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E68: Gender Contradiction - Pageboy, Identity, and Mental State · The Junto Podcast

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Hello, America. Welcome to the Junto podcast, where we promote the practical
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applications of critical thinking and bold creativity.
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I'm your host, Edgar Mills. Thank you for joining us.
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Hello, America. Welcome back to episode 68. I am going to continue on based off the last episode.
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I'm going to continue on with some contradictions.
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So I'm going to focus down. I'm going to do a series of these,
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but I mean, what causes debate? What causes a topic to be interesting?
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Usually it's because it presents some kind of contradiction of some sort or conflict anyway.
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But today, I want to talk about a very obvious and psychological inconsistency.
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In today's discourse over gender.
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And specifically how a lot of trans and non-binary types lecture biological
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males and females on loving yourself and.
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Accepting other people for who they are. And meanwhile, they kind of reject
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their own natural bodies, don't they?
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And then try to, well, as we're going to see in a sec, Ellen Page is trying
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to rewrite biological fact to accommodate her own psychosis.
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So yeah, she just, Ellen Page, Elliot Page just came out with a, like a documentary.
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And the whole documentary soon, I've only seen little bits. I'm not going to
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critique the documentary.
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But I'm going to critique her presentation of it that I've heard,
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is that everything we've been taught about gender in our entire lives throughout
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history is a construct. It's not gender is not natural.
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And it was all lies and built on a, quote, quaint fantasy.
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So, I don't know.
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It hurts me a little bit. I always thought Ellen Page was, if you remember the
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movie Juno, one, it was a brilliant movie.
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And two, she was brilliant in it. And.
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You know, and then there was a movie called Whippet.
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She was, and I think that was directed by like Drew Barrymore. I don't know.
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It was a fun movie. I liked it. I'm going to admit that I liked it.
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It was fun. It was easy breezy.
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Yeah. I liked the premise of it. She was trying to find her own little way.
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And found Roller Derby. Yeah, it was fun. Yeah.
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So she did an appearance on Democracy Now, however much credibility you give that outlet.
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And she, by the way, is a biological female. Whatever she looks like now is.
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She was a biological, she's a biological female. And she said,
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and I quote, she tries to block out the noise from, you know, absolute vile losers,
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who must just be so profoundly uncomfortable with themselves that they can't
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handle that someone could get to a place that I think trans people do get to.
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Which is a level of self-acceptance and understanding that I think is really
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profound and beautiful.
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I don't know about that self-acceptance.
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I don't know how profound and beautiful it is, maybe internally for yourself, possibly.
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I don't know that I'm a vile loser for disagreeing.
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The statement that she made implies that any disagreement with the trans ideology
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or disagreement with any chemical or surgical gender swapping,
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basically amounts to a personal pathology in me or in the dissenter,
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you know, the person who disagrees.
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Like I got some kind of sickness for not agreeing with her.
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And that anybody who does critique that must be profoundly uncomfortable with themselves.
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And if we challenge her beliefs, This is what this statement implies,
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that if we challenge her beliefs, that we are vile losers.
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Now, to me, she's,
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a young woman who never grew up and had identity crisis. That's what I see.
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But that ideology, and when I say ideology, I mean that of the trans,
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the whole trans community thing, the binary, non-binary, trans gender stuff.
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I'm not just talking about gay people. That's not what we're talking about.
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We're talking about trans.
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And that ideology has become a belief system and like a religion of sorts.
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And if you're a part or around that, then you cannot violate that dogma. You just can't.
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And I don't know who said it. I'm not sure if it's ever been formally quoted,
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but if your religion can't be challenged, it's a cult.
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And they've made a religion out of transgenderism.
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But what they've done is they've made a cult out of it, in my opinion.
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And I'm not talking about every trans person. Not everybody is deep in ideologically.
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It's such a complex situation. And we'll see why it's so complex here in a little
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bit. There's a lot of mental stuff going on.
