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Who Is the Real Hero in Utah?
Utah’s governor is receiving praise from many sources for signing a bill that bans puberty blockers and transgender surgeries for minors. At this point, something is better than nothing, a popular topic on another current Ricochet post by @robbindin. Governor Cox has not acted with the same level of foresight in his past judgments related to the cultural changes leading to this decision.
My understanding is that the rate of regret among “transitioners” is exceptionally high. The surgical and chemical damage done is permanent and inappropriate for minors.
The real heroes in Utah on this are state senator Dr. Mike Kennedy, who introduced the bill, and the Utah state senate Republicans who passed it (all the state Democrats voted against the bill). Kennedy is also a real doctor of medicine in family practice who has eight children, not a doctor of education, the actual source of the misunderstanding of this problem and others today in our society.
Now, many here at Ricochet may not know that Dr. Kennedy was the Utah Republican Party Convention preferred candidate for the Senate seat won in 2018 by Mitt Romney, the “carpetbagger” from Massachusetts and nemeses to all efforts to restore American greatness.
My hope is that in this next election, we can get someone of Dr. Kennedy’s character, perhaps him, with an understanding of the issues at stake to primary Senator Romney and, with the record Romney has established supporting Democrat initiatives in Congress, displace him as the Republican candidate for Utah senator in 2024.
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Then I suggest that you change your title to better reflect your point of view.
I think Romney will retire rather be primaried out in 2024. Kennedy sounds like a strong candidate to move into the US Senate.
He’s fine with politics, he’s just doesn’t want the same things his constituents want.
I disagree with that. If Mitt Romney had unbending principles but they sometimes conflict with what his constituents want, that would be one thing. But this guy has been on both sides of every controversial issue you can think of. He’s like a weathervane.
As weird as it sounds I agree with both of you, he really does not want what most of his constituents do – but in public he is the weathervane – the worst of both worlds
Could be true. Kennedy might be just the type of Senator to lead the way in getting the federal government out of public education. I understand the Kennedy family has eight children and they home school.
Before this rush to “gender-affirimg care,” people with gender dysphoria had to undergo tons of counseling before even being considered for surgery, much less hormone therapy. Even then, they had to live as a member of their target sex for a set period of time.
What’s being done today – especially to minors – is criminal . . .
Gary, my friend, you’ve hijacked a post without even mentioning your orange nemesis.
I noticed that. I think that I am better off not mentioning “the existential danger to the Republic and the Republican Party” by name.
He’s upping his game . . .