The World and Everything in It: December 5, 2024

PREROLL: Families and individuals hurt by transgender procedures gathered at the Supreme Court yesterday to tell their stories. I'm Juliana Chan Erickson, and in a few minutes I'll tell you about their concerns. Stay with us.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning!

Big crowds outside the Supreme Court yesterday as parties inside debated medical attempts to change the sex of minors. We’ll hear those personal stories from people waiting outside.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: And later, an American doctor in Gaza trying to make sense of everything he’s seen…

SIDHWA: I gotta be honest. You know, being there made me angry. I mean, it's just, it's, it's just outrageous. We're not getting anything out of this.

And WORLD commentator Cal Thomas on the pardon of Hunter Biden’s numerous crimes, known and unknown.

REICHARD: It’s Thursday, December 5th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

MAST: And I’m Lindsay Mast. Good morning!

REICHARD: Up next, Kent Covington with today’s news.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: South Korea » In South Korea …

SOUND: [South Korean demonstrators]

Protesters were out in force for a second day … marching to the presidential palace in Seoul. Demonstrators called on President Yoon Suk Yeol to resign …

And some members of parliament agreed.

SOUND: [Parliament announcement]

An official in parliament announcing a motion to impeach the president.

That came one day after Yoon declared emergency martial law … because, he said pro-communist forces sympathetic to North Korea had infiltrated parliament.

But lawmakers swifty voted 190-to-zero to force Yoon to rescind that declaration, and he did.

In Washington, Secretary of State Tony Blinken says the US government welcomes Yoons statement withdrawing the martial law order.

BLINKEN: In our judgement, any political disagreements need to be resolved peacefully and in accordance with the rule of law.

South Korean law says parliament must vote on the measure 2-3 days after it is offered.

French lawmakers oust prime minister » In France, lawmakers on Wednesday voted to oust the prime minister … in the first successful no-confidence vote in more than 60 years. WORLD’s Kristen Flavin has more.

KRISTEN FLAVIN: Right-wing and left-wing members of parliament joined together to vote on a no-confidence motion.

The vote came amid fierce opposition to Prime Minister Michel Barnier's proposed budget, which called for significant tax increases and spending cuts. Barnier argued the measures were needed to tackle France’s massive budget deficit …

… which is expected to exceed 6 percent of the country’s GDP … double the EU’s recommended ceiling of 3 percent.

The National Assembly approved the no-confidence motion by 331 votes. A minimum of 288 were needed.

Barnier was appointed in September … and becomes the shortest-serving prime minister in France’s modern Republic.

President Emmanuel Macron is expected to address the nation today to outline next steps.

For WORLD, I’m Kristen Flavin.

NATO chief urges members to increase defense spending » With President-elect Donald Trump set to take office in January. NATO chief Mark Rutte is again pushing for European countries to ramp up defense spending.

Each NATO member is expected to spend at least 2 percent of their GDP on defense. But some members aren’t even doing that.

Rutte says members must step up regardless of who’s in the White House.

RUTTE:  Not because of Trump, but I believe strongly, and I know many allies believe strongly, that 2 percent is simply not enough. It is simply not enough. If longer term we want to keep our deterrence at the level it is now.

Rutte said NATO’s in a solid position right now, but without greater defense spending. It may be much more vulnerable in the future.

During Donald Trump’s first term, NATO members under heavy pressure from the US president, significantly increased defense spending. And Trump recently threatened not to defend “delinquent” NATO member states.

White House counsel / Pete Hegseth » And Donald Trump’s embattled nominee for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is vowing to fight on and make his case to the Senate … despite some accusations of misconduct … and a lot of negative press.

HEGSETH:  I owe an answer to the members of the United States Senate who are going to vote for a confirmation here. And my meetings with them have been fantastic. 

And indeed, if Republican senators have reservations about Hegseth, they’re not saying so publicly. Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee:

BLACKBURN:  He was able to lay out what he would do to modernize the U.S. Department of Defense, what he would do to put equipment and artillery in the hands of the warfighter.

