Popular conservative commentator Michael Knowles says the Supreme Court upholding President Donald Trump's ban on transgender people serving in the military is a smart move ... 'cause he thinks it's a serious disease that affects their combat readiness.
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00:00i think to talk about going forward we have to understand where we are why a transgender ban
00:09in the first place well because the transgender identity is a very serious medical condition that
00:16is not in accord with reality obviously a man can't really become a woman and the people who
00:21believe that they are the opposite sex have all sorts of psychological and other medical problems
00:26that go along with it so they have much much higher rates of depression anxiety suicidality uh the
00:32people who undergo the hormone treatments and the the affirming care so-called have all sorts of bone
00:37problems and health issues that come with it and then broadly the american people voted for this
00:42it's not like trump hid the ball at all when he was campaigning he was campaigning in large part on
00:47the excesses of the trans ideology but you say but really i mean everybody's now saying they voted on
00:54everything trump is doing they voted come on michael they voted on the economy and they voted on
00:59immigration and we both know that the reason that they know one of the top issues was common sense
01:04and the the common sense issue the trans ideology i tell you i've talked to a ton of republican
01:08politicians around the country in private rooms i say what was really working for you on the trail
01:13and they said one of the big issues was this trans ideology in fact i think that's what saved
01:17senator cruz's seat down in texas from colin allred but the other thing you got to remember guys is
01:22you say we got to figure out where we are now remember trans-identifying people have only been
01:27allowed to serve in the military since the tail end of obama's second term for almost the entirety of
01:33obama's term barack obama banned trans-identifying people from the military i think for good reason
01:38then trump flipped it and biden flipped it back i have no doubt that what you said is true that when
01:43you spoke to people uh on the campaign trail and they said that this was working and i think that's
01:48part of i think president trump would describe it as the brilliance of his campaign that he took
01:52an issue that really does not affect that many people and turned it into this huge culture war
01:59there are the latest number from the pentagon transgender troops make up 0.7 percent of the
02:07military active and selected reserve 0.7 percent and yet we have to make this big of a deal of it is that
02:16that's what has been odd to me about this uh making this such a hallmark of the administration
02:23well look it's not just about the people who identify as trans first of all we want to help
02:26those people so to help them you don't want to lie to them you don't want to encourage them to undergo
02:30procedures that will ultimately harm them according to the largest data sets but the thing you got to
02:34remember is even if you say only a tiny proportion of the population identifies as trans that affects
02:39pretty much everyone the women who voted for trump because they don't want well hold on that number
02:44they have the right to their own bathrooms that number was not about the pot that was about the
02:49military we're talking about sure but but it's what's reflected in the military is reflected in
02:53the broader population and that's why i'm explaining that's why people voted for this when we're talking
02:58about the military though it's all the more important because the purpose of the military is to fight
03:03and kill our enemies okay the the purpose of the military is lethality and readiness and so the woke and
03:11politically correct social engineering that goes on where you're going to put a guy in a woman's
03:14bathroom where you're going to spend a ton of taxpayer dollars what does that have to do with who can
03:18shoot a gun i mean come on look i was in the military and so what is what does that have to do with
03:26their inability to fire a weapon well because the people who undergo these trans procedures make
03:32themselves much less physically fit tell that to kaitlin jenner i happily would tell that to bruce
03:40jenner he's not a woman he's less physically fit than he used to be but there are transgender people
03:44who are serving in the military now and very successfully and so clearly they're not having
03:50physical having physical issues barack obama didn't let trans identifying people serve into the
03:55military until the very last moment of his second term the answer is obvious it's a serious mental
04:00illness and we want to help people to deal with it and the way we're dealing with it now is to harm
04:05them because we're giving them cross-sex hormones that are bad for their bodies but obviously when
04:09we're talking about national security and military fitness putting hormones that don't belong in
04:14your body into your body giving yourself bone disease giving yourself earlier death affirming
04:19conditions that are going to make you much more likely to be anxious and depressed and suicidal
04:22that is not helping anyone okay and we're not even talking about the bad so so we're not going to
04:27solve that but let me ask you this now that the supreme court has opened that door um is the next
04:34step to ban gays in the military i mean trump could make the argument that um what do you do with
04:40sleeping quarters and all this other stuff so is that the next step are we going down that road
04:45well i think that would be very hard especially for the navy obviously given you know hundreds of
04:49years of tradition there but even when you look on a shorter scale in the military broadly
04:53uh homosexuals have been permitted to serve uh in the military no no they haven't i mean
04:59under clinton are you kidding clinton's policy was don't ask don't tell it's not that wasn't permitted
05:04i was in the military dude i was in the military and i'm gay i was in the military and i'm gay and i
05:12hid it while i was in the military but you got to remember then as as i'm sure you do the purpose of
05:18don't ask don't tell was not to punish homosexuals or anything like that it was actually a liberalizing
05:23policy that said hey we're not going to kick you out didn't go over well for being homosexual didn't
05:27go over well well i don't know it worked pretty well for a long time then finally the the policy
05:33was changed under barack obama again we're talking so is it is it going to go back because it now the
05:38door is open in fact i think that trump's critics are going to have to try to make this about gays in
05:44the military or any other issue that is not really being controversial right now because they know
05:49that telling people who have severe mental illnesses who think they're the opposite sex
05:53the taxpayers don't want to fund their transition surgeries they know that that is so popular that
05:58the democrats are going to get nowhere if they focus on that you continually said as a statement of
06:03fact that people who are transgender have severe mental illness and that's not necessarily that is
06:09someone's opinion uh i don't know it seems like a blanket statement you cannot make
06:14uh fairly opinion i mean it was it was it continues to be listed in the diagnostic and statistical manual
06:21for psychology though they've changed the wording a little bit but obviously well everybody but but
06:25a lot of people a lot of people a lot of people a lot of people have all sorts of things and it
06:30doesn't mean look we're never going to solve this but a lot of people disagree with you we will not
06:35solve that here to know um maybe not i guess i mean i'm not even saying it is an insult or anything
06:41people that you're right people have all sorts of quirks and all sorts of problems i'm just saying
06:44as a statement of fact if you if you believe something about yourself that is completely contrary
06:49to reality if you're anorexic site you're a really skinny person you think you're really fat
06:53you have a problem with your perception and so you want to help those people and work through it
06:57but when we're talking about military readiness we also shouldn't have severe anorexics in the
07:01military we shouldn't have people who are a little off yeah but they may not have a problem
07:04with perception once they actually undergo the change so that's the problem with the problem
07:09with perception is if they're trapped in something they don't think they should be trapped in
07:13and then it's a problem no that's the theory but the problem is that now we have the largest
07:18data big study on this came out in 2019 and it shows that the promises that were made that once
07:23you undergo the transition you're going to feel better and not be depressed not be suicidal none of
07:26that came true in fact it all stayed the same and anxiety went up so we need some other way to
07:31solve it we're out of time but since you're wearing that code you write a treatise on it
07:35i think i would maybe i'll give a long lecture and maybe in a british accent who knows