the country, specifically, gender roles. today in tennessee the republican governor billy see signed two controversial new laws. one bans gender affirming care for minors and the other restricts drag shows in the state. let s bring in former democratic congressman ron derrick jones and patrick is here and doug high. guys, let s start with the decision to ban any sort of doctors medical care for anyone under 18 who is looking who believes they are trans and is looking for any sort of medical treatment be it pharmaceutical, consultation or anything like that. doug, i believe you are comfortable with this new law in tennessee. yeah, i think one we have to treat people with dignity and respect and certainly what we ve learned over not just the past three or four years but 20 years, people that feel this way, are this way and have gone through this process quite often go through a very painful life and process. we don t want that. but there are differences between people who a
desantis is surprised that ron perry i don t think he knew about those statements, no. wouldn t rise to that level of the governor. do you think he ll get fired now that this information is coming out? no but there will be a bus and drive across him back and forth. let s move on to what happened in dallas. this reporter from the dallas morning news has been fired after tweeting to the mayor and calling him brah in the tweet. basically, he said that local news has no interest in reporting good news and she responded in a tweet where she said bruh, national news is always going to chase the trend, cultivate relationships with quality local news partnerships. . the mayor tweeted back bruh, have we met? [ laughter ] good response. and then she lost her job as a result of that and she explained herself by saying i m a millennial, that s a term i use all the time. that s their dude, do you know what you re saying.