The Daily Wire had the article here. This is written by Megan Brock. Ohio may protect parents who

won't affirm their child's gender identity. Quote, no parent should lose custody, face

state intervention, or be deemed simply unfit for affirming a child's sex. So the guest that I wanted

to bring on is Josh Williams. He's a representative from Ohio and he's the co-sponsor of this bill. Again, I'm just, it really interested me. I've been really interested recently in the state level politics. You know, at Timcast, we are able, not to flex, but fairly easily bring on sitting congressmen and these sorts of things. but the state levels that really fascinates me because I get really exasperated with the way

that a lot of these state GOPs operate and conduct themselves. It's not enough action for some of these states that are deep red. So when I see stuff like this, I want to hear, what are you doing that a lot of these other Republicans just can't seem to figure out? So I don't know.an, do we have any updates? Nothing yet. I guess we can go take a look in there and see if he's in there. Hey, Josh, can you hear me? Yes, can you hear me? Yes, sir. So we're live. I just wanted to bring you in. Obviously, a lot in the news over the last

weekend, but I wanted to bring you in to kind of switch gears a little bit. Obviously, we were leading

in discussing the bill that you were co-sponsoring in the great state of Ohio. I wanted to ask you

broadly, what is the meat and potatoes of this bill?

And then also, for the people in the audience who don't know, who are you, where did you come

from?

Why are you on their screen?

What's going on?

So I don't know if you could give people kind of the spiel here.

Yeah, so I'm state representative Josh Williams.

I serve in the Ohio House of Representatives.

I'm serving in my first term in majority leadership as majority whip here in the Ohio House. We're talking about the affirming families first act. What this legislation does is it makes sure that the state government at every level, including our local and county level, cannot allege that a parent is abusing their

child by refusing to affirm their gender identity or sexual orientation.

Under the Biden administration, $10 million went to a university to do a study of a program

to classify every kid in the foster care system or who came in contact with protective services according to their sexuality and gender orientation.

And then categorize whether or not the foster parent, adoptive parent, or biological parent was a firmy.

Part of that money came to Kiuyahoga County who came up with

a firm program where they kept record of every child that came in contact with the Department

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