SAVE America Act-How to Force the Dems' Hand plus Bringing the Receipts on Somali Fraud & Major Victory Stopping Sex-Change Surgeries for Kids
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Summary
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is back in Washington, D.C. this week, and he's got a lot to talk about, including: - The SAVE Act, which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote and require photo ID to vote, and what it takes to force a vote on the Senate floor. - A hearing that I chaired this week on Somali-American fraud in Minnesota. - The American Medical Association reverses its position on sex change surgeries for children. - And a call to action from Compassion International to sponsor a child in need.
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Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
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Senator, we've got a lot to talk about on the show,
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including a lot of conversation this week about the SAVE Act in Washington, D.C.
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And it even was involved in the partial government shutdown as well.
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Well, we're going to talk about the SAVE Act and what we can do in the Senate
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to get this passed, to require that only American citizens can register to vote,
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to require photo ID to vote, and what it's going to take to break down the Democrats
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We're also going to talk about a hearing that I chaired this week on the Somali fraud in Minnesota.
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And I'll tell you, at the hearing, the Democrats wanted to talk about
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absolutely anything else other than this massive fraud.
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And then this past week was really significant in that the American Medical Association
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reversed its position, and they now oppose sex change surgeries for children.
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It is in significant part a result of the $2 million detransitioner lawsuit.
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We're going to break down what a sea change this is that the medical associations
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that were pushing this propaganda have reversed course now.
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And it's going to, I honestly think, save a lot of kids' lives.
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And I mean that sincerely, especially when you deal with the suicide rates
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We're going to talk about that coming up as well.
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Let me also tell you about an amazing organization called Compassion International.
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I want you to just pause what you're doing for the next 60 seconds.
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And I want you to imagine Lucy, a seven-year-old.
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Know only the struggle of survival on dusty streets.
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What if there was a way to ignite hope for children just like Lucy?
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And that is with Compassion International partners and the local churches
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They receive critical medical care, life-changing education,
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vital skills training, and spiritual development.
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And you can empower a child just like Lucy to break free from poverty.
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I want you to do what I've done and sponsor a child today.
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It was brought up and it was a part of the discussion, the debate,
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There are a lot of conservatives that I've talked to this past week.
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They don't understand why this hasn't happened already.
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And the big question is, why can't we just pass it right now?
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I think there's a lot of misinformation on this.
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And it's not a 50 plus one vote to get this done.
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And if you want to know who to blame, look at the Democratic Party.
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And there isn't a single Democrat that had his blessing to vote in favor of this thing.
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Well, the SAVE Act, which was initially introduced in the House of Representatives
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the SAVE Act requires proof of American citizenship to register to vote.
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And then actually, President Trump has changed it.
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Number one, he wanted to change the name from the SAVE Act to the Save America Act.
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So now the president is calling it the Save America Act.
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Number two, he wanted to add to it not just proof of citizenship to register to vote,
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But the challenge is that the Democrats are dug in and are rabidly opposing it.
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And under the Senate rules, it takes 60 votes to move forward.
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And right now, we can anticipate every Senate Democrat voting no.
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Now, we're going to break down where public opinion is on this,
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and then I'm going to tell you the strategy that I'm urging John Thune and Republican leadership to do
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But first of all, let's just cover where the polling is.
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I want you to give a listen to actually something pretty remarkable.
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I want you to listen to Chuck Schumer actually on Morning Joe, so on MSNBC,
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being questioned about just how much support there is for the Save America Act.
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So, Leader Schumer, this talk about election security has revived discussions of the SAVE Act,
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Proponents of it say that it's, you know, to have ID, to prove U.S. citizenship, to be able to vote.
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Some of the claims they make, to be clear, are overstated.
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But polling does suggest, there's a new Pew Research poll,
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that 95% of Republicans, but also 71% of Democrats, like this idea.
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And I called it Jim Crow 2.0, and the right wing went nuts all over the Internet.
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What they're trying to do here is the same thing that was done in the South for decades,
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For instance, if you change, you're a woman who got married and changed your last name,
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you won't be able to show ID, and you'll be discriminated against.
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If you can't find a birth certificate or a proper ID, you'll be discriminated against.
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And I said to our Republican colleagues, it will not pass the Senate.
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You will not get a single Democratic vote in the Senate.
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We're not reviving Jim Crow all over the country.
