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Last hour talked about the executive order that 10 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:37,399 Donald Trump signed limiting girls and women's sports to only 11 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:42,000 girls and women, and went over the AP story on that, 12 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:45,799 and there was a reference in that story to this 13 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:50,679 also from the AP. Trump order aims to end federal 14 00:00:50,759 --> 00:00:54,799 support for gender transitions for those under the age of nineteen. 15 00:00:55,679 --> 00:00:59,640 President Trump signed the EO aimed at cutting federal support 16 00:00:59,719 --> 00:01:03,840 for gender transitions for people under age nineteen. His latest 17 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:08,560 move to rollback protections for transgender people across the country 18 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,719 not a protection. See this is the way the Associated 19 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:15,359 Press and there. Look, I don't mean to pick on 20 00:01:15,439 --> 00:01:18,400 the AP only because all the media outlets do this, 21 00:01:18,519 --> 00:01:24,239 but the AP is the source for most media operations. 22 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:27,840 There's a thing called the AP style Book. And that 23 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:34,000 AP style book tells all these media outlets what the 24 00:01:34,079 --> 00:01:38,319 AP uses when they describe certain things, and they talk 25 00:01:38,359 --> 00:01:40,280 about like they say, this is the way you're supposed 26 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:43,480 to refer to this thing, and you know formatics like 27 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:49,120 when referring to a you know, a congress person, you know, 28 00:01:49,159 --> 00:01:51,599 you see the little parentheses after their name and it'll 29 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:55,640 say are dash and see like that's all a that 30 00:01:55,719 --> 00:01:59,000 all comes from the style books. So there's a uniform 31 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:02,840 way that the AP wrights all of their stuff. Because 32 00:02:02,879 --> 00:02:04,879 the AP is all over the globe and they would 33 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:07,200 send in stories and stuff, and so they wanted all 34 00:02:07,239 --> 00:02:08,919 of their stuff to look the same, and so they 35 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,159 made their style book for themselves, for the AP writers 36 00:02:12,199 --> 00:02:15,639 all around the world, and then they would give those 37 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:19,159 style books to all of their affiliates. So like if 38 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:23,759 we were in and WBT used to be plugged into 39 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:26,919 the AP network, and so we would get the wires, 40 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:28,599 we would get the AP wires. You had to pay 41 00:02:28,599 --> 00:02:31,319 them for that service. And so you would see they 42 00:02:31,319 --> 00:02:33,840 were always written in the AP style. But what that 43 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:39,120 means is that they then dictate what words to use. 44 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:43,680 So when they changed no longer using for example, illegal 45 00:02:43,719 --> 00:02:46,680 alien when they said, we're not going to call them 46 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:48,879 illegal aliens anymore, we're going to I forget what the 47 00:02:48,879 --> 00:02:51,919 original change was. It may have been undocumented immigrant, and 48 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:54,000 then somewhere along the line it turned into migrant. Right, 49 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:57,719 That's where this stuff comes from. The activists push this stuff, 50 00:02:57,759 --> 00:02:59,919 and as soon as it gets purchase in the AP, 51 00:03:00,879 --> 00:03:06,319 then it gets disseminated throughout all of their affiliated news operations. 52 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:10,639 And virtually every news operation is affiliated still with the 53 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:16,120 AP or Reuters or both. President Trump, so when he 54 00:03:16,159 --> 00:03:20,280 signs this thing, the AP says it rolls back protections, 55 00:03:20,479 --> 00:03:23,599 because that's the way the AP frames this. But it's 56 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:27,199 not a protection for a kid that is going through 57 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:31,159 a mental health crisis, usually because there's some other underlying 58 00:03:31,319 --> 00:03:36,800 trauma or mental health issue. And then they are like, 59 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:39,240 I don't think I'm really a girl, I don't think 60 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:41,199 I'm really a boy, or whatever, and then they kind 61 00:03:41,199 --> 00:03:44,599 of get fast tracked