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You OK paying for ‘sex changes’ for convicts?

Thursday, October 22, 2015, 2:37 pm | Randy Thomasson

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You may not believe it, but California taxpayers must now pay for the malpractice of “sex changes.” It’s not just happening in some local governments, but now for convicted criminals in California state prisons!

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California sets inmate sex reassignment rules: SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California prison officials have set the first standards in the nation for determining when transgender inmates should receive state-funded sex-reassignment surgery – a move that came after it spent years in court fighting to block the operations.

Under the policy that took effect Tuesday, prison mental health professionals would refer inmates for the surgery.

To qualify, prisoners must be diagnosed with what is formally known as gender dysphoria; lived as a member of the preferred gender for at least 12 months; and expressed a desire for sex-reassignment surgery for at least two years.

How in the world did we get here?

It all started in 1975 in California when homosexuality was decriminalized with a bill by Assemblyman Willie Brown, a San Francisco Democrat. First-term Governor Jerry Brown signed it after Lieutenant Governor Mervin Dymally, another Democrat, broke the tie vote in the state Senate.

Pandora’s Box open, the lie of “live and let live” was preached by moral relativists in order to shut up moral citizens. This was despite the hard evidence that homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality are unnatural, unhealthy, unbiblical, and tyrannical.

Fast forward to today. Thanks to the majority Democrats and a handful for liberal Republicans at the State Capitol, California laws now unabashedly regard homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality as good and natural, when these behaviors are unnatural, unhealthy and harmful. Steamrolling this perverse agenda has been liberal local governments such as San Francisco and Berkeley, as well as the taxpayer-funded University of California, and the Obama Administration. They seem to see unnatural “sex changes” that slice off healthy, God-given body parts as natural as having a baby!

Not surprisingly, the lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender (“LGBT”) agenda no longer permits dissenters to live as they wish. Instead, the new “tolerance” is to punish dissent — the very definition of intolerance.

Therefore, Californians cannot openly exercise their moral values against homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality in hiring and renting. What used to be 100% private ownership of property — whether your small business or your rental property — is no longer real. With the oppressive taxes, regulations, and bad laws, yesterday’s owners have now become virtual sharecroppers of the new “owners,” the “higher” socialistic government power. Bernie Sanders, a Socialist, must be very proud of California!

In the lifelong battle of fact versus fiction and Truth versus lies, I can promise you this: SaveCalifornia.com will continue speaking, teaching, and fighting for real genders, real sex, real families, and real moral values that benefit children. We will not cower, crumble, or succumb, but with your help will keep standing, speaking, and shining the Truth that evidences God’s beneficial will and blessings for people’s lives. Will you stand with me?

Will you help SaveCalifornia.com promote God’s Truth to defeat anti-family lies? Your generous gift today of $10 or more will help us champion moral truth and pierce the darkness with light.

Daily Mail, Jan. 26, 2015: The man who’s had TWO sex changes: Incredible story of Walt, who became Laura, then REVERSED the operation because he believes surgeons in US and Europe are too quick to operate

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Growing up in Los Angeles, Walt had a tough but bearable start in life with a strict mother, a part-time policeman father – living in the shadow of a ‘brainiac’ brother.

When he was five, everything changed.

‘It was then my grandmother, when I was being babysat by her, started dressing me in female clothing. She even made me a purple chiffon evening dress,’ he said.

‘And when dad found out what grandma had been doing, and dressing me up like a girl, it did change everything.

‘His adopted brother Fred began to sexually molest me. Mom’s discipline got even more severe and I would learn much later in life that on one occasion, her discipline was so tough, she thought she had almost killed me.’

The treatment he suffered from those entrusted to protect him made him feel like he was ‘a girl trapped in a male’s body’, he said, and he became reclusive because of it.

37 years later, he would finally take the drastic step to become a woman – and he lived for eight years as Laura Jensen.

See more facts at SaveCalifornia.com’s Not Born This Way

5 reasons to have practical hope

Friday, November 7, 2014, 3:35 pm | Randy Thomasson

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No matter what happens in the government, courts, culture, or elections, don’t despair!

