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Welcome to The Reality Taboo, where no topic

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is off limits. It's February 27, 2026. I'm Jeff.

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Joining me is my co -host, Ness. First topic

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is transgenderism. I want to start by going through

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a few recent mass shootings involving transgender

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shooters. First, Ness spoke about this case recently,

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so I won't go into too much detail, but there

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was the Covenant School shooting in Nashville,

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Tennessee in March 2023. The shooter was a woman

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named Audrey Hale, age 28, opened fire at the

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Covenant School, a private Christian elementary

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school in Nashville, killing three nine -year

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-old children and three adult staff members before

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being shot and killed by police. Hale had been

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in psychological counseling since age six and

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remained in counseling until her death. She had

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been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder

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and described herself as neurodivergent. So among

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the many things she wrote in these journals,

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it included, quote, there is a better place than

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being in these bodies, forced to live in them,

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and quote, I'm in the wrong body. Want to kill

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you? little crackers, bunch of little faggots

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with your white privileges, and I hope I have

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a high death count. So she had some anti -white

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feelings and also some anti -Christian feelings.

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She wrote, quote, if God won't give me a boy

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body in heaven, then Jesus is a faggot. And so

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it appears from the manifesto that Hale's gender

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identity distress was not incidental to her psychology

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but was deeply entangled with a broader constellation

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of unresolved psychiatric conditions. So she

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had at some various points she had been diagnosed

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with autism, bipolar disorder, suicidal ideation,

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and then was obsessed with death. Throughout

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her life. And so that teases about what we're

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going to get into later is this transgenderism

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is sort of overriding and overtaking all of these

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other mental health issues and obscuring what's

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going on. just remove gender dysphoria or transgenderism

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from being a mental illness to essentially being

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normal and just as valid as any other sexual

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identity, homosexuality, heterosexuality. And

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so if you're trying to treat somebody like hail,

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And you're essentially removing the fact that

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she's transgender. You're essentially disentangling

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that from all this other constellation of mental

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health issues she has and saying the transgender

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issue is perfectly fine. In fact, it should be

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celebrated and encouraged. But we're still going

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to treat these other presumably unrelated mental

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health issues of bipolar disorder and suicidal

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ideation. which at least as of now are still

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considered mental disorders. But I mean, on the

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logic of saying transgenderism is no longer a

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mental disorder, I don't know what would stop

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any of these other things from just being declared

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not to be mental health disorders either. So

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Ness, I'm going to turn it over to you. You've

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looked quite in depth at the manifesto that Hale

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left. What do you think is left out in coverage?

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of the Covenant School shooting. It's a clear

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indictment of the modern therapy, therapeutic

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industry that this woman was in counseling for

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two decades and the end of that journey through

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perpetual therapy and counseling and psychotropic

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drugs, presumably. And that whole battery of

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psychological assessments was that she ended

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up killing a bunch of children and effectively

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electing to go out through death by cop. And

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so I think that needs to be first and foremost,

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the understanding that this is a total indictment.

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It will go through a bunch of other similar situations

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where people who are rather than psychologically

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analyzed. In an honest way, instead are affirmed

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in their delusions of which transgenderism is

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the most delusional of all. It is an abomination.

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It's a clear inversion of the most basic realities

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about human biology. Other people are sucked

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into the delusion, and that's where you get the

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pronouns where the politically correct thing

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to do is to call them by their preferred pronouns.

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And you see that kind of leaking out into overall

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society where you still see on LinkedIn or email

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signature lines, you'll see pronouns, she, her,

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or he, him. It reminds me of... During COVID,

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when it was known pretty early on that masks

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were useless, especially maybe you could make

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an argument the surgical grade masks provided

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some benefit, but the mask that the vast majority

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of people were wearing, just pieces of cloth,

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and many of them weren't even wearing them correctly.

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So they weren't providing any real benefit. And

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yet everybody was... There was tremendous social

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pressure to accept the delusion that masks did

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anything. And the common retort was, well, what's

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the big deal? Why can't you just wear the mask?

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Why are you making a big deal out of it? I think

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it is a big deal in a similar sense of what's

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the big deal? They want to be called he instead

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of her. Why do you have to make such a big deal

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about it? Ordinary people are forced to essentially

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believe that the emperor has clothes when reality

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shows clearly he doesn't have clothes. And I

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think that's what's happening with transgenderism.

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I think that's a pretty standard. playbook that

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is run by GloboHomo to talk about what we discussed

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last week. The pattern is remarkably familiar,

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and we can see the same thing with transgenderism,

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where first the push is to tolerate. That's what

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Jeff was talking about, where, hey, what's the

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big deal? Just go ahead and call them by the

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pronouns that they want to be called by. I think

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we're past that. It goes from toleration and

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then into celebration, which is the parades.

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and all of the other things where people are

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put on a pedestal as though they are morally

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superior because they have these gender fluid

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identities. And then it goes to, after tolerate

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and then celebrate, it goes to participate. And

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if we get into the data on how people self -identify,

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we'll see that there has been an order of magnitude

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increase in the youngest cohort of Americans

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who identify as transgender relative to generations

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past. And fundamentally, the embrace of transgenderism

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is an antithesis, an acrimony for nature, for

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physical reality. And that was very present reading

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through Hale's over 100 -page manifesto. The

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coverage included that we put together an AI

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summary to get an idea of how Hale's shooting

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was covered at the time, and there was a lot

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of emphasis on this putative desire by Hale to

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gain notoriety from the action, but I think that

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was intentionally obfuscating the real motivations,

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which were not for notoriety, were not for fame,

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but instead were deeply and viscerally anger

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at being female instead of being male. at being

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white and being raised in a Christian society.

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So it was on all of those dimensions, on the

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sexual one, the racial one, and the heritage

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or spiritual one, and all of those angles and

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all those dimensions, Hale was driven by a deep

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self -loathing and self -hatred. And though all

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of those dimensions were the things that Hale,

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in her own words, based on the notebook that

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was released by the FBI, made public eventually,

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not in the first months after the shooting occurred,

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but subsequently, all of those dimensions were

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very much downplayed in media reports immediately

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following the incident. So Hale, you mentioned,

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had hatred for her race, for her religion, for

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the society around her. And she was white, of

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course. I think that's something that the elevation

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of victimhood in our culture to essentially it

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being there's the hierarchy, the oppression Olympics,

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the oppression hierarchy, where you have black

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women at the top and white men at the bottom.

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I think that plays into that. inculcation of

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self -hatred for white kids i think that creates

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a very difficult psychological paradigm for young

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white people to exist in and it's especially

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it's even more difficult for white women they

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have i believe the highest rate of mental health

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of any demographic group are white women they

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have the highest rates of mental illness and

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so somebody like that a white female who is inculcated

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with self -hatred, well, the only way she can

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essentially rise up in the hierarchy of oppression

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is to adopt a transgender identity. I guess she

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could become a lesbian, but there's even a higher

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step up nowadays with transgenderism. So that's

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the best a white girl can do in terms of rising

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up in the social hierarchy. And another pattern

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that Hale falls into that you will see repeated

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with these transgender shooters is they are terminally

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online. And so they're just drenched in Reddit

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culture, online forums that just amplify and

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confirm all of their delusions, such as transgenderism.

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Through repetition, they try to do that, but

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as much as... biology can try to be suppressed

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it still finds ways to rear its Ugly or beautiful

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head, depending on the perspective that you're

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taking. That was something that was evident to

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and going through Hale's manifesto is that she

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was love struck by some unnamed Hispanic woman.

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And though she may have been lesbian or fancied

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herself a male who was just heterosexual, whatever

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the case was, it was clear that that affection

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she had that lost was unrequited. And that is

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not at all surprising because most. women aren't

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lesbians to start. And even if this Hispanic

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woman was a lesbian, the things that women who

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try to look like a sad simulacrum of a man go

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through makes it so that they are not attractive

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to anyone, male, female, heterosexual, homosexual.

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And so there was that toxic mix of self -hatred

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about everything about Hale's identity. Paired

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up with a total frustration in having an unrequited

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love go completely unfulfilled. And so that confluence

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of factors is what that on top of decades of

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therapy sessions that probably did more to make.

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hails problems worse to facilitate and perpetuate

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them rather than offer some sort of solutions

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to them. Those things together is what led to

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a bunch of the three children and three staffers

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at the school being killed in cold blood. And

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we've talked about all of the social factors

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that play into these things happening. But there's

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also the physical environment, the toxic physical

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environment that we're increasingly inundated

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with, whether it's vaccines, which as much as

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the scientific community, quote unquote, claims

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that there's absolutely no connection between

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vaccines and all of these mental health issues,

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specifically autism. I'm not so sure, but that's

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beyond the scope of this episode. Needless to

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say, the vaccines, the constant pharmaceuticals,

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the horrible diet, the processed foods. I mean,

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obesity rates I heard are among children. It's

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something like 20 to 30 percent now in the United

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States. So all of those things combined, it's

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hard to pick apart any one factor. But I think

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that's leading to these this rise in transgenderism.

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and other mental health issues. Moving ahead

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to August 2025, there was the Annunciation Catholic

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Church shooting in Minneapolis. The shooter was

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Robert Westman, biological male, identified as

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a transgender female. He was 23, so he opened

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fire outside a Catholic church during mass and

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killed two children and injured 18 others and

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then died of a self -inflicted gunshot wound.

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So Westman wrote in his manifesto that he was,

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quote, tired of being trans and that he wished

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he had, quote, never brainwashed, end quote,

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himself. And Westman's mother went along with

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affirming Roberts' delusion and helped him get

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his name changed to reflect that identification.

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And this gets at, again, another common pattern

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you see. We'll see it next getting ahead of ourselves

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with the Tumblr Ridge shooting up in British

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Columbia. But a common pattern for these young

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transgender shooters is their parents went along

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with it and affirmed their child's delusion.

