Dave Landau and John Oliver are joined by a special guest to discuss Amy Schumer and Steven Crowder's unlikely rivalry. Plus, a new segment about Joe Biden and his relationship with children, and Geraldine Brooks shares the story of how she accidentally ate too much pizza.
00:02:29.000We were rushing and we were hustling to get ready for the show, and John Oliver, you know, who will be a wonderful trophy after today's show, and then you just realize you forget to breathe sometimes.
00:02:37.000Just breathe is always playing in my head.
00:02:45.000So, look, my first question to you is, will you start using Parler once Kanye buys it?
00:02:50.000That's what's happening today, but we had a whole segment ready to go on former Vice President Joe Biden being creepy with children, but more importantly, some things that people miss, but we'll move that to tomorrow because John Oliver is trending right now.
00:03:03.000And look, I say this without a hint of hyperbole, they're coming for your kids.
00:03:07.000There's a 26-minute segment making the case as to why it's a good thing for children to transition, for children to get on puberty blockers, and it's an attempt to gaslight you.
00:04:19.000No, I ate too much because I was trying to replenish and it was like the Apollo 13 thing where I'm going like, oh my gosh, do I have to slingshot around the moon?
00:04:27.000Do I have to keep going in order to come back?
00:07:35.000So everyone's talking about how creepy it is and of course if you're a father who would let someone treat your daughter that way, you probably are, I mean just, you should give up your child to me.
00:07:43.000I would rather you give them to the male, the Z. I was gonna say, can we go back to that palate cleanser?
00:07:50.000There's something there that is far more severe and I think far more impactful than just him lightly groping her.
00:07:57.000Comment below if you see what it is, because we're going to address it tomorrow.
00:08:00.000I think people are missing the macro picture there, which it's for the girls.
00:08:21.000That's always a good sign if the Secret Service has it on their bullet point checklist to make sure no one's filming if he gets around a young girl.
00:08:30.000It's like for, you know, President Trump, they'd be like, let's keep him off of Twitter because you get with Joe Biden, like keep him away from children.
00:10:09.000The coach, Todd Bowles, set it up for me.
00:10:12.000So the Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach, Todd Bowles, he's black.
00:10:16.000So he's a black head coach in the league, which there's not a whole lot of those, and he's being asked some questions by reporters after playing against another black head coach, Tomlin, in Pittsburgh.
00:10:26.000Yes, and then he gets whitesplained by a female reporter.
00:10:31.000I've never seen anything more patronizing.
00:10:32.000You're going to have to watch some of this through your fingers, but just keep in mind, this is what the left believes, and occasionally it slips.
00:11:24.000Well when you say you see you guys and look like them and grew up like them means that we're eyeballs to begin with and I think the minute you guys start stop making a big deal about it everybody else will as well.
00:15:49.000Okay, let's move on to here, John Oliver.
00:15:52.000Okay, so a couple things that I want to touch on here.
00:15:55.000There's going to be an underlying theme here that you'll see recurring.
00:15:59.000Namely, that when we're talking about the transgender issue, and particularly as it relates to children, they told you that it was a slippery slope logical fallacy.
00:16:07.000Ironically, because there are many logical fallacies presented here today from John Oliver, when we said they're going to be targeting children.
00:16:23.000Why do you care so much about this issue that affects such a small percent of the population as they try to push legislation that would affect every member of the population?
00:16:31.000And the idea of the empirical versus the anecdotal.
00:16:35.000This is really important because we just came out of the era of trust.
00:18:01.000Now, if you disagree, feel free to comment on any of the claims that we rebut below.
00:18:05.000So let's go through it claim by claim.
00:18:08.000Here is one that he makes as we lead it off where he tries to tell you that why do so many people care about an issue that affects so few people?
00:18:16.000Even 12 states have signed into law anti-trans bills.
00:18:28.000It is clearly more than just bad jokes.
00:18:30.000This year alone, over 100 anti-trans bills have been introduced in state houses, and 12 states have signed or enacted them, with all of this happening against a backdrop of violence and threats, including attacks and harassment aimed at hospitals providing gender-affirming care to youth.
00:19:15.000The new law bans the use of puberty-blocking drugs on minors and also prohibits surgical interventions, including breast reductions.
00:19:22.000Now, most of you would say, including if you're a Democrat, that sounds reasonable.
00:19:29.000And of course, why would this even need to be presented?
00:19:32.000Because as a baseline, we would all agree that you shouldn't have surgical procedures being conducted as an experiment on children who don't have the ability to consent to even sex, let alone decisions that affect their sexual life for all.
