Analysis by Kyle A. Lohmeier
It is my firm belief that prolonged statism erodes the brains of humans, smoothing out all those wrinkles on the cerebral cortex where the thinking happens until the statist’s brain looks like a partially deflated volleyball. It is only such a “brain” that could agree with the actions of the state of California. I’ll just let the lead ‘graph of a Jan. 6 Reuters piece, written by someone whose cerebral cortex has ostensibly lost a few wrinkles, explain.
“A transgender California prison inmate who was born male but identifies as female underwent gender-reassignment surgery paid for by the state this week in what is believed to be the first such case in the United States, her attorneys said Friday.”
First, it doesn’t matter what Shiloh Quine identifies as, he’s male and being surgically mangled doesn’t change that. Furthermore, and far more importantly, “the state” didn’t pay for the surgical mangling, the taxpayers did and the state didn’t even have the good grace to release the amount of stolen money that was wasted on it.
In short, the state held a gun to every Californian’s head and forced them to pay for an expensive and totally unnecessary surgery for someone who kidnapped, robbed and murdered one of their fellow Californians and is therefore serving life without parole for their crime.
“Transgender Law Center Executive Director Kris Hayashi said that by providing Quine’s surgery, the state was setting an example that would help others obtain needed care.
“’For too long, institutions have ignored doctors and casually dismissed medically necessary and life-saving care for transgender people just because of who we are – with devastating consequences for our community,’ said Hayashi,” Reuters reported.
“Medically necessary and life-saving care?” There is nothing medically necessary about having one’s junk mutilated to suit their genuine mental disorder; and going under general anesthesia for no medically necessary reason is life-endangering, not life-saving.
No, Shiloh Quine was not provided medically necessary or life-saving care by the state, Shiloh Quine was given the opportunity to once again victimize Californians via robbery; only this time from inside a prison operating room, with the state itself doing the thieving for him and hitting millions of targets simultaneously.
Now, personally I honestly don’t care about the entire transgender/gender-fluid/47-different-makebelieve-genders thing – I leave all that nonsense to the snowflakes. If you want to pretend you’re something other than what your plumbing dictates, have at it – I’m not going to agree with or entertain your delusions, but I’m not going to lift a finger to stop you expressing them either. Where I have to draw the line is when the state uses taxpayer money to accommodate such a person’s (or any person’s) beliefs; particularly when that person’s rights have already been curtailed because they’ve shown no ability to respect the rights of others – in this case by committing kidnapping, theft and murder, things only the state can do with impunity.
If Shiloh Quine wasn’t already living off of California’s taxpayers, and was, in fact, gainfully employed and had never victimized anyone, I wouldn’t give a damn about what he paid someone else to do to his crotch. Hell, I realize prostitution should be legal, so, I’m not inclined to care what anyone pays anyone else to do to their groin area – so long as all parties are consenting. There is where California erred, the most important party in this entire case, those footing the bill, weren’t even given an opportunity to consent to being fleeced for this idiotic and unnecessary surgery.
I know it’s totally not Politically Correct to cast doubt on how genuinely a transgendered person feels that they’re in the wrong body, but I’ve always rejected all efforts at language gentrification and the last graph of the Reuters piece gives me plenty of reason to doubt.
“Quine will be transferred to a women’s prison after she is released from the hospital, said Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.”
It’s hard to say without actually having gone through it, but, if I’d been sitting in prison since 1981 with no possibility of parole, surrounded by nothing other than dudes; I might go crazy enough to have my junk lopped off just to afford myself a change of scenery after 35 years.
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