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I'll just get into the next shooting, the Tumblr

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Ridge shooting. Like I said, it happened just

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recently in February of 2026 in British Columbia,

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Canada. Jesse Van Rootseller was a biological

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male identified as a transgender female. He was

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18 years old. He first shot and killed his mother

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and his half -brother at their home and then

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went to the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School where

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he killed six people, a teacher and five students,

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and then he killed himself. And 27 other people

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were injured, and it was the deadliest school

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shooting in Canadian history. And again, another

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pattern here. Van Rootseller had an extensively

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documented mental health history. He had been

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diagnosed with ADHD, major depressive disorder,

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autism spectrum disorder, and OCD. He had been

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hospitalized for psychiatric reasons. He had

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a documented history of polysubstance abuse,

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including psychedelics. And the police had made

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numerous visits to the family home over prior

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years and at least one time had seized firearms

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for the residents. And his home life was as dysfunctional

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as you might expect. Broken family. The father

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was not involved hardly at all. And the mother

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uprooted Van Rootseller and his siblings multiple

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times, moved all the way across Canada to the

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East Coast and then back to British Columbia.

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So when this story was first being reported,

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at least in the mainstream corporate, press,

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the killer was repeatedly characterized as a

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woman. And the vast majority of murderers are

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male. So the fact that there was a mass shooter

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that was female was notable in and of itself.

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And it actually turned out to be not true. And

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as woke as the United States can seem at times,

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Canada is far more woke. And since So again,

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another example of first it started with just

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personal preference, just leave people alone,

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let them live their lives how they want. And

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you can see how it spreads out and out and becomes...

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toleration to actively praising, and then it's

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bad enough that the delusion would be confined

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to one person who's directly experiencing the

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delusion, but that delusion is expanded outwards

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and other people are forced or at least pressured

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into engaging and sustaining the delusion. So

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if we look at this as like a mind virus, then

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what needs to be done is it needs to be quarantined

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and isolated and then it will die on the vine,

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but instead what happens is all of society is

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remade in a way that makes it culturally necessary

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to, again, tolerate, celebrate, and then participate

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because there not only is the delusion something

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that has to be accepted, but there is a status

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striving boost that goes along with having that

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status. And one thing that is particularly pernicious

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is that there are real world consequences to

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people who adopt these gender bending identities,

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like Audrey Hale, who thinks that she is a...

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man and makes herself appear like a simulacrum

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of a man and it makes her unattractive to everyone

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and so she suffers in a real way she does get

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a status boost from being transgender but then

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she also has real world consequences that she

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suffers because of it so there is a big incentive

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for mothers in particular to try to push this

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transgenderism on their children so that they

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can benefit from the status boost that they get

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by having transgender children without having

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to suffer the consequences directly that accrue

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naturally from being trying to represent oneself

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as something other than what that person biologically

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is and that consequence is especially pronounced

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at younger ages when male and female hormones

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are firing the most when people are the most

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sexually active and romantically interested there's

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a concept in transgender culture called passing

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and i again i haven't done a deep dive into it

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but my understanding is that that's something

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that is strived for that you the kind of the

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pinnacle of being a trans person is if you're

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a a man and you're able to whatever, castrate

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yourself and use makeup and surgery and whatever

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drastic measures you want to use to the extent

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where you can go out and attract the sexual attention.

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of a biological heterosexual man. Ness was talking

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about the hormones at a young age, firing and

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puberty and all those kinds of things. Well,

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if your goal is to pass, then you're going to

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have best results the earlier in your life, the

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better, ideally. before puberty kicks in. And

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so you can use, if you're a girl and you say

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you're a boy, then you could take estrogen blockers

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and testosterone injections and just completely

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mess with that natural hormonal balance. And

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maybe in this bizarre Frankenstein creature experiments,

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maybe you can end up, if you're a girl, looking

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more like Yeah, that's possible, but this Hawaiian,

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not to sound like a feminist, like a first or

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second generation feminist, but the transgender

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parameters are such. that things like passing

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inherently are more beneficial to men trying

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to pass as women than they are for women trying

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to pass as men. Because of course, the puberty

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process that men go through results in a massive

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increase in bone density and upper body strength

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and body hair and all of these things that simple

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estrogen reductions and testosterone injections

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into... actual girls into women with ovaries

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and no testes. They may look like more tomboyish

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girls, but it is virtually impossible to get

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a woman to look like a man and pass as a man.

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It's much easier, especially if the injections,

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the hormonal treatments are done pre -pubescent

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to boys to make boys pass as women. But more

00:22:36.539 --> 00:22:39.940
simply, this Secondary sex characteristics that

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men develop in puberty are more differentiated

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from prepubescence than they are for women who

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will develop breasts but otherwise essentially

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stay as they were prepubescent. So it's a tall

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order. It's a future of sufferance for both boys

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who try to pass as women as they pass through

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that. puberty threshold but it's an even taller

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order for girls who try to pass as men so i think

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all children are harmed to put it mildly by being

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affirmed or having even worse having this transgenderism

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ideology pushed on them but girls in particular

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are especially harmed there is the Phenomenon

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of things like ladyboys in Southeast Asia, where

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there are boys and eunuchs, of course, throughout

00:23:40.779 --> 00:23:46.589
history, gelding boys prior to puberty. meant

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that they would develop into adulthood and something

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that could pass with enough disguising as female,

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at least at first blush, but that has really

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never been the case for girls to pass as men.

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The snoo -soo thing from Futurama aside, that

00:24:03.250 --> 00:24:05.970
isn't something that ever actually happens. There

00:24:05.970 --> 00:24:09.349
isn't Amazonian women who, if they cut their

00:24:09.349 --> 00:24:13.390
hair shorter, will pass as Herculean men. You

00:24:13.390 --> 00:24:16.339
obviously haven't seen Disney's Mulan. No, I

00:24:16.339 --> 00:24:20.359
haven't, but there are a bunch of obvious reasons

00:24:20.359 --> 00:24:26.079
as to why men pretending to be women has had

00:24:26.079 --> 00:24:31.240
a catastrophic effect on women's sports, whereas

00:24:31.240 --> 00:24:34.920
women pretending to be men has had absolutely

00:24:34.920 --> 00:24:38.519
no impact on male sports whatsoever, because

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when it comes to physical prowess and the like,

00:24:41.339 --> 00:24:45.529
you can take a boy and... pass him as a girl

00:24:45.529 --> 00:24:48.630
and he's still going to have that physical prowess

00:24:48.630 --> 00:24:51.569
but take a girl and try to have her pass as a

00:24:51.569 --> 00:24:54.670
boy and while there might be some marginal benefits

00:24:54.670 --> 00:24:58.190
from testosterone injections in terms of developing

00:24:58.190 --> 00:25:00.750
greater muscle mass or bone density it's not

00:25:00.750 --> 00:25:03.950
going to come one one hundredth of the way to

00:25:03.950 --> 00:25:08.170
bridging the natural athletic gap that exists

00:25:08.170 --> 00:25:14.009
between the average post -pubescent man and post

00:25:14.009 --> 00:25:17.630
-pubescent woman. Last transgender shooting is

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the one that occurred just a few weeks ago, also

00:25:22.609 --> 00:25:25.950
in February of 2026, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

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The shooter was Robert Dorgan, also known as

00:25:29.869 --> 00:25:34.869
Roberta Esposito, who was a biological male.

00:25:41.559 --> 00:25:44.980
most of these shootings. He, Dorgan, opened fire

00:25:44.980 --> 00:25:48.440
at a youth hockey game in Pawtucket on February

00:25:48.440 --> 00:25:52.740
16th. He shot his ex -wife, Rhonda Dorgan, their

00:25:52.740 --> 00:25:57.700
adult son, Aiden Dorgan, Rhonda's parents, Linda

00:25:57.700 --> 00:26:01.859
and Gerald Dorgan, and a family friend. So you

00:26:01.859 --> 00:26:04.319
may have noticed something strange. I certainly

00:26:04.319 --> 00:26:09.390
did when I was researching this story. ex -wife

00:26:09.390 --> 00:26:12.450
of the shooter is named Rhonda Dorgan. Okay,

00:26:12.509 --> 00:26:15.470
that's a little weird that she would still have

00:26:15.470 --> 00:26:18.970
the same name as her ex -husband. But in some

00:26:18.970 --> 00:26:21.769
cases, if a man and woman have been married a

00:26:21.769 --> 00:26:23.809
long time, there are instances where they get

00:26:23.809 --> 00:26:26.470
divorced and the woman just keeps the married

00:26:26.470 --> 00:26:33.470
name. But also, Rhonda's parents also have the

00:26:33.470 --> 00:26:37.509
surname Dorgan. That is not a common last name.

00:26:37.589 --> 00:26:40.509
I think it's Irish, but it's not a common last

00:26:40.509 --> 00:26:44.450
name. So something flashed in my mind. Why would

00:26:44.450 --> 00:26:49.190
Rhonda's parents have the same name as her ex

00:26:49.190 --> 00:26:54.609
-husband? And apparently Rhonda and Robert, the

00:26:54.609 --> 00:26:58.869
shooter, were first cousins once removed. So

00:26:58.869 --> 00:27:02.190
I wasn't able to figure out exactly what their

00:27:02.190 --> 00:27:07.720
blood relationship was. Presumably it was a little

00:27:07.720 --> 00:27:09.980
too close for comfort. I mean, they had the same

00:27:09.980 --> 00:27:14.779
last name. And the court records show that Robert

00:27:14.779 --> 00:27:17.059
Dorgan's gender identity had been at the center

00:27:17.059 --> 00:27:19.859
of significant family conflict for years. And

00:27:19.859 --> 00:27:22.819
Rhonda filed for divorce in February 2020, and

00:27:22.819 --> 00:27:26.079
she cited in her divorce paperwork, quote, gender

00:27:26.079 --> 00:27:28.480
reassignment surgery, narcissistic and personality

00:27:28.480 --> 00:27:33.099
disorder traits. And a day before the shooting,

00:27:33.140 --> 00:27:37.359
there was... a post on Twitter referring to transgender

00:27:37.359 --> 00:27:45.200
congressman from Delaware, I believe. So there's

00:27:45.200 --> 00:27:48.019
one transgender congressperson, and there was

00:27:48.019 --> 00:27:52.039
a post about that, a derogatory post about him.