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Ellen Page She came out as a lesbian in like 2014 or 15 or something And then
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she Came out as a transgender man In 2020,
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And then had a mastectomy And got her boobs chopped off.
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And did the hormones and all that And you see her now And she looks like a You
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know A haggard little boy,
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And her stated goal was to escape the body and social role of a woman and achieve
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harmony with her internal sense of self.
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So to escape the body of a woman and the social role, I think the social role
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has much bigger implications there than just the body.
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If you want to beat you know with all the psychology i'm not a psychologist,
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or psychiatrist or whatever i don't know,
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but her internal sense of self there's about eight million ways to to rectify
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that without surgery and trying to change gender but that that's a way, I guess.
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And her, this documentary, she's come out with Page Boy, Page Boy is what it's called.
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She talks about years of discomfort and anxiety and a sense that she's never
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been a girl and that she will never be a woman.
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And that's like, that's complex psychological stuff going on inside of her brain.
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And she chose her path. I don't think she chose wisely, but she chose it.
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But it ain't about that she chose her path. That's not what I'm talking about.
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What I'm talking about is that she chose her path and now she expects everyone
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and fully be on board with that path and furthermore, urge other people to do it,
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as if it was some sort of religion that she's trying to convert people, followers, believers.
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But the contradiction here is what's also pretty profound.
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The same person who accuses the critics of self-hate for refusing to affirm,
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her path, her change of identity, physical,
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attempted physical change of identity.
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She herself spent years hating her own natural female body and took drastic steps to change it.
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To reach this beautiful and profound self-acceptance that she now wields against us like a weapon.
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So we're accused and blamed even for her discomfort and her inability to make it right and her angst.
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That motivated the whole thing in the first place.
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Now, I think we'll get to it here in a little while. We will. We'll get to it.
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So what does loving yourself mean when it comes to body mutilation or modification or whatever?
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So there's a message out there pushed by like the celebrities and the fringe
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celebrity activists that love is love. They got it on posters and shit. Love is love.
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And you must love and accept people as they are. They would demand that you
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love and accept them as they are.
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Regardless of what they've changed themselves to be. But yet the core characteristic
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of gender dysphoria is that they cannot accept the body as it is.
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They don't love as they are.
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It's bizarre. It's absolutely opposite. Now the message is love is love for sure,
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but you can just take hormones and chemicals and major surgery and,
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add or remove any fabricated sex organs you want and do surgery on otherwise
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healthy tissue that doesn't require it and do whatever you need to do to ease your emotional angst.
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So that's not loving people as they are, and that's not loving yourself as you
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are. That's taking very extreme drastic measures.
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You don't love the body you're in. I don't think that's to do with the body
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as much as it is to do with something up here.
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And treating your body like sort of like a project that you can reshape and
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change until your mind can tolerate it.
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You're trying to, you're basically trying to, you're, you're trying to be God-like,
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and that you think you can change, a tormented God for sure,
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but you think you can make these, these changes that nature,
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nature, God, evolution, whatever you want to call it,
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has the, has given the, the world.
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Are not God and removing your penis or breasts or whatever is not the same as
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going to the gym to try to be more healthy.
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Now you can liken it, I think, to all this plastic surgery.
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I think you can liken it to that. I think those are getting these asses and
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the lips and all that stuff.
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I think this is in the same category. I think this is very closely related.
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Maybe not as extreme, but mentally it is as extreme.
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And then the non-binary people. So they take this a step further by rejecting
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the fact that sex is binary, male and female.
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And but they still demand that you recognize their bizarre thoughts on that,
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and make accommodations for that,
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sometimes even medical accommodations and that not only in that accommodation
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but you treat their feelings as authoritative over observable biology Thank you.
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Man, it's madness. It's madness. And if you're in this community,
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this trans or binary group of humans out there, and if you're listening to this, I hope you are,
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there is a reality. There is a reality, and you don't have to be okay with it.
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And if you take the leap to do whatever changes you want to do to present yourself
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as something that you were not born as, that is on you, and you're free to do as you will.