00:20:02.000Hutchinson attempted to veto this bill.
00:20:06.000But the veto was overridden and passed into law, which proves the necessity of the bill in the first place.
00:20:10.000The reason they need to create a bill, that he says is an anti-trans bill, which specifically bans the use of puberty-blocking drugs on minors and surgical interventions.
00:20:22.000Remember when we went from Target won't let them take a shit in the bathroom they want, and it's just like the pre-civil rights era?
00:20:29.000Now it's you can't give puberty blockers or cut off a penis of A six, seven, fifteen year old, it's an anti-trans bill and the governor tried to veto it, which shows you the reason for the bill in the first place.
00:20:55.000It's been happening across the country.
00:20:57.000Virginia, you see their new education policy says that students shall use bathrooms that correspond to his or her sex, except to the extent that federal law requires otherwise.
00:21:07.000You can go look at all these bills that he presents as just anti-trans bills.
00:21:10.000Again, the attempt there is to gaslight you, going, well, I'm not anti-trans, because you're not a bi- I don't hate- hold on a second, I wouldn't support those bills, because you probably believe that it's banning trans people from public forums.
00:21:21.000These are very specific bills that were required precisely because of the kind of push that John Oliver makes.
00:21:26.000By the way, it's a live show here Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m.
00:23:41.000But you're supposed to take it seriously when this, I believe, boy who's transitioned to a girl at that age says, I would make it so that we could use any bathroom we want.
00:23:50.000And John Oliver takes it as legitimate.
00:23:52.000If you ask them about foreign policy, if you ask them about immigration policy, I don't know anything.
00:25:16.000Here are some of the statistics on child outcomes.
00:25:18.000For decades, there have been follow-up studies of transgender children.
00:25:21.000They've shown that a substantial majority, anywhere from 65% on the low end to 94%, eventually completely cease to identify as transgender.
00:26:00.000Well, they want you to believe it's because now they're more free because before they were being oppressed worse than American slaves because they couldn't take a dump at the gender-neutral bathroom in Walmart.
00:26:09.000So this is what caused the major depression for the kids, and what will fix it is injecting them with estrogen.
00:26:14.000So let's go on to the next claim that John Oliver makes.
00:26:18.000It's just, it is, I would say it's evil when you are saying that children should be making these decisions and you are trying to strip the rights of parents who believe, not who believe, who understand the science that it's not good for children to fundamentally alter their hormones or make permanent decisions regarding their sexual capabilities.
00:26:36.000So here's another claim that he makes that conservatives have nothing else to worry about.
00:26:39.000That you're crazy because you're just making a mountain out of a molehill with the whole trans-athlete thing.
00:26:47.000Eighteen states have passed laws aimed at protecting youth sports.
00:26:51.000And South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem even made her state's bill a centerpiece of a campaign ad.
00:26:57.000Now, Governor Noem has a bill that will give South Dakota the strongest law in the nation protecting female sports.
00:27:04.000If you time-traveled here from the past, and the first thing you saw was this ad, you would think two things.
00:27:09.000One, wow, the campaign centers around youth sports.
00:27:12.000I guess literally every other problem in America has been solved.
00:27:15.000And two, she is not pulling off that cowboy hat.
00:27:19.000Yeah, also, if you were an alien biologist who came here to Earth, you'd be like, oh, we are not able to understand how they reproduce with between the male and... And they would just short-circuit.
00:27:40.000Let's bring up the logical fallacy alert.
00:27:41.000A lot of these are used, with a bit of ad hominem thrown in.
00:27:44.000So let me read to you the reverse nirvana fallacy.
00:27:46.000It's comparing a realistic solution with an idealized one and discounting or even dismissing the realistic solution as a result of comparing it to a perfect world or impossible standard.
00:27:55.000So in this case, we also have basically, well, since it hasn't become a huge problem yet, why would you do anything about it?
00:28:02.000Well, first off, that's not exactly true.
00:28:03.000It's a much bigger problem than John Oliver lets on.
00:28:05.000Second, it hasn't necessarily been a problem yet because the radical progression, the radical anti-science progression, stripping parents of their rights, hadn't been enacted by assholes like you yet.
00:28:17.000Doesn't mean that it can't happen, and the solution is not to do nothing about it.
00:29:22.000I'm just laughing at the situation of breaking someone's... I'm laughing at the absurdity of Fallon Fox who lived as a man until 30-something years old breaking a woman's face.
