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Until 22 January, Glenna Goldis was an assistant attorney general in the office of the New York state attorney general. But on that Thursday, Goldis was dismissed for alleged ‘disruptive public speech’.
And what was this ‘disruptive public speech’? During non-work hours, she had posted on social media about the dangers of puberty blockers and sex-change surgeries for children.
Goldis is hardly the first to lose her livelihood for raising concerns about the consequences of pretending that humans can change sex.
But Goldis’s example is among the most dramatic. It stands out because of the fanatical commitment of her now former employer, New York attorney general Letitia James, to the trans movement. Goldis had to go.
If firing people who disagree with her becomes the norm, James will soon be overseeing a significantly reduced workforce. Indeed, so outlandish are James’s beliefs that she thinks bakers should be forced to make cakes with dildo-licking Satans on them when the person who wants the cake is a ‘transgender’ Satanist.
This might be written off as some whackadoo just having a go at a Christian cake baker. Except that some 3,000 kilometres away in New York, the state attorney general was so alarmed by the baker’s alleged ‘transphobia’ that she went out of her way to join a friend-of-the-court brief, filed in the Colorado Supreme Court to defend the Satanist who wanted a dildo-topped cake.