Sean Hannity addresses the Shawnee Mission School District lawsuit challenging gender identity policies under Title IX, where a first-grade girl faced distress sharing restrooms with biological males. He debates caller concerns about cable commercials and critiques the Pope's stance on conflict while disputing his views on scripture. The episode culminates in a heated argument over interviewing controversial streamer Hassan Piker, whom Hannity defends as necessary to expose Democratic radicalization, including plans to impeach Trump, urging voters to remove these elements before an Epic Fury blockade embargo. [Automatically generated summary]
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Kansas Gender Identity Policies00:07:26
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All right, news roundup and information overload hour this Friday, 800 941.
Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, a complaint has been filed against the Shawnee Mission School District.
This is in Kansas over gender identity policies.
I've said this many times when I started in radio, many, many decades ago.
There's so many different issues I never thought I'd be dealing with, talking about ever.
But here we go again.
Now, the Southeastern Legal Foundation and the Defense Freedom Institute for Policy students submitted the complaint to the U.S. Department of Education, and the organization says that the complaint was filed on behalf of Kansas parents and their elementary age daughter.
The filing challenges district policies that, quote, allow students to access sex separated facilities based on gender identity.
Let's put it another way.
That means that.
Biological boys can go into girls' locker rooms.
It also requires students and staff to use preferred names and pronouns.
What are they going to ask for parental approval?
I mean, you know, the parents are not potted plants.
They actually should have a say in important matters involving their own children.
Anyway, according to the complaint, a first grade girl encountered a biological man who identifies as a woman in the girls' restroom.
The experience apparently, allegedly, caused significant emotional distress.
The student has since been.
Displaced from the girls' restroom and required to use a separate staff bathroom.
District officials told parents that providing restroom access based on gender identity and compelling the use of preferred pronouns are required under Title IX.
However, the organization argues that the federal courts have rejected that interpretation.
The Department of Education has reaffirmed that Title IX protects students based on biological sex, not gender identity.
This is where, you know, this was a battle to help women.
Compete on the same plane and the same rules as men in collegiate sports.
It's not that difficult.
Anyway, Kim Herman is with us, top constitutional lawyer, president of the Southeastern Legal Foundation, is here to explain the announcement from President Trump's Department of Education, which declared that Kansas' Shawnee Mission School District's gender identity policies don't comply with federal law.
I thought we were past this, but I guess people just keep pushing the limit.
They won't let it go.
Kimberly, welcome on the program.
Yeah, thanks for having me, Sean.
I mean, just like you said, unfortunately, some of these schools, even those in our heartland, will not let this concept of gender identity go.
And even after the Department of Education agreed with us and said yes, forcing these young girls to share bathrooms, to share locker rooms with boys who think that they're girls, forcing them to use incorrect pronouns violates Title IX, the school district is still digging in and saying, fine, we won't do it for now.
But if a court says otherwise, or if we believe that the law says otherwise, we're going to go right back to doing this.
It's really shocking how dug in some of these schools are to violate our girls' privacy rights.
You know, I really have a hard time understanding where this all came from.
I have a hard time understanding, and I guess talking so often to Riley Gaines and all that she went through, and so many other athletes have gone through, and the purpose of Title IX to begin with.
And I'm just trying to understand why there are so many people that keep pushing and pushing and pushing this idea.
Well, I identify as, and now everybody's got to accommodate their quote identification and then accommodate and allow biological men in many instances into.
Women's locker rooms, or in grade school, biological boys into girls' locker rooms, and assume that teachers must, at the command of a student, address kids based on their preferred pronoun.
I mean, when I first heard about this, a friend of mine's kid went to Brown University, and the first day on campus, they'd walk around, I guess, the courtyard, and they'd walk around and ask the person that they'd meet, whoever it happened to be, What is your preferred pronoun?
I'm like, huh?
What are you talking about?
I had no idea that we'd be this deep in the weeds this many years later.
Yeah, I mean, it really honestly stems from mental illness, and it stems from these schools and even our colleges wanting to take over our kids, right?
It's the idea of displacing the parents and saying that they are not our children as parents, but they are their children.
They're the government's children.
You know, we've been fortunate enough to also represent Riley Gaines in several lawsuits.
Including ones where these colleges are not even allowing her to come and speak her truth, right, and come and say that Title IX is alive and well, that boys should not be competing in girls' sports, that she should have never been forced to change in front of boys in locker rooms.
And they wouldn't even let her speak and say that on campus.
