00:08:46.160So for a preview of what these oral arguments will look like, here is Strangio explaining her view of Tennessee's bill banning child castration.
00:08:56.120This is what the nine justices of the Supreme Court can expect to hear next week.
00:09:00.300This is what they have to look forward to.
00:09:01.460If you've never felt pity for Supreme Court justices before, then after you hear this, maybe you'll feel a little bit, at least.
00:09:11.640Tennessee, in its briefing before the Supreme Court, very much wants to cast this case as a case about the federal government displacing the state government.
00:09:20.840But what this case really is about is about the state of Tennessee government displacing the decision-making of families and doctors.
00:09:30.480So it is the government of Tennessee that has come in and said that you parents who have loved your children since birth, who have cared for them, who have recognized in them deeply painful experiences of distress for years and found medication that your child and you and your doctors all agree is necessary.
00:09:52.000And the government is coming in and saying, we know better.
00:09:54.580We are taking this option off the table.
00:09:57.200For example, our client, John Doe, started asserting himself and recognizing himself as a boy when he was two years old.
00:10:04.320He is only known as a boy in all aspects of his life.
00:10:09.000And he has been relying on this medication for years and after, you know, six years of mental health treatment, after multiple specialists, after parents who themselves struggled and researched.
00:10:24.080And then you have the government of Tennessee acting like these are rash choices being made by individual eight-year-olds when that could not be further from the truth.
00:10:34.520And that is the story of these families that we are bringing before the Supreme Court.
00:10:38.060Yeah, it's not a rash decision being made by an eight-year-old.
00:10:42.960No, this child made the decision when he was two.
00:10:47.600It's decisions being made by a two-year-old is what Chase Strangio says, even though, of course, these decisions are not being made by a child at all.
00:10:58.080I don't want to get ahead of ourselves.
00:10:59.760I don't want to spike the football before you get into the end zone or anything like that.
00:11:03.320But I just – and I haven't always agreed with what the Supreme Court has decided on various issues.
00:11:09.480But I cannot believe that they are going to listen to an argument like that and be persuaded by it.
00:11:20.420I cannot believe that the Supreme Court in its current makeup will hear an argument about, well, this two-year-old recognized, quote, himself as a boy from birth.
00:11:32.720I can't believe that they'll be persuaded by that.
00:11:35.480So this is what we can expect for around 15 to 20 minutes during oral arguments next Wednesday.
00:11:43.320A woman pretending to be a man will pretend with maximum indignation that it's an overreach by the federal government to protect children from castration.
00:11:54.140The government – she says the government doesn't know better than parents.
00:11:59.640How do the state government think that it knows better than parents?
00:12:06.660In a case where the parents think it's a good idea to abuse their child, in that case, yeah, that is a case where the government should know better.
00:12:16.400There are, in fact, situations where a parent can do something wrong to a child.
00:12:44.160Now, of course, these are people who would love to see the federal government set the price of groceries, raise your taxes in order to pay the living expenses of illegal aliens.
00:12:55.500Throw the leading presidential candidate in prison so you can't vote for them was the plan.
00:13:01.420But when there's the possibility that the government might intervene to stop child butchery, suddenly they become small government libertarians.
00:13:09.940They ask, how could the government possibly interfere in what private citizens want to do?
00:13:15.640As if that doesn't happen all the time?
00:13:18.020As if that's not what every law on the books already is by definition?
00:13:21.980Well, in this case, it's pretty simple, actually.
00:13:27.800Chase Strangio answered her own question in that video you just saw.
00:13:31.680The idea that we should honor the wishes of a two-year-old who, quote, asserts herself and recognizes herself as a boy is, to every reasonable person, completely insane.
00:13:44.420It insults the intelligence of anyone who's ever been around a two-year-old, much less raised one.
00:13:49.520It's not uncommon for two-year-olds to assert themselves as superheroes or dinosaurs or household pets or any number of other things.
