Rather than punish the most heinous criminals, California is rewarding them.
In a startling case, a California man who identifies as a woman is set to receive taxpayer-funded breast augmentation surgery — even though he sits on death row for the murder of two infant children.
As The Sun reported earlier this year, Jason Michael Hann already received “gender-reassignment” surgery in order to change his identity to “Jessica Marie Hann.” He was convicted of the murder of two of his own children — a 10-week-old daughter and a six-week-old son.
While sentencing gave Hann the death penalty, he was saved from execution by an executive order signed by Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom, which suspends capital punishment and places a stay on all scheduled executions. In 2021, Hann was allowed to be transferred to the women’s general prison population after a brief observation period.
The outlet Reduxx noted of Hann’s crimes:
Hann was first arrested after the remains of his 10-week-old daughter, Montana, were discovered stuffed in a tupperware container in Arkansas. The little girl’s body was found in an advanced state of decomposition and had been abandoned onboard an RV trailer once owned by Hann after the vehicle had been repossessed and sent to auction. The buyer of the RV discovered the body in February of 2002, and called police.
Montana’s corpse had been in the plastic tub for approximately one year before she was found, and it was later determined that the baby had died of a fractured skull.
… When found, Hann and [his then-partner, Krissy Werntz] were in custody of a one-year-old child who was reportedly on the brink of death. The infant had a number of severe physical injuries, including a dozen broken ribs, retinal hemorrhaging, bleeding under the skin, and internal damage. The child was immediately placed into protective custody and given appropriate medical treatment.
During the course of the subsequent investigation, authorities linked Hann to a storage locker in Arkansas, one they had local police search. A second corpse was then discovered, one belonging to a 6-week-old son Hann was found to have murdered by head trauma in 1999.
Amie Ichikawa, founder of the women’s advocacy group WomanIIWoman, told Reduxx that she believes the use of taxpayer dollars to provide transition surgery to men is unfair to actual women in detainment who are denied surgery to correct injuries.
“They are quietly watching themselves being erased while men, who have penises, get facial feminization surgeries, laser hair removal, Adams apple reductions … all paid for with your tax dollars,” Ichikawa said.
Public support for transgenderism appears to be declining. According to an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist survey, 61 percent of Americans hold the view that “defining gender as the sex listed on a person’s original birth certificate is the only way to define male and female in society.” This number is up 10 percent from May 2022.
Last year, 42 percent of those who took the survey said they believe the “definition of gender is antiquated and needs to be updated to include identity.” That number fell to just 36 percent in the latest poll.
Republican-dominated states have increasingly taken aim at the inculcation of transgenderism among minors, allowing males in areas such as women’s sports, and the forced recognition of individuals’ preferred “gender identities.”
In Kansas, for example, Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach, who has long held a reputation as a hardliner on various conservative issues, is suing in state court to obtain an order to stop Democratic Governor Laura Kelly from allowing transgender residents to change the sex listed on their driver’s licenses.
In Louisiana, the GOP-led state legislature recently overrode a veto by Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards on a bill banning trans procedures for minors.
Just this year, more than 525 bills in 41 different states have been introduced to limit LGBT practices. Once the new ban goes into force on January 1, 2024, Louisiana will join the ranks of 20 other states in the union with laws on the books cracking down on trans therapies, which include puberty blockers, hormone treatment, and “gender-reassignment” surgery.
Is it a surprise that a rising number of states are cracking down on transgenderism at the behest of their citizens? Cases like that of Jason Michael Hann only highlight the extreme consequences of tolerating and encouraging transgender ideology. When being tolerant results in a child murderer receiving taxpayer funds so that he can live out his delusional fantasies, it is only inevitable that many onlookers will realize the madness has gone too far.
Of course, Democrats’ constant targeting of children for indoctrination, and their simultaneous assault on the rights of parents, has also contributed to the fervent backlash against transgender ideology. The recent waves of laws against transgenderism in various states is likely only the beginning of a pendulum swing back to traditionalist and Biblically based social mores.
