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Do you see how manipulative that type of language actually is? I mean, my heart breaks for people like this who struggled their entire lives to accept who they really were and in this particular person's case, who still struggle to accept who they truly are, who are running away from who they truly are in chasing affirmation or chasing self worth or chasing self love. But at the end there, did you hear what that was said? All any of us wants out of our very short lives is to live lives of purpose and of wholeness. If we were really serious about helping children live whole lives, live in the fullness of who they are, that never ever can start with a surgical procedure that cuts off who they are, that surgically mutilates their whole self, that never can start with taking pills that chemically castrates can your whole self that renders you infertile, that prevents you from living your full self eventually when you grow up as an adult. True affirmation, true acceptance, true inclusivity is us having the courage as a society to help people struggling to accept who they actually are, who are struggling with the pain and the confusion and the upside down nature of gender dysphoria. The to walk through that experience and arrive at a conclusion where they can embrace wholeness and purpose in who they have always been, not in needing to change every single thing about themselves. Chasing affirmation and chasing self acceptance in the process. The fact that half half of our political system in the United States today disagrees with that reality means we have so much work still left to do in speaking the truth to the world. But the passage of this Protect Children's Innocence act is an amazing first step in the right direction. As I mentioned this past the House 216 to 211, three Democrats voted for it, four Republicans voted against it. Frankly, I want to put them on blast. What Republicans, let's, let's ask chat. Voted against the Protect Children's Innocence act on the House floor vote of the Protect Children's Innocence Act. The Republicans who voted no on the measure were Representative Caravo, shockingly from Colorado, my home state, Representative Brian Fitzpatrick from Pennsylvania, Representative John Curtis from Utah. Interesting. And Representative Mike Lawler from New York. Do with that information what you will. We have a lot of work to do, but this is an amazing first step. Now this bill goes to the floor of the United States Senate. We will watch the Senate vote on this. I am extremely hopeful that we see the same courage from members of the Senate to speak the truth courageously, without fear of retribution or consequences from the woke mob or their insanely leftist colleagues there on Capitol Hill. And then this heads to President Donald Trump's desk to be signed into law, making it a crime, a felony, federal crime, to perform gender procedures on our children. I feel like we needed some good news, to be honest with you. It's been a crazy few horrible weeks of all bad news and we've had to cover all the bad news here on the show. But this is amazing good news and by the way, is not unique to the United States of America. Countries across Western civilization are linking arms and banding together to also proclaim the truth that it is up to us to protect the innocence of our children and to say never again to gender surgeries, cross sex hormones or puberty blockers to children who deserve our physical protection and the protection of their innocence. Just recently the the uk, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and France have all said, yeah, we went way too far. We know we were the first countries to do this and we were really radically leftist in the fact that we wanted to transition all of our kids. But we went way, way, way, way, way too far. In the UK we covered this at length when this happened, but the National Health Service, the NHS in England, banned any new prescription of puberty blockers to any British citizen under the age of 18 in 2024 that happened last year. Instead, they are recommending an approach to and to walk with kids experiencing these problems that prioritizes psychological support and research instead of just blindly throwing pharmaceutical intervention at children. In Sweden, the national health authorities have recommended that all hormone treatments for minors be provided only in what they are calling exceptional cases and within a research context only due to insufficient scientific basis regarding the benefits versus the risk of hormone treatments for minors. In Finland, they became one of the first countries in 2020 to say, we went way too far, right it back in immediately because we have got to protect our children. In 2020, they updated their guidelines in Finland to prioritize psychological and supportive therapies over any sort of medical intervention. They only offer puberty blockers and hormones on a case by case basis and after extremely careful consideration. In Norway, the Norwegian Healthcare Investigation Board last March in 2024 recommended that all treatments like puberty blockers be defined as experimental, not even be considered legitimate treatment that is widely accepted by the scientific and medical community, but instead define these things as experimental and generally restrict them only to to a research context. Now let me just say up front it is never acceptable for us to even research and experiment on our children and their physical health, but this is an amazing step in the right direction. Denmark and France, both of these countries have had their health authorities urge much greater caution and move again towards evidence based medicine rather than exploring just throwing whatever pharmaceutical intervention they can throw at you. They limit medical intervention and physical treatment of gender dysphoria beyond just psychological help in Denmark and France now only to very specific and very limited circumstances. Back to this groundbreaking, amazing, inspiring news in just a second. But first look, we all know the drill with holiday gifts. You guys spend hours finding something that will probably end up in a drawer or re gifted to somebody else next year. But there is a better way. There's a better idea out there. Sending your friends and family a good rancher's gift box instead. It's not just a box of 100% American raised meat, which it is and that would be enough. 