00:30:42.000There were so many examples, and there was such an aggressive push, that now in the Olympics, by the way, you just have to prove that you've been on hormone blockers for one year, and there isn't even a testosterone cap.
00:30:55.000So remember, it started with, well, if you're legitimate transsexual, we used to have transvestites and transsexuals.
00:31:00.000Transvestites were people who dressed like women.
00:31:01.000Transsexuals were people who went through the operation.
00:31:03.000Now we've added transgenders, where you can compete in the Olympics without a testosterone cap, without ever having actually gone through the transition, and beat the hell out of women.
00:31:12.000That's the new policy of the Olympics.
00:31:15.000Hit the like button if you think that's bullshit!
00:31:18.000By the way, this and the homosexual marriage, the gay marriage bill, everything else, when there's an easy, obvious solution to the problem and you choose to make it as painful as possible and as illogical as possible, you know you're just pushing an agenda.
00:31:30.000If you wanted to compete, if men, people who were born men, I'm sorry, women, who transitioned into men wanted to compete, they could do that.
00:31:37.000Men, more importantly, that transition into women and compete in women's sports, you can make a division for them.
00:31:41.000Go and compete and be the very best in that category.
00:31:44.000Why are we trying to make it difficult?
00:31:46.000How do you feel about performance enhancing drugs in sports?
00:31:49.000Because the advantage that a man on steroids would have over another man is infinitesimal compared to what the advantage that a male hormonal profile would carry against any woman.
00:32:14.000Russia actually disbanded their entire program of steroids and just transitioned all their male athletes to women who win all the gold medals.
00:32:53.000You have a clean male... You have a clean male division, a clean female division, and then you have an all other gender, any performance enhancing drugs, let the games begin.
00:34:30.000Like, no evidence of widespread things that we can't discuss, but you said was the greatest issue facing our national security pre-2016 election?
00:34:38.000You changed the language, and by the way, at this case, I don't have a problem with Drag Queen because it's hyper-sexualized anyway, but what if they are transgender and a stripper?
00:34:46.000Well, I think they're trying to hide behind Drag Queen and say, you know, this is somebody in a dress who's just dressed as a woman, right, who happens to be born a male, right?
00:34:54.000When we saw all of these Drag Queen stuff, it was people with lingerie type stuff on, it was people with really short skirts, it was people with their butt hanging out, like we saw the one in church where they were doing this in church and the girl comes walking down the aisle, I use that term loosely, and you can see, you wouldn't have a normal Born this way woman dressed like that in church and feel like the seat wasn't getting hot.
00:35:18.000And you're right, they could be a stripper.
00:36:01.000That's what helps with these algorithms on YouTube, and they do not want you to see this.
00:36:05.000The John Oliver video will be thrust into every single person's timeline, whether you want it or not.
00:36:08.000And of course, it's not even age-restricted because that's the goal.
00:36:11.000So another claim that he makes is, and what they try and do is take one example and say, this is your entire argument.
00:36:19.000So John Oliver goes on to cite one, and from what I understand, albeit flawed study, about the role of peer pressure increasing the rates of, you know, sort of childhood transitioning, but tries to make it seem as though that's the only study, or the only empirical evidence that we have, even though it's not true, but this is how he presents it.
00:36:36.000The rise in kids identifying as trans is due to social contagion, that it's just a mass delusion, a trendy fad that is rapidly spreading among young people.
00:36:45.000Shreyas sometimes dresses her argument up by using the term rapid-onset gender dysphoria, which is total horseshit.
00:36:53.000It comes from a study published by a researcher in 2018, hypothesizing that some kids identify as trans due to peer pressure.
00:37:00.000But it's worth you knowing, that study was based on a survey of parents, not actual trans kids, and it targeted parents from organizations dedicated to opposing trans ideology, which is instantly disqualifying!
00:37:13.000Okay, so before I move on to the truth of addressing that, again, they're accusing you of what they do, saying, which is total bullshit, the description of rapid-onset gender dysphoria.
00:37:25.000What happened from the DSM-IV to the DSM-V?
00:37:27.000Gender dysphoria was classified as a disorder in which someone believes that they are born to the wrong sex, wrong gender.
00:37:33.000Then they changed it because of political pressure to say gender dysphoria is actually a description of the symptoms of somebody who was born the wrong gender.
00:37:43.000So we just changed the definition of gender dysphoria, medically speaking, with no new empirical data to justify it.
00:37:50.000And this is a problem with many people who work in the community of psychology and psychiatry, not to mention people who actually work in endocrinology.