with the puberty blockers and the 62 00:03:44,599 --> 00:03:50,039 hormone treatments and then into the surgery track. And you're 63 00:03:50,199 --> 00:03:58,919 not protecting that kid. That's not a protection. If it was, 64 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:00,719 then how do you explain p people who have the 65 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:04,879 regrets and try to detransition after they've been on these blockers, which, 66 00:04:04,919 --> 00:04:08,639 by the way, you know, this is sterilization, And this 67 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:11,840 is the stuff that the AP never talks about. They never, 68 00:04:12,039 --> 00:04:14,960 just like with the abortion issue, they never talk about 69 00:04:15,199 --> 00:04:20,639 what actually is occurring. When you describe what actually occurs 70 00:04:21,199 --> 00:04:27,680 in these procedures or the results of these quote treatments, 71 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:35,199 people become repulsed, People recoil from the information, and the 72 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:38,759 AP knows this. The activist crowd knows this, and that's 73 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:41,439 why they don't talk about that. That's why they don't. 74 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:45,519 Why do you think David Delighting got so much guff 75 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:49,839 when he got the undercover videos of the planned parenthood 76 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:53,199 operations that were trafficking in the baby body parts, right, 77 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:54,920 Why do you think they came down on him? So 78 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:57,480 Kamala Harris I would point out at the time State 79 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:00,959 Attorney General. Why do you think that they came down 80 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,199 so hard on that? It's because they don't want people 81 00:05:03,199 --> 00:05:05,959 to know what actually occurs. They don't. They just want 82 00:05:05,959 --> 00:05:10,000 it to be this euphemism of choice or this euphemism 83 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:13,480 of gender affirming care GAC, or as I like to 84 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:18,279 refer to it, GHAK. It is the policy of the 85 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:21,199 United States that it will not fund, sponsor promote, assist, 86 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:24,399 or support the so called quote transition of a child 87 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:27,360 from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce 88 00:05:27,399 --> 00:05:29,920 all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life 89 00:05:29,959 --> 00:05:33,759 altering procedures. According to the executive order, The order directs 90 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:38,360 that federally run insurance programs, including TRY Care for Military 91 00:05:38,399 --> 00:05:43,959 Families and Medicaid. The order directs them to exclude coverage 92 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:50,279 for such quote care. No find a better word, ap 93 00:05:50,639 --> 00:05:56,279 it's not care. By the way, something I learned yesterday. 94 00:05:56,319 --> 00:05:58,639 Did you know that the puberty blockers, the way they 95 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:05,839 are used for these types of experiments is that's off label? 96 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:12,199 Did you know that they're off label? Doctors are prescribing 97 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:15,279 these things off label for off label use, which means 98 00:06:15,319 --> 00:06:20,199 what not what they were intended for. And people became 99 00:06:20,319 --> 00:06:25,079 very aware of this during COVID when drugs like ivermectin 100 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:31,600 and hydroxychloroquin which have been found through studies and decades 101 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:39,959 of experience to fight respiratory viruses, and that was considered 102 00:06:39,959 --> 00:06:42,560 to be off label, and then they clamped down on 103 00:06:42,639 --> 00:06:46,920 that because it wasn't specifically for the COVID nineteen virus, 104 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:50,839 which is a SARS virus which those two drugs can 105 00:06:50,879 --> 00:06:55,240 help with. It is the policy I read that. Sorry, 106 00:06:55,279 --> 00:06:58,319 the order directs that you're not going to get the 107 00:06:58,319 --> 00:07:03,040 federal funds, and that's a big deal for these hospital systems. 