JD Vance

It's a confused

Confusing phase for most Americans.

We take that normal adolescent confusion and then we try to medicalize it.

And nobody's saying, oh, when we do medicalize it, by the way, a lot of pharmaceutical companies get very rich off of it.

So this is where I had the real breaking point with a friend that I mentioned earlier is she made this argument that puberty blockers are fully reversible.

That's crazy.

And I had actually never heard that.

I mean, this is a few years ago.

I'd never heard that argument before.

And so I actually went and looked at it and looked at the data on this and

The idea that if you give puberty delaying, puberty blockers, whatever you're going to call them, to kids who are 11, 12, 13, that that's fully reversible, that is completely and preposterously insane.

Now even the most radical advocates of trans health care do not say that, right?

Because look, I mean you have sexual dysfunction.

You have, to your point, hair in weird places that won't go away.

You have voice changes that won't go away.

We're experimenting on tens of thousands of American children.

We're making them miserable.

It's not having any long-term health benefit.

It's making a lot of pharmaceutical companies rich.

And it's conservative Republicans are the only ones saying, eh, maybe this is a little crazy.