00:27:52.200 --> 00:27:55.259
And Dorgan wrote in response, quote, keep bashing

00:27:55.259 --> 00:28:00.019
us, but do not wonder why we go berserk. So admittedly,

00:28:00.019 --> 00:28:03.700
this doesn't really fit into, at least from what

00:28:03.700 --> 00:28:08.339
I can tell, previous transgender shooting incidents.

00:28:08.519 --> 00:28:13.839
This guy was much older, well into adulthood

00:28:13.839 --> 00:28:16.299
before he apparently adopted this transgender

00:28:16.299 --> 00:28:21.400
identity. He was presumably a relatively normal

00:28:21.400 --> 00:28:24.559
heterosexual person. He had a wife and children.

00:28:25.039 --> 00:28:28.000
So I don't really know what to make of this one.

00:28:28.400 --> 00:28:31.940
And it's still pretty new, so new information

00:28:31.940 --> 00:28:34.920
is still coming out. And so we zoomed in a little

00:28:34.920 --> 00:28:36.880
bit and looked at individual cases. Now I want

00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:40.119
to zoom out a little bit and say, does the data

00:28:40.119 --> 00:28:43.680
indicate that the average transgender person

00:28:43.680 --> 00:28:49.380
is more likely to commit violence than the general

00:28:49.380 --> 00:28:54.279
population? And I think the answer is not really,

00:28:54.440 --> 00:28:58.880
at least from what I could tell. There's one

00:28:58.880 --> 00:29:02.400
source I found called the Violence Prevention

00:29:02.400 --> 00:29:06.869
Project. noted one transgender shooter appearing

00:29:06.869 --> 00:29:10.869
among 201 mass shooters recorded between 1966

00:29:10.869 --> 00:29:16.369
and 2025. And then there are, in a broader definition,

00:29:16.809 --> 00:29:20.470
there's five to seven confirmed transgender shooters

00:29:20.470 --> 00:29:24.990
out of roughly 5 ,700 incidents between 2013

00:29:24.990 --> 00:29:29.809
and 2025. And we're going to look in depth more

00:29:29.809 --> 00:29:33.740
at the Gallup data, but as a teaser, it indicates

00:29:33.740 --> 00:29:38.220
that about 1 .1 % of American adults identify

00:29:38.220 --> 00:29:42.099
as transgender. So that would be about 2 .9 million

00:29:42.099 --> 00:29:45.579
people out of an adult population of approximately

00:29:45.579 --> 00:29:50.480
260 million. So using that denominator, basically

00:29:50.480 --> 00:29:54.339
from the data that I was able to find, transgender

00:29:54.339 --> 00:29:57.519
identifying individuals are underrepresented

00:29:57.519 --> 00:30:02.740
in mass shootings. But isn't that because the

00:30:02.740 --> 00:30:05.559
vast majority of mass shootings are gang -related

00:30:05.559 --> 00:30:10.660
shootings in urban areas between various groups

00:30:10.660 --> 00:30:13.700
of blacks shooting other blacks? I think the

00:30:13.700 --> 00:30:16.799
relevant statistic that we're trying to get at

00:30:16.799 --> 00:30:21.920
is what is the likelihood, what is the multiplier

00:30:21.920 --> 00:30:27.400
or divisor? that distinguishes people who identify

00:30:27.400 --> 00:30:30.779
as transgender versus those who do not in terms

00:30:30.779 --> 00:30:35.759
of these public mass shootings that target people

00:30:35.759 --> 00:30:38.839
that they do not know and that they do not directly

00:30:38.839 --> 00:30:44.039
have beef with because if mass shootings as they

00:30:44.039 --> 00:30:48.220
are characterized in crime statistics if the

00:30:48.220 --> 00:30:52.200
qualification to label something as a mass shooting

00:30:52.200 --> 00:30:54.900
is that at least four people are injured. Again,

00:30:54.960 --> 00:30:58.259
the overwhelming number of those are gang -related

00:30:58.259 --> 00:31:02.000
shootings where there are turf wars and the like

00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:05.339
and there are shootouts and multiple people are

00:31:05.339 --> 00:31:09.319
hit. But that is a different animal really than

00:31:09.319 --> 00:31:11.400
what we're looking at here when we're looking

00:31:11.400 --> 00:31:16.039
at psychological, deep psychological motivations

00:31:16.039 --> 00:31:19.920
that cause people to go out and try to inflict

00:31:20.170 --> 00:31:25.990
the most harm on the groups that they feel are

00:31:25.990 --> 00:31:30.089
most deserving of their wrath because of the

00:31:30.089 --> 00:31:34.309
anguish that these groups are perceived to cause

00:31:34.309 --> 00:31:50.089
the transgender shooters. don't affirm their

00:31:50.089 --> 00:31:53.470
pronouns, then you're denying their existence.

00:31:53.690 --> 00:31:56.210
This is existential, over -the -top language

00:31:56.210 --> 00:31:59.990
that creates, at least makes a certain amount

00:31:59.990 --> 00:32:03.750
of sense, why people would lash out when those

00:32:03.750 --> 00:32:06.970
kinds of actions are interpreted or equated with

00:32:06.970 --> 00:32:10.849
violence. It's not shocking that those putative

00:32:10.849 --> 00:32:14.869
victims would lash out violently as well. And

00:32:14.869 --> 00:32:20.930
the common refrain is, That's basically put in

00:32:20.930 --> 00:32:24.450
front of a parent who has a child who's claiming

00:32:24.450 --> 00:32:27.950
to be transgender. The parent is asked, would

00:32:27.950 --> 00:32:30.609
you rather have a dead son or a living daughter?

00:32:30.809 --> 00:32:34.750
The damage that is inflicted on others by people

00:32:34.750 --> 00:32:39.970
with transgender mental disorders is a tragedy,

00:32:40.029 --> 00:32:47.470
of course. Primary problem that stems from embracing

00:32:47.470 --> 00:32:52.930
the. mental illness that is transgenderism, definitionally,

00:32:52.930 --> 00:32:56.470
the inability to recognize reality for what it

00:32:56.470 --> 00:32:59.869
is, is the harm that it does to the transgender

00:32:59.869 --> 00:33:02.230
person in particular. I think the self -harm,

00:33:02.250 --> 00:33:05.130
the suicidal ideation, and the other attendant

00:33:05.130 --> 00:33:08.390
mental health problems that have as a consequence

00:33:08.390 --> 00:33:13.029
self -inflicted self -harm is the bigger issue

00:33:13.029 --> 00:33:16.990
here. And the correspondence to a rise in rates

00:33:16.990 --> 00:33:21.029
of depression along along with a rise in the

00:33:21.029 --> 00:33:24.670
rates of self -identified transgenderism among

00:33:24.670 --> 00:33:28.890
younger Americans, is the bigger societal problem

00:33:28.890 --> 00:33:32.630
here. The numbers that we referred to earlier

00:33:32.630 --> 00:33:37.349
with regards to alphabet soup, self -identification,

00:33:37.490 --> 00:33:43.670
LGBTQ +, etc. from Gallup 2025, the most recent

00:33:43.670 --> 00:33:47.819
Gallup. Survey data available shows that 9 %

00:33:47.819 --> 00:33:50.660
of American adults, so that's 1 in 11, identify

00:33:50.660 --> 00:33:54.619
as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or some

00:33:54.619 --> 00:33:57.619
other non -heterosexual identity. And there is

00:33:57.619 --> 00:34:02.319
a massive generational effect at play here. Among

00:34:02.319 --> 00:34:07.279
those age 65 and older, just 2 .3 % identify

00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:12.530
as a member of the alphabet soup. Among those

00:34:12.530 --> 00:34:16.789
under the age of 30, 23 % do. And so that is

00:34:16.789 --> 00:34:19.650
quite literally an order of magnitude higher.

00:34:19.909 --> 00:34:24.329
People, Zoomers and Gen Alpha, people under the

00:34:24.329 --> 00:34:28.610
age of 30 are 10 times more likely to identify

00:34:28.610 --> 00:34:34.280
as non -heterosexual than people. 65 and older

00:34:34.280 --> 00:34:37.280
are. And that suggests strongly that there's

00:34:37.280 --> 00:34:41.980
not some underlying biological reality driving

00:34:41.980 --> 00:34:46.119
this, but that instead it is a social phenomenon.

00:34:46.139 --> 00:34:50.679
And that goes back to what we were talking about

00:34:50.679 --> 00:34:54.360
with the therapy sessions. And as Jeff will get

00:34:54.360 --> 00:34:58.440
into the shifting definitions of what constitutes

00:34:58.440 --> 00:35:04.130
mental illness. the tldr on it is that what was

00:35:04.130 --> 00:35:07.070
historically recognized as mental illness is

00:35:07.070 --> 00:35:11.829
now rather than being deemed something pathological

00:35:11.829 --> 00:35:14.329
is instead being inverted and being celebrated

00:35:14.329 --> 00:35:18.989
as something that is not again not pathological

00:35:18.989 --> 00:35:21.449
but instead should be aspirational and there

00:35:21.449 --> 00:35:23.469
are a lot of other consequences that come along

00:35:23.469 --> 00:35:30.530
with that because if the most basic truths Biological

00:35:30.530 --> 00:35:35.349
realities about human existence are denied, inverted,

00:35:35.550 --> 00:35:40.309
and then people are forced to affirm lies. Well,

00:35:40.369 --> 00:35:42.630
there are going to be a lot of other downstream

00:35:42.630 --> 00:35:46.409
consequences from that mental health related

00:35:46.409 --> 00:35:48.969
consequences in particular. I'm going to flag

00:35:48.969 --> 00:35:51.869
the environmental toxins that I think are contributing

00:35:51.869 --> 00:35:55.050
at least partly to this increase in transgender

00:35:55.050 --> 00:36:00.019
and LGBTQ more generally. identification. So

00:36:00.019 --> 00:36:03.239
the increase in rates of autism is staggering,

00:36:03.320 --> 00:36:05.300
and I don't have any evidence for this, but I

00:36:05.300 --> 00:36:08.980
think the increase in autism and transgenderism

00:36:08.980 --> 00:36:14.079
are, I think there are common causes. The Diagnostic

00:36:14.079 --> 00:36:17.559
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or

00:36:17.559 --> 00:36:22.500
DSM, is the primary diagnostic reference in American

00:36:22.500 --> 00:36:25.119
psychiatry. Its treatment of gender identity

00:36:25.119 --> 00:36:29.599
has evolved substantially. And I think tracking

00:36:29.599 --> 00:36:35.900
some of those changes highlights the broader

00:36:35.900 --> 00:36:39.079
societal patterns that we've been discussing.