They said that it was discriminatory.
Now, we were successful in that, but it just goes to show that they know that there's something wrong with this.
They know that they should not be allowing boys in these spaces.
And they know that these children, they are ours as parents.
And that's why they're trying to silence everyone from even speaking about this on campuses across our country.
You know, I got to tell you something.
It really is mind numbing to me.
I mean, Riley Gaines, people don't quite understand.
I mean, she's been in so many hostile environments just by showing up on college campuses.
This kind of always impressed me about Charlie Kirk is that, you know, ask me anything and he'd get in front of a hostile crowd and he'd tear these people apart.
Part because he was prepared to answer any question and he would shatter their illusions and their myths.
He was a great iconoclast in that way.
But it becomes dangerous.
He's been in many situations where it's become dangerous.
Yeah, I mean, in the colleges, they really rally the students to do that, right?
Because they say that if you want to say anything that is conservative leaning, if you want to speak truth, if you want to even just say what the law is in this situation, that you are discriminating and you are harassing and you are bullying.
And so they're creating that environment on campuses that really is truly very dangerous, as we sadly saw last year.
And that's trickling down to K 12, right?
Our clients' first grade student is being shamed.
For not wanting to share a bathroom stall next to a boy also going to the bathroom.
I mean, she's being told that this is wrong, that she should feel differently, and that if she wants privacy, she has to miss class and go all the way across campus to go to another bathroom.
I mean, I have a third grade daughter.
I have a sixth grade son.
They would be mortified to have to use the bathroom with somebody from the opposite sex at school, right?
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I mean, this is just common sense.
It's unfortunately common sense is not so common, but.
Thank goodness there are people like you, Southeastern Legal, that are out there fighting it every day.
Kimberly Herman, we appreciate the update.
Appreciate your time.
Thank you for being with us.
Absolutely.
Thanks, Sean.
800 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Let us go to our busy phones and let's say hi to Macy in New Jersey.
Macy, how are you?
Happy Friday.
Glad you called.
Hi.
Thanks so much.
I really appreciate it.
So I just wanted to make the point.
You were talking about the NFL and the franchises and the streaming services and how expensive everything is.
And my question is how come there are commercials on cable TV when you're already paying a lot of money a month to have that service?
I don't know the answer.
I mean, the bottom line is if you have a product that people want and they're willing to pay for it, it's simple supply and demand crisscrosses and dictates the price.
The issue legally is the antitrust provision that benefits the NFL.
Like, for example, there was a lot of complaints.
I saw an article on Outkick today that last night's NFL draft, for example, and people love to watch the draft.
My son is probably the number one guy that knows more about football than anybody I know.
He's telling me all about it.
The only thing is they can't have it both ways.
The NFL, as far as I'm concerned, if there is an appetite for people to buy these streaming services because they want to watch their, their, Their team, their game, then they're going to buy it.
So, you know, I think everyone's going to decide for themselves in the end.
But anyway, the article in Outkick was saying how far behind the actual draft it was on live television.
Like they were two or three picks behind, according to that article.
I didn't pick up on that.
My son didn't tell me that.
But my point is more why are we paying for, you know, to have cable TV and we're still getting commercials?
I think we're getting, you know, I think if you're paying for TV, I don't think there should be commercials.
I mean, you pay for Sirius XM, but there's no commercials on Sirius XM.
Well, there actually are commercials on Sirius XM.
I'm just going to be honest with you, not as many.
And that was one of the appeals of it when it first launched.
Launched.
Look, I mean, it's very expensive to keep the lights on to do programming.
And it goes way beyond paying whatever on air talent you may have to have.
But the technical side of it, everything in between, the power bill of a 50,000 watt clear channel AM station is enormous.
The towers are very costly.
The land is very costly.
And at the end of the day, all of these businesses are trying to recoup their money and make a profit.
So, there is a business aspect to all of it.
There's a business aspect to sports.
But at the end of the day, it's going to be supply and demand.
It really is.
And if there's not a single show, really, that you can watch today that doesn't have some commercial aspect to it.
You know, like, for example, we have the new podcast, Hanging Out with Me.
I hope people will watch it.
You can see it on YouTube and, you know, other venues as well.
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But.
But it's just very limited in terms of the number of commercials that you have in that space.
And I know that's appealing.
It's also long form, where radio and TV are much quicker, faster.
It's a greater pace.
And I like to just slow it down and let people talk more and have more of a conversation.