Hegseth has faced accusations of past sexual misconduct and alcohol abuse, though, his current colleagues at Fox News have recently come to his defense, vouching for his character.

Recent media reports claim that the president-elect’s transition team is now considering alternatives to Hegseth, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. But Hegseth said Donald Trump personally reiterated his support for him in a phone call on Wednesday.

United Healthcare murder » Investigators in New York City are still looking for answers after a masked assassin Wednesday gunned the CEO of United Healthcare in broad daylight on a Manhattan sidewalk.

NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny:

KENNY:  The shooter steps onto the sidewalk from behind the car, he ignores numerous other pedestrians, approaches the victim from behind and shoots him in the back. The shooter then walks toward the victim and continues to shoot. 

The suspect reportedly lied in wait for Brian Thompson outside a hotel. The shooting sparked a manhunt throughout New York City.

Mexican troops seize a record fentanyl haul » Mexican soldiers and marines have seized more than a ton of fentanyl pills in two raids in the northern state of Sinaloa in what officials are calling the biggest catch of the synthetic opioid in the country's history.

The raids came days after President-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose 25% tariffs on products from Canada and Mexico unless they cracked down on the flow of migrants and drugs across the border.

I'm Kent Covington. 

Straight ahead: The U.S. Supreme Court considers a case pitting parental rights against what’s best for children. Plus later, an American doctor eases suffering in Gaza. 

This is The World and Everything in It.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: It’s Thursday the 5th of December.

This is WORLD Radio and we’re glad you’ve joined us today. Good morning, I’m Lindsay Mast.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard.

First up on The World and Everything in It: The United States takes Tennessee to court.

ROBERTS: We'll hear argument this morning in Case 23477, United States v. Skrmetti.

MAST: That kicked off more than two hours of debate yesterday. At issue is a Tennessee law that prohibits doctors from providing hormone injections and surgeries that are inconsistent with the biological sex of minors.

REICHARD: We’ll get into the legal issues on Monday’s Legal Docket. For today, we’ll hear the debate in the public square around so-called “gender affirming care” for minors.

Washington Bureau reporter Carolina Lumetta spoke with people gathered outside the court.

NAT: CHEERING AND MUSIC PULSING

CAROLINA LUMETTA: Demonstrators stamp their feet and pull out hand warmers standing in front of the Supreme Court for dueling rallies. On the left side, members of the ACLU wave pink and blue flags and dance to a D-J’s music. On the right side facing the Court, organizations across the political spectrum supported a controversial Tennessee law. While the justices considered the constitutional questions in the chamber, the crowd out in front found themselves on opposite sides of the cultural divide.

JARROD LAND: I think I understand what the other side is saying in terms of they see it as protecting youth, but I mean I see this as protecting youth, I mean there's great signs here that say gender affirming care is life-saving, right?

Jarrod Land is a student at Cornell University, in New York. He views the case as an instance of the government telling people what to do with their bodies.

JARROD LAND: The ability to express yourself is so important to feel comfortable in your own body, and I think that both sides need to come together and realize that we all just want to be ourselves, we all want to like feel true to our bodies, and I think there is a lot of empathy be garnered, that people aren’t willing to talk to each other; that is the really concerning part here.

On the other side of the plaza, Dawn Land waves a black and pink sign that says “no one is born in the wrong body.”

DAWN LAND: No one has the right to consent for kids to be sterilized. If a child wanted to drink alcohol, does the parent have the right to consent for them to drink alcohol or get a tattoo? … It's not right. Kids' innocence needs to be protected and no one has the right to consent to transgender ideology for their kids.

Land filed a referendum against a law in her state of Washington that allows the state to shelter children away from their parents and provide transgender procedures without parental consent.

DAWN LAND: They will hide that child from their parents, put them in a host home, and pay for their transition. And there are no age restrictions on that…It labels parents as abusive because they won't affirm their child. So the Tennessee law would be a wonderful blueprint nationwide

Parents on the pro-trans side said they worry about suicide rates if their children are not affirmed when they question their gender. And they believe that part of that affirmation should include medical interventions like hormone treatments and body modifications through plastic surgery.

