7-26-25 The Weekend Hour 2: Prison For Calling a Trans Politician a Man? Trump Shutting Down Child Mutilation.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
To night. Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA
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I want to tie two stories together H one, which
is something that Trump's doing domestically, but it has ramifications

(00:45):
because worldwide, the whole transgenderism movement is still out of control.
It's not fully in control in this country, but it's
completely out of control in other countries, and that has
ramifications for free speech rights all over the world. And
it shows how there is this clash of political philosophies,

(01:12):
a clash of civilizations. But well, to put it even
starker terms, there's a clash between the basic tenets of
Western civilization and the tenets of Marxism, which is slowly
beginning to drip and cover the entire planet, you know,

(01:33):
in that regard, I saw a fascinating photo on x
yesterday and it was a I don't know which satellite
took the photo, but it was a satellite photo of
a lightning bolt on Jupiter. So here is this, you know,
this gigantic planet. And I don't know how far away

(01:54):
the satellite was, but if you look down on the
surface of Jupiter, you saw the bright light and it
was a flash of lightning. And I thought that was
a pretty good metaphor for how Trump is this flash
of lightning in this Marxism that's covering the entire planet,

(02:16):
including our own country. Well, the Trump White House has
released a statement showing the effects of their policies on
preventing the mutilation of children as a result of medical transgenderism.
The White House statement noted that Yale New Haven Health
and Connecticut Children's Medical Center Yale New Haven Health and

(02:40):
Connecticut Children's Medical Center, they've announced that they're going to
end their so called gender affirming care services. Have you
ever thought about the income. How illogical that statement is,
how contradictory gender affirming? So you're your gender is pretty

(03:02):
obvious when you're born your male or female, that's your
sex and they're going to affirm that sex by mutilating
your body. How's that affirming? But I digress. That particular
center in New Haven is joining a growing list of

(03:24):
health systems across the country that are following President Trump's
executive order to stop child sex mutilation. Now Phoenix Children's
Hospital they stopped providing puberty blockers and hormone therapy to miners.
Stanford Medicine has ended sex chain surgeries for miners, while

(03:49):
Children's Hospital LA has closed its Center for trans Youth
Health and Development and Gender Affirming Care. And there are
other institutions across the country. I found Denver Health, University
of Colorado Health, Leuri, Children's Hospital of Chicago, the University

(04:09):
of Chicago, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, again Cook County, Chicago Rush
Medical Center. They've also halted various forms of so called
gender affirming care for miners, and I found similar actions
have taken place by hospitals in places like New York, Pennsylvania, Washington,
d C. And Beyond Kaiser Permanente, they've joined the list

(04:32):
by pausing sex change surgeries for patients under nineteen, which
really is an important point. If you're over the age
of eighteen, you're twenty twenty one, twenty two years old,
and you want to go mutilate your body, have at it.
I mean, I wish you wouldn't, and I would hope

(04:53):
to God that you would get some serious psychological counseling
before you do so. But if that's your choice, then
that's your choice here an adult, and you can make
choices that I think are stupid, that you think are smart,
that maybe you think are going to help you. We'll
have at it well. Kaiser Permanently. Kaiser Permanente excuse me,

(05:13):
has also joined the list by at least pausing for
the time being, their sex change surgeries for patients under
nineteen across all of its hospitals and their surgical centers. Now,
I think this marks a significant shift in a medical
approach to minors and these so called gender related treatments
in this country. Now, why have they done it? You know,

(05:35):
like one time, the whole idea that we couldn't fix
immigration unless we had Congress, you know, come in and
enact all these laws, and then Trump very smartly said
one day, yeah, we didn't need new laws, we just
needed a new president. I think this is another example

(05:57):
of that. Trump, by simply threatening to cut federal funding
to hospitals and clinics that perform chemical or surgical gender
treatment on minors, has had this effect. Now, despite that
some places, like obviously New York Attorney General Letitia James,
who will fight Trump until they both are dead and buried,

(06:20):
have told hospitals to ignore Trump's orders and to follow
local and state laws instead, which is going to obviously
result in legal confrontations with the federal government. But the
point is it's having an effect, and I think it's
another one of those issues that generally speaking, most people
tend to agree with. Children should not undergo these kinds

(06:46):
of surgeries or medical treatments or chemical treatments or castrations
or whatever it might be until they turn adults, and
then they can make that decision on their own. Even then,
I think it out of he's subject to some sort
of medical regulatory rules. But that's me, and that's coming
from a guy that's basically libertarian that doesn't want the

