The Culture War - Tim Pool - March 02, 2026


Democrats Keep TARGETING Kids With Trans Ideology, It MUST STOP ft. Josh Williams


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In this episode, we're joined by State Rep. Josh Williams (R-Ohio) to discuss a new bill that would require parents who refuse to affirm their child's gender identity in order to keep them safe in the foster care system.

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00:00:20.940 The Daily Wire had the article here. This was written by Megan Brock.
00:00:24.000 Ohio may protect parents who won't affirm their child's gender identity. Quote, no parent should lose custody, face a state intervention, or be deemed simply unfit for affirming a child's sex.
00:00:37.000 So the guest that I wanted to bring on is Josh Williams. He's a representative from Ohio, and he's the co-sponsor of this bill.
00:00:44.120 Again, it really interested me. I've been really interested recently in the state-level politics.
00:00:48.460 At TimCast, we are able, not to flex, but fairly easily bring on sitting congressmen and these sorts of things.
00:00:56.660 But it's the state levels that really fascinates me, because I get really exasperated with the way that a lot of these state GOPs operate and conduct themselves.
00:01:04.440 It's not enough action for some of these states that are deep red.
00:01:07.980 So when I see stuff like this, I want to hear, what are you doing that a lot of these other Republicans just can't seem to figure out?
00:01:13.380 So I don't know. Kellan, do we have any updates?
00:01:15.220 Nothing yet. I guess we can go take a look in there and see if he's in there.
00:01:24.700 Hey, Josh, can you hear me?
00:01:26.680 Yes, can you hear me?
00:01:27.800 Yes, sir. So we're live. I just wanted to bring you in.
00:01:30.780 Obviously, a lot in the news over the last weekend, but I wanted to bring you in to kind of switch gears a little bit.
00:01:37.600 Obviously, we were leading in discussing the bill that you were co-sponsoring in the great state of Ohio.
00:01:43.280 I wanted to ask you broadly, what is the meat and potatoes of this bill?
00:01:49.540 And then also for the people in the audience who don't know, who are you?
00:01:52.400 Where did you come from? Why are you on their screen? What's going on?
00:01:55.020 So I don't know if you could give people kind of the spiel here.
00:01:58.920 Yes, I'm State Representative Josh Williams.
00:02:01.320 I serve in the Ohio House of Representatives.
00:02:03.700 I'm serving in my first term in majority leadership as majority whip here in the Ohio House.
00:02:10.560 We're talking about the Affirming Families First Act.
00:02:13.280 What this legislation does is it makes sure that the state government at every level, including our local and county level,
00:02:20.700 cannot allege that a parent is abusing their child by refusing to affirm their gender identity or sexual orientation.
00:02:30.020 Under the Biden administration, $10 million went to a university to do a study of a program to classify every kid in the foster care system
00:02:40.100 or who came in contact with protective services according to their sexuality and gender orientation,
00:02:47.380 and then categorize whether or not the foster parent, adoptive parent, or biological parent was affirming.
00:02:53.160 Part of that money came to Cuyahoga County, who came up with a firm program where they kept record of every child
00:03:00.840 that came in contact with the Department of Protective Services, of Children Protective Services,
00:03:07.740 and their sexual orientation and gender identity, classifying kids as young as five
00:03:12.620 according to their sexual orientation or gender identity, and then classifying their parents
00:03:18.100 and tracking whether or not those parents were affirming of the child's sexual orientation or gender identity,
00:03:24.840 forming the basis for a national executive order by the president making this a firm rule under the Biden administration
00:03:31.820 that President Trump was inclined to, you know, reverse when he took office.
00:03:37.100 But unfortunately, he had to reverse it.
00:03:39.120 And we found out just through the reporting that came out of the Daily Wire that this happened right here in the state of Ohio.
00:03:45.540 Mm-hmm. Unbelievable. So obviously the situation, you know, people have heard some, I guess,
00:03:50.940 more high-profile instances of this happening, you know, like a divorce gets messy and these sorts of things.
00:03:56.760 How often is this occurring? How often is, you know, the government stepping in and sort of taking away parents' rights
00:04:03.780 to parenting their children? How frequent is this? Because like I said, I mean, we do see some high-profile cases,
00:04:09.400 but, you know, I've also heard just from word of mouth, like things happening in my community quite extensively,
00:04:14.500 and I live in a fairly red area.
