Fifth GOP presidential primary debate: on Families & Children

Nikki Haley: No gender transformations until age 18, like no tattoos

DESANTIS: It's wrong to tell a kindergartner, like Disney wanted to do, that you can change your gender. So I stood up against it. Most corporate Republicans would have caved. Now, Nikki Haley sided with Disney. She invited them to South Carolina, even though they were involved in transing kids. She is representative of this corporatist element of the party.

HALEY: I have never said anything related to the transgender stuff he says. I have always fought to protect kids. I have always said that boys need to go into boys' bathrooms, girls need to go into girls' bathrooms, that we shouldn't have any gender transitions before the age of 18. Just like we don't have tattoos before the age of 18, we shouldn't have gender transformation or puberty blockers. But I will tell you that Disney has been woke for a long time. We are not woke in South Carolina. I will always invite businesses to come to South Carolina.

Ron DeSantis: Don't sexualize school curriculum, or Disney World

DESANTIS: The proper role of government is to protect our kids. And I have stood for the innocence of our kids. It is wrong to sexualize the curriculum. It's wrong to tell a kindergartner, like Disney wanted to do, that you can change your gender or tell a third grader that you're born in the wrong body. So I stood up against it--yes, the media didn't like it, the left didn't like it, and Disney didn't like it. Most people, most corporate Republicans would have caved. I stood and I fought for the kids. We took on Disney, and we won that fight and our kids are better off.

Now, we believe in empowering parents, and there are certain standards about what's age and developmentally appropriate. It's wrong to have pornographic materials in fourth or fifth grade.