The Biden administration revealed it plans to hold Alabama — and other states — responsible for culture war bills.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki delivered scathing remarks following the introduction of an amendment to Alabama's transgender bathroom restrictions.
AL.com reports:
“In Alabama, instead of focusing on critical kitchen-table issues like the economy, COVID, or addressing the country's mental health crisis,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday, “Republican lawmakers are currently debating legislation that, among many things, would target trans youth with tactics that threatens to put pediatricians in prison if they provide medically necessary, lifesaving healthcare for the kids they serve.”
Psaki added that the U.S. Department of Justice had put several state legislatures on notice for working on legislation affecting transgender youth, among other issues.
The Daily Wire's Amanda Prestigiacomo notes:
Psaki claimed Republicans fighting for such parental rights and protecting kids from irreversible trans surgeries and treatments are “engaging in a disturbing, cynical trend of attacking vulnerable transgender kids for purely partisan, political reasons.”
Prestigiacomo cited reporting from Jesse Singal that partially challenged Psaki's claims. Signal, who's written for The New York Times and The Atlantic, mentioned 11 studies indicating that most children outgrow their gender confusion.
Psaki's remarks coincided with fast-moving developments on Thursday from the Alabama State House in Montgomery. State Sen. Shay Shelnutt introduced an amendment prohibiting classroom discussion on gender identity for elementary school students earlier that day.
Shelnutt's amendment came on the last day of the state's legislative session.
“We don't think it's appropriate to talk about homosexuality and gender identity in schools; they should be learning about math,” Shelnutt said.
The amendment sailed through the Senate by a 25-5 margin. It passed the House following a 70-26 vote Thursday night before moving to Gov. Kay Ivey's desk.
AL.com further reports how Alabama isn't the only state that finds itself in the White House's crosshairs:
“Alabama's lawmakers and other legislators who are contemplating these discriminatory bills have been put on notice by the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services that laws and policies preventing care that healthcare professionals recommend for transgender minors may violate the Constitution and federal law,” Psaki added.
In a letter sent in March addressed to all U.S. state attorneys general, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, reinforced federal nondiscrimination obligations afforded to trans youth.
Psaki concluded her remarks by reiterating that research shows gender-affirming healthcare for transgender kids is best and potentially lifesaving, given the high suicide rate.
Besides Alabama — Arizona, Florida, Kentucky and Oklahoma have recently passed bills addressing abortion and LGBTQ issues.
Meanwhile, Republicans continue to push back on the White House, saying their policies are just and popular with the American people.
At least one poll from Florida shows DeSantis' bill has the support of the majority of the state's suburbanites, parents and Democrats.
Psaki, you are full of hot air. No such thing as medically necessary and life saving procedures. It is happening because you gender fanatics are brain washing our children and at their young age they believe that nonsense. You mind benders should be held accountable for these lies.
Biden has to get Pesaki to do his dirty work for him? I understand how he can sleep every night. He’s a moron and can easily rationalize such ludicrous policies in his addled mind. But Pesaki is supposed to be a sentient being, good enough to deliver her point of view on CNN some day. Guess money really can buy anything.
And anyway, the only reason any of these children need counseling to repair their injured psyche is because Biden’s handlers are all in on making more LGBIGOTs out of them. It is no coincidence that this behavior is on the rise since these commies decided to make it so. Children nowadays are inundated with deviant sexual messaging, encouraging them to believe they are trapped in the body of the wrong sex and other such nonsense when they are most vulnerable and trying to find their way into adulthood. Sometimes they start in on them even earlier and begin to encourage behaviors of the other sex instead of the one that they are just because they, (their parents, peers or other adults that shouldn’t be involved) decide for them. It should be a crime and in some of these states, the incidence of this kind of child abuse should go down.
I’ll bet if Pesaki has any kids, she’s not encouraging them to be sexually ambiguous or opposite from their sex at birth. What normal parent would do that? What parent would want the school doing that?
Is this really an important thing in the your world today? Why do you even care? Let people be who they want to be. Would Jesus shake his finger in disgust? If you think so, you are probably not a Christian. Our world has bigger issues than this petty call to arms. What does the Pope say? I think he’s Christian.
Maybe Obiden and Psaki should look at what Sweden just concluded and did about gender tampering. They are a “progressive” country and they found that gender adulteration did more harm than good.