Based Camp - Why Do Studies Show IQ Declining After Gender Transition？

00:00:00.000 Hello, Simone. I'm excited to be here with you today. Today, we are going to be looking into

00:00:05.080 the phenomenon of not just gender transition, but specifically puberty blockers and a significant

00:00:11.240 decline in IQ. This is something that most people are broadly aware of as a thing and that the trans 1.00

00:00:16.960 industry has tried to cover up. Basically, all of the studies done on this before 2010

00:00:21.620 found like a one standard deviation decline in IQ or like half a standard deviation.

00:00:27.340 I didn't know it was that bad. And that's with puberty blockers, not like full out also

00:00:31.880 transition too. Yeah. It's like, it's, it's typically what I've seen is like 15 to seven

00:00:35.860 point drop. So pretty big. No. And it, it's even bigger in animals where you will see like a 50%

00:00:43.380 decline in, in some animals and stuff like that. So we're not talking about like a trivial drop in

00:00:48.760 the bucket or anything like that. We're talking years of lead paint chips. My God, you're right.

00:00:53.760 Right. And when you think about everything that parents do, the excruciating attention they put

00:00:57.980 into trying to keep their children safe from toxins like this. And then without even thinking

00:01:02.400 about it, they're throwing their kids on puberty blockers.

00:01:05.600 Worst kids are being told that this is okay and deciding to do it themselves. Like they take your

00:01:10.040 kids to a psychologist. We've talked about this over and over again. And the psychologist will assign

00:01:13.640 these to them and they'll tell them not to tell their parents. You know, after one meeting,

00:01:17.140 we had a friend who this happened to, took his kid to a gender psychologist. Psychologist said to the 0.79

00:01:20.960 parents and they go, well, we'll have a follow-up meeting in six months where we'll decide if this

00:01:24.220 is appropriate. Turns out they'd secretly already giving the kid the prescription. And so-

00:01:28.360 Well, even if that doesn't happen, like maybe your doctor's based and is like, you know what,

00:01:31.740 this is not your problem. You're looking in the wrong place. The kid can still go online and

00:01:36.680 illegally get all the prescriptions they need with very decent ease. There's a very effective,

00:01:41.840 well-greased underground railroad for all sorts of hormones. 0.98

00:01:46.700 Well, yeah, it is because there's a community out there. And this is another thing the trans 1.00

00:01:50.500 community has loathes to cover up, but I'll play a clip from Turkey Tom that I always love to play

00:01:54.180 here where he's going over what was happening in one of the trans servers. There was a group of

00:01:58.860 people who get turned on by the idea of finding kids and convincing them to take puberty blockers.

00:02:03.600 It's genuinely really good grooming advice. On April 4th, 2023, Postcard reveals he's in contact

00:02:09.160 with four minors, age 9 to 13. I've so far sent it to four minors between the ages of 9 and 13.

00:02:15.080 I hope it encourages them to transition. When the Oncazone animation became a meme,

00:02:19.480 they got excited over its virality among kids. Manadrain and Orion also fantasized about getting

00:02:24.740 kids on hormones. Orion was the manager, coercing him every step of the way. This is apparent by how

00:02:29.820 he talked about him to others. Has he started hormones yet? Yes, but not effectively. I guess

00:02:34.140 it's what you'd expect just telling a retard to buy hormones. They bought estrogen, but no anti-androgen. 1.00

00:02:39.180 It would have been more fun if he started hormone blockers at like 12. Haha, isn't that true for

00:02:43.420 everyone? Don't worry. I'll make him into a good girl. And I mean, this is the thing. It's a real

00:02:47.540 thing. You can be like, I'm not like that as a trans person. Fine. You're not like that. But 1.00

00:02:50.480 that community also exists regardless of whether or not you are like that, right? And so what we're

00:02:55.560 going to go over in this episode is the various studies on this, what appears to be the mechanism

00:03:01.060 of action here. And then we're going to go over the studies that say that this isn't happening.

00:03:05.840 And we are then going to go over who ran those studies who said this isn't happening.

00:03:11.220 They become pretty easy to dismiss when you look at who was involved in them.

00:03:16.700 What, like their samples and everything?

00:03:18.660 No. The big one that the trans community always talks about in this literally was run by the head 0.99

00:03:24.560 of WPATH.

00:03:26.900 No bias there.

00:03:28.320 No bias.

00:03:28.800 No collusion.

00:03:30.640 Literally ran and regularly did and their primary source of income and every one of the main authors

00:03:36.240 on it, primary source of income was gender transitioning minors. Yeah, I'm surprised that 1.00

00:03:41.500 they found no effects here. What I do, I talk for a living. What do you talk about? I speak on behalf

00:03:47.360 of cigarettes. My mom says cigarettes kill. Really? Now, is your mommy a doctor? No. A scientific

00:03:55.220 researcher of some kind? No. Well, she doesn't exactly sound like a credible expert now, does

00:03:59.480 she? All I'm suggesting is that there will always be people trying to tell you what to

00:04:07.120 do and what to think. There probably already are people doing that. Am I right? Yes. I'm

00:04:13.060 here to say that when someone tries to act like some sort of an expert, you can respond

00:04:18.780 who says. So cigarettes are good for you? No. No, that's not what I'm getting at. My

00:04:26.100 point is that you have to think for yourself. You have to challenge authority. So perhaps

00:04:31.520 instead of acting like sheep when it comes to cigarettes, you should find out for yourself.

00:04:35.460 But I think it's really interesting to start by looking at animal models. Because with animal

00:04:41.420 models, there's no reason to lie about this, right? There's no political motivations or

00:04:45.280 anything. Well, at least the pro-trans group can just say, well, it's animal models, so 0.71

00:04:49.220 it doesn't count. Yeah. No, no. What I mean is you can lose your job. I mean, we know from

00:04:53.480 when Travis Dock was closed down that there was a study that they had shut down and never published

00:04:58.640 because the results showed that putting kids on puberty blocker increased their chances of

00:05:03.880 unaliving themselves and increased risk of self-harm. And they refused to publish it. So we now

00:05:09.860 know that if you are a gender transition clinic and you have data that doesn't support what

00:05:16.100 you want to support, you're not going to release the study, right? And we know people who have

00:05:20.420 had their jobs put on the line for publishing research, which could be seen as critical of

00:05:25.080 the trans community because the trans community then goes and tries to get you fired. But if 0.99

00:05:28.480 you're studying this in sheep or something, where you actually do need to study this in animals

00:05:31.780 or dogs, because you know you might be neutering them or something, what happens when you prevent

00:05:35.500 them from going through normal puberty, you can, without any trans activists freaking out and

00:05:41.920 coming after you, really get into the nitty gritty of what's going on neurologically here.

00:05:47.160 So let's start with Hugh et al. 2017. This is a sheep study. We'll also go into the human studies

00:05:52.460 from a while ago because they were also really telling as well, like the pre-2010 ones. The study

00:05:57.320 was titled, A Reduction in Long-Term Spatial Memory Persists After Discontinuation of Prepubescent

00:06:02.740 GnRH Agnosis Treatment in Sheep. It builds on research examining the effects of diagnostic

00:06:09.560 releasing hormones, GnRH treatment, which suppresses the hyposalamic pituitary gonad axis

00:06:15.300 on brain function during puberty. The researchers used an ovine sheep model to investigate whether

00:06:22.200 impairments in spatial memory observed during active GnR treatment reverse after discontinuation.

