Seven. The Reds are hungry for victory, having lost the last two games, but most importantly, they want to come up and see the Oriols for what happened in nineteen seventy during the heart of the Vietnam War when Pork Chop Hill, Hamburger Hill, Maykong Delta, where the rageous the Baltimore Orioles came to Cincinnati in the World Series and beat the crap out of the Reds in seven games because at Brooks Robinson and also Frank Robinson, who the Reds never
should out rid up. But that's a different story. That all begins tonight. What's it been about fifty three years? It's time to have come up for the Baltimore Orioles starting tonight, then back home over the weekend for three games against San Diego, then out to the Nation's capital for the Fourth of July and more. But until then. Cindy Abrams is the state representative from the West side of Cincinnati. She's one of the leaders of the House of
Representatives. Has a great backstory that includes being a first responder and a Cincinnati police officer. She got out alive. Now she's like a normal person living on the West Side of Cincinnati Representative Cindy Abrams, Welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show and Representative. Before we get to the issues that you sent me about, I have something else to talk about with your permission, sure, of course, thanks for having Yes, I'm watching the comments of Martina Navratlova,
who was one of my favorite all time tennis player. I like to see her in her prime go against Serena Williams. I think Serena would win, but I'm not so sure. But nonetheless, she came out as a gay female decades ago, and it was may I use the term obvious anyway because of who she partnered with. And that's okay with me, it's okay with you, it's okay with Tony Bender. All that stuff is good.
But House Bill sixty eight is being used by the by elements of the gay, bisexual, transgender May I use the term queer community as some sort of effort to kill or to hurt people that have transgender or gay issues, which is false. Nobody I know, and I think I'm a rock rib conservative believes that if you are gay, that something bad should happen to you, or something good should have happened to use simply because of your sexual orientation.
I'm right down the middle. Live your life, enjoy yourself, don't hurt other people. And I believe in the Golden Rule and that has treat others as you would want to be treated, no problem whatsoever. But it's now become the hateful rhetoric of gay Pride Month is being used against conservative especially conservative females, who say, now, wait a minute, there's a difference between gay rights when you're thirty years old, which I'm completely in favor of.
I believe I am as opposed to a sixteen year old girl who wants to transition. What does House Bill sixty eight do and how's that relevant to the American people during Pride Month? There's a there's a question in there. Somewhere there is and it's okay, I'm following you. Okay. A couple things here. One that's unusual. I'm a parents. Okay. So we were at a track meet a couple of years ago, a storm as we're rolling
in. Okay, So, for the element of time and everybody's safety, they ran timed them separately, but ran the boys and the girls high school age together. Okay, for the one mile so I'm sitting there with my husband, and it was so obvious the number one girl in her you know, girls category, and the number one boy. The girl could never catch the boy. We're made different. God made us different, how it is,
thank God. And you know ast Jenna tests as turn all these things, and so that was obvious to me that guess what, it's not fair. It's not fair if you're a man coming in and wanting to run in the girls category. It's just not right. So that's one thing. It
does. The other thing how spill sixty eight did, and it's out of the house over to the Senate, is you know, look again, as a parent, my husband and I, when the kids are miners, we are here to guide them down the path and figure out, you know again, what is in their best interest. Right in making a permanent decision changing their sex before they are adults, in my opinion, is not the right path to send your kid down. Now, what is okay, Obviously they're
struggling, Okay, the transgender youth are struggling. Fine, let's figure out what is the root of the problem. Let's get them into counseling. It's no different than when I was law enforcement. We saw a lot of things that normal humans don't see. The everyday American doesn't see the death and tragedy
that law enforcement sees. But guess what we have. We have peer support, we have the police chaplain and guess what if it needs to be escalated up to a psychologist or a psychiatrist, fine, But at the end of the day, let's figure out what is bothering you and what is the root of the problem. So again, House Bill sixty eight basically says no, nothing permanent to your body before you're eighteen makes sense to me. In fact,
I've not dealt with it legally. But if you have a sixteen year old old who wants to have a tattoo, if you have a sixteen year old that wants to have a surgery that parents don't want to have, if you have a sixteen year old that in some cases might get pregnant. A lot of what we're going to vote on in August and November means that you can't have a mom or a dad have decision making relative to the medical issues
of a sixteen year old girl or a boy. I mean, I kind of think you kind of get the child to eighteen plus and say, Okay, hopefully you're on your own now, let's not make a decision that changes your life permanently with a sixteen year old mind making a decision for thirty five year old nineteen years later. It makes no sense to me. And you told me off there that yous some testimony from people that had transitioned and it
was the worst decision of their life. Please explain. Yeah, and going back to your first comment again, as a parent, it is my right to know what my kids are going through, what they're fakenfide in a school guidance counsel or whomever. It is my right to know. That is my job as a parent again, to make decisions, you know, when they're minors. Yes, last year I was on the committee. I was not
on the committee this year. But last year we heard the bill. I was on the committee, and there were there were folks there that went through the full blown you know, sex change and everything, and they were at the podium and they were sobbing. They didn't realize back at thirteen that once they do this, they can never have children. And it was heartbreaking to see because again, how do you I mean, when I was thirteen, I wasn't thinking about, you know, no way far into the future.