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He's shot multiple shots, big ones across the bow of every Democrat in the Senate.
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You are not going to give the Republicans this victory.
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The part, though, there that he talks about being Jim Crow,
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he's not listing the African Americans as country,
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because more than 70% in a poll that was put out by CNN that they were talking,
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This was CNN's own words breaking down the support for voter ID based on race.
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A photo ID to vote is not controversial in this country.
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It is not controversial by party, and it is not controversial by race.
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The vast majority of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj that, in fact,
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78, I'm sorry, excuse me, 76% of blacks, 82% of Latino, 85% of white.
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Look, the American people overwhelmingly support photo ID to vote because it's a common sense step.
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You have to have a photo ID to get her an airplane.
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You have to have a photo ID to buy a beer at a bar.
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You have to have a photo ID to go to an R-rated movie.
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And by the way, I will say, look, Schumer using the rhetoric about Jim Crow,
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there is an irony in that it was his party, it was the Democrats, who enacted the Jim Crow laws.
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It was his party, the Democrats, who created the KKK.
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It was his party, the Democrats, that kept the system of segregation in for decades.
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He uses this rhetoric because the Democrats do not care that Democrats overwhelmingly supported voters.
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They don't care that African Americans and Hispanics support it.
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The other question I want to ask you is, why are Democrats so opposed to it if it's not about cheating?
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Because if whites are at 85, Latinos at 82, and blacks at 76, I'm not sure there's that many subjects.
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In America, you could get this type of consensus on, including Republicans and Democrats,
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those that identify as Republicans and Democrats also overwhelmingly agree this is a good thing.
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Yeah, look, the American people overwhelmingly support photo ID to vote.
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The Democrats are not opposing this because their base is telling them to oppose it.
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As we talked about, 71 percent of Democrats, voters, think photo ID to vote is a good idea.
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Number one, they're opposing it, I believe, because voter fraud is a real and persistent problem,
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and they count on voter fraud to help them win elections.
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And so they don't want photo ID because they want cheating.
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If you look at the Democrats, when they have control over elections,
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they put in place policies that expand voter fraud.
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And by the way, look, if you're not inclined to believe me, you might say, okay, Cruz is being a Republican.
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Although if you're not inclined to believe me, I am wondering why you're listening to Verdict with Ted Cruz.
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If you're not inclined to believe me, maybe you would believe Democrat President Jimmy Carter.
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Because Democrat President Jimmy Carter joined with former Republican Secretary of State James Baker.
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They chaired what was called the Carter-Baker Commission, studying voter fraud.
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And they recommended a series of steps to prevent voter fraud.
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They recommended, number one, limiting the use of mail-in ballots because mail-in ballots make it easier to cheat.
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They recommended, number two, requiring photo ID to vote because that makes it harder to cheat.
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They recommended, number three, prohibiting ballot harvesting, prohibiting paid political operatives being able to collect the ballots of others because that invites voter fraud.
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Well, Ben, do you know what the position is now of Chuck Schumer and every congressional Democrat?
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They literally went down the recommendations of the Carter-Baker Commission on how to stop voter fraud, and they reversed them all.
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So the Carter-Baker Commission said if you want to stop voter fraud, limit mail-in ballots.
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The Democrat want mail-in ballots in every election.
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The Carter-Baker Commission said require photo ID.
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The Democrats are adamantly opposed to photo ID.
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And the most pernicious ballot harvesting, the Carter-Baker Commission said unequivocally, ballot harvesting invites, it encourages voter fraud.
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By the way, explain ballot harvesting to people that don't understand that terminology.
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What it means is you could have a paid political operative, someone who works for the Democrats, go to a nursing home.
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Go to a nursing home and fill out the ballots with the elderly people, with them, and take their ballots.
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So, okay, Mr. Jones, who are you going to vote for?
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And you can have one operative collecting hundreds of ballots.
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Well, let's say you're sitting there and Mr. Jones votes for Donald Trump.
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If you're an unscrupulous operative, you know what you do?
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You take that ballot and throw it in the trash.
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Like, nobody checks to see if you send them in.
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And by the way, if you have, say, in nursing homes, people with dementia, people that are not there,
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if you're sitting there filling out their ballot with them, you can just vote for the Democrat.
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And so it sets up a way for paid operatives to cheat, and it makes it very easy to cheat.
