Asa Hutchinson's Interview With Tucker Carlson in Iowa Turns Into an Absolute Disaster, Glenn Beck Gives Hilarious Reaction
By Bonchie | 1:00 PM on July 14, 2023
While Ron DeSantis stands to be the most anticipated participant at Iowa’s Family Leadership Summit on Friday, Asa Hutchinson may have already produced the most viral exchanges. In what can only be described as an abject disaster, the 2024 hopeful sparred with Tucker Carlson, the on-stage interviewer at the forum.
The main point of contention came from a discussion on the transitioning of children under the guise of “gender-affirming care.” The history behind this is that Hutchinson vetoed a bill in 2021 that would have prevented the mutilation of children through surgical and chemical means, including things like hormone and puberty blockers. That set off a firestorm on the right, who saw it as a surrender to those in the transgender lobby. Hutchinson then ruffled feathers further by trying to claim that it was the “conservative” position to allow parents to “transition” their children.
“This is a government overreach. You are starting to let lawmakers interfere with healthcare and set a standard for legislation overriding healthcare,” Hutchinson said in a Monday news conference. “The state should not presume to jump into every ethical health decision.”
On the contrary, the state has always presumed to jump into the ethics of health decisions. There’s a reason governments regulate what procedures are allowed and which aren’t. There are also very strict stipulations on doing no harm to patients. “Gender-affirming care” is medical snake oil that feeds into mental illness and ultimately permanently scars children, most of whom would have statistically grown out of “transgenderism” anyway.
So with that as the setup, Carlson pressed Hutchinson on the matter. Things did not go smoothly.
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