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And furthermore, from my perspective, and I think even from sort of a broader
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libertarian perspective, I think.
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Even a really truly Christian perspective, you're not going to be,
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well, you may be judged a little bit, but you're not going to be.
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No, I'm saying Christian. There are Christians out there that will belittle you and whatever.
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But look, many that I know are just going to pray for you, and they're not going
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to belittle you, and they're not going to do anything else.
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They're you don't see those people.
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So you feel like it's a battle of you against the established world.
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The problem becomes when you try to militantly push that ideology as normal.
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It's not. It's not normal.
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Or you try to, like Ellen Page here, belittle the wide world for being vile
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losers, for not accepting what you've chosen to do with yourself.
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I don't have to accept it.
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I can tolerate it. I don't have to accept it. And I certainly don't have to promote it.
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So at any rate, there's that. So let's kind of get that out of the way early.
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Do as you will. If I think you're wrong, I think you're wrong. So what?
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But don't try to convince the
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world that what you're doing is right and normal and natural. It is not.
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And you know deep inside that it is not.
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You know deep inside that you've got some torment, some internal torment there,
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that you're trying to deal with.
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And somehow that's what you've come to. That's the way you've chosen to deal.
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So what I'm getting at, to lecture normally gendered people,
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man, woman, as they are whose natural sex and identity match and that's to include
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gay men and women by the way.
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We don't have to we have to observe what you are presenting but we don't have
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to affirm it and whatever declared identity you have you declare whatever you
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want all we have to go on is what you present,
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but because we reject the ideology or even because we disagree with the path
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you've chosen does not reveal some secret torment that we have.
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That doesn't make us messed up at all.
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You just don't like the sort of widely accepted definition of normal.
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And that's not to say people, normally gendered people, aren't screwed up in
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8 million other ways, but we're talking about a very specific thing here.
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We're talking about transgendering and non-binary. That's what we're talking about.
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So just because we refuse to participate in the semantic acrobatics of genders
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or pronoun or whatever it is,
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or we refuse to implement policy to accommodate your extreme fringe decisions,
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that is not bigotry and it is not that we're projecting somehow. Thank you.
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As the demand, it seems, especially from Ellen Page, the demand seems to be
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that society must not only tolerate, but accept and celebrate this manipulation,
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and many times mutilation of healthy bodies.
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Just so that you can match your subjective state of existence, your state of mind.
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Gender dysphoria gender dysphoria it don't exist in a vacuum there's,
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you weren't born that way and the gays will be mad at me for saying this and
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people I know who are trans will probably be mad at me for saying this.
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It doesn't I don't think it occurs naturally now and let me step that back there
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are anomalies out there and we'll address them.
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But large-scale data, empirical data, shows that there are extremely high rates
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of comorbidities coming along with this gender dysphoria.
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So we'll start with neurodevelopmental disorders like autism or attention deficit hyper disorder.
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Excuse me. Those show up in the general, the clinical population, right?
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People, transgender who go to get, not help, but to transgender,
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you still got to go through a process that shows up higher than in the general public.
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Psychiatric conditions like depression, anxiety,
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PTSD, eating disorders, substance abuse, suicidal ideations,
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all these are extremely high amongst the trans and non-binary community.
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And then there's the externals. Now, this is where I think the majority of this
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stuff comes from. I believe the majority of it comes from external input,
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and one of the big ones is childhood sexual abuse. Yeah.
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You can't deny it. It might not be your case, but you can't deny that it's largely
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present in the trans community. community, physical abuse, substance abuse,
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or sorry, emotional trauma,
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and other, you know, just negative experiences as a youth, even maybe before you remember.
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There's always external influences going on all the time.
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That is what the social media is doing.
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And before the social media, television, before television, newspaper.
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There's externals. There's always someone with an agenda pushing messages.
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There's always individuals with agendas.
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And they're influencing you, whether you directly realize it or not,
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especially on television.
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Hell, before MTV, I don't even know that they went off the air as MTV,
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but, man, they had all these drag shows and all this and that.