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Secondly, though, Chuck Schumer, when he says it's Jim Crow 2.0, I think they view this issue
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as a way to gin up the extremes in their base and to scare people.
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I don't want to see a bunch of racist Democrats putting laws in place that hurt minorities like
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So it's a combination of encouraging fraud and using scary rhetoric.
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If the Democrats are adamantly going to oppose it, and I'll tell you what I am urging the
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other Republican senators, what I'm urging our leadership, is we should nuke what's called
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So under the Senate rules, it takes 60 votes to end debate.
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And it used to be, for most of the history of the Senate, to do a filibuster, you had to
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You remember back in 2013 against Obamacare, I did a 21-hour filibuster and talked for 21
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Now, we don't make the Democrats talk and talk and talk and fill the airspace.
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We can force them, one after the other, to stand up, to stand up, to keep talking, to keep
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talking, to keep talking, and make the filibuster really painful.
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The Democrats can keep challenging whether we have a quorum on the Senate floor.
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What that means is that we've got to be able to produce 50 bodies.
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We've got to have at least 50 Republican senators who can show up on the Senate floor and demonstrate
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So it is painful for both the majority and the minority.
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And right now, it's not clear that we have 50 Republicans who support doing this.
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This week, I made the case vigorously to my Republican colleagues.
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Mike Lee is making the case vigorously to our Republican colleagues.
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Rick Scott is making the case vigorously to our Republican colleagues.
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And so I think we ought to make it incredibly painful for Democrats and do everything we
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can to try to push them to the point of exhaustion.
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And if they get to that point, then we can pass the Save America Act.
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I think it's really important that Republicans explain that we're in favor of this, but we
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have to have 10 Democrats to get this thing done.
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And without getting those seven to get us to the perfect number of 60, it doesn't happen.
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Every Democrat will follow Schumer's orders on this.
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All right, Senator, you did something that was really underreported this week.
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I say underreported because there was a partial government shutdown.
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There was a Trump coming out with Trump Rx as well.
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And we need to take some real time to discuss exactly what you helped expose this week of
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Well, I'm the chairman of the Oversight Subcommittee, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and I convened
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a hearing and chaired a hearing this week on the massive fraud that we saw in Minnesota
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with the Somali community and had witnesses, including the whistleblower who joined with
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And I got to say, as we were going through the evidence of the biggest fraud in recorded
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history, that was done with the complicity of Democrat officeholders, it was amazing.
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Democrat senators wanted to talk about absolutely any other topic other than the actual facts
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Give a listen to what I had to say at the hearing.
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Federal prosecutors in Minnesota now estimate that half or more of the $18 billion spent since
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2018 across 14 Minnesota welfare programs may have been lost to fraud.
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If confirmed, the amount stolen would rank among the largest welfare frauds in American history.
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In Minnesota, a welfare system designed to uplift the most vulnerable children was treated like
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an open ATM, exploiting both taxpayers and the public trust extended to immigrant communities.
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Over the last decade, Minnesota Democrats didn't just fail to stop the fraud.
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They made it easy and profitable and, in a totally lawless fashion, silenced anyone who pointed it out.
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Taken together, the record shows that the fraud was not accidental or unforeseeable, but was the
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product of deliberate inaction, willful blindness, and calculated abuse.
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At this point, I got to ask you this question, Senator.
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Is there any government program in Minnesota that is not being abused by the Somali community
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when they figure out a way to defraud it, they just go all in?
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If you look at the numbers, the percentages of the Somali community in Minnesota that are on
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The programs move billions of dollars each year, and they're concentrated within a relatively
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Minnesota's Somali community receives welfare benefits at rates far higher than the state average,
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making these programs both financially significant and politically sensitive.
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In a state where the two closest statewide elections were decided by less than 1%, the Somali community
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81% of Somali households in Minnesota receive some form of welfare.
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54% of Somali households receive food stamps compared to 7% of non-Somali households.
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73% are enrolled in Medicaid compared to 18% of non-Somali households.
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And 27% receive cash assistance compared to 6% of non-Somali households.
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You hear those numbers are staggering, and I also think what's scary is what we're witnessing
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here is also the type of fraud that's now being uncovered in other states, including
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Elon Musk was tweeting about that earlier before we were doing the show, just like he
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can't even believe, and he was the doge guy, just how much stealing.
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And this is just straight stealing from the American people is going on in virtually every
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government program that they can get their hands on.
