Glenn Beck is joined by Sarah Gonzalez to talk about Dade Phelan's decision not to run for the Texas House Speaker race. Also, what happens when we re trying to discuss something serious like abortion and Buddy the Elf shows up in the middle?
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00:10:30.040And when it comes to the dollar, I mean, I'll never forget, sitting in Rick Perry's office, probably 2010, and Germany had just asked for their gold from the Federal Reserve.
00:10:46.280And the Federal Reserve was like, well, it might take us five years to get it to you.
00:14:30.680We still don't know where this is going.
00:14:32.380And there's moments in that where you're like, even if this is wrong and, you know, it's not as serious of a pandemic, like, what's the government going to do?
00:15:00.800All I can do is I hope when they get older, they will look back at this period and remember, hey, remember when we did all that cool stuff with mom and dad when we were home for all that time?
00:15:11.300Like, that's how I want them to remember it.
00:15:13.840That's not how these parents operate at all.
00:15:15.900No, they're terrifying their children.
00:15:19.7202016, who was it from ABC or it was Stephanopoulos, I think, who said his children were sleeping in their bed, crying themselves to sleep every night because of Donald Trump.
00:20:44.800We were talking about coming together for the holidays and being able to have conversations.
00:20:51.700And I think this conversation with Anna Kasparian yesterday, who is on the Young Turks, I mean, she asked me, she said, would you be willing to come on the Young Turks?
00:21:51.160And so it gave us this moment, you know, where she was really, she would stop and ask me, she asked me about, you know, about war and Ukraine and abortion.
00:22:03.080We had a great conversation on abortion.
00:31:09.140Let's start looking at actual solutions and the actual problem and what would work.
00:31:17.360Yeah, and I agree, like the long-term eternal solution to this, right, is similar to what I think has happened with slavery, right?
00:31:26.920Slavery, if you overturned amendments and made slavery legal and someone tried to come out and pass a bill to say, hey, African-Americans should now go back to the fields, it wouldn't even come close to passing.
00:31:40.680Everyone who supported it would be thrown out immediately.
00:31:43.620It would be, we would reject it easily as a society.
00:31:48.860I want that to, that is the long-term solution.
00:31:52.280However, I just don't want to avoid the fact that like, I want a constitutional amendment to ban it right away.
00:32:18.000So, I listened to the case, and I don't know how your head didn't explode with some of the questions that were coming from some of those on the left, Sotomayor for one.
00:32:29.940But, overall, how did you feel it went?
00:32:38.020I think we did a great job of getting our points across.
00:32:41.320I thought the court, I mean, it went on for two and a half hours or so.
00:32:57.980You know, there was a—well, first of all, tell me exactly what the case was.
00:33:05.020What does it actually cover, and what will it do if it's decided in favor of Tennessee?
00:33:13.200So we have a law in Tennessee, our General Assembly, passed a law that prohibits giving juveniles puberty blockers, hormone treatments, or surgery for the purpose of gender transition.
00:33:25.240Surgery was not at issue in this case.
00:33:27.960So this is just about whether the Constitution prevents the state from banning puberty blockers or hormone treatments for the purpose of gender transition.
00:33:37.680So if we win, our law will remain in effect, and kids won't be able to be subject to that in Tennessee.
00:33:44.580Potentially, depending on how we win, it could mean that all laws dealing with gender identity are reviewed under a rational basis standard, which gives the people's elected representatives a lot more latitude as to how they regulate.
00:34:01.180You know, when you were discussing this, and it was Justice Sotomayor said, every medication has, you know, side effects.
00:34:46.800They face losing fertility for the rest of their lives, never being able to have children.
00:34:51.460They risk losing their sexual function for the rest of their lives.
00:34:54.960Kids don't know what they're giving up.
00:34:56.780They risk tumors and blood clots and cognitive disorders and bone density disorders, all sorts of serious lifelong medical complications.
00:35:06.100And meanwhile, the evidence is this doesn't help them.
00:35:09.280You're talking about very severe physical interventions for psychological problems with no evidence that it's helping them with the psychological problems.