00:06:28.440 So the point here being, if it's taken as a given within sheep studies, that if a sheep

00:06:35.140 is put on puberty blockers, basically, the sheep will have a severe impairment in spatial

00:06:42.100 memory. And what they're trying to study in this paper is, does that continue after the

00:06:48.400 treatment is stopped? Or is that only while they're on the treatment that this falls?

00:06:52.480 And I don't care. Are they sending the sheep through mazes? What are they doing?

00:06:59.100 Yes. Okay. Sheep mazes. Literally through mazes. It's sheep mazes, yes. But funny, funny here is

00:07:06.240 people might be like, oh, come on. You know, this is a conservative propaganda or anything like that.

00:07:11.180 Like people don't get dumber when they gender transition. And I'm like, okay, except watch our 0.99

00:07:16.420 video, The Wachowski Effect. Why is it that there are so many instances of famous individuals who,

00:07:22.460 then, gender transition and all of a sudden suck at whatever it is they used to be really good at? 0.98

00:07:27.880 You know, like the Wachowskis, right? Like the first Matrix is awesome. Everything they've made 0.98

00:07:32.620 since they started transitioning has been hot garbage. Or you look at the case of Veil Guard, 1.00

00:07:39.280 which is what we were looking at on that. Veil Guard, this horrible, horrible game. Like, 0.94

00:07:42.440 honestly, the audience got mad at us for that, for making the clips of sections from the game as long

00:07:47.560 as they were. Too long, yeah.

00:07:48.400 They said it was particularly painful to watch. The writing was so bad. Oh.

00:07:52.760 Um. Ah. They. They're still holding it. Sorry. What are you doing? Pulling a barv. Oh. Okay. A barv?

00:08:04.660 There's not always time for big drawn out apologies. So when one of us screws up and we know we've

00:08:10.240 screwed up, we do a quick 10 to put it right. Pulling a barv.

00:08:13.480 The writers who worked on this also worked on Mass Effect 2. They worked on the older Veil Guards. What

00:08:19.880 changed between those games and this game is they transitioned. Oh, no. Yeah. Okay.

00:08:26.100 Okay. Hmm. To continue here. The study involved 55 male Scottish mule extral cross rams born in

00:08:33.480 spring 2013 divided into control in 30 in GNRH recovery. Now note here, this was all done on

00:08:40.300 males, this one here. Treatment consisted of subcutaneous implants of the thing every four 0.52

00:08:47.080 weeks from eight to 44 weeks of age covering the prepubital period, puberty onset in male

00:08:52.420 sheep. Then what happened? Okay. So spatial memory orientation and learning were assessed

00:08:57.140 using a maze task at multiple time points. The maze required rams to navigate to a food reward

00:09:03.740 with performance measured by traverse times across zones. Key findings included no significant

00:09:09.520 differences in spatial orientation or learning traverse times between groups at any age.

00:09:14.700 However, long-term spatial reference memory was impaired on the puberty blocking group at 99

00:09:19.520 weeks with rams taking 1.5x longer to complete the maze compared to controls. So that's 50% worse

00:09:29.000 performance than the controls if you were on puberty blockers in a ram. Note here, this makes

00:09:33.700 these severe impairments we're seeing in humans very believable if we know that we're getting

00:09:37.540 this in rams. 50%. That's really bad.

00:09:42.360 The effect was independent of gonadal steroids as prior work showed similar outcomes even with

00:09:57.860 testosterone replacement. So basically, even if you try to recreate puberty and make them normal male

00:10:05.520 sheeps again, the cognitive impairment is persistent.

00:10:08.840 Oh boy. Yeah. So you can't, I don't know, realize the error of your ways or decide that you're

00:10:13.580 okay to go through puberty now and it's all just going to be fine. Because the story sold to parents

00:10:19.780 is this just buys you time. Okay. Like even if you don't support the idea of your kid transitioning,

00:10:24.520 you can placate them by putting them on puberty blockers. They'll come to their senses and then you

00:10:29.800 can just pick up where you left off. And here is no, no, no. You've just done permanent damage.

00:10:35.760 You've done permanent brain damage. Oh my goodness.

00:10:38.240 Well, okay. So before we get further in this, I'm just going to give a bit of explanation for

00:10:43.520 people who are a little confused as to why this would cause such severe permanent brain damage.

00:10:47.340 Yeah. So the reason why the brain damage is so severe is think about how your body goes through

00:10:54.160 developmental stages at like, let's say at the embryonic level, right? Yeah. And then after the

00:11:01.520 embryonic level, you know, you've got like a toddler who has very different like body proportions than

00:11:06.540 like a teenager or an adult, right? They are a, humans sort of undergo an incomplete metamorphosis

00:11:11.760 as we age. You know, we think of humans as not doing that, but we really do. A baby, like if you

00:11:16.960 sized a baby up to the size of an adult, it would be monstrous. It would look nothing like an adult.

00:11:24.160 Oh yeah. Parents like on, on social media, like to post pictures of babies, not being able to touch

00:11:38.140 the tops of their heads. Yeah. The proportions are super different. Yeah. But yeah, the babies,

00:11:43.220 babies and adults are very, but this is, this is true for the, your, your, the parts of your brain as

00:11:48.000 well. Like these morphological differences aren't only on the outside. If you disrupt this sort of

00:11:54.140 developmental timeline, which is very hard coded. And it's one of, it was one of the areas I always

00:11:58.840 found really interesting in biology. And I was always surprised that, you know, it doesn't,

00:12:02.540 it doesn't get a lot of coverage in like American high schools or anything like that,

00:12:05.380 but it's developmental biology. Yeah. I never got any of that.

00:12:09.400 Yeah. How does your body and how do the bodies of animals sort of change the signals that are

00:12:14.360 telling cells to change what they're doing? Right. Like how does the cell in this location know

00:12:19.340 that at this age, it needs to turn into or start producing this sort of a thing. Right.

00:12:23.540 Did you learn that at St. Andrews? That was, they couldn't have been in high school. Okay.

00:12:27.080 I learned that at St. Andrews. I went really, one of those subjects. I mean, I always found

00:12:30.540 comparative biology really fascinating, but it's a very delicate process. This is, this is not

00:12:36.100 something that you can like button mash, like a heart transfer or something like that. You know,

00:12:40.480 like literally cut out a heart, just sew it another heart. Hopefully it works.

00:12:43.680 There's more to it than that. Yeah. But I mean, it's, it's, it's, that's sort of what you're doing

00:12:49.500 with a puberty blocker. You're, you're trying to button mash human development. Yeah. The moment

00:12:53.940 this cycle is disrupted, it can never get back to normal again. And this cycle is in charge of this

00:13:01.660 period of brain development. And when you disrupt this period of brain development, I actually think

00:13:07.420 that this is why the Zizians were almost this, this cult that came out of the effect of altruist 0.97

00:13:11.060 community were almost entirely trans individuals. Because if you look at their writings, they weren't 0.84

00:13:16.000 totally logically coherent. They had these weird beliefs around like multiple hemispheres thinking

00:13:20.720 differently. And if you're in the rationalist community, what I actually think sort of made

00:13:24.000 their community work is they were people who were brought in before they transitioned. And then they

00:13:29.280 were in the rationalist space. Then they transitioned. They had this huge drop in IQ and they were able to

00:13:34.860 be poached by sort of this mystic cult type figure. But anyway, to continue here, additional GRNH

00:13:42.740 treatment altered progression speeds through specific maze zones in a session dependent manner post

00:13:47.740 recovery, faster in breeding season to lower non-breeding season and exaggerated emotional

00:13:52.040 reactivity. They had increased anxiety during tasks, which was mitigated by testosterone. Neurobiological

00:13:58.340 implications point to potential disruptions in a hippocampal and amygdala function. As GRNH

00:14:04.080 receptors are expressed there, the study highlights concerns for clinical GRNH use in conditions like

00:14:10.540 central precocious puberty or gender dysphoria, emphasizing the need to consider treatment

00:14:15.120 during and potentially irreversible cognitive effects. So more emotional volatility? Did I hear

00:14:21.720 that right? Yeah, more emotional volatility. Okay. This is really disappointing because you and I

00:14:28.860 like the idea, I mean, not in the context of, of gender transition necessarily, but in, in the idea

00:14:35.000 that like we can overcome annoying elements of our human anatomy, right? We can brute force things.

