Radical Gender Ideology Has Invaded South Dakota

Radical Gender Ideology Has Invaded South Dakota

It’s almost like the left is targeting red areas to take over.

[FS: and it’s almost like supposed GOP gov. Kristi Noem is happy to help them]

National Review reports:

How Gender Ideology Conquered South Dakota

South Dakota has been governed by bicameral Republican supermajorities since 1996. Democrats haven’t carried a statewide race in more than a decade. In a 2018 Gallup survey, the Mount Rushmore State was ranked the third-most conservative in the country, with self-identified “conservative” residents outflanking self-identified liberals by some 31 points.

It is not a state where one would expect to find a major trade conference for transgender medical specialists.

But on January 13, the Sanford Research Center in Sioux Falls is scheduled to host just such an event. The “3rd Annual Midwest Gender Identity Summit,” billed as an effort to “review the needs of transgender patients in healthcare,” is evidence that a variety of factors have converged to make “cherry-red South Dakota the unlikely epicenter of a transgender uprising on the American Great Plains,” as the Washington Post reported in 2020. The summit is co-hosted by Sanford Health, a Sioux Falls–based health-care conglomerate, and the Transformation Project, a local transgender advocacy group.

Both Sanford and the Transformation Project are representative of the larger forces that are working to bring the transgender movement to the deepest-red corners of the United States — a coordinated, well-funded campaign for which South Dakota has become something of a trial run. That campaign’s influence has reached the Republican-dominated state legislature, where dozens of anti-gender-ideology bills have failed over the past decade. “No one thought South Dakota was a state where this could be stopped,” Libby Skarin, the campaign director for the ACLU of South Dakota, boasted in February. “I think the fact that we have consistently stopped these bills has been a source of hope for folks, like if they can do it in South Dakota, we can do it in our state.”

[FS: Noem is reportedly affiliated with and supportive of the groups destroying children’s bodies, innocence, and lives:]

But next week, just such an event will be hosted in Sioux Falls. The "Midwest Gender Identity Summit" is set to take place on January 13 — co-hosted by Sanford Health, a Sioux Falls-based healthcare company, and the Transformation Project, a local transgender activist group. pic.twitter.com/qNiafKj7aq

— Nate Hochman (@njhochman) January 5, 2023

Sanford had publicly lobbied to kill the medical conscience rights and youth sex-change laws. After all, its business interests were implicated in these bills—the healthcare company profits from sex-change surgeries + drugs.

Here's what one state lawmaker told me at the time: pic.twitter.com/9vwU6lUSyU

— Nate Hochman (@njhochman) January 5, 2023

Oh yeah, and both SDAHO and SDSMA have also been working closely with Governor Kristi Noem, state senate president Lee Schoenbeck, and various other establishment Republican leaders to primary every single social conservative in the state legislature:https://t.co/UVJlkqNqsD

— Nate Hochman (@njhochman) January 5, 2023

The goal is to "reshape" South Dakota—to stack the legislature with Republicans who will do as they're told, and to neutralize any who might get in their way.

That includes—and I'm not making this up—a number of active Sanford lobbyists simultaneously serving as lawmakers. pic.twitter.com/Xjk72TuDEb

— Nate Hochman (@njhochman) January 5, 2023

Gender ideology continues to gain ground outside the legislature, too. The Noem-appointed prisons director recently signed off on allowing inmates to transfer to prisons that match their “gender identity” rather than biological sex—and attain sex changes on the taxpayer dime. pic.twitter.com/FAdLkXKeDJ

— Nate Hochman (@njhochman) January 5, 2023

Read the whole thread (via Twitchy).

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