Fifth Column

The Harvey Milk Institute in San Francisco is hosting the “Third Annual Midwest Gender Identity Summit,” – discussing the “needs of transgender patients in healthcare,” 

Just kidding. It’s the “Sanford Research Center”, in Sioux Falls.

Sanford Health – the titan of rural healthcare, and one of the biggest employers in the upper midwest – is pushing the very “blue” trans agenda in the very red northern Great Plains:

Both Sanford and the Transformation Project are representative of the larger forces that are working to bring the transgender movement to the deepest-red corners of the United States — a coordinated, well-funded campaign for which South Dakota has become something of a trial run. That campaign’s influence has reached the Republican-dominated state legislature, where dozens of anti-gender-ideology bills have failed over the past decade. “No one thought South Dakota was a state where this could be stopped,” Libby Skarin, the campaign director for the ACLU of South Dakota, boasted in February. “I think the fact that we have consistently stopped these bills has been a source of hope for folks, like if they can do it in South Dakota, we can do it in our state.”

Sanford, which purports to be “the largest rural health system in the United States” — it currently employs nearly seven times more South Dakotans than any other business in the state — has played a pivotal role in orchestrating those conservative failures. In 2021, a National Review investigation detailed the medical giant’s links to the failure of House Bill 1217, which would have banned males from competing in women’s sports. South Dakota governor Kristi Noem had sparked conservative outrage by vetoing the bill earlier that year — a move that dampened her status as a rising Republican star, even after she hastened to reintroduce an analogous bill at the outset of the next legislative session.

The Diversity/Equity/Inclusion (DEI) agenda is being pushed into very red places by very blue big business – as a project to try to “convert” red parts of the country.

And in the case of Transgender ideology in South Dakota, it’s working:

Despite the overwhelmingly Republican composition of South Dakota politics, gender ideology has made inroads in almost every area of the state’s governing institutions. Last month, for example, SDSU drew conservative criticism for hosting a “kid-friendly” drag show, an event that multiple local lawmakers argued could be illegal under the state’s prohibition on “show[s] or other presentation[s]” deemed “harmful to minors.” Elsewhere, the Noem-appointed head of the state’s Department of Corrections signed a new “Management of Gender Dysphoria” policy specifying that state-prison inmates could request transfers to facilities that corresponded with their “gender identity” rather than sex — and be provided with sex-change drugs on the taxpayer dime.

But no set of institutions in South Dakota has embraced gender ideology more than the state’s Sanford-dominated business community, which sits well to the left of the state’s political center of gravity. (In November 2020, Sanford replaced its CEO of 24 years after he informed employees that he wouldn’t be wearing a mask around the office, arguing that he had recently recovered from the Covid virus and therefore posed no threat of spreading it.) The state’s Chamber of Commerce chapters, which are closely tied to Sanford, regularly lobby against social-conservative bills, including medical conscience rights, the prohibitions on sex changes for minors, birth-certificate gender changes, transgender locker room use, and bans on men in women’s sports.

This is happening as other civilized countries are having intense second thoughts about the excesses of Big Transgender.

This shows how Big Left gets incrementalism in a way conservatives are having a lot of trouble with.

20 thoughts on “Fifth Column

  1. Several factors have pointed towards increased caution in offering hormonal and surgical treatment: insufficient scientific evidence, a yet-to-be-explained increase in the number of people being diagnosed, especially 13–17 years old and with registered sex female at birth, less uniform experience-based knowledge among participating experts than in 2015, and the documented prevalence of detransition.

    The explanation can be found in most public libraries, and in the office of the Deputy Director of the US Dept of Health.

    This isn’t rocket science, and the degenerates behind it are sciencists, not scientists.

  2. In 1986, when it was still nominally sane, California passed Prop 65, which was called “the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act. It stated goal was to help Cali’s make informed decisions about chemicals that could cause cancer, birth defects, or other health issues.

    It covers *everything* that is made, or sold in California, which is why you see “WARNING: This product can expose you to [name of chemical], which is known to the State of California to cause cancer.” labels on everything.

    This wasn’t a fed edict, it was just a state exercising it’s sovereign right to inform it’s citizens of danger.

    Why can’t sane states slap a warning label on Tranny lap day at the library, and dude in a dress waving his ass around on stage shows for kids?

    “WARNING: This event [seminar; publication; teevee program; film] can expose your children to sexual degeneracy and acute mental illness, which is known to the State of South Carolina to cause psychological and physical harm to developing minds.”

  3. kids 13-17 are middle/high school
    could be lots of them are confused about their gender
    born with male equipment but feel feminine
    finally free to switch after millennia of repression

    or it could be peer pressure
    anybody remember the fads of your youth
    the length of hair you must wear to fit in
    the brand of sneakers or jeans
    the cliques – band nerd, AV geek, football jock, mean girl
    and now the coolest clique of all – trans – with no talent required
    no practicing scales, no second string for second-best
    simply declare yourself a hero and you are one
    skirt optional

    lasts until graduation and then
    the hiring manager at the auto parts store frowns
    turns out you’re not trans any more
    not if you want a job
    detransition
    go back to
    normal

  4. Last month, for example, SDSU drew conservative criticism for hosting a “kid-friendly” drag show, an event that multiple local lawmakers argued could be illegal under the state’s prohibition on “show[s] or other presentation[s]” deemed “harmful to minors.”
    What kind of person wants to put on a dress and perform for children?
    This is literally disgusting. And that is why they are doing it. Disgust is probably the most powerful human emotion, if they can get you to acquiesce to the disgusting they can get you to acquiesce to anything. You know that sleepovers and other unchaperoned, parents-absent results are coming.

