Fox News' Tucker Carlson on Gender Reassignment Surgery for Kids
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With the most basic ethical guidelines gone, gone completely ignored, you should not be surprised to learn that some hospitals have decided to monetize the mental anguish of children. Consider the University of California at San Francisco Hospital. UCSF, despite its august reputation, is not even trying to behave responsibly with children who ve been convinced by TikTok they should change their sex.
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With the most basic ethical guidelines gone completely ignored, you should not be surprised
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to learn that some hospitals have decided to monetize the mental anguish of children.
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Consider the University of California at San Francisco Hospital. Supposedly it's one of the
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best in the world. UCSF, despite its august reputation, is not even trying to behave responsibly
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with children who've been convinced by TikTok they should change their sex. So a new trend comes
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along propelled by social media. It didn't exist before at scale. Now it does. Rather than pausing
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and asking what is this and how can we help the children, they blow right past it. UCFS Hospital's
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current guidance for treating so-called transgender youth is this. We got this right from their
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website. Quote, as youth are transitioning at increasingly younger ages, genital surgery
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is being performed on a case-by-case basis more frequently in minors. Genital surgery on children.
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This is a very big step. It's irreversible. So you wonder what is the medical basis for this?
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Well, a few sentences later, UCFS Hospital admits that there is no medical basis. Instead, quote,
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in the absence of solid evidence, providers often must rely on the expert opinions of innovators
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and thought leaders in the field. So UCSF is conducting genital surgeries on minors based on,
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quote, thought leaders in the field? What does that mean? Well, it means the human rights campaign
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is in favor of it. It means activists are pushing it. It means there's no scientific data to justify it.
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This is horrifying. Why is this happening? And how widespread is it? No one seems to be interested.
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Virtually alone in our media, Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire decided to find out the answers to those
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questions. And in that search, he obtained this video. It's from 2018. The video shows a physician
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called Shane Taylor from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, which like UCFS, SF has a global
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reputation for excellence. In this video, Taylor explains that Vanderbilt performs gruesome sexual
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surgeries on children. Why? Because those surgeries make Vanderbilt money. Oh, it makes money. So this
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huge new trend appears, again, driven not by medical research, but by social media convincing
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children they can change their sex. And Vanderbilt, rather than pausing and asking once again,
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how do we help these children? What is this? Decides, oh, there's money there. We're all in.
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Now, it's hard to believe that everyone at Vanderbilt Hospital could possibly be for this
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because it's completely irresponsible and wrong. So what would happen if a physician at Vanderbilt,
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a conscientious objector, disagreed with mutilating children for profit? That's a key question.
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So another doctor called Ellen Clayton explained what would happen. Again, this video we're about
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to show you has also been around since 2018, but no one in the media cared to look at it until Matt
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Walsh found it this week. If you were going to assert conscientious objection,
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you have to realize that that is problematic. You are doing something to another person
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and you are not paying the cost for your belief. I think that is a real, I mean, I think that's a real
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issue, but I just want you to take home that saying that you're not going to do something because of your
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conscientiousness, because of your religious beliefs is not without consequences and it should not be
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without consequences. And I just want to put that out there. We are given enormous, if you don't want
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to do this kind of work, don't work at Vanderbilt. Oh, so if you object to this, leave. You can't work
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at Vanderbilt, quote. So Vanderbilt clearly thought this through. Not everyone's going to be for this,
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so let's just make it really, really clear. If you're not fully on board with sexually mutilating
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children for non-medical reasons on the basis of no medical evidence, then you just leave.
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But that wasn't enough. They anticipated that this is so horrifying that some doctors might
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still step out of line. They might tell 16-year-olds that they have a psychological disorder or
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this will pass or maybe stop watching so much TikTok. And no, we're not going to mutilate
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your genitals or cut your breasts off, at least until you're an adult. But if they said that,
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that would, of course, hurt the business model. So Vanderbilt recruited activists, trans activists,
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Everybody provides trained peer advocates for transgender patients who are coming for doctor's
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appointments or other healthcare-related services. Whether you're looking for something that's
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related to medical transition, such as hormone therapy, or something completely unrelated,
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like breaking an arm or going to an A&T, we are here to help support any transgender patients
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that come through our doors. The transbuddy program is a one-of-a-kind in the nation,
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and institutions are looking to Vanderbilt to replicate and expand programs like ours.