00:04:17.500 Yeah, unfortunately, we don't know how widespread it is until the cases hit the news,
00:04:22.720 when the parents actually have legal representation and reach out and make it public.
00:04:28.520 Because in our child custody cases in the state of Ohio, they're under seal.
00:04:33.480 I see.
00:04:34.000 We don't know. Our family courts, if you go through a divorce, your divorce is public.
00:04:39.920 If you're unmarried parents, your cases are behind closed doors.
00:04:44.680 If you are having your children taken away for allegations of abuse or neglect,
00:04:50.600 which the government was alleging that this is abuse or neglect, not to affirm,
00:04:54.760 those were done behind closed doors in cases that never saw the light unless the parent actually went public.
00:05:01.460 And many times the courts were taking kids from parents and then threatening the parents,
00:05:05.900 you would never see your child again if you talk about this case publicly.
00:05:09.740 And only in those small instances where parents were, you know, motivated enough to come forward are we hearing about this.
00:05:15.820 So we've tried to address it multiple times in the state of Ohio.
00:05:19.500 We did it before we made it.
00:05:21.880 We tried to make it where you couldn't determine child custody based off of which parent would affirm or disaffirm a child's gender.
00:05:31.580 But now we have to take it a step further and make sure that our local governments are prohibited from doing this at every single level.
00:05:40.720 So how does this happen?
00:05:42.540 So if you're a parent out there and, again, the government sort of intervenes on the side of this child,
00:05:47.820 again, sort of stripping you of your rights to parent the child,
00:05:50.540 what is this process actually looking like for these parents that are being victimized in this sense?
00:05:57.020 Can you maybe lay out how that even happens?
00:06:00.520 Because, I mean, it's so terrifying.
00:06:02.460 Yes, that's a great question.
00:06:04.280 There's three different ways that it kind of can happen.
00:06:06.720 It can happen in a divorce case. 1.00
00:06:08.400 It can happen in your normal unmarried couple going through a custody case
00:06:12.560 or a case where Child Protective Services gets involved.
00:06:17.340 So in a divorce case and an unmarried case, very similarly, a parent can make an allegation
00:06:24.140 or as simple as trying to determine which parent the child should go with.
00:06:29.840 The court will appoint what's called a guardian ad litem that's supposed to represent the interests of the child.
00:06:36.780 So if sexual orientation and gender identity is an issue in that custody arrangement,
00:06:42.960 the guardian ad litem is an advocate for the child.
00:06:46.120 So they will go to the court and say, because this child wants to transition,
00:06:50.780 this parent is not willing to allow the child to transition versus this parent.
00:06:55.000 We think the parent should go to one or the other.
00:06:58.300 Those were the traditional cases that we were seeing.
00:07:01.420 So that's why we changed state statute and said that should not be a determination in the allocation of parental rights.
00:07:07.080 But now what we're seeing is when Children's Service, when Protective Services gets involved
00:07:11.880 and Child Protective Services gets involved, they can do it at the request of the court,
00:07:16.600 at the request of the guardian ad litem, or at the request of the child by going to school
00:07:22.160 and saying they're transgender and their parents are not affirming at home and that's a form of child abuse.
00:07:27.200 As soon as Child Protective Services got involved, they would screen the child for this issue.
00:07:33.800 And they had a script that they wrote that we can read to you where it's like,
00:07:37.460 introduce yourself by your pronouns, ask the child what their pronouns are.
00:07:41.240 If they don't know what pronouns are, explain to them what pronouns are.
00:07:44.240 Ask them what their sexual orientation is.
00:07:46.220 If they don't know what it is, explain to them that you can be attracted to the opposite sex, the opposite gender.
00:07:52.260 It was a script they were using, essentially grooming our kids into saying that they were, you know, gay or bi or trans.
00:07:59.920 And then using it against the parents where the parents then would be called in front of a judge,
00:08:05.380 ask if they were affirming of the child's sexuality or not.
00:08:09.720 And certain judges would then say that that is a form of abuse or neglect.
00:08:13.560 And that would justify removing custody from the parent.