00:13:58.300That's particularly true if an adult has planted that idea in their head in one way or another.
00:14:03.260That doesn't mean that we should tell these children that they're actually dinosaurs and then pump their bodies full of dinosaur-affirming hormones, as we know.
00:14:11.320And this shouldn't need to be explained.
00:14:13.900And as you heard, Strangio's argument at the Supreme Court will be that an alleged consensus among experts should override your common sense, along with the democratic will of the people, by the way.
00:14:24.700This is an argument that, in his brief that was submitted to the Supreme Court, Scrimetti demolishes for about a dozen reasons.
00:14:30.640For one thing, even if you agree for some reason that experts are entitled to some degree of deference, there's still a problem.
00:14:40.200And that problem is that we have clear evidence that various experts in this area have been compromised for political reasons, not to mention financial reasons.
00:14:48.280We saw that in the Vanderbilt investigation.
00:14:51.020For example, in his filings with the Supreme Court, Scrimetti cites evidence that Rachel Levine, the trans-identifying HHS Assistant Secretary for Health, pressured the organization that sets the guidelines for so-called trans-healthcare in order to lift all age limits for these gender procedures.
00:15:07.300And I've previously outlined the sordid and disturbing history of this organization, which is called WPATH.
00:15:11.600These are quacks who have no place in medicine whatsoever, no expertise of any kind in medicine.
00:15:18.820No hospital should be paying attention to anything they say.
00:15:22.700In internal documents, WPATH admits that it has no idea what it's doing, as Michael Schellenberger documented in the leaked WPATH files.
00:15:29.220But on top of that, WPATH is an explicitly political enterprise.
00:15:33.380In communications with WPATH, Levine stated that WPATH's initial failure to lift all age restrictions on gender-affirming procedures for children was, quote,
00:15:41.600proving a barrier to optimal policy progress.
00:15:54.260You notice what Levine didn't say anything about?
00:15:56.960The well-being of children doesn't factor in.
00:16:00.000As the New York Times reports, quote, the draft guidelines released in late 2021 recommended lowering the age minimums to 14 for hormonal treatments, 15 for mastectomies, 16 for breast augmentation or facial surgeries, and 17 for genital surgeries or hysterectomies.
00:16:17.920The proposed age limits were eliminated in the final guidelines outlining standards of care.
00:16:41.100In their brief, Tennessee went on to provide other evidence that WPATH has compromised.
00:16:46.860At one point, for instance, WPATH commissioned Johns Hopkins to produce some evidence backing their guidelines.
00:16:51.580But they gave up on that after the Johns Hopkins review found, quote, little to no evidence about children and adolescents benefiting from these alleged treatments.
00:17:00.400Now, that highlights another problem for the Biden administration and the ACLU, which is that it's not even true that there's a consensus among experts on this topic.
00:17:08.100Like, leaning aside the fact that many of these so-called experts are not experts and are totally fraudulent, there's not even a consensus.
00:17:15.360In fact, there's nothing even approaching a consensus.
00:17:17.760Health officials in the UK, Norway, Finland, Sweden have all concluded that gender interventions on children, quote, poses significant risks with unproven benefits.
00:17:32.460Various groups in this country, including the American College of Pediatricians, have come to the same conclusion.
00:17:38.100Another problem here, one that Tennessee is going to bring up at the Supreme Court, is that there's recently been an unexplained and very drastic change in the patient population of alleged transgender individuals.
00:17:48.520In just the past few years, the percentage of children identifying as trans has doubled from 0.7 percent to 1.4 percent.
00:17:56.820Meanwhile, the percentage of trans-identifying adults has remained constant at about 0.5 percent of the total population.
00:18:03.780You know, by some estimates, Scrimetti notes, the number of children presenting with gender dysphoria has tripled in just four years, from 2017 to 2021.
00:18:13.600And these children are now overwhelmingly adolescent girls, when historically, trans-identifying patients were typically adolescent and adult males.