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I've known and consorted with plenty of gays and transgender people in my day.
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And one of the common themes about the people I knew was that they knew that
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they were on the fringe of society and they liked it that way.
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That was their rebellion. They wanted to be that.
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They didn't seek necessarily widespread acceptance,
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yeah of course rights like you as a as just a gay man you you shouldn't have
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any less rights than a straight man but,
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they were on the fringe and they understood it and knew it and and sort of reveled in it But MTV,
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among others, tried to drag the RuPaul.
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They just made this big, just big, gaudy show about drag queens and all this and that.
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And that gave way to drag queen story time in elementary schools. You see what I'm saying?
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Was it a direct result? No, it was indirect. But still, same.
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They wanted to be on the fringes. They wanted to be edgy. It was edgy. Now it's not at all.
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Now it's just passe and getting pretty tedious.
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Go to some official stuff. The cash review out of the UK, it was a review that was released in 2024,
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documented that young people that presented with gender-related issues had very
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complex mental health profiles,
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autism, traumatic histories, and all sorts of other co-morbidities or co-occurring issues.
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And what they did also note that there was a sharp rise in referrals, mental referrals, and.
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Especially among adolescent females that paralleled a downturn in the youth
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mental health that paralleled with the rise of social media.
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Yeah, I just said it, folks. Now it's all over. It's everywhere.
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You're getting it from all ends.
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And this creates confusion with the young people.
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You got little non-binaries and trans people all over doing weird shit and saying
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all these things as fact like ellen page is is just trying to say that gender
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is a construct well i was born with a cock,
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it it's there my nuts and my balls are there or my dick is there,
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that that's not a social construct.
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Well, just because you have a cock and balls doesn't mean you're a man.
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I beg to differ. There's chromosomes, there's DNA, there's all these things that say that I'm a man.
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Yeah, a rise of social media created a rise of mental health issues amongst
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the youth, especially among female youth, unfortunately.
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And that review also came to the conclusion with strong evidence that Puberty
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blockers and cross-sex hormones in minors,
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had very weak or negative results,
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especially because there's no long-term data on it.
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So the known risks, because there are multiple, are.
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Report, the known risks were being put aside for the unknown utopia,
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where in fact, in standard medicine and standard practice, you're going to take a known risk.
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If it outweighs the benefit, you're not going to do it.
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That's a risk assessment. Hey, well, this is bad and this is most likely going to happen.
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Well, what's the good? Well, you'll feel really good about yourself for about 10 minutes.
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Long-term data out of Sweden, Europe's been messing around with this stuff for
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a long time, longer than America.
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Long-term data out of Sweden on adults who got sexual sex reassignment surgery,
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found that the suicide rates remained 19 times higher than that of the control
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groups, straight people, or people who didn't get surgery.
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And also showed extremely high psychiatric morbidities.
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Excuse me. It's a mental issue. It's not a physical issue. It's not a social construct.
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And the authors of this Swedish report noted that, yeah, surgery may alleviate
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a very certain specific dysphoria, but it doesn't touch on any of the other issues,
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the core issues, the foundational issues of why you're...
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So, yeah, it's just a big, massive, drastic fix for one very small problem.
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All the other problems remain.
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So all that data, and not just all that data, but plenty of other data that I looked at,
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it's crystal clear to me that the majority of the cases that gender dysphoria
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is entangled with and exacerbated by other preexisting psychological issues,
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it's not a standalone issue most of the time.
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And certainly not just your true identity to be treated by.
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And the method of just affirmation, like, oh, we must affirm,
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we must affirm their, that's bizarre.
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So you're taking a psychological issue and you say, no, yeah,
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you're absolutely right. So that's just making it worse.
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And that creates very high risk that reinforces their own narrow focus of what's
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going on within their identity.
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And that don't address any of the other issues. And that's what's going on.
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And that's almost like a denial.
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It is. It's a denial that that's what's going on that I see with the Ellen pages of the world.
