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Let's look at what happened. The bill as filed prohiboted BOTH the actual practice of gender reassignment procedures both surgical and pharmaceutical, and the use of state money to pay for it. A late committee substitute (a frequent tactic of the "leadership" when they want to ram something through against the wishes of the GOP base) took prohibitions on pharmaceutical intervention out of the bill. The floor amendment restored that ONLY as to use of state funds.

Now let's look behind the scenes at what happened. The forces working against this bill inside the Raleigh Republican establishment were from two directions. One was Big Medicine's waterboy in the legislature, State Rep. Tim Reeder (RINO-Pitt), who wants Big Medicine to continue to make big bucks by screwing up children. This contrasts with Utah where a private practice medical doctor was the chief sponsor of successful legislation to shut down this quackery completely, as private practice medical doctors in other states have been. Reeder, however, works for corporate medicine, which looks at dollar signs more than anything else.

The other force working against common sense has been the nest of homosexual supporters within Speaker Tim Moore's own office, who wanted to water down this bill as much as they could. This group is led by Moore's deputy chief of staff who is also a leader of North Caorlina's main Gaystapo group, Equality North Carolina.

These people wanted to take the drug restrictions out completely and did so in their crooked backroom "committee substitute". There was enough backlash, they had to restore it by a floor amendment on the portion of this travesty that least impacted the bottom line of corporate medicine, so it was restricted to the state funding part.

Tim Moore was in the thick of efforts to water down this legislation. Hopefully, the senate will add these provisions back, but the threat to solid leiglation there comes from another water boy for corporate medicine, RINO Senator Jim Perry.

As it stands now, unscrupulous quack doctors in North Carolina will still, under this bill, be able to administer the very same drug used for chemical castration of rapists to gender confused young boys and drugs that often cause sterility to both young boys and young girls. In short, this bill allows what is really monstrous child abuse by unprincipled doctors in our state.

Commented: Thursday, May 4th, 2023 @ 4:38 pm By: Conservative Voter

Well, we shot MLK too.

Commented: Thursday, May 4th, 2023 @ 2:41 pm By: Big Bob

Having been actively involved in politics for over half a century, there are two types of politicians I have observed, those motivated by principle and policy on one hand, and those motivated by money and power on the other. I have been pleased to know, campaign for, and in one instance work in his administration, several outstanding examples of the first type, such as: Senator Jess Helms, Senator John East, Governor Jim Martin, President Ronald Reagan, State Senators Bill Cook and Anne Bagnal, State Representatives Sandy Hardy and Keith Kidwell, county commissioners Carol Cochran, Stan Deatherage, and Hood Richardson and a number of school board members in a couple of counties. Unfortunately, I have seen too many of the other kind, too. I have also seen some who exhibited aspects of both types.

I remember my old friend C.J. Hyatt, who was the last true conservative to serve as a state officer of the state Democrat Party. When I served with him as an officer of the old Forsyth County Conservative Union, C.J. would always express complete distain for what he called the "go along / get along Democrats", who were the opportunists just looking to get themselves ahead and with no fixed set of political principles. He said that although he never agreed with them on policy, he had a lot more respect for the liberal ideologues in his party, who at least were guided by a set of principles than the go along / get along Democrats who were only looking out for their own personal advantage.

Commented: Thursday, May 4th, 2023 @ 12:52 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Didnt miss it. It's not like he is driving the bus now, is he?

Commented: Thursday, May 4th, 2023 @ 9:44 am By: Big Bob

What actually happened on this bill is that the Neal amendment prohibiting use of drugs only applied to one part of the bill and not the other. It applied only to the second part prohibiting use of state funds for theses procedures, but NOT to the first part prohibiting the procedures entirely. Here is the bill as passed with the amendment:
www.ncleg.gov

All Republicans voted for this bill, and it was also bi-partisan as a few Democrats also voted for the amendment or the overall bill.

Commented: Thursday, May 4th, 2023 @ 9:45 am By: Steven P. Rader

Regardless if you believe in God or not, this is a "must-read" message!!!

Throughout history, we can see how we have been carefully conditioned coming to this point where we are on the verge of a cashless society. Did you know that the Bible foretold of this event almost 2,000 years ago?

In the last book of the Bible, Revelation 13:16-18, we read,

"He (the false prophet who deceives many by his miracles--Revelation 19:20) causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666."

Speaking to the last generation, this could only be speaking of a cashless society. Why? Revelation 13:17 states that we cannot buy or sell unless we receive the mark of the beast.

Commented: Thursday, May 4th, 2023 @ 5:20 am By: Sarahsn

You seem to have missed the salient fact that Martin Brown is a black man who is opposing DEI, not a "rich white snowflake". Common sense and integrity are not defined by race.

Commented: Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 @ 3:52 pm By: Conservative Voter

Doing this to children too young to even comprehend the meaning and the consequences is just sickening. It is past time that the legislature put a stop to it.

Commented: Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 @ 1:16 pm By: Bubba

Senator Jim Perry AGAIN????? That RINO turns up like a bad penny every time liberal Republicans are selling us out to the special interests.

Commented: Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 @ 11:32 am By: Rino Hunter

Those who push this "hate speech" scam are NOT supporters of free speech even if you falsely claim to be. That is also true of those who push the "disinformation" gambit and the contrived "fact check" industry which dishes ideological spin instead of "facts".

Threats are threats, not "hate speech". Communicating threats was a crime here in North Carolina long before the far left invented the term "hate speech". Those clear examples of repression of legitimate political speech in France is what you get when the left puts in place their totalitarian "hate speech" laws.

Commented: Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 @ 10:37 am By: John Steed

its interesting. The climate has changed so much almost none of us would consider not living with A/C. Yes only 100 years ago nobody even knew what A/C is.

Commented: Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 @ 9:26 am By: Big Bob