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We hear these terms gender-affirming care or gender-affirming treatment.

Sounds well, it sounds compassionate, sounds good, doesn't it?

Until you get into the particulars of what it actually means, especially for minor children,

it actually turns out to be barbaric. Welcome back to Issues, etc. I'm Todd Wilkin,

joining us to talk about the dangers of gender-affirming care. Walt Heier,

Walt identified as a transgender woman for eight years. He's author of several books,

including Trans Life Survivors, and a recent column for the Federalist titled The Sex Change I

Head Forty Years ago was a scam, not medicine. Walt, welcome back.

As someone who actually experienced it, what do you make of that euphemism, gender-affirming care?

No, let's say good gender-affirming care. No one would ever go to a gender clinic.

We would just affirm them the way they are, because they've already had their gender.

It was fixed in innate at the time of conception, and it can't be changed after that.

So what they're really talking about is trying to feminize a man or a mass-analysed woman.

They're not changing their gender. There's a doctor who did 5,000 of these surgeries,

testified in California Superior Court, that you cannot change anyone's gender.

The only thing you can do is neuter them. You can prevent them from being able to

foster children and produce sperm. So this is why I call it a scam, but the fact that no one

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