00:36:39.239 --> 00:36:43.059
And it shows how the evolution of something that's

00:36:43.059 --> 00:36:47.119
ostensibly rigorous and evidence and based on

00:36:47.119 --> 00:36:50.360
the scientific method is actually controlled

00:36:50.360 --> 00:36:55.139
perhaps primarily by activist pressure more than

00:36:55.139 --> 00:36:58.409
clinical evidence. You had mentioned COVID previously,

00:36:58.530 --> 00:37:01.829
but of course, there are very obvious similarities

00:37:01.829 --> 00:37:07.530
there with the way that the whole COVIDian nightmare

00:37:07.530 --> 00:37:10.849
was handled. I wasn't going to go there, but

00:37:10.849 --> 00:37:13.929
my mind did go there. And yes, there's so many

00:37:13.929 --> 00:37:16.550
examples, but one that just comes to mind real

00:37:16.550 --> 00:37:21.809
quick is Dr. Anthony Fauci in February 2020.

00:37:23.019 --> 00:37:27.539
gave a very nonchalant answer regarding masks.

00:37:27.719 --> 00:37:30.539
He says masks, he was asked whether COVID was

00:37:30.539 --> 00:37:33.679
first popping up in the United States. A reporter

00:37:33.679 --> 00:37:36.780
asked Fauci, should people be going around wearing

00:37:36.780 --> 00:37:39.659
masks? And Fauci said, no, there's no reason

00:37:39.659 --> 00:37:41.460
to wear masks. I mean, masks might make people

00:37:41.460 --> 00:37:43.699
feel better, but it's not going to provide any

00:37:43.699 --> 00:37:47.559
real protection. And then what, a month or two

00:37:47.559 --> 00:37:52.059
later, it was... Now everybody's got to wear

00:37:52.059 --> 00:37:56.619
a mask. You're a selfish person if you don't

00:37:56.619 --> 00:37:59.320
wear a mask. So within the span of a month or

00:37:59.320 --> 00:38:02.619
two, we just did a complete 180. And that was

00:38:02.619 --> 00:38:05.280
just the first of many examples to come where

00:38:05.280 --> 00:38:08.619
it's like Oceania has always been at war with

00:38:08.619 --> 00:38:13.300
East Asia in 1984 where we've always worn masks

00:38:13.300 --> 00:38:15.699
even though we were just told a couple weeks

00:38:15.699 --> 00:38:18.559
ago that masks were pointless. Well, it's a –

00:38:18.750 --> 00:38:21.150
especially salient with COVID because of how

00:38:21.150 --> 00:38:25.929
compressed the timeline was. But... Gender dysmorphia,

00:38:25.929 --> 00:38:29.070
or whatever the DSM calls it, is just one of

00:38:29.070 --> 00:38:31.730
many examples. There are other pathologies or

00:38:31.730 --> 00:38:34.010
things that historically were understood to be

00:38:34.010 --> 00:38:37.550
pathologies that the DSM has since recharacterized

00:38:37.550 --> 00:38:41.530
as not being pathological at all. It's not just

00:38:41.530 --> 00:38:45.269
transgenderism, but it is the whole bevy of LGBTQ

00:38:45.269 --> 00:38:48.570
type of things, homosexuality being another one

00:38:48.570 --> 00:38:52.489
of those conditions that was recognized historically

00:38:52.489 --> 00:38:56.380
in the history. of Western medicine and psychology

00:38:56.380 --> 00:38:58.860
as being something pathological, but that is

00:38:58.860 --> 00:39:02.050
no longer viewed as such. So going back, looking

00:39:02.050 --> 00:39:05.510
back at some of these iterations of the DSM.

00:39:05.530 --> 00:39:10.409
So in 1952, in the 1952 and 1968 editions, cross

00:39:10.409 --> 00:39:14.769
-dressing and gender nonconformity were subsumed

00:39:14.769 --> 00:39:18.289
under the category of general sexual deviations,

00:39:18.289 --> 00:39:20.869
and these were classified as mental disorders.

00:39:21.170 --> 00:39:25.110
And then the DSM -3 in 1980 introduced explicit

00:39:25.110 --> 00:39:29.019
categories. Transsexualism and Gender Identity

00:39:29.019 --> 00:39:31.860
Disorder of Childhood, and these were also both

00:39:31.860 --> 00:39:35.929
formal mental disorders. And then the DSM -IV

00:39:35.929 --> 00:39:40.329
in 1994 retained gender identity disorder as

00:39:40.329 --> 00:39:43.329
a diagnosable mental condition. And then the

00:39:43.329 --> 00:39:49.489
big change came in 2015 with the DSM -V, and

00:39:49.489 --> 00:39:52.269
gender identity disorder was replaced with gender

00:39:52.269 --> 00:39:54.949
dysphoria, and that's the term that is still

00:39:54.949 --> 00:40:00.230
used today. And this was a deliberate... political

00:40:00.230 --> 00:40:03.050
reframing so the distress associated with gender

00:40:03.050 --> 00:40:06.530
identity became the diagnosable condition not

00:40:06.530 --> 00:40:11.570
the gender identity itself and this is somewhat

00:40:11.570 --> 00:40:16.789
analogous to the 1973 removal of homosexuality

00:40:16.789 --> 00:40:20.030
from the dsm and this is the psychological or

00:40:20.030 --> 00:40:24.039
psychiatric equivalent of looking at instead

00:40:24.039 --> 00:40:27.519
of the underlying medical condition that a physician

00:40:27.519 --> 00:40:31.099
might look at to instead treat the symptoms as

00:40:31.099 --> 00:40:33.340
the problem rather than the underlying condition

00:40:33.340 --> 00:40:36.739
as the problem. So someone has cancer, instead

00:40:36.739 --> 00:40:40.340
of trying to eradicate the cancer, the focus

00:40:40.340 --> 00:40:44.059
instead becomes treating the hair loss by adding

00:40:44.059 --> 00:40:47.599
a hair thickener or trying to get society to

00:40:47.599 --> 00:40:51.639
instead of looking at the physical manifestations

00:40:51.639 --> 00:40:54.920
of cancer as it progresses is something that

00:40:54.920 --> 00:40:58.480
is unfortunate that to instead to celebrate these

00:40:58.480 --> 00:41:01.599
things. And so it is not surprising from this

00:41:01.599 --> 00:41:06.019
vantage point that as these pathological conditions

00:41:06.019 --> 00:41:09.760
have been recharacterized as things that are

00:41:09.760 --> 00:41:14.300
simply more akin to variations in personality

00:41:14.300 --> 00:41:16.780
and that the real underlying problem is the way

00:41:16.780 --> 00:41:21.719
that society deals with those divergent personalities

00:41:21.719 --> 00:41:26.300
instead of looking at the underlying sexual dysmorphia

00:41:26.300 --> 00:41:30.019
as the problem well it's not surprising then

00:41:30.019 --> 00:41:33.960
that the issues that manifest from those underlying

00:41:33.960 --> 00:41:35.960
conditions that aren't being treated but instead

00:41:35.960 --> 00:41:39.420
are being affirmed and even celebrated that those

00:41:39.420 --> 00:41:43.159
problems continue to get worse and so again to

00:41:43.159 --> 00:41:45.659
reclimate back to what i said previously it does

00:41:45.659 --> 00:41:49.139
not seem coincidental or surprising to me that

00:41:49.630 --> 00:41:53.789
as these mental health problems are recharacterized

00:41:53.789 --> 00:41:57.550
as things that should be celebrated or at the

00:41:57.550 --> 00:42:00.929
least treated neutrally, that corresponds to

00:42:00.929 --> 00:42:06.389
a seeming ever -increasing rise in rates of suicidal

00:42:06.389 --> 00:42:10.130
ideation and self -described depression and all

00:42:10.130 --> 00:42:12.789
of these other psychological attendant problems.

00:42:13.210 --> 00:42:17.230
One way to illustrate this change in the depiction

00:42:17.230 --> 00:42:21.900
of transgenderism is to look at pop culture.

00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:27.679
So a show like MASH, which ran from 1972 to 1983,

00:42:28.219 --> 00:42:31.280
there was, throughout the entire run of the show,

00:42:31.360 --> 00:42:33.400
there was a character named Maxwell Klinger,

00:42:33.500 --> 00:42:37.940
and he wore women's clothing as a sustained scheme

00:42:37.940 --> 00:42:41.000
to obtain a Section 8 psychiatric discharge from

00:42:41.000 --> 00:42:44.079
the Army. And this entire comedic premise rested

00:42:44.079 --> 00:42:46.820
on an assumption that the audience shared without

00:42:46.820 --> 00:42:50.460
question, that Inherently, a man wishing to dress

00:42:50.460 --> 00:42:53.619
and present as a woman was self -evidently a

00:42:53.619 --> 00:42:57.639
sign of mental disorder. It was a joke. It was

00:42:57.639 --> 00:43:01.820
more an affectionate joke rather than a cruel

00:43:01.820 --> 00:43:05.800
one, but it was very obvious that the underlying

00:43:05.800 --> 00:43:09.840
premise was unambiguous. Again, the show ran

00:43:09.840 --> 00:43:13.920
until 1983, and there was never any network sponsor

00:43:13.920 --> 00:43:16.800
or critic that raised an objection, at least.