00:35:21.080And so we're looking at a situation where kids are really at risk, where there's not a good medical reason for putting them at risk, and where there are these people saying the Constitution prohibits the state from protecting kids, even where the evidence is so powerfully in opposition to allowing this to happen going forward.
00:35:40.820I think it was Justice Souter who asked the opposite side, you said that the science backs this up.
00:35:50.880Well, now we have all this new science that is coming out.
00:35:54.040Do you want to withdraw that statement?
00:35:57.060What has happened since you started this process to the evidence that's coming out from everywhere now?
00:36:05.940So there was a lot of evidence beforehand, but the CAST review in England is a large-scale, long-term study by an extremely respected pediatrician that looked really hard at these issues.
00:36:26.020They were making these procedures widely available to kids for a while.
00:36:30.100And they looked at the evidence, and they determined that they should not be doing that, that the evidence showed this was hurting kids, they should severely restrict access, and they did.
00:36:40.200And the CAST report gets into it very thoroughly.
00:36:42.420It was discussed with a lot of specificity by the court.
00:36:46.380You know, it shows there's no reduction in suicide, which is one of the things that we constantly hear.
00:36:51.480You know, if you don't let kids do this, they're going to kill themselves.
00:36:54.260We don't want kids to kill themselves.
00:36:55.820But the evidence is doing these life-altering interventions doesn't make a difference.
00:37:02.440You know, it just looked at a lot of evidence from a lot of kids, and it showed what we already knew, which is that there is no benefit to justify these radical interventions.
00:37:13.160So what does this mean if it comes out the way we hope it does?
00:37:19.840Does this have any effect on bathrooms and sports or anything else?
00:37:29.460It really depends on what the court does.
00:37:32.100I mean, there's a way that we could win that's narrower, that only deals with kids' transitions, or there's a way we could win that's broader.
00:37:40.280If the court says that gender identity issues do not rise to the level of intermediate scrutiny under the Constitution,
00:37:47.600in which case a lot of the litigation we're facing about bathrooms and school sports and all the other things people have sued over would be pretty easy to resolve.
00:39:26.780The law treats people differently based on their age.
00:39:29.160Kids can't consent to things that will have lifelong consequences, whether it's entering a contract or smoking a cigarette.
00:39:35.940But the consequences for these procedures are so much more profound.
00:39:41.360And we think we have a strong argument that the state should be able to regulate this, particularly given the evidence that it makes no difference, that it does not help.
00:39:52.280And it increases the risk of all these different horrible outcomes for the kids.
00:39:56.980The other side just seems, quite honestly, and I don't mean to slam people, but they seem unhinged.
00:41:14.940I mean, gender dysphoria is a real thing, and it is really hard for kids to deal with it.
00:41:19.600But we have seen an explosion in these cases that sure looks like something very weird is going on.
00:41:25.820And I don't see how it doesn't come out eventually that there is massive overdiagnosis.
00:41:31.740In England, a doctor's high, a 4,000% increase in the number of girls seeking hormone treatments.
00:41:38.720And, you know, the evidence is very, very strong that the large, large majority of kids who have any sort of gender identity confusion grow out of it unless they're put on medications.
00:41:50.660For most kids, this is a passing thing.
00:41:53.120It doesn't mean it's not hard for them.
00:41:54.600And adolescence is really hard, and I have to think gender confusion makes it that much harder.
00:41:59.380But most of them are going to grow out of it.
00:42:01.420And for all of them, the evidence of a benefit is minimal at best.
00:42:06.260Well, we'll be praying for the Supreme Court, and I thank you so much for you filing suit and trying to get this corrected.
00:42:23.760I mean, I actually do, but it's not my business if you're an adult.
00:42:26.780But if you can't decide things like smoking, drinking, you know, be responsible enough with a gun, you certainly should not be able to do things to your body that are permanent and game-changing.
00:42:53.900Jonathan Scermetti, he is the Tennessee Attorney General who argued just, what, the day before yesterday at the Supreme Court to protect children from gender procedures.
00:43:04.720And we should, by the way, take what he said seriously.
00:43:08.040If his three-year-old is about to plunder passing ships, we should report that to maritime authorities.
00:43:15.440Don't forget the pillaging and the raping.