00:14:42.380 And yeah, this is, this shows that it is more complicated than just that. You can't just,

00:14:49.040 as you say, well, like button mash things. You can't, yeah. Well, there's some things you can

00:14:53.820 button mash in human biology. There are some things you can't button mash in human biology.

00:14:58.900 Developmental timelines are one of the things you cannot button mash.

00:15:02.000 Yeah. I mean, I'm even thinking about it from what I did to myself in my teen years. I didn't

00:15:06.480 undergo puberty blockers, but I did starve myself to the extent where I stopped menstruating and

00:15:13.980 definitely stopped getting female levels of estrogen and it never came back. So this is, I am like,

00:15:19.680 oh yeah, huh. Like I even anecdotally, even personally have seen what turning stuff off during

00:15:27.760 adolescence can do, be it through medical interventions or behavioral interventions.

00:15:34.020 But no, it also seems to affect adults who get it. When we talk about things like the

00:15:37.160 Wachowski is getting terrible with everything.

00:15:38.980 Oh, okay. Cause they didn't take puberty blockers. They just took.

00:15:42.000 Yeah. So that, so, so that might be the Wachowski effect, maybe what we argued in that episode with

00:15:47.080 this, like having to learn to play a new instrument midway through your life, like your brain,

00:15:50.360 the female brain. 1.00

00:15:51.720 Yeah. Or also just having a different hormonal profile will change your reactions to things.

00:15:55.440 It will change your drives. It will change what turns you on. So, and you didn't grow up

00:15:59.120 your skillset.

00:16:00.100 So you don't, you don't know how to use it. So, yeah. So it's not necessarily that they,

00:16:04.040 they're seeing an impact to intelligence. What you're finding, at least what you've reported so

00:16:08.220 far from the research is that the negative intelligence effects are from puberty blockers alone,

00:16:13.420 not exogenous introduction of testosterone or estrogen, correct?

00:16:17.060 Yes. Yes. And that's what we consistently see in the research is it's mostly if you,

00:16:22.160 if you mess with this stuff during puberty. Although it looks like what I did to myself

00:16:25.500 was the puberty blocker effect. So maybe I'm dumber now because maybe, maybe you are, 0.87

00:16:29.640 which means that our kids are going to be even smarter genetically than I would expect.

00:16:32.760 Isn't that nice? I was never known for, you didn't marry me for my smarts.

00:16:36.160 You married me for my, I literally did.

00:16:37.740 I'm the oxen. I pull the cart. Okay.

00:16:40.500 You got into a graduate school of Cambridge. Okay.

00:16:44.400 Who wrote my application, huh?

00:16:47.300 I may have written that now public information that I drafted your application.

00:16:52.740 So many people's graduate school applications when they actually get it.

00:16:56.100 Everybody would come to me. They'd be like Malcolm. And I, and I did, I accumulated a lot

00:16:59.820 of favors by doing, this was my favorite way to accumulate like undying favor is help people's

00:17:04.340 kids get into top graduate degrees. Um, and they come to me and they'd be like, Hey, Malcolm,

00:17:07.800 can you help review, you know, edit? Simone wrote the first draft, of course.

00:17:12.400 Listen, we're a combined identity anyway. It's not even that dishonest.

00:17:16.880 Well, you graduated at the top of your class. So, you know, a hardly, hardly a issue there.

00:17:24.040 It's a joke. I haven't, cause she was technically the top of her graduating class

00:17:27.120 cause she graduated in a non-normal time period.

00:17:30.240 Oh, no, no. Yeah. GW, you were literally the top of your entire class.

00:17:33.720 Valedictorian of my business school.

00:17:35.280 And there was how many people in that? Like thousands?

00:17:37.860 I don't know. The graduation ceremony was in their basketball stadium, but I don't

00:17:41.640 remember how many people were there.

00:17:44.480 So Simone, if it impaired your intelligence, if you're somehow smarter than this, that

00:17:48.500 is astonishing.

00:17:50.020 No, but when you look at our genetic scores, like on Harris site.

00:17:53.520 Oh yeah. I'm like above two standard deviations, above the norm.

00:17:56.220 And you're like 1.5 standard deviations above the norm.

00:17:58.820 Exactly. Yeah. So we know who the smarter one is anyway.

00:18:02.880 I think, I do think that I might have, I mean, considering the research here, I think I am

00:18:08.620 one of these people that may be a little, maybe a little derped, a little derped, but processed.

00:18:16.440 Yes. That's why you chose to marry me, right?

00:18:19.160 Yeah. Clearly it hasn't worked out the way you planned.

00:18:21.380 You're my intellectual prosthetic. Thank God.

00:18:24.180 All right. All right. Sheep studies. New to written. This is 2014.

00:18:28.160 Okay. So this was effects of gonadrotropin releasing hormone antagonist agonist in brain

00:18:37.240 development and sheep. And it compiles and expands on previous publications using ovine

00:18:42.040 model to examine pre-pubital GRNH effects on brain structure and gene expression and behavior.

00:18:46.120 The thesis involved same-sex twin sheep, 41 per study, with one twin treated with gosinin

00:18:53.060 actin implants every four weeks from pre-puberty until 50 weeks. Methods include MRI for brain

00:18:59.340 volumes, microwave for dream expression in the hippocampus and amygdala, and spatial maze

00:19:04.700 tests for cognition and behavioral tests for emotions. Key findings, no overall changes in

00:19:09.960 brain volume. And we'll consistently see this, no changes in brain volume, but significant increases

00:19:14.640 in amygdala volume, stronger in females, left, right, sex treatment interactions linked to

00:19:20.880 emotional processing. Hippocampal volume unchanged, but gene expression altered sex and hemisphere,

00:19:27.080 specifically e.g. females, BND, GRN1 for synaptic plasticity, down-regulated BGF and NCAM1

00:19:35.140 right hemisphere. Amygdala gene expression showed pronounced changes in females, 432 transcripts left,

00:19:42.220 46 right, involving microtubule organization. They became unregulated and anti-apostic mitotic

00:19:49.020 processes down-regulated with no major differences in males. Spatial orientation, hippocampus dependent,

00:19:55.040 what's unaffected, no treatment differences in maze latency errors, though females perform better 0.96

00:20:00.040 overall. Behavioral effects included increased risk-taking in treated males and anxiety-like

00:20:05.600 avoidance in females. So note here first, basically what you should be taking away is the effects

00:20:12.000 throughout the brain are in the structure of the brain, they're in the size of specific parts of the

00:20:18.560 brain, and they are in the gene expression that's happening within the brain. So it's basically not

00:20:23.280 like you effed up one thing, it's you effed up the entire system. Oh, here's a great way to put it.

00:20:30.320 It's like shutting down a computer in the middle of installing a game and then trying to install it

00:20:35.360 again. Or, no, better than a game, an operating system. You're halfway through installing an operating

00:20:40.580 system and you shut it down and then you're like, but I can just start later. No, you can't.