00:43:17.179 --> 00:43:20.739
no one of note that raised an objection regarding

00:43:20.739 --> 00:43:24.699
this. Corporal Klinger. There's a thriller film

00:43:24.699 --> 00:43:27.900
from 1980 called Dressed to Kill, and it features

00:43:27.900 --> 00:43:30.179
a killer who is a biological male psychiatrist

00:43:30.179 --> 00:43:33.699
with a split personality. There's one kind of

00:43:33.699 --> 00:43:36.099
like a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde type of situation.

00:43:36.199 --> 00:43:38.480
There's one side that presents as a respectable

00:43:38.480 --> 00:43:41.340
professional and the other as a violent female

00:43:41.340 --> 00:43:44.679
persona who murders women that the male side

00:43:44.679 --> 00:43:54.900
is attracted to. of transgenderism and cross

00:43:54.900 --> 00:43:58.559
-dressing with dangerous mental illness. And

00:43:58.559 --> 00:44:02.079
then you have the 1991 film, The Silence of the

00:44:02.079 --> 00:44:04.960
Lambs, which was based off a novel published

00:44:04.960 --> 00:44:10.199
in the 1980s. The main villain is Buffalo Bill.

00:44:10.340 --> 00:44:13.719
He is a biological male who murders women in

00:44:13.719 --> 00:44:16.360
order to construct a woman's suit from their

00:44:16.360 --> 00:44:23.139
skin. driving uh desire is to become female and

00:44:23.139 --> 00:44:26.340
again this film came out in 1991 it won best

00:44:26.340 --> 00:44:29.500
picture at the academy awards it's just almost

00:44:29.500 --> 00:44:33.679
inconceivable to imagine a movie like this coming

00:44:33.679 --> 00:44:37.179
anywhere near that level of widespread critical

00:44:37.179 --> 00:44:41.380
acclaim though it leans more in the uh mash direction

00:44:41.380 --> 00:44:44.280
rather than the silence of the lambs direction

00:44:44.280 --> 00:44:48.860
the 1992 movie ladybugs that was not critically

00:44:48.860 --> 00:44:52.900
acclaimed but did make an impact on yours truly

00:44:52.900 --> 00:44:59.420
it was a lowish middle brow comedy based on the

00:44:59.420 --> 00:45:05.360
absurd notion that men being allowed to pretend

00:45:05.360 --> 00:45:07.300
to be women and play in women's sports would

00:45:07.300 --> 00:45:11.139
destroy women's sports the plot of the story

00:45:11.139 --> 00:45:14.619
is that A character played by Rodney Dangerfield.

00:45:14.679 --> 00:45:16.699
Later, Rodney Dangerfield is in a position where

00:45:16.699 --> 00:45:20.539
he needs to take his boss's girl soccer team

00:45:20.539 --> 00:45:24.079
to the championship, and he... In puffing himself

00:45:24.079 --> 00:45:27.559
up, misrepresents himself to his boss as someone

00:45:27.559 --> 00:45:30.239
who is knowledgeable about soccer. But in reality,

00:45:30.300 --> 00:45:32.599
he is clueless about soccer. But he thinks, well,

00:45:32.679 --> 00:45:35.719
it's a dynasty and he'll be able to take the

00:45:35.719 --> 00:45:37.780
team to the championship anyway. But there's

00:45:37.780 --> 00:45:41.280
only one person returning from the previous year's

00:45:41.280 --> 00:45:43.340
championship team. And he gets a bunch of other

00:45:43.340 --> 00:45:46.019
girls. He has no idea how to coach them. And

00:45:46.019 --> 00:45:49.079
it looks like his plan is heading for disaster.

00:45:49.920 --> 00:45:54.219
until he decides to bring his stepson in and

00:45:54.219 --> 00:45:57.380
have his stepson pretend to be a girl. His stepson

00:45:57.380 --> 00:46:01.079
does so and dominates on the field. Eventually,

00:46:01.079 --> 00:46:03.960
through the leadership and the prowess of that

00:46:03.960 --> 00:46:07.400
stepson, the rest of the girls learn how to play

00:46:07.400 --> 00:46:10.980
soccer and ultimately win the championship with

00:46:10.980 --> 00:46:14.079
the son being removed at halftime. But then the

00:46:14.079 --> 00:46:18.619
closing vignette shows that... Rodney Dangerfield

00:46:18.619 --> 00:46:22.260
is now in charge, is now a coach of a women's

00:46:22.260 --> 00:46:24.420
softball team, and they're going to like the

00:46:24.420 --> 00:46:27.599
state or national championship. And as they're

00:46:27.599 --> 00:46:30.559
getting off the bus, Rodney Dangerfield character

00:46:30.559 --> 00:46:32.840
tells them to put all their wigs on because to

00:46:32.840 --> 00:46:35.460
dominate in softball, he instead of just having

00:46:35.460 --> 00:46:38.920
a single boy play in girls soccer, he's decided

00:46:38.920 --> 00:46:43.920
to make his entire team consist of boys pretending

00:46:43.920 --> 00:46:47.050
to be girls and the. Obvious conclusion from

00:46:47.050 --> 00:46:48.989
this is that they are going to utterly dominate.

00:46:49.250 --> 00:46:51.630
And so while it was not critically acclaimed,

00:46:51.630 --> 00:46:55.570
the premise of the movie worked as a punchline

00:46:55.570 --> 00:47:00.349
because of how absurd it was seen to be, because

00:47:00.349 --> 00:47:04.110
of how absurd it actually is, just like in Silence

00:47:04.110 --> 00:47:07.769
of the Lambs, how it was not at all seen as some

00:47:07.769 --> 00:47:11.230
sort of aberrant view to look at gender bending

00:47:11.230 --> 00:47:18.460
as some sort of... It was also similarly understood

00:47:18.460 --> 00:47:21.800
that the biological realities underlying sexual

00:47:21.800 --> 00:47:25.260
differences made it such that men pretending

00:47:25.260 --> 00:47:28.579
to be women was inherently ridiculous and there

00:47:28.579 --> 00:47:31.980
would be a socially disruptive cost associated

00:47:31.980 --> 00:47:45.429
with pretending otherwise. That's certainly generally

00:47:45.429 --> 00:47:50.650
true, at least in our lifetimes. The situation

00:47:50.650 --> 00:47:53.789
on trans though, I wonder if perhaps it could

00:47:53.789 --> 00:47:58.050
provide a counter example to that general constant

00:47:58.050 --> 00:48:02.730
unyielding leftward turn. There seems to be,

00:48:02.849 --> 00:48:05.849
this is more of a vibe shift. And I think it

00:48:05.849 --> 00:48:09.550
will be not just a vibe shift, but something

00:48:09.550 --> 00:48:13.400
backed up by some amount of hard data. But there

00:48:13.400 --> 00:48:17.159
seems to be a backlash in the last, I would say,

00:48:17.159 --> 00:48:20.980
maybe around the time Elon Musk bought Twitter.

00:48:21.019 --> 00:48:23.079
I don't know if that's directly related, but

00:48:23.079 --> 00:48:27.159
maybe around 2023 up till now, it seems like

00:48:27.159 --> 00:48:29.119
there's been, at least in the United States,

00:48:29.340 --> 00:48:34.599
a cultural backlash against transgenderism. And

00:48:34.599 --> 00:48:37.840
that manifests in various ways. I want to start

00:48:37.840 --> 00:48:43.260
with maybe more highbrow. example of this which

00:48:43.260 --> 00:48:47.940
is the cash review it was the most significant

00:48:47.940 --> 00:48:50.400
it's probably arguably the most significant institutional

00:48:50.400 --> 00:48:53.380
challenge to the whole gender affirming care

00:48:53.380 --> 00:48:58.730
model paradigm Its formal title is The Independent

00:48:58.730 --> 00:49:01.769
Review of Gender Identity Services for Children

00:49:01.769 --> 00:49:04.269
and Young People. It was commissioned in 2020

00:49:04.269 --> 00:49:07.570
by the National Health Service in England. It

00:49:07.570 --> 00:49:10.610
was led by Dr. Hilary Cass, who is a retired

00:49:10.610 --> 00:49:14.929
consultant pediatrician. And the final report

00:49:14.929 --> 00:49:19.630
was published in April 2024. And so it's essentially

00:49:19.630 --> 00:49:24.190
a meta -analysis. It looks at It doesn't do any

00:49:24.190 --> 00:49:28.869
new research. It just looks at a bunch of previous,

00:49:29.030 --> 00:49:31.710
it does eight independent systematic reviews

00:49:31.710 --> 00:49:35.889
of the global evidence base. Basically, it found

00:49:35.889 --> 00:49:40.690
that the evidence such as it is for both puberty

00:49:40.690 --> 00:49:44.630
blockers and cross -sex hormones was of poor

00:49:44.630 --> 00:49:49.739
quality. And so the original Dutch study that

00:49:49.739 --> 00:49:53.320
had served as the foundation for the entire treatment

00:49:53.320 --> 00:49:56.340
model showed small improvements in psychological

00:49:56.340 --> 00:49:59.739
well -being, but no improvement in gender dysphoria

00:49:59.739 --> 00:50:04.739
itself. And the study found, the cash review

00:50:04.739 --> 00:50:08.820
found, that 98 % of young people started on puberty

00:50:08.820 --> 00:50:13.010
blockers went on to cross -sex hormone. So these

00:50:13.010 --> 00:50:16.690
puberty blockers were often presented to parents

00:50:16.690 --> 00:50:20.289
as a reversible intervention that simply bought

00:50:20.289 --> 00:50:24.730
time to think. And in reality, they were almost

00:50:24.730 --> 00:50:27.630
exclusively functioning as a first step on a

00:50:27.630 --> 00:50:30.750
one -way medical pathway. And another top -line

00:50:30.750 --> 00:50:34.349
conclusion from this cash review is that the

00:50:34.349 --> 00:50:36.889
evidence does not support the claim that gender

00:50:36.889 --> 00:50:40.139
-affirming treatment reduces suicide risk. So

00:50:40.139 --> 00:50:44.639
the CASH review also found a phenomenon it describes

00:50:44.639 --> 00:50:48.920
as diagnostic overshadowing. It's a young person's

00:50:48.920 --> 00:50:51.639
gender distress becomes a singular clinical focus,

00:50:51.699 --> 00:50:54.360
crowding out proper assessment and treatment

00:50:54.360 --> 00:50:56.679
of co -occurring conditions, including depression,

00:50:56.980 --> 00:50:59.320
anxiety, autism, spectrum disorder, and trauma.

