Buck Sexton
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So there's the drugs you take to transition genders.
Clay, these people are not necessarily told you need substantial doses of an SSRI or an SNRI or something like that.
By the way, a lot of people with mental illness, millions and millions of them, that stuff actually really helps them.
And on the right, people get a little quick to be like, oh, have you ever been around somebody who's schizophrenic?
You ever been around somebody who has really serious OCD?
These meds let them function in their lives.
Now, there are some people who are overmedicated and some people have the wrong medications.
There's a lot of these things.
But in this case, Clay, the big problem is that this is not pathologized at all.
Yeah, this is affirmation.
This is not a disease or an issue to be treated and handled.
It is a civil rights issue.
Now, what happens if you have mutilated your genitalia because you listened to the American Medical Association and all these different groups and the doctors and the big hospitals and CNN and the New York Times editorial page and all this, and you turn around and someone goes, no, this was all a lie.
You're already dealing with a person who is deeply unstable and mentally ill, and then you tell them that they've ruined their lives.
You know, this is the basic question.
You brought this up.
Did this person have mental illness?
Ask a lot of people this in public, and I mean people, whether it's in the news, Clay, or law enforcement, or doctors who are supposed to be able to diagnose these things or understand them.
They'll say, it's not clear.