‘David French, who we like to unaffectionately call “The State’s Fool“, is a self-proclaimed “conservative” Christian commentator who could be called a conservative in the same sense that Arius of Alexandria is called a “Church Father.’ He would be unknown in evangelical circles if Russell Moore hadn’t platformed and promoted him over the last decade, and therefore functions as controlled opposition, laying out progressive talking points in the guise of conservative concern that should sicken anyone with an ounce of discernment.
In a recent article, he argues that political defeat ought not to result in the loss of “the most fundamental human rights of dissenting citizens and that “culture war waged against the civil liberties of your political opponents inflicts a double injury on dissenters: They don’t merely lose a vote; they also lose a share of their freedom.”
He gives some examples of those losses of freedom, which he believes are two sides of the same coin. First, he criticizes schools for hiding information about gender-transition kids from parents. Once the guard is down with that minor acknowledgment, he splits his knuckles backhanding folk seeking to make it illegal to mutilate children through the chopping off of healthy breasts in young girls, pumping them full of hormones, and then enacting upon them nightmare surgeries that turn their reproductive systems into cruel and grotesque approximations of a penis.
French suggests that helping a child ‘transition’ into a different gender are not necessarily abusive, and we ought not to presume they are.
He also argues we should not pass laws preventing parents from giving their children the same drugs used to chemically castrate sex offenders or inverting their children’s penis into a perpetually mangled and gnarled canal, because this would be an example of “state interference with parental authority” and a loss of the parent’s fundamental freedom.
State attacks on civil liberties are even affecting our most valued relationships: the bonds between parent and child. In January, The Times reported on how public schools sometimes withhold from parents information about a child’s gender transition, even in the absence of any evidence of parental abuse.
….And because every culture war action against civil liberties has its mirror image on the other side, Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas issued a directive to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate as “abuse” both surgical and pharmaceutical interventions for transgender children, regardless of the good faith and desires of the parents, children and caregivers involved.
To understand the gravity of the state interference with parental authority, it’s worth remembering the words of Chief Justice Warren Burger in the 1972 case Wisconsin v. Yoder, in which he wrote that the “primary role of the parents in the upbringing of their children is now established beyond debate as an enduring American tradition.” To simply presume that parents are abusive because they may dissent from state consensus on transgender care is to violate this principle of American law.
Lest you think French couldn’t be any more compromised after his insistence that we do not call these practices against children “abusive” or seek to pass laws against them, it’s clear he’s already absorbed the language and framework of gender ideology and argumentation, buying into the big lie.
The first indication is his inclusion of “caregivers” as people who might have a legitimate interest in a child’s transitioning, as if a teacher should have any involvement or say in seeing her pupil’s outsides turned into insides.
The second is his capitulation to the very existence of “transgender care,” which is an oxymoronic term used exclusively by morons high on oxy and given over the arguments of this wicked culture. Any efforts to “help” a child’s “transition” is not care but rather a farcical attempt to put a kind veneer over a garish maiming and disfigurement.
Like we said, the State’s Fool.
