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By Guy Page
Vermont Democrat leadership in the Vermont Legislature today emphatically supported the disruptive transgender activists who prevented the presentation of the Wednesday, March 12 Detransitioning Awareness Day educational event at the Vermont State House.
In case you missed it: When the Vermont Family Alliance started its scheduled 1 PM Detransitioning Awareness Day event in a State House room they had reserved for that purpose, a handful of transgendered activists sang, danced, and shouted non-stop in what they called a “Trans Takeover.” (Rep. Jubilee McGill, D-Bridport, promoted the Takeover event on Facebook.)
‘Take Over,’ they did, with no attempt to stop them by State House Sergeant-At-Arms Agatha Kessler, who is responsible for State House room reservations and decorum. She announced she would order the room emptied in five minutes and have the doors closed. She did not ask Capitol police to ask the disrupters to leave.
Detransitioning advocate Renee McGuinness of the Vermont Family Alliance, and others among the several dozen who traveled to Montpelier to attend and learn, said the non-stop disruptions effectively abridged their right to free speech in ‘the People’s House.’ In effect, they said, the People’s House on Wednesay was only for the people who shouted the loudest.
And that’s apparently okay with the majority leaders of the House and Senate.
In a statement released by the Vermont Democrat Party Wednesday night, there was no mention of the forcible seizure of Vermont citizen’s free speech rights. Instead, the statement seemed to suggest that the Detransitioning Awareness Day message – that some people, like Chloe Cole, are so unhappy about transitioning that they have exercised their individual bodily autonomy to detransition – is “dangerous”:
“Vermont has long stood for the values of freedom, fairness, and respect for all people. These values demand that we recognize and support the rights of transgender and nonbinary Vermonters to live openly, safely, and with the same access to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as anyone else. Attempts to use one person’s private experiences as a tool to infringe upon the rights of others are not only misguided but dangerous.”
Majority leaders in both the Vermont House and Senate echoed the sentiment of equating discussion of detransitioning with fear tactics.
‘We reject any efforts to turn their existence into a political debate. Everyone should be free to live authentically and without fear—this is the foundation of a truly free and just society,” Sen. Kesha Ram Hinsdale (D-Chittenden), was quoted in the statement. Sen. Hinsdale did not expound on how one person sharing their own experience threatens another person’s right to “live authentically and without fear.”
House Majority Leader Lori Houghton (D-Essex) enthused about the outcome of the event: “It’s at times like this that I’m proud to live in Vermont. We will rally around our neighbors and I encourage people to connect and stay connected to their community.” Several of the Detransitioning Day attendees denied the opportunity to hear Chloe Cole’s story by video were residents of the Essex community.
Conor Kennedy, Chief of Staff for House Speaker Jill Krowinski, said Thursday morning he witnessed the event just briefly and that he and the Speaker have not had a chance to discuss it. He said it’s likely the disruption will be discussed by State House and legislative leaders. But he added that groups seeking to ensure that they not be interrupted and shouted down by other groups might want to consider holding their meeting in a private room, rather than in a public space like the Legislature.
However, the standard is different for legislative bodies (committees, floor gatherings of House and Senate) meeting to carry out their constitutionally-established duties, Kennedy said.
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Is it time to bring “Fire Congress” to the VT Legislature? OUT them all! –D Morrisseau
Exactly
Insanity and envy are ruling the day, I can transition to a furry, I can transition to a baby, I can transition to the opposite sex, I can be non-binary (anything goes at my whim), but the thing I can’t be is how I was born?
This is a cult. Only cult members don’t allow people to leave. Think about it.
Even if you believed everything they say, it makes no sense that you can’t choose to go back to how you started.
btw It’s marxist cult……led by the chief organizer, chief rabble rouser, according to Saul Alinsky….
That’s exactly right.
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” G.Orwell
“What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a right and a duty to use the power of government to impose their superior knowledge and virtue on others.” Thos. Sowell
Leftism is full of ideas so great, they have to be made mandatory.
Of course you realize that if the shoe was on the other foot, and this was a legislative majority issue, those protesters would have been given an ultimatum, shut up, leave on your own or be “escorted” out ! Somehow or the other the majority party sees the actions taken as an acceptable option . But of course they would .
Those two are on the same page as the lefties in Congress during Trump’s speech.
Shameful losers. No respect.
City Journal published an informative article today that informs about autism, “gender dysphoria”, gender transitioning surgery, and detransitioning.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/yarden-silveira-death-transgender-surgery-complications
Members of the Legislature who spoke in support of the “heckler’s veto” would do well to ready the article… but they won’t.
William Osler, often referred to as the father of modern medicine for revolutionizing the way in which medical education was taught, said the following that is appropriate to the pontifications of the democratic leadership in the Legislature:
” the greater the ignorance, the greater the dogmatism”
Readers should check out the article linked by Mr. Silverstein. The medical community should be called to task for what they are at least endorsing – the nonsensical physical mutilation of young adults.
