A controversial “transgender trafficking” bill officially became Maine law on Monday after receiving the signature of Gov. Janet Mills.
The bill, LD 227, grants legal protections for providers of abortions and transgender surgeries who preform their services on people from states with more restrictive laws than Maine.
The bill institutes legal rights to “gender-affirming health care” and “reproductive health care,” and provides for legal action to be taken against anyone who interferes with someone trying to procure those services.
One portion of the law, which has raised serious concerns among Republicans and parental rights activists, provides legal protections to anyone bringing a minor into Maine for an abortion or to receive transgender treatment.
The protections will apply even if the adult is not a parent of the minor, and has not notified the parents.
I have decided to focus some attention on Maine because it is a small state and one I know fairly well. Maine politics, to my eye, appears to be the outcome of rigged elections, corrupt ideologues, and Soros-like legal and political tactics. It is a microcosm of what is happening or has already happened in every state in USA. Blessed with the lowest crime rate in the nation and a mild-mannered rural population that still lives by traditional American values, it is disturbing to watch Maine be torn apart by single-issue justice warriors, all of whom profit greatly from their misguided passions. Presently, Maine is a gynocracy with a triumvirate of true-believers self-righteously wielding power against the will of the majority of Maine’s rural and working-class populations and those with deep family roots going back many generations. ABN
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