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Look, and it shows the fundamental corruption of Democrats.
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Number one, they imported vast numbers of illegal immigrants into this country, vast number
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They put almost all of them on welfare, so they're paying them.
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They put them on programs that are entirely fraudulent.
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They're taking that money, sending it back to Somalia.
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That money, by the way, the Minnesota taxpayers are the number one funder of Al-Shabaab, the
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terrorist Islamist group in Somalia has received hundreds of millions of dollars in stolen money
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And I've got to say, it was amazing at this hearing.
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The Democrat senators at the hearing did not dispute any of what I'm saying.
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Instead, they just tried to change the subject.
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Give a listen to my response to their efforts to change the subject.
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In that enormous word cloud, virtually nothing about $9 billion stolen from Minnesota taxpayers
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by Somali fraudsters with Democrat politicians knowing full well what is happening, facilitating
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it, and harvesting votes and campaign dollars from the people robbing the children of Minnesota.
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My Democrat colleagues want you desperately not to focus on those facts.
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And so instead, miraculously, the Democrats have discovered the Sermon on the Mount.
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Well, this hearing is going to focus on $9 billion stolen from the taxpayers and hundreds
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of millions of those dollars going to the Al-Shabaab terrorist organization funded by the Democrats.
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You would think there would be some sort of accountability there on the point that you
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And that is about money going to terrorist organizations.
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When you were talking about that, was there any of the Democrats that were actually paying
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Because you put up a poster, and I want to play this for people, but it was, and if you're
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watching on YouTube or Facebook, you'll actually get to see this.
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But you have Al-Shabaab, Al-Qaeda's most lethal affiliate, a poster of them on a truck as terrorists,
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And I just want to play this very quickly for people saying, hear what you said.
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When billions of dollars are stolen from U.S. welfare programs and sent abroad, there
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is no credible way to ensure those funds do not enrich jihadists within Al-Shabaab.
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As one confidential source told the Manhattan Institute, the largest funder of Al-Shabaab,
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a Islamist terrorist organization in Somalia, is the Minnesota taxpayer.
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The single largest funder of Al-Shabaab, a terrorist organization in Somalia, is the taxpayers
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I mean, how are people not going to jail for this, and are people going to go to jail?
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Because at this point, there are so many conservatives who say, I want someone arrested.
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If we have our money going to terrorists, are someone going to go to jail for this?
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How is this not just like the paddy wagons backing up and people are going to jail?
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We need to prosecute every Democrat politician who was complicit in this.
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By the way, what I laid out about the money going to Al-Shabaab, not a single Democrat
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I want you to listen to the back and forth I had with the Democrat witness, the head of
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Public Citizen, this left-wing group who really didn't want to see anyone prosecuted for this
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Mr. Weissman, your co-president of Public Citizen, which describes itself as a consumer
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advocate and a pro-democracy organization, would you agree that the fraud in Minnesota
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I don't believe these estimates are grounded in any evidence that I've seen.
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The $9 billion figure was based on a claim just that, well, I think that half of them
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I just heard a comment just saying, boost the number up.
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But to be clear, and with respect, you missed my testimony, no question there's fraud in
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And absolutely, I share your righteous anger about whatever degree of fraud there was there.
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Do you agree that any Democrat politician, or let me be clear, any Republican politician
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that had knowledge of the fraud and was complicit should be prosecuted?
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I'm not sure what they're being prosecuted for, but also in my testimony, I described also,
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outside of Minnesota, the manifold ways that this administration is enabling fraud.
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Sir, sir, I'm going to ask a question, and then you can answer it.
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Your organization describes itself as a pro-democracy organization.
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I'm going to try to find out if you actually are pro-democracy, or if you're simply pro-Democrat
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We've seen the Democrats who want to change the topic.
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So I get you want to testify how much you hate Donald Trump.
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But I'm quite certain Donald Trump was not running a fraudulent daycare center or a fraudulent
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So all of the talking points about how you dislike Trump, set them aside.
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We will see the Democrats on this committee go down those talking points.
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Do you believe elected politicians in Minnesota who were aware of this fraud and were complicit
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It is not normal to prosecute government officials for not prosecuting fraud.
