True to form, former Fox News superstar Tucker Carlson wasn't afraid to get confrontational with Republican presidential hopefuls at the GOP presidential nomination first candidate forum.
The Iowa event, presented by Blaze Media and The Family Leader, a socially conservative grassroots organization based in the Hawkeye State, and hosted by Carlson, featured occasional fireworks. (RELATED: Conservative Superstar To Host Presidential Debate – There's Just One Problem)
One notable exchange occurred when Carlson pressed former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on his 2021 decision to veto a bill banning transgender surgeries for minors.
The Daily Wire reports:
“I believe in a limited role of government,” Hutchinson told Carlson. “And so, you know, I don't think that California ought to be able to tell parents, ‘you need to have gender affirming care for the children.' The government should not do that. And in the same way, let's keep the government out of it unless it's that extreme case. And let's let parents guide the children. I stand with parents.”
Carlson agreed with that sentiment before bringing up Hutchinson's veto:
“The reason I asked the question was not to bring up a sore subject, which I know that it is, but to ask if in the subsequent two years, you had said that you drew the line at castration, of physical altercation of a child's body because it's permanent,” Carlson said. “But in the subsequent two years, I think we've learned that hormone therapy for prepubescent children is permanent, it changes the bone structure, it changes the brain of the child, that a lot of people believe, including me, that it destroys the child's life, but it is permanent. It's not reversible.”
“So given that, and that standard you just articulated, do you have different feelings?” Carlson asked. “I mean, this is a permanent change we're making to a child, why would we allow that if we don't allow surgery?”
Hutchinson responded, “Well, permanent change is one issue. But also hormonal treatment is a different issue and can be a different issue. And whenever you look at the bill that I vetoed, there was not any grandfather clause in there. Again, I respect legislators that have a different view. But I think independently, I think of the parents, I think of the Constitution. And actually the court, if you read the decision of the federal judges who struck it down as unconstitutional, really sided with parents as well.”
Carlson firmly but politely maintained that issue was one of the biggest in the country after Hutchinson became flustered.
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