00:08:17.640 That's like dystopia.
00:08:18.640 I think this is one of those things where, you know, people are always talking about a dystopian future,
00:08:21.860 this sort of thing.
00:08:22.340 I'm like, if you just showed that to someone like 30, 40 years, they'd be like,
00:08:25.000 oh, we're already in the dystopian future.
00:08:26.400 I mean, that is absolutely petrifying.
00:08:28.460 What is the pushback for, I mean, obviously you're co-sponsoring this bill.
00:08:32.500 What has been the pushback from the left?
00:08:34.100 And is there any like weak Republicans?
00:08:35.700 Because it seems like every time like solid Republicans like you try to get anything done,
00:08:40.320 it's these like weak, you know, soft Republicans that, you know, get really antsy
00:08:44.720 and they come up with a reason to oppose it.
00:08:46.200 Has that happened at all?
00:08:47.140 And obviously what is the Democrats sort of case here?
00:08:51.220 Yeah, I mean, from the left is what we traditionally get.
00:08:53.740 At first, when we introduced this, the question is, you know, is this even a current?
00:08:58.480 Right.
00:08:58.860 And then we provided them the spreadsheet, the actual database that was released as part
00:09:05.300 of a public information request from Cuyahoga County Child Protective Services.
00:09:08.760 So then the press started looking at, you know, the left-leaning press started looking at the
00:09:13.580 spreadsheet.
00:09:14.240 And you can, if you look, if you go to my Twitter at JoshWilliamsOH, you'll see that there's
00:09:19.820 a reporter at our press conference who says, yeah, but that five-year-old who was labeled
00:09:24.540 as gay, the database listed them as their parents being affirming.
00:09:29.380 So that's not an issue.
00:09:30.480 Right.
00:09:30.820 And I'm like, the problem is that you screened a five-year-old for sexual orientation.
00:09:36.040 Like, I don't get what we're missing here, that we shouldn't be talking to five-year-olds
00:09:39.920 about that stuff.
00:09:41.080 Yeah.
00:09:41.820 So that was the first reaction.
00:09:43.520 Now you get the second wave, which is the LGBTQ, I call them the Alphabet Coalition, you 1.00
00:09:49.560 know, having people call my office and email saying kids are going to commit suicide because
00:09:53.980 of you, you know, because they're not being affirmed and their gender identity from their
00:10:00.460 parent, they should have the right to flee. 0.97
00:10:02.700 I mean, we look at these other states like California and several other ones now that
00:10:06.480 make it where it is abuse to not affirm your child's gender orientation or sexual orientation,
00:10:13.780 gender identity or sexual orientation.
00:10:15.740 We're seeing state after state allow kids to run away from home and into the arms of NGOs
00:10:20.360 that will house them and transition them. 0.92
00:10:22.260 Um, so we're hitting that kind of second wave of woke left liberal, uh, reaching out, saying
00:10:29.380 that, you know, this is going to kill children, children are going to die.
00:10:32.780 That's entirely false.
00:10:34.500 We've seen the surveys, we've seen the reports, um, that actually after a transition, they're
00:10:39.600 more likely to commit suicide as an adult if they've gone through surgical transition
00:10:43.740 as a minor.
00:10:45.240 And then lastly, to your question, most Republicans are supportive of this.
00:10:49.260 Of course, you have some Republicans that are in concern that they're in, you know, tight
00:10:54.360 general elections.
00:10:56.100 And this is an issue that could, you know, hurt them in the general election.
00:10:59.940 But at the same time, I don't buy into that.
00:11:02.980 I mean, I'm running for Congress right now in the ninth congressional district trying to
00:11:06.420 flip a blue seat red.
00:11:07.740 And I'm not shying away from this topic.
00:11:09.940 And this is going to be a congressional district.
00:11:12.540 Um, one of the tightest in the state and one of the most important in the nation.
00:11:16.040 And I'm not shying away from the subject because just one parent losing their parental rights
00:11:21.040 because of policies like this that are, are finally exposed is absurd.
00:11:26.880 Uh, I'm not going to, I'm not going to stand for it.
00:11:28.900 Yeah.
