Fruits & Nuts California Adds Another State To Its "No Travel" List

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2019/09/15/california-adds-another-
state-no-travel-list/

Back in 2016, California passed a new law (Assembly Bill 1887)
establishing a naughty list of states that don’t conform to their high
moral standards. The bill created a travel ban, forbidding state-funded or
endorsed travel to states that failed to provide “protections against
discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity or gender
expression.” They quickly began adding states to the list, including
Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi and Kentucky. (Clever readers are probably
noticing a pattern already.)

This week, California’s woke Attorney General, Xavier Becerra, broke out
his sharpie and added another name to the list. This time it was Iowa,
selected for failing to have Medicaid pay for transgender surgical
procedures. (Sacramento Bee)

Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Friday extended California’s ban on
taxpayer-funded trips to an 11th state, adding Iowa to the list based on
the Midwestern state’s passage of a law that removed gender protections
under Medicaid.

Becerra’s order means public employees and college students may not travel
to Iowa under provisions of a 2016 California law.

Twelve years ago, Iowa’s Legislature made gender identity a protected
characteristic under its Civil Rights Act, which prohibited refusing
service to or discriminating against people based on their gender identity
preferences.

Iowa had previously passed muster in California’s eyes because of their
state Civil Rights Act. But this spring, the state Supreme Court ruled
that the law had to be applied to transgender surgery paid for by
Medicaid. That didn’t sit well with the locals and Iowa’s governor quickly
signed a bill barring the use of Medicaid funds for such procedures. That
led to California’s decision this week.

Obviously this is a state-level matter and both Iowa and California can do
as they wish. But the question of taxpayer-funded medical procedures is a
valid one to consider. What was Iowa really doing when they modified that
law?

One way to look at this is to consider what was supposed to be one of the
foundational, guiding principles in the medical field. Primum non nocere,
or “first, do no harm.” California obviously feels that Iowa’s decision
was discriminatory, but that requires you to accept the belief men can
actually be women and vice versa. If you hold to the scientifically
established fact that there are only two genders, each required for the
propagation of the species, then so-called “transition” surgery is nothing
more than the permanent mutilation of an otherwise perfectly healthy body.

Is that something the taxpayers should be on the hook for? Clearly, their
elected officials didn’t think so. And now California is sitting in
judgment over them and banning official travel to that state, along with
quite a few others.

Of course, that California law is something of a joke to start with. It’s
only enforced when politically convenient to show how woke they are. They
still allow the college athletic teams to travel to “banned” states when
there are major bowl games and tournaments to attend. It’s all brushed
aside as a sort of prosecutorial discretion. We’ll enforce the law when we
feel like it, suckers.



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