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your support. Alrighty, so story at the Charlotte Observer by

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Chase Jordan. Atrium Health big hospital chain here used to

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be Carolina's Medical Center, I believe CMC, and now it's Atrium,

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but now I think they're actually they're owned by another

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parent company called Advocate Health, which it's kind of like

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one of those it's kind of like one of those

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names of a bill that is like the opposite of

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what it's actually going to do, you know. Anyway, I kid,

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I kid, I kid. The hospitals Atrium Health recently stopped

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providing gender affirming medication. By the way, this is a

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good example of how the media defers to the leftists

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for their narrative crafting by adopting the vocabulary that the

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left demands it adopts. Right. That's why you see things

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like gender affirming care, gender affirming medication, and by the way,

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I did count it up, fifteen mentions of gender affirming

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in this piece. Also, nothing in this piece, not a

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single counterpoint to the gender affirming care narrative. Okay, So

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it's just allowed to stand as sort of a foundational

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truth underpinning all of the rest of the story. It's

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never questioned, which is something that once you, once you

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sort of practice the challenging of the assumptions, a lot

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of these reports but also a lot of arguments kind

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of disintegrate before you. It is because you once you start,

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once you start trying to assess what is the underlying assumption,

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then you get at the core of your political opponent's argument, right,

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And when you challenge that and you go after that

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underlying assumption, then their argument disintegrates and you are no

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longer trapped in this vocabularic box that is crafted by them.

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Because see, gender affirming care puts you on the defensive,

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because if you adopt that language, then that means you're

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anti affirmation. That means you're denying, right, You're denying transgenderism.

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You're denying somebody healthcare. Right. But if you get at

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the root of it, the root of this term gender

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affirming care or medication whatever, it's not actually gender affirmation.

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It's denial. It's denial of your biological sex. That's what

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this is. And so the media, this is an example

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of how reporters and publications will adopt whatever the left

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tells them to adopt as the new norm for how

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to define issues. This is why, you know, women's reproductive

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rights or reproductive care, that's why they use those terms. Now.

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It's because the left keeps shopping, you know, keeps workshopping

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these different focus group tested terms in order to mask

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what is actually occurring. Right, they didn't like the pro choice,

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and the same thing happens with like different labels. They

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have been doing it my entire life when trying to

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define you know, black people versus white people versus Hispanic people. Right,

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they changed black and then because like when I was

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growing up, black got changed to African American, and then

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it got changed back to black but with a capitalized

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B right now, and then that became the norm and

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the ap and all of these publications still do that

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that is a political position that they have adopted to

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capitalize the B in black when describing somebody's race. They

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do not capitalize the W because they're going to like

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right historic wrongs between the races through capitalization or something. So.

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Atrium Health recently stopped providing sex denying medication for people

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under eighteen or eighteen younger, I should say, a move

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that transgender rights and other LGBTQ organizations around the Charlotte

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region immediately decried. They claim that the Charlotte areas largest

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healthcare provider buckled under political pressure. Okay, well it's actually

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the law now, so it's not like you're buckling under

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political pressure. You you're conforming with the law. Okay. For

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LGBTQ rights groups issued a blistering statement on the Facebook.

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The statement was on the page for Time Out Youth,

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a Charlotte nonprofit providing resources for LGBTQ plus people ages

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thirteen to twenty four. The group was joined by Charlotte

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trans Health, the Gender Education Network, and p Flag Charlotte. Oh,

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maybe the P is silent there. Maybe it's just flag

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because it's pflag, or maybe it's not silent and it's

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just like per flag like Puffifer. I don't know the

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groups said Atrium and its parent company, Advocate Health, are

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making a decision based on fear of retaliation by hostile

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federal agencies or funding cuts. Once again, it is also

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to comply with state law. In January, President Donald Trump

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issued in an executive order limiting youth access to gender

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affirming care or sex denying procedures and medications. It defines

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individuals as nineteen or young under the age of nineteen,

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so eighteen and younger, right, and they define that as children.

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And I guess I'm supposed to be outraged that we're

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now defining eighteen year olds as children or something, because

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I'm old enough to remember when children were deemed to

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be twenty six and younger in order to stay on

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mom and dad's health insurance, they were called children through

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age twenty six. So now it's eight so we're back

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to eighteen again. See this is this goes to another issue.