Each day, SaveCalifornia.com knows our purpose — on every issue, to stand tall and true for all that is good and right in God’s sight, and to help others do their part alongside us – no matter the opposition or the outcome.

If you’re a pro-family citizen, this is part of your purpose too. Because shining the light of Truth is what we are each called to do.

But if you’re discouraged about the just-concluded election, here’s some good news to lift you up. Please keep looking up and be responsible to love God and love people alongside SaveCalifornia.com, so that together we will persevere and bear more fruit in the days to come.

Here are 3 current events and 2 timeless truths to give you hope:

1. Supreme Court likely to take up marriage licenses and states’ rights
This week’s pro-real-marriage, pro-states-rights ruling from a federal appeals court in Ohio makes it highly likely that the U.S. Supreme Court will take this and other cases to resolve the legal conflict. This could result in the upholding of state constitutional amendments reserving marriage licenses for one man and one woman, including California’s Proposition 8. Read more

2. Supreme Court will hear new ObamaCare challenge
Today’s good news means hope to roll back tyranny. The nation’s high court will take up four separate lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of a key aspect of ObamaCare. At specific issue is whether it is legal for the federal government to create a state-based “exchange” instead of abiding by the law which specifies only states themselves may establish these “exchanges.” Read more

3. California Democrats denied supermajority
Although the Republican leadership seems to eschew moral and social issues now, on Election Day we saw the net increase of three Republican seats in the Assembly and 1 more seat in the state Senate, which means Republicans have stopped the Democrats from regaining a 2/3rds supermajority that could directly raise taxes on families. Read more

4. Union members don’t have to support immoral candidates
If you’re disgusted with government unions and private unions supporting immoral candidates and issues, the most important things pro-family union members can do is resign from the union and stop believing the lie that union membership is a condition of employment. Find out how

5. If you feel like a loser, change your mind to that of a winner
Teddy Roosevelt was a sickly child who probably felt like a loser. But due to the leadership and challenge of his father, young Theodore, Jr. build up his body and became one of the most energetic public and moral men in the modern history. Read about his transformation

My brothers and sisters, consider it nothing but joy when you fall into all sorts of trials, because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect effect, so that you will be perfect and complete, not deficient in anything.
James 1:2-4 NET Bible

No “need” for new taxes in California

Monday, January 9, 2012, 4:38 pm |

Liberal newspapers like the San Francisco Chronicle are serving as mouthpieces for Governor Jerry Brown, the Democrat politicians, and the government union bosses. Together, they’re claiming only “two choices” in solving California’s state budget mess (created by Democrat state legislators, who have controlled the State Legislature for more than 40 years now).

Writes the Chronicle, “Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget plan released last week poses a stark choice for Californians: approve a five-year $35 billion tax increase in November or watch the hatchet drop on public school funding – with cuts so deep the school year could be shortened by almost a month.”

But no, there aren’t just two choices. The third way to solve the chronic state budget mess is to eliminate TENS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN ANNUAL WASTE, as outlined in SaveCalifornia.com’s Waste Report.

Remember, most of the time, a “temporary tax” isn’t temporary. People get used to it, the bureaucracy says they will always need it, and liberal politicians say they will hurt you with service cuts unless you extend the tax.

And a higher tax bite upon the wealthy means they, as the most mobile of all Americans, can easily move just across the border to Nevada or Arizona, leaving the State of California with less revenue than before.

Finally, “taxing the rich” means punishing job creators. This is exactly opposite of what our Founding Fathers wanted, and means socialism further tramples free enterprise and government dependency replaces the work ethic.

So you see, there is no “need” to raise taxes in California
, which would do more harm to family finances, job creation and sustaining, and the economy as a whole.

ACTION: Please plan to vote NO on Jerry Brown’s tax hikes, should he gather enough signatures to qualify his initiative for the November ballot. But right now, use our 2-page printable report to inform your friends and neighbors that TENS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN ANNUAL WASTE should be eliminated instead.

When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples,
“Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted.”

John 6:12 NIV