These days, Liberal positions are so insane that I wonder if they actually believe their own words. There’s simple misspeaks (happens to the best of us), and there’s little white lies. There’s whoppers. These days though, the lies are so big, the whoppers are blushing and hiding their eyes. I don’t think I’m alone in this, and I want to flesh this out a bit. Let’s role play a bit. I have a “friend.” Let’s say her name is Susan. Since personal pronouns lacking specific antecedents are all “she” now, let’s go with that.

Now then. I am stuck with trying to figure out whether this Susan is completely insane or lying to me right to my face – transparently, unapologetically, indeed, insultingly.

Does this person really believe her 11-year-old daughter should change clothes in a locker room with an engorged naked adult male? Or is this person content to look me in the eyes, knowing full-well she would never subject her daughter to such a disgusting situation, and still say “Removing that brave trans girl from the locker room was a violation of her rights, and I hope she wins a big law suit, ruins that other little girl, and her family. That little girl just needs to be exposed more often to women’s penises and balls to lessen the trauma, and to ensure that our trans girl hero suffers no embarrassment from her cock flapping around in the little girls’ locker room.”

Which friend do I believe? How is my friend comfortable putting me into this choice between “She’s a liar” or “She’s nuts?” If she cares what I think, she simply must present more sanely. If she said anything that wasn’t nuts, we wouldn’t be here, and I would not be questioning reality itself. But here we are.

Lying would simply have to be acceptable to Susan. Nothing about lying is acceptable to me. For whom could lying possibly be OK? (Turns out, quite a few folks…)

Then I see headlines everywhere about school districts attempting to conceal student sex changes from the student’s parents, and encouraging the student to lie to her parents. This is literally institutionalized, government-funded training children to lie. It encourages and normalizes the biggest possible lie there can be – from a child to a parent. So my mythical friend Susan must now look me in the eyes, and proudly say that her 11-year-old daughter should be ashamed of herself if she was afeared or offended of a woman’s cock and balls in the locker room. Furthermore, if Susan’s daughter opts to have her own penis installed, the school district will help her conceal this from her parents?!?! Holy crap!

This isn’t “No, I didn’t eat the cookie.” This is “The authorities said to not trust you, so you do not deserve to know about my health. Never mind I’m eleven years old”

This is horrific. The instant any child agrees to this, he artificially and needlessly decides his to distrust his parents on all things. Why be honest about a cookie, or being a bully to or being bullied by classmates if you won’t be honest about your gender? Gender and sex are so fundamental to a person, that if he can’t be honest with his parents or himself about this, then nothing requires full honesty.

Please consider the motives of anyone who would purposely, consciously, and unapologetically drive such a deep wedge into a family – any family – much less an at-scale, institutionalized government-funded campaign. Not all parents are created equal, but none deserve their children to be government-trained at the earliest possible age (or any) to lie to them about a very important and fundamental thing (or anything at all).

In the age-old discourse on the role of government, surely we all agree that training kids to lie to their parents is bad?

We cannot be OK with this. Considering laws or policies that encourage deep dishonesty, distrust, and division at the most intimate level of a nuclear family is just awful. Family life is tough enough without the kids being trained to distrust their own parents as enemies undeserving of honesty.

The idea of the government training kids to lie to their parents should shock everyone, party affiliation notwithstanding. Parents are parents, party affiliation notwithstanding, right?

– Matt