I just read Groomed by the System: How a Colorado School Betrayed a Family’s Trust here on RedState. And aside from the absurdity of HB25-1312, the bill passed in which “deadnaming” would become legal child abuse, something else struck me. What legal precedent will this set, and could it become bedrock for other parallel cases? Call it conspiracy theory or creeping socialism, but whichever you choose, I think this law opens the door to a lot of other insidious things.
Marxist or Socialism or Communism tries to split you off from your emotional and physical anchors so that you are forced to rely on the State for them. This is not just sickening…it’s literally a sickness. If you’ve ever known anyone suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder, or had the unfortunate experience of dealing with it personally through a family member or spouse, you’ve seen that one of the first things the afflicted does is try to cleave you off from other close relationships. And they do this with an emotional cudgel until compliance is achieved. If successful, they get all of your attention and energy to fill their bottomless pit of need.
Now this new Coloradan bill, which may one day become law, lays down a premise that could be argued for other cases because it has a logic pattern fairly broad in its application. If “deadnaming” is child abuse, then so is making your kid cut the grass. No…I’m not being facetious here. You order your teen to cut the grass when it’s 90 degrees out, and he says to his guidance counselor at school that you’re an abusive parent because grass cutting is hard work and you’re too emotionally or physically vulnerable to perform that task. So it negatively impacts your true self-actuated self and wounds you to your authentically genuine core. You tried to explain this to Dad, but he’s such a dinosaur that he tells you to do it anyway. He doesn’t understand. He doesn’t care. And if he doesn’t care, then he’s abusive, and can you please give me the contact information for the American Civil Liberties Union?
I really don’t think I’m going too far with this. Grass cutting, cleaning your room, sanding the floor, painting the fence (remember….up, down…no side a side), any of it. I think a clever attorney could make a good case to a squishy judge. If “deadnaming” is child abuse because it is hurtful, then having your child do corporeal labor (particularly as a punishment for bad behavior) is hurtful as well. And hurting children is bad. It must be punished.
Punishments are supposed to hurt. And we all know why that is, so obviously I’m not talking about strapping a kiddo to the rack, but making them wash the family van with a bucket and sponge or taking away the phone for a couple days is supposed to be uncomfortable for them. And if it’s uncomfortable for them, maybe they’ll stop sneaking out of the house at night.
Now when you’re 16, and things don’t go your way, you feel emotions at 11 on a scale of 1 to 10. You get rejected by a crush and you’re hurt to the pit of your soul. Your parent “deadnames” you, and you’re hurt to the pit of your soul. Your parents cut off your social media, and you’re hurt to the pit of your soul …(hey, wait a minute. I think I’m on to something here!) For a teenager, punishment or doing chores can be, like…the worst thing ever. Like, my Dad took my phone, and if I don’t talk to Amber this weekend, I’ll literally die. My pain will be on par with La’Jason’s, who was “deadnamed” by zim’s mother. So La’Jason got to move in with zim’s trans math teacher and also receives a court-appointed stipend every month from zim’s parents.
At this point, I might sound ridiculous but I am trying to bear in mind that the progressives have learned to eat the elephant one bite at a time. If your goal is socialism and you live in a free society where socialism cannot be proclaimed overnight, then you have to take the long view. You of course have to start with the kids and gradually wean them away from Mother and Father. You can see this in the books the schools give the kids to read in kindergarten. Now the “deadnaming” law is going to specify the LGBT people, but that’s maybe one percent of the population. However, it might be another 40 percent of the population who are sympathetic and on board with measures like this even if they’re straight. That could be a lot of voters. So, extrapolating out legal precedent set by HB25-1312 could one day cover chores or disciplinary measures that parents may want to use in child rearing.
Sounds crazy and perhaps even ludicrous, but then again, 10 years ago we all thought changing your sex through wishes and dreams was ludicrous too.
