New Ohio Bills Require Genital Checks For Trans Athletes & Arms Teachers

The state of Ohio has passed two highly controversial bills in the past week that have put the Buckeye State in the national spotlight. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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The state of Ohio has passed two highly controversial bills in the past week that have put the Buckeye state in the national spotlight. Wow. I, these, these are just off the. Go ahead and talk about them, go.

The, the first one is obviously just absolute madness and that's actually how people in Ohio have described it, absolute madness. We're talking about Ohio says we have now passed legislation that will allow teachers to carry guns in the classroom. So.

What do policemen think about that?

Police hate it. The teachers hate it. The teachers unions hate it. Most of the parents hate it. And the only people who like this idea of course are the NRA and the gun makers because okay, now you've opened it up to where teachers can buy more guns. So you're gonna sell a lot of guns and the only people that that benefits are the people who sell the guns.

Well, so, okay. So there was one discussion where they’d have to have 700 hours of training, right?

Yeah.

And now that's been reduced to what? 24 hours.

24 hours.

24 hours of training. And they we're gonna arm the teacher to take care of the bad guy. Right?

Right. And the reason the police do not like this idea and I think, you know, for the crowd that always says, oh, gotta back the police. Well, listen to the police on this.

Yeah. If they says it's a bad idea.

Because they, if the police get sent into a school and they see multiple different people shooting guns, guess what the police start doing, they start shooting everybody that is shooting. They're not gonna say, wait, wait, are you a bad guy or a teacher?

Well, how about the, the border patrol guy that came, I mean really the guy who got something done in Texas, he didn't have a uniform on. He comes in, he's a sitin’ duck. The police officer's a sitin’ duck. You got, you can't train somebody to, to use critical thinking in that kind of dire circumstances. I don't care how much training it is. It's dangerous.

Well, not to mention if students know that there is a gun in the classroom, what you're doing, even if it's under lock and key.

Yeah.

You're providing access to something that a kid who may do something may not have previously had access to.

Mm.

I mean, my wife who, who, you know, works with some of the more troubled students.

Mm-hmm.

The, the physical aggressors. She has been overpowered by students.

Mm-hmm.

She has had to have surgery because a student has, has injured her. So you've got lots of students in many schools that are bigger than the teachers.

Yeah.

So you get two or three of them gang up on a small little teacher, suddenly this gun is in the hands of three kids who can now take a whole classroom hostage.

Okay. So that's one, that's one madness story coming out of Ohio. But there's another one. We gotta talk about this. The Ohio lawmakers, they, they advance this idea that trans sports ban, there needs to be a genital check to make sure that this girl who's saying that she is trans woman or trans female is actually a trans female. How do, so, so this is, this is a law they're trying to pass, what is it?

Yeah. They've.

Has it pass, has it passed?

It's gone through the House.

Okay.

You know, we'll see where it goes from here, but.

So how do they do this? How do they, how do they go about this?

This, this is so weird because okay, right now, the way the law is, you know, you, you gotta be a girl to play girl sports. You gotta be a boy to play boy sports. So you go and get your physical from a real normal doctor and the doctor sends the results saying.

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