Mike Pence left stammering when CNN host points out his hypocrisy on trans youth

[RKP5637]

(These kids go through hell, many end up killing themselves. The ignorance in the nation about not comprehending what this is about is stunning. And idiotic politicians thinking they know more than the AMA and esteemed physicians/psychiatrists. Leave the kids, the medical profession and the parents alone, FFS. And quite using kids as a political football.)

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/06/mike-pence-left-stammering-when-cnn-host-points-out-his-hypocrisy-on-trans-youth/?utm_id=top_story

GOP presidential candidate Mike Pence could hardly respond when a CNN reporter pointed out his hypocrisy on LGBTQ+ issues. Pence argued that parental rights are paramount in one instance and then argued against parental rights when it comes to gender-affirming care.

CNN held a town hall event for Pence last night – the same kind of event that has gotten CNN criticized for not properly fact-checking the GOP presidential candidates as they speak in front of a hand-selected and very friendly audience – and he railed against gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

Host Dana Bash pushed back: “I just want to be clear on this because you are so adamant about parents’ rights.”

“Right, I am,” Pence responded.

“But in this particular case, parents who say, along with the doctors, that what is best for their kids, what their kids feel most comfortable with doing, is gender transition,” Bash said. “The parents should not be allowed to do that?”

Pence did not appear to have a response ready for this fairly obvious question.

“Right, look, I, I, look… The, the s- state has the obligation to see to the safety and health and well-being of the people in the state,” he said, even though Pence adamantly opposes safety measures like vaccine mandates, which do a lot more to keep people safe than focusing on transgender youth. “And I accept that. Look, yet… I, I take your point, I take your point….”

Bash insisted that she wasn’t making a point, “It’s a question,” as Pence continued to stammer.

“Well, I, I, look, this… Well we have afoot in America that is a radical gender ideology that has taken hold in our schools, that has taken hold in our universities, it is afoot across the nation….” Pence responded, trying to talk about anything other than the inconvenient fact that many parents of transgender kids support their children.

[Blue Owl]

1. Bottom Line: Mike Pence wants to decide when parents have rights and when they don't

Fuck off, McFlyboy...

[nilram]

2. Wants to decide when children have rights and when they don't,

ditto parents, ditto, states, ditto women, ditto gays, ditto workers, ditto you, ditto me. Damn, George Carlin would have a field day.

[sanatanadharma]

3. The State obligation to children's health an safety is null and void when guns ...

"... the s- state has the obligation to see to the safety and health and well-being of the people in the state,..."

[Sky Jewels]

4. I know! We should consult a book of ancient Mesopotamian goatherder mythologies

and see what it says!

[Hugh_Lebowski]

5. Oh Bash was definitely making a point, and a damn good one at that

S'why he had no answer to her question.

Good on Dana