Larry O'Connor (56:45)
It's Larry O' Connor sitting in for the great one, Mark Levin. And for everyone on hold right now on this voter ID thing, say back stuff. I am going to change the subject. I'm sorry, I. We did an hour and a half on this and not that it's not important. I mean, I don't, I don't know anyone else who did an hour and a half on this on national radio. It's, it's absolutely outrageous and it's, it needs to continue to be pressed. I'm here in the nation's capital and I saw a lot of you people on social media saying, should we, you know, should we flood the Republicans in the Senate's voicemails? John Thune's voicemail should. Yeah, you should, yeah. Let them know it's kind of important cuz they don't get it. I do want to move on. There's a couple of other things in the news that I want to talk about and I, you know, I, if you listen to my radio show that I do in D.C. every day from 5 to 9 in the morning, I'm sure you have a great morning show where you live. But you should check out our morning show now and again, five to nine Eastern or my daily noon livestream that I do for Town hall where I'm the editor. I try to be positive, I try to be upbeat. I try to find the upside of anything. I'm not one of those guys, you know, this is our doom. Stay under the Republic broadcast. I'm glad you're listening. I'm not that guy. I'm not. I, you know, maybe I should be, maybe I'm ready to be a prepper. You know, maybe I'm, maybe I should be digging the bunker in the backyard and arming up and getting all the canned food ready and. Because the whole thing's gonna be just crashing down. I just, I've got four kids. I just found out I've got, my very first grandchild is on the way. And I just, I want to be as hopeful and positive realistically though of course, I'm not Pollyanna. I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not naive. But I like to instill in my kids and a lot of the younger people. I live in Annapolis with my wife. We're near the Naval Academy. We're sponsor parents. We have these young men and women who are on the path to being Navy and Marine Corps officers, junior officers. And I want to harness their hope and optimism and their energy about this country and what they're willing to do for our country. I want to commingle with that and lift it up to a higher plane for them and for myself, frankly. And I want to spread that kind of hope and optimism and positive energy. That's what you got to do in this country, especially if you're a patriotic, liberty loving, America first conservative. That's how we attract people to our ideas. It's how we attract people to the momentum behind the progress that we are already seeing right now. We can't wallow in the noise. We can't wallow in the anger. We can't wallow in the negativity all the time. That's what they do. My longtime hero, Dennis Prager used To call the left's perspective is a proctologist's view of America. If you know what a proctologist does, you know what his view is. And that's how they view our country. We don't do that. We take seriously the very real threats that our society faces, that our nation faces, that our Constitution faces, that Western civilization faces. Because, let's face it, the Marxists, they don't want to just control the economy. They want to control our culture. They want to upend Western civilization and basic societal norms that we have learned through, well, through Christendom and through Judeo Christian understanding of where we are on this planet and why we are on this planet and what our obligations are to each other and to our Lord. They want to tear all that down. I get it, okay? But we need to have a sober perspective on what they're doing and then attract people through the absolute magnificence of our love for what we believe in. Long way of saying I'm a glass half full kind of guy. Heck, I'm not even a glass half full kind of guy. I'm a guy who just wants us to get the right size glass so it always looks full no matter how much liquid you've got. And so when I see a story of hope, when I see a story, then make us all clench our fist and thrust it in the air like we're watching a Rocky movie and say, yeah, we won one. Well, I want to share it with you. I remember a couple of years ago, I was fortunate enough to sit behind this microphone for Mark Levin, and we talked quite a bit about the existence threat to our children posed by the medical profession, by the educators in our public schools mostly, and the elite class who have decided that they can't tell the difference between boys and girls from the elite class who think that a man can get pregnant and that if you don't use nonsensical pronouns that twist and distort the English language, that you're in some way a bigot. I remember talking to you about how serious this issue is for parents. Parents who are told by medical professionals and by professional educators that if they don't give permission for their minor child to be pharmaceutically sterilized with hormone drugs and in some cases, physically mutilated with perfectly healthy organs lopped off of their bodies and tossed into a trash can for the sake of this bizarre transgender cult that had consumed our culture and our elite and our ruling class just a handful of years ago. I remember talking about that with you. I remember Explaining to you how critically important this is. And I remember all the calls talking about the outrageous things that are