ELIASSON: At 14 my daughter absolutely knew who she was, a heck of a lot better than I knew who she was.

Anne Eliasson is a mom from Richmond, Virginia. She waves a sign that reads “Fight like a mother for trans rights.”

ELIASSON: So that's a big piece of it, was listening to her and letting her be the expert on who she was. Also together we sat down with doctors. And we studied the science and the healthcare and the medicine behind all of it and made sure that the choice she was making was her choice and that she was educated on the science behind it.

She argues that children like hers will plunge into depression and suicidal ideation if the Tennessee law stands.

ELIASSON: So gender dysphoria, I've never experienced it, but I watched her go through it. It's crippling and it's horrifying for her. And her life depended on getting through that with the assistance of doctors who were trained to help her get through that.

The Trevor Project, a pro-LGBT organization, reports that suicide attempt rates among transgender youth jumped to 72 percent between 2018 and 2022. They claim laws that affirm biological sex caused the spike. Concerned parents outside the Supreme Court cited those numbers in advocating for further access to transgender procedures. Inside, Justice Samuel Alito asked ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio about suicide rates.

ALITO: Do you maintain that the procedures and medications in question reduce the risk of suicide?

STRANGIO: I do, Justice Alito, maintain that the medications in question reduce the risk of depression, anxiety, and suicidality, which are all indicators of potential suicide.

Justice Alito then brought up data in a study commissioned by the National Health Service in the United Kingdom published earlier this year.

ALITO: On page 195 of the Cass Report, it says, "There is no evidence that gender affirmative treatments reduce suicide.”

STRANGIO: What I think that is referring to is there is no evidence in the studies that this treatment reduces completed suicide. However, there are multiple studies, long-term longitudinal studies that do show that there is a reduction in suicidality, which I think is a positive outcome to this treatment.

The Justices also argued about who bears the responsibility for deciding where to draw the lines for medical regulations courts or legislators? Back outside the Court, Tennessee state senator Adam Lowe discussed the original intent of his state’s law.

LOWE: We're not discriminating against care here. What we're doing is defining what care means.

He says his legislature is not suppressing parental rights, but rather, regulating the state healthcare system.

LOWE: …The legislature with this bill operated within its authority with goodwill to provide the best care possible for Tennesseans, and I hope that the justices see it that way.

LUMETTA: Reporting for WORLD, I’m Carolina Lumetta in Washington.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: …families harmed by medical attempts to change their childrens’ sex.

Yesterday’s oral arguments drew many people to Washington…including parents hurt by attempts to change the sex of their child, and people who underwent procedures they now regret.

WORLD’s Juliana Chan Erikson has their story.

ELLE PALMER: I mean puberty is hard, especially for girls.

JULIANA CHAN ERIKSON: Elle Palmer is a female…but her journey to adulthood took a detour during puberty.

PALMER: I was anxious. I stopped going to school before elementary school even ended. And I dropped out of school for three years. 

Palmer spent her time online, where she was groomed by transgender influencers.

PALMER: I experienced like having no friends in real life when I was transitioning and then cutting off whoever I knew before I transitioned because I didn't want anybody in my life who knew me as my old self.

When she finally returned to school three years later, Palmer came back as a boy. But about three years after that, she realized it was a mistake.

PALMER: A lot of people just think that everyone who transitions is very happy and it's kind of the right thing for everyone. And if you know yourself, then you'll be happy. But the problem with teenagers is that you don't know yourself. You're trying to figure out who you are.

She returned to living as a woman at age 19…though with permanent damage to her body. She’s not alone. Claire Abernathy was 14 when doctors began medical procedures to change her body.

CLAIRE ABERNATHY: There was eight months between being referred for gender therapy and getting my breasts removed. That's crazy.