I mean, you're thirteen, yeah, and you're supposed to be thirteen. But can you imagine in a in a blue city, in a blue state in which the parents are not notified when a child using different pronouns at school and changes at tire a change his dress when you get to get to school in the morning, that a parent is not told. In fact, in many states, it's considered illegal and the teacher could lose his or her job for notifying apparent about what's happening. That that's the part to me I just
find amazing. And I support women. I mean, my sisters a woman, my granddaughter's a girl, my mother was female. I love women as much as I can, in fact every now, and I want to love more women. But that's a different issue. I think women are different than men, but we're equal but different, and I want women to have all
the glories of femalehood just like I want men. But the idea that we're going to eliminate female sports, there'll be no women's soccer team, there'll be no women's tennis, there'll be no Kroger Classic, there'll be no women's golf. If men are allowed to identify quote as a woman and say, okay, I'm gonna start playing these other sports, where are the feminists other than Martin and a Rattelova. Where are the liberals that say, wait a minute,
we fight. We just celebrate the fiftieth year of Title nine. Fifty Title nine, And I thought that's a good thing. In the beginning, I didn't quite understand the issues, but I become educated, and I want girls and women to have equal opportunity based upon their performance on the field, on the court, in the swimming pool, not some Harry as man saying I'm a woman. I want to compete and make money. Can you smell
when I'm cooking? Yes? And at the end of the day. Over the weekend, we were had a bunch of grad parties and this topic came up and a man said women are not tiny men, and I said right, and he's like, thank god. I don't want people to look like Tony Bender. I kind of want to. I like women, and I support that. When I watched my granddaughter play soccer and all the sports she played, I was honored to go. I loved it. I got it. I talked to Chris Collinsworth about this about fifteen twenty. Yes, one
percent. But now we're talking about liberals and left wing activists ruining female sports. Is that where this has especially in the Blue cities and the Blue States. Yes, And look at the end of the day, you I mean you see it on the soccer field and again, uh, you know different places, the track, track, meat, volleyball, everywhere. Women and girls work their ass off for this and you know for that to be taken
away. No, it's just I don't under when you talk to your Democratic colleagues in Columbus from the house, do they tell you privately this is a bunch of bs or do they really believe this crap? Well, there's some topics we don't talk about here. This is one of them. Well, usually it's guns and babies. But yeah, I haven't actually had any We've been so busy with the budget. I haven't had any time to have any
private conversations about this topic. So who knows. I can't imagine reasonable Democrats can look at this and say we're gonna let boys and men play female sports in grade school, middle school, and high school and professionally, and it's going to be okay with us. I can't imagine. This looks to me as if it's a fight that doesn't have to occur. And I see more
and more gay conservative saying, wait a minute. We fought for fifty years after the terrible events of Stonewall in New York City, and now we've gotten to the point where we're accepted. No one is not going to be hired, no one's going to be fired. In fact, you can get married. I mean, heterosexuals have screwed up the summing pool of marriage completely. And if gay folks want to jump in with, as I say, have
added enjoy yourself because it is not always a panacea of glory. But conservatives who are gain that are saying, oh, wait a minute, transgender have different issues than gay men and lesbian women. And I completely agree. Now, Cindy Abrams, State Rep. You wanted to talk about a budget that's friendly for children. Please explain. Yes, I was gonna say, speaking of children, So the House version of the budget. Just explain where the
budgets at right now, it went from the House to the Senate. Now it's back and something called conference committee where the House and basically half thousand differences and there's over eight hundred differences. So here we are working on that last week and this week. So the House budget heavily invested in children zero to
three. Of course, again as a parent, I believe you know that we aren't totally investing in our future, focusing on setting these kids up for success as they grow up to be good, productive, you know citizens here of Ohio and society in general. Again, speaking of early childhood education, that's so important too. We invested over sixty one million dollars in that, making sure that all kids have access to high quality preschool programs, again setting
them up for success in school. Foster care, there's a fifteen thousand Ohio children living outside the care of their parents, so fifteen thousand kids, three thousand of them are awaiting adoption, and again investing in foster care is critical. So twelve million dollars in funding there. I believe that'll play a massive role to stabilize their lives, which at the end of the day is what our goal is. Cindy Abrams, thank you. Watch this morning CNN so
you don't have to. And they did a report on public education in the City of New York. How about these factoids and any one day, twenty five percent of the students did not show up in school, and any one day, twenty percent of the teachers did not school, and they did testing. New York State required it. Seventy percent of the public school students are not functionally literate at the right age. Fourth graders cannot read and cannot mathematically
compute. And the point was that we have to stop what we're doing and do something completely different. And I give Mayor Adam's credit. In New York City, he's involving the corporate community, of which there are thousands of volunteers willing at three o'clock every day to report to an elementary school to sit down with small groups of students who cannot read when they're ten years old, to assist them in reading. Multilingual languages is a big issue there. They have
to have. There's one hundred and forty different dialects being taught in the New York City public schools. English is like sixth or seventh down the list, and so they're trying their best and in parts of Sincini in the CPS. And you may know this that every day there's about twenty five percent kids here that are truant and that we have a better education system here in the New
York City. But unless we invest and spend the money and demand excellence for a seven, eight, nine, ten year old who can't read, we're going nowhere in this society and has got to stop. Representatives. Sydney Abrams, you're you're the new wave of different representatives with different ideas. And once again, thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show, and Sydney Abrams will do it again. Thank you very much, Thank you, Ahi,
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