So it adds, it just kind of scratches a niche that I have, and I love doing it.
And I'd be talking to myself anyway.
If I wasn't doing the podcast in between radio and TV, what I do.
It's very simple.
I'm on the phone talking anyway.
I don't stop talking.
I can't help myself, except if I'm listening to people.
Becoming a better listener, working hard on it.
Anyway, I appreciate the call, Macy.
God bless you.
Have a great weekend, okay?
Okay, thanks.
Take care.
All right, to our busy phones this Friday, 800 941 Sean.
John, Pennsylvania, next Sean Hannity Show.
What's up, John?
Sean, you're the baby, you're the boy.
What's going on?
Hey.
Hey, I just want to throw out an idea about the 250th anniversary of America.
But real quick, if you can answer this I'm just wondering did the Pope ever say anything in December or January that he criticized the Iranian leadership for slaughtering thousands of their citizens?
No, he's been very, very quiet on all of that.
My criticism is I wish the Pope had the moral clarity to understand radical Islamists, and I don't think he does understand it.
I don't think he's a bad person.
I'm a little bit hesitant to read into his relationship with J.B. Pritzker or David Axelrod.
These are people that take very different positions on the issue of life, which the Catholic Church is very passionate about.
And yet he's meeting with them, and he was specifically going after the president.
Now, with all that said, the Pope said he's done.
He was not specifically trying to start a fight with Donald Trump.
But I do believe that we need moral clarity from religious leaders and radical Islamic terrorists that are the number one state sponsored terror.
There should be no moral ambiguity in my mind.
So, I'm going to jump in because the Pope yesterday, you know, I'm no fan of the Pope, said that he condemns what has happened with hardline Iranian regime tactics, the taking of people's lives.
And while he does not support the war, he is against the way that the Iran IRGC leaders have killed thousands of people and that he is very upset about the loss of life, of innocent lives.
So, that was yesterday.
I'm glad to hear that.
But in the beginning, he had said that God is against all conflict.
100%.
He's completely out of his mind.
My issue, when people got very angry with me, And I said so many good things about the Catholic Church and how influential it's been in my life in a positive way.
But if you look at, if you believe that the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament is the same God today, that God in the Old Testament, over 400 separate occasions, you know, put his seal of approval and even outright ordered conflict and war and blessed those that he believed were righteous.
Well, not believed, those that were righteous.
So I'm not looking to get into a battle with the Pope.
I just want, I actually, I'm very, very tolerant of people's religious faith.
However, radical Islamists that believe convert or die, that support terrorism, there's no, it is completely at odds with Western civilization and with the belief in life that I know the Pope stands for.
Anyway, I do hope that answers your question.
We appreciate you being with us.
Quick break, right back.
More of your calls coming up 800 941 Sean this Friday if you want to be a part of the program as we continue.
All right, let me play Hassan Piker.
Linda's mad that I'm thinking about putting him on my podcast, but listen to him.
Social murder.
And Brian Thompson, as the United Healthcare CEO, was engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder because of the pervasive pain that the private healthcare system had created for the average American.
I saw so many people immediately understand.
Why this death had taken place.
That is the reason why I think the reaction to Luigi Mangione, especially by younger generations, was not so negative.
All right, so he's kind of cloaking this, and it sounds like a rationalization for those that support Luigi Mangione.
And Linda's head is about to explode, controlling her in this segment.
It has exploded.
We need a cleanup in aisle five.
Okay, he is a left wing Twitch streamer, he's a commentator.
Known for being this hardcore, you know, pro Palestine, radical leftist.
America deserved 9 11.
He made that comment.
The October 7th terrorist attack against Israel, a direct consequence of Israeli U.S. actions.
It doesn't matter if rape happened on October 7th, it doesn't change the dynamic for me.
Then he later clarified it doesn't deny sexual violence occurred, but argues it doesn't justify what he calls Israeli genocide.
He makes an excuse for everything.
He called ultra orthodox Jews, quote, inbred.
He used the term bloodthirsty, violent pig, directed at an anti Hamas viewer critic.
Compares liberal Zionists to liberal Nazis.
I mean, do you want me to keep going?
Suggested Republicans should kill Rick Scott over Medicare.
His more recent comments, you know, that we just played for you here.
And I've thought about it.
You know, there are many reasons not to interview him and not to platform this guy.
And I don't even want to argue with the guy.
I have nothing to argue about.
I want him to talk.
