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The whole premise of this makes no sense. I smell a right-wing propaganda piece.
What moron would kidnap a child to force the child to change genders - at great cost to the kidnappers?
Ok, now I will go (try to) read it.
Edit: still doesn't make sense.
Cuba also doesn’t allow for gender-affirming surgeries on minors, so that would be a strange place to go for one.
Yeah. That's the huge red flag in this story to begin with. Nothing surgical would be done anywhere at that age. That's not how transgender healthcare works.
I thought the same at first, then changed my mind when I realized that the child may just want the surgery but their other US mom might be refusing it.
The article is not clear on what the child's choice is.
It's the custody dispute type of kidnapping.
But it was two morons, not one.
There was no mention of the child's gender. The whole thing is red meat for culture warriors, with two women with unusual names taking a child who all will assume is male to be turned into a female, probably due to belief all males are evil/subhuman.
I don't buy it. And from Utah, of all places. This is designed to rile up the MAGA infantry to stop the impending electoral disaster for Trump.
Honestly Utah tends to spawn a specific breed of batshit insanity that is kinda hard to understand if you aren't familiar with. Like that one woman who was abusing her kids around Saint George because she effectively joined a therapy cult went completely off her rocker with what is obviously her lesbian lover, if my summary sounds deranged that's because it is.
Point is I'm not gonna fully dismiss the possibility that some lunatic from Utah somehow came up with this stupid of a plan. Doesn't mean it's not red meat for reactionaries though, since almost universally this type of shit is because someone had a psychological break and were just doing this without a train of logic.
Are you suggesting the CBC is running a right wing propaganda piece? That makes no sense.
It makes sense it's being reported on, since the US federal government did something unusual in these kinds of cases - they sent a government aircraft to return the child. What about this international abduction case is different than others, that this government would take that step?
It's like when an immigrant commits a violent crime in a distant state. Why am I learning about it, far away from where it happened, and not more local violent crimes?
If a lesbian couple in California commits family annihilation, why do I hear about it, and the family annihilation in the same county as I live gets some immediate local news coverage and then...nothing?
If there are 1000 outstanding international abductions a year, and I hear about two, is there a reason for those two? Are they local? Do they involve celebrities or politicians? Is there something exceptional or weird that catches public nterest?
Also, this administration lies. Regularly. In ways that have shown up whenever their claims end up in court. By that point, it's already spread through the news that an ICE agent was attacked with a snow shovel, or the person they shot tried to run them down. So, care is warrented with initial reports involving them.