00:20:45.040 It messes everything up unless the system was specifically designed for that potentiality.

00:20:53.360 Now note, this persisted post-treatment in a scepter chapter on Alzheimer's models was found

00:20:58.880 GRNH effect on amygdaloids plaque contrasting with earlier studies. Implications of this study.

00:21:05.840 Purity is a sensitive period for sex-specific brain mutation. GRNH disrupts emotional circulation

00:21:11.200 amygdala more than cognitive one's hippocampus with females more affected

00:21:14.880 molecularly. This suggests non-reversible changes in neuroplasticity and raises questions for human

00:21:20.400 applications as ethical limits prevent direct studies on use. This thesis relates to prior work

00:21:26.160 and then they go through a bunch of other studies that found the same thing. Specifically,

00:21:29.680 Waujab's 2011 on behavior and Evans et al 2012 on physiology. Basically emphasizing that, okay,

00:21:39.360 we can't look at trans use like amygdala, right? We're not dissecting trans people.

00:21:44.400 But if we did, this is probably what we'd be finding. Okay? So let's look at studies on dogs.

00:21:52.640 Because there's a lot of stuff on dogs because with dogs, we spay and neuter dogs. We can get

00:21:55.760 a lot of data on them. Oh, of course. Okay.

00:21:58.640 Yeah. No. So ectomy, surgical puberty suppression via removal of donats is common in dogs and often

00:22:06.160 performed prepuberatively or paribopuberatively. These studies address cognitive effects in aged

00:22:12.240 dogs with conflicting results. 1871 cohort study of 139 dogs, aged 11 to 14, 29 intact males, 47

00:22:19.440 castrated males, 63 spayed females, used owner surveys to assess age-related cognitive impairment

00:22:24.720 across categories like orientation, social interactions, house training, sleep weight

00:22:28.640 cycles, etc. Sexually intact males were significantly less likely to progress from mild to severe

00:22:33.280 impairment over 12 to 18 months compared to gonadless dogs in both sexes. This suggests gonad

00:22:39.360 directory. Keep in mind, we didn't do this with our dog. Our dog is fully intact, which causes some

00:22:44.560 problems if you're taking her out or something like that. But she's a very smart dog. So maybe this is

00:22:49.760 in part Y. May accelerate cognitive decline, potentially due to loss of protective sex hormones

00:22:54.720 like testosterone. The study hypothesized a similar effect in females from estrogen,

00:22:58.800 but lacked enough intact females to confirm. A 2016 cross-sectional study of 455 dogs, so again,

00:23:05.120 a fairly large sample size. Yeah, that's super decent. Yeah. And so Wallachia used a validated

00:23:10.240 questionnaire to evaluate risk factors of canine cognitive dysfunction, CCDS, similar to dementia.

00:23:16.320 While age was strongly correlated with CCDS, reproductive status, intact versus neutered,

00:23:21.840 showed no significant impact. This contrasts with another study that showed an increased cognitive

00:23:27.280 decline risk. So interesting here. This is one that shows you're not at more of a list of

00:23:31.360 Alzheimer's, at least. Additionally, a 2018 study on spatial navigation of 56 dogs found that gonad

00:23:38.480 or dis-sized dogs both sexes preferred simpler egonocentric strategies, body-centered turns,

00:23:45.600 over more complex allocentric ones using external cues in T-maze tasks. Over-racectomized females were 1.00

00:23:53.200 especially likely to use egocentric strategies. While this doesn't directly show a drop in intelligence,

00:23:57.840 it implies that gonadocentric may bias dogs for its less cognitively demanding approaches,

00:24:02.560 potentially showing reduced flexibility. So not great, not great. Now we're going to get into

00:24:11.840 mice studies. And what I'll notice with mice is we do not actually see a drop in intelligence in mice.

00:24:17.840 Did you want to know? Oh, good for them. So what happens to mice? Okay. A 2021 study

00:24:25.040 treated post-puberty mice starting at six weeks with daily lupolide, that's a GRNH agonist, for six weeks.

00:24:30.160 Okay. No impairments were found in contextual fear discrimination, a hippocampal memory test tied to

00:24:36.400 cognition. However, sex-specific behavioral changes occurred. Males showed altered social

00:24:41.760 preference and increased stress responses, while females showed increased despair-like behavior

00:24:46.880 and hypergaphasia. This suggests potentially effective impacts, but no direct cognitive drop.

00:24:52.240 So here, no, you don't get a cognitive drop in mice, but women get depressed and males become

00:24:58.480 incredibly anxious and increased stress responses. It's despair-like behavior. That does not sound

00:25:03.520 good. It's despair. I'll note here when people are like, this saves lives. We now know this isn't

00:25:09.280 true. You can look at our video, the Atlantic or the left is turning on the trans community,

00:25:12.960 because it's on this article on the Atlantic that goes over all of the evidence. And it showed

00:25:17.840 that even the number one trans lawyer in trying to defend this in front of the Supreme Court

00:25:22.320 had to admit that there wasn't a single reputable study that showed that unaliving risks were

00:25:28.000 decreased by either puberty blockers or gender transition. And we now have an entire country 0.81

00:25:34.080 that we can use as a natural experiment because the procedure was banned in Britain and the unaliving

00:25:39.120 percentage has not gone up in a statistically significant manner within this community.

00:25:42.480 So nope, nope, nope. A note here, when we talk about, well, does this community have unusually

00:25:49.920 high rates of depression and stuff like that? We do know they do. They have a 40 to 50% chance of

00:25:57.600 attempting unaliving once you join this community. So it's really not good.

00:26:02.720 Okay. So next one, multiple studies on pivotal gonadidectomy in mice and rats examine behaviors

00:26:08.240 like approach avoidance, parental care or anxiety, but not cognition directly. For example,

00:26:13.040 oh, they just haven't looked at cognition in mice. Okay. So it might affect the IQ in mice.

00:26:17.040 For example, a 2007 study in mice found pre-pubital sham surgery, stress alone reduced context memory

00:26:23.920 in adult control males, but actual gonadide surgery enhanced it compared to sham indicating no

00:26:29.200 impairment from hormone loss. So at least here, we're not seeing it as bad in that. And in aged

00:26:35.600 adult rats, post-puberty gonadidectomy, GRNH agonists like lepidactyne often improve spatial

00:26:41.840 memory and learning in tasks like novel recognition or elevated teammates rather than impairing it.

00:26:46.880 So here we see, oh, maybe, so look, we're maybe positive. Okay. Maybe in sheep and dogs,

00:26:52.160 this is really negative, like a 50% drop in IQ, but in rats, we don't see this. So maybe, maybe in humans,

00:26:59.600 we're seeing the same thing, right? Right. That would be great. That'd be so lovely.

00:27:03.680 If that turned out to be the case. Yeah.

00:27:06.320 Now let's go to the human studies. Okay.

00:27:09.680 Mule et al, 2001. This is a study on adopted girls with precocious puberty. So this is,

00:27:15.280 this is a randomized controlled trial involving 30 adopted children, both boys and girls,

00:27:19.360 though the focus was often on girls due to higher prevalence of precocious puberty

00:27:23.520 in adopted females with early puberty, short stature. They treated with GRNH agonists,

00:27:29.120 specifically treptoplin either alone or combined with growth hormone for three years to suppress

00:27:34.080 puberty and promote height gain. The children. Okay. Okay. So this was really

00:27:39.120 not about trans stuff at all. Also, it's totally good. It removes all of the politics from it.