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I'm going to have to look this up for you. He called it. Oh, this is what he called. It was like sex denying care or something. And I thought that was really powerfully stated. We cannot continue to call this gender affirming care. This is sex rejecting or sex denying care. That is the full reality of what we're actually talking about here when we are talking about the castration, cutting off your normal bodily processes of children through cross sex hormones and puberty blockers and hormone treatment. And we're also talking about the physical castration, the literal removal of your biological sex organs for children. So countries like Germany, Austria and Switzerland are reaffirming, recommitting themselves to sex denying treatment, or what many are calling gender affirming care. And Sweden's parliament actually did recently pass a law that required the age for people to legally change their gender to go from 18 down to 16. So they are getting a bit more radical. But across the west, what we are almost universally seeing in the uk, in Sweden, in Finland, in Denmark, in France, in Norway, and now, hopefully with courage, the United States of America, is an acceptance that scientifically objective reality basis. There is no sufficient evidence to suggest that transitioning children helps outcomes. Some of us have been screaming this from the rooftops for many, many, many years and been kicked off various corners of the Internet for doing just that. And we're very glad that that courage is now being shared with other people. But I hate that it has taken so much destruction, so much physical pain, so much intervention that can never be undone for us to get here. So please pray that we continue to have the courage to say never again for our kids, for their kids and for every generation still to come. There's also today been a really exciting development from the executive branch side of things. So this bill was passed by Congress in the House of Representatives. It's now headed to the Senate and then hopefully we'll hit the President's desk after that. But on the executive branch side of things, there was a massive press conference that happened this morning converging all of the principals and the secretary from Health and Human Services led by Secretary Kennedy himself, talking about their specific desire to prevent any sort of medical dangerous intervention for children. When they announced this earlier in the week, it was pretty obvious to those of us who have been paying attention for a while what this was probably going to be an announcement about. And they've had a really big week over at HHS on a million different fronts, protecting our kids. And the CDC officially designated a change in vaccine recommendation policy related to the Hepatitis B vaccine. They are no longer, as of this week, officially recommending in the vast majority of cases that newborn babies receive a hepatitis B vaccine in the hospital. Thank you, God. Hallelujah. Our elected officials are finally, finally listening to parents who have very real concerns about this. And before I get into what they announced this morning, I'll just tell you a little bit of an aside and a side quest story about that. In our experience, I can't tell you how many of our friends warned us repeatedly right before we gave birth to our daughter Ila, that it was gonna be a real big problem that we were delivering in a hospital and we were denying the hepatitis B vaccine for our baby. We did not give Isla the hep B vaccine. I tested negative for hepatitis B at like nine or ten weeks of pregnancy. Obviously, I don't have hepatitis. I didn't suddenly contract hepatitis between the beginning of my pregnancy and the end of my pregnancy, as 99% of people also don't contract hepatitis while they are pregnant. So there was literally zero risk of me passing that along to my daughter in utero. And certainly a very, very small risk of all of the reasons they give you your newborn, like, sure to contract hepatitis, someone's gonna stick them with a dirty needle or you're gonna get in a car accident and your baby's gonna be bleeding and the innocent bystander who witnessed the car accident is going to cut their hand on the broken window of your car and touch your baby's arm, which is also bleeding. And obviously innocent bystander has hepatitis. So they clearly are going to give your baby hepatitis. And it's like, this is the scenario you guys are coming up with to convince me that my two hour old newborn needs an injection to protect against a sexually transmitted disease? Yeah. No, we were shocked then after all of our friends warned us that they had to go through the wringer. I mean, I have friends who have had to deal with CPS for denying their child a hepatitis B vaccine and protecting their children against a completely unnecessary medical intervention at two hours old or younger. We were shocked then that all of our healthcare practitioners in the process of labor and delivery were completely supportive of our decision not to give Isla the Hepatitis B vaccine. All we ended up having to do was sign one piece of paper. They asked us, hey, here's generally what we do for newborns. Tell us what you guys want to do. And we said, cool, here's what we want to do. And they said, great. And that was it. We signed one piece of paper, it was all over. We had no further follow up questions whatsoever from anyone at our hospital. It was a really, really exciting change of pace that I noticed last April. And even back then I started wondering, okay, is this signaling a bigger change in the American health care system to start putting parents and their decisions and their rights first over any sort of unnecessary intervention? Especially, especially in a post Covid America. That signal has now become a blaring siren and a resounding beating drum led by the leadership of Secretary Kennedy and so many others who are working alongside him at hhs, at the cdc, at the nih. What we are watching is a massive overhaul of the healthcare system in our country to start putting parents above physicians. And that's a really, really big deal that I think is gonna pan out in so many different areas of health care, not the least of which is protecting