This past June the Supreme Court addressed Tennessee’s law prohibiting certain treatments for transgender minors in United States v. Skrmetti. Chief Justice Roberts wrote the majority opinion in a case that divided the Court 6-3. It isn’t a difficult issue. The Court has tied itself in knots over the campaign for “trans rights.” The multitude of opinions in the case derives from the knots.
Hey, the losers can look on the bright side. The state of Minnesota remains a trans refuge with a ban on so-called “conversion therapy.” They can’t take that away from us!
I am undoubtedly lacking in imagination, but the trans campaign seems to me the final frontier of the left’s war on nature. It is akin to the axioms of the Party in 1984: War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength. To these we can add: Men Can Be Women. Women Can Be Men. It’s Your Call. As in 1984, the whole point is to shove it down our throats and demand our silence.
In Minnesota, we can look forward to our own Supreme Court’s opinion in the absurd case of JayCee Cooper v. USA Powerlifting. I call it “A lift too far,” but I don’t think our justices see it that way.
Now Robin Westman’s horrific mass shooting spree last week has prompted me to take a close look at Minnesota’s ban on “conversion therapy,” as in the Alpha News column “Any special session after Annunciation shooting should address ‘conversion therapy’ ban.” The law is an abomination. The Westman case is illustrative.
In that column I draw on Liz Collin’s interview with Minnesota’s own Dr. Jill Simons, executive director of the American College of Pediatricians (“the leading U.S. medical organization protecting the biological integrity of children against transgender ideology”). Dr. Simons is herself a pediatrician. The related Alpha News story is posted here.
Here is a question that requires you to get down into the weeds with me. Does Minnesota’s ban on “conversion therapy” under the statute apply to Dr. Simons? Answer: It depends on whether she is a “mental health practitioner” (see Minn. Stat. § 245I.02, subd. 26 & Minn. Stat. § 245I.04, Subd. 4) or a “mental health professional” (see Minn. Stat. § 245I.02, subd. 27 & Minn. Stat. § 245I.04, Subd. 2). If she is neither a mental health practitioner nor a mental health professional, she can transgress the trans therapy ban.
