Speaker 1: This November will be quite the time, quite the time
Speaker 1: for this elaborate house of cards constructed out of proposed
Speaker 1: bond initiatives for education, and the whole thing could result
Speaker 1: in a massive amount of increased taxes all over the
Speaker 1: state of California, or the whole steck of cards, the
Speaker 1: whole palace of cards could come tumbling down with lots
Speaker 1: of local and statewide elections all sort of hinging around.
Speaker 1: Maybe there's money available, maybe people will be dumb enough
Speaker 1: to vote for all these bond initiatives. And the last,
Speaker 1: the most recent entity to throw their hat into the
Speaker 1: ring is the State Center Community College District. So this
Speaker 1: is the community colleg blood district that runs Fresno City
Speaker 1: and a bunch of the Fresno Sanwaquin Valley area. Community
Speaker 1: college is Readley College, Clovis Community, et cetera. The State
Speaker 1: Center Community College District Board of Directors yesterday voted seven
Speaker 1: to nothing to put a six hundred and ninety eight
Speaker 1: million dollars bond measure on the November ballot. There was
Speaker 1: little discussion by the board before the vote. Oh good glad,
Speaker 1: we didn't discuss it very much. But the trustees heard
Speaker 1: from a number of audience members in person and online
Speaker 1: expressing strong support for the bond measure. The trustees also
Speaker 1: heard from consultants who detailed community support for a bond measure,
Speaker 1: in particular from surveyed women who were likelier to vote
Speaker 1: in favor of the bond measure than the men's surveyed.
Speaker 1: One of the things that happened fairly recently is there's
Speaker 1: been a shift in the national discourse with a certain
Speaker 1: political campaign, Consultant Catherine lew said, an apparent reference to
Speaker 1: Vice President Kamala Harris rising to the top of the
Speaker 1: Democratic ticket, and we are expecting that women will continue
Speaker 1: to be very energized on a number of issues, including yours. Well,
Speaker 1: that's good because women's votes count more than that. They
Speaker 1: get one point five votes and men only get one vote. Right,
Speaker 1: that is that true? Oh that's not true? Oh okay.
Speaker 1: The board also unanimously approved a resolution in support of
Speaker 1: the ten billion dollar Proposition two that would provide state
Speaker 1: facilities matching funds for school and community college districts. All right,
Speaker 1: so what is going on? You might be asking yourself,
Speaker 1: why is Fresno unified? Why do they have a bond
Speaker 1: initiative on the ballot. Why does Close Unified have a
Speaker 1: bond initiative on the ballot? What do all these local
Speaker 1: school districts have bond measures on the ballot? Why does
Speaker 1: the State Center Community College District? They're getting in on
Speaker 1: the act. What's going on? Well, what's happening is there
Speaker 1: is a state wide ten billion dollar bond initiative, Proposition two,
Speaker 1: statewide ballot measure that all of the voters of California
Speaker 1: will be voting on up or down, yay or nay,
Speaker 1: will we support a ten billion dollar bond measure? And
Speaker 1: that funding from Proposition two will go to elementary slash
Speaker 1: primary school school districts the Clovis Unified s, Fresney unifieds,
Speaker 1: et cetera of the world, and some of it will
Speaker 1: go to community college districts like State Center Community College District.
Speaker 1: The catch, though, is that a lot of the money
Speaker 1: from this statewide bond measure will come in the form
Speaker 1: of matching funds. So if your local school district can
Speaker 1: pass a bond measure to raise let's say, four hundred
Speaker 1: million bucks, you might be able to get in return
Speaker 1: four hundred million state bucks, but the amount you can
Speaker 1: get from the state will not be as high if
Speaker 1: you're not yourself raising local bond revenue money. Now this
Speaker 1: gets to my This is where I get to my rant,
Speaker 1: my rant as the apostle against local bond initiatives. A
Speaker 1: bond is a loan. Fundamentally, I feel like people vote
Speaker 1: for these bonds and don't really truly understand what they are.
