Gender Bending Madness: A Mix

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Time for some gender bending madness. Michael, do we have
our theme there?

Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's five. This is a.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Major gender bending madness report. We will be working our
way toward the main story, which is doub path.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Something you need to know about path. Okay, I don't
know that.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Yeah, stay with us. First, We'll start with a quote
from Colin Wright of the Manhattan Institute that I think
is absolutely apropos. If Republicans were taking non sex conforming kids,
he means like effeminate boys or butch girls. If Republicans
were taking non sex conforming kids who were going to
turn out gay and they were trying to give them
surgeries to make them straight, that would be the biggest

(00:39):
scandal in the world.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
But because it's from the left, it's love and life saving,
so true. Dorito's decided that they were going to double
down on the whole bud light thing and they hired
this transgender artist, Samantha Hudson as a brand ambassador, specifically
in Europe. This person was fired over a disturbing tweet

(01:04):
involving a twelve year old over the weekend, Dorrito's Spain
announced Hudson as a brand ambassador, gained prominence through YouTube
discussing beauty, travel and lifestyle tips. On Monday, several ex
users alerted Dorito's to pass posts and regarding a twelve
year old girl an eight year old girl wanting to
perform various acts or scream at them to terrify them,

(01:28):
or saying they he he mocked sexual abuse survivors. Just
a reprehensible crazy person that Dorrito's hired some woke executive
for sure, one of their own European Dylan mulvaney, and
gout one with this with a similar result.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Moving along, is that Dylan mulvaney? There is that? What
that was?

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Indeed the soundtrack? All right, there you go?

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Where is he she? Now?

Speaker 1 (01:58):
It's a dude, do no keeping low profile ast most
I don't know or care. Speaking of transgender influencers, Jack,
you remember the one who showed her his bare breasts
at the White House last June?

Speaker 2 (02:14):
All right.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Is now saying his dog is transgender too. Montoya recently
posted the long rambling video and Instagram in which he
told his fans that his dog Hair is now transgender
because the animal was noted. Okay, fine and dandy. I
love this from JK Rowling Harry Potter fame is standing
up to the bullies. Some recent headlines from the UK press.

(02:38):
JK Rowling deliberately misgender's transactivist to India willow b. JK
Rowling miss gender's loose woman star India will blah blah blah,
and here's what happened India Previously. Jonathan willob is a
male TV presenter in the UK who was often very
unpleasant toward women who disagree with him about his radical
queer transgender ideology stuff. On a user posted a video

(03:01):
of Willowby pouting and dancing suggestively and asked if Rowling
thought quote this lady should use the men's locker room.
Rowling replied, you've sent me the wrong video. There isn't
a lady in this one, just a man reveling in
his misogynistic performance of what he thinks woman means. Narcissistic,
shallow and exhibitionists.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
That's from JK. Rowling. Yes, Wow, she engages more than
I realized.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Oh yeah, she does a lot. Well. They tried to
ruin her and enter her career, in her connection with
the Harry Potter universe and the rest of it, and
she's not having it. She's a smart lady and also
a hell of a good writer.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
And richer than God, so she doesn't have to worry
about anything.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, bah blah blah blah. Really, what is
grotesque as Willoughby's continued public advocacy for an ideology that
makes a mockery of women, deprives them of privacy, safety,
and ekeal opportunity to men. And his rally went on
quote to call someone a man is not a slur,
it's the truth. And then this high school snowboarding coach,

(04:08):
that's a pretty good gig. I mean, he made practically
nothing doing it. High school snowboarding coach. You get to
go snowboarding with a handful of teenagers a couple of
times a week and get paid a pittance for it.
But putting that aside, it's fine. I've thought of being
like a volunteer assistant golf coach at high school or
something like that, just for fun, maybe when I retire,

(04:29):
if I retire. But anyway, he was fired because he said,
I don't think guys should be snowboarding against the girls
on our team. It's a matter of biology. It just
is they have an advantage. And he got fired for that. Well,
he got seventy five grand in a settlement from a
judge who agreed with him. So there is a big,

(04:52):
big story burbling in conservative media, social media, etc. But
it's huge. It's about w PATH, which is the World
Professional Association for Transgender Health. Some folks leaked a bunch
of documents from them, and several folks, including Michael Schellenberger,
have been reporting on this, and there was a good,

(05:13):
fairly concise write up in the National Review, which I
will be leaning on a bit by Rich Lowry. But
w PATH is a group of self appointed experts who
drafted the influential it's called the Standards of Care for
the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People, which is
now in its eighth edition. But these quote unquote standards

(05:34):
are used incited by health professionals worldwide and held out
by journalists as the best practice in the area. And
if you debate any other points about experimenting on teenagers' bodies,
they'll say, well, the w PATH guidelines pretty clearly say this,
and they pretend that it's science based. And Schellenberger's reporting