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That is not a standard I'm aware of that you've advocated or that anyone else has advocated
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If let's say Governor Walz or Attorney General Ellison knew about the fraud, benefited from
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the fraud in terms of bundling votes, benefited from the frauds in terms of collecting campaign
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finance violations, and deliberately looked the other way, you think that's not criminal
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But also, if you'll permit me, that hypothetical is in fact happening throughout this.
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Mr. Cruz, it is whether I have a standard of accountability.
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So let me, let me, let me, let me, sir, sir, please do not interrupt me.
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You've heard the evidence and testimony about daycare centers with no children, with no toys,
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with no facilities, with windows that are blacked out.
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But do you believe it is possible that the officials sending millions of dollars to those fake daycare centers and fake autism senators didn't know what was going on?
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I'm glad that the child care centers don't open their door for someone who's knocking there.
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I don't view that as evidence that the child care centers are fake child care centers, although I'm sure there are some.
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My understanding is that state investigators have gone to do their duty at those exact same child centers and have found that most of them actually are operating correctly.
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Well, I will say it is disappointing that you had a chance leading a nonprofit that is supposedly pro-democracy to take a principled stand.
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Instead, you decided to defend the Somali fraudsters because it benefits elected.
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The Democrats will defend this type of corruption and fraud, and they'll do it right to your face.
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Look, one of the things I said in the hearing, the two closest statewide elections in Minnesota were one-point races.
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So this is the difference between Democrats winning and losing.
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And I got to say, by the way, I invited to this hearing Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
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I invited Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison.
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They could have come and said that they were not complicit in this.
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But they effectively went in, went in into witness protection.
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And, Ben, I don't know if you saw what our friend John Kennedy said this past week about Tim Walz.
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He said Tim Walz is a less masculine version of Hillary Clinton.
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We should put that on the back of the Leering Center shirts, right?
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Like the Leering Center on the front, that quote on the back.
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All right, lastly, before we run out of time, Senator, I do want to talk about a big victory this week for protecting kids.
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And we're seeing new guidance that's coming out saying that you shouldn't be mutilating children with transition surgeries until they're adults.
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And this is going to save the lives of many children.
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Yeah, so this week, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons announced that it no longer supported, quote, gender-affirming surgeries for children under 18.
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And then the next day, the American Medical Association said it agrees with the American Society of Plastic Surgeons about the surgery.
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And so the AMA said also you should not do these surgeries for minors.
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And the AMA said in a statement that because, quote, the evidence for gender-affirming surgical intervention in minors is insufficient for us to make a definitive statement,
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the AMA agrees with ASPS that surgical interventions in minors should generally be deferred to adulthood.
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Just a couple of years ago, the AMA and all these medical groups were pushing, do the surgeries, sterilize the kids.
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And one of the real triggers was the $2 million malpractice lawsuit that was won by detransitioner Fox Varian.
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That happens, and bam, now every one of these woke groups and the doctor groups that were all making millions off this are like,
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Yeah, and by the way, to give you a sense of just what a massive shift this is,
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in 2021, here's what the AMA said on its website.
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The American Medical Association today strengthened its established position opposing the governmental intrusion into the practice of medicine
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that is detrimental to the health of transgender and gender-diverse children and adults.
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Legislatures in 20 states this year proposed banning physicians and other health care professionals
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from providing medically necessary gender-affirming care to transgender and gender-diverse youth.
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physicians and medical students at the AMA's House of Delegates meeting voted to meaningfully expand the organization's strong opposition
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to undue restrictions on medical care to populations that have been politicized in state legislatures.
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And you want to talk about a massive sea change, that's a big, big deal.
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Yeah, and I'll tell you, J.K. Rowling, who's really been courageous on this topic,
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she put out a long tweet this week on this topic that's worth reflecting on.
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A young detransitioner, Fox Varian, has won $2 million damages in a medical malpractice lawsuit
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in which she sued the psychologist and surgeon who approved her for a double mastectomy, age 16.
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Varian's mother testified that she'd been against the surgery,
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but was pressured into agreeing because she'd been told that unless her daughter transitioned,
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As the floodgates open and more and more detransitioners sue the clinicians who subjected them
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gender identity activists will almost certainly continue to ignore any evidence that fails to support their preferred narrative.
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This will go down in history as one of the worst medical scandals of all time.
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Adults inside and outside the medical profession sold troubled young people like Varian
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the idea that all of their complex trauma would be resolved by removing healthy body parts.
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It's a huge victory for kids, and it's a huge victory for sanity.
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