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Oh, transbuddies. Right. Enforcers, in other words. It's like having the mafia standing over
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your shoulder while you're on the witness stand. Doctors should be, in fact, have to be allowed to
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give politically unbiased counsel to their patients without being intimidated. But the whole point of
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a transbuddy system is to prevent that. In one video from Vanderbilt, the transbuddies say they're on the
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lookout for doctors who don't use the right pronouns because that's, quote, unsafe. Get in line or we'll
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crush you. So Matt Walsh brought all of this to the surface just the other day. And in response to it,
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rather than defend it or explain it, Vanderbilt University Medical Center took its entire website
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offline. And no doubt at some point they'll be claiming it's unsafe for them, that the people who
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are shocked by what they're doing are actually the criminals here and that they're getting
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threatening phone calls. They're gonna have to call the DOJ and anyone who comments on it is
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going to get a visit from the FBI. But the truth is people who are horrified by this
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are not the bad actors. Vanderbilt is the bad actor. Vanderbilt has just admitted on camera to
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castrating children as young as 13 years old. This is from Vanderbilt psychiatry's YouTube page
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from 2020. We can provide gender-affirming hormones on an individual who is on a pubertal blocker,
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depending on whatever kind of blocker they've chosen or we have discussed with them. Or they
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can present to us at a later stage of puberty and then we provide the gender-affirming hormones.
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Previously, the Endocrine Society recommended to start these at age 16, but we all know that would
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be delayed puberty, right? 16-year-olds don't start puberty. So more recently, they did update that to
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say as early as 14 for compelling reasons. So we have some individuals who have started
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gender-affirming hormones at 13 or 14 to be more like their peers. Has anyone at Vanderbilt
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Medical Center ever had a 14-year-old? And what sort of person would give a 14-year-old,
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do you know what they're like if you've lived with one before? Would chemically castrate a 14-year-old
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because he or she saw something on TikTok that suggested it was a good idea? This is lunacy.
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But the same YouTube page also confirms that Vanderbilt will happily perform double
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mastectomies in adolescent girls after they've drugged them because, you know,
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it's pretty lucrative actually. Here's plastic surgeon Julianne Winokur and physician's assistant
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Shaylin Vanderblomen. Watch. For any kind of top surgery, we do require one letter of persistent,
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well-documented gender dysphoria by a licensed mental health provider. We ensure that the patient is
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capable of making fully informed decisions on their own. They're the age of majority.
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However, for a lot of our younger patients, again, if they are 16, 17 here at Vanderbilt,
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if they have been on testosterone, have a parental consent,
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we're able to do a lot of the top surgeries for those patients.
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So again, this is a hospital filled with physicians and ethicists and other adults
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who ought to be stepping in to protect children from their worst impulses, from the latest fad,
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from their parents' neuroses. But they're not doing that because it's just too profitable to destroy the
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lives of kids. So who should be the backstop against this? Who are the people who oversee this who
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really should be exercising adult wisdom here and restraint? Well, that would be, by definition,
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the Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Board of Directors. And we're going to name them now in the
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hope that these people will do something to stop these crimes before the lives of more children are
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destroyed. So the board members would include Edith Carroll Johnson, John F. Stein, Jeffrey R. Balzer,
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Lucinda M. Bayer, Daniel Diermeyer, Sarah J. Finley, John R. Ingram, Michael M. E. Johns,
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Samuel E. Lynch, Alexander C. Taylor, and Makeba Williams. Let's hope these people, this is the board
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that oversees all of this, let's hope these people act immediately to stop this crime.
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But to be clear, it's not just Vanderbilt. We called UCLA's hospital today, and they told us
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they'd be happy to mutilate our child. They just need a referral for insurance purposes.
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So did Weill Cornell Medicine. One of our producers, Sammy, called Cornell about getting breast implants
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for her 15-year-old son, who she said was, quote, questioning his gender identity. Just questioning.
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Here's what they said in response. It's regarding my son. He is questioning his gender identity,
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and he was interested in treatments. This would be for plastic surgery.
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Dr. Otterburn does perform top surgery, if that's what you're referring to. If they're minor,
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how do you get to that stage? All right, so I can make you an appointment to come in for a
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consultation to have a discussion. Mm-hmm. So it's for my son, who's a minor, so he can just come in,
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or do I have to go with him, or how does that work? How old is he? I'm 15. 15, okay.
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Yeah, I would come with him. Yeah, breast implants for a 15-year-old boy, yeah,
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I'd come with him. Whatever. And it's not just UCLA. The account libs of TikTok, which the
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Washington Post is desperately trying to get scrubbed from the internet, recently recorded
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a similar call with Boston's Children's Hospital. Listen. I just need to want to know if you guys do
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service that age, you know, before obviously, before coming, you know, coming all the way for
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an in-person consult and going through all the paperwork and everything. Well, yeah, it depends.
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Like, each department's different. Some departments come out for 18. How old is your patient? 16.
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Okay, all right, so they're in the clear. So they would do it for that age?
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Yes. Okay, great. Is it a common procedure that you guys do for that age?
