Bill Maher: Why Are We Chopping Off Kids' Breasts and Genitals, Again?

Even this old pervert gets it.

Maher noted the transformational changes beg the question, "when things change this much, this fast, people are allowed to ask: 'What's up with that?'

"All the babies are in the wrong bodies?"

"It wasn't that long ago that when adults asked a kid 'what do you want to be when you grow up,' they meant 'what profession,'" Maher said.

Former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile, appearing on the show, shook her head at the quip, albeit with a smirk.

Maher also questioned the concern of LGBTQ+ activists being concerned about abortion, "over, breeders?"

"Someone needs to say it: Not everything's about you," Maher continued. "And it's OK to ask questions about something that's very new and involves children.

"The answer can't always be that someone from a marginalized community is automatically right -- trump card, mic drop, end of discussion.

"Because we're literally experimenting on children," he added, pointing to gender transition medicine and puberty blockers.

"Maybe that's why Sweden and Finland have stopped giving puberty blockers to kids, because we just don't know much about the long-term effects," Maher said. "Although common sense should tell you that when you reverse the course of raging hormones, there's going to be problems.

Maher pointed to the reported side affects of limiting bone density -- which he said, "is kind of important if you like having a skeleton" -- and also "fertility and the ability to have an orgasm."

Maher was aware of the likely criticism of his comments, saying "weighing trade-offs is not bigotry."

He also made the point that in some areas -- he mentioned LA -- it is not uncommon to be at a dinner party in which every single parent discusses his transgender child. He further says that unless we're allowed to discuss the fact that in certain areas it is "trendy" to be anything other than straight and that this is certainly partly causing the rise in gay and trans-identifying children, then we're not having a scientific discussion about this, we're just participating in "a culture war battle in which children are the cannon fodder."

posted by Ace at 12:00 PM

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