going on in your school system, in your local school district, where the fight was engaged. And we fought back. We held the line. We withstood the claims that we were bigoted, that we were homophobic, that we were anti science, that we were allowing our children to be harmed. We fought back against the notion those poor children, those poor parents of those poor children who were convinced to go through those extreme measures by medical professionals with the emotional blackmail that was laid in front of them, saying, if you don't do this, if you don't chemically castrate your child through pharmaceuticals and hormones, cross sex hormones that were not designed for your little child's body, if you don't go through with this barbaric plastic surgery that would lop off these beautiful, perfect, healthy human organs and toss them into the trash can to accommodate this radical ideology. If you don't do that, your child will kill themselves and it will be your fault. Mom and dad, we fought back against all of that, all of it. And I've got two stories for you. I don't know if you saw it. Over the weekend, a jury in New York awarded a young woman a detransitioner, they're called. That's somebody who was talked into these barbaric procedures. And then when they were no longer teenagers and dealing with whatever they were dealing with as teenagers, that led them to the point where they thought it would be wise to remove their breasts or remove other parts of their body. When she got a little bit older and she realized that it was wrong, she realized the regret. She realized that it was an awful thing to do. Well, she then turned and sued the doctor and the psychologist who she believes manipulated her and convinced her to have that procedure, a double mastectomy. A jury awarded this young woman $2 million over the weekend. This is enormous. This is a game changer. This is where it ends. Because for the last 10, 15 years, a whole lot of people made a whole lot of money. The insurance companies, the pharmaceutical companies, the hospitals, the surgeons, the counselors. A whole lot of money. A cynic would look at all the money that they were made and think that perhaps that was the motivating factor here. And now. As soon as their ideology, their radical ideology and their encouragement to have these barbaric procedures done ends up costing them money, well, game over. We'll see where their principles and their values and their virtue go when it starts costing them money instead of making them Rich. And then there's this story today. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons has now recommended against gender transition surgeries for youths, becoming the first major medical association in the US to narrow its guidance on pediatric gender care. Which, by the way, is a remarkable headline in and of itself because when we. And then the courageous Matt Walsh and the whole team there, my friends and colleagues at Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, even Andrew Clavin, when they raised this issue to such a high profile, when people like myself and my colleagues at wmao, I mentioned my colleagues and co hosts Patrice Amuca and Julie Gundlach, who along with the president of Independent Women's Forum, Carrie Lucas, made this issue number one. Because unlike the left wing, radical liberal Marxist feminist groups that you hear about all the time, whose sole focus and. And their main priority in representing women is to ensure that women can kill babies before they're born, but they don't really think beyond that. Unlike those groups, Independent Women, Independent Women's Forum, Independent Women's Vote, Independent Women's Network, the whole umbrella there, they made this a priority because they recognized that this was changing the very definition of what it is to be a woman, if we are even allowed to have that definition at this point. And they have now turned the tide on this. The winds are racking up. But whenever we would raise this issue and say children should not be convinced to do this. Puberty blockers are not temporary. It is irreversible. You are distorting and changing a child's life before and during puberty and they can never have those years back. Game over. It is barbaric to remove a young girl's breasts at the age of 16 when a 16 year old isn't even sure what outfit they should wear on any given day or how they should have their hair cut, let alone have a radical, irreversible surgery done on their body. We wouldn't allow them to get tattoos because it's permanent. But we're encouraging these procedures when everyone would raise this issue about children. What were we told time and time again? What were we told? Oh, nobody's doing this to children. Off. That's a right wing conspiracy theory. Stop. No, it's not happening to children. We would show them the videos that the courageous and brilliant Internet journalist at libs of TikTok uncovered from a, I believe, Boston pediatric hospital that showed the surgeons at a Boston pediatric hospital talking about the procedure they did to children at the pediatric hospital. And they would delete the videos, wipe them from the Internet and say those don't exist. We don't do these to children. And after years and years and years of the gaslighting and the denials and the claims of right wing conspiracy, we now have the American Society of Plastic Surgeons recommending against gender transition surgeries for.
