Pierre Poilievre stands against puberty blockers for minors
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Summary
Justin Trudeau wants to give puberty blockers to minors under the age of 18. Conservative MP and candidate for the Calgary Signal Hill nomination, Pierre Poph is on the other side of the debate, arguing that only adults should have access to them.
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If you care about the issues of parental rights and the safety of children, this week in Canadian politics has been hyperproductive.
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First, we had Alberta Premier Daniel Smith coming up with new proposed legislation to gird up parental rights in the province of Alberta
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and ban certain medications and medical procedures from being administered to minors underneath a certain age.
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And now we have federal conservative leader Pierre Polly taking a stance against giving puberty blockers to anyone below the age of 18.
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An even more hawkish position than even Daniel Smith's, but I believe it is absolutely the correct position.
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You do not give medications that are going to stunt the growth of adolescents to them just because they're anxious about their gender.
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You cannot let people who cannot consent to many things consent to permanently damaging their bodies into the future, stunting their own growth.
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This is a fantastically logical position for Polly and the Conservatives to be taking, and I think it's actually going to increase their popularity a lot.
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But before I get to the video of Polly answering this question, I just want to do a quick, shameless plug that I, Wyatt Claypool, am running for the Calgary Signal Hill Conservative Party nomination.
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So if you live on the west side of Calgary, see which riding you live in.
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This is what the riding boundaries are going to look like after April when they do some boundary redistributions to make up for the three new ridings Alberta's getting.
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So the Greenbara and Bowness area is being cut out.
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If you live there, don't buy a membership for me.
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Other than that, if you live in any other part of the riding, buy a membership.
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We want to make sure we have real strong Conservatives in these strong Conservative ridings and not O'Toole-style red Tories who are going to duck issues like this one on puberty blockers, hormones, and parental rights.
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Anyways, getting back to it, here is Mr. Polly answering this question just this morning.
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Do you support age restrictions for puberty blockers and hormone therapies for trans kids?
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I think that Justin Trudeau is trying to divide and distract Canadians by spreading disinformation about the decisions that premiers and parents are making.
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I think we should protect the rights of parents to make their own decisions.
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And I believe that adults should have the freedom to make any decision they want about their body.
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But should you ban surgeries and medical interventions for minors as your own party members suggested?
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Well, you would have to ask your party members.
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Such as puberty blockers and hormone reformers.
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You said yes, just to be clear, you said yes, only adults should take puberty blockers.
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Let them make adult decisions when they become adults.
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Does that mean you are against puberty blockers for kids under the age of 18?
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another comment on this. Justin Trudeau is again puffing out his chest trying to divide Canadians
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and attack parents who are trying to protect their kids. He will in the end back down on this
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just like he had to back down on his firearms policy, just like he had to back down on bringing
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in medical assistance and dying for people suffering from mental illness, just like he's
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backing down again and again and again. He will back down on this because he is not interested in
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protecting kids. He's interested in using this as a divisive wedge to distract from doubling housing
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costs and quadrupling carbon taxes on our people. That's an amazing clip. I especially love that
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he's calling Justin Trudeau's bluff. And I think what he's trying to do there is he's actually going
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to try and make Justin Trudeau double down on his position on giving puberty blockers to minors and
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all this kind of trans rights kind of stuff. Because by saying that Justin Trudeau is going to back down,
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maybe he can make Justin Trudeau not back down right away. And Justin Trudeau might even double
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down and make himself look like a complete fool. But I love that clip from the media's reactions.
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I love also the way that Pierre Polyev handled it. Some people when they say, well, Polyev hasn't taken
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a stance on this yet. Well, he hasn't taken a stance on this yet. Sometimes, and I literally
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have a master's degree in public policy in my undergrads also in policy studies, you're waiting
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for windows of opportunity, for policy windows to open up. And just the reporters asking him the
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questions in that manner opened up a great window. When he said puberty blockers and hormones, for who?
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And they're like, minors, for minors. And just the way he said that immediately made them look like
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the absurd ones, because they are. But you have to maneuver into the right position to make it so
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clear that you're on the right side of history. And these people are crazy. And just all the gaggle
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of reporters being like, what are you talking about? What are you talking about? No puberty blockers for
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minors? No hormone therapy for minors? It sounds like they're getting into a really cold bath.
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Like, yes, we shouldn't be giving toxic drugs to minors. I'm not sure who you guys are, or what
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you like, like, who are these people? Why do journalistic outlets employ these idiots? It's
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obviously a bad thing. You should not be giving Luperon, or whatever it's called, to boys in order
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to basically chemically castrate them. And again, you can make these decisions as an adult,
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just as any adult can make decisions if they get a tattoo, if they drink, all this other stuff,
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if you smoke cigarettes. This is one of those things where there's obviously not a real healthcare
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angle to using these drugs. There is just the idea that, well, kids will be depressed if you don't let
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them use these. Well, why are kids for some reason needing these drugs suddenly in the year 2024,
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when if I went back to the 1960s, no kid were saying, well, I better get some Luperon, or I'm like,
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or I'm going to be depressed because I'm actually the other gender. Obviously, gender theory, and
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obviously, the sort of confusion that the Marxist sort of class of our society has tried to inject
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into our school system and into our culture is affecting kids. Kids are extremely impressionable,
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and I don't think that anyone should be surprised that this has become a cultural phenomenon. But the
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good thing is that 80% of Canadians are still on side for many of the parental rights,
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like measures. I don't think that the liberals are going to want to run on this issue. It's a
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stupid wedge issue because nobody agrees with them. 80% of people pretty much support parental rights
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and don't think that kids should be given irreversible medical interventions because
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they're confused about their gender. That's actually a very bigoted thing to do to a child.
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It's bigotry against childhood. It's saying that every little thought that you have,
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every anxiety that you have needs to be medicated, that parents need to be starting to bring you to
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the doctor and see what we can do to make the anxiety go away. Just let your kid be a little
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bit anxious about growing up. Every kid was anxious about growing up. It's a very strange time of your
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life where you're not quite an adult and life is very weird and hard to understand, but you don't
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have the naivete of a very young child anymore. For some reason, we're almost criminalizing that,
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or at least the left wants to criminalize that and basically say, oh, you're anxious about your
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gender? Well, take these pills. No, that's insane. And there's so much social pressure that goes along
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with the decisions that kids are making these days to transition, to take these medical interventions.
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Again, look at the studies that show if you don't do anything when a child is confused about their
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gender, they identify as the sex that they were at birth as soon as they hit adulthood,
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because it's just something that they had to get over. It's something that they had to work out in
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their own minds, in their own hearts over time, not immediately stuck with drugs that are going to
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basically lock them into that decision, at least in the medium to long term.
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Anyways, that's it for me today. Again, I'm Wyatt Claypool. I'm running for the Calgary Signal Hill
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Conservative Party nomination. My website's in the description below, WyattClaypool.com. If you live in
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the area, buy a membership to vote for me, we don't want some useless red Tory representing us
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supposed to. He literally owed me $1,800 during the evidentiary filing periods of this case,
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notice of libel about it. At no point does he actually have any evidence that proves what was
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into actually paying for this legal defense. Anyways, that should be it for me today. I'll see
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you guys in another video or live stream later on today.