(05:55):
is it's pretty extensive. It's one hundred plus pages, but
it has to do with the fact that it's not
it's not even close to scientific. Beneath a veneer of
medical soundness, respectability, and certainty, the files paint a very
different impression. Quote. For example, informed consent is a core
principle of medical ethics. It is quote, the process in
which a healthcare provider educates a patient about the risks, benefits,

(06:18):
and alternatives of a given procedure or intervention, and having
understood this quote, the patient must be competent to make
a voluntary decision about whether to undergo the procedure or intervention. Well.
In contrast, the disclosed w path files reflect a complete
disregard for this principle, with lifelong implications for the people

(06:39):
to get it done. It's worth pointing out it's not
like you know, it may cause rash, it may cause
infertility and disfigurement and suicide and depression and the rest
of it. For example, there's a discussion of blocking the
puberty of a girl who is just ten years old.
Another practitioner says that explaining the concept whences of fertility

(07:01):
to a fourteen year old is like talking to a
blank wall. Don't even bother explaining that, oh, you'll never
be able to have a child. In another discussion of child,
psychologist and co author of the latest Standards of Care,
this is one of the head people, says quote. It's
out of their developmental range to understand the extent to
which the extent to which some of these medical interventions

(07:23):
are impacting them. So again, don't even bother trying to
educate them. They're kids. They can't understand the implications of
what they're doing. Will wait a minute, right, works both ways?
Good lord? I mean, you don't need to be like
some sort of rhetorical genius to understand the problem here.

(07:43):
Of course, the kids. No trust the kids. The kids
can't possibly comprehend the after effects and side effects of
what they're having done, so don't even bother explaining the
to them in Another common theme in the files is
the presence of this part is heartbreaking. But if you
have not become militant on this topic yet, it ought to.

(08:03):
Another common theme in the files is the presidents of
the presence of significant psychiatric comorbidities and the people being
pursued for medical and surgical interventions. And I like Rich
Lowry's use of the word pursued there. I think it's accurate.
These kids are just pursued and recruited and radicalized and
sent down a conveyor belt that they don't know how

(08:24):
to get off anyway. For example, in one posting, a
practitioner explains feeling conflicted over a patient with very complex
mental health issues including PTSD, major depressive disorder, observed dissociations,
and schizoid typical traits. The practitioner explained that quote, the
patient is eager to start hormones, but psychiatry is recommending

(08:45):
holding off. A w PATH member and co author of
the standards of care again, one of the higher up
people respond, I'm missing why you are so complex start treatment.
So you've got a teenager who's half a dozen of
met leel saying I think I'm a boy now, and
this poor practitioner saying I think I think a psychiatrist

(09:07):
needs to spend a lot of time with this kid,
and the leaders in the field say, I don't know
why you're confused go. In another message, a practitioner seems
to boast that quote, I have also intervened on behalf
of people who have been diagnosed with major depressive disorder CPTSD, homelessness,
and got at least an archiectomy. That's a removal of testicles.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
Oh wow, Oh my god. There's as a guy who
has dealt with a fair amount of this sort of thing,
not the train stuff, but the therapy psychiatrist stuff. It
sounds so crazy to me because it's hard to get
a diagnosis you believe in. I've spent a lot of

(09:51):
money and time on this and had one professional with
a PhD say it's this, and the other professional with
a PhD say, no, it's not, it's this, and they
both disagree. How would you How would you possibly decide
to go with the one who says removed the testicles?
Well right?

Speaker 1 (10:10):
And I having dealt with the autism spectrum and psychiatrists
and several incredibly frustrating episodes of lack of communication and
or being doctrinaire when empathy would have been better. There's
not like some giant radical neo Marxist political movement around
the issues you've dealt and are talking about. So, getting

(10:35):
back to rich Lowry's piece, his main points is that
doctors and health authorities and journalists need to stop referring
to w path or standards of care as if they're
some sort of credible source of reference. They're not they
their standards are demonstrably perverse and immoral and completely unscientific. Second,

(10:58):
the World Health Organization must suspend and it's beleaguered project
to launch its own gender guidelines. They're working to do this,
but they're like on a parallel track to this w
PAS standards of care, and they're making many of the
same assumptions which are utterly unsupportable. And I like the conclusion. Ultimately,

(11:18):
those who experienced discomfort with their biological sex deserve to
be treated with dignity and respect and need compassionate, effective
mental health care. Sadly, at the hands of gender clinics
around the world, armed with the w PASS standards of care,
they have only been pushed in one direction. There is
a mounting in tragic cost to this ideology, revealed by
the many stories of those detransitioning or who otherwise regret

(11:41):
what was done to them. Ultimately, vulnerable children and adults
who deserve better were led to irreversible interventions, and those
who spoke out were censored. It's time for more governments
to act as Europe Virtually every single European government has
said no, no, no, no, no, if you're a minor, it's
psychiatric care, you get canceling psychiatric care. We work through this.

(12:02):
Nobody gets the chemicals, nobody gets the surgery while their children.
I don't know how we look back on this episode
with horror.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
It's so interesting that we ended up being the progressive
ones as opposed to europe progressive. In finger quotes on
a number of these issues, Armstrong and Yetti