Speaker 1: A bond is a loan to a municipal entity like
Speaker 1: a city or a county, or a school district or
Speaker 1: a state or a community college district. It is a loan.
Speaker 1: The school district gets the money up front, and then
Speaker 1: the voters, who the taxpayers rather who live within the
Speaker 1: boundary of that school district, have to pay that loan back,
Speaker 1: usually over a thirty year term with interest. I don't
Speaker 1: know how many of you follow what's going on with
Speaker 1: the economy these days, but interest rates are really high
Speaker 1: right now, much higher than they were five years ago,
Speaker 1: four years ago, and the amount that we are going
Speaker 1: to have to pay back in our taxes is going
Speaker 1: to be much higher than the sticker price for the
Speaker 1: bond measure. If that statewide bond measure is ten billion dollars,
Speaker 1: then the people of California, the taxpayers of California are
Speaker 1: going to have to pay back over the course of time,
Speaker 1: probably more than twenty billion dollars. Clovis Unified wants a
Speaker 1: four hundred million dollar bond measure. We're going to have
Speaker 1: to pay about eight hundred million back. President Unified wants
Speaker 1: five hundred million. That'll be about a billion that we
Speaker 1: have to pay back in taxes. Because that's how loans
Speaker 1: with interest work. If you've got a loan and you
Speaker 1: have to pay it back with interest and the interest
Speaker 1: rate's really high over the a thirty year term, if
Speaker 1: your interest rate is over like six percent, which is
Speaker 1: the ballpark we're in right now, you're gonna wind up
Speaker 1: paying almost as much in interest as you paid in principle.
Speaker 1: So it is a preposterously bad deal. I just want
Speaker 1: to make this clear. This is not a good deal.
Speaker 1: It is a bad deal for the taxpayer because yeah,
Speaker 1: oh the school district it's and I have been ranting
Speaker 1: about this for years. School districts love the mechanism of
Speaker 1: the bond measure. They love it. They absolutely love it.
Speaker 1: They can sell it as if it's fake money because
Speaker 1: local media never covers it, I think fully the way
Speaker 1: they should. I read this old piece in GV Wire
Speaker 1: about this six hundred and ninety eight, so seven hundred
Speaker 1: let's call it seven hundred million, seven hundred million dollars
Speaker 1: bond measure for State Center Community College District. Not once
Speaker 1: do they mention in the article what is the interest
Speaker 1: rate at which this bond money would be borrowed and
Speaker 1: what is the total what is the term of repayment,
Speaker 1: and thus what is the total amount we can expect
Speaker 1: to pay? No one ever reports on that. That's never
Speaker 1: reported on, And I feel like it's such a disservice
Speaker 1: when local media does this or fails to do this,
Speaker 1: Rather like every story about a bond measure should say explicitly,
Speaker 1: this bond measure would provide the school district with four
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars. The loan would be taken out at
Speaker 1: this interest rate based on the rates based on the
Speaker 1: FEDS activity and blah blah blah. This is where interest
Speaker 1: rates stand. The amount, the total amount that taxpayers would
Speaker 1: pay back over the course of the thirty year life
Speaker 1: of the loan, or however long the loan repayment life is,
Speaker 1: will be this much, barring refinancing of the loan over
Speaker 1: the course of time. Now because you stack up all
Speaker 1: these little taxes, you stack up this sales tax and
Speaker 1: this property tax in this sales tax in this property tax,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, you're the most overtaxed state
Speaker 1: in the Union. My wife had sent me just you know,
Speaker 1: for working on this radio segment. It's a picture of
Speaker 1: our families, you know, property tax statement, the statement of
Speaker 1: all the different property taxes we are paying as a
Speaker 1: family for our house, our house in Clovis. And it's
Speaker 1: just boom boom, boom boom. This Clovis Unified. We have
Speaker 1: Clovis Unified bond measures from two thousand, from two thousand
Speaker 1: and four, from twenty twelve, from twenty twenty. Now we're
Speaker 1: all still paying for refinancing of those loans of this
Speaker 1: year and this year. This it's just again and we're
Speaker 1: paying like layer after layer after layer after layer of
Speaker 1: bond measures for Clovis Unified. And we've got State Center,
Speaker 1: Community College, District prior bond measures for them that we're
Speaker 1: also paying for. So they there's never an end, there's
Speaker 1: never a sense of, hey, the taxpayers are already shouldering
Speaker 1: the burden. They've got four existing or five exit whatever
Speaker 1: it is. Existing bond measures that they are already still
Speaker 1: paying for that have inflated property taxes within president Unified
Speaker 1: Clovis Unified ever by this much. And the thing is,
Speaker 1: any individual one of these taxes is not that great.
