'Fox & Friends' host Pete Hegseth slams Gender-Affirming Care in furious rant, says 'we have lost our minds'
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: 'Fox & Friends' host Pete Hegseth went on an angry rant against Gender-Affirming Care during his Labor Day appearance on the news talk show.
The panel, sans the regular hosts, brought up a conversation between Joe Rogan and Bill Maher about the good and bad sides of therapy.
The Fox hosts were not happy that children have access to such therapy, and Hegseth made this clear during his monologue.
Pete Hegseth slams Gender-Affirming Care
Hegseth specifically had a problem with children having access to hormone treatments and surgery to change their sex.
With Dr Nicole Saphier on the panel, the idea was raised that children are not capable of making decisions about their own bodies.
"These kids are our most precious asset and the only thing that we're behind," the host said.
"We were all kids and we were all confused and we were all idiots and we didn't know what we were doing. We weren't allowed to smoke, drink, gamble, or get tattoos," he added.
Hegseth seems to have reconciled these habits with the need for a different physical sex.
"So, we're allowed to change our genders when we're 11 or 12?" Hegseth pointedly questioned.
"And these experts call it 'Gender-Affirming Care' like it's some teddy bear we should wrap our arms around and affirm everybody's latest impulse for what a 12 or 13-year-old wants," he added.
Pete Hegseth says leftists need to talk about Gender-Affirming Care
Hegseth added that the issue of transition among younger people is not limited to a right-wing discourse, but should extend to the left as well.
In reference to the conversation between Rogan and Maher, he said, "To watch Joe Rogan who is, inherently, mostly, non-political, and Bill Maher who's a leftist talk about this and mock it -- it opens up the door for a real conversation."
Hegseth also went on to attack schools and policymakers who have contributed to this rise in easy access to gender-affirming care.
"We have lost our minds at this moment?" he said incredulously.
"We're not telling parents at school boards that their kids are transitioning," he added.
