 Welcome back to news on I want to welcome back our panel joining us once again Melissa Armo and Robin Byros So here's a story that kind of cut our eye, especially Robin. This probably catches your eye So new census data being released today. It's expected to help shape Voting districts ahead of next year's midterm elections now the data shows population changes No big surprise there that information could change though the balance of power and the US House as it will be used to redraw 429 house districts and 44 states now Republicans are looking to gain five seats in the US House in order to retake control of the chamber this could have huge Political ramifications could it not Revin? Absolutely and look I'm I wasn't born yesterday Jerry Mandarin across is a bipartisan issue Democrats have done it too and my former home state you could look at Jim Clyburn's district as an example of that But it's something that I wish didn't exist. I wish it were more fair So yes when they redraw these maps a lot of times this has done its secret I read the stories. This is this is a problem going forward and the balance of power is is painfully close We are expected as democrats to lose seats in the house and frankly lose Majority for the midterms if we don't really ramp it up and this only makes it more difficult Melissa Well, he's right Robin is right. I think that 2022 is going to be an important year I also think that even if they didn't have the redistricting I think that that they're going to lose some seats I think there's whenever you have an imbalance of power. We have too much power I think right now on one side When you have too much power on the side of the democrats it's it's shifting and again We're eight months into this look at this 3.5 trillion and that happens no matter what just to chime in Melissa that happens no matter what if one party has too much control We typically see this happen regardless of any particular issue, but go ahead Well, I thought gerrymandering was illegal. It's interesting when I was reading about it I'm like wait a minute. Are they allowed to do this? But apparently they have again This is something that happens in secret like robin said. I didn't realize how often this actually happens How often they redistricate again sometimes it favors the democrats sometimes it favors republicans in this instance I think it's going to favor the republicans Yeah, you know, I've heard this issue brought up time and time and time again But it seems like if you're not the one losing and you stand to gain ground then suddenly the issue kind of just disappears So it'll be interesting to see if this comes up again because really It's the people that are living in these areas that are suffering from it You know, you want it to best represent that area. I always love to know people's thoughts on that, you know You can always let us know again by finding me at real morand con hashtag share your voice So something interesting happening that a lot that's getting a lot of reaction today A north virginia school board voted to approve a new policy expanding transgender rights for students The new policy now requires teachers to use preferred pronouns and allow students to choose transgender students to play in sports that fit Their gender or his or her gender. I'm not even sure if I'm using the right pronoun Now robin, but uh, you know, you're a father of two boys What do you what do you think about this? It's there's a lot to unpack. Uh, first of all gender dysphoria is a medical condition diagnosed by a medical doctor So it's a real thing Miss gendering is a form of abuse and bullying In the situation here in virginia, there were teachers who were misgendering their students on purpose To denigrate and bully them. That's never okay. No teacher should ever do that to a student. Personally. I hate the pronoun game It it's getting complicated and look we could look at the alphabet just I'm openly gay But now it's supposed to be lgbt q i a a plus. I mean like there's no way I'm gonna say that but You just did and I'm impressed Well, I'm glad I remembered but at the end of the day it just comes down to treating people with decency and respect It's what I was taught in the military. I wish we could just have that as a baseline Yeah, I hear what you're saying and there are a couple people that want to be referred to as them and and they and I don't know. I mean, I certainly don't want anybody to feel left out I'm all for that being inclusive, but Yeah, it's very odd and you talked about body dysmorphia There is still not a consensus in the medical community When it comes to being transgender, there are still people out there that believe it's an illness Are people out there that believe that they were born this way? I'm not a medical expert nor am I gonna pretend to be but melissa What are your thoughts about this happening in schools and could we see it happen in more schools around the country? I don't know if it's gonna happen in more schools around the country, but it's kind of surprising that it's happening in virginia You would have thought that this would have happened in some place like new york or even california before virginia The problem I have with it is with the sports when you have, uh, I think it's advantageous for For people that were born as a man to be playing female sports and then it's not as fair for the women And so I think it's a problem for kids in general We're putting our kids through a terrible time in the last year and a half Having the in-school lane having to wear masks having to Wish stand all of the confusion what's going on with coven. Why why are we even dealing with this right now? We have so many larger other issues Problems right now than having to push this on our children. My god. Just let kids be kids I don't even think the kids are as much worried about this while there might be an individual instance Like robin mentioned in general. I think kids just want to play with other kids And they call him if there's if her name is sally they call her salary if his name is bob They call him bob. They're not calling him by pronouns if they're kids Right and when you look at most research, I mean it shows a very minute part of the population actually identifies As being transgender. So I don't know if this is as big of an issue as it's being made out to be Having said that we did see athletes who identify as being transgender Participate in the olympics and that's stunned a lot of people because you had others being disqualified for marijuana use used to treat anxiety yet you had transgenders competing Against you know people that were biologically born one way. So is this the changing of the times robin and is this What's best for our kids? Let me say one thing and I've been dying to say this If anybody gets a performance enhancement from marijuana I that blows my mind that they were disqualified for that But I have to agree with you on that I'm gonna laugh about that Because I don't know enough about it. Maybe there are some Gosh, but I do think that it's I we look if they're taking the the hormone therapy I understand that if you're a male and transition to female you do have muscle loss But there should probably be a period of time until you are able to compete in those sports as your new gender Because I do see that there could be an unfair advantage if if not not enough time has passed for you Your muscle mass to to conform to what your new gender would be. I think that's legitimate And you know what I think is just interesting about this whole thing. You are mentioning the ldbtq plus They put this group together and and I can tell you right now They're not always seeing eye to eye On a lot of things that there there are a lot of female athletes who are lesbians who are not happy About this at all So maybe if you're one of them, we'd love to hear from you You can always chime in again by finding me at real moranda con real quickly in the short time that I have Remaining because you are a retired army ranger Deeply concerning what we're seeing right now in afghanistan Taliban claiming I believe 10 cities just in a couple of weeks now. There's thought that it could claim Kabul How concerned are you about this? I'm deeply concerned. There will always be we will always have some presence there, but it's not enough It wasn't enough of two years ago, frankly This is going to be a problem. There will will be a proliferation of of terrorism Going forward and it's it's deeply concerning moranda Melissa last 30 seconds to you You know, I agree with wabbit and if you watched the press conference yesterday the White house secretary she seemed to give legitimacy to To the Taliban in a way that I just was almost shocked about what she said I really think it is a problem again We're trying to deal with so many things in our inner circle here in the united states We can't forget about what's happening in other parts of the world Yeah, exactly and there's a lot to take in we're going to give Our viewers the very latest on what's going on in afghanistan also the u.s. Ambassador for afghanistan what he had to say about that Thank you both robin. Melissa always a pleasure Enjoy the rest of your week Stick around because we're going to have a look at today's weather forecasts as well and again as I mentioned We're going to give you the very latest on the situation in afghanistan not looking good what the ambassador From that country as saying to the u.s. What he would like the president to do coming up. You're watching news on