  5. “born with male equipment but feel feminine”

    born with male equipment and confronted by their teachers (who are with rare exception female) with a nonstop message that female attributes are good and preferable, while male attributes are toxic, dangerous, hateful, etc and their male energy must be mitigated with Adderal for the rest of their life.

  6. And Centrifugal Bumble Puppy is coming to a school playground near you. In “Brave New World”, Huxley describes the game as being played co-ed in the nude by 9 and 10 year oldchildren to break down any sense of personal ownership of one’s body.

    As someone said, “You rule with the brains and the buttocks, not the fists.”

  7. UMMP, our grandparents would have strung these degenerates up, and I ain’t kidding.

  8. BN
    strung these degenerates up…
    or more likely and more often tarred feathered and run out on a rail If hot tar was used the tarred subject had a break even chance of living through the experience but theirs would be a life of constant pain and their face would be a warning to anyone they met.

  9. This shows how Big Left gets incrementalism in a way conservatives are having a lot of trouble with

    Waittaminute. If conservatives won’t actually oppose these efforts, then pissing and moaning about each incremental success is just more proof that conservatives are misnamed: they conserve nothing.

    One could credibly claim based on the evidence of the last 50 years to now that these sexual liberation efforts were all intended to end up with the full sanctification of pedophilia. And only now is this a problem?

  10. Putin (literally Hitler) proposed a cease fire during Orthodox Christmas.

    Zelensky (literally a Jew) refuses the cease fire. And why would he agree? Zelensky just got a shit ton of fiat currency and more weapons, and has banned the Orthodox Catholic church, for good measure.

    Question is, will the Azov Battalion put their rifles down and have a game of football with the Russian Z Corps?

  11. speaking of people born a man but acting like a whinging little girl
    prince harry details a major global catastrophe in his new book
    he got in a fight with his brother william – a fist fight no less
    which is an intolerable threat to our democracy
    plainly we must invade at once and occupy
    their country again for the good of all
    i call dibs on four thieves pub
    on lavender gardens
    in battersea
    table 2

  12. Here is an article about a celeb Hollywood writer who is now persona non-grata around HW for, among other things, faking a cancer diagnosis.
    https://theankler.com/p/the-greys-anatomy-liar-confesses
    The quote that jumps out at me is “Her wife left her, family members disowned her and she’s no longer allowed to see the children she helped rear for several years.”
    So what exactly is a same sex marriage supposed to look like? What are its norms and expectations? There was a time, as recently as the 1990s, when same sex marriage proponents were clear that their goal was to undermine heterosexual, monogamous marriage norms.
    When can lesbian marriage be dissolved because one of the partners violated the expectations of a lesbian marriage?
    The vow given in the book of common prayer is a useful proxy for what marriage means. The union of one man, and one woman, til death do them part. The possibility of children are only included as a conditional: “The union of husband and wife in heart, body, and mind is intended by God for their mutual joy; for the help and comfort given one another in prosperity and adversity; and, when it is God’s will, for the procreation of children and their nurture in the knowledge and love of the Lord.”
    If the idea of same sex marriage is strange, how much stranger is the idea of same sex divorce?
    Why would it be okay to divorce a spouse for faking a cancer diagnosis but not because they ate pizza with pineapple?

  13. That wretch is a real piece of work, UMMP, but it’s not a surprise.

    It’s said 62% of leftists have been diagnosed with a mental illness. For leftist women, I’d bet it’s closer to 70+%. For leftist women in California it’s got to be at least 85%.

    They’re all fucking nuts.

  14. Blade;
    You are correct. I have had colleagues, former friends (they no longer talk to me, because Trump) and family members that are so far off the beam that it’s laughable.

  15. Look, the thing that matters, and what we need to respect, is that Kevin McCarthy *identifies* as Speaker of the House….

  16. The previous speaker (Pelosi) believed that women could have a penis and men could become pregnant.
    Despite this evidence of her insanity, some people miss her & believe that she was a great speaker of the house.

  17. Back to Sanford, it strikes me that if they are wrong about the persistence of teen gender dysphoria, there is going to be H*** to pay for them as their victims realize that their adult dreams have been put in a specimen bag or otherwise mutilated with hormone therapy. I will be a most unsympathetic juror for them if called.

  18. “there is going to be H*** to pay”

    Lol…not until the walls come a-tumblin’ down, Mr. Bubble. No there won’t.

  19. No, there will be, Dullee, because the research done all over the world tells us that the mental health problems of those with gender disphoria don’t go away with surgery and hormones. Eventually, one of them who regret their $$ surgeries is going to choose homicide instead of suicide, and it’s going to break loose.

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