George Takei compares Republican efforts to protect children from genital mutilation to the 'dark forces' that 'led to ... the Holocaust'

Once a tertiary actor on the 1960s "Star Trek" series, George Takei has since become an outspoken LGBT activist and Biden booster.

The 86-year-old has repeatedly made headlines for questionable takes, such as his defense of fellow LGBT activists who exposed their genitals to children at a Seattle pride parade; public expression of hope that Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) suffer an adverse reaction from a COVID-19 vaccine; and his suggestion that Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers were comparable to concentration camps.

In an apparent attempt to outdo himself, Takei suggested last week that Republican efforts to protect children from irreversible genital mutilation and hormone treatments call to mind the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and the "dark forces ... that led to the horrors of the Holocaust in Europe."

In an Aug. 15 opinion piece for the Daily Beast, Takei once again detailed his family's grievous wartime relocation from Los Angeles to an internment camp in Rohwer, Arkansas.

The actor suggested that upon reflecting on President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's alleged need to scapegoat 125,000 Japanese Americans, he came to "understand what being scapegoated meant: a convenient target for politicians, a way to whip up hate and bigotry to win elections, a place to lay blame where none should lay."

According to Takei, elements of the LGBT community — which has seen its activist flag featured more prominently than the American flag on the White House and had its agenda all but embraced by the whole of the federal government and Wall Street — is being scapegoated.

"Armed with dangerous tropes from over 50 years ago, where gay and trans people are labeled as 'groomers' who are a danger to children, wily politicians such as Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida began a campaign to drive us out, to erase our families and identities in education, in library books, and in our own communities," wrote Takei. "They even targeted retail stores that supported us during our month of Pride."

"More ominously, and in the name of 'protecting' trans kids and in defiance of all expert opinion, politicians at the state level have banned critically necessary trans medical care," continued Takei. "It was not only ignorant, but it was also deliberately cruel."

DeSantis and Republicans in over 18 other states have passed legislation preventing children from undergoing sex-change procedures.

Although such protections have been held up in Georgia, Alabama's law prohibiting the prescription of irreversible puberty blockers to children was re-enforced Monday after an appeals court reversed an injunction following a complaint from the Biden Department of Justice.

The ostensible purpose of these laws is not to scapegoat, but to spare minors the fate of de-transitioners like Daniel Black.

TheBlaze previously reported that Black was given hormone treatments at the age of 17 following a 30-minute consultation. Two years later, he received breast implants and had his penis cut off.

The procedures brought Black neither solace or contentment.

He wrote on Twitter, "The whole experience was horrible and exhausting. I was not able to finish school and my mental state went from bad to worse. I don’t recommend undergoing this surgery to anyone. It’s mutilation. Men will never be women. Women will never be men."

Layla Jane, another of Takei's alleged scapegoats, underwent the "torment" of testosterone injections and puberty blockers at the age of 12, then had her healthy breasts removed at the age of 13.

Jane wrote on Twitter, "Mind boggling to me that a doctor signed off on a double mastectomy for me before I had taken a sex ed course. I barely started 8th grade, I was 13."

Michelle Zacchigna is a 34-year-old woman who suffered an elective double mastectomy and a partial hysterectomy.

On the Gender Dysphoria Alliance website, she said, "I am faced with the reality that I had surgically removed healthy body parts that I could have used to carry and feed my future children. I have male-pattern balding and a deepened voice for the rest of my life. And it seems that I have no recourse for what happened."

Takei suggested that legal protections to ensure more people like Zacchigna, Jane, and Black do not end up sterile, transmogrified, and full of regret are the second step in a multi-step process executed by "dark forces, the kind that led to the horrors of the Holocaust in Europe."

After taking his historic parallels to Europe, Takei concluded his piece by once again suggesting that the opposition to gender ideology and LGBT activism is comparable to Japanese internment, writing, "All of us have a role to play to ensure what happened in America does not ever happen again. In 2024, we, and our allies, must vote as if our lives depend on it—because they do."

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