our kids against the lies of gender ideology and people shoving them into puberty blockers, cross sex hormones and unnecessary mutilation surgeries in this sex denying treatment that we've been pushing on children for far too long in our country. So on that note, just this morning, HHS had a massive press conference that is a really big deal and also signals additional leadership and here in Washington to protect our kids and put parents first. As we are recording this video, it is the morning, so the press conference is still happening as we speak, but we've got the goods. And you guys will know about all of this later this afternoon. As for these right now embargoed information that the general public does not know, this morning HHS announced huge actions to bar hospitals from performing any sex rejecting procedure. See, that's how they said it. I love this reframe. It's so good. Performing any sex rejecting procedure on children. Here's their press conference materials that they sent to us in their press release this morning. The U.S. department of Health and Human Services today announced a series of proposed regulatory actions to end the practice of sex rejecting procedures on children that expose young people to irreversible harm. These procedures include pharmaceutical or surgical interventions of specified types that attempt to align a child's physical appearance or body with an asserted identity different from their sex. Oh, whoever is writing these is cooking over there at hhs. You have the wisdom of the Holy Spirit unlike maybe anything I've ever seen in Washington. This is so good. Ending the mutilation and medical abuse of children is literally an answered prayer for so many people like me who have been praying for a dramatic change in our country. And prayer really is the reason for the season this Advent and as we get close closer to Christmas. 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You guys can use code ISABELLE20 to get 20% off the complete set at st.paulcenter.com breakingthebredset or visit the link in today's show Notes so the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will release a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to proposing to bar hospitals from performing these sex rejecting procedures on children under the age of 18 as a condition of participation in Medicare and Medicaid. Nearly all U.S. hospitals participate in Medicare and Medicaid, so this ensures that the US Government will not be in business in any way, shape or form with any hospital that is intentionally or unintentionally, they say, inflicting permanent harm on children. This is a big deal because this funding that comes through Medicare and Medicaid and is a really important component to keeping hospitals in business across the country. They completely have the authority to do this, by the way, under the Social Security act, which authorizes the agency cms, the center for Medicaid and Medicare Services to establish any standards necessary that they deem fit to protect patient health and safety. What a more noble process of protecting patient health and safety than protecting the innocence of our kids. And they also had a new additional proposed rule prohibiting any federal Medicaid funding for sex rejecting procedures on children under the age of 18. That same prohibition applies to Federal Children's Health Insurance Program funding for anyone under the age of 19. Right now, 27 states do not provide Medicaid coverage of sex rejecting procedures on kids, but the rest of the states do. This is what I think is really powerful. This is an official government statement from the United States government as proclaimed to the world. And I never could have seen this as remotely a possibility a year ago. Let's remember what was happening a year ago when trans activists were taking their shirts off after top surgery with fake boobs to be naked and let their fake boobs bounce around on the White House South Lawn. Okay, that was a year ago. And here we are today in 2025, where the federal government has the courage and the moral clarity to say this. Sex rejecting procedures on children, which include puberty blockers, cross sex hormones and surgical operations, cause irreversible damage, including infertility, impaired sexual function, diminished bone density, altered brain development, and other irreversible sexual psychological effects. Wow. Is that an answered prayer? They are not just stopping at funding with through Medicare and Medicaid to hospitals across the country. Secretary Kennedy also signed a declaration today officially declaring that any sex rejecting procedure or gender affirming procedure does not meet a professionally recognized sex standard of health care. So practitioners, doctors who are performing these sex rejecting procedures on minors would be deemed out of compliance with normal health standards in the United States of America. And the U.S. food and Drug Administration, the FDA is issuing warning letters to 12 retailers and manufacturers for illegal marketing of breast binders to children. When you're compressing your breasts and trying to prevent them from growing for the purposes of treating gender dysphoria, breast binders are Class 1 medical devices used for purposes such as assistance in recovery from cancer related mastectomies. The warning letters will formally notify these companies that they are in significant regulatory violation of how these devices are supposed to be used and they immediately need to promptly have corrective action on this front. Hhs, they say, is also moving to reverse the Biden administration's attempt to include gender dysphoria within the definition of a disability. That seems like such an afterthought and not really important to people if you're not paying attention to policy. But this is a really, really big deal. Under President Joe Biden, their administration attempted to make gender dysphoria a protected class A disability, something that you truly cannot discriminate against and therefore, even for children, these procedures needed to be legally protected. But we are clarifying now under the Trump administration through the Office for Civil Rights, that the definition of disability and individual with a disability excludes gender dysphoria not resulting from physical impairments. The rule is affirming that policies preventing