How Democrats treat minors like adults and adults like minors

The emerging worldview of the Democratic Party is that five-year-olds can make the decision to permanently change their gender, but 21-year-olds are too young to know that committing crimes is wrong.

This dichotomy is on display in Massachusetts, one of the most permissive states in the country when it comes to transgender procedures on minors. Boston Children’s Hospital famously posted several videos asserting that children can be knowingly transgender in utero and that the hospital helps gender-confused children begin their transgender process when they are as young as two or three years old.

Meanwhile, Massachusetts Democrats are considering legislation that would move many adult criminal defendants into the juvenile justice system. The bill would gradually raise the age of juvenile jurisdiction to 21 by 2030, meaning 19-, 20-, and eventually 21-year-old defendants charged with misdemeanors or nonviolent felonies would automatically be handled in juvenile court. Even violent felonies committed by defendants 21