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your support. Last hour talked about the executive order that
Donald Trump signed limiting girls and women's sports to only
girls and women, and went over the AP story on that,
and there was a reference in that story to this
also from the AP. Trump order aims to end federal
support for gender transitions for those under the age of nineteen.
President Trump signed the EO aimed at cutting federal support
for gender transitions for people under age nineteen. His latest
move to rollback protections for transgender people across the country
not a protection. See this is the way the Associated
Press and there. Look, I don't mean to pick on
the AP only because all the media outlets do this,
but the AP is the source for most media operations.
There's a thing called the AP style Book. And that
AP style book tells all these media outlets what the
AP uses when they describe certain things, and they talk
about like they say, this is the way you're supposed
to refer to this thing, and you know formatics like
when referring to a you know, a congress person, you know,
you see the little parentheses after their name and it'll
say are dash and see like that's all a that
all comes from the style books. So there's a uniform
way that the AP wrights all of their stuff. Because
the AP is all over the globe and they would
send in stories and stuff, and so they wanted all
of their stuff to look the same, and so they
made their style book for themselves, for the AP writers
all around the world, and then they would give those
style books to all of their affiliates. So like if
we were in and WBT used to be plugged into
the AP network, and so we would get the wires,
we would get the AP wires. You had to pay
them for that service. And so you would see they
were always written in the AP style. But what that
means is that they then dictate what words to use.
So when they changed no longer using for example, illegal
alien when they said, we're not going to call them
illegal aliens anymore, we're going to I forget what the
original change was. It may have been undocumented immigrant, and
then somewhere along the line it turned into migrant. Right,
That's where this stuff comes from. The activists push this stuff,
and as soon as it gets purchase in the AP,
then it gets disseminated throughout all of their affiliated news operations.
And virtually every news operation is affiliated still with the
AP or Reuters or both. President Trump, so when he
signs this thing, the AP says it rolls back protections,
because that's the way the AP frames this. But it's
not a protection for a kid that is going through
a mental health crisis, usually because there's some other underlying
trauma or mental health issue. And then they are like,
I don't think I'm really a girl, I don't think
I'm really a boy, or whatever, and then they kind
of get fast tracked with the puberty blockers and the
hormone treatments and then into the surgery track. And you're
not protecting that kid. That's not a protection. If it was,
then how do you explain p people who have the
regrets and try to detransition after they've been on these blockers, which,
by the way, you know, this is sterilization, And this
is the stuff that the AP never talks about. They never,
just like with the abortion issue, they never talk about
what actually is occurring. When you describe what actually occurs
in these procedures or the results of these quote treatments,
people become repulsed, People recoil from the information, and the
AP knows this. The activist crowd knows this, and that's
why they don't talk about that. That's why they don't.
Why do you think David Delighting got so much guff
when he got the undercover videos of the planned parenthood
operations that were trafficking in the baby body parts, right,
Why do you think they came down on him? So
Kamala Harris I would point out at the time State
Attorney General. Why do you think that they came down
so hard on that? It's because they don't want people
to know what actually occurs. They don't. They just want
it to be this euphemism of choice or this euphemism
of gender affirming care GAC, or as I like to
refer to it, GHAK. It is the policy of the
United States that it will not fund, sponsor promote, assist,
or support the so called quote transition of a child
from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce
all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life
altering procedures. According to the executive order, The order directs
that federally run insurance programs, including TRY Care for Military
Families and Medicaid. The order directs them to exclude coverage
for such quote care. No find a better word, ap
it's not care. By the way, something I learned yesterday.
Did you know that the puberty blockers, the way they
are used for these types of experiments is that's off label?
Did you know that they're off label? Doctors are prescribing
these things off label for off label use, which means
what not what they were intended for. And people became
very aware of this during COVID when drugs like ivermectin
and hydroxychloroquin which have been found through studies and decades
of experience to fight respiratory viruses, and that was considered
to be off label, and then they clamped down on
that because it wasn't specifically for the COVID nineteen virus,
which is a SARS virus which those two drugs can
help with. It is the policy I read that. Sorry,
the order directs that you're not going to get the
federal funds, and that's a big deal for these hospital systems.
Medicaid programs in some states cover gender affirming care, but
apparently not all states. The new order suggests the practice
could end, and targets hospitals and universities that receive federal
money and provide the care. The language in the executive
order using words like maiming, sterilizing, and mutilation, well, that's
what it is. That is what it is. I challenge
you to look at the photos of what these procedures
do to people. I challenge you to look at those
photos and defend them as something other than maiming. When
you remove an appendage from a person, you are maiming them.
