 I don't understand where the men are like where the dads, you know, some teachers pushing sex values on your third grader Why don't you go and thrash the teacher like this is an agent of the government pushing someone else's values on your kid about sex like Where's the pushback? Well one of the crazy things we know Tucker is that this is hidden from parents and I agree with you there should be a ton of pushback I'm a father of three young kids and I would get enraged if I found out this was happening at my kid's school But you hear all these crazy things about you know five-year-old kids go into school as boys But then they go into the magical closet and they come out as their gender affirming identity Of course that has nothing to do with the crazy lunatic who's pushing them on them Of course we're led to believe of course it's all coming from five-year-old children So one of the things we're learning Tucker is that this is being forced by some of these really radical teachers And they're hiding it from the parents. That's maybe the most pernicious part That stupidity was a conversation that took place on national television between Tucker Carlson and JD Vance And JD Vance just said unironically that teachers are forcing students to be gay and trans Where? Where is this happening? And if it happened how many times? Once? Twice? That's not the way that it works. If you genuinely believe that someone can be taught to be gay Or be forced into being gay or trans You're a simpleton. You're stupid. You lack even an elementary understanding of human sexuality And kids aren't being taught about sexuality in grades K through 3 But to these idiots if you so happen to forget yourself and mention your wife and you're a female teacher Well congratulations you just turned that entire class gay and you groomed all of them into that lifestyle So we have to protect our children against these groomers and I don't know Pull them out of public schools and put them into private religious institutions I can't help but think this new homophobic push is part of their scheme to go people into putting their kids in private schools I don't honestly know but either way if you listen to that conversation and you think that what they said made sense In any way I have to think that you're a stupid person yourself or you're just a sloppy thinker You're not thinking about this. You're intellectually lazy And in case you missed it Tucker Carlson they're very casually called for violence against teachers As if their jobs aren't already shitty enough where they get paid nothing And now they have all these Karen's like Tucker Carlson going to school claiming that they're grooming students Now he's saying do violence. He says I don't understand where the men are Like where are the dads? You know some teachers pushing sex values on your third grader Why don't you go in and thrash the teacher? What do you mean by sex values? Notice how whenever they have this conversation about sex values it's incredibly vague And this really is revealed in their hysteria about Disney being more inclusive supposedly of LGBTQ plus people See if you put a picture of two princes kissing or two princesses kissing that's grooming To them that's tantamount to gay pornography because they actually think that you choose to be gay And if you just hide homosexuality and transgender identities away from children Then congratulations once they're 18 they would have chosen to be cisgender and heterosexual And you've succeeded as a parent except it doesn't work that way And I feel like most reasonable people who have any brain cells acknowledge this But it's you know Fox News and they're pandering to the dumbest audience in America So of course you know when they say something like this the simpletons that tune into Fox News Religiously every single evening they won't question it Now the reason why the GOP is currently waging a war on teachers is because as they've learned with the hysteria over critical race theory That this is a politically potent method that gets normies to covertly adopt bigoted points of view And it's a political winner for them right it's politically expedient to Trot out this homophobic argument this homophobic myth that gays are predators But the problem is they're not actually protecting children and I don't know if they're achieving this goal Of getting parents to pull their kids out of public schools and place them in private religious institutions I don't know what the intended effect that they want is But we do know that what they're doing is making the lives of teachers hell currently As Tyler Kincaid of NBC News explains The school year at MacArthur High in Irving, Texas began last fall with the administration scraping off rainbow stickers that had been posted on campus Prompting hundreds of students to walk out on protest Seven months later LGBTQ students say things have deteriorated further One faculty sponsor of the school's Gay Straight Alliance is facing having her contract terminated Another is preparing to resign and a third has been removed from the classroom The Alliance's weekly meetings became monthly and attendance dropped from about 40 students to fewer than 10 The student newspaper has functionally shut down Two teachers said that the school's principal asked teachers to take down gay pride flags in their classrooms and offices Several students said that either they or their classmates have been called homophobic slurs And bullied and school staff members have failed to intervene Some said they're discouraged by the Irving Independent School District's response to the concerns They've raised through the Gay Straight Alliance and school board meetings And they feel less safe at school than they did a year ago Two students said human resources officers with the district questioned them about their involvement with the GSA LGBTQ students and teachers in the district said they've already been on edge because of the pressure schools across Texas and beyond are facing From politicians, parents and activists to remove books with LGBTQ themes They're also deeply worried about a state order calling for child abuse investigations into the families of transgender children Which was temporarily blocked by a judge Nationwide educators have raised concerns that new measures such as a Florida law that prevents teachers from discussing sexual orientation in third grade or lower Could lead to a purge of LGBTQ teachers and advocates for LGBTQ students are alarmed by some parents' recent demands That schools prohibit students from organizing gay straight alliances, calling them pornographic and suggesting they would turn children gay Now notice how the goalposts shifted So it started this national conversation specifically started with Republicans saying We have to do this don't say gay law because we have to protect children in grades K through 3 But now the conversation has broadened out Now gay straight alliances in high school which are crucial resources for LGBTQ youth Now that's under attack as well because it's pornographic And you know teachers now are being targeted for putting up rainbow flags Now teachers who put up rainbow flags, that's not necessarily them saying Hey, I'm gay, I'm queer, everyone look at me Oftentimes they'll do that so they can signal to students that they're allies So if a student is dealing with a family that's homophobic or if a student wants to come out and they don't know anyone safe to come out to That teacher is saying I'm a safe person to come out to That could be a straight person But now that teacher is being targeted Now teachers who are LGBTQ at all Anyone who's seen as an ally affirming of gay straight alliances in high schools Now they're being targeted And one