Rand Paul

"Is this the world we’re going to live in, where everybody’s reporting everyone and the Gestapo’s going to come [and] arrest you?”

"One thing about freedom is, freedom doesn’t have to be practical or have a study to say why you should have to have freedom," Paul said.

"You're making policy based on conjecture," said the Kentucky Senator.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Thursday pressed President Joe Biden's nominee for assistant secretary of health on whether the government should override a parent's consent to allow a gender-dysphoric child to begin taking hormones or pursue sex-change surgery.