And let me, now you ready to hear my answer or do you want to respond first?
No, go ahead.
Give me your answer.
Okay.
Look at the prominent Democrats that have either collaborated or sought his platform.
Bernie Sanders praised him, Revolution and Media thanked him.
AOC hosted live stream conversations with him.
Congresswoman Tlaib, Ro Khanna has been on many times, open to further engagement.
Abdul El Sayyad, who we talked about earlier this week, and Zoran, Marxist, Kami, Momdani, Congresswoman Summer Lee, you know, joining Piker.
You know, and then others expressed openness, including Gavin Newsom and Tom Steyer.
And others.
So, why is it important?
I think people need to understand.
What do I talk often about on this program?
I talk about radicalism, radical leftism.
There's nothing to debate with this guy.
I mean, if you want to rationalize the thought pattern of people in this country that have no problem with assassinating the United Healthcare CEO, okay, just feel free.
But then you're going to align yourself with prominent elected Democrats.
Does that not prove how radicalized that party has become?
But, Sean, with all due respect, and I mean this seriously, you're giving a platform to someone, and it doesn't matter who aligns with him because if you look at accountability, there's none of it.
Nobody goes to jail, there is no accountability.
We have a Republican, House, and Senate who can't get one damn thing passed that our president wants no accountability.
They all go on vacation.
Stay focused.
No, but I'm just saying this is my point.
There is no accountability, right or left, right?
So, whether you put Hassan Piker on or you're not, you're not drawing attention to anything.
Because at the end of the day, we're coming up on the 25th anniversary of 9 11.
How many people have died on 9 11?
How many people have died post 9 11?
How many families were lost, broken, shattered?
And now you're going to bring on the guy who said America deserved it.
I'm sorry, that guy doesn't get a voice.
In fact, I would like him to have no vocal cords at all.
I don't think he should be talking, period.
Now you sound like him.
Do you want to rip out his vocal cords?
Yeah, why don't I?
He likes to say hyperbole and sarcasm is what he means when he says, you know, that this United CEO deserved it.
That's hyperbole and sarcasm.
If you were to use his style and techniques, that's what I'm saying.
We're making a comparison.
I think you're missing the bigger point.
What is the bigger point?
Look, when I took on the issue of the Pope and his remarks that God never approves of conflict, that just is not biblically accurate to me.
It was just a disagreement.
Everyone ignored all the good things I said about the Catholic Church and its impact on me and my life.
And that's fine.
But I knew going in what the predictable result would be.
I know going in what the predictable result will be.
How dare you platform him, et cetera?
That's not the point.
My argument has been for the longest time is that this Democratic Party has been so radicalized, it represents nothing of the past Democratic Party.
I want to stop calling it Democratic.
Democratic is a process.
Democratic Party, whatever.
Stop.
You're nitpicking.
And my point is that people like Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries are leaders in name only, and they bow at the altar of these radicals because they're the ones that are really in control.
And that's why Schumer wouldn't even stand up to Mamdani.
That's why Hakeem Jeffries wouldn't stand up to Mamdani.
That's not why.
That's not why.
It is so because they know they would alienate their base and they wouldn't even be leaders in name only at that point.
They would be done.
They'd be gone.
Negative.
Nope.
I disagree.
You want to know why?
You're wrong.
You don't even know what I'm going to say.
How could the defense be wrong?
I haven't even started yet.
The defense is wrong.
Let me tell you why.
The reason why they don't stand up to him.
The reason why they're all in bed together is because the guy that's paying for all of their campaigns, the guy that's paying for everything they do, it's all the same people.
It's all the same organizations.
They have to stay locked up.
It's like I always say Democrats are incredible at staying together.
They are like glue, they're like an old piece of gum.
It just won't separate.
It's fantastic.
The Republicans, we eat our own.
I've said this for years Republicans create circular firing squads, Democrats, they circle the wagons.
There's a big difference.
But that's not the environment we live in now.
If you go back to the Reagan years, if you go back further, you know, there was a time when they were more rational.
And at this point in time, they've become so radicalized, so extreme, so hostile that they would take this country.
They're like James Carvels.
You know, if they get power, there's going to be D.C. statehood, Puerto Rico statehood.
We're going to jam pack the Supreme Court.
We'll end the filibuster.
And it'll be one party rule.
They'll Abigail Spamberger every state in terms of gerrymandering for their advantage.
And that will happen if we don't pass the SAVE Act.
100%.