00:27:46.160 With puberty onset before eight or nine psychological evaluations, including IQ testing

00:27:50.480 using the Walshmeister scale for children or similar were conducted before treatment baseline. And after

00:27:55.840 three years, the study also assessed behavior via child behavioral checklist, self-perception,

00:28:00.000 and family stress. Key findings baseline full IQ averaged around 110. After two to three years

00:28:06.000 of treatment, there was an average decrease of seven points with some individuals dropping up to 15

00:28:12.960 points. This was statistically significant. The P value was 0.05. So very significant. And the decline

00:28:19.840 was attributed to interrupted puberty brain organization, particularly affecting cognitive

00:28:24.960 maturation during sensitive developmental windows. No major differences were noted between GRNH alone

00:28:30.640 versus combined with growth hormone. Conclusion. The authors suggest the IQ drop may relate to

00:28:35.360 halted gonadal steroid effects on brain plasticity, raising concerns for long-term GRNH use in precocious

00:28:41.680 puberty. However, no consistent blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But yeah, this is really bad. This is really bad.

00:28:48.800 I'm glad you read that off though, because I would never, I wouldn't have connected the two. Like if we

00:28:53.680 had a daughter with precocious puberty and we're like, ah, like this is too soon. I could see us getting

00:29:01.040 possibly tempted to. Yeah. All the doctors are telling you there's no risks to this stuff.

00:29:06.480 Yeah, exactly. So I'm really glad that you pointed that out. Cause we'll be like, nope,

00:29:11.520 let it happen. Yeah. So let's look at the Schneider et al 2017 case study on gender dysphoric

00:29:18.400 adolescent. Okay. So this is one person. Note that the other study actually had a fairly decent

00:29:22.320 sample size as well. 30 children for a study like that is insanely large. Oh yeah.

00:29:27.680 Let's look at this one, which is on a one, one child. Okay. Brazilian adolescent. The patient was

00:29:32.640 an 11 year old at baseline to sign male at birth. Transgender girl diagnosed with gender dysphoria

00:29:37.680 and put on a GRNH agonist, similar to, you know, what they're giving sheep and what we give children 0.50

00:29:42.240 at baseline, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Key findings, global IQ dropped from 80,

00:29:47.280 low average to 71 borderline. This is borderline retarded. Oh boy. Sorry. I didn't make a bad 1.00

00:29:55.120 situation worse. This is not good. Yeah. It's not just in, in normal intelligence

00:30:00.400 person's hits everyone. A 10 point decline in 28 months, working memory indexes fell from 83,

00:30:07.040 low average to 68, extremely low at T1 at 15 point drop, then recovered slightly to 74,

00:30:13.920 putting them in the, again, the borderline mentally impaired category at T2 processing

00:30:18.160 speed declined overall 68 to 74 to 64. These changes were linked to testosterone. Other findings,

00:30:25.920 brain white metal fractional atostomy showcased no maturation increase, unlike typical male puberty,

00:30:32.160 possibly due to absent testosterone driven changes. Voice fundamental frequency fluctuated,

00:30:37.440 but stayed in the female typical range, correlating with hormone levels. No deepening occurred.

00:30:45.120 Conclusions. Puberty suppression may impair cognitive maturation, e.g. IQ and memory and brain

00:30:50.240 development in adolescence was gender dysphoria pointing to testosterone's role in neuroplasticity.

00:30:54.400 The authors noted low baseline IQ may have amplified. Actually, I would think that it would

00:30:58.400 dampen the effects. So it is interesting that it, you know, you see the same level and note here,

00:31:02.800 this, this case study is showing nearly identical results to the previous study, which would have had

00:31:08.080 an average of around 10 point drop. And this is showing around a 10 point drop. It's not like outside

00:31:13.840 of the bounds of what we're seeing from other studies in this subject. Yeah. All right. Let's go to the

00:31:17.920 Van Gogh's and it's all 1995 cross-sex hormone studies. I don't, I don't know if our audience

00:31:24.320 likes to say, do you guys like learning about science and the science they don't tell you in

00:31:28.880 school because it's just too naughty to know? Let us know in the comments. Well, I, you know,

00:31:33.920 if you are surprised and you're like, wait, if things are really this bad, like the people who are doing

00:31:38.400 these, these hormone treatments are, are genuinely monstrous, right? I've been telling people that this has no

00:31:44.080 effects and you can just start this back up again. And what I would note here is look at our Joe

00:31:49.200 money episode or John money episode on the history of this field and how it started. And what you will

00:31:54.720 learn is this is actually fairly normal for this field and has been for a long time. Yes. People

00:31:59.280 have agendas and they're willing to say whatever they want to say. Well, I don't think it's, it's that

00:32:04.240 they always have agendas. Sometimes I think they started for the right reason. And now to acknowledge

00:32:09.920 that this stuff is true would severely like cause them to reflect and be like, Oh my God,

00:32:15.360 all those people I thought were the bad people were actually the good guys. And I had been mutilating

00:32:21.120 children for decades. And I note here, what I find really chuckle about this is this hormone that we're

00:32:28.960 talking about, this being given to these, these minors often, this is the same hormone that when a kid

00:32:35.120 in the nineties or eighties presented as the other gender, where they would have been sent to a gay 1.00

00:32:40.000 conversion camp and given these hormones. So literally the left is now doing what right-wing

00:32:44.640 extremists used to do. And I don't oppose them because I switched sides. I oppose them because

00:32:49.680 my perspective had been consistent. You shouldn't be taking kids and putting them on puberty blockers,

00:32:54.320 you know, whether you're a Christian conversion camp or whether you're some weird trans movement,

00:32:58.080 right? Anyway, Van Gogh's in a toll 1995, a cross-sex hormone studies on activating the effects

00:33:06.240 of cross-sex hormones in trans adults focusing. Oh, this one is looking on adults, focusing on 0.96

00:33:12.080 cognitive behavior and shifts. What this one found was, so they use 35 female to male trans individuals,

00:33:18.560 starting testosterone and 15 male to female trans individuals.

00:33:21.680 Okay. So this is our first one where we're not looking at puberty blockers.

00:33:24.560 We're looking at it. Yeah. They were tested before,

00:33:28.160 three months after hormone initiation. So what did they find? Female to male testosterone

00:33:33.680 showed improved performance, e.g. better 3D accuracy, and male to female on estrogen and

00:33:39.120 androgens declined in their spatial ability. So here what you're seeing is just their brains changing 1.00

00:33:44.400 from a male brain to a female brain. Yeah. And the role that testosterone plays in being a better 0.59

00:33:48.720 shape rotator, right? Well, I mean, this is something we know. Men are better at spatial

00:33:53.920 reasoning, right? Totally.

00:33:55.360 And so when you give a woman nail hormones, they become better at shape rotating. And I've seen 0.98

00:34:01.120 this actually with a lot of coders because that requires a lot of knowledge that is adjacent to

00:34:06.080 spatial reasoning. And I had a friend who I used to know ages ago, and they have a small YouTube

00:34:10.640 channel that not many people watch, but they transitioned. And one of the shows that I found

00:34:14.320 very interesting was like an hour and a half from Grant, if I remember correctly. So I spent a lot of time

00:34:19.360 going through this and learning about this, but they were complaining that as they transitioned

00:34:23.920 into a woman, people started to respect their opinions less in encoding and started to listen

00:34:29.840 to them less and started to treat them as an authority less and less. And of course they interpreted

00:34:34.960 this as anti-female bias. But when I was reading it, even at the time, like listening to them talk

00:34:44.000 about this, I just kept thinking, it sounds like you just got bad at coding as you went through gender 1.00

00:34:51.440 transition. And they had never considered this. It was very clear that it had never even entered

00:34:57.360 their mind as a fleeting thought that what might've happened is that their brain was changing and that they

00:35:03.440 were no longer as good at the things they used to be good at. And so this is one of these areas where

00:35:08.480 you've got to pay extra attention, even if you're not getting an overall IQ decline because you're

00:35:12.400 doing it as an adult, is your profession and specialization in something that your gender

00:35:16.880 has helped you achieve. Verbal fluency. Females to males deteriorated, fewer words generated on time

00:35:23.360 tasks. Males to females improved. These shifts aligned with masculizing testosterone versus

00:35:28.320 feminizing estrogen patterns. Now, note here is this would indicate that the males who transition

00:35:35.360 to females, like the Wachowskis, should have gotten better at like writing verbal stuff. 1.00

00:35:40.320 Good dialogue, yeah.

