Mon Jul 17, 2023 – 10:59 am EDTMon Jul 17, 2023 – 11:07 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Former Arkansas governor and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Asa Hutchinson said he stands by his decision to veto legislation that would have protected gender-confused minors from being chemically and surgically mutilated.
Tucker Carlson asked Hutchinson during a July 14 presidential summit sponsored by Blaze Media whether he had changed his mind in the past two years since he vetoed the legislation. The Arkansas legislature overrode Hutchinson’s veto.
Hutchinson first pivoted by saying he supported the rights of parents and “the Constitution.”
“I believe that God created two genders and that there should not be any confusion on your gender, but if there is confusion then parents ought to be the one that guides the children, that to me is an important fundamental principle,” Hutchinson said.
“A physician or other healthcare professional shall not provide gender transition procedures to any individual under eighteen years of age,” the SAFE Act reads, banning puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and “sex change” surgeries, as well as referrals for them, as previously reported by LifeSiteNews.
Hutchinson then appeared to contradict himself by saying that he
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