parents can choose among the psychotherapy options and children dealing with gender face phoria. dysphoria. matt, good morning. you testified two days before the 51st anniversary title 9, that protects women in women s sports and some are worried those protections are going away. tell us about your message yesterday before the senate judiciary committee? we were along with riley sharing stories about the impact that some of these gender identity policies, the ones that would be enshrined in women and children and parental rights on women and children. according to the cdc s own data, matt, the number of young people who identify as transgender is going up with each passing year. it s still a small number, but
it is a sharp rise and it s happening all at once. why do you think that is? there s a lot of questions about the spike in the number of children dealing with gender dis-fear ya. when europe was dysphoria and europe looking at same data and realizing that children going through the puberty blockers and hormone having a terrible mental health outcome and the u.s. ought to be like europe and following the science and doing what s best for children. president of the rights campaign testified it s not unfair for women to compete against biological men. it s a moment get ago lot of attention. here s what she said and we ll play riley gain s response. how many female members of the nba do you see? well, i can say that there s been this news article about men that think they could beat serena williams in tennis and
A federal judge temporarily blocked portions of a new Florida law championed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis that bans transgender minors from receiving puberty blockers.
and get change. steve: is is that a good idea? just to boycott rather than compete against a biological male competing in a female sport? piers: i think it is, what else can you do? more and more trans athletes at the elite end of sports, having the same issue here, as they compete against biological females when they are biological males, it is unfair, unjust and unequal. i think it is now cheating. this is doping we were talking about, people would take action quickly, as they have in the past. it is cheating to be biological male who transitions and i have respect for people who want to do that. nothing to do with personal sexuality or dysphoria. this is a pure issue of biological fact. if you are born biological male, you have immediate physical advantage post-puberty over