Whether they want it removed or not, they are maimed.
They are no longer able to use that thing, rightation, Yep,
that's what happens. But a thirteen year old kid's going
to understand what that means. They'll have no idea what
that means. And mutilation, I don't want to get too
graphic here. But have you seen how they create the
male organ. You know, where they get all that extra
flesh from. It's your own body, it's your forearm. They
cut a sleeve of muscle and fat and tissue off
of your off your forearm from your elbow almost to
your wrist. It never grows back, and so it kind
of looks like your hand kind of looks like it's
at the it's the end of a cute tip because
now your arm is super thin, because there's like nothing
left on except the bone and some ligaments and stuff.
And they cut it out and they get they like
peel off this cuff and then they wrap it all
up and you know, graft maybe some skin on it
and whatnot. And it never looks the same. It can't.
It never is anything other than what it's gonna be.
You can't build up the muscles there anymore. There are
any muscles. They're being used for something else, but they're
not actually getting used because it's not functional, you know,
because it's not a sex organ. It's a forearm muscle. Again,
not trying to be graphic, but I challenge you to
look at those photos and tell me that that is
not quote unquote mutilation. All right, I hope you had
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who Abigail Shreier is? Well, have you been listening to
my show? Even before I got back to BT, when
I was doing the podcast, I mean, and even before then,
when I was doing the HB two stuff. You should
be aware of Abigail Shreier. She was at the forefront
of the opposition to this transgender social contagion and standing
up and saying stop, like this is not really happening.
This is not a real thing. This is a social contagion,
particularly the rapid onset gender dysphoria, and that is like
when you see those stories. And she wrote a book.
Her first book was called Irreversible Damage, the Transgender Craze,
Seducing Our Daughters. That was in twenty twenty and it
was targeted for a ban by the ACLU of all Organizations,
which would tell you everything you need to know about
where the ACLU stands now on actual civil liberties. Her
second book was called Bad Therapy, Why the Kids Aren't
Growing Up? And that deals not just with affirmative therapy,
but the therapization of all of life for young people
in America. And people then begin identifying themselves as their
ailments as their afflictions as their mental health issue like Hi,
I'm pede, I am boom boom boom boom boom, like
all these different mental health problems, and that's how they
see themselves. And that's not how you get past those
types of burdens. By the way, you don't get better
by believing that you're constantly the victim of this thing.
You get better by addressing it. In a mental health scenario.
That's how you get better is through you go through it.
You face the fear, you face the issue, and you
go through it. For the record, I am not a
clinical psychologist, psychiatrist, nor do I have any training whatsoever.
But I did know some crazy people. So when the
history of twenty first century gendermania is written, she says,
it should include this entry, this signal entry. In twenty twenty,
there was a website called GoFundMe, usually a place to
find disaster relief appeals and charities for starving kids, and
it contained more than thirty thousand urgent appeals from young
women wanting to remove their perfectly healthy breasts. In twenty twenty,
thirty thousand gofundmes. Another entry June twenty twenty The New
England Journal of Medicine, America's platinum medical publication, published a
piece explaining that biological sex is actually assigned at birth
by a doctor and is not a verifiable fact based
on our gameats stamped into every one of our chromosomes. No, no,
the New England Journal of Medicine tells us, it's a
doctor's decision and the doctor is assigning you at birth.
Public schools began asking elementary schools whether they might students
whether they might like to identify as gender queer or
non binary, and any dissent from this gender movement was
met with suppression. The American Civil Liberties union most prominent lawyer,
Chase Strange, Oh that's his name or her name, announced
his her intention to suppress her book irreversible damage, saying, quote,
stopping the circulation of this book and these ideas is
one hundred percent a hill I will die on. A
couple weeks later, Amazon deleted from its store from its
website a book by Ryan Anderson that criticized the transgender
medical industry. Right, this was censorship, and she says if
it seems odd that this spell of pediatric gender medicine
should have ended by politicians and not physicians like a
politician like Trump of all people. Right, consider that in America,
politics is how this began, she says, And specifically it
began with Obamacare. Section fifteen fifty seven, to be precise,
of the Affordable Care Act. President Obama's signature. Legislation incentivized
and coerced private insurers to offer their products on the
government exchanges. Well, when the website's finally got working again,
then it forced insurers, you have to offer these coverages.
It prohibited the companies from discriminating on the basis of sex.
