Sorry to tell Montreal Canadiens fans, but you're still a long way from winning the Stanley Cup.
The road isn't getting any easier:
• The Carolina Hurricanes aren't going anywhere.
• The Florida Panthers will be back and chasing another Cup.
• The Tampa Bay Lightning arguably should have beaten you.
• Even the Buffalo Sabres pushed you to the limit.
And let's be honest, the last three games have been downright humiliating.
Montreal has a bright future, but a Stanley Cup contender? No way
I’m sure you all remember Avery Jackson, the “trans girl” who, at 9, was on the cover of National Geographic in January of 2017. Avery was given the gold standard in gender affirming care: he was chemically castrated and sterilized with “blockers” to hold off male puberty.
Now Avery has come out as “nonbinary” and chosen not to pursue transition, meaning that his puberty was blocked for no reason — but that’s not the worst part. He also identifies as asexual, meaning that he doesn’t experience sexual attraction.
This is undoubtedly the result of the medication used to delay male puberty. The president of WPATH, Dr, “Marci” Bowers, has said on camera that so-called puberty blockers, which are used to chemically castrate sex offenders, chemically castrate the young boys who take them as well, leaving them incapable of arousal or orgasm.
For adult sex offenders, the process is reversible. For boys like Avery, the effects are permanent. He will never feel sexual attraction, or any of the experiences that accompany it. He is also completely sterile; he will never father a child, and his own childhood was spent in the national spotlight. The blockers he was given have also stunted his physical and mental development in irreversible ways. We know from the experiences of other “trans” children that he will never sexually mature - neither physically nor emotionally. All of these things were stolen from him, and he has said that transitioning “ruined my life.”
It’s high time that we stop pretending that children can make an informed decision to transition or take blockers, even if their doctors are honest about the risks and consequences — which most are not.
Blockers are not a pause button. They are not reversible. The intellectual deficits they cause will never repair themselves, and neither will the damage done to the child victim’s body, or to their emotional intelligence and maturity. This will, of course, make it easier to push them into transitioning; ie, to sell them hormones and provide surgical alterations.
Parents like Avery’s, who try to monetize their child’s struggles with gender identity, belong in prison, not on television, and so do the doctors and politicians who were complicit in his chemical castration and sterilization.
In 1987, Illinois teenager Mike Hayes needed nearly $28,000 to attend the University of Illinois, but his family could not afford the cost.
Instead of abandoning his dream, he came up with an unusual idea. He decided to ask 2.8 million people to each send him just one penny.
Hayes wrote to Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene, who shared the story in his nationally syndicated newspaper column.
What started as a small idea quickly spread across the country. Soon, thousands of letters began arriving at his home from strangers who were moved by his determination.
Many people sent pennies exactly as requested, while others mailed dollar bills, checks, coins, and personal notes encouraging him to continue his education.
The response became so overwhelming that bags of mail and donations reportedly filled the local post office.
By the time the campaign ended, Hayes had raised enough money to pay for college and still had about $1,000 left over.
He later graduated debt free in 1991