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I'm not going to get into it, but it's like

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these rights of passage that mark your progression from childhood

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into adulthood. You know, I really do think that as

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a society, we should we should try to figure out

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a number, you know, just a uniform age when like,

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once you hit this age, you are now full blown adult,

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Like you have gone through the registering to vote, registering

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for the draft, right driver's license, you know, off of

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mom and dad's insurance. You could finally get the you know,

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the the transgender bottom and top surgeries all on your own,

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Like you get to make your own decisions, enter legal

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documents and agreements and such like, we need to pick

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an age. Do we want to make it twenty one?

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Like alcohol purchases tobacco purchases. Is it going to be

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twenty one and a twenty one? That's it? You're an adult.

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That's it no more, you know. Anyway, Advocate Health said

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that it has been closely following the evolving healthcare regulatory

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environment and acknowledged a changing federal environment. So again, this

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is a very lengthy piece. It's like a fifteen minute

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piece that takes you to read, and it's like four

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pages here, and never once in this do they actually

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address any of the competing science. They don't talk about

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it at all. It's just it's just a given. It

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is an assumption that all of this ideology is the science,

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and that this is the true and correct way, and

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that anybody who disagrees with this is anti science or

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their bigots. But that's not the case. What is the

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case is that the quote science was never really science

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in the first place. It was political ideology that had

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infected the medical industry. And now you've got other countries,

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you've got other medical organizations, and some have been opposed

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to this stuff from the very beginning, but they were

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peer pressured and they were shunned if they didn't get

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on board. But now we have the data, we have

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the science, we have the longer term studies that show

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there really aren't any benefits here, and in fact, most

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of the kids who are suffering from gender dysphoria will

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grow out of it after puberty. All Right, if you're

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more transparent. The leaders of the Advocate Health System, parent

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company of Atrium Health, announced the policy change to Atrium

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affiliated clinicians and pharmacists during what they called a very

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difficult Microsoft Teams meeting, which I think that actually describes

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like virtually every single time I use Teams, that's usually

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what happens there. Anyway, I'm just kidding. I like Teams

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just fine. A doctor associated with Atrium Health who was

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in that meeting provided an audio recording of it to

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The Charlotte observer and asked not to be named because

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they were not authorized to share the recording. The Justice

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Department also issued a new policy memo that could have

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significant implications for healthcare professionals, they said during this meeting.

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It suggested that doctors and other clinicians who provide specific

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types of gender affirming or sex denying care, both medical

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and surgical, to individuals under the age of nineteen, may

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face criminal charges. The memo also includes provisions that encourage

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and protect whistleblowers who report violations. Let me skip to

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the Uh yeah, let me skip ahead here too. This

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is a very lengthy piece. I've got to I highlight

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too much stuff in these articles. That's one of my problems.

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I highlight way too many things. So doctor Holla, executive

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director for Charlotte Tran's Health and Advocacy Group, expressed concern

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and disappointment over the decision, saying Atrium is operating out

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of fear rather than standing up for evidence based care.

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It's not standing behind the science and data. I say

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it like that because that's the mantra during COVID remember

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like in order to like if you like, when we

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were all gripped in the cult of the branch Covidians.

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This was their their mantra that was utilized in order

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to get people to you know, genuflect at the altar properly.

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It was all the science and data. And so they

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still cite these things, except now I can't ever hear

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them say the science or the data. I can't ever

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hear them say it without thinking of the mantra anyway.

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Advocate Health will focus on alternative, non invasive care such

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as behavioral health and peer support for patients. Yeah, counseling

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is fine. Counseling is absolutely fine. See, And what happened

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was these institutions became so captured by this ideology that

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they would give people like a cursory five minute consult

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and then start prescribing them all of the puberty blockers

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and such. There are reports from all over the country

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that this has been occurring. You can buy these things

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too online, so people are skirting laws like that now.

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There is also, as I mentioned, the state law House

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Pill eight to eight, enacted in twenty twenty three. It

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prohibits puberty blockers and surgical gender transition procedures for minors

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who had not already started treatment as of August one,

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twenty twenty three. Okay, so if you were already down

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that path, sorry, you're going to have to live with

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those consequences. So if you ever want a detransition, it's

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going to be very, very difficult. But if you're a

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kid that hasn't started any of that, you're not going

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to be able to get those things until you are adult.

