This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Monday, April 8th. I'm Tyler O'Neill.

I sat down with Latham Watts. He is the vice president of public affairs at the law firm

Alliance defending freedom. We spoke about the threat of gender ideology and the broader and specific situation of

medical malpractice insurance for many doctors who engage in what's

euphemistically called gender affirming care.

These rates for medical malpractice insurance have really skyrocketed

as it's become very clear to medical malpractice insurance companies that there is

tremendous risk in doctors providing these experimental gender drugs to block

puberty and chemically alter people's bodies in the name of gender identity.

Many of the people who formerly identified as transgender have later realized that they were sold a lie and

that they have permanently altered their bodies in pursuit of an ideology that

really led them off the rails and doesn't correspond to the natural biological

truth that they were born with and that they've developed naturally in their own bodies.

So these people, many of them have lost the opportunity to have children.

They've lost the opportunity to nurse children if they do have children.

They have in the name of gender ideology,

in the name of women trying to appear male,

for men trying to appear female. these people have altered their bodies and they only

realize after the fact that this is tremendous harm that was done to them. And so many, many people have claimed that

doctors who engage in this practice are violating the Hippocratic oath, which

among other things includes the promise to do no harm to patients and we spoke I spoke

with Latham Watts now Watts is at Alliance defending freedom this is a law

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