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Glenn Grothman: “We are educating our young people to adapt a transgender…”

Featuring: Glenn Grothman, Republican | U.S. House of Representatives, Wisconsin, District 6

Congressional Address by Mr. Grothman on DEI, Immigration, and Economic Policies

Published April 17, 2025 | Video Starts at 15:29

One, with regard to transgender in local schools, a lot of people have talked about men and women's sports, and I don't even think that's the biggest scandal. I think the biggest scandal is that We are educating our young people to adapt a transgender lifestyle. In Europe, when they backed off on pushing this lifestyle, the lifestyle not exclusively, but largely disappeared. In other words, we have made it cool by what they do in Hollywood promoting this lifestyle. (15:29–15:36)

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