00:11:29.440 Well, I mean, I imagine the polling on this issue definitely favors you if like the person
00:11:33.700 being polled is explained like the situation and what this bill actually does.
00:11:38.220 Cause I mean, you probably know better than anybody that, uh, you know, as soon as a lot
00:11:43.680 of Republicans, especially get hit with the active, that second wave, you're talking about
00:11:47.440 that activist wave.
00:11:48.260 Cause you know, a lot of these guys can handle like the, the bureaucratic kind of back and
00:11:52.420 forth, but it's like when the activists get fired up, that's what freaks them out.
00:11:55.560 It's when all of a sudden they're not getting glossy press coverage anymore.
00:11:58.240 Now they're getting some really mean things said about them online and they start to crack.
00:12:02.440 They start to question themselves and these sorts of things.
00:12:04.440 But this is such, this is such a slam dunk.
00:12:06.480 I would, I would assume.
00:12:07.740 I mean, again, I'm sure the initial, you know, the average Democrat initially is going
00:12:11.500 to be opposed to it purely because it's a Republican, you know, thing.
00:12:14.220 But then as soon as the situation is explained to them, I mean, this is, I would say probably
00:12:18.840 the majority of fairly left wing Democrats would even probably can see that it's a little
00:12:23.360 bit crazy that CPS basically just gets a blank check here to do whatever they want.
00:12:28.540 Yeah.
00:12:28.900 Yeah.
00:12:29.160 I mean, the saying is always, you know, when you start catching flack, you're over the
00:12:33.760 target.
00:12:35.220 So when I get that traditional Democrat calling, it's more of like an area of concern of like,
00:12:41.080 is this really an issue?
00:12:43.200 Can't we concentrate on other things?
00:12:45.600 We should concentrate on our schools or, you know, on affordability.
00:12:49.660 When I get that call, I think that's a typical Democrat calling me because they think that
00:12:54.940 the Republican controlled General Assembly could be focusing on other topics.
00:12:58.780 Maybe this isn't an issue.
00:13:00.860 That same person, I will call them back and volunteer to send them the database.
00:13:06.560 Yeah.
00:13:06.860 And it turns into, oh, they shouldn't be doing that.
00:13:10.420 I know then it's messaging that's getting to them.
00:13:13.820 When I get the real woke leftist, LGBTQ aligned, you know, antagonist calling my office and 1.00
00:13:22.440 I talk to them on the phone and nothing I say, it's just about this woke ideology, you're 0.99
00:13:27.240 going to kill kids. 0.93
00:13:28.180 That's when I know I'm over the target. 1.00
00:13:30.300 Sure.
00:13:30.540 You know, when I activate that section of the left leaning Democrat party, I know for a
00:13:37.340 fact I'm over the target because that call isn't even coming from my district or my state.
00:13:41.640 I'll get calls from California.
00:13:44.340 That means that that group, that organization that's pushing this issue nationwide is finally
00:13:49.500 being, you know, mobilized against us back here in the state.
00:13:53.940 That lets me know this is really part of their agenda and they're willing to spend the time
00:13:58.740 making a call all the way across the country to try to get me off of the subject matter and
00:14:02.980 get my colleagues to back down.
00:14:04.840 And that's when I get more ingrained.
00:14:06.400 That's when I dig my heels in more when I really know that they're fighting back because
00:14:12.340 we actually are going to make strides to attack their agenda here in the state of Ohio.
00:14:17.160 Absolutely.
00:14:18.060 Well, I got to ask you, I mean, to drill down a little bit on this because, you know, there's
00:14:21.560 when this sort of topic is discussed, you know, everyone knows the hits, but maybe on
00:14:25.960 the more philosophical side, can you drill down a little bit why it seems like the left
00:14:29.760 gets so uniquely animated about like trans, the idea of trans kids?
00:14:33.700 I'm using quote, you know, finger quotes for everyone listening to audio only.
00:14:37.300 What is it about trans kids that gets the left so like fired up? 0.99
00:14:42.460 Because it really seems to me a borderline demonic.
00:14:46.060 I mean, that's the only adjective I can really think of here to describe it.
00:14:49.620 I was wondering kind of what your calculation was seeing as you've gone through the data,
00:14:52.720 you've talked to the parents, you know, everything you've done to due diligence.