Speaker 1: The state center bond measures tax rate would be twenty
Speaker 1: dollars per one hundred thousand dollars of assess valuation of
Speaker 1: a home. So if your home is worth three hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, you would pay sixty bucks in tax. If
Speaker 1: your home is worth four hundred thousand dollars, you would
Speaker 1: pay eighty bucks in tax. And in the grand scheme
Speaker 1: of things, that doesn't seem like a lot, but it's
Speaker 1: like every bit contributes, and all these things pile up
Speaker 1: and pile up, pile up. You know. The measure e
Speaker 1: folks who were pushing that, they kept trying to advertise
Speaker 1: it by saying, look, it's only like a quarter of
Speaker 1: a cent in sales tax. And the voters were just like, well,
Speaker 1: we don't want to pay every individual single quarter of
Speaker 1: a cent. That gets at it that you've got this
Speaker 1: state county wide sales tax in this county wide sales Tex,
Speaker 1: and that city sales Tex, and that city sales tex
Speaker 1: City of Clovis is proposing a big jump in it's
Speaker 1: sales tax to help pay for public works that'll be
Speaker 1: on the ballot for Clovis citizens, and coming up. All
Speaker 1: this stuff just builds up, and I feel bad for
Speaker 1: these local governments because I think oftentimes their needs are
Speaker 1: more legit. I mean I would, in general, like I
Speaker 1: would be much happier to pay more in sales tax
Speaker 1: to Clovis to help recruit more police and fire. Like
Speaker 1: the city of Clovis is basically struggling with this because
Speaker 1: the population of Clovis has grown drastically, the budget hasn't
Speaker 1: kind of grown yet to meet it. We have a
Speaker 1: need for more cops, et cetera, we don't have the
Speaker 1: funding for it to match up with the growth that
Speaker 1: the city has experienced. So they're proposing this increase sales
Speaker 1: tax to he'll pay for this. Like if I wasn't
Speaker 1: living in a state that was already massively over tax
Speaker 1: with you know, massive California income tax and property taxes
Speaker 1: and all this other stuff, I mean, that's the kind
Speaker 1: of thing I'd be more open to voting for. I
Speaker 1: think people would be more open to voting for something
Speaker 1: like Measure E if it wasn't in this context of
Speaker 1: so many other taxes glombing all over us, and now
Speaker 1: we've got this tidal wave of bond measures. Now, when
Speaker 1: we return, I want to talk about how so often
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem to me that these bond measure proposals
Speaker 1: are actually funding real needs. And I think this State
Speaker 1: Center Community College District bond measure is yet another case.
Speaker 1: That's next on the John Jrardy Show. The State Center
Speaker 1: Community College District Board of Directors voted seven and nothing
Speaker 1: yesterday to put a six hundred ninety eight million dollar
Speaker 1: bond measure on the November ballot. By six hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety eight million, what we actually mean is probably something
Speaker 1: more like one point four billion that we will have
Speaker 1: to pay so that State Center Community College District can
Speaker 1: get seven hundred million dollars worth of benefit. That's how
Speaker 1: bond measures work. Bonds are loans to municipal entities that
Speaker 1: the taxpayers have to pay back with interest and with
Speaker 1: interest rates where they are right now, we are basically
Speaker 1: going to pay more in interest than we will pay
Speaker 1: in principle if it is sort of typically structured a
Speaker 1: thirty year loan with a repayment with interest rates set
Speaker 1: it kind of prevailing interest rates. That's what we're going
Speaker 1: to wind up paying. Now, the thing that annoys me
Speaker 1: about local bond measures for school districts and community college districts.
Speaker 1: And right now the context for why this is happening.
Speaker 1: California has a statewide education bond measure that is going
Speaker 1: to be on the ballot proposition too. It'll be ten
Speaker 1: billion dollars for school districts, you know, K through twelve
Speaker 1: school districts plus community college districts throughout the state. But
Speaker 1: again it's it's always labeled as ten billion dollars. What
Speaker 1: they mean is it's twenty billion dollars in taxes to
Speaker 1: get ten billion dollars worth of benefit. Now, what's happening.
Speaker 1: And this is the second time this has happened in
Speaker 1: the last five years. This happened, this same thing was
Speaker 1: going on in twenty twenty. Local school districts and local
Speaker 1: states owner community college districts are putting bond measures on
Speaker 1: the ballot for themselves, pretending, pretending like they're doing it
Speaker 1: because there are all these grave needs that the school
Speaker 1: district has, when really they're just doing it because they
Speaker 1: want to get matching grant money. Okay, Proposition two is
Speaker 1: structured such that your local school district can get a
Speaker 1: bunch of money if you yourself fundraise it in the
Speaker 1: form of a bond measure. So if your local school
Speaker 1: district passes a bond measure for four hundred million dollars,
Speaker 1: you might be able to get an additional four hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars in state money from the Prop two proceeds.
Speaker 1: And everyone just has to kind of all cross their
Speaker 1: fingers together and hope that Prop two passes at the
Speaker 1: state wide level and that your local bond measure passes
Speaker 1: at the local level, and then everyone gets a bunch
Speaker 1: of money, other than the taxpayers who get to lose
Speaker 1: a bunch of money because they have to pay it
Speaker 1: all in taxes. So the motive from these local school
Speaker 1: districts and from the State Center Community College district, it's
Speaker 1: not coming from some dire need, some dire exigency that
Speaker 1: exists within Close Unified or State Center Community College or
Speaker 1: President Unified or whatever. It's coming from. Well, there's this
Speaker 1: money available out there from Prop to money, So we
Speaker 1: got to pass a bond measure so we can get
Speaker 1: our hands on it. Then we'll be rolling in the dough.
Speaker 1: But you read like I read this piece from GV
Speaker 1: wire written by Nancy Price, one of their journalists, and
Speaker 1: this is the meeting in which the meeting Sorry, guys
Speaker 1: going through puberty on the radio. This is the meeting.
Speaker 1: It literally just did it again. This is the meeting
Speaker 1: in which the school, the community college district board is
Speaker 1: discussing approving putting this seven hundred million dollar bond measure
Speaker 1: on the ballot, where they would be talking about what
Speaker 1: kinds of things this would help fund, What what are
Speaker 1: the needs that this is helping with. So the story
Speaker 1: says they heard from some consultants about how much women
Speaker 1: love this issue. Okay, great, Yeah, some political consultants said
Speaker 1: this was more popular with women voters than with men voters.
Speaker 1: And that's great because women are awesome and women are
Speaker 1: so energized this election because of Kamala Harris. All right,
Speaker 1: sounds good. Now there isn't though much discussion about like, well,
Speaker 1: what are the needs that the community college district is
Speaker 1: actually facing? And I go through this whole article. It
Speaker 1: talks about some idea okay, another although the bond measure
Speaker 1: would pay for some new construction the Center for Applied
Speaker 1: Technology and Instructional Complex at Fresnes City College, new multi
Speaker 1: purpose event and training spaces at Fresno City College's First
Speaker 1: Responders Academy, an interdisciplinary classroom building and cafe at the
Speaker 1: College College's West Fresno Campus, new student services at Close
Speaker 1: Community College, and classroom and ag complexes at Reridley College.
