Rep. Morgan Griffith

And then in the name of... As I keep my mouth shut, those with an ideological bone to pick and with the cudgel of toxic empathy will go to really crazy places and they don't care where they go. They don't seem to have any limits of where they go. What is that, do you think? That's no longer about protecting transgender. That's doing something else.

And then in the name of... As I keep my mouth shut, those with an ideological bone to pick and with the cudgel of toxic empathy will go to really crazy places and they don't care where they go. They don't seem to have any limits of where they go. What is that, do you think? That's no longer about protecting transgender. That's doing something else.

But I also see how seductive it is to go, I would never, if that's what they say they need, that I'm an empathic person, I'm going to protect them. I won't say anything. Oh yeah, Allie is phobic and she is interested in harming these people. That move of making you a harmful person rather than a person with a different opinion, again, that's toxic, right?

But I also see how seductive it is to go, I would never, if that's what they say they need, that I'm an empathic person, I'm going to protect them. I won't say anything. Oh yeah, Allie is phobic and she is interested in harming these people. That move of making you a harmful person rather than a person with a different opinion, again, that's toxic, right?

Well, speaking of harm, protecting feelings from challenge is how you harm people. The most significant advance in psychiatry is exposure therapy. Now we live in a time when the vast majority of psychiatric symptoms are treated with exposure to those symptoms to learn to regulate them. And so by keeping people away from their feelings, you are literally making them ill.

Well, speaking of harm, protecting feelings from challenge is how you harm people. The most significant advance in psychiatry is exposure therapy. Now we live in a time when the vast majority of psychiatric symptoms are treated with exposure to those symptoms to learn to regulate them. And so by keeping people away from their feelings, you are literally making them ill.

So I see this and I'm going to stand back and tell you, I have a sort of a medical frame on this. I don't disagree with anything you've said, but my frame is you are talking about patients who come to doctors to receive treatment. lifelong therapeutics with potentially dangerous medication and in very invasive surgical procedures that are also quite dangerous and potentially harmful.

So I see this and I'm going to stand back and tell you, I have a sort of a medical frame on this. I don't disagree with anything you've said, but my frame is you are talking about patients who come to doctors to receive treatment. lifelong therapeutics with potentially dangerous medication and in very invasive surgical procedures that are also quite dangerous and potentially harmful.

You just mentioned a couple of the harms that people get into. That's the superficial harms. I worry about the liver failure and the hepatomas and really the serious things that happen. And so for me,

You just mentioned a couple of the harms that people get into. That's the superficial harms. I worry about the liver failure and the hepatomas and really the serious things that happen. And so for me,

it is incumbent upon doctors not to be affected by ideology and to just rely on the scientific process that helps them select the right patient for the right treatment and in most countries that's the way they do it i have many transgender friend patients and the ones that do the best

it is incumbent upon doctors not to be affected by ideology and to just rely on the scientific process that helps them select the right patient for the right treatment and in most countries that's the way they do it i have many transgender friend patients and the ones that do the best

were actually carefully assessed by first a doctor and then a psychiatrist, and then told that you're going to need these dangerous medications that I will manage and carefully administer possibly the rest of your life. And when it's done that way, it works very well. It's really good. But when it's everybody gets the same treatment as aggressive they want because of what they're feeling inside,

were actually carefully assessed by first a doctor and then a psychiatrist, and then told that you're going to need these dangerous medications that I will manage and carefully administer possibly the rest of your life. And when it's done that way, it works very well. It's really good. But when it's everybody gets the same treatment as aggressive they want because of what they're feeling inside,

Boy, does that have the potential to harm people. And then they suppress the evidence that would help us assess whether we have harmed anybody with this. Because knowing that it harmed people would make them feel bad. So harm literally has taken a backseat to feelings now. So reality has a backseat to feelings. Harming patients has a backseat to feelings. It's interesting to me that...

Boy, does that have the potential to harm people. And then they suppress the evidence that would help us assess whether we have harmed anybody with this. Because knowing that it harmed people would make them feel bad. So harm literally has taken a backseat to feelings now. So reality has a backseat to feelings. Harming patients has a backseat to feelings. It's interesting to me that...

You know, I know Caitlyn Jenner very well. I know Nikki Norton very well. And both the two of them are very opposed to surgery for children in particular. They're very circumspect about the condition that they have. And both of them had told me things like, you know, essentially think of my condition as like my handedness. It's just I have left hand or right hand.

You know, I know Caitlyn Jenner very well. I know Nikki Norton very well. And both the two of them are very opposed to surgery for children in particular. They're very circumspect about the condition that they have. And both of them had told me things like, you know, essentially think of my condition as like my handedness. It's just I have left hand or right hand.

This is just a feature of who I am. I'm not going to. get into anything else. And I'm certainly not going to champion an ideology based on this thing that I have suffered from and now I'm satisfactorily managed. But it really, there's going to be a lot of harm done because listen, doctors, if they're not selecting the right thing for the right patient, they harm people.

This is just a feature of who I am. I'm not going to. get into anything else. And I'm certainly not going to champion an ideology based on this thing that I have suffered from and now I'm satisfactorily managed. But it really, there's going to be a lot of harm done because listen, doctors, if they're not selecting the right thing for the right patient, they harm people.