{"id":116612,"date":"2022-07-18T06:07:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T00:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/paul-begala-slams-josh-hawley-for-beating-up-on-trans-kids\/"},"modified":"2022-07-18T06:07:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T00:37:27","slug":"paul-begala-blames-josh-hawley-for-beating-up-on-trans-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/paul-begala-blames-josh-hawley-for-beating-up-on-trans-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Begala Blames Josh Hawley For ‘Beating up on Trans Kids’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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CNN\u2019s Paul Begala slammed Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley as \u201cdespicable\u201dSunday \u201cbeating up on trans kids\u201dBy following a \u201ctransphobic\u201dLine of questioning during Senate hearings<\/p>\n

In a Heated exchange<\/a> between Hawley and law professor Khiara Bridges during a Tuesday hearing in Washington, Bridges called Hawley\u2019s line of questioning \u201ctransphobic.\u201d At one point Hawley suggested that abortion was not really a women\u2019s issue \u2013 which Begala seized upon.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder Josh Hawley, Missouri is fourth in gun deaths, 40th in life expectancy,\u201dBegala. \u201cIt has above the national average of child poverty, below the national average of median income. He\u2019s doing a terrible job on crime, health care, jobs for his state. And so he wants to beat up on trans kids, the most vulnerable people in our society? It\u2019s despicable.\u201d<\/p>\n

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During the hearing, which met to examine the impact of Roe v. Wade\u2019s reversal by the Supreme Court, Hawley asked Bridges, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, why she used the phrase \u201cpeople with a capacity for pregnancy\u201d\u00a0when discussing abortion access, and if it referred to women.<\/p>\n

Bridges explained that not all cisgender woman are capable to have a baby. Hawley countered by stating that trans people are capable of having a baby. \u201cSo this isn\u2019t really a women\u2019s rights issue?\u201d In response, Bridges noted that Hawley\u2019s line of questioning was \u201ctransphobic.\u201d<\/p>\n

In regard to the exchange, CNN\u2019s David Urban defend Hawley\u2019s question on Sunday\u2019s \u201cState of the Union,\u201dSay it \u201cRepublican voters are going to agree with Josh Hawley asking the question he asked the professor,\u201dBridges was noted and praised. \u201caggressive\u201d in her response.<\/p>\n

Begala clapped back on Urban\u2019s defense of Hawley and pointed out the Missouri senator\u2019s failures, including his poor performance in \u201ccrime, health care [and] jobs,\u201dHe also noted that his decision to \u201cbeat up on trans kids\u201dThis was \u201cdespicable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe needs to do his doggone job and bring jobs and health care to his state, instead of beating up on some California law professor,\u201d Begala concluded.<\/p>\n

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CNN\u2019s Paul Begala slammed Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley as \u201cdespicable\u201dSunday \u201cbeating up on trans kids\u201dBy following a \u201ctransphobic\u201dLine of questioning during Senate hearings In a Heated exchange between Hawley and law professor Khiara Bridges during a Tuesday hearing in Washington, Bridges called Hawley\u2019s line of questioning \u201ctransphobic.\u201d At one point Hawley suggested that abortion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":116613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Paul-Begala-Slams-Josh-Hawley-for-Beating-Up-on-Trans.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116614,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116612\/revisions\/116614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}