Apparently, there are real people in American public life who require assurances that Governor Ron DeSantis is not, in fact, weaponizing Florida law to allow for the forcible abduction of children. They’ve whipped themselves up into a froth over a new Sunshine State law restricting minors’ access to surgical and hormonal therapies as remedies for gender dysphoria, which has produced paroxysms in the press.
The legislation DeSantis just signed represents an effort “to make trans lives illegal,” according to Rolling Stone legal commentator Chris Geidner. Ultimately, the New Republic warned, the “horrifying” bill DeSantis endorsed will empower the state to “kidnap kids in Florida.” The Pensacola News Journal led with the characterization of the law by its critics “as the Florida ‘abduction’ bill because they claim it allows children to be ‘legally kidnapped’ by disagreeing parents.” Ruminate on that one: “legally kidnapped” by “disagreeing parents.”
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