00:50:59.440 --> 00:51:03.880
As we saw with those shooters earlier, almost

00:51:03.880 --> 00:51:09.099
all of them have one or all of these mental disorders.

00:51:09.820 --> 00:51:14.059
But with this gender paradigm that's been shoved,

00:51:14.079 --> 00:51:17.280
that's been introduced in the last few decades,

00:51:17.460 --> 00:51:21.380
the gender aspect, the supposed gender dysphoria

00:51:21.380 --> 00:51:24.320
essentially overshadows all those other things.

00:51:24.360 --> 00:51:30.139
And they are perhaps not emphasized as much as

00:51:30.139 --> 00:51:33.820
they should be if to be treated instead. the

00:51:33.820 --> 00:51:37.380
overriding focus is on the supposed gender dysphoria.

00:51:37.599 --> 00:51:41.179
To keep the comparison with physiological problems

00:51:41.179 --> 00:51:45.059
going, imagine that the physician's diagnosis

00:51:45.059 --> 00:51:49.639
is cancer or would be cancer and other attendant

00:51:49.639 --> 00:51:52.719
problems like... feebleness and problem with

00:51:52.719 --> 00:51:56.380
digestion and hair loss but if we rewrite the

00:51:56.380 --> 00:52:01.639
book on physical ailments to proscribe cancer

00:52:01.639 --> 00:52:05.679
from that list and so we instead treat cancer

00:52:05.679 --> 00:52:08.840
as something that is central to the identity

00:52:08.840 --> 00:52:11.480
of the patient and then we try to address the

00:52:11.480 --> 00:52:14.920
other problems like hair loss and weakness and

00:52:14.920 --> 00:52:18.519
problems with digestion but we won't touch trying

00:52:18.519 --> 00:52:22.139
to deal with the cancer because cancer isn't

00:52:22.139 --> 00:52:24.480
a problem. It is actually something that should

00:52:24.480 --> 00:52:27.119
be celebrated. It's something that's aspirational

00:52:27.119 --> 00:52:28.400
and it's something that all the other health

00:52:28.400 --> 00:52:32.599
considerations need to be modified around to

00:52:32.599 --> 00:52:36.940
not get at changing that cancer diagnosis. We

00:52:36.940 --> 00:52:39.679
see the same thing with gender dysphoria. That

00:52:39.679 --> 00:52:44.670
is the pinnacle. That is the ultimate mental

00:52:44.670 --> 00:52:47.590
disorder in terms of totally inverting biological

00:52:47.590 --> 00:52:50.570
reality. And so if that is not treated as a mental

00:52:50.570 --> 00:52:53.210
disorder, then trying to deal with the other

00:52:53.210 --> 00:52:56.550
less severe mental problems without touching

00:52:56.550 --> 00:53:01.869
that underlying central node in the mental illness

00:53:01.869 --> 00:53:06.269
that is afflicting the person, well, the other

00:53:06.269 --> 00:53:09.869
treatments are going to be ineffective at best.

00:53:10.460 --> 00:53:13.920
So people's gut reaction against transgenderism

00:53:13.920 --> 00:53:19.039
and just the absurdity of a boy saying he's a

00:53:19.039 --> 00:53:24.059
girl or vice versa or the absurdity of a man

00:53:24.059 --> 00:53:27.239
playing in women's sports, that is, I think,

00:53:27.260 --> 00:53:29.500
primarily responsible for the vibe shift. For

00:53:29.500 --> 00:53:34.980
whatever reason, people are feeling more free

00:53:34.980 --> 00:53:40.269
to express what is very natural. which was taken

00:53:40.269 --> 00:53:45.170
for granted only 20 years ago. There's also clear

00:53:45.170 --> 00:53:49.889
empirical evidentiary basis for the whole idea.

00:53:50.150 --> 00:53:54.409
I mean, the whole, just the word gender affirming

00:53:54.409 --> 00:54:00.710
care is a political term. It's, you're just using

00:54:00.710 --> 00:54:02.929
that term, you're playing into the, you're in

00:54:02.929 --> 00:54:07.940
the frame of the pro -transgender ideology, even

00:54:07.940 --> 00:54:13.500
using that term. And next, perhaps another, I

00:54:13.500 --> 00:54:16.840
think this legally is extremely significant,

00:54:16.900 --> 00:54:20.079
this next story we're going to cover. And it's

00:54:20.079 --> 00:54:22.579
also indicative of what I think might be a vibe

00:54:22.579 --> 00:54:27.719
shift. And it is the Varian Malpractice Verdict.

00:54:27.760 --> 00:54:31.159
So in January of this year, a jury in the New

00:54:31.159 --> 00:54:33.900
York Supreme Court in Westchester County. So

00:54:34.460 --> 00:54:37.159
The nomenclature is a little weird. In New York,

00:54:37.159 --> 00:54:39.519
the trial -level court is called the Supreme

00:54:39.519 --> 00:54:41.840
Court, so it's actually completely inverted.

00:54:42.119 --> 00:54:45.260
So this was a trial -level court in Westchester

00:54:45.260 --> 00:54:47.579
County, which is just outside of New York City.

00:54:48.159 --> 00:54:52.039
The jury in Westchester County awarded Fox Varian,

00:54:52.179 --> 00:54:57.059
V -A -R -I -A -N. She is a 22 -year -old biological

00:54:57.059 --> 00:55:00.579
female. She was awarded $2 million in damages

00:55:00.579 --> 00:55:03.719
following a malpractice trial against Kenneth

00:55:03.719 --> 00:55:09.340
Einhorn and surgeon Dr. Simon Chen. And Varian

00:55:09.340 --> 00:55:13.219
had undergone a bilateral mastectomy. meaning

00:55:13.219 --> 00:55:16.420
both of her breasts were cut off at age 16 after

00:55:16.420 --> 00:55:20.239
identifying as transgender. And then she later

00:55:20.239 --> 00:55:24.219
detransitioned and no longer identifies as transgender.

00:55:24.340 --> 00:55:27.619
There was a three -week civil trial. And so the

00:55:27.619 --> 00:55:31.420
legal basis for liability was the finding that

00:55:31.420 --> 00:55:34.300
the psychologist and the surgeon had departed

00:55:34.300 --> 00:55:38.960
from the standard of care. And so Einhorn, the

00:55:38.960 --> 00:55:41.800
psychiatrist, had written a referral letter.

00:55:42.110 --> 00:55:46.090
supporting the surgery in October 2019. And he

00:55:46.090 --> 00:55:49.230
had only started discussing the idea with Marion

00:55:49.230 --> 00:55:52.530
in March of that year, so six months previous.

00:55:53.190 --> 00:55:56.130
And the letter contained numerous omissions and

00:55:56.130 --> 00:55:58.909
inaccuracies that left the surgeon without a

00:55:58.909 --> 00:56:01.530
clear picture of the patient's psychological

00:56:01.530 --> 00:56:05.789
history. The psychiatrist and the surgeon never

00:56:05.789 --> 00:56:09.699
communicated directly with each other. And there

00:56:09.699 --> 00:56:12.179
was evidence showing that Varian had told staff

00:56:12.179 --> 00:56:15.400
at the Albany Pride Center that she felt pressure

00:56:15.400 --> 00:56:18.139
to decide on a gender identity and she was afraid

00:56:18.139 --> 00:56:20.599
she might lose credibility if she raised doubts.

00:56:20.739 --> 00:56:23.000
And I think that's a very valid concern because

00:56:23.000 --> 00:56:26.059
the – again, just dipping my toe very lightly

00:56:26.059 --> 00:56:29.059
as much as I can stand into the sort of transgender

00:56:29.059 --> 00:56:32.679
world, but specifically like the Reddit forums.

00:56:34.079 --> 00:56:38.780
The people who, the transgender people who detrans...

00:56:39.519 --> 00:56:42.539
detransition, they are treated with tremendous

00:56:42.539 --> 00:56:46.659
hatred and scorn. There is tremendous pressure

00:56:46.659 --> 00:56:50.380
once you sort of get involved in that world.

00:56:50.659 --> 00:56:53.519
There's tremendous pressure, even if you start

00:56:53.519 --> 00:56:55.380
having second thoughts, there's a lot of pressure

00:56:55.380 --> 00:56:59.920
to suppress those misgivings you might have about

00:56:59.920 --> 00:57:02.880
going forward with the transition. And it's really

00:57:02.880 --> 00:57:06.780
a heartbreaking story. Woman Varian testified

00:57:06.780 --> 00:57:09.800
that upon seeing her post -surgical chest, she

00:57:09.800 --> 00:57:12.980
immediately felt something was wrong. And she

00:57:12.980 --> 00:57:16.039
felt searing, hot, ripping sensations across

00:57:16.039 --> 00:57:19.599
her chest and stated, quote, I felt shame. It's

00:57:19.599 --> 00:57:21.900
hard to face that you are disfigured for life.

00:57:22.159 --> 00:57:25.099
Yes, religions always treat apostates more harshly

00:57:25.099 --> 00:57:27.440
than they do heathens. But I'm less sanguine

00:57:27.440 --> 00:57:29.940
about this shift than Jeff is. He kind of alluded

00:57:29.940 --> 00:57:33.500
to it in talking about the details. The way that

00:57:33.500 --> 00:57:37.679
I read it with my distinctly non -legal training

00:57:37.679 --> 00:57:41.900
is that it was, to use another cultural reference,

00:57:42.570 --> 00:57:45.849
It is like Dr. Hibbert trying to knock out Dr.