(07:09):
government involved. In any in anything. But if we're going
to prohibit smoking, there's some Oh there's the guy on
Facebook that became fairly popular in COVID and he would
make fun of things that are that were COVID related. Well,
he had one that I saw recently where he was like, oh, honey,

(07:32):
you want to get to get a tattoo. No, you
can't get a tattoo. No no, no, no no. And
then you know a few seconds later, oh honey, oh,
you you want to have a sex change operation. Sure,
I'll make the appointment for you tomorrow. We'll go do that.
I think that's kind of how stupid parents are sometimes,
and I think they're encouraged by the medical establishment. Well no,

(07:54):
let's stop that insanity. And Trump is trying to stop
the sanity. You know, what we really need is not
just Trump. Look, Trump's obviously setting the standard. But I
think Bobby Kennedy Junior, the Secretary of Health and Human Services,
I think that medical boards, I think that insurance companies.

(08:17):
I think that the hospitals themselves, the medical practitioners, the
ones who are encouraging this because they make a lot
of money on it. Hot to stop and recognize the
harm that they are doing. But the harm is beyond
just for those kids. Transgenderism itself is now being used

(08:41):
to kill free speech. Yeah. Yeah, it may not be
happening here, but mark my words, the story I'm about
to tell you could as easily start occurring here even
in light of the First Amendment. Because when the left
gets their teeth in something and they think it's right,

(09:01):
well damn the Constitution. They don't care about that. It's
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(09:22):
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to the Weekend with Michael Brown. We just talked about
how Trump is trying to end this gender affirming care

(09:43):
and that generated a lot of text messages. One in
particular caught Mike one. Two of them caught my eye.
One said that, hey, wait a minute, what's this pause?
Because I forget which hospital it was now has paused
their provision of gender affirming care. Yeah, I caught that

(10:07):
word too, and I started to go down that rabbit
hole because you know what they're doing. They're waiting to
see if any lawsuits around the country result in an
injunction stopping this, while other hospitals, particularly in Colorado, have
just said, you know what, we don't deal with that,
We're just going to stop it all together. And then

(10:30):
somebody said, you should also look beyond the age of
eighteen because nobody should be allowed to do this, because
nobody should be allowed to do that kind of damage
to themselves based on a psychiatric issue. And I think
there is some truth to that. And then a third
one caught in my eye, which you kind of catch

(10:53):
on to where I'm headed, but not entirely. I will
casually match because I said, I want to talk about
free speech for a moment. Colorado passed the law which
is being challenged that basically says you, it is a
crime to misgender someone. You know that if a kid want,

(11:14):
you know, if if Bobby wants to be called Sally
and you refuse to do that, well that that's become
a crime. But the story I want to tell you
is actually more global and it represents I think, where
we are headed if we don't nip this kind of

(11:35):
crap in the butt. There's a women's rights activists from Brazil.
Her name is Isabella Sipo. She's right now enforced exile.
Now why she enforced exile because she's staring down the
barrel of a potential twenty five year prison sentence. Do

(11:57):
you know what her crime is? Well about the Colorado law.
She uttered a single sentence in an Instagram video. Here's
what she said. Quote. The most voted woman in San Paulo,
Brazil is a man. That's the crime for which she

(12:18):
faces twenty five years in prison. The most voted woman
in San Paulo is a man. She's referring to a
transgender politician by the name of Erica Hilton. And just
that single sentence, that's what one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight nine, ten words, ten words, twenty five years in prison.

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Now Brazil's Supreme Court has created this legal nightmare where
they could effectively create new crimes from the bench and
bypass lawmakers entirely. Now, Siba, who's thirty two years old,
a self described feminist, anarchist, and a leftist advocate for

(13:05):
survivors of sexual and domestic violence, insists that her words
were a simple statement of biological fact. Yet Brazil has
what the ninth has, what's titled the nineteen eighty nine
racism law, But the Supreme Court in Brazil has imposed

(13:26):
a controversial reinterpretation that has been equated to racial defamation.
And that's a charge that could land her behind bars
for longer than many convicted rapists in her own country.
Article two thirteen of Brazil's pen of Cold Penal Code
sets the base sentence for rape at six to ten
years or eight to twelve years if violence or serious

(13:49):
harm is involved. You commit a rape in Brazil, you
could face up to a maximum of twelve years if
serious harm or violence was involved. Now, her potential penalty
of twenty five years dwarfs that that's obviously a disproportionate
assault on dissent. That is a disproportionate assault on the

(14:13):
exercise and free speech. Now, this goes all the way
back to twenty twenty. That's during San Paulo's city council elections.
All the media outlets here's here is the similarity. The
media outlets hail this person, this transgender by the name
of Hilton. So Hilton is a biological male identifying as