And in May of twenty sixteen, six years after the
bill was enacted, after the Affordable Care Act passed, the
Obama Administration's Department of Health and Human Services added this
faithful qualification that discrimination on the basis of sex was
to include discrimination on the basis of gender identity. You
have heard me say for years, for will, since twenty sixteen,
I have been making this joke. It is in mockery
of this, which is at the same time the leftists
are telling us that sex and gender are different, they
also say it is the same. For purposes of this
particular thing I'm trying to do, right, sex and gender
are totally different, unless the law says sex, in which
case then I think it also means gender identity. They
want it both ways, which really does sum up the
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that'll last a lifetime. Abigail Schreier writes at the Truthferry
dot info. That's her website. This piece appeared though at
the Free Press, and she talks about the origin of
this transgender fever that spread throughout America and much of
the West. But she tracks it to section fifteen fifty
seven of the Affordable Care Act Obama effectively and she
has a quote here from healthcare executive and gender medicine
researcher Zenya Abruzizi, who said Obama effectively wrote into law
through healthcare that gender identity is a protected class. That
opened a huge new source of funding for these treatments
because once these insurers feel like they have to cover
it in order to get access to the Obamacare exchanges
right to offer their plans for sale. That's it, you
turned on the engine. If an insurer covers testosterone to
treat a man who was deficient in testosterone, then, according
to gender ideologies cracked logic, that insurer would also need
to cover testosterone for a woman identifying as a man.
If a procedure to remove a man's unwanted breast tissue
was covered, then a similar procedure for a woman identifying
as a man must also be covered. Denying those claims
could subject to the insurance companies to federal enforcement action,
so they fell into line. As I mentioned, puberty blockers
have never received FDA approval to treat gender dysphoria in youth.
Doctors could prescribe them off label as long as they
had reason to believe they would be helpful to patients.
And everywhere the physicians looked, activists and medical accrediting organizations
increasingly one of the same, and every news outlet of
legacy media all assured them as if with one voice,
that these were life saving treatments. The World Professional Association
for Transgender Health, or WPATH, an activist organization styled as
a medical one, issued guidelines used as these standards of
care by all major insurers and Medicaid to justify the
provision of and reimbursement for gender transition services. WPATH represented
their guidelines as evidence based but court ordered discovery. In
a twenty twenty two lawsuit filed by the Department of
Justice that was trying to overturn Alabama's ban on gender
treatments for minors, in the discovery phase, they found that
wpath's guidelines actually did not have evidentiary basis, and the
leadership at WPATH knew it. The organization suppressed publication of
systematic reviews of puberty blockers and cross sex hormones and
surgeries that were undertaken by Johns Hopkins University that research
would almost certainly have revealed, as so many systematic reviews
have now done, that while the risk of sterility, cardiac events, osteoporosis,
and bone fracture were very high, any alleged mental health
benefits of the WPATH approved puberty blockers to cross sex
hormones protocol, any benefits there remained unproven, but the Biden
administration pressed onward, suing any state that enacted bans on
medical transition for minors. Assistant Secretary for Health, Rachel Levine,
a trans adult, pressured Wpaths successfully to get rid of
the minimum age requirements for gender medical treatments and surgeries.
This was September twenty twenty two. I covered it at
that time. Rachel Levine man right, dressed up as a woman,
thinks he's a woman. In charge of all of this
set the in the Biden administration's HHS. Rachel Levine said,
do not publish like that that these protocols are for
adults only, because if you put an age on it,
then it could increase, you know, problems for the kids.
And it basically says that this shouldn't be done on kids,
and so they removed it. The Department of Health and
Human Services published a fact sheet then claiming that gender
affirming treatments for youth were crucial to overall health and
wealth and well being. The Obama and Biden administrations worked
in tandem with activist organizations and federal funds poured into
tainted research. She then goes through one of these or
two studies. Rather by a gender physician Joanna Olsen Kennedy.
She did two different groups two studies to see the
effects of puberty blockers on one group of kids and
cross sex hormones on another group of kids. Right, So
puberty blockers for one, cross sex hormones for the others.
And she only released one one of those studies, which
by the way, found two of her three hundred and
fifteen subjects had committed suicide. But the one on the
puberty blockers, the nine year study on puberty blockers, she
refused to release the results. This was a publicly funded study,
and she refused to release it. She said the findings
might fuel political attacks that have led to bans on
the youth gender treatments. In other words, it would prove
that those states banning the treatments are on solid scientific footing,
and so she has refused to publish the results. Cut
off from Wpath's evidence laundering insurers will now be forced
to event evaluate gender medical evidence and issue policies on
their own. It'll be up to the insurance companies whether
they want, whether they want to cover this stuff or not.