00:38:05.000that exists as far as this new phenomenon of children transitioning at record rates,
00:38:11.000you've seen a dramatic increase in surgery. The sex reassignment market in the United States right
00:38:15.000now is valued at $1.9 billion. In the United States alone, it's expected to grow about 11.23%
00:38:22.000From 2019 to 2020, a 15% increase in chest surgeries for trans males.
00:38:26.000By the way, that outpaces almost, and I say almost just because I'm not entirely sure, I haven't had time this morning, I'm willing to bet all other elective cosmetic surgeries.
00:38:48.000Bill Maher is not at all, not even remotely.
00:38:50.000And he even came out back in May when I think the New York Times released some study information on this that says transgender stuff is just blowing up, especially amongst the youth.
00:38:59.000and not so much among older people. He said, yeah, I understand that maybe people are a little bit
00:39:04.000more free to talk about it and there's some freedom there that's contributing to that number. He goes,
00:39:08.000but why is it so much so in California versus Ohio? Like it's this trendy fad.
00:39:14.000Yeah, it's a dramatic difference in the locale.
00:39:16.000Geography matters a whole lot. I know we'll talk about that in a second,
00:39:18.000but when Bill Maher is at the point where he's like, hold on guys.
00:39:23.000Like, you really need to stop and take a look at your argument, because John Oliver, all he did was say, it's only because of freedom.
00:39:29.000It's only because they can now do this stuff and not be... And the only example pointing out this might be a problem is this one flawed study.
00:39:35.000No, it's not only study after study after study after study, which will get into mental
00:39:38.000health issues, will get into the likelihood of, not only likelihood, the verifiable, not
00:39:42.000only mental health, but physical health, health as it relates to cancer issues.
00:39:46.000These are all documented, not to mention the statistics on children who transition if there
00:39:50.000is no intervention versus if there is.
00:39:54.000We're also talking about the economic data that we have in relation to surgeries being
00:39:59.000We're talking about the data that we have, whether it's the Census Bureau or local state sort of polling institutions, how different it is regarding geography, regarding the politics of the parents.
00:40:09.000Now, you can say that, ha, instead of chicken or the egg, correlation doesn't equal causation, and maybe that's because those kids are more free because they were actually transphobic.
00:40:16.000Sure, sure, we can have that nature and nurture conversation, but only if you acknowledge that there's a dramatic difference.
00:40:56.000I don't, I don't think cosmetic medical decisions in a lot of ways, which I know that they argue this wouldn't be, but I mean, you're looking at something where it's not like you were saying how it's, you know, because of freedom, it's not legalized weed.
00:41:07.000It's permanent mutilation in a lot of cases, because if you change your mind on it, that's what it is to you.
00:41:13.000It's your permanent destruction of your body.
00:41:15.000He goes on to say, well that's not really the case, it's mostly reversible, except sometimes there is serenity but it's a very small chance and children have the right to make that decision.
00:41:23.000Yes, because they make informed decisions.
00:41:25.000Because when you're 7 years old, you really understand the full scope of a barren womb when you're 28.
00:43:29.000Let's wait until Monday and just schedule for the next day.
00:43:32.000So, okay, so we have this dramatically high attempted suicide rate.
00:43:36.000Now, you might say, well, hold on a second, pre and post-op, the reason it's the same is because of how mistreated they are.
00:43:41.000For that to hold water, and there might be something there, of course, that transgender people feel ostracized, I'm not saying that they don't, you would have to compare it against the control.
00:43:50.000Are there other groups that are minorities that have been marginalized?
00:43:53.000And have their suicide rates been comparable?
00:44:08.000So, you have to ask yourself, is a suicide rate pre- and post-op likely due to societal ostracization?
00:44:16.000Or, hold on a second, maybe not because I don't believe that current transgender students in California have it worse than Jews and Auschwitz or American slaves.
00:44:26.000We have control after control after control of people who experience the worst conditions beyond not being able to leave a little curly three-ring circus at the Target bathroom.
00:45:01.000Got everything you want, 19 times more likely.
00:45:02.000Got everything you want, you look like a woman, you have all the same rights, you can compete wherever you want to compete, you're on puberty blockers, you've gotten the estrogen that you want, you've got the whatever hormones that you want, with your woman-to-man testosterone, and the suicide rate is still a multiple of Jews in concentration camps, American slaves, And gays, lesbians, not to mention of course every other racial minority.
00:45:41.000Well, it would seem, too, that the attempted suicide rate is up, and this is speculation, just judging by, you know, people in my own family, I guess, but amongst teenagers just in general, and I would assume that it has to do with a lot of woke think.
