#179 In which we wonder whatever happened to grammar school civics lessons

Donald Trump, who has been accused of rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment by at least 25 women since the 1970s, is apparently wary of accidentally raping, sexually assaulting or sexually harassing some dude by mistake, which is at least one way to explain his war against transgender individuals. The ConstiToonies Health Department is very wary of venturing into individuals’ private choices about sex and gender, which is why there is a big sign over their entrance door here at HQ reading “Mind Your Own Beeswax.” The government, on the other hand, is eagerly going through every beehive it can find. After smoking trans folks out of the military, the Trump administration is now going for their passports. In the early 90s you could change your designation if you provided evidence of having undergone transition surgery. Fair enough. But according to Solicitor General D. John Sauer, “Private citizens cannot force the government to use inaccurate sex designations on identification documents that fail to reflect the person’s biological sex.” And here’s where our usually adept Health Team comes up short. According to them, transition surgery and all its attendant hormone treatments and the like are, as our chief medical officer put it, “pretty effing biological if you ask me.” In other words, not exactly “inaccurate.”

Oh well. Presumably America will be Great Again once folks who have physiologically transitioned who want to spend a couple of weeks anywhere but in America will now have to pretend none of it ever happened. The rest of us can breathe a lot easier now, and are thanking God for Donald Trump, whose motto is “Su cera de abejas es mi cera de abejas.” [Trans from Sp: “Your beeswax is my beeswax.”]