00:18:20.400So we're dealing with a patient population that's rapidly changing in ways that can only be explained by a social contagion.
00:18:27.400And rationally, the solution to a social contagion isn't to pump children full of sterilizing hormones.
00:18:32.560The treatment is to take a step back and address the social contagion.
00:18:38.820When I say take a step back, I mean take a step a million miles away from anything related to hormones and never even approach that.
00:18:44.980But what you should be addressing is the social contagion.
00:18:49.900And one way to do that is to immediately ban the butchery and sterilization of children, which is what voters in Tennessee and many other states have decided to do.
00:18:59.320The fundamental legal issue in this case is whether these bans on child butchery somehow violate the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
00:19:07.160And to make that argument, the ACLU is saying that Tennessee's ban discriminates against certain patients on the basis of their sex.
00:19:13.340This is an argument that makes very little sense because Tennessee's bill doesn't classify anyone based on sex or any other protected characteristic, quote unquote.
00:19:21.500Instead, the law sets age-based restrictions on procedures like castration, sterilization, and surgery.
00:19:30.720And that is we ban certain medical procedures based on age all the time.
00:19:36.680That was the legal basis that the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals used in order to uphold Tennessee's law last year.
00:19:42.700They concluded that there was no sex-based discrimination at all and therefore no need to apply any heightened standard of review to the law.
00:19:49.020That ruling was a devastating blow to the trans agenda, as I explained at the time.
00:19:52.520It was a complete takedown of the idea that SB1 violates the Equal Protection Clause.
00:19:56.900As the Sixth Circuit explained, the point of the ban is to protect every child equally, whether they are boys or girls.
00:20:02.300If the Supreme Court denies this challenge by the ACLU and the DOJ on the same grounds, they would give the legal all clear, not just to all the states to pass their own bills, but also to Congress to do something it should have done a long time ago, which is to pass a national ban on so-called gender transitions for children.
00:20:26.340Children have the human right to be protected from castration and mutilation, period.
00:20:32.820Now, as best I can tell, Republicans haven't introduced any kind of legislation that would ban these procedures on children at a nationwide level.
00:20:39.580Last year, before he became Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson and other Republicans floated the possibility of a nationwide ban, but they haven't followed through yet.
00:20:46.080Well, it's time to change that before any more children are harmed.
00:20:51.300A national ban on this barbarism would prevent the gross human rights abuses like the one I described yesterday in the case of Jeff Younger.
00:21:01.680It would obviously protect many, many kids.
00:21:04.360But even aside from all of that, okay, this is also a winning political issue.
00:21:12.260Exit polls that were commissioned by Democrats showed that among swing voters who voted for Trump and ultimately decided the election, Kamala Harris' ridiculous stance on gender ideology was the single most important issue in their minds.
00:22:17.220Other than activists like Chase Strangio and the last remnants of the Biden administration like Levine and those types.
00:22:24.440All the rest of them, they know how crazy it makes them sound to oppose a ban like this, to come out in favor of chemically castrating children.
00:22:48.240Try to think about what your enemies don't want you to do and do exactly that thing.
00:22:55.180I'll tell you right now, the Democrats in Congress are praying to the God they don't believe in.
00:23:01.080That Republicans will not come out, will not make an issue out of this, and will not come out with some kind of ban because they don't want to have to get in front of cameras.
00:23:09.040You know, and start talking about this.
00:23:11.660With this case before the Supreme Court and conservative control of the entire federal government, we're closer than we've ever been to dealing a crushing and total defeat against the gender cult.
00:23:23.520All Republicans need to do now is follow in Tennessee's footsteps at the national level.
00:23:27.800Tell all of these activists, doctors, and butchers that they will never again sterilize or castrate another child, period.
00:23:36.140Banish this insanity from the country so decisively and so thoroughly that it never returns.
00:23:42.400That's what voters in both parties are asking for.
00:23:46.820And it's time Republicans gave it to them.