Wokespy readers, your faithful correspondent lives in Vermont, so I can guarantee that what you’re about to see is actually “normal” in this woke-captured state. It’s a shame, because Vermont is exactly as beautiful as it looks in the postcards. There’s no trickery in the tourist advertising. This rural state of less than 700,000 people really is full of rolling green mountains and tiny Victorian hamlets. The villages feature the classic white church spires and town greens that many people think exist only in old Hollywood movies.
But this state is deeply, deeply weird. That’s not actually strong enough: Vermont is sick in the head.
I have a confession: I’m a former liberal Democrat. When I moved to the Green Mountain State in 2002 to take a job with a nonprofit (I know!), the leftward tilt didn’t stand out to me, since I was part of the crowd. But over the years it’s gotten worse to the point of being absolutely bonkers. Indeed, Vermont’s extremity is part of what forced me to mature and become a conservative.
Check this out from LibsOfTikTok:
That’s right. The state health department believes it is in their wheelhouse to tell fully grown-up, adult residents what they may and may not call their children. They want you to de-sex your family members by never using words like “son” or “daughter,” but to use “child” or “kid” instead. I’m only surprised they didn’t recommend “kiddo,” which seems to be one of the new terms liberal uber-mommies use to signal their allegiance to tribe blue hair.
And God forbid anyone should accurately refer to an “extended family,” because the Vermont Dept. of Health thinks grandma might be upset by that? Strange, since this type of state bureaucrat thinks of anyone elderly enough to have common sense to be a backward bigot whose feelings don’t count anyway.
If this kind of weird linguistic lecturing from a health department strikes you as strange, trust me, it’s “Vermont normal.” The state is doing much, much worse to destroy the health of confused children from troubled families. In 2023, the state passed a so-called “trans sanctuary state” bill. This legislation has legalized the parental kidnapping of children caught up in custody battles. If a mother (and it’s almost always the mother) wants to trans little Johnny and have his genitals removed because he’s “really a girl,” she can take him out of their home state and bring him to Vermont. Once here, the state’s police, social workers, and courts, are barred by law from cooperating with an arrest or extradition warrant for the abducting parent.
Worse, our state’s “Republican” Governor Phil Scott signed the bill with enthusiasm.
Compared to that bill giving the law’s blessing to vivisecting children, the health department’s language nannying seems positively tame. Let’s see what people on social media made of it.
The general public has better sense about children’s needs than the state does, for sure:
Some comic relief:
Speaking as a former progressive, Craig has hit the nail on the head:
