Fox News host Tucker Carlson
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Carlson, before interviewing Hutchison, argued that the bill would end services that, in his view, involved “chemical castration” of children and would facilitate “gender reassignment” procedures.
“If this had been a bill that simply banned chemical castration, I would have signed the bill,” Hutchinson said. “But Tucker, as you know, this bill was too broad. It was extreme. It went far beyond what you just said.”
Vetoing the bill this week, Hutchison said it would “create new standards for legislative interference with doctors and parents as they address some of the more complex and sensitive issues they deal with with youth,” and therefore he could not support her.
Hutchison said “difficult decisions” arise for families when it comes to getting health care for transgender children, but from a policy standpoint, he said it differs from “William Buckley and Ronald Reagan “and the Republican Party’s view of government limited.
It was with these principles, said Hutchinson, that he voted the bill.
“Tucker, you’re a conservative. You have a good experience in this. Where do we go back to the limited role of government that we should not invoke ourselves in all positions of society?” The governor asked. “We limit the role of government. We let parents and doctors make decisions.”
Carlson put pressure on Hutchison again and asked rhetorically, “Why don’t we let 18-year-olds drink beer in Arkansas? Why don’t we let them get tattooed? Why don’t we let 15-year-olds get married?”
Hutchison rejected that elected state leaders do not always “necessarily make the right judgments for parents and doctors on these delicate issues.”
He later said he opposed the bill not being a grandfather in existing transgender children who were then at risk of losing health care.
“I don’t think this treats these children or their parents or their health care providers fairly or equally,” Hutchison said.
“Very well,” the Carlson segment ended. “This is the conservative position.”