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Is that not only are they trying to tell us that, oh, well, nature,
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the reason she believes that gender is a construct and sex is a construct,
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is that she's been affirmed and reaffirmed over and over again.
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Nobody's ever said, hey, you might have a fucking problem because if you challenge
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her, you're a bigot or a homophobe or a transphobe.
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So then we look at exploratory therapy that explores the whole broad range of mental problems.
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And activists like Ellen Page want to reframe that.
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And in some places, that is as banned as conversion therapy.
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So that's how they want to frame it up. Well, you're trying to convert me.
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And that just narrows the options for actual genuine wellness.
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By rejecting, well, multiple options, complex options that might be needed most,
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the contradiction is monumental.
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Into non-binary a little bit. I was talking about transgender mostly there.
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The non-binary sort of kids who identify that, right? One, that's mostly in young adults.
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And that surged among young adults and over the past, you know, 10 years, maybe.
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It doesn't have any clinically, I don't, it doesn't have any sort of long,
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long standing sort of persistent dysphoria in that, that you see with the trans,
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it correlates more with social media and online influences and all these other externals.
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And the psychology of it kind of involves like just exploration, gender exploration.
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And, well, peer pressure because, hey.
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That community can pressure like no other.
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You got all the pop, you know, you got the, you know, ga-gas and all these out
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there who push all this shit.
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And so, yeah, they're exploring all these identities. I'm non-binary. I'm not this or that.
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Well, and then I think sooner or later, you ultimately grow out of that.
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I think the non-binary stuff is a little more superficial than the trans stuff, I think.
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The trans stuff is superficial, but on a much deeper level.
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I know that's a contradiction. Superficial on a deeper level.
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They're so wrapped up with what they look like on the surface.
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Whereas non-binaries, they're exploring, and it's just surface level exploring.
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For the most part.
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All right. So how did we get to this place so far? How did we get to this place so far?
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It started in the 70s, and, well, the conversation started in the 70s.
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I'm not saying there hasn't been trans, well, cross-dressers and whatnot,
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and trans people and whatever prior to that.
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But in 1973, the APA, the American Psychological Association,
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removed homosexuality from the DSM.
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The DSM is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
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And apparently it's the authority on all things mental disorder, right?
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But in 1973, it was removed as a mental disorder.
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And it was not because of any new studies or any new scientific breakthroughs, nope.
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It was because of heavy activist pressure, including protests and disruptions
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of APA goings-ons, meetings and events,
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membership votes, all the things.
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It was activists protesting these people, and so that prompted—and,
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would that protest read intimidation?
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And that's arguable. Some people deny that the doctors were intimidated.
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Of course, they're going to deny that.
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That intimidation and all those protests prompted Dr.
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Robert Spitzer to reclassify and go and kind of change the metric a little bit.
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And it was a doctor-led process for sure, but not organically,
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not based off new information, just pressure.
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And so they took it out of DSM because the activists said, oh,
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that's oppressive. It's oppressive to call me, to tell me I have a mental disorder.
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Love is love. Transsexualism didn't even get into the DSM until 1980.
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Now since then revisions of the dsm since then have softened the language on it,
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and and has shifted kind of emphasis on on where the problem actually is but,
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i think one one of the revisions but it became gender dysphoria,
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and it focused on distress rather than identity right the problems you feel
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from this versus the identity you want to present.
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So even then, they softened it up so much so that.
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Well, you're okay. And then in the International Classification of Diseases, the ICD,
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they took, it was labeled gender incongruence, and they eventually took out
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the mental disorders chapter out of that completely. Ha ha.
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Changes occurred under pressure however pressure on the professional bodies
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themselves pressures on medical organizations pressures on media,
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media is the one doing the pressuring now right they're all on board with whatever the,
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party line is so again it was social and political activism that pressured the
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changes not science whereas Ellen Page is telling us that,
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that it was social pressure that caused us to create gender,
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well, demonstrably here we see that it's actually social and political pressure
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that's causing us to try to erase it.