108 00:07:03,879 --> 00:07:07,040 Medicaid programs in some states cover gender affirming care, but 109 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:10,360 apparently not all states. The new order suggests the practice 110 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:13,720 could end, and targets hospitals and universities that receive federal 111 00:07:13,759 --> 00:07:16,319 money and provide the care. The language in the executive 112 00:07:16,399 --> 00:07:22,480 order using words like maiming, sterilizing, and mutilation, well, that's 113 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:28,839 what it is. That is what it is. I challenge 114 00:07:28,879 --> 00:07:34,040 you to look at the photos of what these procedures 115 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:37,399 do to people. I challenge you to look at those 116 00:07:37,399 --> 00:07:45,399 photos and defend them as something other than maiming. When 117 00:07:45,439 --> 00:07:50,959 you remove an appendage from a person, you are maiming them. 118 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:54,399 Whether they want it removed or not, they are maimed. 119 00:07:54,959 --> 00:08:02,000 They are no longer able to use that thing, rightation, Yep, 120 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:06,560 that's what happens. But a thirteen year old kid's going 121 00:08:06,639 --> 00:08:09,439 to understand what that means. They'll have no idea what 122 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:14,439 that means. And mutilation, I don't want to get too 123 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:17,720 graphic here. But have you seen how they create the 124 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:20,560 male organ. You know, where they get all that extra 125 00:08:20,639 --> 00:08:26,560 flesh from. It's your own body, it's your forearm. They 126 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:33,279 cut a sleeve of muscle and fat and tissue off 127 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:36,759 of your off your forearm from your elbow almost to 128 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:39,960 your wrist. It never grows back, and so it kind 129 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:41,559 of looks like your hand kind of looks like it's 130 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:44,000 at the it's the end of a cute tip because 131 00:08:44,039 --> 00:08:46,960 now your arm is super thin, because there's like nothing 132 00:08:47,039 --> 00:08:49,879 left on except the bone and some ligaments and stuff. 133 00:08:50,759 --> 00:08:53,639 And they cut it out and they get they like 134 00:08:53,759 --> 00:08:58,919 peel off this cuff and then they wrap it all 135 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,600 up and you know, graft maybe some skin on it 136 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:07,360 and whatnot. And it never looks the same. It can't. 137 00:09:07,639 --> 00:09:09,759 It never is anything other than what it's gonna be. 138 00:09:09,759 --> 00:09:11,679 You can't build up the muscles there anymore. There are 139 00:09:11,759 --> 00:09:14,159 any muscles. They're being used for something else, but they're 140 00:09:14,159 --> 00:09:16,519 not actually getting used because it's not functional, you know, 141 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:23,080 because it's not a sex organ. It's a forearm muscle. Again, 142 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:26,919 not trying to be graphic, but I challenge you to 143 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,240 look at those photos and tell me that that is 144 00:09:29,279 --> 00:09:33,159 not quote unquote mutilation. All right, I hope you had 145 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:35,879 a happy holiday season. But tell me if something like 146 00:09:35,919 --> 00:09:38,600 this happened at your house. 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Do you know 165 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:41,759 who Abigail Shreier is? Well, have you been listening to 166 00:10:42,399 --> 00:10:44,519 my show? Even before I got back to BT, when 167 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:47,720 I was doing the podcast, I mean, and even before then, 168 00:10:49,159 --> 00:10:53,559 when I was doing the HB two stuff. You should 169 00:10:53,559 --> 00:11:02,240 be aware of Abigail Shreier. She was at the forefront 170 00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:08,960 of the opposition to this transgender social contagion and standing 171 00:11:09,039 --> 00:11:13,799 up and saying stop, like this is not really happening. 172 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:17,240 This is not a real thing. This is a social contagion, 173 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:21,360 particularly the rapid onset gender dysphoria, and that is like 174 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:24,960 when you see those stories. And she wrote a book. 175 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:29,120 Her first book was called Irreversible Damage, the Transgender Craze, 176 00:11:29,399 --> 00:11:35,519 Seducing Our Daughters. That was in twenty twenty and it 177 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:41,600 was targeted for a ban by the ACLU of all Organizations, 178 00:11:41,759 --> 00:11:43,399 which would tell you everything you need to know about 179 00:11:43,399 --> 00:11:46,879 where the ACLU stands now on actual civil liberties. Her 180 00:11:46,919 --> 00:11:50,399 second book was called Bad Therapy, Why the Kids Aren't 181 00:11:50,519 --> 00:11:54,559 Growing Up? And that deals not just with affirmative therapy, 182 00:11:55,039 --> 00:12:01,159 but the therapization of all of life for young people 183 00:12:01,159 --> 00:12:07,440 in America. And people then begin identifying themselves as their 184 00:12:08,159 --> 00:12:13,039 ailments as their afflictions as their mental health issue like Hi, 185 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:15,600 I'm pede, I am boom boom boom boom boom, like 186 00:12:15,639 --> 00:12:20,080 all these different mental health problems, and that's how they 187 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:23,759 see themselves. And that's not how you get past those 188 00:12:23,799 --> 00:12:27,879 types of burdens. By the way, you don't get better 189 00:12:29,519 --> 00:12:32,600 by believing that you're constantly the victim of this thing. 