letter to the editor
Voters have right to know if a candidate would outlaw sex change surgery, irreversible drug therapy for minors
Mon, 10/17/2022 - 7:30pm
Dear Maine Parents:
I warn of a threat to the health of Maine children. People who know me know that I gave up a lucrative law practice, and the support of living where I grew up, to have time to raise my children. Fifteen years later, librarians still tell me they remember me giving lessons to my three preschool kids daily at the Camden Library.
My first law job was for a New York legislator named Eric Vitaliano. He told me his legislative priorities were kids and older people: “You can’t repeat the second grade”.
I have tried to reflect my wise, kind mentor’s priorities ever since.
At a yard sale, a kid, maybe 24, sold dorm room junk. Trendy posters of four years ago had the glitter of things outgrown. He had breasts, and a wispy goatee. He said in a tenor speaking voice “25 cents for anything. I need to get rid of it all.”
Getting rid of the trappings of immaturity is a rite of passage. It helps us start anew. But what if those things you chose in immaturity stuck with you forever?
We don’t allow advertisement of many products to children. Interposing mature judgment between a child and irreversible harm is what it means to be a parent. And if your kid gets hurt, you are the one left to help. No politician, activist, social worker, or surgeon is going to stroke their head or feel their pain or help support them.
Many Maine parents and grandparents adamantly oppose school focus being shifted away from academic achievement and onto hyper-sexualization and racialization. And yet the press does not ask the candidates their position on this critical issue.
Does the candidate support parents’ rights legislation?
There is clear evidence of graphic sexual content in many Maine school libraries, of non-academic curricula paid for by special interest groups, of the indoctrination of young children into a racialized and hyper-sexualized world view. And all before a backdrop of falling test scores.
Before they cast their ballots, voters have a right to know if a candidate would outlaw sex change surgery and irreversible drug therapy for minors.
Jesse Bifulco lives in Camden
