Hey everybody. It's James Lindsay. You're listening to New Discourse's Bullets, where I talk about a single topic from woke that we need to understand or talk about so that we can defeat it.

And today I want to talk about something that's within the gender ideology realm,

which is this thing that's kind of increasingly common,

especially in our so-called blue states here in the United States.

They call them things like gender sanctuary laws.

This idea that the state is going to be able to step in and take a

gender non-conforming or trans youth who doesn't feel affirmed at home and remove them from

their parents' home and place them into some kind of transitional care, whether that's run by

the state, whether it's a foster home or whatever, and the possibility that actually people can

intentionally lead children into deciding that they are of these divergent identities and then

help them initiate this process intentionally and willingly and then sometimes have the

conflict of interest of being connected to these homes.

Now, this feels, the reason I want to talk about this is because this very much feels like,

and people discuss this under the term trafficking, and that's a fraught idea,

because the term trafficking, especially when it comes to child trafficking,

already means something very specific in law.

And so while this feels like a trafficking situation that you have adults arranging circumstances such that a child

departs from their parents and you have a de facto termination of parental rights without due process and that the child is then

moved into a situation under other adults control and care, maybe for the purposes of the ideology

or other purposes that feels very much like a trafficking situation, but it's not legally trafficking

as it's normally recognized.

So we have a situation where something that looks and feels like trafficking exists

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