State senator: Law allowing 13-year-olds to change gender without parent consent is ‘insane’ - MyNorthwest.com
Young people in Washington state can’t legally buy cigarettes or vaping products until they’re 21 years old – but teens as young as 13 can now pursue gender reassignment medical procedures now that a Democrat-backed law has taken effect.
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This is “crazy stuff,” state Sen. Phil Fortunato (R-Auburn) tells Dori Monson Show listeners.
Increasingly, says Sen. Fortunato, Democratic state legislators are cutting parents out of their children’s lives. The senator came on Dori’s show shortly after he was escorted out of the state legislative building for failure to produce a negative COVID test.
The senator calls his removal from his office building “unconstitutional” and further cites what he considers contradictions between gender change laws and smoking/vaping age restrictions “madness.”
In 2020, Washington state moved the legal purchase of smoking and vaping products from 18 to 21 years – “because 18-year-olds aren’t smart enough to make medical decisions,” Fortunato says. And yet, he continues, this new 2022 law allows children as young as 13 to begin the process for gender reassignment surgery without parental approval.
Equally frustrating for the senator: “Insurance companies cannot deny the treatment,” so even if parents “don’t have to be consulted … parents are winding up paying for it.”
“If … the 50s were the patriotic period, and the 60s were the ‘free love’ period, and the 2000s were the confused period, then from 2010 on it is the insane period,” Sen. Fortunato continues.
“This is crazy stuff and it just keeps going,” he tells Dori’s listeners. “People don’t understand the consequences of giving the Democrats the large majority in the House and the Senate. They can do whatever the heck they want. I mean this is madness.”
Listen to Dori’s interview with state Sen. Phil Fortunato below:
Listen to the Dori Monson Show weekday afternoons from noon – 3 p.m. on KIRO Radio, 97.3 FM. Subscribe to the podcast here.
source: https://mynorthwest.com/3309797/state-sen-fortunato-gender-reassignment-teens-law/
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