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So these activists living in their little social structure that refuses to call
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out gender dysphoria and other related pathologies for their true nature.
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Identity crisis along with psychiatric overlaps, they operate through multiple,
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and very organized lines of effort.
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That's how the pressure works. That's how any pressure works.
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Multiple organized lines of effort.
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You can apply that to anything. Well, they've picked up the tactics.
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So they They pressure institutional, they influence institutions.
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So the guidelines from these medical groups prioritize affirmation versus actual treatment.
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And furthermore, treat dissent as illegitimate. Like if I disagree with it, I'm wrong.
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And then there's sort of social and professional influence where they label
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any disagreement as hate or bigotry or phobia.
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So it makes disagreeing with them very costly, right? You get canceled,
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cancel culture because you hate, because you're full of hate.
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And then that feeds into the control in the narrative. And,
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they try to frame it as a civil rights issue and that it's, we were born this way.
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So therefore it's a civil rights issue.
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They just completely ignore the mental health aspect of the whole thing and
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the fact that you're doing medical surgery on healthy tissue.
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Then they try to influence the legal aspect, the policy aspect of it from the
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government perspective with all
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this gender affirming care that then they expect other people to pay for,
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because they try to shape it up as it's settled science.
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Well, hopefully this podcast here alone will tell you that it's not settled science at all.
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There's very little and very weak evidence that there are any benefits from,
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transitioning long-term, especially for youth, especially for youth.
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And for those of you out there who do agree with giving minors hormones or pre-medity
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blockers or whatever, I think you're criminal.
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Literally, I think that is criminal.
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That is child abuse. You are trying to influence your child.
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Just because a seven-year-old tells you, a seven-year-old boy says,
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oh, mommy, I like dresses. Because you're not letting this child develop naturally.
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So the earlier you try to disrupt that natural progress, the more culpable you
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are, the more criminal you are.
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Hey, once you're grown, do what you want.
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With you either way don't think
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i'm a bigot i'm not i'm just i'm just telling you what i see as facts,
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or backed by evidence so anyway these people there's all these activists in
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the pressure and and what this creates is a god dang feedback loop and,
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where the the actual true classifications of an illness or the treatment models,
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they're not informed by data by science by fact they're informed by political
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and social cost of questioning them.
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It gets very costly to battle the TQIA plus cartel.
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And yes, I left LGB out of that on purpose.
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That's a whole other episode.
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So the contradictions are plentiful, folks. The contradictions are plentiful.
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The very segment of society screaming about fascist and oppression use fascist
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and oppressive tactics and,
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identify nature and science,
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and then force not only tolerance, but acceptance and celebration of their own distorted reality,
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because it is a distorted reality. So the way it is now, it ain't love is love.
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The way it is now is you are either an ally in full support,
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or you're an enemy to be deleted.
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That's the way it is now. That's what happens when we keep on with these extreme
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measures and this extreme hyperbole.
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The loudest voices out there, they insist on all this radical self-acceptance
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and universal acceptance for people as they are.
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And I'm here for it. I'm here for that.
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Yeah, I'm here for that. I accept people as they are.
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Even if you have done full-blown sexual transition, but we can have a well-mannered, polite conversation.
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Yeah, I'm here for it.
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Do I think you're wrong? Yeah, probably. Yeah, but so what?
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So these loud voices demanding. But in practice,
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in practice, they demand that you accept the proposition that the natural body
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can be rejected and medically altered to match whatever state of mind you feel.
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That the state of mind itself may be wrong.
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They can't even allow that, hey, I may be wrong. And that's arrogance.
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And that anybody who don't affirm their extreme measures just must be profoundly unhappy and hateful.
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That's the big contradiction. That's crazy.
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Well, true self-acceptance, and I mean in the classical sense,
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means coming to terms with the body that you have and the constraints of reality.
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I know we like to believe anything is possible, and it is. You can cut your penis off.
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But it's outside the constraints of reality.
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And the transgender community converts this, inverts this, that the body must
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be made to conform to the mind and not the other way around.