or limiting sex rejecting procedures, if you are limiting gender affirming care, those do not violate the disability non discrimination requirements in the United States of America. In other words, you can't use the term disability or the legal definition of a disability as a cop out in trying to continue actually causing problems forever irreversible damage and many would argue literal disability to children in the name of inclusion and affirmation and acceptance. Or more specifically, non discrimination, if you want to use policy language here in the United States of America. They ended this little embargoed press release that they sent to some of us creators and to the press this morning before the press conference with this There is a public health message that has been officially signed by many of our leadership in Washington today to inform health care providers, families and policymakers that current evidence does not support claims that puberty blockers, cross sex hormones and surgeries are safe and effective treatments for pediatric gender dysphoria. I might cry, honestly. I mean, this is to see that we have the courage to speak the truth, to not be afraid of what the radical left is going to say in response to this, to not be afraid of lawsuits which I'm sure are going to come as a result of this. But I'm sure we'll end up very positive in their results. To not be afraid of protecting children if it seems like you're being mean or it seems like you're being harsh, but to radically love and our neighbor, to radically love the children of our country to the point that we are willing to tell them the truth. I never ever could have seen this coming. A year ago, A year, A year and some change. I won't say a year ago exactly, because we knew President Trump was coming back into office early, early this year and towards the end of last year. But if you had asked me last summer if I ever could have foreseen this coming, the answer was no. I mean, we were headed towards full blown disaster. And especially when I was pregnant and I found out that I was pregnant last September, it was terrifying. The type of world that I was going to be bringing my daughter into, knowing that young girls in particular are just constantly being bombarded from every single direction in our postmodern woke, subjective morality culture in America, that the worst thing you can possibly do as a young girl today is be a girl, is embrace womanhood, is lean into your femininity. It's why people like the courageous Abigail Shrier have written entire books like her book Irreversible Damage, which if you haven't read, is unbelievable, an incredible read. It's a good Christmas break read if you haven't yet. Talking about how young girls are being literally predatorily preyed upon by people who want the worst for them, who want them to go through surgery at younger and younger and younger ages, who want to render them infertile, who want to castrate them, who want them to run away from womanhood at all costs because it is the best thing to do as you are seeking affirmation. It is that type of culture that drove my husband and I to dive headfirst as hard as we can back into trying to reshape policy in whatever way we could before Election Day and certainly afterwards, why we moved here to Washington, D.C. among 8 million other things going on in our broken culture. But now, as a parent, reading this and knowing that I have a daughter upstairs who I get to go hold in a few minutes and I can look her in the eye and say that our leadership in our country and around the west are finally having the courage to protect her, to protect her from those who wish to literally maim her body in the name of inclusion and in the name of affirmation, in the name of empathy. That means everything. Like massive sigh of relief. Finally some good news that we really, really needed in our broken world. And I am so deeply honored to know and to be cheering on the people that are making this happen. So on the executive branch side of things, President TRUMP, Secretary Kennedy, Dr. Bhattacharya, what we've seen with Marty Makary, with everyone involved in leadership from the health and Human services side of things, thank you from the bottom of our hearts, from young moms in particular who have been fighting this fight, and for young women from young women everywhere who more than anything, want it to be okay to be a young woman again. What a time to be alive. This is amazing news. Please thank your elected officials and if they didn't vote on the congressional side of things, to criminal gender procedures on minors through the Protect Children's Innocence act, whether they were part of the 207 Democrats who voted against this or those four Republicans we put on blast, might be worth over your Christmas break this next week or so to pick up the phone and call their office and make sure they know exactly how you feel about that. We've got a short episode today because I am headed on a plane this afternoon to Phoenix, Arizona to attend Turning Point USA's America Fest. AM Fest for short. It's a melancholy feeling, I'll be honest with you. It's our first major conference hosted by Turning Point USA without Charlie in attendance. And I'm sure the feeling will be very weird once we get there. And I'm very hopeful to see members of his core team of his family, people I worked with for years at tpusa, and get to share our memories of Charlie together, many of whom for the first time since he passed away in September. But I also am really excited to see the movement link arms together, pick up that torch, pick up the collective proverbial microphone and keep fighting forward. So if you guys will be at AM Fest this weekend, which I know many of you will be, we'll be doing a meet and greet at our daily Wire booth on Media Row on Friday afternoon. I'll be posting about that on my Instagram story later today for all of the details. And I hope to catch you tonight at our daily Wire Mayflower Cigars party, hosted by our very good friend Michael Knowles. If you're not going to be in Phoenix this weekend, thank you guys so much for your continued support of the show and we hope to see you in person very, very soon. And we've got a fun episode coming to you tomorrow, ranking objectively, objectively the greatest Christmas movies of all time. So we'll see you back tomorrow for that.
