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Hello there everyone, Judge Andrew Napolitano here for Judging Freedom.
Today is Tuesday, March 22, 2022. It's about 2.45 in the afternoon on the east coast of the United States.
The governor of Indiana, a conservative Republican, has just indicated that he will veto legislation
that has passed the Indiana legislature, both houses overwhelmingly, that limits the rights
of transgender children. This is becoming an issue in the Republican Party. The Democrats
are taking the position that transgendered children have every right to undergo these sex and identity change unfair advantage when they compete athletically in their new gender.
The most famous case is Leah Thomas. I believe her original name was Larry Thomas, but she was a male as a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania,
and now is a competitive swimmer, is a female,
and is beating all the female competition.
A female, but in a male body.
I'm trying to say this as charitable as I can to these people
who believe that they need to change their gender identities.
What are the Republicans going to do?
It's an issue they're going to have to confront. I think the attitude of most Americans is these surgeries are lawful and they have parental consent or the people undergoing the surgeries
are adults and don't need parental consent and they can become and call themselves whatever they want
to be. On the other hand, people have the right to shun them. You have the right to say, look,
I think this is weird. I don't want you at my house, but it doesn't always work that way.
The surgeries are lawful. They can become what they want to be under the Constitution,
and they have the same rights as the rest of us. But I think these battles in the Republican Party
are going to continue. I think the legislature of Indiana will overrule, will override the
governor's veto, and he and his attorney general and his administration will be stuck with
enforcing legislation that they have condemned. Well, the attorney general supports it, but the
governor does not. There are many more of these to come. I think we need to be charitable, but not
crazy when it comes to evaluating these situations. As for the competition, I don't know where that's going to go.
If a boy becomes a girl and still has a boy's body,
is he fairly competing against other girls?
Probably not.
The schools that are owned by the government,
the school in question is the University of Pennsylvania.
It's an Ivy League school.
It's privately owned. Schools that are owned by the government, the school in question is the University of Pennsylvania. It's an Ivy League school. It's privately owned.
Schools that are owned by the government are going to have to resolve that in some way that is basically fair.
Privately owned schools can set their own rules.
Judge Napolitano for judging freedom.