Massachusetts is a state with some pretty warped values.

We just saw it on full display from Governor’s Councilor Mara Dolan.

While the country – including Massachusetts – lowered flags to honor Charlie Kirk after his assassination last week, Dolan went on social media to declare that Massachusetts shouldn’t do it.

"Massachusetts flags should not be lowered for Charlie Kirk," Dolan posted on BlueSky, a left-wing social media site. "He was not an elected representative of the people. He was racist, sexist, homophobic, and did not support Massachusetts values of equal justice and freedom."

In a way, she’s right. He didn’t. Because “Massachusetts values” look a lot different from the ones most Americans hold.

Here are five "Massachusetts values":

1. Dudes Dominating Women's Sports

Massachusetts is Number 1 in the nation in dudes dominating women's sports.

Male transgender-identifying athletes partake in women's sports, as do boys who identify as boys; the latter is allowed because the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in the 1979 decision Attorney General v. MIAA declared not letting boys play on girls' teams when a school lacked an equivalent boys' team violates the state's 1976 voter-approved Equal Rights Amendment.

Thanks to this ruling and the state permitting transgender athletes in women's sports, males have won state titles in field hockey, girls' gymnastics, girls' basketball, and girls' track and field, as NewBostonPost has previously reported. They've also excelled in girls' volleyball, girls' soccer, and girls' swimming. Boys have even won the girls' gymnastics state championship on the vault every year since 2018.

2. Secrecy

The Massachusetts government operates in the shadows.

Our legislature is one of the least transparent in America. The state legislature exempts itself from the public records law, doesn’t put most committee votes on the record, and holds closed-door caucus meetings where the real decisions get made.

And it’s not just the legislature. Massachusetts is the only state in the entire country where the governor’s office, the courts, and the legislature all claim a public records exemption, as NewBostonPost has reported. Every branch of state government shields itself from scrutiny.

The result is a one-party state that avoids accountability. Bills can be killed in secret. Pork spending gets tucked into giant budgets with no debate. Ordinary people have no idea how or why decisions are made.

It’s secrecy by design, and it’s how Beacon Hill likes it.

3. Passive Infanticide

Massachusetts doesn’t care about unborn children – and even some children after they’re already born.

Massachusetts enacted the ROE Act in 2020; it is an abortion expansion bill that, among other things, removed born-alive protections for children who survive abortion attempts.

The result? If a baby survives an attempted abortion, there’s no longer a state law in place guaranteeing the doctor tries to save the child’s life.

Some call the law infanticide. However, the more accurate term is passive infanticide, as it’s a lack of action that results in the already-born child’s eventual death.

Still, it’s sickening either way.

4. Your Wife’s Boyfriend 

Polyamory has gone mainstream in parts of Massachusetts.

The state has seen cities like Somerville, Cambridge, and Arlington legally recognize polyamorous domestic partnerships, as NewBostonPost has reported. Instead of two people, local governments are now recognizing three or more.

It’s a joke that writes itself. However, when people talk about “your wife’s boyfriend,” Bay State politicians aren’t laughing — they’re drafting policy to make it official.

5. Wasting Your Money

Massachusetts is called Taxachusetts for a reason.

It's because the tax-and-spend liberals who dominate the state's political landscape love spending other people's money.

And they spend it in crazier ways than you think.

Yes, you might be aware of the over $1 billion annually our state was spending until recently on its emergency shelter system to put people, including migrants and illegal immigrants, up in hotels and motels over the past few years.

But then there are tax dollars spent on nude modeling, drag queens, and tampons in men's bathrooms, as NewBostonPost has previously noted.

Any state that has taxpayer-funded nude modeling is probably spending too much money, or at least has its spending priorities wrong.

And don't get me started on that waste of money we call the Governor's Council.

Most states don’t even have one. It’s a relic from the colonial era, kept alive in Massachusetts so that eight politically-connected insiders can collect a taxpayer-funded paycheck – $36,025 – for doing next to nothing.

The Council’s main job is to approve judicial nominees — a task that legislatures or the governor alone handle in almost every other state. Massachusetts is the only state with an elected position called the Governor's Council, but New Hampshire's Executive Council has similar responsibilities. Here, we’ve chosen to create an extra layer of government with little accountability, costing taxpayers money.