Bryan Fischer
Withholding hormone injections from male inmate "cruel and unusual" punishment?
By Bryan Fischer
Biologically and biblically there are just two genders — male and female. An individual is either male or female in every cell of the body, and this sexual identity is fixed at the moment of conception and never alters. A man's DNA unmistakably identifies him as male, and that stubborn scientific fact will never change, no matter how many female hormones are pumped into his body.
He will be a male until the day he dies, and it is utter folly to pretend otherwise, or to spend even one dime of taxpayer money on something so ludicrous.
A failure to recognize this fundamental biological reality is bound to lead to all sorts of confusion, as evidenced by the latest decision by activist federal judge Lynn Winmill.
A second male inmate in the Idaho system, no doubt encouraged by a previous inmate who convinced federal magistrate Mikel Williams to force ordinary taxpayers to pay for him to receive female hormone injections, has now convinced a federal judge to keep alive a lawsuit which would compel the state to do the same for him.
This sexual confusion, which has infiltrated the old media, produced the following linguistically absurd sentences in today's AP story: "Isaak claims that she was compelled to remove her own testicles with a razor," followed by "she amputated the tip of her penis."
This is just simply ridiculous; first graders know for an absolute fact that females do not have penises, and for the AP to order its reporters to use such misguided terminology is an affront to reason, common sense, and science.
And for a judge even to entertain a lawsuit on such preposterous grounds is an indication that the federal judiciary has entirely left the realm of rationality.
What is most bizarre is that this federal judge is allowing this suit to proceed on grounds that withholding female hormone injections from a male inmate is cruel and unusual punishment, and therefore a violation of the 8th amendment.
If the judge rules in this inmate's favor, it will become the official policy of the federal judiciary that to medically treat a male inmate as if he were in fact a male inmate is a violation of the federal Constitution. I'm at a loss to think of anything that is further out into la-la land than that, but here we are.
What is worse, this inmate is going to press Judge Winmill to order you and me to pay for him to have a sex-change operation, at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars. So while you may be struggling to find the funds to give your kids regular dental checkups, this judge may order the state of Idaho to take money from you at the point of a gun and give it to a self-confessed murderer to get breast implants and a fake vagina.
God help us.
If any tax dollars at all are spent helping this obviously tortured and confused inmate, they should be spent helping him come to terms with his God-given sexual identity, rather than consigning him to the permanent bondage of gender confusion.
© Bryan Fischer
Biologically and biblically there are just two genders — male and female. An individual is either male or female in every cell of the body, and this sexual identity is fixed at the moment of conception and never alters. A man's DNA unmistakably identifies him as male, and that stubborn scientific fact will never change, no matter how many female hormones are pumped into his body.
He will be a male until the day he dies, and it is utter folly to pretend otherwise, or to spend even one dime of taxpayer money on something so ludicrous.
A failure to recognize this fundamental biological reality is bound to lead to all sorts of confusion, as evidenced by the latest decision by activist federal judge Lynn Winmill.
A second male inmate in the Idaho system, no doubt encouraged by a previous inmate who convinced federal magistrate Mikel Williams to force ordinary taxpayers to pay for him to receive female hormone injections, has now convinced a federal judge to keep alive a lawsuit which would compel the state to do the same for him.
This sexual confusion, which has infiltrated the old media, produced the following linguistically absurd sentences in today's AP story: "Isaak claims that she was compelled to remove her own testicles with a razor," followed by "she amputated the tip of her penis."
This is just simply ridiculous; first graders know for an absolute fact that females do not have penises, and for the AP to order its reporters to use such misguided terminology is an affront to reason, common sense, and science.
And for a judge even to entertain a lawsuit on such preposterous grounds is an indication that the federal judiciary has entirely left the realm of rationality.
What is most bizarre is that this federal judge is allowing this suit to proceed on grounds that withholding female hormone injections from a male inmate is cruel and unusual punishment, and therefore a violation of the 8th amendment.
If the judge rules in this inmate's favor, it will become the official policy of the federal judiciary that to medically treat a male inmate as if he were in fact a male inmate is a violation of the federal Constitution. I'm at a loss to think of anything that is further out into la-la land than that, but here we are.
What is worse, this inmate is going to press Judge Winmill to order you and me to pay for him to have a sex-change operation, at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars. So while you may be struggling to find the funds to give your kids regular dental checkups, this judge may order the state of Idaho to take money from you at the point of a gun and give it to a self-confessed murderer to get breast implants and a fake vagina.
God help us.
If any tax dollars at all are spent helping this obviously tortured and confused inmate, they should be spent helping him come to terms with his God-given sexual identity, rather than consigning him to the permanent bondage of gender confusion.
© Bryan Fischer
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