Dem rep advocates for lesser penalties
for teen criminals, saying 'the brain
doesn't fully mature until at least 25
years old,' but backs medical sex changes
for same age group
Post Millennial (Ottawa, Canada),
by
Libby Emmons
Original Article
Posted By: Beardo,
7/29/2023 12:57:12 PM
Rep. Mike Johnson pointed out a rather shocking change in perspective from Democrat California Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee as he headed up the House Judiciary Subcommittee's hearing on "The Dangers and Due Process Violations of 'Gender-Affirming Care' for Children" on Thursday.
Lee had previously stated that teens are not fully capable of making permanent, life-altering decisions until their brains fully mature at 25-years-old, but when it comes to sex changes, she apparently is entirely on board with kids making these kinds of decisions at incredibly young ages.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Dipi 7/29/2023 1:03:00 PM (No. 1523162)
That is no excuse for getting away with a crime. If you do the crime, you can just as well, do the time.
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If human brains don't fully mature until 25 years after birth, then why, oh why, are 18-years-old allowed to vote?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Digger 7/29/2023 1:16:53 PM (No. 1523178)
Sheila Jackson Lee is from Texas, to our great shame. BTW, her brain has not yet fully matured.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
kono 7/29/2023 1:19:22 PM (No. 1523179)
Reaching the age of majority used to mean something. The self-governing rights came with self-governing accountability. Not responsible for criminal choices? Not ready for making the medical choices. That's where natural law informs moral law.
Or something like that...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JackBurton 7/29/2023 1:35:08 PM (No. 1523190)
I agree with poster #2. IF you're going to change the laws to recognize mental immaturity for crime, change them for everything. Voting included.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
BarryNo 7/29/2023 1:57:42 PM (No. 1523198)
Brain doesn't finish maturing till in your 30s, is what I recall. The body has a whole series of stages that can be influenced or damaged by external intervention. Drugs, alcohol, medical procedures must be limited to emergencies only. Europe has kids drinking from single digits because drinking water was not safe. The alcohol was a necessary additive. If you're under 30, drugs should be used only if the alternative is death. Same with surgeries. If it has 'elective' in its description, it can wait till you're a legal adult, at least unless it's to correct a horrific accidental maiming.
Gender reassignment surgery is child abuse. When I was young, I would go for weeks at a time as a T-Rex, a bear, a wolf, a fireman, batman, snake (that only lasted a few hours, slithering is tough) a girl?... No, because I had a strong respectable male figure in my life.
A child imagines intensely, and can be convinced of ANYTHING if it gets them more attention, especially positive attention. If adults abuse this, they deserve to suffer for what they've done.
We punish juvenile criminals differently, because they might not have a grasp of reality that an adult should have. But if you don't put them in check, they will assume that behavior is acceptable and continue it. If they are violent, then they should be 'sent to the corner'. If they are murderous and without remorse, you say a prayer, and mourn their execution.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
dovestar 7/29/2023 2:08:16 PM (No. 1523206)
And this woman is running for mayor of Houston. Sigh...
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Venturer 7/29/2023 2:27:38 PM (No. 1523215)
Sheila Jackson Lee must have a brain the same size a a mosquito's
How stupid can it be to say kids don't mature until 25 , but they can insist on a sex change at 9 years old.
That's freaking retarded.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Right Time 7/29/2023 2:46:25 PM (No. 1523227)
By all means, let's lower the voting age to 16
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 7/29/2023 2:54:24 PM (No. 1523233)
Slice off their body oarts, but don't put them in jail.
Jail is to protect US from these animals, lock them up.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
coyote 7/29/2023 3:04:54 PM (No. 1523244)
These operations are not medical sex changes, they are mutilations.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
daisey 7/29/2023 3:22:17 PM (No. 1523255)
So to take his comment to its logical conclusion, anyone under the age of 25 is not capable of making an intelligent decision regarding transitioning from one sex to another. But no one ever accused democrats of operating on logic.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 7/29/2023 5:39:49 PM (No. 1523337)
We should immediately start working on changing the 26th amendment which lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
After all, it was something people thought was prudent when they were sending young men off to war but they couldn't vote.
Now, they go as volunteers, and the scientific evidence is very clear that that brain is not fully formed until around 25, so we should "follow the science".
Besides, all other "adult" decisions are set at 21, right?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
paral04 7/29/2023 6:55:45 PM (No. 1523361)
This sounds like "Animal Farm" in a way. It's OK for a 10 year-old to have a sex change but children don't develop their brains until they are 25. Only the likes of Jackson Lee would come up with that logic.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 7/29/2023 7:25:18 PM (No. 1523369)
But I bet they are both for lowering the voting age to 16.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
downnout 7/29/2023 8:33:24 PM (No. 1523395)
No one has ever accused Sheila Jackson Lee of being a Mensa candidate.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
mc squared 7/29/2023 9:59:15 PM (No. 1523418)
Democrats brains never mature
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Did Sheila Jackson Lee move out of Texas? Because the article appears to make her from Cali not Texas. I want to say Houston but I don't feel like looking it up. My kids knew right from wrong before they even entered 1st grade, so I reject the idea that those young folks don't understand those two simple concepts. All comes down to parenting, lack of fatherly influence and a bunch of leftist teachers telling kids that society owes them everything they want and desire.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
PChristopher 7/30/2023 12:07:57 AM (No. 1523445)
If their brains aren't fully formed until they're 25, why should we let them vote at 16, like every Commucrat wants?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
mifla 7/30/2023 4:47:26 AM (No. 1523483)
Logic is wasted on the likes of Lee.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
czechlist 7/30/2023 11:20:31 AM (No. 1523670)
Auto insurance company actuaries have known it for many decades
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