Abernathy started calling herself transgender when she was 10 years old. By age 12, she suppressed her menstrual cycle with birth control pills. Two years later, doctors put her on testosterone and performed an irreversible double mastectomy.

ABERNATHY: I've been detransitioning for about three years and I've just now sort of come to the conclusion that this is all wrong and I've just now started listening to other detransitioners, and accepting sort of how bad what happened to me was.

Abernathy and Palmer hope the legal battle unfolding at the Supreme Court will make the stories of detransitioners more visible to the public. And it’s not just children who are harmed by these procedures. Some parents say they’ve been blindsided by medical interventions.

RYAN CLARKE: This all happened behind my back. I had no idea until it had already happened.

Ryan Clarke is a divorced father of two from Rochester, New York. During the custody battle, his daughter received her first injection of the puberty blocking medication Lupron when she was 11 after Clarke’s ex-wife signed off on the injection.

He says he’s tried to understand why doctors, therapists, and the courts won’t let him make medical decisions for his children.

CLARK: I've kind of reached a point in my court case where everything's impossible. I don't expect my relationship with my kids to kind of be repaired. However, this needs to stop for all kids you know and if my story can be a catalyst to help stop again for all kids then I'm gonna tell it until I’m blue in the face.

January Littlejohn says she too was blindsided when her 13 year old daughter began identifying as transgender.

JANUARY LITTLEJOHN: And this was after three of her friends at the local middle school also started suddenly identifying as transgender. My daughter had no previous confusion up into this announcement and so it really thrust my husband and I into this world that we were completely unaware of.

Littlejohn’s daughter eventually desisted and is now living without gender confusion. She hopes the Supreme Court will rule in Tennessee’s favor and uphold the state laws protecting children from transgender treatments. But more importantly, Littlejohn says there’s a safer way to help children work through their distress.

LITTLEJOHN: The truth is, the vast majority of these children will resolve their distress if they are not affirmed in a false identity or medically or socially transition. And so I would encourage parents to do your research.

But even doing research is complicated by the fact that many respected medical organizations still promote so-called gender affirming care.

SOMIL VIRADIA: …Unless you actually fix this from a medical perspective, unless the medical field admits that what they're doing is not only completely insane, it's anti-science, it's anti-ethical, this is not really like an actual return to sanity.

Somil Viradia is a doctor in California trained in family medicine. He says he was alarmed by what was happening in his profession…and he hopes the medical field owns up to its mistakes.

VIRADIA: Yes, the Supreme Court may dictate terms to society, but unless the actual medical field can simply say we have been mutilating and abusing kids, then we as a society just have not returned to normal.

For Elle Palmer, the greatest healing has come through being honest with herself and others about her story.

PALMER: I've realized that hiding my past self is what I try to do when I transitioned and I don't want to do that again. I don't like that it happened But I like that I feel comfortable enough to share it with people.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Juliana Chan Erikson.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: The bells of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Dallas called people to church for more than a hundred years until the 1980s, when the bells fell silent for want of repair.

Efforts to fix the problem seemed insurmountable: missing parts, faulty new parts, rain delays… not to mention the cost.

Enter a determined widow named Leah Stuekerjurgen. Her late husband Dennis wanted to pay to repair the bells. So along with some skilled volunteers, his wish was granted on Thanksgiving weekend:

SOUND: BELLS PEALING

A fun twist to the story is the Rector’s smart phone directs the strikes and swings of the bells. No human needed to pull the rope and swing the bell!

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: A clapper on the back to them!

REICHARD: It’s The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Today is Thursday, December 5th.

Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Mary Reichard.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: And I’m Lindsay Mast.

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: an eye-witness in Gaza.

This is a war story, so you may want to press pause and come back later if you have young ones around. But do come back because it’s an important story.

REICHARD: You have about 20 seconds to do that.

This week, a major supplier of aid to Gaza suspended deliveries after armed gangs looted two of its trucks.

Since the war started, Israel says it’s been trying to get food and medical supplies to the civilians in Gaza. But Israel says Hamas is stealing aid and using places like hospitals to hide. And now, the nearly two million people living there have been on the brink of famine for months with hospitals running out of supplies.

