A Liberty Kind of Night

Fuck it. It’s a liberty kind of night, so I might as well keep the ball rolling.

Here’s how fucked up things are right now: the conservative party, the one that used to preach small government, is now perfectly comfortable sticking the government’s fingers directly into the transgender population.

First: ew.
Second: what the actual fuck?

Where did the party of limited government go? We already require doctors to be licensed. We already have medical malpractice law. We already have ethics boards and professional standards. So why, exactly, do we need laws targeting specific medical procedures or specific populations?

Why aren’t abortion and transgender care treated like back pain: a private, professional discussion between a doctor and a patient?

And yes, I’ll say it: I blame social media for a lot of this shit. The information age didn’t make us smarter; it amplified the loudest, dumbest extremes. Fringe opinions that used to stay at the edges now get dragged into the center of national legislative debate. Instead of arguing seriously about the role of government, we’re watching toddlers fight over a piece of plastic in the sandbox and calling it policy.

It’s exhausting.

Government adds exactly zero value by legislating specific medical procedures or technologies. Medicine is governed by science, math, data, and outcomes. Any opinion frozen into law becomes obsolete within a few years anyway, because knowledge advances whether legislators understand it or not.

The Founding Fathers would shit their trousers if they saw what we’ve turned this into. And yes, they’d say trousers, people were more sophisticated back then. But the point stands. We went from rising up against tyranny, declaring liberty as a right, and building an entire nation around that promise… to a federal government debating tractor repair software and which medical treatments entire populations are allowed to receive.

They would be appalled.

Newsflash: transgender people exist. Because they exist, they need healthcare. It is not the role of government to decide whether doctors can provide care to whole categories of people. If a doctor acts unethically or incompetently, we already have tools for that: licensing boards, malpractice law, and professional accountability.

Stop trying to legislate answers to every fucking problem.

It doesn’t protect liberty. It erodes it.

And it doesn’t make a goddamn bit of sense.