Xander Moricz

What there are not is people that are receiving chemical frustrations and being sterilized, like other speakers in the circle are saying.

Gender-affirming care is medically proven to be life-saving care, and they're working with psychologists, psychiatrists, doctors in all the cases.

I am saying that you and I, right here, have no idea what is best for a child in Illinois, in Utah, in Florida.

Their parents do, they do, their medical professionals do, and the more that we get in the way of their choice-making, we're infringing on parental consent, we're infringing on medical privacy, we're preventing young people

from receiving life-saving care.

You just said their parents have the right to make those kinds of choices.

But isn't your party the one that says if a kid says that they're gay at school that the teacher shouldn't go and tell the parent?

What is my party?

Well, the Democratic Party.

I'm not a member of the Democratic Party.

However, I would say that much of the Democratic Party's stance versus the Republican Party's stance makes more sense because it's grounded in evidence that saves young people's lives.

No one is saying parents should be removed from their children's lives.

No one's arguing that.

If a parent is a direct threat to a young person's life, then that needs to be evaluated, but that's not happening in the conversation that we're having.

What do you consider a direct threat?

I guess that's the thing.

How many trans people are transitioning without the support of their parents?

In the vast majority of cases, trans people are supported by their parents.

In all cases in the United States where surgery was done,

Parental consent, medical supervision, and psychological supervision were there.