MAST: Here’s WORLD’s Mary Muncy with what one doctor saw in Gaza.

AUDIO: [TRANSPORTING PATIENT]

MARY MUNCY: Last March, Dr. Feroze Sidhwa followed a hospital bed through European Hospital in Gaza. People slept on the floor along the hallway.

SIDHWA: It looked and smelled like a zombie apocalypse because it's kind of what it was.

He was following his patient into the operating room. A little girl walked by and he fist-bumped her.

SIDHWA: Gazans have children. There's kids literally everywhere.

Sidwha is an American trauma surgeon who spent two weeks in Gaza with the World Health Organization. At the time, there were 1,500 people admitted to the 220-bed hospital and it was serving as a shelter. Some of the families hung up sheets around their living quarters. The gurney Sidwha was following snagged on one of them.

Before the war, European Hospital was a place where the wealthy paid to get procedures done. Now, it’s one of the last few operating hospitals in the region and it’s helping anyone who can get there.

Since Hamas attacked Israel from within Gaza on October 7th, Israel has been on a mission to get hostages back and to destroy the terrorist group.

Meaning Hamas put Palestinians in the middle of a war.

BBC NEWS: There are reports that dozens of Palestinians were killed overnight by two Israeli airstrikes in northern Gaza.

ABC NEWS: The UN again warning that the Gaza strip could reach total famine in just six weeks now.

CBS NEWS: Two UN agencies say Palestinian gangs who are rivals of Hamas violently looted nearly 100 aid trucks recently after entering Gaza.

Some experts say Israel is doing everything possible to reduce civilian deaths while still routing Hamas. Sidhwa does not believe October 7th was justified, but he does believe many people in Gaza feel oppressed and caught in the middle. That’s why he went there.

SIDHWA: I'm used to dealing with death. That's not such a problem for me. But I don't want us imposing death on other people when there's no reason for it, when there's no benefit to it, yeah.

In October, Sidhwa and over 200 other doctors signed an open letter to President Joe Biden calling for an arms embargo. Their letter includes reports of children starving and people living in desperate poverty, many also said they witnessed children shot in the head.

AUDIO: [WALKING THROUGH THE HOSPITAL]

On his first day in Gaza, Sidwha was touring the hospital when he saw two children lying next to each other. Both were on ventilators with bandaged heads.

SIDHWA: The nurse kind of pointed to her head and just said, shot, shot.

Sidwha and another doctor couldn’t believe two little kids would be shot in the head. So they assumed the nurse meant shrapnel wounds.

SIDHWA: But then I looked at them, and I was like, they don't look like they were in an explosion.

As he and the other doctor examined them, they realized the children were already dead. They looked at their CT scans.

SIDHWA: Sure enough, they both had bullets in their heads.

Sidhwa recorded a total of 13 children shot in the head in 14 days. He thinks there were more, he just didn’t write them down.

SIDHWA: We regularly saw children shot in the chest, shot in the arms, shot in the legs. But for obvious reasons, the ones that had single shots to the head, or sometimes even a shot to the head and the chest were the ones that really stood out.

Sidhwa and the other doctors don’t know who shot them or why. Many likely caught stray bullets, but Sidhwa doesn’t think all of the wounds were accidental.

Sidhwa and others took pictures of the children and their X-rays.

When I asked the Israeli Defense Force about claims that they were to blame, a spokesperson said they work to protect children and civilians, that they are not committing war crimes. I couldn’t contact Hamas.

Sidhwa had brought 800 pounds of supplies with him. Other doctors brought more. But they still ran out of many of them by about halfway through the trip.

SIDHWA: We had one mass casualty event where we just kind of ran out of gloves. There just were no gloves.

The water had also stopped running—a semi-regular occurrence while he was there.

SIDHWA: I was literally, like, making incisions in people without gloves on which I've never had to do before.

He didn’t write down details about any patients that day and there were other days like that—where there was too much going on in the moment and he couldn’t remember what happened at the end of the day.

