Every so often, a politician says something that reveals much more than he intends.
There are several states in which the rational legislators (usually the Republicans) are trying to reintroduce common sense, in subject areas where the irrational legislators (usually the Democrats) have banned or even forbidden it.
Wisconsin is the site of such a battle this month, as some valiant Republican members are, as the late William F. Buckley Jr. used to say, “standing athwart history, crying STOP!”
Republicans in Madison have introduced bills taking a step back from the Left’s all-in endorsement of the trans-ideology, requiring for example that parents should be involved in the determination of a minor student’s name, name change, or pronoun change, rather than allowing children to just change their very identity with the cooperation of their teachers, at the exclusion of their own parents.
To listen to the Left speak of it, you’d think the Republicans are trying to mete out capital punishment or at least life imprisonment for anyone advocating sex changes. In truth, even Republican “culture warriors” are far more moderate than any leftist will admit, perhaps because even the Left knows that if the public realized how calm and moderate Republicans are, they’d recognize the Left for the insane radicals they are, and abandon the Left in an instant.
But this is the fundamental law of intersectionality: the Democrats must be 100%, all-in on the entire leftist agenda, no matter how insane its base’s demands may be. The Democrats must charge full-speed into the most radical, most outrageous of countercultural causes if even their party’s smallest fringe interest group demands it.
As the debate went on in Madison this March, eventually passing Assembly Bill 377 on the matter, which tried to protect girls’ sports from men in dresses, Wisconsin’s cranially deficient governor, Tony Evers, said something interesting as he promised to veto this very reasonable bill. Governor Evers promised he would always “veto any bill that goes against the interests of Wisconsin’s LGBTQ community.”
Aside from the direct legislative politics of it – this governor is vetoing a popular bill passed by the representatives of a majority of his constituents, siding with the tiniest of minorities against little girls and young women – let’s think for a moment about his statement.
He’s not really committing to supporting the community in question.
He’s committed to doing whatever the trans lobby declares to be in the interests of the state’s tiny group of trans or would-be trans residents, regardless of age.
So let’s think about that. It’s more than just a confirmation of alliance with this lobby. It’s also a complete acceptance of the theory that these spokesmen are indeed people who have their group’s best interest at heart.
We like to believe, in a republic, that the policy proposals pushed by an interest group must at least be good for that group itself – even if they may be bad for other groups, or bad for society in general. For example, we assume that protective tariffs for a certain industry are at least good for that industry, that tax breaks for a certain class are at least good for that class, and so forth – even if these measures are bad for the country in general.
This isn’t always correct, but it is a normal way of thinking in a republic. We therefore think about what a group wants for themselves, assuming they have their own best interests at heart, and we ask ourselves whether giving in to their desire will be good for society in general or not.
In our standard policy debate, we are asking, essentially, “Is it worth it to help them out,” or “is their satisfaction in this matter worth its cost to everyone else?”
The issues that the LGBTQ community have been pushing lately are therefore very different from the usual battle between special interests and the society at large.… because any objective outsider can see that their lobbyists are so terribly wrong about what’s good for their own members.
The creation of special deals for the trans and potentially trans community – people with gender dysphoria, whether they’ve acted on it or not – is in fact bad for the community, bad for the American family unit, and bad for society in general… Yes, all true.
But what’s most important here is that the creation of these special deals is also bad for the target audience themselves, the interest group that the lobbyists claim to be trying to help. It is WORST for them. Their self-appointed spokesmen, in pushing for their taxpayer funded prescriptions and mutilations and so forth, are hurting them most of all.
The truth is, you DON’T help people with a delusion by accepting and furthering their delusion. You don’t help people with mental illness by funding surgeries that will make physically permanent what would otherwise be a temporary psychological problem. You don’t help people suffering from depression by rendering them permanently disfigured, by permanently removing their ability to have children, by virtually guaranteeing unnecessary suffering from all kinds of permanent physical ailments for the rest of their lives.
What they need and deserve is our compassion. What they need and deserve is society’s support to get through their problems.
There is some reason why they don’t feel comfortable in their own skin; we should help them find their way past that discomfort. We should direct them to a decent priest or rabbi, a decent therapist. That’s how people with problems used to be guided out of their problems, before the government and the pop culture started colluding in the destructive idea of endorsing the delusion.
What we should not do – what society must never do – is to go along with the delusion and make it permanent.
I suppose if there is any silver lining in this sad story, we should be grateful to Tony Evers for one thing: for so succinctly giving us an opportunity to remember just what it is that The Democrats have so terribly wrong about this issue, because we Republicans – despite being right on the issue – often have difficulty finding the words for it.
The Republicans try to side with the victims of this delusion; the Democrats side with the countercultural lobbyists who make money off them.
Copyright 2025 John F. Di Leo
John F. Di Leo is a Chicagoland-based international transportation and trade compliance professional and consultant. President of the Ethnic American Council in the 1980s and Chairman of the Milwaukee County Republican Party in the 1990s, his book on vote fraud (The Tales of Little Pavel), his political satires on the current administration (Evening Soup with Basement Joe, Volumes I, II, and III), and his first nonfiction book, “Current Events and the Issues of Our Age,” are all available in either eBook or paperback, only on Amazon.
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