Why are Wyoming’s GOP leaders supporting transgenderism?

How many Republicans does it take to figure out someone’s God-given biological sex? Evidently, in Wyoming, 31-2 and 57-5 GOP majorities in the legislature are not enough.

Recent allegations by the Kolstad family that Montana Child and Family Services took their daughter to Wyoming to obtain “gender transition” therapy exposes a terrible truth about what should be the most conservative state in America. While Montana passed Senate Bill 99 last session to prohibit chemical castration of minors, Wyoming failed to pass what’s become known as Chloe’s Law thanks to opposition from Governor Mark Gordon and House Speaker Albert Sommers.

Lukewarm Republicans continue to conquer America’s reddest state for the Democrats thanks to the complacency of conservative media and like-minded groups.

After passing the Wyoming Senate 26-5 last February, Senate File 0144 was defeated in the Wyoming House Appropriations Committee. Sommers purposely sent the bill to the liberal Appropriations Committee rather than the Labor/Health Committee to ensure it would receive a “do not pass” recommendation.

The Wyoming legislature will be back in session later this month with a renewed urgency to ban castration in a state where such barbarism never should have taken hold in the first place. To blunt the momentum behind Chloe’s Law headed into the session, the liberal Republicans led by state Rep. Lloyd Larsen introduced HB 0063, which is advertised as banning castration of minors. The bill artfully excludes chemical castration from the prohibition, however.

A bait-and-switch bill

Just how lame are Republicans in Wyoming, a state where the Republican presidential nominee usually wins by 40 points? State Senator Wendy Schuler, a co-sponsor of the new bill, praised the new loincloth legislation as “a little less frightening for our medical folks.” You read that correctly. People like you and me who believe we shouldn’t sterilize and mutilate people are the frightening ones, not the people performing the mutilation.

It looks like California Democrats got lost on their way to the once Golden State and now occupy what should be God’s country.

In addition to allowing chemical castration, the new bait-and-switch bill guts all punishment for medical professionals who physically castrate the minor. Also, unlike Chloe’s law, HB 0063 leaves out nurses, mental health professionals, and insurance companies from potentially playing a role in these castrations. In other words, it is a perfect GOP bill designed to jujitsu the energy of the GOP voters into oblivion, all the while continuing to evince the image of a conservative for their upcoming primaries.

It is truly shocking how radical leftists have been able to operate as Republicans for so long in Wyoming. Their mindset is so extreme that in their new loincloth legislation, they even refer to God-given sexuality as “sex assigned at birth.” Larsen, the bill’s sponsor, hosted Artemis Langford, a massive guy who famously barreled himself into the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority at the University of Wyoming. You can see how Larsen gushed over Langford while referring to him repeatedly as a female.

Just as the university has disgraced itself with its embrace of transgenderism, it’s just as disgraceful that an abortion clinic in Casper, Wellspring Health Access, offers chemical castration “care.” How is it possible that an abortion clinic continues to operate within the state at all? The law banning abortions was enjoined last year by Teton County Judge Melissa Owens, a leftist appointed by the Republican governor just months prior. Even if Wyoming’s abortion law survives, the clinic can remain open to mutilate children instead of murdering them.

A land of lukewarm Republicans

Wyoming is a one-party state chock-full of Republicans who make Nikki Haley look like Ron DeSantis. Unless conservatives change the nature of the Republicans they elect, it will remain the “Brokeback Mountain” version of the Cowboy State.

Last year, Speaker Sommers argued passionately in favor of continuing to teach gender studies and queer theory at the University of Wyoming. He also blocked the Parental Rights in Education Act, which would have barred public schoolteachers in kindergarten through third grade from needlessly offering lessons on sexuality. All the while, Wyoming’s Republican governor quietly encourages the leftward tilt of the state as he gives speeches at Harvard promoting the global warming agenda.

These lukewarm Republicans, these leftist fellow travelers, continue to conquer America’s reddest state for the Democrats thanks to the complacency of conservative media and like-minded groups. We see from former Rep. Liz Cheney garnering just 29% of the vote in her 2022 congressional primary that if conservatives stay focused and educate the public about these incumbents, they will not only be defeated but roundly humiliated.

Politicians like Sommers and Gordon are objectively to the left of Cheney on most issues. The fact that they continue to thrive is a testament to our failure to focus on our own sphere of influence.