190 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:36,600 You get better by addressing it. In a mental health scenario. 191 00:12:36,799 --> 00:12:39,480 That's how you get better is through you go through it. 192 00:12:40,159 --> 00:12:42,200 You face the fear, you face the issue, and you 193 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:45,240 go through it. For the record, I am not a 194 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:48,720 clinical psychologist, psychiatrist, nor do I have any training whatsoever. 195 00:12:48,799 --> 00:12:52,600 But I did know some crazy people. So when the 196 00:12:52,639 --> 00:12:55,600 history of twenty first century gendermania is written, she says, 197 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:59,879 it should include this entry, this signal entry. In twenty twenty, 198 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,559 there was a website called GoFundMe, usually a place to 199 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:06,320 find disaster relief appeals and charities for starving kids, and 200 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:11,639 it contained more than thirty thousand urgent appeals from young 201 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:18,039 women wanting to remove their perfectly healthy breasts. In twenty twenty, 202 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:25,519 thirty thousand gofundmes. Another entry June twenty twenty The New 203 00:13:25,519 --> 00:13:29,360 England Journal of Medicine, America's platinum medical publication, published a 204 00:13:29,399 --> 00:13:34,320 piece explaining that biological sex is actually assigned at birth 205 00:13:34,399 --> 00:13:37,919 by a doctor and is not a verifiable fact based 206 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:42,919 on our gameats stamped into every one of our chromosomes. No, no, 207 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:48,039 the New England Journal of Medicine tells us, it's a 208 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:51,600 doctor's decision and the doctor is assigning you at birth. 209 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:56,039 Public schools began asking elementary schools whether they might students 210 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:58,840 whether they might like to identify as gender queer or 211 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:02,799 non binary, and any dissent from this gender movement was 212 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:06,720 met with suppression. The American Civil Liberties union most prominent lawyer, 213 00:14:06,879 --> 00:14:13,799 Chase Strange, Oh that's his name or her name, announced 214 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:19,759 his her intention to suppress her book irreversible damage, saying, quote, 215 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:22,559 stopping the circulation of this book and these ideas is 216 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:25,080 one hundred percent a hill I will die on. A 217 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:30,559 couple weeks later, Amazon deleted from its store from its 218 00:14:30,559 --> 00:14:35,240 website a book by Ryan Anderson that criticized the transgender 219 00:14:35,279 --> 00:14:42,559 medical industry. Right, this was censorship, and she says if 220 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:47,519 it seems odd that this spell of pediatric gender medicine 221 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:51,000 should have ended by politicians and not physicians like a 222 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:55,600 politician like Trump of all people. Right, consider that in America, 223 00:14:55,840 --> 00:15:01,399 politics is how this began, she says, And specifically it 224 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:07,600 began with Obamacare. Section fifteen fifty seven, to be precise, 225 00:15:07,639 --> 00:15:12,759 of the Affordable Care Act. President Obama's signature. Legislation incentivized 226 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:18,559 and coerced private insurers to offer their products on the 227 00:15:18,559 --> 00:15:22,240 government exchanges. Well, when the website's finally got working again, 228 00:15:22,279 --> 00:15:26,919 then it forced insurers, you have to offer these coverages. 