It'll be their call. Systematic reviews and investigations already undertaken
overseas in England and Finland and Sweden indicate it's not
likely that they're going to find any evidence from medically
transitioning kids to be terribly impressive. Activist researchers into gender
medicine might soon see their federal grants dry up. And
that's why they're fighting like this is an existential threat
to their model, because it is all right. If you're
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federal dollars, nearly all of them in Obamacare's New World,
risks losing contracts with Medicare and Medicaid if they continue
to provide pediatric gender transitions. Now thanks to Trump's executive order. Now,
the order does not abolish pediatric gender medicine. Boutique practices
that do not rely on federal funding can still offer
the top surgery. This mystectomies right, like right the removal
of breasts from teenagers. There will surely be litigation to
challenge the reach of this order, But the order does
break the spell. That's what Abigail Schreier says. It breaks
the spell. The spell was always our biggest problem, she said.
Parents like a lot of parents that went down this
path with their kids, she said, and she has interviewed many, many,
many parents for her research. In these books, she says,
many of these parents are conscientious and loving and afraid
if a little naive. They believed medical science was above
politics and beyond question. They had wandered into a Truman show,
you know, the old movie The Truman Show, and all
consuming similar lacrum designed to convince them to abandon their
protective instincts. If the parents still weren't convinced, therapists coerced
them into allowing their daughters to undergo gender transition with
the thinly veiled threat, would you rather have a live
son or a dead daughter? Can't tell you how many
times I heard that as an argument. If it seems
suddenly that only a fool would fall for this, then
it is worth pointing out that millions of us were
fools For a while. The social contagion spread far beyond
teenage girls. It touched corporate executives who rushed to put
pronouns in their profiles. I still see those, But what's
interesting now is you see a lot of people they
have removed them. AOC removed the pronouns from her Twitter profile. Right.
They're now coming off all of the PR pitches that
I would get from these you know, PR firms and stuff.
Hey do you want to talk to this guy? And
I would see or comms people that worked for like
large health institutions and stuff. And they all had pronouns
in their signatures. Right. It touched corporate executives. They did this,
pastors who raised the transgender pride flag at their churches,
school administrators that actively deceived parents about the new gender
identities that they had selected for their parents for the
parents' children, right, and then hid that from parents. That's
the thing about a social contagion. The similarities between what
we have witnessed here and the Salem witch trials are
not few. Okay, there are very similar dynamics at work
in both of those social contagions or panics, a lot
of similarities from the people that are most likely to
spread them, specifically younger females. But there is the chances
of an entire click of girls at a school, they're
all friends. The chances of all of them being transgender
are impossibly near zero. Right, And yet we see it.
That is not a naturally occurring thing. And when Abigail
Schreier wrote her first book, Irreversible Damage, and she highlighted
this rapid onset gender dysphoria contagion and identified it as
that she was savaged for it. She says, a lot
of bad actors, pediatricians, surgeons, endocrinologists, therapists, teachers, clergy took
full advantage. She says, the medical risks were as plain
to the experts then as they are today. You only
needed to take an interest, you only needed to observe it.
In fact, remember the like one of the leaders in
transgender medicine at Johns Hopkins University. I forgot his name now,
but he got blacklisted because even though he had been
doing this stuff. He was a psychiatrist, and even though
he had been like at the forefront of this of
treating trans kids and adults, he was blacklisted because he said, no,
this isn't like, we shouldn't be going down the puberty
blocker hormone therapies and surgeries for kids, Like, a lot
of this stuff will correct itself after they get through puberty.
They're just gender confused. This is natural, but it'll sort
itself out. Just give them, you know, give them a
couple of years. And and he was pilloried for it. Again.
This was a leader in that area. That was his specialty.
She goes on to say, harmonizing one's views with the
powerful reflects the oldest social survival instinct. We are engineered
to stay within the herd and get along, she says.
Disagreeable contrarians who resisted gender fever are the real odd balls.
Some combination of personality, quirk, and conviction that occasionally makes
us obnoxious employees and intolerable cocktail party guests, but it
also inoculated us against gender madness. But we served a
vital function together. A ragtag crew of truculent journalists and
outcast researchers stopped the entire herd from running off the cliff.
None of us ever expected to be welcomed back into
the same elite circles that only recently had cheered or
looked away as a generation of tormented girls took themselves apart.
We are going to see lawsuits on this stuff the
rest of our lives. All right, that'll do it for
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