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And a society must be made to conform to the edited version of this body.
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And dissenters, people like me, are pathologized for noticing the edit.
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And biological sex, it is binary, and it's observable.
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There are disorders out there that are anomalies that are rare.
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Dimorphism or hermaphrodite, whatever, or atypical genitalia.
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Those are .0001%, right? They exist, and those people aren't any less valid people.
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And those.
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Well, physical disorders in these two cases, they may cause you some angst and
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you may want to chop one or the other or do something.
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But ultimately, here's self-acceptance and self-love. You're born the way you're born.
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Own it, love it, be proud of it.
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That's true self-acceptance.
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And gender dysphoria is the real distress that is experienced by a very small number of people.
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The rest of it, I think, is, I'm going to say, fashion statement.
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And having compassion for these people, and I mean trans people all over,
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not just these with the anomalies.
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Having compassion for these people, and understand I have compassion.
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That don't require for me to pretend that sex is subjective or construct or
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that medical transition is a healthy option.
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Haven't addressed the other psychological issues,
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all right i wrote a thing here and i'm gonna i'm gonna this is an exploration,
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and it's kind of an analogy and i want you to stay with me but i wrote this
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i was in a deep thought over this stuff you take a base model human,
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shaped by, well, divine design. Millions of years of natural code,
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chromosomes, gametes, developmental pathways,
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our natural complex self.
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And then you try to feed it new code and new instructions and new cross-sex hormones.
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And you do the surgeries and you change according to social prompts and social
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pressures, that can generate a very, very convincing facsimile.
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The appearance will be different, clearly. Your secondary characteristics,
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the way you talk and the way you do it, your behavioral approximations to what,
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you were a man, but now you act more like a woman.
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Look pretty polished, and it can pass superficial scrutiny,
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and even it can serve some pretty specific functions, I suppose.
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But the underlying architecture,
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never rewrites itself. That new code doesn't apply to the underlying architecture.
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It never changes.
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The original hardware, it remains.
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And it's still running. It's running on now edited parameters and edited commands.
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But there are no new gametes. There are no new, there's no new DNA. The DNA is unchanged.
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The skeletal structure is unchanged. Your organ systems are unchanged.
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Changed your reproductive reality exists and it's all running on the original code the natural code.
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And what we see is just a simulation it's not natural and much like artificial
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intelligence art or deep fake ai video,
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you can tell that there's very impressive engineering there that's useful for
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certain purposes, very narrowly defined purposes.
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I barely distinguish the fake from the real.
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But much like AI, it lacks any organic soul of the real and original thing.
48:32
It lacks any natural blooming of creation that wasn't somehow reverse engineered or whatnot.
48:42
It's just manipulated filters. layered over an unchangeable foundation.
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Something feels off. The essence wasn't organically transformed. It was simply edited.
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This whole thing, it's an overt structural contradiction.
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Structural contradiction. Structural contradiction.
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And they lecture us about the importance of self-love and simultaneously demand
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validation for the manipulation and in some cases mutilation of their own bodies to escape who they are.
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They demonize those of us who refuse to participate in the edit.
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And this is the contradiction that it runs through, well, what I see as a failing project.
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Good people, especially the trans people out there,
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listening. The goal here is clarity on observable patterns and logical intellectual consistency.
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It's not cruelty and it's not bigotry.
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And it's not hate and it's not some sort of phobia.
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Internal suffering exists. I know it does.
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So don't view my honest examination of the causes and the evidence for practical
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and efficient remedies. Don't view that as hatred. It's not.
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Good people. There's going to be a handful of podcasts forthcoming on various contradictions.
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Some of them are a little political and they hammer on the left,
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but don't worry. I'm going to, I'm going to, we're going to look at the right
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as well when it comes to contradictions.
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So that's what, that's what's been going on in my mind past week or so, couple weeks.
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So anyway, I appreciate you listening.
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I appreciate your feedback. And if you disagree with me, I appreciate you,
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you know, hitting me up. Let's talk about it.
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