(14:37):
a transgender woman. The media hailed that individual as the
most voted woman in the race. Now Sipa, the activist
who's facing the prison term, is known online as the Menissa.
She responded to all the media all the cabal's response
with a brief Instagram story video that was it. She said,

(15:02):
there is no crime in saying that a man is
a man. Is there well, there must be. In Brazil.
The backlash was swift and ferocious. A fashion editor, the
bull the Nami of su Am Bento, allegedly clipped the
video and that's what unleashed this torrent of accusations on
x claiming that Sipa had filed false rape reports against

(15:25):
black men and threatening physical violence. Now Sipa says that
this fashion editor said that even as a survivor of
domestic sexual violence, I didn't deserve any respect. Within twenty
four hours, she had lost more than eleven thousand followers.
She started getting death threats, She saw speaking invitations just

(15:47):
completely disappear. Friends started to distance themselves, fearing guilt by Association.
You see how powerful the cabal is. It's not just
in this country. Once they focus on anyone and start
trying to demonize them, there are no bounds to what

(16:08):
they will do. Worse still, Sipa, the one who's facing
the twenty five year prison sentence, alleges an abusive's boyfriend
exploited the controversy to undermine her assault claims against him.
She claims to possess a recording of him boasting how

(16:28):
way too easy it was to sway public opinion in
his favor. So Erica Hilton, the transgender woman fresh off demand,
fresh off her electoral victory, publicly vowed to sue fifty
individuals for transphobic speech, and he named SEEP as her

(16:49):
primary target. He had posts I'm suing this person because
she's a rat. Now prosecutors have now expanded the charges
to include four posts on x not that she wrote,
but that she had shared from others, and they're now

(17:11):
framing those posts as evidence of ongoing transphobic conduct. Now
let's pause for a moment because you think, well, this
is just Brazil. Oh no, no, I can find similar
stories from England, from Wales, from the United Kingdom, from Scotland,

(17:31):
from France, from Germany, here in the United States. I
can find these cases all over the place. But what
elevates this case from social media storm to constitutional crisis
is the legal foundation or the lack thereof to go
after her. I'll explain why. Next, it's The Weekend with

(17:54):
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(18:15):
Michael Brown. Brownie, No, Brownie, You're doing a heck of
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(18:36):
Brazilian case for a moment. So what takes this case
and moves it from you just a social media controversy
to a true constitutional crisis is the lack of any
legal foundation, because Brazil doesn't have any explicit law that

(18:58):
criminalizes transphobia or even hate speech based on gender identity.
Remember I mentioned that nineteen eighty nine racism law that
covers discrimination, well that relates to race, color, ethnicity, religion,
or even xenophobia. But back in twenty nineteen, brazil Supreme

(19:19):
Federal Tribunal ruled in a case that homophobia and transphobia
should be treated as equivalent to racism, effectively doing what Well,
that's effectively legislating from the bench. Oh, well, we know
about that. In the United States, legal scholars call that

(19:39):
judicial legislation. We call that activist judges. But whatever you
call it, it's an unconstitutional overreach, and here it's done
purely for political correctness, for political reasons. Now, initially, a
federal judge dismissed the case, agreeing with prosecute that Seepas

(20:01):
statements didn't meet the threshold for hate speech and they
couldn't find any law they had been violated. But that's
when the Supreme Federal Tribunal reopened it on their own,
taking jurisdiction for their own and according to Sipah, and
I think she's right here. They took the case, and

(20:22):
they had only two options. To admit that they're applying
a law that doesn't exist, and that they're punishing people
for crimes that do not exist. The only other option
would be to send them send her to jail. Well,
I think we all know what their decision would be

(20:42):
because political correctness and anything that might be interpret as
being transphobic, well, we can't have that. Do you understand
how vitally important something like the First Amendment is? Now
there's you know, there are words that I would never Well,

(21:05):
there are words one that I can't use there are
words that I certainly would use on air, but I
can't use on air because I work in a highly
regulated industry in the Federal Communications Commission tells me that
I cannot use the term bull s word, although I
think in many instances that would be a very appropriate
word to use for some of the things I talk about.