00:35:41.360 Yeah, or the writers for Veil Guard, but they got worse. So I don't know if I buy this, right?

00:35:47.920 Yeah, what's going on there?

00:35:49.120 But at the very least, if you're a coder, you shouldn't be looking at doing this.

00:35:53.520 So other effects. Increase aggression and sexual arousal in female to male decreases in male to 0.98

00:35:59.360 female. It's so interesting. Male to female decrease aggression and sexual arousal in male to female

00:36:05.280 increase aggression and sexual arousal. By the way, one person asked me, they were like, how can I,

00:36:10.160 like I feel trapped in wanting to have sex as a man. I wanted to transition. They said they wanted to 0.89

00:36:14.480 transition mostly just to decrease how aroused they were all the time, right? Like how much they wanted 0.96

00:36:18.800 sexuality. And I was like, naltrexone, buddy. Naltrexone, naltrexone, naltrexone. Take naltrexone,

00:36:24.640 then masturbate, and you will within a week not want to masturbate or have sex anymore. It's very 0.99

00:36:30.080 effective. There you go, guys. So, yeah. And you can get it from like Indian providers and stuff like

00:36:38.400 that. I'm not saying you should, obviously, not medical advice. Yes, it's not medical advice.

00:36:43.440 This is not an endorsement, but it works. And it actually has a bunch of other positive

00:36:50.160 benefits. Like it protects against COVID. I've still yet to get COVID. So, you know,

00:36:54.720 there's many benefits to naltrexone. It makes you eat less. Like it's been trivially easy for me to

00:37:01.440 maintain my diet since I started it. And it prevents you from being happy. So that's really good too.

00:37:06.480 Phew. Because you don't want that to corrupt your motivational profile.

00:37:10.560 No, God forbid. Okay. Other effects. The, the, the, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay.

00:37:19.520 So let's, let's look at what might be causing this. Cause it's like, find really interesting.

00:37:23.520 Like it's a, it's a fascinating phenomenon. And obviously in mainstream society, you're not

00:37:27.360 allowed to talk about it, you know, in the same way we can't say certain groups are, you know, less

00:37:31.920 intelligent than other groups or whatever, right? Like that doesn't exist, but it's just so replicated in

00:37:36.400 the research that it's, it's worth talking about. Yeah. So puberty triggers surges in

00:37:41.360 estrogen slash testosterone, which reorganize neural circuits via synaptic pruning, myelination,

00:37:46.480 and hippocampal amygdala growth. Suppression halts this potentially stunting executive function,

00:37:51.760 memory, and IQ maturation. In animal mechanisms included altered dopamine, serotonin signaling,

00:37:57.520 and reduced neuroplasticity. Hedges et al. 2018. From cross-sex hormones,

00:38:02.640 testosterone activates androgen receptors to enhance spatial cognition, possibly

00:38:07.440 via right hemisphere dominant. Estrogen may boost verbal areas, but suppress spatial ones.

00:38:12.800 No clear mechanism for overall IQ drop is clear here, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, thoughts, Simone,

00:38:18.560 before I go further. It, it seems clear that the effects are different for if you're just going

00:38:26.160 on puberty blockers versus as an adult supplementing with estrogen or testosterone. So that's really

00:38:33.200 useful to know. Yeah. So let's go into the studies that claim that this isn't a thing. Okay. So a,

00:38:42.080 and this is one of the most frequently cited studies in this space, a 2022 study by Vander Moisen et al.

00:38:48.000 on 72 transgender adolescents, including puberty suppression,

00:38:53.680 showed pre-treatment IQ strongly predicted post-treatment educational achievement,

00:38:58.160 odds ratio 1.7 per IQ point, matching general population norms, suggesting no negative interference

00:39:03.840 from the treatment. So this guy says no negative interference. Okay. So who was the guy who published

00:39:12.320 this? Every single one of the authors of this were affiliated with the center of expertise on

00:39:19.040 gender dysphoria at Amsterdam UMC in the Netherlands, a major clinical center providing gender affirming

00:39:25.040 care to use. Dave Verne is a prominent figure in transgender use care and co-developer of the Dutch

00:39:29.840 protocol. The guy who literally invented the Dutch protocol for people who don't know what the Dutch

00:39:35.120 protocol is. That is the idea that when somebody is experiencing gender dysphoria, now typically any form

00:39:39.920 of dysphoria, somebody has like body dys dys, dys dys dysmorphia or dysphoria around like,

00:39:44.320 wait, like they're anorexic. You don't treat anorexia by telling somebody to go on a diet,

00:39:48.000 right? Like that's a crazy thing to do. You know, you try to work them through that

00:39:51.920 this is a delusion that they're having and that they will be much more satisfied in the longterm

00:39:56.160 if they can get on the other side of this delusion that they're having. The Dutch method was the idea.

00:40:00.640 And keep in mind, this was a crazy idea that you, you should engage in this one

00:40:07.280 form of dysphoria and only this one form of dysphoria by affirming it even though it's not

00:40:12.320 true even though they're not actually women or men by affirming it and then trying to transition them

00:40:16.880 into that so the guy who developed that one of the guys who developed that was one of the people

00:40:23.200 who wrote this and he was co-chair of ermine abenishi the w pass adolescent center care for

00:40:30.160 and author of numerous studies supporting it so i'll note here if you don't know who the w pass

00:40:34.400 is or the w pass files there's a huge leak from them that basically showed that they were lying

00:40:38.640 to the public and they knew they were lying to the public about transgender care some of the really

00:40:42.400 chilling stuff is them saying that kids do not understand the consequences of what they're doing

00:40:46.800 and they're like should we like not do this and then they said well they can always just transition

00:40:51.440 back later um you know right yes so it's better just to do it anyway like it doesn't matter it

00:40:56.800 doesn't matter that they'll never be able to reproduce it doesn't matter that they'll have 0.91

00:40:59.440 all these effects i got i got paid money cash money right these people these people are living

00:41:04.080 large it's basically a cigarette company says smoking cigarettes is fine it literally is like

00:41:11.120 that it is literally a cigarette company saying cigarettes are the best this is it's funny that

00:41:16.480 you say that but i think that many people will see the entire a lot of the trans science right now

00:41:20.960 that's coming out of these centers that are doing the gender transitions for youth as very much the

00:41:26.240 equivalent of you know with the you know the leaks and stuff that we've had with the cover-ups that

00:41:30.320 we've had like the cover-ups that giving kids puberty blockers was increasing the risk of unaliving and

00:41:34.880 and and suit ideation and self-harm out of travestock that this stuff was being covered up is very much

00:41:41.680 a the cigarette company's situation yeah a 2023 study oh sorry a study by knowit et al on older trans

00:41:52.560 adults long-term ght 20 to 30 years found trans woman scored lower on processing speed memory and