But he’ll never forget some of them—like a little girl named Juri. He and other doctors operated on her for about 30 hours over 10 days before she was stable enough to evacuate to Egypt.

SIDHWA: There's hundreds of kids like her just at European Hospital, and there's thousands, or maybe even tens of thousands in Gaza. It’s impossible.

Even if you could somehow transfer them to the US, he says the country just wouldn’t have enough ICU beds. It’s overwhelming. But he’s going back in January to deal with it the best way he can—one person at a time.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Mary Muncy.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Today is Thursday, December 5th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Lindsay Mast.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard. On Sunday, president Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter. WORLD commentator Cal Thomas says it’s time to return to the political ideal of justice for all.

CAL THOMAS: Clearly, President Biden didn’t mean it last June when he responded to a question from David Muir of ABC News about whether he would pardon his son, Hunter.

MUIR: Will you accept the jury's outcome, their verdict, no matter what it is?

PRESIDENT BIDEN: Yes.

MUIR: And have you ruled out a pardon for your son?

BIDEN: Yes.

He repeated that assertion on other occasions. So did his press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, many more times.

KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: We've been asked that question multiple times. | Our answer stands. Which is no, it's still a, no, it will be a, no, it is a no. And I don't have anything else to add. Will he? Pardon his son? No.

The day after the pardon, Jean-Pierre was asked by a reporter accompanying the president on his trip to Africa whether her and the president’s previous statements should be considered lies. She responded:

KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: One of the things the president always believes is to be truthful to the American people. That is something that he always, truly believes.

Presumably she said this with a straight face. To paraphrase Bill Clinton in a different context, I guess it depends on what the meaning of the word truth is.

It will be clear to many that the president’s original pledges were made before the election for political reasons. There was no way he was going to let Hunter go to prison, especially since he is privy to so much inside information about what Republicans believe to be corruption in the Biden family.

The Hunter pardon again proves George Orwell’s line in his novel “Animal Farm”: 

AUDIO: All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Kentucky Republican Representative James Comer chairs the House Oversight Committee. He’s been investigating alleged Biden family corruption for months. From Hunter’s highly-paid position as a board member of the Ukraine gas company Burisma–even though he had no experience in the energy industry–to the 20 LLC’s Comer believes to have been used for money laundering for the benefit of Biden family members—including “10 percent for the big guy” as Hunter apparently referred to his father.

The pardon covers all of that and likely more.

The claim “no one is above the law” should be discarded as untrue and never used again. Biden’s pardon of Hunter has led many to theorize there is something lurking underneath which is meant to also protect Hunter from charges that came to light in 2018.

Conservative commentator Liz Wheeler writes: “Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma in 2014. By pardoning Hunter for any crimes he ‘may have committed’ from 2014-2024, Joe Biden is protecting his family’s criminal cartel. Wow.”

She adds that Biden also seems to be protecting Hunter from Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee to head the FBI. Patel has vowed to reform the law enforcement agency.

President Biden’s pardon of his son will contribute to the growing cynicism many have about politics, politicians, and Washington. Fairness might demand that Biden should pardon president-elect Trump, ensuring that the former special counsel Jack Smith won’t be able to resurrect charges he recently withdrew. That would guarantee Trump is not prosecuted after the end of his second term. I’m confident that won’t happen.

While the Constitution grants absolute pardon power to the president, it doesn’t distinguish between those that are morally justifiable and those which are not. In theological circles, pardon is usually granted after repentance and statements of remorse. This acknowledges there is a law to which all people are expected to conform. To receive a pardon absent repentance makes a mockery of the law and suggests it can be unequally applied.

I’m Cal Thomas.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Tomorrow: John Stonestreet is here for Culture Friday with more analysis of yesterday’s landmark Supreme Court case. And, Collin Garbarino reviews two new streaming offerings, including a Biblical drama with big name actors he says should have stuck closer to the source material. That and more tomorrow.

I’m Lindsay Mast.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard.

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