229 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:31,320 It prohibited the companies from discriminating on the basis of sex. 230 00:15:32,759 --> 00:15:35,960 And in May of twenty sixteen, six years after the 231 00:15:36,039 --> 00:15:39,960 bill was enacted, after the Affordable Care Act passed, the 232 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:45,240 Obama Administration's Department of Health and Human Services added this 233 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:50,080 faithful qualification that discrimination on the basis of sex was 234 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:54,320 to include discrimination on the basis of gender identity. You 235 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:59,360 have heard me say for years, for will, since twenty sixteen, 236 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:04,919 I have been making this joke. It is in mockery 237 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:09,120 of this, which is at the same time the leftists 238 00:16:09,159 --> 00:16:13,919 are telling us that sex and gender are different, they 239 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:17,519 also say it is the same. For purposes of this 240 00:16:17,559 --> 00:16:22,000 particular thing I'm trying to do, right, sex and gender 241 00:16:22,039 --> 00:16:24,600 are totally different, unless the law says sex, in which 242 00:16:24,639 --> 00:16:28,480 case then I think it also means gender identity. They 243 00:16:28,559 --> 00:16:31,240 want it both ways, which really does sum up the 244 00:16:31,279 --> 00:16:34,120 whole issue, Billy, When you think about it, here's a 245 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:37,000 great idea. How about making an escape to a really 246 00:16:37,039 --> 00:16:40,279 special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. 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Call her text eight two, eight, three, six, 264 00:17:39,839 --> 00:17:42,720 seven seventy sixty eight or check out all there is 265 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:46,079 to offer at cabins Offashville dot com and make memories 266 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:50,279 that'll last a lifetime. Abigail Schreier writes at the Truthferry 267 00:17:50,559 --> 00:17:54,920 dot info. That's her website. This piece appeared though at 268 00:17:54,920 --> 00:18:00,599 the Free Press, and she talks about the origin of 269 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:07,519 this transgender fever that spread throughout America and much of 270 00:18:07,559 --> 00:18:11,599 the West. But she tracks it to section fifteen fifty 271 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:17,680 seven of the Affordable Care Act Obama effectively and she 272 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:22,319 has a quote here from healthcare executive and gender medicine 273 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:29,839 researcher Zenya Abruzizi, who said Obama effectively wrote into law 274 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:35,079 through healthcare that gender identity is a protected class. That 275 00:18:35,279 --> 00:18:39,839 opened a huge new source of funding for these treatments 276 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:44,799 because once these insurers feel like they have to cover 277 00:18:44,839 --> 00:18:47,400 it in order to get access to the Obamacare exchanges 278 00:18:47,759 --> 00:18:51,240 right to offer their plans for sale. That's it, you 279 00:18:51,319 --> 00:18:55,680 turned on the engine. If an insurer covers testosterone to 280 00:18:55,680 --> 00:19:00,000 treat a man who was deficient in testosterone, then, according 281 00:18:59,960 --> 00:19:04,559 to gender ideologies cracked logic, that insurer would also need 282 00:19:04,559 --> 00:19:07,799 to cover testosterone for a woman identifying as a man. 283 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:12,119 If a procedure to remove a man's unwanted breast tissue 284 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:15,640 was covered, then a similar procedure for a woman identifying 285 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:18,720 as a man must also be covered. Denying those claims 286 00:19:19,079 --> 00:19:23,359 could subject to the insurance companies to federal enforcement action, 287 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:27,839 so they fell into line. As I mentioned, puberty blockers 288 00:19:27,839 --> 00:19:31,920 have never received FDA approval to treat gender dysphoria in youth. 289 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:36,079 Doctors could prescribe them off label as long as they 290 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:38,599 had reason to believe they would be helpful to patients. 291 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:44,160 And everywhere the physicians looked, activists and medical accrediting organizations 292 00:19:44,279 --> 00:19:48,680 increasingly one of the same, and every news outlet of 293 00:19:48,799 --> 00:19:52,240 legacy media all assured them as if with one voice, 294 00:19:52,279 --> 00:19:58,200 that these were life saving treatments. The World Professional Association 295 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:03,720 for Transgender Health, or WPATH, an activist organization styled as 296 00:20:03,759 --> 00:20:08,279 a medical one, issued guidelines used as these standards of 297 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:12,400 care by all major insurers and Medicaid to justify the 298 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:18,160 provision of and reimbursement for gender transition services. WPATH represented 