Speaker 1: But then they always say millions of dollars are needed
Speaker 1: to upgrade existing buildings for new technology, electricity, and to
Speaker 1: fix leaking roofs. So according to SCCCD Chancellor Carol Goldsmith,
Speaker 1: we need so let me get this straight, because this
Speaker 1: is this sounds so similar to Close Unified and Presnew
Speaker 1: Unified when they announced there, you know, hundreds of millions
Speaker 1: of dollars bond measures. You need a special seven hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars bond measure, which really what we're talking about
Speaker 1: for you then is one point four billion because you
Speaker 1: would ask for matching funding from the state. So you
Speaker 1: need one point four billion to deal with upgrading some tech.
Speaker 1: Which why isn't upgrading tech like part of your budgetary
Speaker 1: like line items. That's the thing that just happens. You
Speaker 1: have to upgrade your tech pretty much every year upgrading
Speaker 1: buildings for new technology electricity? What about electricity do you
Speaker 1: need upgrading for? Is this just normal building maintenance to
Speaker 1: fix leaking roofs? Again, this is this is ordinary building maintenance.
Speaker 1: State Center Community College District has multiple very large campuses
Speaker 1: throughout the San Joaquin Valley. Read the College, President City College,
Speaker 1: New City College, It's going to be on West Fresno
Speaker 1: Closes Community, all these different major, huge campuses. You don't
Speaker 1: have the money for maintenance like that kind of ongoing
Speaker 1: maintenance that that has to be Why do you need
Speaker 1: an extra bond measure? And they talk about, oh, it
Speaker 1: would help funding for all of these different projects, which
Speaker 1: leads to me to ask two questions. If you started
Speaker 1: these projects before you knew of this bond situation with
Speaker 1: a state bond coming out, and then you're getting bond
Speaker 1: money to support it, how did you start these construction
Speaker 1: projects without knowing that this specific bond funding was going
Speaker 1: to be available. So did you only start them with
Speaker 1: the idea that this bond money would be available. No,
Speaker 1: this bond, this bond funding is the result of the
Speaker 1: teachers' unions being mad at Avin Newsom for not getting
Speaker 1: enough money in the state budget because the state budget
Speaker 1: is in it facing a deficit, so they negotiated with Newsom.
Speaker 1: Newsom is supporting Newsom is not giving them as much
Speaker 1: money in the state budget, but he's supporting this ballot
Speaker 1: initiative to get more money for schools. State Center, Community
Speaker 1: College District didn't know that this ballot initiative was coming
Speaker 1: like a year ago, and yet they start all these
Speaker 1: major construction projects. So if they don't have the money
Speaker 1: for those construction projects, why do they start them. But
Speaker 1: I think what's more likely is they do have the
Speaker 1: money for these construction projects and they don't really need
Speaker 1: this bond money. Same thing with Clovis Unified. They're belly
Speaker 1: aching with their proposed bond measure. Oh well, we might
Speaker 1: not be able to finish Clovis South. Why did you
Speaker 1: start Clovis South if you didn't have a clear picture
Speaker 1: of whether you had the funding to finish it. You
Speaker 1: didn't know that this bond measure money was coming out
Speaker 1: like a year and a half ago. Clearly you started
Speaker 1: Clovis South a while ago. So you either do have
Speaker 1: the money to finish Close South and you're kind of
Speaker 1: bsing us, or if you didn't have the money. You
Speaker 1: were totally irresponsible in the way that you got it started.
Speaker 1: So I again just don't believe these school districts or
Speaker 1: community college districts. I don't really believe they need this money.
Speaker 1: I think they are putting forward these bond measures because
Speaker 1: the money happens to be out there and they just
Speaker 1: want to take advantage of it. And what they by
Speaker 1: them take advantage of it, what they mean is take
Speaker 1: advantage of us and our gullibility to vote for these
Speaker 1: stupid bond measures again and again and again and increase
Speaker 1: our own taxes for school districts and community college districts
Speaker 1: that I'm just not convinced desperately need this money. When
Speaker 1: we return, how transgender hormones are planned Parenthood's new big business?
Speaker 1: Next on The John Jardy Show. This is a story
Speaker 1: that I've been tracking and following before this article came out,
Speaker 1: and I've talked about it a bit here. I've talked
Speaker 1: about it a bit on Right to Life Radio. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about some other stuff on Right to Life Radio.