00:14:56.020 I mean, I think trans kids, their families, their communities, their supporters are a way
00:15:04.840 for the Democrat Party to create a designated lifelong Democrat voter by simply transitioning
00:15:12.420 this child.
00:15:13.400 Even if you don't surgically or chemically transition the child, if you can convince the child to 1.00
00:15:19.340 transition socially and tell them that their parents are bigots, that they don't accept 0.53
00:15:24.860 it, their community is somehow bigoted, racist, out of touch, if they don't accept it.
00:15:30.720 And they, they typically get in friend zones, friend, you know, friend groups that support
00:15:37.340 it and are motivated.
00:15:38.880 You, we know as Republicans, we're never going to accept this.
00:15:41.900 So they see it as a way of expanding their Democrat base.
00:15:46.540 It's no different than the 2020 election results and opening the border and flooding in illegal
00:15:51.320 immigrants to pad the 2026, the 2030 census.
00:15:55.960 You know, there are long-term widespread Democrat strategic goals at play.
00:16:01.760 Yeah.
00:16:02.320 And one of them became perfectly clear during Barack Obama's second term when he went from
00:16:08.120 being this appearing to be moderate Democrat running on hope and change to getting in
00:16:15.060 and taking over the iron fist when he finally lost control of Congress to where he said he
00:16:20.600 will legislate through the pen and he exposed himself as a socialist and he pushed the LGBT 0.64
00:16:27.680 agenda on us.
00:16:30.240 You know, he, that was the president that abandoned the defensive marriage act, refused to defend it
00:16:34.980 in court, pushing us towards the Obergefell decision, legalizing gay marriage.
00:16:40.760 They continued to push to try to make it where gay couples could adopt and foster kids and
00:16:47.000 you couldn't stop them.
00:16:48.600 Now they flipped the script and said, if you don't affirm a child's gender, you can't be
00:16:53.140 a foster parent.
00:16:54.200 If you don't sign on that you're willing to affirm a child's gender identity, you can't
00:16:59.500 be an adoptive parent.
00:17:00.760 They've now weaponized some of the most vulnerable children in the United States to push their
00:17:08.280 agenda.
00:17:08.880 Children that are engaged with the child protective services inside of their states, many because
00:17:15.160 of abuse, neglect, dependency cases.
00:17:18.220 They're using them as essentially frontline soldiers in this socialist movement that they
00:17:26.060 have.
00:17:26.580 And then now it's going even beyond those kids that are engaged with the Department of
00:17:32.980 Children, Child Protective Services to parents who are simply going through a custody dispute.
00:17:38.280 This is egregious that, you know, the Democrat Party sees these children as tools.
00:17:44.380 But as a black man in America, I recognize a hustle when I see it because it happened to my
00:17:49.700 community.
00:17:50.300 Yeah.
00:17:50.760 For decades.
00:17:51.260 Yeah, absolutely.
00:17:52.500 I mean, well, that's why it's refreshing to hear, you know, that you can actually like,
00:17:55.760 you know, you're, you know, the issue inside out, because I find like a lot of Republicans,
00:18:00.400 they've realized, you know, this is obviously a wedge issue.
00:18:03.360 And so they know that if they throw some boilerplate up on Twitter and, you know, they get some good
00:18:07.640 sound bites in every once in a while, that people are like, wow, this guy's a real renegade.
00:18:10.880 You know, he's really serious about this issue.
00:18:12.260 But it never translates into policy because this issue seems to be getting worse and worse.
00:18:15.620 We're seeing these, again, these trans shooters, it really seems to be a very common pattern 1.00
00:18:21.000 at this point.
00:18:21.680 I mean, what we're seeing it time and time again, it's like, let's see some policies.
00:18:25.920 That's why I had to ask, because it's like, it's clear you've thought through it.
00:18:28.920 I mean, I think that's absolutely the case is that, you know, the Democrats, this is a
00:18:32.400 way of shoring up their ideologies.
00:18:33.760 If you can further sort of deracinate people from, you know, their God-given identity, then
00:18:38.460 that's going to turn them into, you know, someone's going to be more and more, you know,
00:18:42.580 enamored with liberal policy.