student in that article was quoted saying that they feel as if they're under attack They're being targeted and they're gender fluid So what has started as oh my god we have to protect children Has essentially turned into an anti-gay witch hunt And it didn't begin just this year This has been brewing for quite some time back in 2021 We talked about how that was one of the most disgustingly transphobic years When it comes to state lawmakers introducing laws that either ban gender affirming care for trans youth Or ban trans high school students from participating in school sports And it's only going to continue to get worse And it's not just contained to certain states like you know the don't say gay law originated from Florida But it's spreading throughout the country Lawmakers in Ohio and Louisiana have filed legislation that mimics the Florida law signed last month by Governor Ron DeSantis In Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick who controls the state senate said he would make his state's version of the bill a top priority in the next legislative session The Louisiana version would bar educators and school employees from discussing their own sexual orientation or gender identity with any student through 12th grade There's no need for any child to ever know the private life of their educator State Representative Doty Horton the bill's chief sponsor told KSLATV It's not prejudice to one group or another it just doesn't discuss it at all So remember how back in 2010 we all saw it as a huge accomplishment that Congress actually got their act together And repealed the violently homophobic Don't Ask Don't Tell Law Which basically forced members of the armed services into the closet indefinitely Couldn't come out if you were a member of the military Well because reasons you know that's gonna disrupt the military How's that gonna be in locker rooms will these you know gay predators prey on their colleagues in the military All those reasons but we repealed it and moved on and we realized to force people into the closet is bigoted it's bad it's harmful But here we are in 2022 bringing back Don't Ask Don't Tell is just now it's applicable to teachers They have to be silent about their identities so as to not groom the youths Because in 11th grade if you learn that your teacher is gay you're automatically gonna be gay yourself Because I guess the teacher's gonna make it sound cool or something I mean it's a childish understanding of human sexuality and it defies reason But the point is to be cruel the point is to gin up homophobia for purposes of political expediency This is what gets them the victory you know just saying I don't like gay people Isn't really going to be palatable politically in 2022 so the way that they create homophobia once again Is by cloaking their homophobia in we have to protect the children It's how they basically got people against teaching history with critical race theory and you could take anything And turn it into we have to protect the children and it's going to be a political winner Because people by and large care about protecting children I mean who doesn't but notice how they're weaponizing protecting children To bring back homophobia in a really explicit way I mean homophobia never really dissipated But attitudes towards LGBTQ plus people have improved over the years Not necessarily with regard to trans people we have so much work to do in that regard But homophobic attitudes will return And this isn't just like this new push for explicitly homophobic laws by the GOP making this their priority It's not just going to be contained to the United States We will see a global increase in homophobia because of what the GOP is doing Because what the United States does it has you know consequences it ripples throughout the world Take a look at what happened to Evan when he was in Dublin Last night a stranger called me a faggot before beating the shit out of me He left me with a fractured eye socket two fractures in my ankle a dislocation in my ankle and some of their minor injuries We've come a long way but still has such a long way to go in terms of equality Now I'm not saying that that assault specifically was due to the GOP in America being relentless in their push for homophobic laws But what I am saying is that we will see a correlation between this increased homophobic rhetoric and anti-LGBTQ hate crimes Violence against trans women like these things go hand in hand Because politicians have a lot of influence and power And when they you know cultivate this homophobic sentiment the population usually follows their lead Now in 2022 alone there's been more than 240 anti-LGBTQ plus laws introduced in state legislatures across the country Specifically in 31 states as this graphic by the Human Rights Campaign illustrates And at this rate 2022 is shaping up to be one of the most anti-LGBTQ years legislatively speaking At least in modern history because I mean you know this is kind of the way that progress works A lot of people have this view of progress that it's linear But that's not necessarily the case you don't always charge ahead in one direction Sometimes you make progress sometimes you go backwards You know take two steps forward five steps back We're currently in one of those eras where we're making a lot of moves backwards Where we're regressing at a rate that's shocking and it's not just regression with regard to LGBTQ plus issues I mean when it comes to women's rights we have states just passing straight up bans on abortion at this point in the year 2022 But this is what the GOP is doing Their goal is to inflict as much pain and suffering on America because they are psychopaths People who vote for this party they're bad people they are morally defective If you support this party then I don't know what's wrong with you I have to think that you just are cruel and you enjoy it because the Republican Party time and again Has shown you who they are They're no longer the party of you know tax cuts for small businesses not that they ever were But this party their whole goal is to troll is to be unnecessarily cruel and to inflict pain on people That's the goal of the GOP this is a party of fucking monsters and if you still vote for this party Knowing who they are that says a lot about who you are as a person as well So this is going to continue and I would argue this is probably only the beginning Their homophobia and bombastic rhetoric that we're seeing on Fox News and other right wing outlets Is only going to get worse you think that this is the lowest that they'll stoop to trust me They will go even lower because that's who they are they're fucking monsters And the only thing that we can do is push back against them vociferously Because what little gains we've made when it comes to LGBTQ plus rights You always have to fight to protect because if you just simply you accomplish something you achieve progress And you step away Well bad actors are going to target that progress and try to take you back And I think a lot of people in this country got comfortable thinking well You know the issue of LGBTQ plus equality at least when it comes to gays is solved But no that never was the case and these attacks on trans people that never ceased was a sign That they were also going to try to make this a broader attack on all of the LGBTQ plus community It was just a matter of time so you can never get comfortable when it comes to civil rights You always have to be committed to fighting because there will always be reactionary forces that try to take you back And this is something that will never change I just hope that people learn from this And they acknowledge that you know you always have to fight to protect these gains and I'll leave that there