Speaker 1: Right to Life Radio every Saturday morning here on Power
Speaker 1: Talk at nine am. It's on Power Talk Fresno. How
Speaker 1: did planned parenthood become one of the country's largest suppliers
Speaker 1: of testosterone. This is a piece from the Free Press,
Speaker 1: and it talks with a number of people who were
Speaker 1: what we call d transitioners. So these are people who
Speaker 1: tried to transition from one gender to the other and
Speaker 1: regretted it. And often many such people are in really
Speaker 1: tragic situations where they underwent hormone therapy of some sort
Speaker 1: or in some cases surgery, and and they are going
Speaker 1: to have an extremely difficult time living as their actual
Speaker 1: biological birth sex because of the somewhat unrepeatably bad impact
Speaker 1: that the gender transitions had on their bodies, including the
Speaker 1: hormone treatments from testosterone. For women, basically women who want
Speaker 1: to transition, often what happens is that they get on
Speaker 1: a regime of testosterone in order to have more testosterone
Speaker 1: in their bodies and take on more masculine appearance and affect.
Speaker 1: And I have talked about this a lot on the
Speaker 1: show that and I genuinely believe this that when you
Speaker 1: scratch the rainbow, you find green. That's my cheesy slogan
Speaker 1: for it, but I think a lot of LGBTQ advocacy,
Speaker 1: I really genuinely believe this is motivated by a desire
Speaker 1: to profit from medical treatments for LGBT persons. I think
Speaker 1: a lot of what is underlying the massive push for
Speaker 1: transgender treatment in America is money. Surgeries for transgender persons
Speaker 1: are very expensive and lucrative for the doctors, hospitals, etc.
Speaker 1: That do them. Hormone treatments can be lucrative for the
Speaker 1: providers who provide them. I will note the different approaches
Speaker 1: you see, for example, between America and the United Kingdom
Speaker 1: the United Kingdom. Healthcare provision in the United Kingdom is
Speaker 1: run by the National Health Service. Okay, the UK does
Speaker 1: not have a private sector healthcare industry. They don't have
Speaker 1: private health insurance, they don't have private hospitals. The provision
Speaker 1: of healthcare is run by the government in the UK completely.
Speaker 1: So the profit motive. Now that I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: that's all peaches and cream and that there's nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with that setup or that it's a better setup than
Speaker 1: the US necessarily, but it's different. And one of the
Speaker 1: ways in which it's different when you have a government
Speaker 1: run health system is that the profit motive is not
Speaker 1: as stark. Okay, the profit motive is not as great,
Speaker 1: and in the UK they were actually willing to follow
Speaker 1: the research to realize, Hey, surgeries for transgender persons don't
Speaker 1: actually have any net benefit for the people receiving. All
Speaker 1: of our survey studies indicate that it does nothing actually
Speaker 1: to improve mental health outcomes, and that in many cases
Speaker 1: these are harmful and in various ways not really reversible.
Speaker 1: So the United Kingdom basically banned various kinds of transgender
Speaker 1: interventions except for experimental trials. So the United Kingdom has
Speaker 1: for the most part banned various kinds of gender transition interventions.
Speaker 1: That's a big deal. The United Kingdom, not not Estonia.
Speaker 1: The UK, right one of the a very advanced, wealthy, liberal,
Speaker 1: developed Western country. But in the United States we have
Speaker 1: a profit motive associated with this. The government can't just
Speaker 1: kind of snap its fingers and ban a certain kind
Speaker 1: of medical procedure nationwide the way that that can happen
Speaker 1: in the UK. And so what do you see, Well,
Speaker 1: you see associates, associations of doctors still trying to say, well,
Speaker 1: even though the evidence is kind of not great, that
Speaker 1: there's a lot of long term benefit, but still we think, oh,
Speaker 1: this is important, and well, you have all these doctors
Speaker 1: making money directly seeing a profit motive to providing this
Speaker 1: in a way that does not exist in the UK
Speaker 1: to the same degree. Interesting huh. And this relates to
Speaker 1: this story from the Free Press about Planned Parenthood and
Speaker 1: their provision of transgender hormone therapy. So they're not doing
Speaker 1: transgender surgeries, but they are providing hormones to persons who
Speaker 1: want to be transgender. Here's a story by Jennifer Block
Speaker 1: in the Free Press for Christina Heinemann. Situation felt urgent.
