioned
Zachary Faria
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta is continuing to seek punishments for states preventing doctors from permanently disfiguring children at the same time that his wife tried to help the state legislature block stricter punishments for child sex traffickers.
Bonta announced on Friday that Missouri, Nebraska, and Wyoming were being added to California’s “travel ban,” which bans state-funded travel to states that California deems to have anti-LGBT legislation. The travel ban is largely useless, with university sports teams and California politicians circumventing the ban. It is also counterproductive, with the “boycott” harming California officials who want to travel for conferences more so than the states that are hosting them. The Democratic leader of the state Senate is even trying to repeal the ban.
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But the intent of the law was to punish other states for wrongthink, and in its current form it is designed to shame those states and signal just how virtuous California’s Democratic leaders are. With those three additions, Bonta has brought the total of states California is trying to shame and punish to 26, the majority of states in the country.
For Missouri, Nebraska, and Wyoming, Bonta specifically cited laws preventing boys from playing girls’ sports and laws preventing doctors from performing irreversible sex change procedures on children as being not “just discriminatory,” but “a clear case of government overreach.” According to Bonta and California Democrats, children should be allowed to be permanently disfigured by puberty blockers and sex change surgeries. Anything less is authoritarian and hateful.
At the same time, the state legislature had to jump through hoops to try and pass a bill to make child sex trafficking a “serious felony” with more serious punishments attached. That was because six Assembly Democrats initially blocked the bill in committee, hoping to sink it this year. After backlash and intervention from Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), the bill passed with two Democrats still refusing to vote for it. One of those two was Bonta’s wife, Mia Bonta.
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That means that Rob Bonta, the chief law enforcement official in California, is now going to be responsible for imposing stricter punishments on child sex traffickers that his wife attempted to block and even opposed after other Assembly Democrats were forced to reverse their positions. How confident do you think Californians should be that the law will actually be enforced rigorously in this scenario?
For California’s top law enforcement official, there is more certainty in his support for child sex changes than there is in his support for the new harsher sentences on child sex traffickers. That is not a glowing endorsement of Bonta or California’s other Democratic leaders who focus more of their fire on Republicans in other states than criminals in their own.