299 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:24,440 their guidelines as evidence based but court ordered discovery. In 300 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:27,000 a twenty twenty two lawsuit filed by the Department of 301 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:30,880 Justice that was trying to overturn Alabama's ban on gender 302 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:35,960 treatments for minors, in the discovery phase, they found that 303 00:20:36,119 --> 00:20:43,079 wpath's guidelines actually did not have evidentiary basis, and the 304 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:48,960 leadership at WPATH knew it. The organization suppressed publication of 305 00:20:49,079 --> 00:20:53,480 systematic reviews of puberty blockers and cross sex hormones and 306 00:20:53,559 --> 00:20:58,200 surgeries that were undertaken by Johns Hopkins University that research 307 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:01,839 would almost certainly have revealed, as so many systematic reviews 308 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:08,920 have now done, that while the risk of sterility, cardiac events, osteoporosis, 309 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:13,079 and bone fracture were very high, any alleged mental health 310 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:17,680 benefits of the WPATH approved puberty blockers to cross sex 311 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:23,400 hormones protocol, any benefits there remained unproven, but the Biden 312 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:28,079 administration pressed onward, suing any state that enacted bans on 313 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:33,000 medical transition for minors. Assistant Secretary for Health, Rachel Levine, 314 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:40,400 a trans adult, pressured Wpaths successfully to get rid of 315 00:21:40,759 --> 00:21:45,759 the minimum age requirements for gender medical treatments and surgeries. 316 00:21:45,799 --> 00:21:48,640 This was September twenty twenty two. I covered it at 317 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:56,960 that time. Rachel Levine man right, dressed up as a woman, 318 00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:59,920 thinks he's a woman. In charge of all of this 319 00:22:00,079 --> 00:22:06,160 set the in the Biden administration's HHS. Rachel Levine said, 320 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:11,599 do not publish like that that these protocols are for 321 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:16,240 adults only, because if you put an age on it, 322 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:22,960 then it could increase, you know, problems for the kids. 323 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,519 And it basically says that this shouldn't be done on kids, 324 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:30,200 and so they removed it. The Department of Health and 325 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:33,559 Human Services published a fact sheet then claiming that gender 326 00:22:33,559 --> 00:22:36,839 affirming treatments for youth were crucial to overall health and 327 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:40,519 wealth and well being. The Obama and Biden administrations worked 328 00:22:40,559 --> 00:22:45,279 in tandem with activist organizations and federal funds poured into 329 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:49,759 tainted research. She then goes through one of these or 330 00:22:49,799 --> 00:22:53,720 two studies. Rather by a gender physician Joanna Olsen Kennedy. 331 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,920 She did two different groups two studies to see the 332 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:02,599 effects of puberty blockers on one group of kids and 333 00:23:04,799 --> 00:23:07,559 cross sex hormones on another group of kids. Right, So 334 00:23:07,559 --> 00:23:10,960 puberty blockers for one, cross sex hormones for the others. 335 00:23:11,519 --> 00:23:15,680 And she only released one one of those studies, which 336 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:17,480 by the way, found two of her three hundred and 337 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:22,799 fifteen subjects had committed suicide. But the one on the 338 00:23:22,839 --> 00:23:26,359 puberty blockers, the nine year study on puberty blockers, she 339 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:29,759 refused to release the results. This was a publicly funded study, 340 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:33,400 and she refused to release it. She said the findings 341 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:37,680 might fuel political attacks that have led to bans on 342 00:23:37,759 --> 00:23:42,440 the youth gender treatments. In other words, it would prove 343 00:23:42,519 --> 00:23:46,920 that those states banning the treatments are on solid scientific footing, 344 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:53,880 and so she has refused to publish the results. Cut 345 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:59,400 off from Wpath's evidence laundering insurers will now be forced 346 00:23:59,559 --> 00:24:03,599 to event evaluate gender medical