Speaker 1: In addition to some of the bills we already talked about that Florida has passed
relating to transpeople and don't say gay and so on and so forth. There was one that I just didn't
get the opportunity to talk about on the show. In fact, I think much of the discussion around it
happened when I was when I was away. The Florida legislature has ultimately passed this very
extreme anti-trans bathroom bill, as well as a ban on gender affirming care and the details of the
bills or all of the things that you would imagine. It would penalize providers by putting criminal
penalties when gender affirming care is given in certain situations. It would take licenses away
from providers. It would prohibit Medicare from covering gender affirming care for trans youth
or adults. It prohibits public funds. And it's sort of like the full package that they've tried
and sometimes done on abortion over the last 20 years going in the direction of trans. Now,
there's a particular detail about the debate that I want to look at with you. This is not new.
This happened this happened a couple of weeks ago, but it's just an extraordinary reminder
of the insanity that is taking place in Florida. I'm going to play a clip for you here of Repub,
Florida Republican Representative Webster Barnaby, who said during a completely bonkers rant debating
HB 1521, which is the bill that we're talking about here, criminalizing trans people for
using restrooms that correspond to their gender identity, all these different things I mentioned.
He refers to trans people as mutants, demons and imps, reminiscent of sci fi characters,
including X-Men, if you can imagine. Listen to listen to what's happening in Florida.
Speaker 2: And I'm looking at society today. Yeah. And it's like I'm watching
an X-Men movie. Okay. With people that when you watch the X-Men movies for Marvel Comics.
It's like we have mutants living among us on planet Earth. Oh, and, you know, some people don't
like that, but that's a fact. It's not. We have people that live among us today on planet Earth.
That. Are happy to display themselves. As if they were mutants from another planet.
Speaker 1: This is some of the most vile and disgusting language that has
been used by elected officials during hearings on this issue. These issues.
Speaker 2: This is the planet Earth where God created men. Male and
women. Female. Wow. I'm a proud Christian. Speaker 1: Oh, I didn't really. Oh, he's.
He's a proud Christian. Oh, well, also, then we have to accept any completely unhinged,
hateful rant from him, I'm sure. Speaker 2: Conservative Republican.
I'm not on the fence. There's so much darkness in our world today. So much evil in our world today.
And so many people who are afraid to address the evil, the dysphoria, the dysfunction. Mm hmm. I'm
not afraid to address the dysphoria or the dysfunction. The Lord rebuke you, Satan.
Speaker 1: Exactly what you would expect to hear during a discussion of law in a civil government
that separates church and state would be for an elected official to rebuke Satan as part of his
political philosophy. Completely normal stuff. Speaker 2: And all of your demons and all of your
EMTs will come parade before us. That's right. I called you demons and Imps. Come and parade before
us and pretend that you are part of this world. Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: So I'm saying my righteous indignation is stirred. I'm sick and tired of this.
Speaker 1: We are too. Speaker 2: We are not going to
put up with it. You can test me and try to take me on, but I promise you I'll win every time.
Speaker 1: This is the. DeSantis agenda with sort of a violent Christianity laced through it.
You mix it up, spit it out, and this is what you get now as a matter of just, you know,
noting if you're listening, the distinguished gentleman, Barnaby happens to be black. And
so we have an individual from a historically marginalized group in society marginalizing
another marginalized group from society, which just really warms the heart,
doesn't it? The bill ultimately did pass, and this is an example of what some Floridians have
representing them. This is the ideology that we see really, really tragic, sad stuff.