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considered like, that's your choice at that point. But there

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is a reason, for example, that we don't allow parents

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to tattoo their children. Okay, you don't get to use

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your kid as some sort of virtual signaling accessory. Okay.

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Atrium Health hasn't provided surgical gender transition procedures for minors

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under eighteen since the law was passed, which tells you

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what that they were doing. It that they were doing

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these transition surgeries on kids prior to the law being passed,

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which we were told there was no need to pass

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the law because this stuff never happens. But there's Atrium saying, oh,

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we actually were doing that until the law and then

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we stopped again. Not one single mention, not one counterpoint

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to the gender affirming care narrative, offered up in this

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lengthy Charlotte Observer piece is So that is the difference

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between seeking to inform and educate your audience versus propagandizing

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to your audience telling them what they want to hear,

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simply to reinforce their priors to signal that they're better

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than everyone else. I believe the quote, right, thing, I

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believe in the science and data. I am a true follower. Right.

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All of this stuff is simply regurgitated as fact, and

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it represents no competing claims. In the piece, they offer

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no representation for the competing claims, which is a standard

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practice in actual journalism, especially when you're talking about an

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issue like this, where the medical community is in fact

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debating this. They are divided. The community is divided on

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the proper approaches. It allows to stand uncontested that this

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notion that this is simply some form of targeted discrimination

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rather than protection of vulnerable kids in mental health crisis,

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because that's what other experts say, like the kids who

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are suffering from gender dysphoria. Right, there's usually the majority,

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and this is what the science and data, it's what

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it shows is that the kids who have these afflictions

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have underlying mental health issues. They're suffering from something else.

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There's something that triggers their dysphoria, and over time with counseling,

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but even sometimes without counseling, over time it dissipates. So

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you do not want to put a kid on a

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life altering course when you don't know if the thing

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that they are suffering from will eventually relieve on its own.

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There's no mention of research undermining the gender affirming care narrative,

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and there's no mention of any of the backtracking by

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European clinics and governments that were on the leading edge

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of this stuff, like they've actually dialed it back because

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they saw long term it's not working. Here's a great idea.

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covering on the Atrium Health ending the gender affirming meds

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for youths as they should, and I think we're going

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to look back on what we have done as a

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society to these kids. We're going to look back on

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it much like they look back on the eugenics programs

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that were implemented during the progressive era. Well, except for

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planned parenthood. The left is still all about that. But yeah,

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the eugenic stuff, I think it's going to be looked

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at like that. It's indefensible, except now you've got some

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You have too many people that have been advocating this

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or participating in it, or have you know, trans their kids,

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and they will be sort of like the Japanese soldiers

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on the remote Islands that they can't give up the fight.

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They just can't because if they are to acknowledge that

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they were wrong, then like, what did you do? And

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that's something that's going to be very difficult for people

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to live with for the rest of their lives. And

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I always say whenever I bring up this topic, this

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is not any attack on people who are afflicted with

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gender dysphoria or dysmorphia. I do not comprehend what it

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must be like to feel like you are in the

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wrong body. Your brain is telling you that part of

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your body does not belong. And this also occurs, by

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the way, people who believe that they're called transabilists. They

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believe that they should be blind. They were born with

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eyesight when they shouldn't have been. Their brain is telling

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them that they shouldn't be able to see. And there

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are cases where they will go blind themselves with chemicals

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and such people will cripple themselves because they believe that

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they are a paraplegic. People believe that they are morbidly obese,

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when in fact they are emaciated right anorexia bulimia. But

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in none of those other instances, in none of these

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other dysmorphic afflictions, is the protocol to tell the patient

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that their delusion is reality except for this one. This

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is the only one. And I believe the reason why

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is that people who proceed down this pathway become the

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most radical types of people, and politically they become radicals.

