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Bill Maher took aim at comedian David Cross, holding him responsible for Kamala Harris’ election defeat after Cross mentioned that his daughter’s eight-year-old friend transitioned into a boy.
During a segment on “Real Time,” Maher criticized liberal policies and suggested that Cross and his daughter could benefit from a dose of Republican perspective.
“It’s important to hear the other side. Everyone needs to be challenged, including your young daughter,” Maher asserted.
Cross retorted with sarcasm, saying, “Forget that kid. Forget that little kid with her diverse group of friends, including black and trans friends, who don’t even understand.”
Intrigued, Maher inquired, “Hold on, your daughter has trans friends in the third grade?”
Cross explained that the child was nine years old, transitioning from ‘girl to boy,’ and was ‘just the coolest kid’ before adding his daughter had another friend who transitioned from male to female at just three years old.
Maher responded by suggesting that what these kids were going through was just what people used to call ‘a tomboy.’
He cited a woman who believed ‘if I was alive now and acted the way I did then, that’s what they would have done to me.’
Cross responded by saying ‘literally nobody is doing this to her’ when Maher began to challenge that.
Bill Maher ripped into fellow comic and guest David Cross after telling him about how his daughter has an eight-year old friend who became transgender at just three and blaming him for Kamala Harris’ election loss
After an episode of Maher’s Club Random where they debated Cross’ support of New York City’s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Maher said liberals like the Arrested Development star and even his young daughter need a reality check from Republicans
‘Somebody is doing something because 8 or 9-year-olds can’t do anything on their own.’
Cross said the parents’ actions were limited to buying the female to male trans child boys’ clothes.
Maher said that amounted to ‘doing something’ and that they were ‘telling them you’re a boy now.
‘No, no, they’re not telling them. They’re just agreeing with [the child],’ Cross replied, which Maher saw as ridiculous.
Maher asked: ‘Agreeing with an eight-year-old. Because when has their judgment ever been off at eight?’
Cross compared a child knowing they were transgender to Maher knowing he wasn’t gay at that age, which led to Maher losing his temper and blaming Cross for Democrats losing future elections.
‘It is different. Good luck with President Vance,’ Maher chided him.
‘Because, as I always say to my woke friends, we voted for the same person. You’re just why she [Kamala Harris] lost and this is a case of that.’
Cross seemed confused as to how Maher went from one point to another and the HBO host explained.
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Cross compared a child knowing they were transgender to Maher knowing he wasn’t gay at that age, which led to Maher losing his temper and blaming Cross for Democrats losing future elections
Cross was speaking in favor of his daughter’s two friends who had transitioned at an early age
‘We voted for the same person. You’re just why she lost. Because America hears this, and they’re going to go, “Bill’s right, 8-year-olds can’t really make decisions on their own like this,” Maher explained.
‘That’s what most people are going to say. This is why we’re going to vote for JD Vance… That’s America in a nutshell.’
Cross diffused the situation but continued to defend what the parents of his daughter’s friends were doing as limited to just buying clothes and allowing kids to express themselves.
Maher has been consistent in his beliefs that pro-trans rhetoric will cost Democrats elections.
The ‘Real Time’ host and comedian said the controversial issue alienated everyday voters, most of whom are more interested in policies involving the economy or other matters relevant to their lives.
Last year, speaking to former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett, on the Pod Save America podcast, Maher warned that following the same trajectory would cost Democrats the election time and time again.
Lovett accepted it is a difficult and divisive topic, but said ‘the least bad answer is to not have the government decide from above’ whether gender affirming healthcare should exist.
‘The Democrat position is just leave it up to people and parents… the kids and the doctors, right?’ he said. ‘You want the government to ban gender affirming care for kids?’
Maher shot back instantly, asking: ‘You want to lose every election?
Maher has been consistent in his beliefs that extreme pro-trans rhetoric will cost Democrats elections. Speaking to former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett, on the Pod Save America podcast on Sunday, Maher warned following the same trajectory will cost Democrats the election time and time again
‘Just keep coming down on the side of parents coming in second and a “who gets to decide what goes on with my kid” contest.’
Maher had taken issue to the Democratic position in California which allows schools to hide a child’s decision to change genders from their parents.
‘That is not something that’s going to go well with the average voter,’ Maher said.
‘A lot of people on the left think that even if you just have this debate, it makes you a bigot: you just have to roll over.
‘If you even question this, you’re some sort of a bigot. And this is new science. And it has to do with children. And it’s not going to look good in the future, that position.’
Lovett tried to justify the Democrat position by noting that there are only a small amount of instances in which a person regrets their transition.
He argued that ‘really important surgeries people get for their heart’ can also go wrong.
‘Nobody says “we must stop the cardiologists,” no one says “we must stop the surgeons,”‘ Lovett said.
An incredulous Maher said: ‘That’s your analogy?’
‘We don’t throw out a whole field of medicine. We say, let’s make sure we’re doing it in a way that’s healthy,’ Lovett argued.
‘The science, the research… makes clear that, yes, there are exceptions. Yes, there are people practicing it in ways that maybe go too far, but for the most part, study after study shows that gender-affirming care saves a lot of lives.’
Referring directly to the issue within California schools, Lovett accepted that ‘as a baseline,’ teachers should not be keeping a secret from parents. Of f***ing course not.
‘No one thinks that,’ he said. ‘No one thinks that.’
But he said in some cases, ‘parents do such a bad f**king job that the kids are in danger.
‘That happens in outside of trans issues. That happens all the time. It’s terrible. Some parents are f**king terrible.’
During the presidential election campaign, Kamala Harris was bogged down by a narrative that she and her party were more focused on divisive gender politics than they were on fixing the state of the economy.
Trump, meanwhile, promised that on ‘day one’ of his administration he would end the ‘transgender lunacy’ in the federal government.
Since returning to the White House, Trump has declared there are ‘only two genders’, forbidding trans athletes from competing in women’s categories and banning transgender troops and DEI military programs.
He also banned federal funding for sex-changes for minors, noting ‘countless’ children regretted the surgeries that ‘mutilated’ and trapped them into fighting ‘a losing war with their own bodies.’
The White House noted in a memo that four out of five children outgrew feelings of gender dysphoria, without costly and irreversible surgeries they later learned to regret.