00:18:45.860 So, again, I'm very thankful because it's like, yeah, with so many Republicans, they'll
00:18:48.520 just throw a tweet up and they're like, you know, man is a man, a woman is a woman. 0.93
00:18:52.900 It's like, okay, we got, we figured that out five years ago.
00:18:55.720 We're talking like, okay, how about we get some policy passed?
00:18:58.740 You've got to get into the policy sphere.
00:19:01.640 I'm a policy hawk.
00:19:02.700 I mean, I have over 90 pieces of legislation introduced in the last year.
00:19:07.080 Let's go.
00:19:07.400 The most out of any legislator in the state's history.
00:19:09.660 I'm known in my caucus as a policy hawk.
00:19:12.480 That's why I made my way into leadership.
00:19:14.680 I work on legislation, my own and my colleagues legislation, and I pay attention to trends
00:19:19.580 that I see coming across the state of Ohio and the rest of the nation.
00:19:23.380 I think one of the things that we miss is we always think that this is only a targeted
00:19:29.100 approach by Democrats.
00:19:30.320 I think you've got to go one step further.
00:19:32.340 And this is a targeted approach by globalists, socialists, and communists.
00:19:38.060 I mean, it's not a coincidence that we see the same protesters at a Black Lives Matter
00:19:42.940 rally, then at the pro-Palestine rally, then at the LGBTQ rally, then at the George Floyd
00:19:49.680 route, and it's the same paid protesters.
00:19:52.420 But I believe that this is a push towards socialism and communism here.
00:19:58.080 You know, it has all the markings of a concerted national effort that has external funding.
00:20:07.960 One, I think you have to look at under the Biden administration, there was, I forget the
00:20:14.760 individual's name, but it was the transgender individual that was like an admiral that went 0.71
00:20:21.120 under the Biden administration.
00:20:22.460 When they worked in California, there was behind-the-door meetings that became public where they were
00:20:29.400 introducing the idea at the time in California of opening gender clinics.
00:20:35.380 And they were pushing the hospitals to open gender clinics, especially youth gender clinics.
00:20:40.760 And in that meeting, the conversation went to, this is a good return on investment for your
00:20:48.280 hospital because you are going to have a lifelong patient.
00:20:53.480 So an individual that gets on puberty blockers at a young age, you know, it's going to cause
00:20:58.680 infertility.
00:20:59.460 Then you have the surgical portion of it that's going to cause all type of infections and follow-up
00:21:05.520 visits on an annual basis.
00:21:06.960 You're going to have lifelong drugs that are needed to maintain the transition.
00:21:11.560 You're going to need lifelong mental health counseling for the individual because of their
00:21:17.300 gender dysphoria.
00:21:18.520 And it's going to be a boom for the healthcare system.
00:21:21.500 And at the same time, there's going to be a push for this stuff to be publicly funded.
00:21:25.900 And we see that nowadays that, you know, this has reigned true, that this has actually
00:21:30.500 happened.
00:21:31.040 And there's this push on a globalist perspective to try to weaponize our youth in this fashion.
00:21:38.760 And then at the same time, you have to realize that this is the natural results of the push
00:21:47.300 of DEI and CRT at the college level.
00:21:52.560 If you're teaching kids from birth that they are an oppressor if they're white and they're 0.98
00:21:57.500 oppressed if they're black and they get old enough, long enough, and you're teaching this 0.74
00:22:03.820 long enough that, hey, if you're a white middle-aged kid with two parents that are doctors and lawyers, 0.98
00:22:10.720 you are the oppressor.
00:22:12.380 You start looking for a way to whitewash that stain on your character if you believe in this
00:22:20.200 left-leaning ideology.
00:22:23.020 So that means you need to become a member of a marginalized group.
00:22:26.980 Then you're no longer the oppressor.
00:22:28.900 You're oppressed.
00:22:29.880 That's why we're seeing a lot of kids identify as pansexual, bisexual, non-binary.
00:22:36.200 They don't have to make any lifestyle changes.
00:22:38.300 All they got to do is maybe use they-them pronouns.
00:22:42.380 Or tell people they're pansexual, and now all of a sudden you can whitewash the stain 0.96
00:22:47.320 of oppression in your mind because now you are part of the marginalized community.
