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“While the rest of the country (18 states and counting) works to protect children from experimental and dangerous transgender interventions, Dane County is revealing its intention to leave children who identify as transgender with permanent scars—both physical and emotional—all before they are old enough to vote or process whether they want to have children of their own.”
–WISCONSIN FAMILY ACTION
Dane County, Wisconsin, has officially become the first county in the nation to declare sanctuary status for self-identified “transgender and non-binary individuals,” including children.
Last week, the board of supervisors for Dane County, home to the state capital of Madison, passed a resolution on behalf of those with self-diagnosed gender dysphoria. The Madison City Council will be reviewing a similar resolution in the near future.
The designation essentially declares official support for transgender and self-described non-binary people by the county. It establishes “protection from any legislation the state may pass penalizing seekers, providers, or proponents of gender-affirming care,” defining “gender-affirming care” as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-change surgery. It also urges law enforcement “to make enforcing such laws its lowest priority.”
The resolution states,
“Dane County values its transgender and nonbinary residents and vigorously opposes measures that would allow legal violence toward trans people in accessing gender-affirming care or expression.”
After a five-hour meeting full of speeches from LGBTQ activists in support of the measure and some dissenters, the resolution passed on a 25-1 vote, with only one board member abstaining. Board members showed nearly unanimous support for the measure, which would preemptively usurp any law passed by the state of Wisconsin barring access to “gender-affirming care.”
“At least no matter what happens in the other places that I’ve called home throughout my life, Dane County will be a safe place, and somewhere I can keep calling home for as long as I want to be here,” said the director of the local Outreach LGBTQ+ Community Center.
Even a twelve-year-old girl who believes she is a boy spoke up in favor of the cause.
“A lot of the people opposing this have talked a lot about kids and have said like they’re speaking on behalf of kids. I’m 12, and I’m trans, and I live in Dane County. I’m very fortunate that I do live in Dane County because I have received access to gender-affirming care and, quite honestly, that has saved my life,” she said.
Wisconsin Family Action, a conservative Christian group, denounced the resolution prior to the vote in a statement that read:
“While the rest of the country (18 states and counting) works to protect children from experimental and dangerous transgender interventions, Dane County is revealing its intention to leave children who identify as transgender with permanent scars—both physical and emotional—all before they are old enough to vote or process whether they want to have children of their own.”
District 20 Supervisor Jeff Weigand, who was the only board member that voted against the measure, agreed, saying,
“It’s just contrary to God’s design. God designed man, and God designed women, and we should submit to that design authority, which is what He created.”
The United States used to be a sanctuary for those fleeing from religious persecution. It’s why the Pilgrims came to America to establish themselves apart from the Church of England in the early 1600s. Today, this is no longer the case.
America is a sanctuary for lawlessness and for the secular post-modernist religion of the state. Any American “sanctuary” — whether it be a sanctuary for illegal migrants or groomers and butchers of gender-confused children — undermines the rule of law and destroys the functioning of a moral, civilized country.
That’s what the purpose of laws are, after all. Biblically speaking, laws are in place to punish evil, reward good, and protect the vulnerable in society. What are we to think when Dane County implements a new moral that encourages both citizens and law enforcement to ignore such laws?
Dane County has now asserted its power to give special privilege and immunity from the law to wicked adults who line their pockets with the blood of castrated and sterilized children. The county has, in fact, informed police that they should not even protect the children who are targeted by the ideology which leads to such atrocities.
Dane County can call itself a sanctuary, but like so much self-identification in today’s society, it’s a lie. There is no sanctuary for confused and manipulated children in Dane County. There is only Romans 1 depravity. It’s wickedness, lawlessness, delusion, and chaos for which 25 legislators will one day have to give an account.
Ready to dive deeper into the intersection of faith and policy? Head over to our Theology of Politics series page where we’ve published several long-form pieces that will help Christians navigate where their faith should direct them on political issues.
