SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Tabby trailblazer David Menzies was transpecies before it was cool
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Summary
The trans cat video that didn t see the light of day for a very very long time. It's a story about a man who identifies as a woman and a cat, and what happens when the world catches up with him.
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welcome to a very special abbreviated version of the gun show we're here in israel on a fact-finding
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mission but i'm joined by my friend dig menzies because you were sort of an oracle on the trans issue
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long before we are where we are now tell us about the trans cat video that didn't see the light of
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day for a very very long time indeed sheila six years in the making i feel like i'm nostradamus
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although i wish i could uh translate the prediction uh to super bowl winners but that aside you might
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remember back in the early days of rebel news when we were rebel media we went out to the canadian cat
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show when i say we that was me and super producer and cameraman efren and um the idea was you know
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transgenderism in 2017 it's kind of say isn't it it's kind of been there done that what is next in
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this crazy world where men are saying they're women and vice versa and i thought you know what
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why don't i enter a cat in the canadian national cat show which was part of pet expo and um but in but
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i don't have a cat no problem i'll identify as a cat and sure enough i went in there it was kind of
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quiet at first sheila and then all hell broke loose quite frankly i think they thought it was an
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animal activist as opposed to what's wrong right but it was never explained i was frog marched out
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of there by security and um the thing is is it never aired as you know and i think you know what
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i thought it was too risky and we were trying to save you from yourself i want to preserve some of
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your dignity david even if you don't sheila my dignity that ship sailed up many moons ago but
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yeah but that you know that is the truth of the matter you know sheila and back then hannah was part
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of uh deciding who got on what got on air and it just seemed to be less of a news item and more of
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something from monty python right in 1972 something that didn't quite make it to prime time and then what
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happened well sheila the world caught up with us right you know we came across renee detremont uh aka
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desiree anderson and this is a guy who identified as a woman if you check out his picture uh he's not
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even i mean at least busty lemieux puts on the fake boobs and the blonde wig this is just a guy with an
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adam's apple and five o'clock shadow kind of like ash davis the rugby player and he identified as a woman
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with the ostensible policy reason to get into a woman's shelter in windsor and of course they let
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him in yeah and shockers within days sheila uh he is charged by the windsor police uh with sexual
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assault turns himself in by the way to this day we went back to that shelter i think it was back in
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july to do a stand-up weren't even on the property we were on the sidewalk and the young 20-something
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women who work at the shelter came out and they started doing the chant trans women are real woman
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this is even after this fraudster um allegedly sexually assaulted another shelter resident can
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you imagine what is the most ultimate safe space for some of these are women that are fleeing from
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physical violence right and this is also the believe all women crowd yeah and you know and that's a very
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good point sheila because even if you believe trans women are real women and i certainly do not
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um what about a nefarious male who's a grifter who's a misogynist who's just using the trans excuse
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to get into intimate spaces of women today's social justice weirdos ever consider that no but the twist of
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the story when we were in windsor we found out he so he's gone from man to female to feline
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cody detrimant aka desirée anderson now identifies as a cat we spent a weekend looking for him uh we
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spoke to eyewitnesses they've seen him he has little uh halloween props like pointy ears and a tail and he
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walks up and down the streets of windsor and i'm sure the people at the the woman's shelter think this is
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another great example of diversity equity animal shelter yeah we should that's right and you know
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what i'd hate to be a shelter employer the animal shelter that is sheila because in this day and age
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of acceptance or else you're a bigot a hater a trans folk they would probably say oh you're a trans
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okay come on in what the act right you know and the thing is sheila um so i guess it was six years in
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the maybe like some cecil demon uh movie but um again i guess the moral of the story no matter how
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insane we can pitch something this crazy world will catch up to us you know you see it all the time on
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the internet you can't even tell a joke because people think you're serious because the left is
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truly beyond parody you can't even make fun of them anymore because even your most outrageous fever
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dream they've done something more extreme than that a hundred percent and i think one last point
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sheila is that once upon a time people like cody detrimont they weren't hailed for diversity
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luck exactly for his protection and ours yeah but we de-institutionalized so many mental patients over
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the years we closed down the asylums we said here are some medications as long as they stay on their
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meds everything will be fine that's a big gift by the way yeah and here we are where i mean it's not
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quite the inmates running the asylum but more like the inmates right uh advising the asylum and if you
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have a problem with that you're not trying to help somebody with who has probably mental illness
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you are as i said before a hater a bigot a transphobe and now it's not transgenderism
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or transvestite you know being a transvestite it's trans speciesism yeah right unbelievable
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now we're in israel yes even though we're talking about trans issues which i you know i remarked last
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time we were here in 2018 that all the young people are normal here i think it makes me an advocate for
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mandatory military service because there's no weird young people here but um oh this is our first
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late fall day on the ground here uh what's the most interesting thing you learned today you know
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what um on the theme of israel and uh trans if you will i couldn't help but notice i spotted at least
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three pride flights as we drove out of tel aviv into the countryside and why that's notable i mean that's
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no big deal uh back where we are i mean right now pride season will be pride year for goodness sake
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the bank is gay the grocery store is gay yeah and then it's way beyond uh june 30th but sheila i think
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there was a profound point here and that is we had for several years in trawler at the pride parade
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a group called wears against israel apartheid wears against israel apartheid condemning the hateful
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state of israel condemning its so-called apartheid policies there are but two pride marches in the
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entire middle east in this entire neighborhood both of them take place in israel and by the
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mere sight of seeing those rainbow flags that is something that would get you in mutual hot water
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in this neighborhood of the world right some other countries that is not tolerated even other parts of
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israel that are controlled by palestinians it's and and i'm just saying this is how insane the far
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left is is that you are condemning a nation for apartheid and yet you are queer but the only pride
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parades are in that so-called apartheid state you know as well as i do sheila that israel is not an
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apartheid state well it is but for the jews there are places that the jews can't go i remember
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when we went to bethlehem last time we had to kick out our jewish tour guide and get a christian one
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so that we could go to bethlehem because he couldn't go behind the security wall 100 but the
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idea that if you're arab if you're gay that there's some sort of apartheid system it's absolute nonsense
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it's poppycock and i and what i think is interesting if that group queers against israeli apartheid and
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since disbanded right thank goodness but if the name of your organization right apartheid is based
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on a lie because there is no apartheid in israel it's quite the opposite yeah then what is the real
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motivation back when that group existed during the toronto pride parade i would say it's this
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sheila good old-fashioned uh garden variety anti-semitism yeah because as i said there is
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no apartheid apartheid's part of your name you are really just haters of jews and haters of the state
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of israel even though this is the only neighborhood where you do see pride parades in the middle east
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yeah and i think joel pollack who is with us on the trip joel pollack from breitbart he sort of
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hinted on the fact that young people today are told to hate wherever they live they're told to
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hate the united states and uh think of it as a genocidal state yes and so why wouldn't you then
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hate the most american part of the middle east where liberty reigns true um a place that was sort of
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founded the same way the americans were of war yeah a war of independence same thing this is a place
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where democracy reigns uh human rights reign so why wouldn't you hate it as an extension of hating
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the united states a hundred percent and i think it's worse than sheila it's the fact that they're
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told to hate some people someone some nation and they don't even know why they just said hate them
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and they go yes boss yeah unbelievable it's true uh kian behind the camera is giving me one of these
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which means that we have to get back on the tour bus thank you to everybody at home who is very
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patient with me as we film this sort of on the fly we have a real tight packed sausage of a week here
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as david menti says um thanks to everybody in the studio we'll put this together very quickly dealing
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with our very slow upload speeds here as we travel and uh remember don't let the government tell you