00:22:52.660 Man, it's the social engineering 101.
00:22:55.980 Oh, it's a cheat code.
00:22:57.180 I mean, I wish asexual was a thing when I was in school.
00:23:00.240 You hadn't polled in a while.
00:23:02.160 You had no game.
00:23:04.140 You're like, I'm asexual, actually.
00:23:05.520 That's what it is.
00:23:06.960 It's a solution.
00:23:07.900 I don't know.
00:23:08.420 So, yeah, with that, I know we're running a little bit out of time.
00:23:13.280 Could you maybe outline what the path forward is for this bill and sort of what people need
00:23:17.880 to be on the lookout for, especially if they're an Ohio resident?
00:23:21.540 Yeah.
00:23:21.760 So the next path is for sponsor testimony in the committee.
00:23:25.500 We believe that may be on the 11th.
00:23:28.860 It's the same day as the state of the state for our governor.
00:23:31.540 So we may have to move that.
00:23:33.440 We do want to push this steadfast because we want to make sure this never happens again.
00:23:39.860 If this Department of Child Protective Services could take money from a university in order
00:23:47.100 to run this program behind closed doors, that could change overnight.
00:23:52.800 It doesn't matter whether or not President Trump is in office or not.
00:23:55.720 That could be an outside entity, a foreign government that gives that money to the university
00:24:00.780 or to the Child Protective Services to do the same thing.
00:24:04.400 We have to pass state laws to stop it.
00:24:07.700 And we got to be, and there's been several states that have done that.
00:24:11.100 Several more states have signed on, Ohio being one of them, to push this legislation forward.
00:24:16.820 After that, we'll have proponent testimony.
00:24:19.080 We're trying to get some of the people that have been affected by this, the families.
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00:24:54.860 We've had some families in Ohio affected by judges doing this.
00:24:58.480 This is why I've been fighting to get rid of the, what we, what we call a family law,
00:25:05.000 the best interest of the child standard.
00:25:07.480 There's a 20, 2002 decision, Troxel v. Granville, where the Supreme Court said the court needs
00:25:15.020 to give special weight to fit parents who are making decisions for their children.
00:25:18.640 I've introduced legislation to make that into state law.
00:25:23.900 I've had Democrats and Republicans introduce legislation to push it the opposite direction,
00:25:29.460 giving judges broad discretion to do what they think is in the best interest of the child.
00:25:34.740 We continue to have that fight here in the state of Ohio.
00:25:37.500 I don't believe judges are in the best position to make that decision when two fit parents can agree.
00:25:42.700 So this is an example of two fit parents saying, we are going to affirm our child's biological sex.
00:25:51.380 We refuse to affirm their gender identity. 1.00
00:25:54.820 And the government saying, we know what's best for the child.
00:25:58.180 We're taking the child from you.
00:26:00.080 When I see that, I'm very apprehensive of giving any judges more discretion to make that decision behind closed doors in juvenile cases.
00:26:09.780 So I think that's the fight that we have going on.
00:26:13.700 The committee process will continue.
00:26:15.920 We'll get proponent testimony.
00:26:17.260 Then it'll be followed by opponent testimony.
00:26:19.780 I'm sure there's going to be hundreds of people that come in opposition saying that I'm going to be causing kids to commit suicide because I'm not affirming them.
00:26:27.760 But we know the studies have shown the opposite.
00:26:31.300 And that's why Europe has stopped transitioning kids when they were the first ones that were doing it. 1.00
00:26:36.680 Yeah, absolutely.
00:26:38.440 I mean, that hasn't talked about enough, by the way, is that Europe's already abandoned this whole crazy science project because they're like, whoa, this is not good.
00:26:46.460 Well, thank you very much for hopping on here.
00:26:49.140 Obviously, with the news this weekend, I think it's good to give people some insight back on what's going on domestically because sometimes people get so fixated on the timeline.
00:26:58.660 They miss some of these really important, like tangible things that are happening in their own state.
00:27:03.200 So with that, where can people find you to get more?
00:27:06.120 Keep an eye on you.
00:27:07.520 Yeah, so they can visit my website, joshwilliamsforohio.com.
00:27:11.420 They can follow us on Facebook and X and Twitter.
00:27:15.480 We're very, very active on social media.