(21:27):
So I would never use those words. Although you catch
me outside the studio and you tell me something that
I think is BS, I'll tell you I think it's BS,
and I'll use the word. I think it's a pretty
powerful word, the F bomb. Even if I could use
it on air, I probably wouldn't. The N word. I
wouldn't use that anywhere. I just think it's derogatory. I

(21:50):
just think it's demeaning, and I wouldn't. I wouldn't use it.
The First Amendment would protect my using that word. But
just because I can doesn't mean that I could, would
or should. When we start taking language and we start

(22:16):
deciding what words people can use to express themselves, we're
starting to cross a rubicon, because inherent to a free
republic like this country, or even a country like Brazil
who claims to be a democratic republic, when you start

(22:40):
legislating what people can say, when you start criminalizing what
people do say, you've crossed a rubicon. You truly across
the rubicon. And it's not just in this country. It's
in other countries too. As I said earlier, we could
go to all sorts of examples in other countries where

(23:03):
they are doing precisely this. Now this, here's another interesting
part about this story about the Brazilian woman Sipa. She
found out about the formal charges of the five counts
of racial defamation that carry up to twenty five years.
She didn't learn it from the authorities. She learned about

(23:23):
it from a report was a reporter who was seeking
comment just before publication of whatever he was publishing, publishing
back on June eighteenth, twenty twenty two, that twenty five
years would be more time that a murder convicted in
the first degree would get in Brazil. And then you

(23:45):
add the murkiness of all the secrecy. There is an
independent lawyer that's reviewing the suggested Supreme Court's decision to reopen,
that's going to mandate a new investigation. The Attorney general
all just following Brazil's standard procedures. So she has evidence

(24:06):
of a new case file, but no access to it.
As of mid twenty twenty five, the last I can
find any information for there's no trial date set. She's
just in limbo. Her path to exile started in July

(24:27):
of last year. At a Brazilian airport, Eight federal police
officers surrounded her, scrutinizing her file with evident confusion. Do
you know about any charges or anything against you, one
of them asks. Another one was heard whispering, this makes
no sense. After holding the plane, they warned her, this
is a case of political persecution. You're not safe. So

(24:47):
the cops actually escorted her onto a flight to Madrid,
where she's hiding. So she's lived in kind of a
nomadic wandering around Europe since that time, suitcase in hand,
isolated from family and friends, trying to shield them from
any threats that she might get from law enforcement or
you know, political authorities in Brazil. She's got all these

(25:07):
chilling messages naming her mother's address and vowing harm if
she's says anything. This was a fairly famous woman in Brazil.
She's financially ruined, her careers in tatters. She describes a
life of this constant solitude that she says, she's lost
everything she had to leave her life. She's always alone,
she's always isolated. The extent to which the cabal will

(25:33):
go to destroy an individual is absolutely amazing. Now, beyond
the personal told that she's faced, she sees a broader
silencing of feminism in Brazil. Written large. They're using her
as escapegoat because she had such visibility, and they're using
her as escapegoat to do what to shut up all

(25:55):
the other activists and it worked. Why do I think
this story is important for you to know? Macaw? This
is just Brazil. This is some crazy left wing activist.
It shows the degree to which a fascist Marxist government
will go. I don't care what the forma form is. Yes,

(26:15):
they can have an elected parliament, they can have an
elected legislature, they can have a so called Supreme Court,
they can have all of the things that you'd look
at on an ORG chart and go, well, it looks
like our country sort of. They've got all the you know,
they've got separation about it. Oh, but when you look
at what they actually do, you realize that they're nothing
more than a Marxist fascist country that's decided to take

(26:39):
on this Why this because if they can win this case,
they can control under that racism law virtually anything they
want to and criminalize it, threaten people, and shut down

(27:00):
any sort of descent, which leads us to Donald Trump.
Why do you think Donald Trump kind of floated the
idea of offering exile to Basanaro, the former president, who's
under threat of all sorts of similar corruption charges, all

(27:23):
made up. Because I believe that Trump sees himself as
that guardian against this blanket of fascism, this blanket of Marxism,
this darkness that is enveloping Western civilization all over the world.

(27:44):
And so while he's fighting for this country, which obviously
he is, I think at the same time he sees
a larger threat. He sees the so called big picture,
and he understands that cases like this or the former
president of Brazil his case, he sees that as a

(28:06):
march of Marxism and fascism that is attempting to take
over the world. It is not right versus left. It's
I mean, you could put it on the political spectrum
if you wanted to, and you can say, look, Marxism
is way over here, and you know, democracy and republican
form of government is over here. But I think it's

(28:29):
different than that. I actually think it's good versus evil.
I think that's what's going on, and I think that's
what Trump is adamantly fighting against. It's The Weekend with
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Go follow me on X right now at Michael Brown USA.
I'll be right back. Hey, welcome back to the with
Michael Brown. Appreciate you tuning in. I thought I was
going to move on to something else. But I want
to I want to give you some examples about what's

(29:11):
happening in Europe, because you know what happens in Europe.
You know, we often use California or New York as
an example of what spills over into the rest of
the country. Well, what happens in Europe, just like what's
happening in Brazil, is part of a larger movement that