00:57:46.190 --> 00:57:49.769
Nick. It's not that the underlying issues surrounding

00:57:49.769 --> 00:57:53.869
gender dysphoria and the way that it is now treated

00:57:53.869 --> 00:57:56.250
as something that should be affirmed rather than

00:57:56.250 --> 00:57:58.829
as a pathology were in any way fundamentally

00:57:58.829 --> 00:58:02.170
challenged. It was more, hey, this is a pretty

00:58:02.170 --> 00:58:04.710
lucrative thing we've got going on, and there's

00:58:04.710 --> 00:58:09.550
a lot of cultural cachet. in being associated

00:58:09.550 --> 00:58:12.309
with it and so we need to make sure that we keep

00:58:12.309 --> 00:58:14.590
this clean and that we don't just let whoever

00:58:14.590 --> 00:58:17.809
come in here and sloppily make a mess of it by

00:58:17.809 --> 00:58:21.880
not Crossing the T's and dotting the I's and

00:58:21.880 --> 00:58:24.139
doing the due diligence and just trying to turn

00:58:24.139 --> 00:58:27.480
this into sort of like a mill where people are

00:58:27.480 --> 00:58:30.980
rubber stamped to have body parts chopped off.

00:58:31.059 --> 00:58:32.880
It's more that this thing is growing a little

00:58:32.880 --> 00:58:37.960
bit too cavalierly and without enough safeguards

00:58:37.960 --> 00:58:40.400
and credentialism in place. And so we need to

00:58:40.400 --> 00:58:42.820
pare that back a little bit. And that's what

00:58:42.820 --> 00:58:45.179
this ruling represents. In fact, there were multiple

00:58:45.179 --> 00:58:49.920
people who are very much involved in these transgender

00:58:49.920 --> 00:58:54.519
surgeries who testified against the surgeon and

00:58:54.519 --> 00:58:58.980
the psychiatrist who were involved in effectively

00:58:58.980 --> 00:59:01.460
greenlighting something that shouldn't have been

00:59:01.460 --> 00:59:07.780
greenlit so readily. But I think that it is premature

00:59:07.780 --> 00:59:11.960
to think that this signals some sort of seismic

00:59:11.960 --> 00:59:14.940
shift in the way that the medical establishment

00:59:14.940 --> 00:59:19.480
looks at gender bending procedures in the future.

00:59:19.539 --> 00:59:22.699
I think this is more a wake -up call to make

00:59:22.699 --> 00:59:24.739
sure that these things are a little cleaner and

00:59:24.739 --> 00:59:27.619
a little bit less grossly offensive to the public,

00:59:27.699 --> 00:59:29.739
but I don't think that it signals that there's

00:59:29.739 --> 00:59:32.440
any fundamental underlying change in the way

00:59:32.440 --> 00:59:34.880
that these things will be handled in the future.

00:59:35.079 --> 00:59:38.300
Yes, that is an astute observation because this

00:59:38.300 --> 00:59:43.349
verdict in no way undermines or attacks the fundamental

00:59:43.349 --> 00:59:49.150
intellectual basis for transgender ideology it

00:59:49.150 --> 00:59:53.570
is just the specific application was incorrect

00:59:53.570 --> 00:59:58.070
but at the very least one would hope that the

00:59:58.070 --> 01:00:02.090
next psychiatrist who is considering recommending

01:00:02.090 --> 01:00:05.809
that a surgeon remove the breasts or the penis

01:00:05.809 --> 01:00:10.679
of a minor child will think twice about making

01:00:10.679 --> 01:00:13.239
that recommendation. And I think that's a good

01:00:13.239 --> 01:00:15.739
thing. Because I don't mean to overdose on black

01:00:15.739 --> 01:00:18.159
pills. I think that anything that potentially

01:00:18.159 --> 01:00:21.940
has a chilling effect on green lighting these

01:00:21.940 --> 01:00:24.920
procedures is something that should be celebrated.

01:00:25.139 --> 01:00:27.860
I just am a little bit more cautious about what

01:00:27.860 --> 01:00:30.719
it pretends for the future. And a major reason

01:00:30.719 --> 01:00:32.780
that I don't think that this is going to go away

01:00:32.780 --> 01:00:36.739
has to do with the Gallup data that we talked

01:00:36.739 --> 01:00:39.760
about previously it is generationally this is

01:00:39.760 --> 01:00:42.079
something that is becoming normalized quickly

01:00:42.079 --> 01:00:46.599
and so as these gen alpha and zoomers go from

01:00:48.059 --> 01:00:50.260
adolescence and teenagehood into young adults

01:00:50.260 --> 01:00:53.219
and then into professional positions, it is going

01:00:53.219 --> 01:00:55.539
to be something, again, in order of magnitude,

01:00:55.559 --> 01:00:59.019
more of them are going to identify as belonging

01:00:59.019 --> 01:01:03.619
to these non -heteronormative groups. And so

01:01:03.619 --> 01:01:05.900
it is just going to be part of the broader culture

01:01:05.900 --> 01:01:09.510
that this is something that is. with us and something

01:01:09.510 --> 01:01:13.489
that needs to be accepted and celebrated and

01:01:13.489 --> 01:01:18.389
treated seriously. And so to think that all of

01:01:18.389 --> 01:01:21.409
that cultural buildup is going to be able to

01:01:21.409 --> 01:01:25.809
be overturned because there are some lawsuits

01:01:25.809 --> 01:01:30.269
against some overly eager or sloppy surgeons

01:01:30.269 --> 01:01:33.369
trying to make a quick buck by butchering people

01:01:33.369 --> 01:01:36.309
is maybe a little bit too much wishful thinking.

01:01:36.829 --> 01:01:39.710
JK Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, responded

01:01:39.710 --> 01:01:43.070
to this verdict with the following. This will

01:01:43.070 --> 01:01:45.630
go down in history as one of the worst medical

01:01:45.630 --> 01:01:48.809
scandals of all time. Adults inside and outside

01:01:48.809 --> 01:01:51.389
the medical profession sold troubled young people

01:01:51.389 --> 01:01:53.710
like Varian the idea that all of their complex

01:01:53.710 --> 01:01:56.190
trauma would be resolved by removing healthy

01:01:56.190 --> 01:01:59.500
body parts. As more and more detransitioners

01:01:59.500 --> 01:02:01.900
arrive in court, the public will learn the full

01:02:01.900 --> 01:02:04.380
extent of the harm done to kids in the name of

01:02:04.380 --> 01:02:07.239
an ideology. Clinicians performing these, quote,

01:02:07.320 --> 01:02:09.760
treatments will go down in history as barbarous

01:02:09.760 --> 01:02:12.940
activists who betrayed a sacred oath to do no

01:02:12.940 --> 01:02:15.420
harm. But we should never forget how many people

01:02:15.420 --> 01:02:17.820
outside the medical profession urged these young

01:02:17.820 --> 01:02:20.480
people on, gleefully assuring them that anyone

01:02:20.480 --> 01:02:23.539
advising caution was an evil bigot. There are

01:02:23.539 --> 01:02:25.760
people in elitist professions like publishing

01:02:25.760 --> 01:02:28.440
and academia, not to mention politicians and

01:02:28.440 --> 01:02:31.039
celebrities with young fanbases, who did all

01:02:31.039 --> 01:02:33.559
they could to champion the idea of gender identity

01:02:33.559 --> 01:02:36.380
and kept pushing it even as the evidence of harm

01:02:36.380 --> 01:02:39.139
mounted. They're just as culpable as the clinicians.

01:02:57.299 --> 01:03:02.820
So obviously J .K. Rowling is interpreting and

01:03:02.820 --> 01:03:07.150
presenting this as a sea change. And of course,

01:03:07.170 --> 01:03:10.369
Ness maybe is more skeptical of that than she

01:03:10.369 --> 01:03:13.210
is. I may be somewhere in the middle. So one

01:03:13.210 --> 01:03:15.829
more story I want to talk about is the case of

01:03:15.829 --> 01:03:20.489
Sage Blair. So she is a teenager from Appomattox

01:03:20.489 --> 01:03:23.769
County, Virginia, and she's approximately 18

01:03:23.769 --> 01:03:27.030
or 19. I couldn't quite tell. And so she entered

01:03:27.030 --> 01:03:30.989
Appomattox County High School as a freshman in

01:03:30.989 --> 01:03:35.429
August 2021. And she had a bunch of issues. when

01:03:35.429 --> 01:03:39.719
she started school. Family dysfunctional family

01:03:39.719 --> 01:03:42.940
life issues. And so she was diagnosed with gender

01:03:42.940 --> 01:03:45.139
dysphoria around the time she began high school.

01:03:45.260 --> 01:03:48.420
And then near the first day of school, she told

01:03:48.420 --> 01:03:51.239
a school counselor, Dina Olson, that she identified

01:03:51.239 --> 01:03:53.960
as a boy and wished to use male pronouns in the

01:03:53.960 --> 01:03:57.460
boy's restroom. And so apparently the counselor

01:03:57.460 --> 01:04:00.860
agreed to treat Sage as male at school while

01:04:00.860 --> 01:04:04.500
actively concealing this from Michelle, who is

01:04:04.500 --> 01:04:08.059
Sage's, I believe, biological. grandmother but

01:04:08.059 --> 01:04:12.239
adoptive mother. So she is or was Sage's legal

01:04:12.239 --> 01:04:16.119
guardian. And so the school counselor concealed

01:04:16.119 --> 01:04:19.480
this from Michelle and used female pronouns when

01:04:19.480 --> 01:04:21.940
speaking with Michelle and male pronouns when

01:04:21.940 --> 01:04:24.260
speaking with Sage at school. And the school

01:04:24.260 --> 01:04:27.059
failed to inform Michelle of ongoing bullying

01:04:27.059 --> 01:04:29.960
and sexual harassment that Sage was experiencing

01:04:29.960 --> 01:04:32.639
from male classmates as a result of being directed

01:04:32.639 --> 01:04:35.889
to use the boys' restroom. Really horrifying

01:04:35.889 --> 01:04:41.869
story. Once Michelle, the child's guardian, discovered

01:04:41.869 --> 01:04:44.690
what was happening, Sage suffered a mental breakdown

01:04:44.690 --> 01:04:47.130
and ran away from home. She ended up in Maryland

01:04:47.130 --> 01:04:53.929
and she was trafficked. And eventually she was

01:04:53.929 --> 01:04:58.510
subjected to sexual abuse and drugging. And then

01:04:58.510 --> 01:05:02.730
Sage ended up in front of Judge Robert Kershaw.