00:45:55.000Probably, when you're a perpetual victim and you believe that everything is outside of your control.
00:46:09.000That's why I have an issue where you say, okay, all these people in California that are transgender kids are having a tough time in school.
00:46:17.000How, when that's what it's being catered to, is exactly who you are.
00:46:45.000Some say, in your own destiny, you create hopelessness.
00:46:48.000That's why, even though the conditions, the treatment of American slaves, African American slaves, absolutely horrible, abhorrent, well, not even close to the suicide rate of people.
00:47:09.000than transgender youth today in California, where the legislation that they want has already been passed.
00:47:14.000That tells you that it's not just society, it's that these people, they have been victimized by you telling them that they are perpetually victimized.
00:47:41.000Excess estrogen in the body is, of course, believed to be cancerous.
00:47:45.000Now, I cannot say definitively, 100%, just to be clear on YouTube, that injecting a boy with estrogen or altering his hormone levels might actually prove to be cancergenic, because we haven't done those studies yet because we've never had to.
00:47:57.000But men with high levels of estrogen have had a multiple Increase in their odds of breast cancer than men who have normal levels.
00:48:45.000Go and get your hormone levels checked.
00:48:47.000When injected directly into the thigh of a seven-year-old, however, we don't have the long-term studies.
00:48:53.000Therefore, let's make it the Wild West.
00:48:56.000Shouldn't the, we don't have the long-term studies be, we need to wait until we have the long-term studies?
00:49:00.000How many times are we going to do this, injecting things into people without long-term studies and know I'm not talking about something that could get us banned?
00:49:06.000Right, well you know why they don't want to?
00:49:08.000Because it would be a complete violation of medical ethics to even try and conduct a long-term study.
00:49:13.000Because of, based on what we already know, you could not find a clinic or a doctor in clear conscience to say, yeah, let's see what happens with these kids we inject with estrogen versus the control group.
00:49:21.000It would be a violation of the Hippocratic Oath.
00:49:25.000So instead, let's just make you, society, the experiment.
00:49:28.000It's not like we've done that any other time.
00:49:29.000By the way, Dave and I, uh, on tour here.
00:49:32.000We have, uh, some dates left, uh, at the end of this year.
00:50:02.000All right, let's go on to the next claim.
00:50:04.000Sir, there's so much here, but all the references are available.
00:50:07.000I think, again, I think this is more important than taxes.
00:50:12.000They're trying to, well, let's just show his next claim.
00:50:16.000Notably, young people are showing up in public forums where adults are fear-mongering about letting trans kids into youth sports and bathrooms and trying to talk some sense into them.
00:50:26.000I will not let a board full of people who barely represent me tell me who I am and what I can do.
00:51:13.000Here are some anecdotal examples of largely white women who don't care, who don't compete in sports, who don't really have a dog in this fight.
00:53:00.000We're telling you that you're a young girl who can't think straight and we're going to think for you as we do in all other scenarios with young girls and boys.
00:53:06.000Yeah, and by the way, I don't care if you're comfortable with it.
00:54:17.000Here's another claim from John Oliver.
00:54:19.000And this is really important because he makes the claim right before refuting himself.
00:54:23.000Must be nice to live in a world where you don't get called to the mat on anything.
00:54:27.000Where he tells you, so I'll just roll this and roll the clip right after, that children, don't worry, children are not eligible for any kind of medical intervention.
00:54:38.000But to hear some tell it, as soon as a child declares themselves trans, there is an immediate, irreversible surgical decision undertaken.
00:54:48.000So let's break down exactly what gender-affirming care consists of.
00:54:52.000To be very clear, prepubescent children are not eligible for medical interventions.
00:54:58.000And then immediately goes, immediately, into talking about medical intervention and advocating for it on a legislative level.
00:55:06.000This is what happens right after that clip.
00:55:08.000At the onset of puberty, an adolescent and their family might consider puberty blockers, hormones that delay puberty.
00:55:15.000And importantly, if that treatment is suspended, then puberty will resume, meaning that this is reversible.
00:55:21.000Think of it like a pause button, the thing you can't do easily on the HBO Max app.
00:55:26.000Now, the next potential medical intervention is usually hormone therapy, which boosts levels of testosterone or estrogen.
00:55:33.000Opponents of gender affirming care make a lot of alarmist claims about hormone therapy, from saying that it's experimental, which it is not, to arguing that it sterilizes people.
