Bill Cunningham the Great America, and I tell the story many years ago about the Human Rights Campaign, And the Human Rights Campaign was started literally thirty years ago in order to mainstream gay rights and also gay marriage. The key element of the Human Rights Campaign was to bring gay marriage to the United States of
America. And after the US Supreme Court's decision of about five years ago, written by just As Anthony Kennedy, the issue was won and gay rights were secured and marriages were permitted, and the Human Rights Campaign had buildings, had a staff of six hundred. People had to use rent to pay and so they said, we have to get ridden out of gay marriage is something we're
going to fight about. What about trans kids? Can we sell the idea to parents, the school boards, to the media, to the general public that there's a terrible problem with children who think they're locked in someone else's body, their male, but they think they're female or they're female and they want to become male, And can we sell the idea this is the next civil rights horizon. And many said, nah, that's never going to work.
People are going to buy this one. However, here we are many years later, and it's arrived and in fact, it is an element of truth in many schools in California. They came out a few days ago with a message starting in August that if your kids are going to transition from one gender to another, that parents will not be told about what's happening in school.
It's unbelievable. A new book is out by Mary Margaret Olihan d trans True Stories of Escaping the Gender Cult and Mary Margaret, welcome, I think for the first time to the Bill Cunningham Show. And so can you first tell the American people the issue itself and the death of the problem and how we're responding to it as a government. Yes, great to be here. So this is a book that I wrote because I was noticing just a slew of
young people coming forward and saying I was duped by this under ideology. I was like, you know, portrayed by these medical professionals. And once there were enough of them coming forward, it seemed to really confirm what many of us have been saying for a long time, which was that, you know, when LGBTQ activists tried to say, you know, these so called transgender protections that we're trying to enact are only going to apply to adults. We're
not talking about children here. They were not being honest. And what we have found is that media, activists and lawmakers have been very manipulative in explaining what they have been trying to enact, which ultimately we now know is transgender surgeries, hormones and puberty blockers for adults and for children in the name of
so called gender affirming care. And what these activists and media and lawmakers will say is that these procedures are necessary to save people from committing suicide, and
they will say this about children very frequently. I was just looking at research from a doctor the other day who was making the argument that, even though she is well aware that puberty blockers cause very serious problems in children's bone density, she argued that the risks were worth it given that kids who think that their trans are probably going to kill themselves if they don't get access to this.
Now, that is a lie, it's not true. In fact, what we're finding out now is that when you put children on these drugs, when you put children through these surgeries, it is actually worse for their mental health. Shocking, but that's not accepted by the broader medical community right now
because they're so tightly attached to this gender ideology. And so we're in a very weird place right now where our media, or medical organizations, Hollywood, the White House are all telling us that kids need things that are very obviously wrong for them. A little girl in her early teens is struggling with mental health issues. The last thing she needs is her breast removed, you know.
The last thing she needs is to be put on to stosterone, which is going to affect her body very, very dramatically, both physically and mentally. But that's what we're being told that these children need. And so part of the reason I wrote this book is because I wanted to give people a close up view of the real reported stories of de transitioners, young people who
tried to do this and then realized it was impossible. It's all in their words, it's their stories, their lived experiences, and I wanted to give it to people in a very raw way and help people understand the realities of what's going on here, because it's not care. It really is and it's very dangerous, and I think that the best people to explain this are the
people that live through it. And so your book deals with that so Mary Margaret, I cannot imagine a thirteen or fourteen year old going through a genital mutilation and hormonal therapy that completely changes their body to something it wasn't. And I could not think of any other area of life where we would allow a preteen somewhat a child under the age of eighteen to make lifelong decisions about their
health. And really, the American Medical Association, the president Joe Biden, is all in favor of transgender rights and transitioning, always with a happy ending. There's a basketball player in the NBA named Way who played for Miami who has a child that's transitioned from male to female. But isn't there a study from England over the last fifteen or twenty years that demonstrates that's the so called
puberty blockers and cross sex hormones and gender affirming surgeries. By the time these individuals come out the other side in their twenties in their thirties, many are extremely sad their parents didn't defend them better. Yes, yes, and actually I would say European countries are far ahead of the United States when it comes to this issue. They have recently taken a number of steps to protect kids
from these irreversible and experimental procedures. But meanwhile, in the United States, our medical professionals are very much pushing forward with all of these things, despite seeing our European colleagues and friends doing the exact opposite. And you know, as the the transitioners and my books shared with me, this is something that these kids can't actually consent to. One because they're kids, so which is not something we talk about enough. But two because they're so mentally ill.