(29:32):
will spill into this country. Now, Trump is like the
kid you know in the put his finger in the
dike in the Netherlands, you know, holding the water back.
But Trump won't always be here, and these forces of
evil will continue their march, which means we've got to

(29:55):
stay vigilant. Britain's Online Safety Act it went into it
actually went into a force yesterday, July twenty fifth. It
is a case in point about the bureaucratic excess. Now,
the Online Safety Act was designed ostensibly to protect kids

(30:17):
from harmful content, but it goes way beyond illegal material.
The language of this Act actually empowers something called the
Office of Communications OFFCOM to police what's legal but harmful speech.
You can't get much more vague than that, so vague

(30:41):
that it's actually a weapon among the priority targets of
censorship for an influence Okay, for an influence you mean
like X only Twitter, or people listening to this program
via the iHeart app or via on their computer in

(31:05):
London or somewhere in the United Kingdom. I bet they
would consider some of my speech to be harmful. So
their targets of censorship are foreign influence, disinformation, and content
deemed injurious to public health or electoral trust. What's that?

(31:30):
Those are all euphemisms for political conformity, and the mechanisms
to enforce it are just as chilling. Platforms like x
face fines of up to ten percent of global revenue
and criminal charges against their executives who failed to comply.
In fact, x is already fighting it. They announced that

(31:52):
it would default users to a restricted mode unless they
verify their age. They're going to employe in AI based
identification to filter content in the United Kingdom not here now.
In practice, that amounts to using algorithms to ghettoize people.
We're gonna put you over here in this free speech

(32:14):
ghetto where you can't see, read, or hear anything. Just
what the algorithm determines is going to be in compliance
with this vague law of you. We can't, we can't
like you say anything that might be considered armful by anyone.
My god, I think everything I say would be put
in the ghetto in the United Kingdom. Now, if if

(32:36):
the law in Britain is sweeping, the law in France
is surgical. Early this year French law, French prosecutors actually
launched a criminal probe into X. They accused the company
of algorithm rhythmic manipulation in order to promote divisive political content.

(32:56):
Well what's that? Oh, that included a material critical of
the French government's position on immigration and LGBTQ issues. But
the legal framework under which that charge was levied is
what ought to alarm any student, any believer in liberty.
They invoked a couple of articles of the penal Code
which target Ceymer criminals who distort data systems. Does that

(33:23):
sound familiar? The only reason it sounds somewhat familiar is
that's what previous prosecutors used to go after January sixth. Defendants,
They use a statute from the inrun era about altering

(33:43):
documents as somehow being an obstruction of justice, and so
they applied that which was eventually overturned, but they used
that to go after January sixth defendants. This is equally
the same thing here targeting cyber criminals who distort data systems.
They're going to apply that to what people say on X.

(34:11):
And they did all of that while declaring that X
is an organized crime group. I saw on my feed
yesterday that there is an account I don't remember what
it is, but they're now selling T shirts and baseball
caps that if you're on X, you're a member of
an organized crime group. I'm proudly a member. You know.

(34:32):
It's like in a semi circle, I'm proudly a member
of an organized crime group, and then it has the
X logo in the middle in the middle of it. So,
in other words, what's happening is France is treating the
operation of a social media algorithm as a felony, and

(34:52):
the employees and the executives of X, well, they're being
treated as gangsters. There isn't much greater betrayal of the
norms of Western civilization, particularly the ability to express yourself freely,
than what they're doing. The European Union their Digital Services

(35:16):
Act that's taking aim at the global information ecosystem, they've
you know, under DSA platforms that have more than forty
five million users in the EU. They would include x YouTube, Facebook,
and TikTok. They're all designated as very very large online platforms,
and they have this horrendous compliance regime, to the point

(35:39):
that I don't understand how it's worthwhile monetarily to do
business in the European Union. But that's how this march
of fascism. All of the dis guys are protecting you.
We're just trying to protect the children. We're just trying
to protect you from harmful content. We don't people saying

(36:00):
bad things about you. This is the decline and fall
of free speech in Europe. This is pretty much how
Europe is becoming the new China. How the social score
system of China is being used in a different way
in Europe to control speech. Don't say anything that might

(36:26):
offend somebody. Don't say anything that might be considered to
be harmful to somebody. Because we now have whether it's
in the UK, whether it's in France or it's the EU,
we have ways to come and get you at Brazil
into that. China is already there. The major powers around

(36:47):
the world are all trying to limit speech. I'll do
everything I can to defend it in this country. I'll
be right back