Journalist Choked, Thrown Down at Beto O’Rourke Event for Questioning Transitioning Children

The assault took place at a Beto event in Dallas, Texas.

QUICK FACTS:
  • Investigative journalist Tayler Hansen went to a campaign event for Texas gubernatorial candidate Robert Francis (Beto) O’Rourke event on Thursday night in Dallas, Texas.
  • Hansen shouted a question at Beto about pediatric transgender surgery during the rally.
  • The audience responded by shutting the journalist down, telling him to “Get the [expletive] out of here” and shoving him into a girl in a wheelchair.
  • After making his comments Hansen was immediately encircled, with attendees grabbing him and his clothing, and one person pulling him back by the hood of his jacket, up over another attendee sitting in a wheelchair.
  • The journalist was eventually grabbed by both arms and physically removed from the room and O’Rourke reportedly called him a derogatory name.
HANSEN’S TAKE:
  • “Today I confronted @BetoORourke at a rally in Dallas— I asked him if he would ‘Disavow surgery for trans kids.’ In response, I was choked by his supporters and thrown to the ground. They pulled me backwards [sic] over someone in a wheel chair,” Hansen said about the event.
  • “In response to me being thrown on the ground Beto called me an [expletive] and completely ignored the fact that his supporters were the ones who dragged me over the woman in a wheelchair,” Hansen tweeted, recapping the events.
  • The journalist also claimed that another one of the event attendees recorded the event and posted about it but later thought better of it: “He immediately removed it from twitter when he realized that it didn’t make them look like the good guys.”
BACKGROUND:
  • A recent survey shows that Americans are less likely to vote for a candidate who supports child gender transitioning, as American Faith previously reported.
  • The poll from the Convention of States Action and the Trafalgar Group shows 72.7% of likely voters will not support candidates advocating for child gender transitions. Nearly 80% of Independents and 95.1% of Republicans suggested they are not likely to vote for those supporting medical transitions. The survey revealed 42.5% of Democrats do not prefer candidates supporting minor gender transitions, with only 30% of Democrats reporting gender policies being favorable in a candidate. The majority of Gen-Z and minorities surveyed also reported voting against the candidate supporting gender transitions for children.

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