Bill Maher has once again clashed with a liberal on his podcast — this time with comedian David Cross over transgender politics.
As the pair argued on Maher’s “Club Random” podcast about biological men competing in women’s sports, Cross seemed to believe that the existence of his young daughter’s transgender friends would be a winning argument.
However, Maher quickly responded with shock when Cross explained that his daughter’s transgender friends are 9 years old and 3 years old.
“I knew somebody who said to me ... a woman, said, ‘I was what they called a tomboy. If I was alive now and acted the way I did then, that’s what they would have done to me,’” Maher explained.
“Well, nobody’s doing this to her,” Cross said.
“Somebody is doing something, because 8- or 9-year-olds can’t do anything on their own,” Maher responded.
BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere and co-host Dave Landau are not surprised that Cross has adopted the opinions of the left.
“He’s in L.A., though, where he lives, so he is at the eye of the storm. So, I mean, if any of us lived in Los Angeles, our kids would have a friend who identified as trans. It would be almost impossible not to,” Landau comments.
“But I would hope, Dave, we would be able to keep our connection to reality and be able to say, ‘Look, that’s not a thing,’” Stu says.
“Three years old. This is insanity,” he adds.
“It’s a conversation that I’m shocked we’re still having,” Landau agrees.
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Thomas "Neeza" Powers, born Thomas Ryan Powers, is a social media influencer and former transgender-identifying athlete who lived as a woman named Nicole for over a decade before publicly detransitioning in mid-2025.
He gained a massive social media following by sharing his story of identifying as a lesbian, then transitioning, competing in women's sports, and later experiencing a dramatic Christian conversion that led him to embrace his biological sex, advocate against men in women's spaces, and pursue Catholicism.
However, just a few days ago, Thomas announced that he is re-transitioning.
In his Instagram statement, he said: “The self-loathing I’ve had for the last eight months has been excruciating. I know you’re thinking that’s just your sin talking, but it’s not ... I believe in the holy Scriptures. I believe in the Lord Jesus. My heart is better to serve Him without hating myself. My heart is better as a partner to Charlotte without hating my existence, enforcing an identity on myself. And my heart is better to serve my community this way.”
BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey has a strong suspicion that Powers’ primary motivation has less to do with “authenticity” than it does attention.
On this episode of “Relatable,” Allie dives into Powers’ complicated history and makes the case that his entire public persona and story — from the original transition through the detransition and back — was likely a stunt to build a massive following and monetize attention.
Allie’s first red flag is that Thomas’ “re-transitioning” announcement was initially posted as an Instagram “trial reel,” which is a feature that allows creators to test their content’s popularity with non-followers.
“He did not announce to his followers, at least at the time, that he was ‘re-transitioning’ so-called. So that to me tells me that he is putting out two different narratives,” says Allie.
But that’s just the beginning of Thomas’ suspicious inconsistencies.
“People started noticing some inconsistencies in his story, like his transitioning timeline, his relationship with his girlfriend, even his age,” says Allie, pointing to many internet sleuths who have dug up old photos of Powers that appear to contradict many of the claims he’s made about himself.
Further, Christian news outlet Protestia published a detailed exposé back in February, presenting evidence that Powers had fabricated or significantly misrepresented major parts of his story, including: his age (claiming to be in his 20s when public records show he was born in 1989, making him 36), his transition timeline (claiming he started puberty blockers at 16 and transitioned as a teen, but photo evidence pointed to him transitioning much later, closer to age 30), and key details of his relationship with his partner, Charlotte.
“I don't even know if this person really thinks that he is a woman or what he's trying to do. I think that obviously something is going on there that's wrong and it's evil and perhaps unstable,” says Allie. “To me the bigger issue seems to be that he is a pathological liar and that he has created a character to gain a following.”
“Now that does not decrease my compassion for this person because lost is lost. You're lost whether you're a man who thinks that you're a woman; you are lost if you are a person that is basically a scam artist ... and so the response is the same: that we pray for him.”
To hear Allie’s full deep dive into Powers’ questionable history, watch the episode above.
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Alex Stein spent the weekend navigating multiple events across Texas, where he had some extremely strange encounters — including one where he claims to have been “sexually assaulted” by a transgender man.
His first stop was the No Kings protest in Dallas, which he tells BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales was full of “socialists” and “geriatrics.”
“If you had to summarize what you saw into two words, what would that be?” Gonzales asks Stein.
“Socialists and geriatrics,” he tells Gonzales. “There was a lot of young people for the Mamdani vibe, and then everybody else was 70. … There was a woman that stopped me that went to school with my dad. My dad’s 71 years old.”
“I kept getting hit by elderly people,” Stein says, showing a clip of him being swarmed by angry protesters.
While Stein didn’t enjoy being attacked by protesters, he wasn’t surprised that he was.
“They’re impulsive. They’re on SSRIs, so they’re out of touch with reality, and they just kind of react. That's probably how they treat their, you know, caretaker at the retirement home,” Stein says.
Stein also braved a “furry” convention in Dallas, and what he saw there wasn’t much better.
“I had more trepidation at the furry fiesta than I did at the No Kings protest, because everybody knows these people are lunatics, and you and I have gone to all these child drag shows where they’re trying to groom kids,” Stein tells Gonzales.
“It felt like a bunch of adults that are doing this cosplay as an animal, but they were trying to relate to kids. It was very weird. The vibes in there, you know, was something that was kind of indescribable. … Like a gay event but not gay. Even weirder than a gay event,” he continues.
But that wasn’t Stein’s last stop.
“There was another place where they were letting their freak flags fly. … I feel like this was your Super Bowl weekend, Alex,” Gonzales says, referring to a "Trans Day of Visibility" rally in Dallas where Stein was “sexually assaulted” by a transgender “man.”
“That was new and a first for me to get kissed at the trans rally. I’d never seen that in my life. And you know, it really kind of exposes them for being perverts and creeps and making everything about sex,” Stein says.
“They have autogynephilia. They’re doing it because they have some sort of sexual perversion. Like they’re sexually motivated to do this,” he continues. “So honestly, I shouldn’t be surprised that I got sexually assaulted at the 'Trans Day of Visibility.'”
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