I agree with you.
That's the problem.
Most Americans don't know the influence that people like this guy are having and the embrace that they're receiving from prominent Democratic voices.
I would argue the list of people, Democrats I just mentioned, that that list of Democrats is far more influential, powerful than Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, or any old mainstream Democrat.
There aren't any mainstream Democrats.
There's one.
His name is John Fetterman.
That's it.
Every other Democrat has lost their mind.
Now, we have a very important midterm election, and all people want to focus in on is Donald Trump, Donald Trump.
You know, I have an article right here in front of me from today, part of my long research that I do, you know, leading up to today's show.
I mean, this is from Axios.
Day one, they call it impeachment.
Day one, House Democrats are pushing their colleagues to begin to build the case against President Trump now in anticipation of a day one impeachment vote if they retake the House.
Why it matters?
The mere existence of this movement shows how much pressure Democratic lawmakers will face next January if they retake the House.
This article is not off base.
And I'm just telling you, if what you saw and we had on earlier on the program, we were talking to Ken Cuccinelli about this gerrymandering, you know, power grab in Virginia.
If you don't know what the radicals that are in charge are thinking, and most normal people, I argue, don't, but I'm going to tell you what the criticism will be.
Whether I do this or not, I haven't really fully decided yet.
I'm thinking about it.
I could go in with a lot of different strategies against this guy, and I don't want to telegraph which one, but the one that I want the most, I want him to talk.
I want to.
Him to explain.
Do you want him to bring a dog that he electrocutes while he talks?
That should be a fun background element.
Oh my gosh.
I'm not wrong.
It's on video.
Whether he's using a vibration collar or a shock collar, that dog moved too much during his broadcast and he did whatever he did to it.
He's like, I didn't shock it.
It's a vibration collar.
She was moving too much.
I'm like, it's a dog, bro.
That's what we're doing now?
You don't believe in the electric fence?
Hell no.
Absolutely not.
That's disgusting.
And meanwhile, you overfeed your cat.
Don't stay focused.
Don't drift away from Hassan Piker and how much I don't like him.
Oh, I'm making a point off of your point.
All right, to our phones, let us say hi to DJ in North Carolina.
Hey, DJ.
Hi, Sean.
What's going on?
My question is you just mentioned something about the Democrats wanting to impeach President Trump and everything.
They had come up with the fake whistleblower and all the fake evidence and everything.
And I wanted to find out do we, as the American people, have any recourse against these people to keep this kind of thing from happening again?
Yeah, the recourse is that every one of you listening to my voice right now this Friday, and I know it's a nice spring weekend for many people, that you keep in mind that you have one important civic duty this year.
And that is commit in your heart, your mind, and your soul that you're going to go out and vote.
And the very radical people we were just talking about, you're going to vote them out of power and not allow them to do what they're planning to do.
They're already telegraphing what they'll do.
James Carville telegraphed it.
These people are telling you on day one, they will come in in power in the House of Representatives and impeach Donald Trump.
They don't even have a reason for it, and they'll do it.
And this country will be spiraling out of control into chaos.
They are a party of rage, a party of radical rage.
And I don't think most Americans are fully aware of how bad it is, which is part of my thinking that I want people to know more.
I know I'll get yelled at because Hannity, you didn't push back.
Hannity, you interrupted too much.
Hannity, you platformed this guy.
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Well, are people better off being ignorant?
Let me tell you something.
I put this guy on my show, this goes viral.
And I have avoided a lot of the, I would call it clickbait attempts that other people have.
Have embraced openly to bring on the most extreme people for the very reason I think it's usually not worthwhile.
However, this might be worthwhile for people to educate themselves and realize how bad what I know and what I study every day really is, because that's how so many people think.
I'm going to wrap things up for today.
Don't forget, we will be monitoring all the situation going on with Epic Fury.
Is this blockade embargo really going to work?
We'll know a lot more by Monday.
Linda, this weekend, I'm giving you a very direct order as your boss.
Okay.
As your boss, Liam gets Chick fil A with the waffle fries, cooked in oil, and all the pizza he wants from Uncle Sean and milkshakes.
Oh, man.
Yeah.
And a sprite, as many sprites as he wants.
How much Pepto Abysmal should I be preparing to buy for this extravaganza?
I need a Pepto Abysmal.
I need a lot of Pepto Abysmal.
All right, that's it for today.
Have a great weekend.
Thank you for making the show possible, and we'll see you back here on Monday.