Also, from “Made This Way,” by Leila Miller and Trent Horn (2018) at page 210: “When a person has a body dysphoria unrelated to sex or ‘gender,’ everyone understands that the person needs help. When an anorexic looks in the mirror, she might see someone who is obese, even if she weighs much less than everyone else her age. We don’t tell the girl, ‘That’s right, you are overweight, and we will help you reach the weight that’s right for you.’ Instead, we say, ‘What you perceive yourself to be, well, that isn’t you. In reality, you are dangerously underweight, and because we love you, we aren’t going to help you harm yourself.'”
Gerry, thanks for the linked article. It boggles my mind how Democrats and Progressives think this kind of exploration and experimentation described in the article is a good idea and should be insured. Another hindrance in our clawing back toward sanity on this issue will be the parents who have transitioned their children.
What is tragic is that these toxic protesters and the blind legislators who shamelessly support them are silencing children who claim they were horribly injured by medical practitioners who pushed them unprofessionally onto puberty blockers or surgeries when they actually suffered autism, trauma, or other conditions. Vermont’s sanctuary status for minors to flee their parents to receive gender mutations and untested drugs is the creation of these same legislators — “real science” will in time prevail, and then they can either issue apologies for what they have inflicted on children or retire in shame — preferably both. They are on the record, much like those decades ago who advocated lobotomies as curative and scolded anyone who dared question how “salutary” lobotomies allegedly were for people with depression. Same disgrace, twenty-first century.
As a Republican representative I worked with Lori Houghton on the House Healthcare committee for 4 years. I am extremely disappointed in her support of disruptive behavior by these people at this forum yesterday. Lori, you are better than that!
K Ram was a pre-school teacher.
of course she supports this
Certainly an Astro turf operation
The goal, to creat division and hate, to which they are oft quite successful.
Let’s put Vermont Family Alliance in touch with FIRE, Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. I would love to see them get sued over this. What about all the recent hand-wringing about a “constitutional crisis?” This is truly an attack on the First Amendment, but they refuse to see if that way until a judge gets involved.
https://www.thefire.org/
How can this be true?! I’m so disheartened to hear our legislators don’t even have our backs.
It’s sad, but if they have an agenda that is at odds with their constituent’s, a knife between the shoulder blades of their constitutents is, and has been their go to for some time now. Look at their insistence on passing the Clean heat Standard (Act 18). No matter what we tell them we want, they will do as they chose. Because, you know, they’re so much smatter than us, and after all it’s for our own good ………..
$7.2 million per patient in lifetime medical treatments and therapies will buy a lot of protests and politicians. As well as a state Constitutional Amendment. Am I wrong, UVMMC and PP?
Follow the money.
And these are the people we’ve elected to represent us…do you feel represented? Suggestion: Lets not vote for people who live in an agenda driven delusional world completely at odds with their constituents.
And they will tell women, children and men being trafficked they have to stay there because they made the decision to do that , how dare they want out .
No honor among thieves or reprobates. Case tried and convicted – case closed. We know them by their fruits because they don’t hide what they really are, what they stand for, or who they represent anymore. Now that the tares have grown taller than the wheat, let the great combine commence the harvest. They truly believe their degenerancy and debauchery will go unchecked, uncorrected, unpunished. Woe onto them.
This being being supported by the House and Senate Majority leaders I guess there is no freedom of speech in the State House. That in itself is a violation of their oath of allegiance, violating Article 13 of the Vermont Constitution and violating the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution. Any legislator supporting this action should be brought before the legislative body and censured.
Well, thanks to all of you who voted for and support the ideological deviant from California, Kesha Ram…who came to Vermont to go to college and never left…and just like Bernie, wanting to be a big fish in a small pond. You voted for “diversity” and you got Vermonters mouths duct taped for daring to challenge the tranny status quo.
They said Jan 6 was an insurrection then explain how this is different and acceptable by the left? Bunch of hypocrites.
VT Dems support the takeover. Crickets from our Republicans denouncing the takeover.
The detransioner organizers need to rebook the event ASAP and bring their own security.
Once the group which reserved the space together with their agenda was approved for a permit, neither that group’s purpose nor identity nor that of the protesting group should enter into Agatha Kessler’s decision to attain and maintain decorum in the room. Hers should have been an automatic decision to obtain and maintain order. The protesters apparently came to create a disturbance. Disturbing the peace is a crime.
Disgusting that Jill Krowinski’s eunoch assistant suggests that persons who want to hold a meeting on a topic considered “controversial” should find a private room or location rather than support the safety of all the people to express their opinion in the people’s house. Krowinski will remain mute. That is a statement in itself. Shameful.