00:41:59.440 crystallized intelligence versus cisgender peers but this was explained by depressive symptoms and

00:42:04.000 not hormones trans men showed minor memory deficits versus cis women but none versus cis men so i'll note

00:42:10.880 here even the individuals who are trying to like stand this right are like oh yeah there was a pretty

00:42:18.400 big drop but it was due to depression so let's go into this a bit more right how how much did it drop

00:42:24.000 transgender women compared to cisgender women the regression coefficient showed processing speed

00:42:29.040 drops this is male to female transition dropped by 52 percent 52 that's enormous and and hormone 0.76

00:42:39.280 related variables such as male estrogen levels and the duration of gender affirming hormone therapy ght

00:42:45.040 which further supported that hormone were not the direct cause so basically what they did is they were

00:42:49.200 then like okay how much does people decrease when they're depressed on these tasks well let's associate

00:42:55.200 that because these individuals seem more depressed here's the problem with that do you remember the

00:42:59.280 animal studies what what did what did what did the puberty blocking males do to their behavioral profiles

00:43:06.160 it made them depressed and anxious

00:43:11.360 so you can't say that the depression that they were experiencing wasn't downstream of the treatment itself

00:43:16.800 in fact animal models suggested is downstream of the treatment itself so you see let's let's look at

00:43:23.360 trans women for example versus cisgender women you have information processing speed you had a moderate 0.95

00:43:28.960 decline epistemic memory you had a large decline and crystallized intelligence you had a moderate decline

00:43:35.200 trans women versus cisgender men here you have information processing a small decline episodic memory a moderate

00:43:41.760 decline a crystallized intelligent a moderate decline and then in trans men that they showed only minor

00:43:47.040 deficit in episodic memory versus cisgender women and no significant difference in episodic memory

00:43:51.280 versus cisgender men no notable declines in other domains now note here i actually believe this for

00:43:57.040 trans men and the reason i believe this is if they're getting all the benefits that males have overall

00:44:02.240 to like intelligence and informational processing they are likely going to benefit even if there is a net

00:44:08.000 drop because of the transition itself i could see and then okay how believable is this particular study

00:44:14.240 right because the first one can basically throw out the the guys who did this study a a a 2020 meta study

00:44:19.600 by karecki et al found no adverse oh sorry this is a separate study i'm going to talk about so a

00:44:24.960 separate study at 2020 meta analysis by karecki i call 10 studies on 384 transgender young adults

00:44:31.040 found no adverse cognitive effects from ght instead visio spatial ability improved in versus cis females

00:44:36.480 trans men with moderate effects on hedges verbal working memory trended better in versus science

00:44:41.440 stuff so can you trust this one and this is the one where i'd be like i actually maybe can trust this

00:44:46.640 guy you know why i trust this guy because in 2011 jonathan what johansson one of the people associated

00:44:53.200 with this looked at a long-term follow-up study on trans people's post-sex reassignment surgery

00:44:59.120 which reported higher unaliving rates and psychiatric morbidity rates compared to the general population

00:45:05.760 which is often cited in critiques of gender affirming care so thoughts

00:45:11.200 not a great look i mean in general it's worse than we had previously thought we thought in the

00:45:17.920 video we did on the wachowski effect that this was just you know okay a problem of people now dealing

00:45:24.880 with a totally new world perspective and hormonal profile and hormonally based strengths which are hard

00:45:30.080 to adjust to which means you might need to change your career and your strengths are going to be

00:45:33.200 different and your weaknesses will be different this is showing it goes a level beyond that but

00:45:37.840 especially if you do puberty blockers you're going to risk irreversible cognitive impairment

00:45:45.200 and some other irreversible negative effects not good if you're wondering why this would happen in

00:45:51.680 adults that that are doing this um here i would say so it does appear from these studies very clearly

00:45:57.040 like you your brain becomes more male-like or female-like based on these treatments yeah with with trans 0.99

00:46:03.840 men men who are female to male they they appear to improve on visuospatial and decline on verbal and

00:46:10.160 then male or female to male you get the opposite the other way around anyway so so you are getting a more

00:46:16.640 male-like or female-like brain right the problem is is that the the wider structures around your brain 0.72

00:46:22.880 and even the way that your brain itself is set up is not designed to be a good male or female brain

00:46:30.000 so if i was going to give an alternative example of this suppose you took a woman and you wanted her to

00:46:36.160 be really good at things that men are really good at like let's say weightlifting right so you say but

00:46:43.920 look with science i can make her like a man right i can pump her full of drugs that cause her muscles 1.00

00:46:52.240 in her arms to grow really big and i can and and you know give her all the testosterone so it makes her 1.00

00:46:58.240 her arms look more man-like you know better at man-like things and then she goes to a tournament

00:47:04.160 and her bones shatter you know her her her joints stop working you know they're not designed

00:47:11.760 to be that way they were not built to be that way it's not just one system you can go in and change

00:47:18.720 one system but if the foundation was made for a female body no matter what you do you're not going 1.00

00:47:25.200 to be able to transition because they went through their entire developmental cycle to try to end up in

00:47:29.440 this one particular and and at the end of the day what is all this for it's for self-affirmation

00:47:34.320 but why do you live you live to try to make the world a better place and to try to make the future of

00:47:38.000 humanity better well we do not most people to be fair i think you know it's not hard to find a

00:47:45.360 meaningful purpose in life and you your life will be so much better if you live for something bigger

00:47:50.480 than yourself you know agreed and you know you can do this through religion or you can do this through

00:47:56.640 just trying to be better trying to make the world better but anything you do that is a chase for

00:48:01.920 affirmation will always shatter you at the end of the day because you are personally experiencing

00:48:09.440 all of the positive things that you believe the world has in in your life but what i'm saying is if

00:48:15.520 your life is measured by your subjective experience of your life then you personally feel the core benefit

00:48:21.600 of your life and it is very clear to you that it's just not that good you know there's there's there's

00:48:28.080 you're always going to be chasing more if you want to see what this does to an individual what it feels

00:48:32.560 like to sort of go through gender transition and what the daily life of an individual is like after

00:48:36.240 this is go to our life of a cinebite episode where we go over the story of anna balans because it's

00:48:40.480 very well documented on her blog and you can see the constant search for affirmation and then the constant

00:48:49.600 thinking that that they finally found it and then it's slipping through their hands like sand because it

00:48:56.800 reminds me of i'm going to say the gender transition it reminds me of a raccoon with cotton candy you 0.96

00:49:04.960 know oh when they try to wash it they try to wash the cotton candy and then it disappears in the water

00:49:11.600 they like search the water where did the cotton candy go i have this delicious cotton candy in my hands

00:49:15.280 it's like you've got this delicious life and then you transition right you you put it in the water and

00:49:31.760 then it's gone and pretty sad it is pretty sad but i think you know fortunately there are a lot of

00:49:38.800 detransitioners out there now it's very common phenomenon it's becoming more and more common and

00:49:42.720 there's going to be a lot of pushback against this movement which we're already seeing it's

00:49:46.320 it's very normalized at this point and it's sort of shattering because of the the and i didn't know

00:49:51.680 this stuff i didn't know you know early on i was pro-trans i was like yeah this seems innocuous just

00:49:57.120 delay puberty whatever right like because i hadn't looked at the research right or i just believed when

00:50:01.920 they're like no no no no no no no like would we really be doing this if we permanently just cause

00:50:08.480 problems to children and it's like okay well now i know the whole joe money thing yeah you guys would

00:50:14.400 yeah but we had no idea no idea yeah and it just wasn't well researched so this research a lot of

