{"id":1155343,"date":"2021-12-25T21:04:14","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T02:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1155343"},"modified":"2021-12-25T21:04:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T02:04:15","slug":"report-dr-oz-on-trans-swimmer-we-have-to-have-compassion-for-transgender-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-dr-oz-on-trans-swimmer-we-have-to-have-compassion-for-transgender-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Report &#8212; Dr. Oz on Trans Swimmer: &#039;We Have to Have Compassion&#039; for Transgender Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-dr-oz-on-trans-swimmer-we-have-to-have-compassion-for-transgender-adults%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1155343&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/drozjeopardy1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Celebrity Doctor Mehmet Oz, a Republican Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, recently stated, \u201cwe have to have compassion\u201d for transgender adults when asked about transgender collegiate swimmer Lia Thomas, according to a report. Thomas, a biological male who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2021\/12\/24\/i-cant-support-this-usa-swimming-official-resigns-in-protest-of-trans-swimmer\/\">swims<\/a> for the University of Pennsylvania, has been smashing women\u2019s records this season.<\/p>\n<p>Oz was <a href=\"https:\/\/radaronline.com\/p\/dr-oz-private-speech-audio-leak-does-not-want-oprah-support-trans-rights\/\">hosting<\/a> a private lunch in New York City on December 16, when he was asked about his position on transgender rights by an attendee who referenced Thomas, according to gossip website Radar Online.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The outlet reports to have obtained audio of Oz\u2019s response:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe transgender issue is kind of diluted a little bit,\u201d Oz replied. \u201cThe suicide rate amongst transgender adults has grown [inaudible]. This is critical to understand. We have to have compassion on this problem. It is a devastating one. And transgender folks who are adults, when they are processing this, have to figure out if they wanna keep living the lie \u2013 they don\u2019t think they\u2019re who they are \u2013 or be who they truly are and are [inaudible] because of it. So that\u2019s like the baseline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut then you layer on top of that changes to our society that hurt other people in an effort to protect one group of people, and that\u2019s not fair. That\u2019s not fair,\u201d he said, circling back to the topic of trans athletes.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"roqdnd-0 hIbTaF\">\n<p>\u201cFeminists have very eloquently fought for the ability to have women\u2019s sports be on equal [inaudible] as men\u2019s sports, and this takes away that ability,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cI would argue that what I just said can\u2019t be said \u2013 I definitely couldn\u2019t have said it on [<em>The Dr. Oz Show<\/em>] \u2013 and you need to be able to say those things.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<div class=\"roqdnd-0 hIbTaF\">During the event, the celebrity doctor also <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/25\/dr-oz-tells-oprah-to-stay-away-from-his-pennsylvania-senate-race\/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&amp;utm_source=pasteboard_app\">made<\/a> reference to his longtime friend Oprah Winfrey, according to the <em>New York Post<\/em>.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cI asked her to stay out. Don\u2019t support me because if you get involved in any way, you\u2019ll get hurt and I don\u2019t want my friends hurt,\u201d Oz stated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrity Doctor Mehmet Oz, a Republican Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, recently stated, \u201cwe have to have compassion\u201d for transgender adults when asked about transgender collegiate swimmer Lia Thomas, according to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1155343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}