00:27:18.520 And if you're in my district, I'm all over the 9th Congressional District going to breakfasts, luncheons.
00:27:24.180 We have a meet and greet later on today in Fulton County.
00:27:27.900 So there's many ways to get engaged with the campaign and find out more about my life story.
00:27:31.800 It's an interesting story.
00:27:33.220 Going from a homeless high school dropout to being disabled to finally reaching college at 30.
00:27:37.580 And by 35, I was graduating from law school, becoming a college professor, a practicing attorney.
00:27:43.880 And I went on to be a state representative.
00:27:45.520 And just a few years later, I'm running for Congress.
00:27:47.300 So just in a few years, I really changed my life by, you know, some people call it lifting you up by your own bootstraps.
00:27:54.840 Me, I call it individual responsibility.
00:27:57.620 I took individual responsibility over my life.
00:28:00.000 I stopped looking for government, for solutions.
00:28:02.640 And I looked how I could better my life through putting in hard work and the effort.
00:28:06.920 And my life changed.
00:28:08.740 Unbelievable.
00:28:09.680 That's fantastic.
00:28:10.840 I really appreciate you coming on.
00:28:12.440 Yeah, everyone's got to go follow you.
00:28:13.820 Everyone in Ohio needs to be keeping an eye on you.
00:28:15.680 You've got my full endorsement.
00:28:16.640 And I love it.
00:28:17.180 So we'll catch you next time.
00:28:18.880 I appreciate you.
00:28:20.060 Thank you.
00:28:20.480 Thanks for having me on.
00:28:21.160 Yes, sir.
00:28:22.140 All right.
00:28:22.600 Well, that was great.
00:28:23.280 Yeah, that was so fascinating. 0.97
00:28:25.320 Like all this freaking LGBTQ, taking kids away, everything. 1.00
00:28:29.880 Like what is going on? 0.99
00:28:31.060 The asexual thing is what blows my mind. 1.00
00:28:33.260 Like having no hoes as a sexual orientation. 1.00
00:28:38.100 I mean, what's going on?
00:28:39.660 What's going on?
00:28:40.320 What's the one where it's like, oh, I need to be emotionally connected with someone to have sex?
00:28:46.640 I don't know.
00:28:48.360 You would know.
00:28:49.420 You're from Maryland.
00:28:50.460 Oh, I mean, I can Google it.
00:28:52.820 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:28:53.600 There's one where it's like, it's very popular.
00:28:55.640 It's very in vogue.
00:28:56.560 And it's like, you need to be emotionally connected to the person to be attracted to them.
00:29:00.620 And I was like, that's just being normal.
00:29:02.300 That's just like how it should be.
00:29:03.640 You should, that's how it should be.
00:29:05.240 That means you're not like, like broken.
00:29:07.680 You're not a broken human being. 0.99
00:29:09.940 And, but that makes you gay now. 0.99
00:29:11.860 That makes you part of the alphabet mafia. 0.97
00:29:14.660 But it's a, it's a thing.
00:29:16.080 Oh, it's a thing.
00:29:16.620 And someone was telling me about it one time.
00:29:19.580 I'm assuming they weren't emotionally connected to me.
00:29:22.840 I don't know. 0.98
00:29:24.060 But yeah, having no hoes makes you gay now. 1.00
00:29:27.200 You know, according to these LGBT people. 0.96
00:29:30.320 That is my take and my take only.
00:29:32.780 I do not want that to be attached to any sitting house representatives with that.
00:29:38.300 That winds down the show for today.
00:29:41.720 We're going to see how this Iran situation develops.
00:29:45.360 There's some good signs, some bad signs.
00:29:47.700 We'll have to see.
00:29:48.420 I'm not truning out yet.
00:29:49.460 I trust the president.
00:29:50.900 I think we're going to be all right in the end.
00:29:52.820 With that, you can follow me on X and Instagram at Real Tate Brown.
00:29:58.520 Come give me a follow.
00:29:59.660 Come hang out.
00:30:00.300 And we'll be back tonight for Timcast IRL at 8 p.m.
00:30:03.900 It's going to be a great show.
00:30:04.940 We'll see you there.
00:30:05.800 Thank you very much for watching.