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Yes. We have all different type of age groups that comes in for that.
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So Boston Children's Hospital is now playing the victim here. Anyone who criticizes this is a threat
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and a danger and get DOJ involved. The Washington Post, New York Times jump on. Anyone who questions
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this is evil. But that, of course, is the opposite of the truth. The people doing this
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know that what they are doing is evil. They know perfectly well. And that's why Vanderbilt took
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down its website after Matt Walsh reported on it. There is no scientific basis for any of this. It
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does not help children. It harms children. That is known. It's also obvious when you're not a parent.
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Researchers in Stockholm studied the effects of transgender surgery over a period of 30 years.
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What did they find? Well, we'll tell you again. Quote,
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persons with transsexualism after sex reassignment have considerably higher risks for mortality,
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suicidal behavior and psychiatric morbidity than the general population.
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30 year study. And it's not just one study. More than a thousand patients at the Tavistock
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Gender Clinic in the UK have just sued the clinic. They say they were pressured into life destroying
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treatments. And that clinic is now being shut down. And that will happen in this country.
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This is a fad. And because there are no adults left, no one has put up a hand and say, slow down.
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But five years from now, we're going to look back in this, like a lot of things we've done recently,
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like destroying public art and statues and the COVID vaccine, so many other things that we've
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done without thinking about it in an environment where no one's allowed to protest. And we're going to
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look back in shame and horror. So Amy Tishelman is the lead author of the guidelines for the World
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Professional Association for Transgender Health. And Tishelman just admitted that recommendations
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for gender affirming hormones and surgeries were removed from the internet to eliminate a paper trail
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and avoid lawsuits when inevitably practitioners followed them. Watch.
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We were thinking and it was scary for me about the potential uses of the chapter for legal and
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insurance context. Again, what we didn't want to do was create a chapter that would make it more likely
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that practitioners would be sued because they weren't following exactly what we said.
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This is completely wrong. They won't even defend it. They won't even answer simple questions about
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what it is. And again, it's irreversible. Hospitals are mutilating children. Boston Children's Hospital,
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UCSF, Cornell, UCLA, Vanderbilt and others. And they should all stop immediately, no matter how much it
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hurts their business model, no matter how much it costs them. As we told you, Matt Walsh is the man who
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broke the story about Vanderbilt's abuse of children. He just met with Tennessee state lawmakers,
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Representative William Lamberth, State Senator Jack Johnson. They said they're working on a bill to
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shut this program down at Vanderbilt. Can't come soon enough. Matt Walsh joins us tonight.
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Matt Walsh, thank you so much. And for, among other things, illustrating how journalism can be a force
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for good, I think yours has been. Have you spoken to anyone at Vanderbilt Hospital about this directly?
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Well, Vanderbilt Hospital, I mean, we, we reached out for a statement when we first published the
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report. And at first they didn't want to give a statement and they, and they actually just took
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down, as you mentioned, they just deleted. That's what people have to understand. They
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deleted their entire transgender clinic website. They wiped it from existence. And then today,
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not to us, but in general, they released a statement. And the interesting thing about the
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statement they released is that they do not, while they start by claiming there's misinformation and so
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on, they don't actually factually dispute anything in my report because they can't,
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because everything that I said, wasn't me saying it. I was just providing video evidence, much of
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which you, you played there. Well, we know for a fact, this is an absolute fact that, that, that,
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that Vanderbilt, they performed double mastectomies on minor girls, on children. They chemically
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castrate children and they give them irreversible hormone drugs that change their bodies permanently.
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They're doing all of that to kids. And the other thing we should know, and I'm glad you mentioned
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all the other hospitals around the country, because the things I just mentioned, that's
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happening all across the country in every single state, in, in many hospitals and in many other
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medical clinics, all of those things are happening. And one of the reasons why it's allowed to keep
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happening is because people don't know about it because they're not talking about it. And I think
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for a lot of average Americans, people just walking down the street, it's sort of unthinkable.
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They can't imagine that this sort of thing is actually happening, but it is, which is why we
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have to start by raising awareness about it. And we have to do that no matter, no matter the,
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the game, the left plays by saying, if you, if you so much as mention what they're doing,
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it's incitement and terrorism, which is, which is absurd, but we can't, we can't bend to that tactic.
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We have to keep shining a light on this. Cutting the breasts off little girls,
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sterilizing 14 year olds. Like, yeah. Okay. Yeah. We're not the criminals here. And by the way,
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I've got to believe that not everyone on the board at Vanderbilt Medical Center is a bad person.
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I've got to believe a lot of these people had no idea this was happening. And I hope they know now,
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and I hope they do something tonight to end it. I appreciate your coming on and for all you've
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done on this. Matt Walsh, thank you. Thank you.