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Transgender hostility

That a federal judge has blocked interference in the medical management of transgender care is good. That a judicial act was required to do so is not good.

As a practicing physician, I often encountered new recommendations that I received with skepticism, but I assiduously followed them. In the end I was always wrong, and the medical scientists were always right.

Though I am no longer in practice I am still excited by new information that opens our eyes to phenomena that were always there but never recognized or understood.

The hostility towards transgender management puzzles me. New information leading to better care should be exciting, not frightening or off putting. When someone begins to irreversibly reject credible new knowledge because it doesn’t correspond to their personal narrative their cognitive life is effectively ended. After that, it’s just putting in time before death terminates the brief period of consciousness in this world.

I wish I had understood that when I was younger. Through indifference or ignorance I lost many opportunities to enrich my short experience here. Don’t close your mind, fill it up while you can. It’s fun.

John Vance, Versailles

The unhealthy air pollution caused by the Canadian wild fires is proving to be more harmful than any “man-made” pollution. And yet, climate change advocates are silent about this naturally occurring event and the dangers which it presents to everyone’s health. Why? It’s simple: it doesn’t support their narrative that Mother Nature, rather than man, will always have the final say over anything which man does.

Dale Henley, Lexington

Light sentence

Former President Donald Trump on his social media complained Hunter Biden got “a slap on the wrist.”

On January 6, 2021, a defeated Donald Trump gave the entire country “a slap in the face.”

And the whole world saw it except Republicans.

Judy Rembacki, Lexington

Barr hypocrisy

I find it interesting that U.S. Rep. Andy Barr is out front, taking credit for the recent $8.1 million grant for Lexington infrastructure from the U.S. Department of Transportation when he voted NO on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act that provides such funding.

And it’s not the first time he has done such a thing without a mention of the fact that President Biden helped push this bipartisan bill through in spite of his “no” vote.

Does anyone else see the hypocrisy in this?

John Zink, Lexington

Liberal agenda

I appreciate Roger Guffey’s litany of liberals’ list of accomplishments. However, today’s liberal is not your daddy’s liberal.

Liberals from yesteryear must be turning over in their graves at the state of our country. Hypersexualized content being forced upon young children, i.e. “Are you a boy, girl or neither? Biological men competing in sports against women. Young women forced to share locker rooms where biological males bare their genitals. Normalizing male drag queens shaking their rear ends in young children’s faces.

A trans woman ripped her shirt off and grabbed her bare fake breasts on the south lawn of the peoples’ White House, like it was Jerry Springer hour.

Then there were the lockdowns; forcing of useless masks that are harmful, especially to children; and workers forced to get a mandated experimental product or else lose their jobs. There are reams of information out there now about the dangers of the vaccination shots, and the people who have been harmed and killed by them, the families ruined. Pharmaceutical companies made billions and had no liability. Liberals applauded and denigrated those who exercised choice and bodily sovereignty.

People were forced to let relatives die alone in a hospital because the propaganda of fear was shoved down their throats by the liberal media. And the worst: communist type censorship of so-called misinformation, which we know now was actual true information.

Roger, do you think our forebears would embrace the wholesale censoring of free speech of United States citizens?

Roger and his fellow liberals need to remove the blinders and ponder how far our country has fallen. Instead of blaming a whole subset of people, let’s collaborate toward bringing respect and decency back to America.

Nina Reidmiller, Lexington

Indicted candidates

I get it now. MAGA thinks running and electing a candidate who is under indictment or convicted, a man of numerous and astounding moral failings, is the winning play in the game of “Own The Libs” - the ultimate way to let America know how little MAGA cares about… America.

Yet, I still believe that Americans will realize the absurdity of electing an indicted or convicted person to be President. We know it is nothing short of insanity. Most Americans don’t find it amusing or funny. Maybe it would help if they would look at it this way: Men and women have given their lives to sustain our system of government. Do you think that voting for, or electing a man who is under Federal criminal indictment will honor those sacrifices? Or is the real object of the 2024 election to let everybody know how pissed off you are?

Go ahead, vote for a man who thought so little about our national security he kept classified documents in his bathroom! His bathroom, for God’s sake. Vote for him. You win the final round of “Own The Libs”!

And America will lose.

DeAeth Ross, Lexington

Campaign donations

In a June 23rd story on KET’s “Comment on Kentucky,” Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron criticized Gov. Andy Beshear for accepting illegal campaign contributions for the current governor’s race; implying that the subsequent return of the contributions was due to Cameron’s having exposed the violations.

For the record, I have, without prompting, received at least four checks during the primary and the general election campaign periods from the Beshear campaign because I unknowingly exceeded the contribution limits.

Based upon my own experience, the inference that Gov. Beshear routinely accepts illegal contributions is, in fact, false.

Kathryn Mershon, Louisville

Dear Governor Andy;

While I greatly appreciate your competent leadership through the pandemic, I am appalled by your betrayal of the citizens of this commonwealth by your acceptance and promotion of bitcoin mining. For someone who so proudly boasts of job creation, the number of jobs created by bitcoin mining represents less than 0.5% of the jobs created by manufacturers on a per kilowatt basis. For instance, Toyota Manufacturing uses, on average, 50MW of electricity while employing over 7,000 Kentuckians. Bitcoin mining, on the other hand, uses over 1GW while employing less than 700. If Toyota Manufacturing expanded to 1GW, they would employ over 149,000 people with more than $10B in salaries. Furthermore, the loss of 1GW of grid capacity to bitcoin mining will greatly drive the price of electricity as a recent study shows that bitcoin mining resulted in small businesses and households paying an extra $92 million and $204 million annually in electricity bills in upstate New York. Bitcoin mining will do the same here, and you will take the blame. Sadly, your total lack of concern on this issue is leading me to look for other candidates to support.

Dr. Daniel Lau, Lexington

This story was originally published June 30, 2023 at 11:21 AM.