by Harold Hutchison
Republican Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio said during a Thursday interview with podcaster Joe Rogan that he and former President Donald Trump could win the “straight gay” vote.
Vance spoke to Rogan for more than three hours less than a week after Trump gave a three-hour interview with the influential podcaster. Vance said that “normal” gay men would oppose gender reassignment procedures for children.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if me and Trump won the straight gay vote,” Vance told Rogan. “Because they just want to be left the hell alone, and now there’s all this crazy stuff out there.”
“They say, ‘No, no… we didn’t want to give pharmaceutical products to nine-year-olds who are changing their gender. We just want to be left the hell alone,” Vance continued.
Doctor Johanna Olson-Kennedy revealed to The New York Times that it did not publish the results of a $9.7 million study on the effects of puberty-blocking drugs on children because it feared the results would strengthen the arguments of opponents of gender reassignment procedures for children.
“Well, a lot of gay people think this whole movement is homophobic, which is ironic because they think, they think that there are people [that] “I think there’s something wrong with being gay,” Rogan said. “So you’re actually a girl and they think a lot of that is passed on, these thoughts are passed on to these kids. These children will simply grow up to be gay, and instead you encourage them to change their gender.”
“It’s pharmaceutical conversion therapy,” Vance replied, and Rogan added, “And it’s profitable.”
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons formally opposed gender reassignment surgery for minors in August, becoming the first major medical association to do so, NewsNation reported. Great Britain prohibited utilize of puberty-blocking drugs in July, as European countries withdraw from immediately placing children in so-called “gender-affirming care.”
Supreme Court Agreement to hear a case challenging a Tennessee law that banned certain child gender reassignment procedures in June, with a decision expected in slow spring or summer 2025.
Some displaced people incl Chloe Colewho changed gender as teenagers before stopping filed lawsuits against doctors who performed so-called “gender-affirming” procedures.
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Harold Hutchison is a reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“Joe Rogan and JD Vance” photo by Joe Rogan Experience.