All of them are really struggling with mental health issues and so they're not able to give informed consent. The other thing is they're not these things aren't explained to them properly. So I don't know if everyone's familiar with the the w
PATH files, the release of the w PATH files recently. That's the World Professional Transgender Health Association, a group of so called experts that are transgender doctors, and these doctors were exposed to have been having private conversations about how they knew that testosterone, for example, was causing some girls to grow tumors.
They knew the testosterone was causing some girls to be infertile. They knew and had conversations about the fact that some of their patients were so mentally ill that
they could not properly give informed consents. And yet all of these things were kept under wraps until the release of the w Path files because these so called experts didn't want to go against their own narrative, so they were knowingly pushing things that they knew were dangerous and experimental while private talking about how they were dangerous and experimental, which is so incredibly evil when you realize the magnanimata of
what we're talking about here. There was one story I heard that I will never forget about a young girl who underwent a double misseexony as part of her gender affirming care and afterwards she asked the doctor, so how long is it going to take for them to grow back? So that's a girl who was so naive and uninformed about her body that she genuinely thought that her breast would ultimately grow back when they never will. And I think that's a really good
example of how our young people are being duped in this way. They're being given information that they're not fully digesting, that they can't fully understand because they're kids, and they're being allowed to make decisions that are just way over their
head. And Mary, Margaret, you would hope that we as a society advances we think we are, would say that if the parents agree to play in to the mental fantasies of a child, that there would be teachers and principles and doctors and children's hospitals and medical associations and the government that would say, we understand that you're fourteen and you think you're a male and a female body, but you cannot legally smoke a cigarette, you cannot legally drink alcohol,
you cannot legally contract to do anything. We will look after you and help get you the mental health health help that you need, but we're not going to engage in cutting off your genital parts, and we're not going to give you a hormonal therapy that changes who you are, because the underlying problems that cause the difficulty in the first place would be there. Where are the
adults? Where are the adults to say we will not allow this to happen, Because if a child is confused and unhappy and has mental health issues, and about forty percent of young girls, because of social media, et cetera, have mental health issues, where are the parents? Are the schools?
Where are the doctors. Where are the children's hospitals? So saying let's wait till you're eighteen, Mary Margaret. If somebody's nineteen, twenty, twenty five or thirty and they're an adult and they want to make this decision, I'm saying, have at it. If you're an adult and you want to go to a drag Queen's Story Hour, If you're an adult and you want to transition, have at it. But if you're a child, why doesn't adult
society say you can't do this? What where are the adults? This is a great question, and I think you know, I sincerely hope and I actually do believe that history we'll look back on this moment and ask that very question when we've left this horrible period far behind us. Because the adults in the room are very much turning a blind eye to the realities here and opting to go to embrace ideology over sat facts and science and what we're hearing.