evidence and issue policies on 347 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,079 their own. It'll be up to the insurance companies whether 348 00:24:06,079 --> 00:24:07,839 they want, whether they want to cover this stuff or not. 349 00:24:08,039 --> 00:24:12,839 It'll be their call. Systematic reviews and investigations already undertaken 350 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:16,240 overseas in England and Finland and Sweden indicate it's not 351 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:18,720 likely that they're going to find any evidence from medically 352 00:24:18,759 --> 00:24:23,759 transitioning kids to be terribly impressive. Activist researchers into gender 353 00:24:23,799 --> 00:24:27,640 medicine might soon see their federal grants dry up. And 354 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,079 that's why they're fighting like this is an existential threat 355 00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:34,240 to their model, because it is all right. If you're 356 00:24:34,279 --> 00:24:36,039 listening to this show, you know I try to keep 357 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:37,839 up with all sorts of current events, and I know 358 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,279 you do too, And you've probably heard me say get 359 00:24:40,319 --> 00:24:44,279 your news from multiple sources. 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Now thanks to Trump's executive order. Now, 380 00:25:53,759 --> 00:25:59,759 the order does not abolish pediatric gender medicine. Boutique practices 381 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:03,839 that do not rely on federal funding can still offer 382 00:26:04,319 --> 00:26:11,359 the top surgery. This mystectomies right, like right the removal 383 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:19,160 of breasts from teenagers. There will surely be litigation to 384 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:21,599 challenge the reach of this order, But the order does 385 00:26:22,279 --> 00:26:26,079 break the spell. That's what Abigail Schreier says. It breaks 386 00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:29,319 the spell. The spell was always our biggest problem, she said. 387 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:33,119 Parents like a lot of parents that went down this 388 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:37,400 path with their kids, she said, and she has interviewed many, many, 389 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:41,519 many parents for her research. In these books, she says, 390 00:26:41,559 --> 00:26:44,839 many of these parents are conscientious and loving and afraid 391 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:50,000 if a little naive. They believed medical science was above 392 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:55,079 politics and beyond question. They had wandered into a Truman show, 393 00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:58,799 you know, the old movie The Truman Show, and all 394 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:03,400 consuming similar lacrum designed to convince them to abandon their 395 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:08,440 protective instincts. If the parents still weren't convinced, therapists coerced 396 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,680 them into allowing their daughters to undergo gender transition with 397 00:27:11,759 --> 00:27:15,000 the thinly veiled threat, would you rather have a live 398 00:27:15,279 --> 00:27:20,680 son or a dead daughter? Can't tell you how many 399 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:24,000 times I heard that as an argument. If it seems 400 00:27:24,039 --> 00:27:27,599 suddenly that only a fool would fall for this, then 401 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:31,160 it is worth pointing out that millions of us were 402 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:35,960 fools For a while. The social contagion spread far beyond 403 00:27:36,279 --> 00:27:40,759 teenage girls. It touched corporate executives who rushed to put 404 00:27:40,799 --> 00:27:44,200 pronouns in their profiles. I still see those, But what's 405 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,200 interesting now is you see a lot of people they 406 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:51,640 have removed them. AOC removed the pronouns from her Twitter profile. Right. 407 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:56,200 They're now coming off all of the PR pitches that 408 00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:58,960 I would get from these you know, PR firms and stuff. 