Terry Schilling
Appearances
Morning Wire
Transgender Issue Unites Voters Ahead of Midterms | 4.13.25
We did a whole study on the transgender industry as a whole, and this is just surgeries and hormone treatments. And right now, it's a $4.5 billion industry. And what's dangerous about that is that they are taking the profits from that $4.5 billion and they're reinvesting it in lobbying and legislation and PR campaigns. And they're using this to get to our kids' hearts and minds.
Morning Wire
Transgender Issue Unites Voters Ahead of Midterms | 4.13.25
So we want to protect our children. And right now, the best opportunity to do that is to defund all of these transition-related surgeries and hormone treatments that the federal taxpayers have been funding.
Morning Wire
Transgender Issue Unites Voters Ahead of Midterms | 4.13.25
Well, what's interesting is that the more that Americans are exposed to transgender ideology, more specifically the transgender industry's agenda, the more they oppose it. In fact, prior to this last election in 2024, according to CNN's polling, 67% of Americans didn't want men in girls' sports.
Morning Wire
Transgender Issue Unites Voters Ahead of Midterms | 4.13.25
But you fast forward to the day that President Trump signed his executive order into law to protect girls' sports, and that had jumped up to over 78% of Americans wanting men out of girls' sports. So the more that America is exposed to the transgender industry's agenda for them, the more they oppose it.
Morning Wire
Transgender Issue Unites Voters Ahead of Midterms | 4.13.25
There are already several Democrats who are publicly entertaining the idea of moderating on the issue of transgenderism for their party, specifically when it comes to sports. Gavin Newsom did an interview with Charlie Kirk just a few weeks ago where he advocated for getting men on a girl's sports. We'll see what happens. I'm not very hopeful or optimistic that he'll actually do anything about it.
Morning Wire
Transgender Issue Unites Voters Ahead of Midterms | 4.13.25
But I do think that Democrats are understanding the political moment that they're in and the political avalanche that they're about to suffer if they keep pushing these policy agendas so hard on the American people.
Morning Wire
Transgender Issue Unites Voters Ahead of Midterms | 4.13.25
So it's important for your viewers to understand that as important as these issues are, they still only work on the margin. And it just depends on how big that margin is. Since we've been measuring it, the margin of shifting in the electorate on this issue is between 3% and 7%. 7% being very, very high and very impactful.
Morning Wire
Transgender Issue Unites Voters Ahead of Midterms | 4.13.25
That's a lot of voters that are switching to join the Republican side of things. I think that this issue, until it's solved, until we've taken care of it for the American people, It will continue to shift voters to the Republican side by a three to seven point margin, depending on the race, which is quite sizable.
Morning Wire
Transgender Issue Unites Voters Ahead of Midterms | 4.13.25
A new poll suggests the transgender issue continues to be a liability for Democrats.
Morning Wire
Transgender Issue Unites Voters Ahead of Midterms | 4.13.25
I mean, this is anti-biology, anti-truth, the agenda that's coming from the transgender industry and from the left. And so I think it'll always be powerful and move people to the good side. It's just a matter of how hot the issues are.
Morning Wire
Transgender Issue Unites Voters Ahead of Midterms | 4.13.25
Yes, there's some souring over that. I think it's the broader agenda overall. I think Americans are sick and tired of hearing about it nonstop. I think this agenda is very much overrepresented. And it's in much lower demand than what the supply is. And that's what the American people are rejecting. But the polling has been pretty consistent regarding surgeries and hormone treatments.
Morning Wire
Transgender Issue Unites Voters Ahead of Midterms | 4.13.25
The American people want to protect children, and mostly they want to defer things to the adults to make their own decisions. But when it comes to taxpayer funding, that's a whole other realm of issues. Americans don't want to participate in this. And if you want to get these surgeries, well, fine, but you at least have to pay for it yourself.
Morning Wire
Transgender Issue Unites Voters Ahead of Midterms | 4.13.25
I think it's a very smart move for any Democrat to start moderating on this issue very early on. They are in a difficult spot though, because they have to choose between their base and the swing voters. The swing voters don't want this transgender industry or its agenda. But the base of the Democratic Party, it's the 20 to 30% base of the party.
Morning Wire
Transgender Issue Unites Voters Ahead of Midterms | 4.13.25
They have been radicalized on this largely because of the Democrats rhetoric on this. They have made this transgender issue, an issue of life and death, they've created hysteria over it. And so they need to start walking this back. They need to start toning down the fires at a minimum.
Morning Wire
Transgender Issue Unites Voters Ahead of Midterms | 4.13.25
We did the poll because we wanted to show members of Congress on both the left and the right that Americans want this stuff defunded. They don't want their tax dollars going towards it. We work very hard for our money. And the last thing that we wanna be paying for are sex changes for anyone, adults, but especially children.
Morning Wire
Transgender Issue Unites Voters Ahead of Midterms | 4.13.25
And so it's a very big, important thing that if we have $36 trillion of debt, rather than having to force ourselves to cut Social Security or Medicare someday, let's start cutting this extraneous stuff now, like sex changes for kids, like sex changes for adults, so that we can have enough resources to take care of those that really need the help, like our seniors and like our veterans.
Morning Wire
Transgender Issue Unites Voters Ahead of Midterms | 4.13.25
Yeah, so we wanted to find out where Americans are at in the debate over transgender ideology, especially when it comes to federal government spending. We wanted to see if Americans want more spending or if they don't want any spending at all.
Morning Wire
Transgender Issue Unites Voters Ahead of Midterms | 4.13.25
And what we found was that a whopping 65% of America does not want federal tax dollars to be going towards any type of transition surgeries or hormone treatments at all. In fact, when they find out that a politician that represents them supports transgender
Morning Wire
Transgender Issue Unites Voters Ahead of Midterms | 4.13.25
taxpayer funding of these gender transition surgeries, even for children or adults, that they're much less likely to support them, even 52% less likely to support them.
Morning Wire
Transgender Issue Unites Voters Ahead of Midterms | 4.13.25
Well, we want to protect children. We want to protect parental rights. We call ourselves the NRA, but for families. And we want to be the special interest arm of the American family. And so what we're hoping to do is cut all of these federal expenditures that are pushing transgenderism on our children, both in schools, but also most directly in hospitals and in surgery centers.