Obama salutes transgender ‘mothers’ in annual Mother’s Day proclamation
President Barack Obama saluted transgender “mothers” in his
annual Mother's Day proclamation, the first-ever explicit reference to
biological males acting as mothers in the history of the annual presidential
message.
Obama wrote the encomium in the first paragraph of his statement, released on Friday.
“Regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital
status, mothers have always moved our Nation forward and remained steadfast in
their pursuit of a better and brighter future for their children,” Obama wrote.
In last year's proclamation, Obama hailed all
mothers, “[w]hether married or single, LGBT or straight, biological, adoptive,
or foster.” However, his usage appeared to highlight the mother's sexual
orientation, not their underlying biology.
One pro-life leader said that conflating the two binary sexes in
such a public way confuses children.
“Now the 'transgendered,' if they have children, can be
celebrated twice a year as their children prefer to think of them as either
'mother,' or 'father,' or both,” said Samuel B. Casey, general counsel of the Law of Life
Project. Such a classification, he said, is “confusing, but
sufficiently inclusive to pass President Obama's evolving politically correct
proclamation of motherhood in America.”
WND.com Managing Editor David Kupelian, author
of the book The Snapping of the American Mind, called
this year's statement “head-spinning LGBT madness.”
“With Obama, everything is political – employed to advance his
perversely transformative agenda,” even Mother's Day.
“Perhaps the fact that Obama had a transgender
nanny as a young boy in
Indonesia (a gay transgender man named Evie) has something to do with Obama's
outlook,” he wrote.
Obama wrote in the proclamation that “mothers – biological,
foster, or adoptive – are our first role models and earliest motivators.”
As a young child, living with his mother and adoptive father in
Indonesia, a biological male named Turdi acted as his nanny. However, Turdi
identified as a woman named Evie.
Rudy Yara, who lived across the street from Obama’s childhood
home, said Turdi “was a nice person and was always patient and caring in
keeping young Barry.” The Associated Press reports, “Neighbors recalled that
they often saw Evie leave the house in the evening fully made up and dressed in
drag.”
For his part, the nanny contends, “I never let [Barack] see me
wearing women’s clothes. But he did see me trying on his mother’s lipstick
sometimes.”
“That used to really crack him up,” he said.
Transgender people make up at most 0.3 percent of the American
population, according to the Williams Institute.
Obama's annual statement overlaps with efforts of the nation's
leading abortion organizers to promote abortion-on-demand, as well as a new
line of cards that celebrate transgender and illegal alien mothers.
The cards, produced by the left-wing group Strong Families,
celebrate "Mama's Day" for sexual and gender identity minorities. “We
see the trend of families defining themselves beyond the picket fence—across
generation, race, gender, immigration status, and sexuality—as a powerful and
promising development for the U.S., and we want to help policy makers catch
up,” the group says.
Strong Families partners with
the National Network of Abortion Funds, the
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Rights, and the Center for Reproductive Rights, among numerous
other socially liberal groups.
On Twitter yesterday, the group's cards were promoted by both NARAL Pro-Choice America and Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood drew outrage over a series of tweets, stating
it is “committed to building a world that values...motherhood,”
and “every person's right to become a mother, if
and when they are ready.”