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And there and there is so there is a there

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is an incentive there for people to encourage this kind

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of behavior. There is also an incentive for platforms like

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the Chinese communists owned platform of TikTok to encourage this

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kind of behavior because it helps to blow up the

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nuclear families. And that's one of the pillars of communism

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is that you have to destroy the nuclear family. It's

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one of the greatest threats to Communism, to Marxism. But

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all of this ties into a piece that's at the Hill,

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a piece by Forrest Rahm and Kevin Waldman. They are

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opinion contributors. They are researchers in clinical and applied psychology

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at Northwestern University. And here's what they wrote. This was

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a couple days ago at the Hill dot com. On

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today's college campuses, students are not maturing, they are managing.

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Beneath a facade of progressive slogans and institutional virtue signaling

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lies a quiet psychological crisis driven by the demands of

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ideological conformity. Between twenty twenty three and twenty twenty five,

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they conducted a little bit more than fourteen hundred confidential

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interviews with undergrads at Northwestern University as well as the

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University of Michigan. We were not studying politics, We were

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studying development. Our question was clinical, not political. Here's the question,

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what happens to identity formation when belief is replaced by

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adherents to orthodoxy? And so, what they asked the kids was,

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have you ever pretended to hold more progressive views than

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you truly endorse to succeed socially or academically. In other words,

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did you hide your actual beliefs and go along with

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the progressive tide? Did you claim to be more progressive

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than you actually are in order to succeed, either academically

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or in your social circles. Eighty eight percent said yes,

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they lied. Eighty eight percent said they pretended to hold

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these progressive views when they actually do not, but they

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did so in order to get a better grade, in

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order to get an assignment, in order to get some

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friends to like them more, or to get in with

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a particular friend group, or something. The researcher say, these kids,

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these students were not cynical. They were adaptive. They were

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adapting to what was required in a campus environment where grades, leadership,

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and peer belonging often hinge on fluency in performative morality,

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which is a great term, performative morality. Right, It doesn't

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actually matter if you believe the thing. What matters is

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that you're performing the morality, which is why you could

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say you were against genocide while supporting Hamas Right, it's performative.

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These young adults learn quickly to rehearse what is safe

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the result is not conviction. The result is compliance, and

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beneath that compliance, something vital is lost. Late adolescents and

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early adulthood represent a narrow and non replicable development window.

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It is during this stage that individuals begin the lifelong

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work of integrating personal experience with inherited values, forming the

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foundations of moral reasoning, internal coherence, and emotional resilience. But

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when belief is prescriptive and ideological divergence is treated as

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some sort of a social risk, well, then the integrative

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process stalls. Rather than forging some durable sense of who

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you are, of your sense of self through trial and

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error and reflection, the students. Instead they learn to compartmentalize.

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Oh I have to say this thing in front of

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these people. Oh I have to do this with those

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people publicly. They conform privately, they question often in isolation.

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Hence the rise of podcasts. Right, That's why people are

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listening to shows like this and podcasts like this. They

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are listening to this stuff in isolation because they cannot

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engage with these ideas with their peers or teachers, because

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I have an email from Ian who wants me to

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wish his wife, doctor Nina, a happy birthday. Happy birthday,

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doctor Nina. Do do do do do? And yes, I

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do those for pay, so if you would like, I'm

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just kidding, I don't charge for that. So this piece

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at the Hill, written by these two researchers at Northwestern University,

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performative virtue signaling has become a threat to higher education.

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And I would say it's actually more than just higher education.

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It's it's society. It's civilization. It's this year, it's you know,

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the next generation, next generation. When you teach kids that

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publicly they have to conform with the progressive view when

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they actually don't agree with that, but they feel they

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have to go along with all of that in order

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to get ahead. Like that's that's not a helpful thing

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for their development, but it's also not helpful for the society.

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I mentioned this the other day as well, and this

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is another example of it, which is the Rush Limbaugh example. Right,

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millions of people all over America thought that they alone

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had these questions and concerns and different opinions about various

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current events and political parties and figures and whatever. But

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they thought they were alone. And then Limbaugh gets on

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the air and he starts saying the things that they thought,

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and that creates they That creates a permission structure. You

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are now aware that you are not alone. And then

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you're hearing people call in and they're saying, I agree

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with you, rush diddo, right, I agree, I agree. And

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by the way, the diddo is the ditto is that

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you're saying, I, uh, you know, love your show, first

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time caller, longtime listener, love your show, whatever. So you

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just say ditto because you're saying the same thing that

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somebody else said. Anyway, that was where that came from.

