From the January 29, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Michael Knowles Show

MICHAEL KNOWLES (HOST): "The castration of kids, the transing — it's insane. It's contrary to human nature. We've got to stop it," and no one would stop it, certainly not at the federal level. Until yesterday. 

Quote "Today, it was my great honor," writes President Trump, "to sign an executive order banning the chemical castration and medical mutilation of innocent children in the United States of America. Our nation will no longer fund sponsor, promote, assist or support so called gender-affirming care, which has already ruined far too many precious lives. My order directs agencies to use every available means to cut off federal financial participation in institutions which seek to provide these barbaric medical procedures that should never have been allowed to take place." This is really, really great. 

There's a little ambiguity here, though, because at the top, he says, "We're going to ban the chemical castration and medical mutilation of innocent children," but then in the next sentence, "Our nation will no longer support so called, quote, 'gender affirming care'," but gender affirming care, or so called — which is just mutilation and cross sex hormones and is just this way to turn people into grotesque caricatures of the opposite sex, without any scientific or, certainly without any philosophical or anthropological justification  — that occurs for all ages. Gender-affirming care could be given to an 8-year-old just as well as to an 80-year-old. 

President Trump, in the first place says "We're gonna stop doing it to little kids," but the second part he says "We're not gonna do gender-affirming care." So it's a little ambiguous. This was the point of my CPAC speech a couple years ago that got a lot of attention from the left. But I wasn't trying to be needlessly provocative. 

I was just following the idea of its logical conclusion. I said either transgenderism is true or it's not. Either a man can become a woman or he can't. If a man can become a woman, then we should trans the kids, because that's just how human nature works, and we should get them before puberty, I guess. If a man can't become a woman, then we shouldn't trans anybody, because it's just that's not how human nature works. So we shouldn't trans the kids. We shouldn't trans the adults. We shouldn't trans any of these people. They're confused, and we should get them the help that they need. 

You can see that ambiguity in President Trump's Truth Social post. You can see that tension there. So this is a huge win, really important. It's sad that we've fallen to such lows as a country that we have to celebrate not castrating little kids because of the perverse fetishes and ignorance and confusion of adults, but we got to go further than that. 

It doesn't — it actually doesn't make sense to ban transing kids, but not ban transing adults. Kids don't have a different type of nature than adults do. It's not that little boys can't become little girls, but grown men can become grown women. That doesn't make any sense. So we gotta say "We're gonna follow this idea to its logical conclusion." Now it's up to the federal agencies. I hope they do the right thing.