00:55:42.000And look, for some, in specific situations, there can be risks to fertility, but for others, the effect is anticipated to be reversible, if the medication is discontinued.
00:56:17.000If you're in your 50s, your 60s, and you're not feeling well, yes, that is something which, by the way, unfortunately, the medical community in many cases does consider experimental.
00:56:26.000Because we think it may have some negative effects.
00:56:29.000When you ask them about estrogen injected directly into a child, however... Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
00:58:10.000And then I did, and you can go to lottowithcreditor.com.
00:58:13.000One of the advantages is everything that's been banned from YouTube, to the tune of hundreds of millions of views, is available there.
00:58:19.000And I did a segment where I went undercover at a Vermont town hall where they were showing us how to get our young children on puberty blockers and I believe how to use Medicaid for it.
00:58:30.000When we released that video on YouTube and we actually refuted the idea that they're completely reversible without any health ramifications, which I cannot address here because of course that got us into trouble, they removed it.
00:59:07.000Let's go on to another claim from him.
00:59:10.000Oh, this is another thing where it's just, again, an appeal to emotional fallacy, where he says, you know, no kids are just casually dropping in to get surgery, you bigot.
00:59:19.000Some teens may be eligible, for instance, for top surgery or chest masculinization.
00:59:25.000Not only is that pretty rare, it, like all of this, would only happen after a team of medical professionals discussed all of its risks and benefits with their patient and their patient's parent or guardian, all of whom would have to sign off.
00:59:38.000No kid is casually dropping into an operating room because they just decided to get their uterus removed with impulsive recklessness normally associated with getting bangs.
00:59:48.000Yeah, a board of medical professionals.
01:00:17.000Oh, you don't know the difference between sex and gender?
01:00:20.000Well, apparently the former vice president, Kamala Harris, and the entire DNC and Rachel Levine doesn't as well because they refer to Rachel Levine as the first female Not woman.
01:00:35.000I'm a little pissed off at Knowles for the way that he categorized this, and this is what led to John Oliver's jumping off point, saying, oh you can just walk in, let's get this woman right into surgery, and I'm like, he kind of made it easy for him, Michael.
01:00:44.000I know the point you were trying to make, but you didn't make it in a way that made a whole lot of sense. What really is going on
01:00:51.000here is he's saying, you guys will get together and you will come up with this.
01:00:55.000Okay, so we just talked about the medical professionals being pressured by their own agencies
01:00:58.000to make sure that they offer gender affirming care. Otherwise, there could be some ramifications
01:01:03.000down the line. They didn't say that, but eventually that's what happens, right? Parents,
01:01:07.000they're getting together with parents and doctors to make decisions.
01:01:10.000Okay, you mean the same parents that you're saying if you don't do gender-affirming care that you could possibly lose your children?
01:01:17.000That is happening in places around the country right now.
01:01:19.000People are talking about that as being bigoted and hateful.
01:01:23.000And reason enough for the state to come into your home and start to do an investigation of why you won't let your 14-year-old transition?
01:01:29.000How about Johns Hopkins being suspended on social media because they said that they wouldn't be performing this care?
01:01:34.000Yeah, or let's not even get into suspensions.
01:01:36.000Just the Twitter, Facebook, YouTube mob going after what was a respected medical institution yesterday.
01:01:42.000Now they're just a bunch of quacks today believing that penises are a thing.
01:01:46.000Yeah, you've got two groups of people that are being bludgeoned into going along with this and that's the triumvirate.
01:01:52.000The person who's making this decision and these two other groups that can't speak out against it For fear of being ostracized from their job or losing their kids, those are the people, John, that you're saying will get together and make an informed, rational decision?
01:02:17.000And then I don't know if this is another claim from, yeah, I think John Oliver, right, where he says that the state shouldn't be intervening.
01:02:23.000And this is where it comes to, why do you want to kill children?
01:02:26.000All of us here, we want to kill children.
01:02:27.000That's the only reason we could present the arguments or the thought processes that we do.
01:03:16.000So here's another claim that he makes.
01:03:17.000States shouldn't intervene because transitioning children saves lives.
01:03:22.000And the very notion that the state would suddenly interfere in any of this is understandably infuriating for both trans kids and their parents.
01:03:29.000Yes, you hate state interference, you socialist prick.
01:03:32.000Where legislators were banning, among other things, hormone therapy for young people.
01:03:36.000Describe what it did for her son, who suffered from severe depression before transitioning.
01:03:41.000I'd say like a month to two months in, I started seeing that kid come back.
01:03:45.000Come out of his shell, talk to us more, laugh.
