JD Vance is right — don't trust the left's 'experts'

New York Post

4 hours ago

The 'experts' holding sway over our public policy have failed America for what may be the last time — and they're not happy about it.
Boundless trust has been placed in the hands of people who have leaned into their biases, ignored rigorous study and scientific inquiry and led trusting Americans straight off cliffs of financial, medical and social ruin.
But in recent years, we've seen again and again that the 'experts' in everything from climate change to COVID are not as adept as they make themselves out to be — and on Wednesday, the Supreme Court expressly rejected expert claims in a landmark case.
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In a 6-3 ruling, the court found that Tennessee has the right to ban the barbaric practice of child sex changes, as can 26 other states that have passed similarly sensible restrictions.
Justice Clarence Thomas, in a concurrence to Chief Justice John Roberts' majority opinion, called out the attorneys who wanted the court to 'defer to the so-called expert consensus' regarding these inhumane procedures.
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'There are particularly good reasons to question the expert class here,' Thomas wrote.
'Leading voices in this area have relied on questionable evidence, and have allowed ideology to influence their medical guidance.'
Indeed, experts in mental health, medical science and LGBTQ advocacy, led by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, peddled non-science-backed lies that medical sex changes for children are both reversible and life-saving, neither of which has turned out to be true.
'This case,' Thomas noted, 'serves as useful reminder that the American people and their representatives are entitled to disagree with those who hold themselves out as experts.'
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Yet the left is refusing to accept that their experts can be argued with.
Vice President JD Vance proved that when he launched a Bluesky account to have a 'common sense' conversation on the high court's ruling — only to be first banned, then shouted at by leftists who couldn't deal with the notion of respectful dissent.
'Hello Bluesky,' the veep posted, 'I found Justice Thomas' concurrence on medical care for transgender youth quite illuminating.'
'He argues that many of our so-called 'experts' have used bad arguments and substandard science to push experimental therapies on our youth,' Vance continued. 'Many of those scientists are receiving substantial resources from big pharma to push these medicines on kids . . . What do you think?'
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'I think you're an a–hole, and I think you don't actually give a f–k what actual scientists say about actual research,' responded one unhinged pro-butchery Bluesky user.
'I think you're a disingenuous bigot and I think you lack basic human empathy and anything resembling a soul.'
'There's certainly more scientific evidence to support transgender care than supports your belief in sky fairies,' another responded.
The 'experts' themselves, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, got their panties in a bunch over the court's ruling — which simply upheld the right of states to determine if sex-change drugs and surgeries should be legal for minors within their borders.
'The Supreme Court's decision today does not change the science,' the AAP railed. 'Gender-affirming care remains evidence-based, medically necessary care that improves the health and well-being of transgender youth.'
The group refused to back down from its position that permanently preventing children from growing up healthy and whole is the right thing to do.
And it didn't admit that these kids are doomed to become lifelong medical patients, or that boys given puberty blockers and hormones can never experience normal sexual function, or that the denial of sex-change procedures does not in fact lead to suicide.
These are all facts that attorney Chase Strangio, who argued the case for the American Civil Liberties Union, was forced to admit before the court.
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'This is a heartbreaking ruling, making it more difficult for transgender youth to escape the danger and trauma of being denied their ability to live and thrive,' wept Lambda Legal.
The ACLU, which brings endless cases to defend such offenses as men in women's prisons and males in women's sports, slammed the ruling for telling 'transgender youth and their families that they cannot access healthcare that is vitally important for a successful life.'
Talk about cope.
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Thomas and Vance are right: Too much power and trust has been given to people who claim to have expertise, but are really just making things up as they go along.
The left refuses to realize its own folly, which has cost the health of thousands of American children in service to lies.
With 'experts' like theirs, we're all better off relying on people who lean into common sense and decency.
Libby Emmons is the editor-in-chief at the Post Millennial.