>> I'm a Republican, a Christian, and as anti woke as you can get.
No offense to the Democrats on the committee.
My son is also a Christian.
I have watched my son transform over the past eleven years into the son and
man any father would be proud to have.
I watched the debate about transgender people in attempts to ban gender
affirming care.
And to be candid, I'm appalled.
I see it breaking into this left right thing, and it's really not.
>> At the Ohio Republican, Rick Colby he's got a trans son.
Suddenly he understands something that he didn't understand before.
I want to repeat what he said at the beginning there.
He says he's a Republican, he's a Christian.
He's also, no offense to the Democrats across the aisle,
he's as anti woke as it gets, but he's had an awakening.
Weird how that works.
It's like they have no idea what the hell they're talking about.
I'm supposed to give this guy a little bit of grace here.
Here's more from his speech and
talking about how he's now against some of this legislation that his
fellow Republicans are pushing would be against folks like his son, listen more.
>> There are Republicans, there are Christians who have transgender children.
The people wanting to ban gender affirming care have no idea what it is like to be
transgender or to have a transgender child.
This is not something that's done on a whim.
It's a deep rooted dysphoria that, yes, even has spiritual elements to it.
My son has a masculine soul, and he said he's felt this way since he was five.
He tried so hard to overcompensate and
try to fit into being a feminine young woman by participating in beauty pageants.
For years he tried to be a young woman, and it didn't ease the ache and
sadness in his soul.
And it was only until he was able to transition to be a young man,
did the light in his eyes return.
You've got to go easy on this.
This is a terrible bill.
This is not the simple issue being portrayed by the anti-trans people.
>> This is not the simple address about the anti-trans people.
What is this bill that he's suddenly against because he's recognized his son?
Representative Gary Click, who is a Baptist pastor, and also Jenna Powell,
are spearheading these two key bills at the State House this year.
Click's bill, which is saving adolescents from experimentation act,
would outlaw gender affirming surgeries and puberty blocking drugs for
trans minors under 18 years old.
Also separately, Powell is trying to prohibit trans athletes
from competing in high school and collegiate women's sports.
All six of them.
There's actually specific numbers to that, which we'll get to in a second.
But first, you guys, this change of heart, maybe I'm little too harsh on the guy.
I like for people to have an awaking.
I'd like for them to figure things out.
Maybe we have one more person who understands that these are human beings.
Even if it takes his own son to teach him that,
I just wonder if it's going to extend to someone else's son.
>> Yeah, you would like to think that people have some empathy and
can put themselves in other people's shoes, whether or
not it directly impacts them or not.
But I guess that's just too much to ask for.
The thing also that I think it's too much to ask for.
Oftentimes it seems with these lawmakers and just people in general,
it seems kind of logical that there would be trans people.
Without a doubt, we all, as organisms start as female, and
then at some point we may become male.
So if someone's, maybe their mindset or maybe their DNA in their body and
whatnot, doesn't always go the direction or stops at one point and
the other thing goes, it just seems to make sense to me.
And we have intersex people for that reason,
because it's all about the baking time and how you get baked.
So I don't understand how people are thinking that there's something wrong with
trans people when really it just shows you the beautiful diversity that
is the human body and the human mind and the spirit.
Yeah, and if you percentage wise, if you look at transgender people in America,
it's such a small portion of the population, and yet
they've made it this big thing that they're taking over, and
they're going to make our kids all transgender.
First of all, this reminds me a little bit of the Dick Cheney situation
where his daughter is, I believe, LGBTQ, and it's like, I still don't
reconcile how you become your right wing and you have an LGBTQ child.
And I would hope that this gentleman who's open minded now
about his own transgender child, that he opens his mind about
other groups that are being marginalized and being attacked.
And a lot of people nowadays are saying, they're teaching it in schools, and
they're teaching our kids to be gay and transgender.
And my response, if you're really concerned about your kids being somehow
groomed, you should want them to teach them in the schools.
Because if there's one thing we know about American kids, they hate learning.
So we're like 90th in math out of like 80 countries, your kid's going to come
home and be like, I was going to be gay, but I had to learn about it.
Forget I'm not going to be gay.
So all of that to say, I'm happy this guy has had his eyes open.
And I don't get why these people are so rounded up.
I mean, I do get it.
It's the shiny object.
It's the culture wars, and
it's how they get away from actually having any real solutions to any
real problems that create these other problems that don't even exist.
>> And maybe because his son is an acceptable appearance to him.
Again, I'm just digging into what it could be.
But look, there's visually the problems that people have.
I talked earlier about Charlie Kirk TPUSA Young Women's Leadership Summit over
the weekend and how he was going after LGBTQ plus folks in America, and
it was gross, and he's crazy.
These disgusting's, it's all these types of terms about how weird and odd they feel
people are, and that's where their hate generates from, because they're Godly,
because that's what they'll say in their very next sentence of how Godly they are.
But then this person weirds me out.
So many people have to try and find a way to look the role so
that people can accept them.
And look how sad that is.
Many folks, many conservatives, many people that are elected officials,
have family members that are gay, lesbian, bi, trans, anything.
And what they do is many times they're kicked out of the house.
So there's plenty of people who know about it.
They just still don't decide to wake up to the reality that is their lives or
they put them through some kind of torture that they need to be converted from.
Again, where does it all start?
I like that you mentioned that, Adrian, because I guess if everyone started
out straight and then got taught to be gay, I'm not sure how you missed it,
because you're paying a lot of attention to gay folks.
How come it hasn't permeated and gotten into you yet?
Because that's all they think about.
Maybe it has still, though really fast.
Maz, I'm glad you pointed out the small number of trans folks in the country,
because specifically about students.
Out of about 400,000 student athletes,
the Ohio Athletic School Athletic Association recorded 15 trans female
athletes competing in middle and high school sports over the past eight years.
15 but that's gotten 430 bills.
That's limiting their life.
>> And I believe the trans people are about 1.6% of our population, so again.
>> Well, it's easier to go after them because when you have a small group,
you go, let's go get them, and you get all these numb nuts joining you.
>> And the thing is, they figure there's not enough people that are looking to
defend them because there's only so many there.
So we're how the minority folks in the country always being the ones attacked?