Off the Cuff: Sonia Sotomayor Has No Good Options
On June 18, 2025, the Supreme Court upheld, 6 to 3, a Tennessee law banning “gender transition” treatments for minors. It should come as no surprise to anyone who’s been plugged into authentic news sources over the past decade or so that Justice Sonia Sotomayor, one of the 3, argued that the Tennessee law clearly discriminated on the basis of sex.
Sotomayor wrote, “The Court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims.”
Thus does Sotomayor present us with five possibilities concerning herself:
She will go to any length, no matter how absurd, to shoehorn her progressivism into the wording of the Constitution.
She does not understand that a person who claims to be a gender other than the gender defined by his/her DNA and listed on his/her birth certificate is either mentally ill or lying. In either case, his/her claim is not protected by the Constitution.
If 2, above, is true, then Sotomayor is intellectually challenged and therefore not qualified to serve on the Supreme Court.
If 2, above, is not true, then Sotomayor is a liar and knows she is lying and is not, therefore, qualified to serve on the Supreme Court.
If 1, above, is true, then Sonia Sotomayor is not qualified to serve on the Supreme Court and by appointing her, Barack Obama sought primarily to undermine the Constitution that he had sworn to defend.
I recently told a self-identified progressive, who seemed to be having difficulty answering my question, “What is a progressive?” that the answer is, “Progressives believe new ideas are, with rare exception, better than old ideas.” She denied the truth of that, which I fully expected, in which case any further “conversation” would have been meaningless.
Conservatives believe there is no new philosophy or principle of living to be discovered. It’s quite simple, really: to wit, human beings are born with an inclination to do bad things, and no individual human being can be trusted until he accepts that he was born bad and can’t, therefore, be trusted.
Every human being falls somewhere on “the spectrum.” No, not the spectrum invented by mental health professionals for the sole purpose of creating a new income stream, but the narcissistic spectrum.
On their first day in the Garden, at the instant of partaking of the forbidden tree, Adam and Eve’s point of view shifted from God-centric to self-centric. That’s what is meant by “And their eyes were opened.” (That’s not what your pastor is likely to tell you, by the way, but trust me here.) And self-centricity has ruled us ever since. Self-centricity spawns humanism, which spawns moral relativism, which eventually spawns the belief that it is possible for a person to “transition” from one gender to another.
Anyway, some folks are low on the spectrum, some group around the middle, and then there are those who are raging narcissists of the sort represented by the Jeffrey Epsteins of the world. The word usually used to describe someone who is 7 or above on the 10-point narcissism spectrum is “sociopath.” By the way, one sure-fire trait of narcissism is accusing other people of narcissism. In psychology, it’s known as “projecting.”
People who claim to be the gender not indicated by an analysis of their DNA are either out of their ever-loving minds or they are raging sociopaths. My experience tells me most of them are the latter. The “transgender” ranks are populated by people who possess an overriding need for attention. They can only obtain the amount of attention they need by positioning themselves at the center of a soap opera, a drama, of their own making.
Every person reading this knows someone of the sort I’m talking about…a person who seems to thrive on victimhood of one sort or another. He was raised by bad parents; therefore, he cannot be held fully responsible for any stupid or sociopathic thing he does. He has a biochemical imbalance (so says a psychologist who did nothing but talk to him); therefore, he cannot be held fully responsible for any stupid or sociopathic thing he does. He has PTSD from being bullied as a child (so says a psychologist blah blah blah); therefore, blah blah blah.
Or, the current sociopathy du jour, he/she has been trapped in the wrong body his/her entire life; therefore, he/she blah blah blah.
Let me be clear:
a. There is no such thing as a person who is “transgender.” It is not possible to change one’s gender by any means. Not with surgery, not with chemicals, not with psychotherapy, and certainly not by public proclamation.
b. A person who believes the previous statement is incorrect is not qualified to hold ANY public office.
c. Sonia Sotomayor believes (a), above, is incorrect.
d. Therefore, Sonia Sotomayor should be removed from office and assigned to curate indigenous flora in Antarctica.
Okay, so here’s the QUESTION OF THE WEEK: What is the point of a vanity plate that only the driver understands? The person who gives the best answer (send by July 1 to john@rosemond.com) receives a FREE, no-strings-attached, copy of my latest and greatest book, The Bible Parenting Code.
Copyright 2025, John K. Rosemond
John, you are so right about everything in this column! Since the “transgender” craze became a cause du jour in the media, I have met several people who either claim to be transgender or claim to have a transgender child (or children). In my little corner of the world, my observation is that these claims are totally about attention seeking, virtue signaling and really bad parenting. I have also observed - again, in my limited experience - that none of the “transgenders” nor their parents are political conservatives.
The first parent I ever encountered who made this claim about her child (and it always seems to be the mother who is “oh so proud” of her “brave” child for deciding s/he is the opposite sex) is a woman I have known for almost 30 years. The mother in question was kind of a spoiled brat, and was a person who was always demanding promotions, raises, etc., based on her own evaluation of her performance (I was her boss at work). She was never satisfied with what she had, always wanting more and she wanted it RIGHT NOW!
She eventually got married and had two children, a boy and a girl. Her husband was kind of lazy and an underachiever, while she went on to be pretty successful. Her son - the first born - was a smart child, good in school, a gifted athlete and a kid who had lots of friends. As such, he got a lot of positive attention from his parents, teachers, coaches and friends. The daughter kind of grew up in his shadow, never quite measuring up. When the daughter was 14 her older brother was accepted at a “prestige” university on an athletic scholarship and went away to college. At the same time the daughter was dumped by a boy she liked and suddenly announced that she was a boy and wished to be called Kyle, which was kind of a masculine version of her actual name. At first her parents just laughed it off, never having heard of someone proclaiming to be the opposite sex. But the daughter was quite insistent, and eventually the school got involved. A principal/parent conference was called and the parents were told in no uncertain terms that their daughter was now their son (because she proclaimed it to be so) and the parents were required to climb aboard the crazy train. The principal gave them the name of a clinical psychologist and demanded that they make an appointment for family therapy. This therapy was not directed at addressing the child’s demands that the family live in her fantasy world, but instead was directed toward the parents accepting this and not only allowing their daughter to live pretending to be a boy, but to forcing the parents to believe that this was completely reasonable and anyone (like grandparents, aunts and uncles, etc) who did not play along was cut out of their lives. Obviously by jumping aboard the transgender train the daughter got the attention and affirmation she so desperately craved, from her parents, teachers and shrink.
This crazy fantasy went on for three years until the daughter was a senior in high school and met a boy she was attracted to. Suddenly she was no longer a boy, started dressing and acting more like a girl and went back to her given name. Thank God nobody went to the extreme of “gender reassignment” drugs and surgery during her extended visit to crazy world.