Shannon Bashi is a former math and science teacher and founder of the APIC Digital Research Foundation, an organization tapping into global thought leaders and researchers seeking to understand the unprecedented and stunning rise in the numbers of transidentified children in the last decade. She advocates for the best possible evidence-based ethical care for children presenting with gender dysphoria.
00:00:00.000As a former high school math and science teacher, Shannon Bashi has led business organizations, coached and organized children's sports, as well as sat on community charitable foundation and non-profit boards.
00:00:16.780Most recently, Shannon Bashi became the founder and president of APIC's Digital Research Foundation, an organization tapping into global thought leaders and researchers seeking to understand the unprecedented and stunning rise in the numbers of trans-identified children in the last decade.
00:00:39.900The goal is to obtain peer-reviewable data about negative impacts of adolescent peer influence and social curation for academic analysis and publication.
00:00:58.580Shannon advocates for the best possible evidence-based ethical care and support for children presenting with gender dysphoria.
00:01:08.500Will you welcome again, Shannon Bashi?
00:01:37.660I've spent 20 years working in the financial services, advising people how to manage their money.
00:01:44.460And over that 20 years, I've seen multiple stock market bubbles form and burst.
00:01:49.320A stock market bubble is a form of mass psychogenic illness that's psychologically contagious.
00:01:55.920It's fueled by one of the seven deadly sins, greed.
00:01:59.140And these mass psychogenic illnesses in the stock market are things that we can trace over centuries because we have the data to support it.
00:02:08.200We have the numbers coming from various market rises and falls.
00:02:12.540And we understand the psychology of investors when they get overenthusiastic and then when they get overly frightened.
00:02:19.000We're dealing with a type of mass psychogenic illness with the trans contagion.
00:02:24.700It is a belief system that's driven by another one of the seven deadly sins, pride.
00:02:31.340And we're seeing signs of the market bubble bursting.
00:02:36.640In 2007, when the market bubble started to break, we heard words like contagion and systemic and infection that was contaminating the global stock markets.
00:02:51.640And we have the same kind of thing proliferating with gender ideology and the numbers of children who are identifying as transgender.
00:03:25.000And she came back and she was able to identify and confirm for Chris Elston, Billboard Chris, that his goal and his objectives are being fulfilled.
00:03:34.020His goal is to drive conversations about this ideology, get people talking.
00:03:38.820And immediately following that event, not just in Canada, but around the world, we saw a big spike in the number of conversations that were happening about this.
00:03:48.520Now, parallel to all these things going on, you may have heard of some books that have come out.
00:03:52.820Recently, a book called The Psychology of Totalitarianism by an academic by the name of Matthias Desmet.
00:03:59.720And one of the things that Desmet describes as a remedy to mass psychogenic illness is talking about it.
00:04:07.500And almost a year ago this week, there were three of us standing in Depean being mobbed by 300 people.
00:04:13.480And we've had 50 or 70 people here today talking about this openly.
00:04:18.140And the more we talk about it openly with our friends and with our family, the faster we will burst this bubble.
00:04:23.860Now, what are the signs that we're seeing?
00:04:25.280In the beginning of this year in the UK, which I think is, in the investment world, we call a leading indicator.
00:04:34.260In the United Kingdom, there was a review report published about the Tavistock Gender Clinic called the Cass Review.
00:04:42.400It was an independent study done on the world's largest kids' sex change clinic.
00:04:46.480And what the researcher and the reviewer found was that ideology had taken the place of medical ethics and science.
00:04:56.960And that a toxic environment of bullying and intimidation had silenced people within the institution.
00:05:02.000And now one of the councils, who is going to be representing the class action lawsuit with more than 1,000 families registered to sue the National Health Service of the UK,
00:05:14.920says it's going to be the largest and most expensive legal settlement in the history of England.
00:05:22.860Now, other affiliated organizations or problematic institutions in the UK.
00:05:27.260Stonewall. Stonewall was an advocacy organization that was giving stamps of approval for diversity, equity, and trans inclusion to major institutions in the United Kingdom.
00:06:49.120And yesterday, another person in the management and communications of Mermaids, there were pictures all over the Internet of this person's perversions.
00:06:59.300So these are signs that the bubble is bursting.
00:07:02.740These are signs that hopefully we'll start to see in Canada.
00:07:05.360In the last year in the UK, and by the way, a year ago, 15 months ago, when I really started digging into this,
00:07:11.920and I started digging into this because it affects one of my kids, there was no news.
00:07:19.920We were bereft of any kind of media talking about this.
00:07:24.340And so many thousands of parents forming underground networks.
00:07:29.100There are secret societies that have formed in Canada, the United States, and Europe of parents trying to bring this forward
00:07:35.320because we can't talk about it publicly.
00:07:38.840And starting in November last year, there was a Washington Post article.
00:07:42.680We started to see the New York Times come to talk about this.
00:07:45.640We've seen the National Post breakthrough on articles about this in the last couple of months.
00:07:49.420Now, almost every day, there is a major news story about this gender bubble bursting, this mass psychosis ending.
00:07:59.280The way that we confront this is to talk about it.
00:08:02.880And you will be amazed because I decided to talk about this when my child outed me.
00:11:30.900We're not going to accept that as proof.
00:11:32.880But we have one of the leading artificial intelligence firms, not just in Canada, but in the world, who's helping us do this.
00:11:38.740And I have some fantastic news that in the last 24 hours, I have a pretty good sign that we're going to have the next round of our funding.
00:13:14.360In fact, only about a third of indigenous people.
00:13:16.340But people from all walks of life dealing with trauma like I was.
00:13:19.620And I heard the stories of individuals who survived the Kamloops Indian Residential School.
00:13:27.800And the stories that we hear in the media aren't the stories that come out of the actual survivors of these schools.
00:13:36.420And the stories that we hear and the narratives that we have don't reflect the attitudes that most indigenous people have.
00:13:41.240What I learned from hearing those stories and carrying them with me and carrying that medicine that I received in my own journey these last two and a half decades.
00:13:52.140Is that the schools, the people running the schools, the government, the politicians decided that they knew better than parents.
00:14:01.560That was the fundamental flaw in the residential schools.
00:14:04.420They disrespected the culture of the community and of the parents.
00:14:08.600And they tried to impose their own ideology.
00:14:11.860And that's exactly what we're seeing today.
00:14:14.340We're seeing a larger scale set of abuses in the public education system in Canada today than we saw through the residential school system.
00:14:25.640And it's not isolated by a particular identity group as far as we can tell.
00:14:30.520So my hope is that as this bubble starts to burst we can recognize this and we can take steps to mediate it and hopefully together we can heal.