‘Stay The F**k Out Of Their Business!’ MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Hits Back At Bill Maher Over Trans Kids

MSNBC host Chris Hayes told comic and political pundit Bill Maher that people with trans kids should be free to make decisions about health care, and everyone should “stay the fuck out of their business!”

On Friday night’s edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, longtime MSNBC host Chris Hayes was the interview guest.

Congressman Byron Donalds (R-FL) and Puck’s Tara Palmeri were the panel guests.

During his interview with Hayes, Maher — who is outspokenly anti-trans — got some rare pushback on the issue:

CHRIS HAYES: I think. I think that peop. I don’t think there’s anyone who hasn’t had a moment across the political spectrum of some form of progressive communication that’s either left them bewildered or a little like–. “I don’t know about that.”.

But I also think at the same time, there is a message of what I would call like common sense patriotic pluralism.

BILL MAHER: Yeah.

CHRIS HAYES: It is a majority message, which is like if some father and mother have health care for their kid lined up who is trans, just stay the fuck out of their business!

(APPLAUSE).

Like and like let them make that decision. That’s their decision to make. And you don’t have to make that for your family. I’m not going to tell you what to do.

BILL MAHER: I mean, but the argument is whether the child should make the decision.

CHRIS HAYES: But the child is never making the decision. The parents are always making the decision. Parents consent to medical care.

BILL MAHER: Well, here in California, you’re allowed to hide it from the parents. If the kid–. It’s.

CHRIS HAYES: Yes, but.

BILL MAHER: Thank you. One person who knows that.

CHRIS HAYES: But I mean–.

BILL MAHER: Somebody knows that is the case.

CHRIS HAYES: I think, in the vast majority. And we’ve been hearing from parents right now those kids medical care has been interrupted. I think there’s a way to talk about.

BILL MAHER: Well, of course, they would say it’s not medical care. They would say that is they’re disfiguring a child.

CHRIS HAYES: I think they should mind their own business. I really do. I think they should mind their own business. And I think that’s true about a lot of things.

I think there is this sense in which there was a sort of backlash politics, some of which I understood, some of which people I know felt that way.

I don’t think what people wanted was for the women CIA agents at the CIA to be told that they can’t get together once a month to, like, celebrate former women spies.

The California law has nothing to do with medical care — it prevents schools from requiring that parents be notified if a student asserts a pronoun change or other signifier.

Watch above via HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.

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