Speaker 1: The seventeen year old needed treatment at Planned Parenthood, where
Speaker 1: she knew she wouldn't be subjected to humiliating questions or
Speaker 1: an unnecessary waiting period, or lectures or prying about her certainty.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't an abortion she sought. It was testosterone.
Speaker 1: Planned Parenthood was founded a century ago to promote birth control.
Speaker 1: Today it's nearly six hundred clinics nationwide make it the
Speaker 1: largest single provider of abortion, contraception, reproductive care, and sex
Speaker 1: education in the US. I would dispute the term reproductive care,
Speaker 1: but let's continue. It has also, in less than a decade,
Speaker 1: become the country's leading provider of gender transition hormones for
Speaker 1: young adults. According to insurance claim data in twenty five.
Speaker 1: In twenty fifteen, around two dozen of their clinics began
Speaker 1: offering the service. Now it's available at nearly four hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty locations. Insurance claim information provided to the Free
Speaker 1: Press by the Manhattan Institute shows that at least forty
Speaker 1: thousand patients went to Planned Parenthood for this purpose last
Speaker 1: year alone, a number that has risen tenfold since twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1: The largest proportion, about forty percent, were eighteen to twenty
Speaker 1: two year olds. Faced with her parents' skepticism, Heineman waited
Speaker 1: to make an appointment for just after her eighteenth birthday
Speaker 1: in November twenty twenty one, at the Planned Parenthood facility
Speaker 1: in Hudson, New York. Some clinics offer hormones starting at
Speaker 1: sixteen with parental approval, but as a legal adult, Heineman
Speaker 1: wouldn't need their consent. That is an important thing to note.
Speaker 1: Unlike with abortion for the moment, actual transgender interventions like
Speaker 1: hormones or surgeries in California do require parental consent at
Speaker 1: the moment. We'll see how long that goes. Records show
Speaker 1: that a nurse practitioner asked about Heineman's identity and desires.
Speaker 1: She noted about a boob a book, so it talks
Speaker 1: about the really quite minimal levels of informed consent information
Speaker 1: about long term harms, et cetera. We're involved in this
Speaker 1: young woman getting testosterone treatments and the long term impacts
Speaker 1: this has had on her health, especially when she realized like,
Speaker 1: I don't want to live this way. I just want
Speaker 1: to live as a woman again. And what I want
Speaker 1: to focus on here is the profit motive. Now. I
Speaker 1: want to bring to bear my personal understanding of this,
Speaker 1: all right, Having started a small nonprofit clinic that actually
Speaker 1: provides reproductive health care, Planned PARENTI provides not reproductive health care.
Speaker 1: They're mostly just doing abortions and contraception, so to help
Speaker 1: you not reproduce, not a lot of stuff to help
Speaker 1: you if you actually want to have this baby. Planned
Speaker 1: Parenthood very obviously patterns and shapes what services they offer
Speaker 1: on the basis of what can make them money. They
Speaker 1: offer prenatal care exams at their clinic in North Fresno,
Speaker 1: where you have more people with private insurance orgo, you
Speaker 1: can make some money. They don't offer prenatal care physits
Speaker 1: for pregnant women et cetera. Pregnant women who want to
Speaker 1: keep the baby, want to have checkups over the course
Speaker 1: of their pregnancy. They don't offer that in Southresno at
Speaker 1: the Fulton Street Clinic. Why well, because all the women
Speaker 1: in South Reresno at the Fulton Street Clinic, even though
Speaker 1: there is a dire need for the provision of prenatal care,
Speaker 1: those women are all on medical and so Planned Parented
Speaker 1: won't make money off of them. It takes up provider time.
