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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So what I try to do for the public is
to really educate them. And you know, here's here's here's
the way I roll. If you haven't gotten my energy yet,
But you know, it's more like edutainment.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I'm not a person that's gonna yell at anybody. I'm
very entertaining. You're gonna laugh, you're gonna cry, but we're
all gonna learn. And I have been doing this work
for seventeen years, and I have sat in front of
people who will outright tell me that, you know, I
don't exist as a transgender person. And I can guarantee
everyone on this call who's on the committee, that I
always speak at a space of kindness.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Okay, before we continue, says Tony fari Yolo. He him
at the outside of the video said, if I understood correctly,
born female now identifies as male, Tony Ferrioh, I don't
get this. I've been doing this for seventeen years. That's
hard for me to comprehend that seventeen years ago, where
(00:55):
where was it that had to be very secret? If
you've been doing well, what he I guess I could
say is about to tell you he's been doing.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Right, because even the people who don't believe in what
I believe in. They don't believe in that as much
as I believe in it. Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
So?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And I also always feel that people are everybody's doing
the best they can. So if I was in front
of an audience that had somebody in the audience that
was saying to me, that's not true, you don't know
what you're talking about, I can guarantee you that I
would be able to at least get that person.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
To agree to disagree with me right in a very
kind way.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
You know, I've been doing these like again, this training
from Federal Acceptance, I've been doing for years.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
It really brings communities together.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
It's education, it's not it's not my opinion on how
I feel trans youth and non binary youth should be treated.
It is backed by the medical community, right, It's not
just my opinion.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
And I know there's even.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Some trans people that will actually say, no, Tony, don't,
I don't believe that as kids should transition. I know
of a few in Connecticut. The ones that I know
of in Connecticut have no medical credentials. So you know,
I'm just saying, if somebody like that would show up.
I would definitely, with kindness, be able to have a
conversation with them everyone from MTV, which was a cool gig,
(02:18):
I thought. So last year I did twenty seven schools
in Connecticut alone, so and we're scheduled to do another
fifteen already this year.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
So twenty Fairyolo did twenty seven schools in Connecticut? Do
you know them? By do the show every day? I mean,
do the parents even know? Twenty seven schools in Connecticut?
Where the schools are broke, the teachers are getting laid off.
It literacies through the roof, and this is going on.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I have again, I have a way with people. I'm
told I'm charming. I don't know if that's true. Barbara,
what do you think?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I mean, you've I read with that.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Thank you so much for coming and explaining that you
did a much better job than I could have done.
Tony and I met a couple of months ago, but
it was right after our presentation that we hosted with
Jillian Salentano, and we started talking about different ideas, and
I just thought that your message, Tony, really ties into
(03:25):
ties into where we're kind of headed in terms of
more supportive programs. More you know, how do we support
the family members, how do we support the individual?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
And how inclusive is Guildford? How inclusive you know, that's
one of the parts of the school training. How inclusive
is your classroom?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
You know? Do you are you?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Are you using the right terminology? Are using inclusive language?
Are you still saying she, her, him?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
His?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Are you saying they them? Or your child or the student?
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Like that's inclusive language. You know that I consult with
a lot of major hospitals. Yellhaven Health is one of
my custom Jefferson Health, So you know, I have a
lot of background in really trying to help people, and.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
There it is that they're customers. This is from a
Guildford meeting a La Zoom via Zoom back in twenty
twenty three. Tony was explaining this is his life's purpose
to guide trans youth and their families. And then that's wonderful.
Does it need to be in a classroom dominating other
kids time? We're elementary schools. You're there to learn, and
(04:28):
we're going to stop everything down right now for this
one child who very clearly already knows, you know, sexuality wise,
that they're identifying it what do we do. That's certainly
something that's worthy of a teacher to know. Does that
mean I think that a fourth grade classroom needs to
bring somebody in to speak to the whole class and
(04:50):
take away from reading, writing and arithmetic and not inform
the parents. It's bonkers, they say. At the same time,
in the art go Ferriola dissed transgender individuals who are
strongly opposed to transing children, going so far as to
(05:10):
slam them because they aren't medical experts. Fariola, who at
one point in the video said he consults with medical experts,
didn't call himself one. I mean, you just and there
actually are transgender individuals who strongly oppose transing children. Shocker,
isn't it, Tony? And for all you other weirdo do
(05:32):
gooders out there. I just mean in the sense that
you think this is like I said, want to be
a nice person. You see a kid in a room
full of kids and it's like, oh wow, clearly they're little.
You see the nervousness and the anxiety. Actually absolutely take
them aside. I have conversations with parents this and that
stopping down the whole classroom learning ends now to cater
(05:58):
is you didn't stop down the whole classroom for that
one kid who's just really destructive and a distraction. Prone
to mischief is what we used to call it. That
kid just got sent to the principal's office. So am
I saying, get sent to the principal's office. No, But
in the end it's the same thing. One on one
time I was prone to mischief, I'd get sent to
(06:19):
the principal's office, like why are you so why your
taking away from the other kids learning, which used to
make me feel badly but not a horrible way. And
I'd get one on one time. But the principal like,
what's going on? Why are you acting out in this
same thing? Really, in a lot of ways, it's okay,
your needs, your somber, your morose. What's distracting you is
(06:43):
taking away from the other Let's have one on one time.
You don't need to hire, make no mistake somebody. This veryolo.
He talks about clients and customers that you want. School audits.
He did twenty seven schools in Cane etiquette in twenty
twenty two, had fifteen on the schedule at the time
(07:03):
for twenty twenty three Big Bucks that I guarantee you
we're supposed to go to arts, if not athletics. It's crazy.