01:05:39.000What about one year from now for this child with what you're doing for them?
01:05:43.000Helping them in this moment, you're taking the short, easy way out, instead of saying, hey, long term, I've looked it up, the studies are terrible for this, it's a 40% suicide rate.
01:05:55.000Empirically, she's wrong, John Oliver's wrong.
01:06:24.000And just to be clear, I feel bad for these children.
01:06:28.000I have a problem with the parents, and I have a problem with John Oliver, and I have a problem with the people who perpetuate this, and I have a problem with, I'm sorry, the suburban female voters who don't stand up to your friends in your circle.
01:07:03.000Your diet and exercise regimen works right now until two years from now when they have to take off a foot.
01:07:07.000And by the way, again, it's sort of like, with diabetes, I will say, this isn't necessarily medically true, this might be what is referred to as a joke, you just have to push past it because then when they cut off your feet, your BMI resets.
01:08:00.000All right, here's another claim that he tries to make, again, to guilt you, John Oliver, is if you stop kids from transitioning, you You are the one.
01:08:09.000Not the lady there who maybe is actually making horrible medical decisions that could negatively affect her child for the rest of the child's life.
01:08:16.000You're the one who's responsible for suicidal ideation.
01:08:20.000A survey of around 28,000 trans people found that of those who wanted hormone therapy and didn't receive it, 58% reported suicidal thoughts in a given year.
01:08:29.000Which is why the three major professional associations of child and adolescent doctors, psychologists and psychiatrists have endorsed gender affirming care and condemned efforts to deny it.
01:09:14.000But, we have three times more likely transgender youth And then we have the fact that overall, throughout their lifetime, post-op transgenders are 19 times more likely to commit suicide than the general population.
01:09:24.000By the way, one of those stats comes from Harvard.
01:09:58.000That's what would be now with Home Alone, you know, his whole fantasy is he goes and eats nothing but sugar, right, in the giant hotel suite.
01:10:04.000Now it would just be double-sided dildos and a sewing kit.
01:10:08.000Still the sugar, but his parents are there.
01:10:11.000Home Alone 3, transitioning in New York.
01:10:40.000Now, next claim from John Oliver is that he says people, and this is something because there's a huge contingency, and again, we don't really have all the data on this, because this hasn't all been studied.
01:10:53.000But every time we follow up on new studies, for example, when people would say that there was evidence of different brains, you know, in transgender individuals, I can't remember which study it was, and there was a Swedish study, I believe it was the Remedi study, that when they finally actually looked at it and did a control group of people and checked their brains, they actually did MRIs and checked the sort of the I don't know if it was... I know they checked the actual frontal lobe portion of the brain.
01:11:45.000Oh, the changes occur after we administer hormones, which if you understand the relationship between hormones and uh neurotransmitters they're very some people argue that they're almost one in the same in some instances so we don't have data on everything but the data on people who are detransitioning as it comes out is alarming it's a very large percentage of them particularly children who transition so he tries to cut that off at the pass and silence
01:12:10.000People who have detransitioned, saying the only reason that they have, like that lady with the black coach, the Buccaneers, saying you do understand that black people need representation, to a black man.
01:12:20.000They're trying to say, right here, John Oliver, to the women and men who've detransitioned, you do know the only reason you're doing that is because of social stigma, right?
01:12:29.000And you may have seen or heard from a small subset of people who detransitioned.
01:12:33.000But it is worth knowing, such cases are rare and highly individualized.
01:12:37.000Studies show an average of just 2% of people who transition express regret, and that the vast majority of those who have opted to detransition did so not because of changes in their gender identity, but due to external factors such as stigma and lack of social support.
01:12:53.000Anyway, remember we talked about if you don't intervene with children, the vast majority of them grow out of it, but if you do, almost none of them do?
01:13:01.000It's really hard to study that as the point that you made with puberty blockers.
01:13:04.000You don't know what puberty would have looked like without them, even if you paused, even if you stopped them.
01:13:11.000And by the way, something that is sort of anecdotal here but is interesting, and I would love to see a comparison, you see it with a lot of people who compete in combat sports, particularly wrestlers, who have to cut weight.
01:13:21.000I had friends who were wrestlers, and what happened, one of them was on dialysis because they would have to cut weight.
01:13:24.000You go into college your freshman year, you have to wrestle, let's say, at 182, and then you graduate, you still have to keep your spot at 182, and they're consistently wringing out their organs, and some of them actually don't go through puberty because of the damage that that causes.