Speaker 1: Time is money. Providers are expensive. You gotta pay them.
Speaker 1: It takes up exam room space. You're filling up this
Speaker 1: exam room and this provider's time providing a service that
Speaker 1: you can't get a good reimbursement for. With transgender hormone treatments,
Speaker 1: you get a nice that you can get a profitable
Speaker 1: reimbursement from the drug. You're providing this person with a drug,
Speaker 1: and that makes money. This is why Planned Parenthood is
Speaker 1: adopting this so rapidly, so quickly, across all four hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty clinics. You know, the Planned Paranoide on Fulton
Speaker 1: Street has been saying, oh yeah, we're gonna start doing
Speaker 1: prenatal care for all these louringcomemoments. Oh years and years later,
Speaker 1: they're still not doing it, but oh boy were they.
Speaker 1: Johnny on the spot to provide hormone treatments. Why hormone
Speaker 1: treatments make Planned Parenthood money. That's why Planned Parenthood has
Speaker 1: jumped into this head and feet first. And again, this
Speaker 1: is the basics of what I want to leave you, guys.
Speaker 1: With hormone treatments, transgender surgeries. These things make money. And
Speaker 1: whenever you look at whether it's some LGBT nonprofit, some
Speaker 1: LGBT event, look at the people who are sponsoring it,
Speaker 1: look at the kinds of entities that are sponsoring and
Speaker 1: supporting it, you'll almost always see some kind of medical
Speaker 1: entity who is providing either transgender hormone treatments or whatever.
Speaker 1: The LGBT movement is being pushed to make doctors' money,
Speaker 1: make pharmaceutical companies money. You scratch the rainbow and all
Speaker 1: you will see is green and not just any money,
Speaker 1: money that is often at the expense of the suffering
Speaker 1: of the very people they purport to serve. When we return,
Speaker 1: the school year has started, and I want to do
Speaker 1: a brief appreciation of my wife and kids. Next on
Speaker 1: the John Girardi Show. The school year has started at
Speaker 1: the Girardi School. A home learning principal slash head of
Speaker 1: discipline slash pe teacher slash Latin teacher, John Girardi has
Speaker 1: been popping in for oversight and encouragement and all round
Speaker 1: awesome teacher who's having an affair with the principal, Holly
Speaker 1: Girardi is overseeing these incredibly bright little kids. So we've
Speaker 1: got three kids doing school right now. We got fifth
Speaker 1: grade Maddie, we got fourth grade Sophie, fifth grade Maddie
Speaker 1: who's nine, fourth grade Sophie who's eight. Yes, she skipped
Speaker 1: a grade. It's kind of what happens with homeschool is
Speaker 1: that you get done with your work so soon that
Speaker 1: it's like, well, we got to keep this kid busy.
Speaker 1: If they're smart, they get done with their work soon,
Speaker 1: and then you got to keep them busy. And all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you've skipped a grade. And then first
Speaker 1: grade Jack, who is six. My two girls, fifth and
Speaker 1: fourth grade, they're starting Latin and I'm teaching them Latin,
Speaker 1: and it's just great. They're so excited for it. It's
Speaker 1: interesting to them. It's going to give them this huge
Speaker 1: leg up. As far as vocabulary and understanding grammar. Like,
Speaker 1: I just got to say the way that California public
Speaker 1: schools are kind of not doing so hot. I know
Speaker 1: it's a sacrifice for families, but I really couldn't recommend
Speaker 1: homeschool anymore. The opportunities for socialization, extracurricular activities that are
Speaker 1: available to kids now that just were not available twenty
Speaker 1: even twenty thirty years ago. It's such a great options.
Speaker 1: The stuff they're reading is great, the quality of the
Speaker 1: curriculum they can get is great. The funding you can
Speaker 1: get from public charters to help pay for sports and
Speaker 1: all kinds of things, piano lessons, it's really great. So
Speaker 1: homeschooling highly recommended. I'm so proud of my wife and
Speaker 1: my kids that'll do it. John girodies show, See you
Speaker 1: next time on Power Talk