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But anyway, the point here is that but people then

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had permission to say these things and say, I don't

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agree with this whatever narrative, the mainstream narrative that's being

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promoted by the only three TV networks that are out there,

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the handful of legacy media outlets that set the template

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of what was news of the day. And this is

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the same thing. Right, there needs to be a permission structure. Granted,

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the same thing happened just now in the last election

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with Donald Trump, right that it was why you saw

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football players doing that Trump dance thing as their touchdown celebrations.

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All of a sudden, it was okay to say I'm

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going to vote for Donald Trump, and people are no

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longer afraid or worried about saying this. The fever breaks right.

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Then comes the preference cascade, slowly at first, slowly, slowly,

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and then very quickly, and boom, the damn breaks right. Publicly,

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these kids are conformed, but privately they are questioning. The

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split between outer presentation and inner conviction not only fragments

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their identity, their own sense of self, but it arrests

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its development. They don't even know who they are because

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they're playing one role to the public, but internally they

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think something else. And by the way, this is the

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point of indoctrination, this is the point. It's to break you.

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It's to make you think in a certain way, at

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least publicly, because they can never fully know what you're

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is going on in your own head. And eventually people

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break and it's like, well, I might as well just

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give in. I mean, the stupid people will always go

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along with whatever you know they're being told is the

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truth and they never question it. But people who do question.

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The point is to break them in order to conform

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so they don't become troublemakers. That's the point of indoctrination,

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and unfortunately that has become the point of a lot

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twelve education. Seventy eight percent of students told us they

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self center their beliefs surrounding gender identity. Seventy eight percent

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self center, see we are the majority on this issue.

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Seventy two percent self censer on politics, sixty eight percent

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on family values. More than eighty percent said they had

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submitted class work that misrepresented their views simply to align

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with the views of their professors. In public, students echoed

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expected progressive narratives in private, though their views were more complex.

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Eighty seven percent identified as exclusively heterosexual and supported a

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binary model of gender. There's only two sexes, only two genders,

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male and female. Nine percent expressed partial openness to gender fluidity.

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Just seven percent embraced the idea of gender as a

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broad spectrum, and most of these belonged to activist circles.

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Those those are the radicals seven percent. That's what we're

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talking about seven percent. But they are dictating everything because

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people are afraid to stand up, because they think that

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they are alone. Seventy seven percent said they disagreed with

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the idea that gender identity should override biological sects in

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domains such as sports, healthcare, or public data, but they

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would never voice that disagreement allowed. We are on the

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side of the seventy seven percent majority. We are the

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vast majority here on this issue. But people are afraid

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to talk about it because they will get fired, they

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will get a lower grade, they will lose friends a few.

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It's the achy position to take what are you some fascist?

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You're a bigot? They don't want to be called names,

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because here's the thing. Generally speaking, nice people, good people,

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kind people don't like to be called these names. They're

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afraid what other people are going to think about them

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if someone's running around calling them a biggot because they

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know they're not a bigot, but the radicals call you that,

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and then everybody just goes along with it. Authenticity, once

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considered a psychological good, has become a social liability. Nearly

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half said they routinely conceal beliefs in intimate relationships for

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fear of ideological fallout. This is not simply peer pressure.

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It is identity regulation at scale. And it is being institutionalized.

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Verities often justify these dynamics in the name of inclusion,

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but inclusion that demands dishonesty is not ensuring psychological safety.

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It's sanctioning self abandonment. If you're trying to engineer moral unity,

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higher education has mistaken consensus for growth and compliance for care, unless,

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of course, see this is why I say, if the

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results don't make sense, always reassess the assumptions. You're assuming

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that growth and care were actually what the universities were

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attempting to achieve. See and I would submit that they

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have not been. They have not been attempting to achieve

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that they've been attempting to achieve consensus and compliance, because

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that's how you get your troops for the fight for

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the long march through the institutions. Whence dismantling these institutions

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of Western civilization. You need these troops for students trained

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to perform the act of telling the truth felt radical

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faculty administrators and institutional leaders who built a system that

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rewards moral theater while punishing inquiry. In shielding students from discomfort,

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they have shielded them from their own discovery. The result

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is a generation confident in self righteousness, but uncertain in themselves.

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All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you

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