01:13:37.000to their endocrine system. So imagine how much more severe it would be. We don't... some of them
01:13:41.000afterwards have to get on hormone replacement therapy for the rest of their life. The point
01:13:44.000is when you take these drastic measures while you're growing, sometimes it is catastrophic,
01:13:50.000and it is permanent, and it's very, very hard to study. He also, by the way, goes on to criticize
01:13:56.000these detransitioners and uses... what is he... has an example here. Let's just show... I don't
01:15:57.000You know what would have been, like, the more balanced approach to this is to have somebody who's detransitioned on and say, well, how do you feel now?
01:18:00.000All references available at lotto.com.
01:18:02.000Here's another claim which by the way is I mean it refutes the earlier claim he was trying to make about trans individuals right if they're being ostracized by society he was talking about how much more likely they're to be depressed or attempt suicide so it's kind of a half half rebutting of his own claim but if you watch it he tries to sort of bs his way out of it where he says that trans people aren't any more susceptible to depression than most people While opponents of trans rights will say that these kids are either a menace or brainwashed, their defenders will often gravitate towards the same sad statistics that I've shown you tonight of depression and suicide.
01:18:37.000And while that is understandable on one level, it's the most devastating harm that can be inflicted by these bills.
01:18:44.000It's clearly not the whole story, which is that when supported, trans kids can experience full, vibrant lives because trans people are not by default unhappier or more prone to suffering than everyone else.
01:18:56.000That is something that we are putting on them.
01:19:00.000This is what, and notice by the way, this is also something Dave made a good point earlier about puberty and not being able to study something when it's occurring without, in the absence of the natural process.
01:19:09.000Okay, so you have trans, here's what we know, trans children far more likely to experience depression, far more likely to attempt suicide or have suicidal ideation.
01:19:16.000Then we know that transgender adults, even post-op, 19 times more likely.
01:19:21.000The trick they pull is transgender children, right, they're more happy after they transition because they now go into a new study group.
01:20:23.000You're the menace, John, and people like you that won't dig deeply into what's going on with these kids and just uses them as a prop for your ideology.
01:21:50.000All the kids we've seen tonight shouldn't need to be activists.
01:21:55.000They should get to dress how they want, go to the right bathroom for them, and play the sports they want to play.
01:22:00.000We are working toward the goal of every trans kid knowing that they are loved, valued, and indispensable as Dolly Parton-loving, weird pet-owning, freaking dope individuals.
01:22:11.000And never, ever going back to a point where anyone feels that if they appear on TV, they have to hide behind a f***ing plant.
01:22:40.000It's unbelievable to think that that's a good idea.
01:22:43.000And to think, and again, that combined with the empirical evidence that we have as it relates to these medical decisions, what we know is bad.
01:22:50.000We don't know everything, but almost all of what we know is bad.
01:22:57.000Look, does it mean that you don't love your son or your daughter if they suffer from some kind of serious condition that maybe they need to be institutionalized for?
01:23:06.000Does it mean you don't love your son if your son develops a chemical dependency and you send them to rehab?
01:23:15.000He feels good doing it in that moment.
01:23:18.000Are you comparing trans people to drug addicts?
01:23:21.000No, I'm not comparing them to drug addicts, but certainly we are talking about exogenous hormones.
01:23:24.000We are talking about medical intervention, often drugs, that will cause long-term ill health effects that would require A responsible parental figure to intervene in the correct way.
01:23:37.000None of that has to do with not loving your children.
01:23:40.000Don't be gaslit into believing you're crazy or that you're not compassionate.
01:23:45.000And why, by the way, does personal happiness mean that fleeting feeling of what feels good?
01:23:50.000Why is that the virtue to trump all other virtues at this point in time?
01:24:08.000Oh, now I know, but it feels good to drink, uh, to create a graveyard at Burger King of every single soda imaginable and go back for 19 refills.
01:24:15.000He goes, well, you're probably not going to feel good in an hour or two and don't do it because it's bad for you.
01:24:20.000Now extend that hour or two, the delayed reaction of five, 10 years, and that exact same scenario, that parent doesn't love you because they're not letting you do whatever it is that you want.
01:24:32.000Again, something else really important we see throughout this entire segment, in order to make you believe that you are not compassionate, in order to make you believe that you're a bad person for holding your opinions, which is what they always do, you're racist, you're sexist, you're homophobic, you hate women, and in this case, you hate women because you believe they shouldn't be at a biological disadvantage at their own sports.
01:24:50.000It's the gaslighting that takes place, and then we bring it back to, and, you know, What we really should do is what feels good.