00:50:22.080 this was out back then i just didn't think to look you know i just sort of didn't realize how little

00:50:27.600 the left at this point in the urban monoculture cared about evidence and facts anymore that they had

00:50:32.480 moved to become a culture that was completely just dedicated to the agenda which is self-affirmation

00:50:39.280 and a search for you know personal pleasure and not admitting that they've done anything wrong

00:50:43.760 depressing i still haven't really seen them walk back a lot next like talk about not

00:50:48.480 ever admitting i think that's been dropped for the most part

00:50:51.760 i think it has gone way down if i look up the engram viewer

00:51:01.600 yeah whatever happened to latinx i mean i'd love it if they had like an apology to the latin

00:51:06.400 american community for latinx oh no okay well it's exploding i only have until 2022 1.00

00:51:13.760 but it just skyrocketed around yeah like basically non-existence in 2010 and then it just started to

00:51:25.760 skyrocket after that but it might be leveling off if i look at trends

00:51:32.320 trends.google.com and we compare and we look at latinx for all time for at least 2004 to present

00:51:46.240 yeah it's it's it's going down so in google it starts to spike up after 2016 it sees its height

00:51:55.600 in september 2020 when the world was bonkers and it has slowly eased down since then now in july of

00:52:04.800 2025 we're at about the same level it was at in 2018 and it looks like it's trending back downward

00:52:11.360 so the healing the healing is happening malcolm it's happening the mark the mimetic market correction

00:52:18.080 will be complete soon love you to decimum have a spectacular day me too

00:52:25.600 oh that was fascinating lots of people watch malcolm and your mother from wherever she is

00:52:33.760 i can't hear you i'm sorry your mic is not connected

00:52:38.080 she's screaming put product in your hair yeah yeah that is that is what i always heard from her 1.00

00:52:46.800 put more product in your hair well might have been said to you more than anything else from her maybe 0.65

00:52:51.600 even more than i love you oh certainly more yeah product in your hair but get this okay so there

00:52:58.160 this article came out with bloomberg titled korean companies pay employee huge sums to have more kids

00:53:03.680 and i was like oh what like a five thousand dollar bonus or something right like some like something

00:53:08.880 akin to what the united states said or some you know someone had proposed to the united states but no

00:53:14.480 so so boo young company a construction company offers 10 million won per baby to employees that's

00:53:21.760 about 72 000 craft and ink a video game developer 43 000 at birth and an additional 29 000 in installments

00:53:32.400 until the child turns eight it also provides in-house daycare is open as late as 9 30 pm emergency

00:53:39.200 babysitting coverage for parental leave and protections from career penalties for taking

00:53:45.200 leave korea aerospace industries offers 7 000 the people who run these companies are heroes you know

00:53:51.680 they're doing what they can to save their ethnic group right 22 000 for the third child

00:53:57.760 we'd be we'd be raking it in with these companies i know man like we're in the wrong country

00:54:04.000 but i take korea with you they wouldn't like that because they're like well you know you're white 0.91

00:54:07.680 you're not really this isn't the point i know yeah i wonder if there may be racial exemptions but i

00:54:14.960 wow i mean the the chili that you made by the way is absolutely fantastic yeah did you put in the more

00:54:21.040 chilies yesterday yeah i sauteed them so they'd get a little toasty and then i you know yeah they yeah

00:54:28.000 i mean we're ready to do it tonight but i would still leave the main batch for another day because the

00:54:32.400 meat needs to break down a bit more what's the spice level like do you want more sauteed chilies

00:54:37.600 maybe slightly more it depends on if you want some of this too nah

00:54:44.880 you're missing out sweetheart chip on chili you don't even like chili

00:54:48.640 i don't know i just nothing tastes good right now but there's no there's no space for anything so

00:54:55.040 everything i eat i have to be really careful about it because it just like it can only fit in this very

00:55:01.120 small area and then if one of our children like hugs me or punches me in the chest it just comes right 0.84

00:55:06.000 back up i love it that they punch as much as they hug they they just come up and and suck us yeah or 0.52

00:55:12.240 like headbutt you and i feel like the chili is going to be a little more acidic with all the the tomato 0.86

00:55:18.720 base in it i'm not ready for that to come back up it's gonna hurt too much you are an amazing woman

00:55:27.120 smell well it's very good regardless good i'm so glad it turned out you were like i was surprised

00:55:33.520 when you said you were jonesing for chili it's so non foreign but of course you put in thai chili

00:55:41.040 peppers and indian spices so an msg it's not exactly you need msg and everything you need msg and chili of

00:55:47.760 course yeah you do i mean for non foreign foods chili is a really good one no it's it's fantastic

00:55:54.880 it's fantastic and it's not served nearly enough this is another thing about chili

00:56:00.080 you know you really can only get it in like specialized locations i think because even if

00:56:04.720 a restaurant did serve it you wouldn't consider it a main course even though you know it takes

00:56:09.760 as long to prepare as a main course and it if you eat it you're not going to eat a main course

00:56:13.760 yeah it's so hardy less for it yeah yeah you can't make it like your soup starter because then

00:56:18.000 that would fill people up but you can't serve it as a main dish because people don't like soups or

00:56:23.280 stews as main dishes yeah it's more of a family kind of dish but it requires multiple days of

00:56:33.440 cooking if you're doing it well like i did the first when you sent me the chili recipes they were

00:56:37.040 all like ground meat and i was like what are you doing to me woman ground meat chili you've got to 1.00

00:56:41.120 slow cook stuff yeah but those yeah even when i looked up slow cooker recipes though their

00:56:45.360 assumption is slow cooker oh you mean like six hours you're like no oh like three days is is that

00:56:52.560 long we cook actually what are you looking at you just had an idea no i'm i'm just

00:57:01.440 no baby yeah i am sorry it's all good it's it's all super good

00:57:08.240 mm-hmm hey you're committing to doing this more have they want to you know get your full story

00:57:16.000 let's see committed to the bed as they say committed to the bed

00:57:21.120 all right all right let's get started on this one

00:57:26.160 what happened oh i'm twisting a titan of god and they're not in their bed well let's go see

00:57:33.200 yeah i'm following you go go go

00:57:49.120 do you think krampus took them

00:57:56.880 yeah but they were not bad they were not bad yeah so they were good kids

00:58:04.480 yeah

00:58:08.640 do you think we'll ever see them again

00:58:10.160 wait i know you put a camera somewhere

00:58:28.400 so we should check the camera footage

00:58:30.160 yeah i know when you go to the camera somewhere right there watching that bed so they do not

00:58:39.920 play with the toy you can use that camera i have an idea octavian

00:58:48.560 okay okay let's think through this last night when you went to bed

00:58:52.320 and you had dinner with daddy and you had dinner with daddy were they here no

00:58:58.320 so where were they

00:59:03.040 hey we can just still watch the video recording where yeah but they weren't here when you went to bed

00:59:09.040 right yeah so where were they

00:59:14.320 i think they um

00:59:15.600 i was a little sleepy before so do you think maybe they're at stacy and john's

00:59:24.640 um can you call stacy and john and tell them if they're there then

00:59:33.280 okay now call stacy and john because you think that they're good kids like titan and toasty are

00:59:39.040 pretty good no and krampus wouldn't take a good kid yeah they would take bad kids

00:59:46.000 yeah

00:59:46.560 yeah

00:59:51.520 yeah

00:59:54.560 yeah

00:59:54.720 yeah

00:59:54.800 yeah

00:59:55.120 yeah

00:59:57.160 yeah

Based Camp - October 03, 2025

Why Do Studies Show IQ Declining After Gender Transition？

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