409 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:00,240 Hey do you want to talk to this guy? And 410 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:03,039 I would see or comms people that worked for like 411 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:06,960 large health institutions and stuff. And they all had pronouns 412 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:12,720 in their signatures. Right. It touched corporate executives. They did this, 413 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:17,880 pastors who raised the transgender pride flag at their churches, 414 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:22,920 school administrators that actively deceived parents about the new gender 415 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:26,319 identities that they had selected for their parents for the 416 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:32,599 parents' children, right, and then hid that from parents. That's 417 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:38,759 the thing about a social contagion. The similarities between what 418 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:45,519 we have witnessed here and the Salem witch trials are 419 00:28:45,559 --> 00:28:51,519 not few. Okay, there are very similar dynamics at work 420 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:58,559 in both of those social contagions or panics, a lot 421 00:28:58,559 --> 00:29:01,920 of similarities from the people that are most likely to 422 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:10,240 spread them, specifically younger females. But there is the chances 423 00:29:10,279 --> 00:29:14,960 of an entire click of girls at a school, they're 424 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:19,680 all friends. The chances of all of them being transgender 425 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:26,720 are impossibly near zero. Right, And yet we see it. 426 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:32,960 That is not a naturally occurring thing. And when Abigail 427 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:36,200 Schreier wrote her first book, Irreversible Damage, and she highlighted 428 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:42,519 this rapid onset gender dysphoria contagion and identified it as 429 00:29:42,559 --> 00:29:48,640 that she was savaged for it. She says, a lot 430 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:59,200 of bad actors, pediatricians, surgeons, endocrinologists, therapists, teachers, clergy took 431 00:29:59,279 --> 00:30:04,880 full advantage. She says, the medical risks were as plain 432 00:30:05,119 --> 00:30:10,759 to the experts then as they are today. You only 433 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:15,119 needed to take an interest, you only needed to observe it. 434 00:30:15,319 --> 00:30:18,039 In fact, remember the like one of the leaders in 435 00:30:18,119 --> 00:30:22,240 transgender medicine at Johns Hopkins University. I forgot his name now, 436 00:30:23,119 --> 00:30:27,920 but he got blacklisted because even though he had been 437 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,359 doing this stuff. He was a psychiatrist, and even though 438 00:30:30,359 --> 00:30:34,240 he had been like at the forefront of this of 439 00:30:34,279 --> 00:30:41,400 treating trans kids and adults, he was blacklisted because he said, no, 440 00:30:41,519 --> 00:30:44,200 this isn't like, we shouldn't be going down the puberty 441 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,720 blocker hormone therapies and surgeries for kids, Like, a lot 442 00:30:47,759 --> 00:30:50,519 of this stuff will correct itself after they get through puberty. 443 00:30:50,559 --> 00:30:54,079 They're just gender confused. This is natural, but it'll sort 444 00:30:54,119 --> 00:30:55,880 itself out. Just give them, you know, give them a 445 00:30:55,880 --> 00:31:00,799 couple of years. And and he was pilloried for it. Again. 446 00:31:00,799 --> 00:31:04,480 This was a leader in that area. That was his specialty. 447 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,480 She goes on to say, harmonizing one's views with the 448 00:31:08,559 --> 00:31:13,880 powerful reflects the oldest social survival instinct. We are engineered 449 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:17,079 to stay within the herd and get along, she says. 450 00:31:17,079 --> 00:31:21,319 Disagreeable contrarians who resisted gender fever are the real odd balls. 451 00:31:21,559 --> 00:31:25,680 Some combination of personality, quirk, and conviction that occasionally makes 452 00:31:25,759 --> 00:31:29,839 us obnoxious employees and intolerable cocktail party guests, but it 453 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:34,440 also inoculated us against gender madness. But we served a 454 00:31:34,519 --> 00:31:39,039 vital function together. A ragtag crew of truculent journalists and 455 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:44,079 outcast researchers stopped the entire herd from running off the cliff. 456 00:31:44,559 --> 00:31:46,799 None of us ever expected to be welcomed back into 457 00:31:46,839 --> 00:31:49,599 the same elite circles that only recently had cheered or 458 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:54,279 looked away as a generation of tormented girls took themselves apart. 459 00:31:55,799 --> 00:32:00,200 We are going to see lawsuits on this stuff the 460 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:03,079 rest of our lives. All right, that'll do it for 461 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:05,839 this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could 462 00:32:05,839 --> 00:32:08,119 not do the show without your support and the support 463 00:32:08,119 --> 00:32:11,000 of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if 464 00:32:11,039 --> 00:32:13,039 you'd like, please support them too and tell them you 465 00:32:13,119 --> 00:32:15,160 heard it here. 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