<p class="speakable">Former President Barack Obama said this week that males need to have gay friends to call them out over &#8220;ignorant&#8221; remarks and to prepare them in case they have a gay or &#8220;non-binary&#8221; son.</p>
<p>Obama made the comments on his wife Michelle&#8217;s &#8220;IMO&#8221; podcast, which she co-hosts with her brother, Craig Robinson.</p>
<p>When the discussion turned to raising young men, Obama said boys need &#8220;exposure&#8221; to all sorts of male role models, who can sometimes shed &#8220;perspective&#8221; on their own dad.</p>
<p>&#8220;And that&#8217;s one of the things that I think a lot of times boys need, is, not just exposure to one guy — one dad,&#8221; the former president said. &#8220;No matter how good the dad is, he can&#8217;t be everything. And that boy may need somebody to give the boy some perspective on the dad, right?&#8221;</p>
<p>Continuing, Obama recalled having a gay professor he was close with, who he said called him out on his &#8220;ignorant&#8221; remarks.</p>
<p>&#8220;One of the most valuable things I learned, as a guy, was I had a gay professor in college, at a time when openly gay folks still weren&#8217;t out a lot, who became one of my favorite professors, and was a great guy, and who would call me out when I started saying stuff that was ignorant,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Gay friends, Obama continued, can prepare a male for a future gay or &#8220;non-binary&#8221; son.</p>
<p>&#8220;You need that, to show empathy and kindness,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And by the way, you need that person in your friend group, so that if you then have a boy who is gay or non-binary or what have you, they have somebody that they can go, &#8216;Okay, I&#8217;m not alone in this.'&#8221;</p>
<p>Obama famously pushed transgender culture into the mainstream in May 2016, when his administration <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/obama-administration-title-ix-transgender-student-rights-223149">issued</a> a directive to effectively force schools to allow males who identify as trans into female spaces.</p>
<p>The letter, from the Obama Justice and Education Departments, claimed for the first time that Title IX protects against discrimination based on so-called gender identity, not biological sex.</p>
<p>“This guidance further clarifies what we’ve said repeatedly — that gender identity is protected under Title IX,&#8221; then-Education Secretary John B. King Jr. said at the time. &#8220;We must ensure that our young people know that whoever they are or wherever they come from, they have the opportunity to get a great education in an environment free from discrimination, harassment and violence.”</p>
<p>Under President Donald Trump, Title IX is again being interpreted how it&#8217;s always been pre-Obama, based on sex. The Trump Justice Department is also targeting liberal states for violating Title IX protections.</p>
<p>WATCH:</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Barack Obama says gay professor shaped him as a young man. <a href="https://t.co/9mTTydwtBH">pic.twitter.com/9mTTydwtBH</a></p>
<p>— Martin Walsh (@martinwalsh__) <a href="https://twitter.com/martinwalsh__/status/1945916665528467558?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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