You know, there are certainly parents who, for selfish and narcissistic reasons push their children into transition. That absolutely is something that happens, and it's a very horrible thing, you know, when these kids are very small, but I think what's happening more often, and this is incredibly sad, is these kids are from you know, your average secular American family. Maybe they're not super tuned into politics, and they're at school, they're learning about gender ideology,
they're learning about it online. They're friends at school are identifying as trance or something, and so they themselves become interested in it. Maybe it's counselor at school of firms them and tells them, yes, you're trans. And so these kids, let's say, like a thirteen year old girl comes home and says, Mom and dad, I'm not a girl, I'm actually a boy, and I need you to help me get hormones and surgery because that's what i'm told that I need. And so these parents, you know,
they love their daughter, that's their beautiful little girl. They think, what's no way in heck my daughter is supposed to get a double mus eectomy. I've known her ever since she was born. I know for a fact that she's not a boy, and I know she doesn't have masculine interest. But at the same time, they think, I don't know what I'm supposed to do here. Maybe they're afraid of the school and the school is telling them you have to do something here, and so what most of these parents are
doing tragically is they think, Okay, this is over my head. I'm going to go speak to a medical professional about this. And unfortunately, the medical professionals are betraying parents. And so when parents go in trusting them and saying, look, I don't know what to do here. This seems crazy. My kid's telling me she's a boy, what the medical professionals will say is, yep, your daughter's a boy, and if you don't affirm her
transgender identity, she's going to hurt herself. And the exact line that they give to parents, and this gives me chills every time I say it, would you rather have a dead daughter or living son? And they say that that's a threat. There's a threat to parents saying if you don't comply with our version of ideology gender ideology, then your kid will kill herself and it will be your fault. And so, you know, unsurprisingly, parents think, oh my gosh, I gotta do this, like this is clearly what
I like. I wish I didn't have this happening, but I got to do this for my kids. And so a lot of parents are going along with it. And I had the most the saddest conversation recently with one of the girls in my book. Her name is Luca, and she told me that her mom was very against her transitioning, but her mom, you know, was given this line by the doctors, and so Luca's mom ultimately went
along with it. And she said that when she realized, you know, after the surgery, after the hormones, she had this moment of realization, oh my gosh, I don't feel better happier, I feel worse. And she had this moment where she realized, I regret what I have done and I need to like undo it. And she said she called her mom and she had to say, you were right. I shouldn't have done any of
this. And she said she and her mom both sobbed the entire conversation the whole time, because what she was basically saying to her mom was your gut was right. You should have trusted it. And you know, she's very respectful about her mother, and all of the detransitioners I've talked to are very hesitant to put any blame on their parents, but in Luca's case, her
mom's gut was right. Her mom should have trusted her gut, and unfortunately, these medical professionals convinced her not to and convinced her to put her child through these horrific things. So, you know, I have a lot of empathy for these parents. Obviously, they should have made different decisions. They should have done more research, you know, they at the end of the day, they should have better cared for their children. But I think these
are unprecedent time. You know, this is we're in very scary and crazy times where parents have to navigate a world where people want to they want to I mean, at the end of the day, they want to butcher their children. And that sounds horrible, but you know, at the end of the day, it's largely true. What do you call a doctor who removes a teenage girl's breast by telling her it's going to make her happier when he has no idea If that's actually true. I think, you know, at
the end of the day, is this is very much harming children. It's very dangerous and experimental, and I God bless the parents that are dealing with all of this, because it is not a danger that our society has been confronted with recently, and it's an absolutely terrible hurdle for them. Mary Margaret revealing the truth about transgenderism and its industry. A lot of money involved, so disturbing that transgender activists will do anything to try to hide this story because
of the money and because of the political activism. Because children with mental problems now layer the other problems on top of the other problems, and by the time they get to be twenty five or thirty, they look back and ask their mom or dad, why'd you do this to me? And mom might say, well, I was told do you want a dead daughter or a living son? And the parents are in a difficult position. They go to the doctor, to the medical industry and they say, oh no, oh
no, a lot of a lot of mental problems. We're gonna cut off your genitals and then things will be better. The book is once again May Margaret Olahan and the True Stories of Escaping the Gender Cult. And thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Get the truth out and the truth will set us all free. Mary Margaret, thank you very much, thank you so much for having me. God bless you. Let's continue with more. Wow. Dwayne Wade has left. The basketball player has left Florida because
he thinks transgender rights are not being allowed in Florida. I like to check in with him in about ten years to see what his new daughter thinks about the behavior of the parents. Bill Cunningham, News Radio seven hundred WLW and your pains on the door, You've got it. You lord, kick off your summer in a new