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Massachusetts Bill to Establish Stacked-Deck Transgender Commission

If you thought that the transgenderism obsession was finally ebbing, you’d be wrong. A bill is moving in the Massachusetts legislature to establish a Commission on the Status of Transgender People intended to guide the state concerning, in the bill’s language, “all matters transgender.” As summarized in the Boston Herald story:

The legislation (S. 2725) An Act Establishing a Commission on the Status of Transgender People, would task the commission with conducting an ongoing study of all matters concerning transgender people. The commission would also report its findings to the public, serve as a liaison between government and private interest groups concerned with issues affecting transgender people; assess programs and practices in all state agencies that may affect transgender people, and identify and recommend qualified transgender people for appointive positions at all levels of government, including boards and commissions.

Would the commission be representatives of the entire society and conduct dispassionate analysis about this most sensitive and contentious subject? It would not. Take a gander at how the 21 unpaid commissioners would be chosen, according to the terms of the bill:

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‘Tobacco-Free Generation’ Establishes Age-Based Ban on Sale of Tobacco — to Adults

I don't smoke, but I am wary of efforts to prevent other people from so doing. Now, blue cities — and soon states, most likely — have hit upon a way to ban smoking known as "Tobacco Free Generation" (TFG). Read More ›
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Mass. Democrats Propose Turning Prisoners into Organ Farms

This proposal suffers from the same fatal ethical flaw. Prisoners are hardly in an equal bargaining position. Nor should they be induced to turn themselves into a natural resource ripe for the harvest. Read More ›
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Court Finds No Constitutional Right to Assisted Suicide in Massachusetts

I just hope that state’s legislators read this decision carefully because, as the paragraph I quoted above demonstrates, maintaining the law against assisted suicide serves and protects the general welfare and is in the public interest. Read More ›