01:05:03.360 --> 01:05:05.659
in the city of Baltimore's juvenile division

01:05:05.659 --> 01:05:11.480
in September 2021. And Sage was given a court

01:05:11.480 --> 01:05:13.639
-appointed public defender who represented to

01:05:13.639 --> 01:05:15.860
the court that Sage had reported emotional and

01:05:15.860 --> 01:05:18.780
physical abuse by her parents, that her parents

01:05:18.780 --> 01:05:21.940
were unsupportive of her gender identity, and

01:05:21.940 --> 01:05:24.260
that she felt unsafe at home. So there's more

01:05:24.260 --> 01:05:27.380
details we could go into, but bottom line is

01:05:28.119 --> 01:05:31.219
Sage was placed in an all boys residential facility

01:05:31.219 --> 01:05:34.260
and she was abused there again. She ran away.

01:05:34.380 --> 01:05:38.179
She ended up in Texas and eventually was recovered

01:05:38.179 --> 01:05:41.219
by law enforcement. She eventually returned to

01:05:41.219 --> 01:05:45.599
Virginia and apparently now, thankfully, is doing

01:05:45.599 --> 01:05:49.119
better. And she is going to Liberty University

01:05:49.119 --> 01:05:53.519
on a full scholarship. So this case came to my

01:05:53.519 --> 01:05:58.349
attention because President Trump. invited sage

01:05:58.349 --> 01:06:01.789
to the state of the union address on february

01:06:01.789 --> 01:06:06.010
24th and um so he invited sage and michelle blair

01:06:06.010 --> 01:06:09.110
uh as special guests and he devoted a significant

01:06:09.110 --> 01:06:13.210
portion of his remarks to their case and here

01:06:13.210 --> 01:06:15.929
is one more opportunity to show common sense

01:06:15.929 --> 01:06:20.590
in government in the gallery tonight are sage

01:06:20.590 --> 01:06:25.170
blair and her mother michelle In 2021, Sage was

01:06:25.170 --> 01:06:28.449
14 when school officials in Virginia sought to

01:06:28.449 --> 01:06:33.190
socially transition her to a new gender, treating

01:06:33.190 --> 01:06:36.889
her as a boy and hiding it from her parents.

01:06:37.010 --> 01:06:40.789
Hard to believe, isn't it? Before long, a confused

01:06:40.789 --> 01:06:45.469
Sage ran away from home after she was found in

01:06:45.469 --> 01:06:49.170
a horrific situation in Maryland. A left wing

01:06:49.170 --> 01:06:52.570
judge refused to return Sage to her parents because.

01:06:53.210 --> 01:06:56.090
they did not immediately state that their daughter

01:06:56.090 --> 01:07:01.010
was their son. Sage was thrown into an all -boys

01:07:01.010 --> 01:07:04.750
state home and suffered terribly for a long time.

01:07:05.010 --> 01:07:07.889
But today, all of that is behind them because

01:07:07.889 --> 01:07:10.809
Sage is a proud and wonderful young woman with

01:07:10.809 --> 01:07:15.269
a full -ride scholarship to Liberty University.

01:07:15.909 --> 01:07:19.300
Sage and Michelle, please stand up. Thank you

01:07:19.300 --> 01:07:21.599
for your great bravery. And who can believe that

01:07:21.599 --> 01:07:24.460
we're even speaking about things like this? 15

01:07:24.460 --> 01:07:26.820
years ago, if somebody was up here and said that,

01:07:26.860 --> 01:07:30.860
they'd say, what's wrong with him? But now we

01:07:30.860 --> 01:07:33.300
have to say it because it's going on all over

01:07:33.300 --> 01:07:36.099
numerous states without even telling the parents.

01:07:37.079 --> 01:07:40.119
But surely we can all agree no state can be allowed

01:07:40.119 --> 01:07:43.119
to rip children from their parents' arms and

01:07:43.119 --> 01:07:46.090
transition them. to a new gender against the

01:07:46.090 --> 01:07:48.210
parents' will. Who would believe that we've been

01:07:48.210 --> 01:07:51.949
talking about this? We must ban it, and we must

01:07:51.949 --> 01:07:55.269
ban it immediately. Look, nobody stands up. These

01:07:55.269 --> 01:07:58.869
people are crazy, I'm telling you. They're crazy.

01:08:00.190 --> 01:08:04.809
Boy, oh, boy. We're lucky we have a country.

01:08:04.929 --> 01:08:08.110
With people like this, Democrats are destroying

01:08:08.110 --> 01:08:10.449
our country, but we've stopped it just in the

01:08:10.449 --> 01:08:13.269
nick of time, didn't we? There's just audio that

01:08:13.269 --> 01:08:15.750
you're being subjected to, but what Trump is

01:08:15.750 --> 01:08:17.789
referring to is all the Republicans standing

01:08:17.789 --> 01:08:19.590
up and clapping for what he's saying, but the

01:08:19.590 --> 01:08:21.130
Democrats sitting on their hands and refusing

01:08:21.130 --> 01:08:25.989
to clap for what is ostensibly the success story

01:08:25.989 --> 01:08:29.050
of this woman who was going down a dark path

01:08:29.050 --> 01:08:31.810
and had been abused and now has gotten her life

01:08:31.810 --> 01:08:36.189
back together. And to tie that into J .K. Rowling's

01:08:36.189 --> 01:08:41.420
triumphalism about the court case ruling. If

01:08:41.420 --> 01:08:46.420
the transgenderism nonsense is culturally overturned,

01:08:46.420 --> 01:08:50.680
it will be in no small part on account of the

01:08:50.680 --> 01:08:54.079
fact that this is something that is more harmful,

01:08:54.279 --> 01:08:57.340
far more harmful for women than it is for men,

01:08:57.479 --> 01:09:02.000
not just with regards to sports and how men entering

01:09:02.000 --> 01:09:04.220
female sports destroys female sports, whereas

01:09:04.220 --> 01:09:07.680
women pretending to be men entering men's sports

01:09:07.680 --> 01:09:10.909
never comes up. Because if it did, it wouldn't

01:09:10.909 --> 01:09:14.029
mean anything other than that woman pretending

01:09:14.029 --> 01:09:17.670
to be a boy succeeding even less in the boy sport

01:09:17.670 --> 01:09:21.029
than she did in the girls version of the sport.

01:09:21.210 --> 01:09:25.970
And it's not just because adolescent boys can

01:09:25.970 --> 01:09:30.449
transition to a simulation that more closely

01:09:30.449 --> 01:09:34.949
resembles a woman than girls can transition into

01:09:34.949 --> 01:09:39.460
something that... looks or passes as an adult

01:09:39.460 --> 01:09:43.420
man, but also because when it comes to the gender

01:09:43.420 --> 01:09:45.600
bending, in the case of this girl who was put

01:09:45.600 --> 01:09:50.000
in an all boys group home and was, of course,

01:09:50.000 --> 01:09:53.920
sexually abused, probably almost continuously,

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that is not at all the case when the gender bending

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is swapped if it is a male inmate for example

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being thrown in with other women because he claims

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that he is a woman well in that case too it's

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the biological women who suffer so it's always

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in every iteration of this it's always the biological

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women who suffer not the biological men at least

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not to nearly the same extent and so the overturning

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of the ascendancy of transgenderism could be

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a consequence still of the broader liberal framework

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of the oppression olympics and the like where

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some group namely women who used to be able to

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enjoy predominance over men in that social hierarchy

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have now been supplanted by transgender men pretending

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to be women who have now found a way to hack

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the system and put themselves at the top. And

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so, while it is definitely worth celebrating

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any dethroning of the transgender nonsense, I

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think it might be premature to celebrate that.

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I think it's also premature to think that this

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signals some sort of broader social reconfiguration

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to... biological realities at a more fundamental

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level I think this is instead more of feminist

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feeling that they were edged out by overly aggressive

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men trying to pretend to be women and so they

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are reasserting the feminist paradigm though

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we're talking about these shifting cultural affinities

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and predilections. One thing that is clear from

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this clip that Jeff shared is that Trump has

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not changed at all. It is a familiar description

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to hear him described as a 1980s Democrat, and

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that really is what he is. He is the living,

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breathing embodiment of X movements. passing

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me by not me changing and so that is a bit of

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a black pill to think that someone who would

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be characterized as on the moderate left hasn't

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changed at all and now he is regularly characterized

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as some sort of hard right authoritarian fascist

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even though from the way he speaks to the way

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he dresses to his cultural Sensibilities have

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remained completely unchanged over the last 50,

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60 years. I don't know who controls the camera

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in these State of the Union addresses, so who

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controls what somebody watching from home actually

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sees, whether they zoom in to Trump or pan out

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or zoom in on somebody in the audience. But I've

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noticed it seems like it's one consistent set

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of video and audio that... that is blasted out

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on all platforms, whether it's C -SPAN or CNN

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or Fox News. So during that speech, at one point,

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it zooms in on Sarah McBride, a congressman from

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Delaware. He is the first openly transgender

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person elected to Congress. He is biologically

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male, presents himself as a woman. And unlike

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McBride and very much like Trump, we will strive

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for that same consistency in thanking you for

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listening and signing off, talking to you next

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week.