So what I try to do for the public is
to really educate them. And you know, here's here's here's
the way I roll. If you haven't gotten my energy yet,
But you know, it's more like edutainment.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I'm not a person that's gonna yell at anybody. I'm
very entertaining. You're gonna laugh, you're gonna cry, but we're
all gonna learn. And I have been doing this work
for seventeen years, and I have sat in front of
people who will outright tell me that, you know, I
don't exist as a transgender person. And I can guarantee
everyone on this call who's on the committee, that I
always speak at a space of kindness.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Okay, before we continue, says Tony fari Yolo. He him
at the outside of the video said, if I understood correctly,
born female now identifies as male, Tony Ferrioh, I don't
get this. I've been doing this for seventeen years. That's
hard for me to comprehend that seventeen years ago, where
(00:55):
where was it that had to be very secret? If
you've been doing well, what he I guess I could
say is about to tell you he's been doing.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Right, because even the people who don't believe in what
I believe in. They don't believe in that as much
as I believe in it. Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
So?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And I also always feel that people are everybody's doing
the best they can. So if I was in front
of an audience that had somebody in the audience that
was saying to me, that's not true, you don't know
what you're talking about, I can guarantee you that I
would be able to at least get that person.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
To agree to disagree with me right in a very
kind way.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
You know, I've been doing these like again, this training
from Federal Acceptance, I've been doing for years.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
It really brings communities together.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
It's education, it's not it's not my opinion on how
I feel trans youth and non binary youth should be treated.
It is backed by the medical community, right, It's not
just my opinion.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
And I know there's even.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Some trans people that will actually say, no, Tony, don't,
I don't believe that as kids should transition. I know
of a few in Connecticut. The ones that I know
of in Connecticut have no medical credentials. So you know,
I'm just saying, if somebody like that would show up.
I would definitely, with kindness, be able to have a
conversation with them everyone from MTV, which was a cool gig,
(02:18):
I thought. So last year I did twenty seven schools
in Connecticut alone, so and we're scheduled to do another
fifteen already this year.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
So twenty Fairyolo did twenty seven schools in Connecticut? Do
you know them? By do the show every day? I mean,
do the parents even know? Twenty seven schools in Connecticut?
Where the schools are broke, the teachers are getting laid off.
It literacies through the roof, and this is going on.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I have again, I have a way with people. I'm
told I'm charming. I don't know if that's true. Barbara,
what do you think?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I mean, you've I read with that.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Thank you so much for coming and explaining that you
did a much better job than I could have done.
Tony and I met a couple of months ago, but
it was right after our presentation that we hosted with
Jillian Salentano, and we started talking about different ideas, and
I just thought that your message, Tony, really ties into
(03:25):
ties into where we're kind of headed in terms of
more supportive programs. More you know, how do we support
the family members, how do we support the individual?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
And how inclusive is Guildford? How inclusive you know, that's
one of the parts of the school training. How inclusive
is your classroom?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
You know? Do you are you?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Are you using the right terminology? Are using inclusive language?
Are you still saying she, her, him?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
His?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Are you saying they them? Or your child or the student?
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Like that's inclusive language. You know that I consult with
a lot of major hospitals. Yellhaven Health is one of
my custom Jefferson Health, So you know, I have a
lot of background in really trying to help people, and.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
There it is that they're customers. This is from a
Guildford meeting a La Zoom via Zoom back in twenty
twenty three. Tony was explaining this is his life's purpose
to guide trans youth and their families. And then that's wonderful.
Does it need to be in a classroom dominating other
kids time? We're elementary schools. You're there to learn, and
(04:28):
we're going to stop everything down right now for this
one child who very clearly already knows, you know, sexuality wise,
that they're identifying it what do we do. That's certainly
something that's worthy of a teacher to know. Does that
mean I think that a fourth grade classroom needs to
bring somebody in to speak to the whole class and
(04:50):
take away from reading, writing and arithmetic and not inform
the parents. It's bonkers, they say. At the same time,
in the art go Ferriola dissed transgender individuals who are
strongly opposed to transing children, going so far as to
(05:10):
slam them because they aren't medical experts. Fariola, who at
one point in the video said he consults with medical experts,
didn't call himself one. I mean, you just and there
actually are transgender individuals who strongly oppose transing children. Shocker,
isn't it, Tony? And for all you other weirdo do
(05:32):
gooders out there. I just mean in the sense that
you think this is like I said, want to be
a nice person. You see a kid in a room
full of kids and it's like, oh wow, clearly they're little.
You see the nervousness and the anxiety. Actually absolutely take
them aside. I have conversations with parents this and that
stopping down the whole classroom learning ends now to cater
(05:58):
is you didn't stop down the whole classroom for that
one kid who's just really destructive and a distraction. Prone
to mischief is what we used to call it. That
kid just got sent to the principal's office. So am
I saying, get sent to the principal's office. No, But
in the end it's the same thing. One on one
time I was prone to mischief, I'd get sent to
(06:19):
the principal's office, like why are you so why your
taking away from the other kids learning, which used to
make me feel badly but not a horrible way. And
I'd get one on one time. But the principal like,
what's going on? Why are you acting out in this
same thing? Really, in a lot of ways, it's okay,
your needs, your somber, your morose. What's distracting you is
(06:43):
taking away from the other Let's have one on one time.
You don't need to hire, make no mistake somebody. This veryolo.
He talks about clients and customers that you want. School audits.
He did twenty seven schools in Cane etiquette in twenty
twenty two, had fifteen on the schedule at the time
(07:03):
for twenty twenty three Big Bucks that I guarantee you
we're supposed to go to arts, if not athletics. It's crazy.
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