Crown Comes After Anti-Castration Parents

In UK, government says refusing to pay for your child's transition is abuse

Buried deep in this guidance document of the Crown Prosecution Service (basically, the UK’s version of the Justice Department) is this guideline telling prosecutors how to judge whether or not someone should be charged with domestic violence:

Note “withholding money for transitioning” and “refusing to use their preferred name or pronoun.” If you are a British parent who refuses to pay for your child’s self-chosen sexual mutilation, or refuse to lie and say that your son is your daughter, His Majesty’s government reserves the right to prosecute you for domestic abuse.

I don’t understand enough about British law to grasp how this insane, immoral, radically unjust law can be circumvented. Bear in mind too that in Britain, children are propagandized in many schools, and certainly in popular culture, to think of themselves as potentially trans. It’s true in America as well.

What I don’t know — please advise me if you do — is whether or not certain states and other jurisdictions consider parents refusing to transition their minor child to be evidence of domestic abuse. It must be the case in those few blue states — Michigan, Minnesota, and others — that now have laws granting the state the right to remove genderqueer children from the homes of parents who refuse to cooperate with transition. But I don’t know how far it goes.

Two things are clear: 1) until Congress acts, red states must pass strong legislation forbidding the classification of parental refusal to transition their child as child abuse; 2) red states should also set themselves up as sanctuary states for families fleeing blue states where parents face prosecution for not subjecting their children to this mutilation; and 3) Christians and others should start building underground railroads for families on the run from governmental authorities who want to seize their children and mutilate them.

This is not a drill. This is not paranoia. This is actually happening. In Michigan, the Democratic-controlled state House of Representatives has passed a law that could put a person in jail for five years and fine them thousands of dollars for “misgendering” someone. If this becomes law, and you refuse to live by the lie, you could go to jail.

In the United States of America.

This is not a liberal-conservative thing, not really. As you may have heard, some gays and lesbians think the trans thing has gone too far, in part because they fear same-sex attracted children are being wrongly identified as trans, and forced into irreversible surgeries and hormonal treatments. I found out about the British domestic abuse horror show through this tweet from a pro-gay liberal Canadian who is furious about it:

This is the soft totalitarianism I warned about in Live Not By Lies — or, to be precise, that the people who lived through Soviet communism warned us about. It’s here. We still have the liberty to form resistance cells to it. For how long, who knows? If you or your church or student group is studying the book and the resistance advice from those who fought hard totalitarianism, here’s a free, downloadable study guide to help your discussions.

We need to be creative, and we need to be active — while there is time. Remember: I dedicated the book to the memory of the priest Father Tomislav Kolakovic, who battled the skepticism of some 1940s bishops who told him he was being alarmist when he said the Soviets were going to be ruling Slovakia after the war, and that they were going to come after the church. The priest was right — and those who believed his warnings from 1943 on, and got busy preparing the underground church, were ready for what came.

More of today’s newsletter below the paywall, including a startling report on the advertising industry commodifying the craving for re-enchantment, a photo of a surprising and worrying visitor to the Pope this week, and a meditation on fracture and identity. I wanted everybody on the list to know what’s happening in the UK, right under the noses of everyone.