Colorado to Drop The Term ‘Sex Offender,’ Says It’s a ‘Negative’ Label

The slippery slope many conservatives worried about has gotten a lot of grease in recent years. “Women” can have penises. “Men” can give birth. Pregnant mothers are “pregnant people.” Vaginas are “front-holes,” and surgery to remove your sex organs is “gender-affirming surgery.” Parents are “domestic terrorists.”In California, the manipulation of language has reached a fever pitch. The homeless are the “unhoused,” and criminals are “justice-involved individuals .”

Up is down and the sky is green. The reasoning — and I use that term very loosely — behind these changes to millennia of accepted language is that it’s not humans who are flawed and sometimes perverted or dangerous. It is the labels we put on those humans that drives them to do wrong or drives them to feel bad or sad or depressed. If only we could offer them more understanding, more acceptance, we could completely eliminate suicide, crime, and illegal behaviors that plague society… (Excerpts from Red State)