They have a standard formula for these things. First, scream about some horrible thing happening that nobody could really defend. Would it be bad if doctors were routinely giving 5 year old kids sex change surgery? Yes. Of course, that never happens but that’s not the point. They’ve created a straw man argument that’s so bad that arguing against them means they can paint you as being “for” the horrible thing.

So they ban the horrible thing that never happens. But they do it using such open ended language that it can be applied in other areas. So the law isn’t written as “no sex change surgery for 5 year olds.” No, it’s written as “no gender affirming treatment for kids.” If you try to argue against it, they claim that you’re in favor of chopping off the genitals of 5 year olds and how dare you be so disgusting!

Of course, they know what they are doing. The cruelty is the point. But they use “protect the children” to shield themselves from any attacks. Not that they care about the children, mind you. Kids are just useful props to them.

Then, once their “we’ve got to protect the kids” bill becomes law, they push to expand it. It turns out that we don’t need to just ban gender affirming treatment to kids, but to adults too. Again, the bill is written vaguely so it can be interpreted as loosely as possible depending on what they want. And they fall back on the unrealistic scenario whenever they face criticism. You’re against banning gender affirming care for adults? Well, then you must want every boy to be transitioned to a girl at 5 years old! How dare you, you monster!!!

NOTE: This attack doesn’t work with everyone. Those of us on the left tend to see through it most times, but it’s sad that it works on so many people. They really believe that the left wants to force every child to get gender surgery when the reality is that gender surgery in kids is pretty much non-existent. (If it happens at all, there’s a lot of other mitigating factors than 5 year old Timmy realizes that “he” is actually she.)