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James Talarico is the Democrat running for the US Senate against Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. I most recently wrote about him here.\u00a0Paxton is a Texas Republican, which is to say he\u2019s respectably conservative. Talarico is a Texas Democrat, which is to say he\u2019d be far better off running for a city council in California. In appearance, speech, and increasingly rapid backpedaling from his lifelong leftist positions, he\u2019s the living embodiment of the proposition that there is no such thing as a moderate Democrat. Since he has been a member of the Texas House, there\u2019s plenty on record from which to backpedal.\u00a0<\/p>

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\u201c\u2026during the 2023 debate over SB 14, provided exclusively to Breitbart News, show Talarico arguing against the bill he ultimately voted against. The legislation was\u00a0described\u00a0as \u201crelating to prohibitions on the provision to certain children of procedures and treatments for gender transitioning, gender reassignment, or gender dysphoria and on the use of public money or public assistance to provide those procedures and treatments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Talarico\u00a0asserted\u00a0that \u201cgender \u2026 is a spectrum,\u201d echoing his earlier\u00a0claim\u00a0during a 2021 Texas House public education committee meeting that \u201cmodern science\u201d recognizes \u201csix\u201d biological sexes.<\/p>\n

He further\u00a0stated, \u201cBefore this bill was filed, there was plenty of evidence that not treating extreme gender dysphoria can not only lead to suicide, but can lead to psychological and physical harm to a child, and since this bill is filed, the New England Journal of Medicine released a study of 350 young people with gender dysphoria who were receiving hormonal therapy, and it showed that that therapy reduced anxiety and depression \u2026 I\u2019m asking us to follow that evidence, follow that science, and I\u2019m disturbed that this body is not willing to let doctors make these decisions,\u201d Talarico said.<\/p>\n

Talarico\u00a0added\u00a0that doctors had a \u201cmoral obligation\u201d under the \u201cHippocratic oath\u201d to treat children\u2019s gender dysphoria.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

By that, he didn\u2019t mean psychological treatment to alleviate their mental illness. That would be far too sane.<\/p>\n

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The Presbyterian seminarian and former teacher previously\u00a0described\u00a0denying children sex-change treatments as \u201cchild abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Many Texans, from their first look at Talarico, without hearing a word he\u2019s said, have called him \u201ccreepy.\u201d And then he opened his mouth:<\/p>

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Talarico has also backpedaled from his assertions that God is \u201cnon-binary,\u201d and Jesus is a \u201cradical feminist.\u201d He bragged that his Texas House office was the first to \u201cadd pronouns to our official business cards,\u201d supported men playing on women\u2019s sports teams, and so much more. He\u2019s the guy\u2014in\u00a0\u00a0Texas(?!)\u2014who called women \u201cneighbors with a uterus,\u201d and said men pretending to be women need abortion care.<\/p>\n

Most Texans would label that crazy.<\/p>\n

His latest backpedal might just be his most spectacular and damaging. Sure, he was caught on video while wearing a paper medical mask, announcing his campaign was reducing meat consumption\u2014in Texas(?!)–and would only deal with local vegan businesses, the better to fight existential Climate Change, and later tried to deny it. In his Dukakis tank moment, he had himself photographed uncomfortably gnawing on a huge chunk of barbecue while wearing a Texas flag shirt that obviously came right out of the package. It\u2019s a wonder the price tag wasn\u2019t still attached. But that\u2019s small toast to Texans compared with supporting the mutilation of kids\u2019 genitals.<\/p>\n

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Texas Democrat James Talarico recently said he opposes gender reassignment surgeries for minors, despite voting against Texas legislation banning certain gender-transition procedures and treatments for children and arguing that restrictions on treatment for extreme gender dysphoria could harm minors.<\/p>\n

Talarico, now a Texas U.S. Senate candidate running against Attorney General Ken Paxton,\u00a0made\u00a0the comment during a recent podcast appearance, saying, \u201cI oppose gender reassignment surgeries for minors.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There\u2019s video of Talarico saying the opposite on the Texas House floor too.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t born in Texas, but as the saying goes, got there as soon as I could. Having lived and taught there for two decades and traveled constantly in the Dallas\/Ft. Worth Metroplex and the surrounding North Texas suburbs and rural areas, I can confidently predict that even though some Texans might not consider Paxton the perfect\u00a0candidate, they certainly don\u2019t see Talarico as representative of Texas or American values.<\/p>\n

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Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, lifelong athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer, and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is<\/em>\u00a0Stately McDaniel Manor.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>

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