My Story About What Happened at Penn State
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In this episode, I discuss the cancellation of a speech I gave on campus at Penn State University regarding the rape and torture of women and girls in the Middle East. I also discuss the lack of women being honored during Women's History Month, and why we need to get back to the basics.
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I just want to come on here and talk about the incident at Penn State University this week
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in regards to the event that I had scheduled to speak on their college campus
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with a turning point chapter to which ultimately the university canceled.
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There's a lot of misconception and confusion going around there.
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So we'll get into it, but I would be remiss if I did not start this episode
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by taking the time to say that I am praying, and really we should all be praying,
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for the victims in the Middle East, especially the girls and the women and the children
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who are squarely in harm's way because of the violence that has broken out
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but if you are hesitant to condemn the kidnapping and the rape and the torture,
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and again, the senseless violence against innocent civilians,
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And really, I think it's perverse and you're a sellout.
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So a few months back, back in March, during Women's History Month,
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which I will be the first to say, these months and days of visibility
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and all of those stupid things, they're pointless.
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And I think they're more divisive and harmful than good.
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But anyways, during Women's History Month, I noticed a common theme.
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In places where we were supposed to be honoring trailblazing women,
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Again, we had Alba Ruda, who was the International Women of Courage Award.
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We had Mr. Rachel Levine, an openly transgender Biden appointee.
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He's the Assistant Secretary of Health for the U.S.
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We had Faye Johnston in the Hershey's campaign.
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He was Hershey's International Women's Day honoree.
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And of course, ESPN, which should not be surprising to literally anyone
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We saw ESPN have a whole segment honoring Leah Thomas
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to achieve triumph and all of this different nonsense.
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In 2022, swimmer Leah Thomas became the first transgender athlete
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to win an NCAA Division I championship by winning the 500 freestyle.
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The Texas native competed for three seasons on the men's swim team
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She began her transition after her sophomore season
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and after a gap year due to the pandemic that forced the Ivy League
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Promise made her debut as a member of the women's team in December 2021.
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I didn't have any other choice because not transitioning was not leading me anywhere.
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She competed amidst criticism from the swimming community, competitors, and teammates.
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She said she hopes her persistence serves a larger purpose.
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People will say, oh, she just transitioned so she would have an advantage so she could win.
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This was especially disheartening for me to hear.
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Of course, I mean, it's utter lunacy to say that this person was a trailblazer for women's sports,
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I mean, that's utter lunacy considering how bad he was when swimming against the men.
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Ranked 462nd the year prior to again now dominating, winning national titles above Olympians,
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American record holders by body links, which is a very large margin in swimming.
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So if I was a woman working at ESPN or any of the companies or organizations who adhered to this
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I would leave in the blink of an eye because they're openly mocking women.
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But anyways, I saw this trend continue and continue.
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This is something that the feminists of the last few decades would have never seen coming,
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or maybe they did considering they seem to be the ones who are pushing for it.
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So fourth wave feminism, the most ironic and contradictory wave of them all, where men
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But after I can continue to see this, I was thinking to myself, how can we get back to honoring
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real women in places where we are supposed to be honoring women?
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And after some brainstorming, some different things I thought to myself,
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It's the 10th day of the 10th month, which in Roman numerals is XX, which is the female
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And if you took fifth grade science, then you know this.
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And so I had all these great ideas, different things I could plan around this day.
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Um, the first thought I wanted to, of course, get on a college campus, um, talk to young
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students about this, uh, something that we did that was pretty special through the Riley
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Um, we sent out four other athletes to speak on college campuses, Paula Scanlon, who was
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one of Will Thomas, Leah Thomas's teammates at university of Pennsylvania.
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Um, Caitlin Wheeler, who her young sister was banned from the YMCA for complaining about
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a male undressing in their locker room, um, after her swim team's practice, uh, Selena
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Soule, who is one of the Connecticut runners involved in litigation, hopefully that will make
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Um, and Olivia Krolchek, who is a young girl from university of Cincinnati who received a zero
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on her assignment for using the term biological woman.
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As of course, this word reinforces cis heteronormativity.
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I've never heard of that word before, cis heteronormativity.
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Um, so they all went out on college campuses and spoke.
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One other thing I did this day was I sent out 50 activism kits, uh, to 50 different college
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campuses, uh, and what these activism kits looked like.
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We had a big net, a baseball net, and we had a radar gun.
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And so men and women would throw the baseball into the net.
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And, and, and of course the objective was to see who could throw it faster.
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Um, on average, you know, men or women and surprise on all 50 campuses, men threw it faster
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than women, which is a more interactive way to prove the point that I've been saying for
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constantly the past year and a half, that when it comes to something that requires sheer
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strength or athleticism, men are naturally more advantaged again, on average.
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Um, so the turning point chapter at Penn state had reached out to me way back in August,
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and we had decided that on October 10th, I would be speaking there.
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The students on August 27th reached out to the appropriate members to secure the date
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Uh, the venue responded back and said, you know, this is great, but we have to have all
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This was 34 days, business days prior to the event.
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Um, but in those four days, the university was unwilling to meet with the students, meaning
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they missed the deadline to successfully secure the event and the venue and all those different
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And so after that reached out to a local Hyatt, um, close to Penn state's campus where we would
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The Hyatt came back, they confirmed, we put the deposit down, all of this.
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Uh, then they found out who the speaker was me.
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And so the Hyatt came back and ultimately canceled the event.
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Um, this time we were applying under leadership Institute, which is a non-campus affiliated
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group, meaning they don't have to adhere to the same policies that the campus affiliated
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Um, got the room secured again, put the deposit down, have the confirmation, all of those different
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Once the university again, found out who was speaking, they came back and said, sorry, uh,
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now we have staffing problems and there's competing events and risk management.
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So they canceled, um, ended up still going to the campus, uh, and had a free speech rally
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just on the hub lawn, which is a public space of land.
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Um, anyone could attend, uh, which was pretty cool, you know, to, to be a part of that.
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Um, of course, normally I'm used to talking about women's sports and why having men infiltrate
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into our sports and in our locker rooms, taking our opportunities is harmful to women.
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But this gave me an opportunity to talk about the freedom of speech and why it's important.
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Um, so before the speech even started, uh, I got a message from a student at Penn State
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who sent me a screenshot of an email her teacher had sent to the entire class.
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And so let me read it to you because I just think it's comical.
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And I think it's truly indicative of why people are scared.
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Why there's so much external pressure, because I hear all the time, you know, why are people
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so scared to say the truth to speak common sense, typically from older people who don't
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necessarily understand the direction that colleges are going in now.
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It says, um, hello, all there are a number of scheduled and rumored events taking place
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And over the next few days, I recognize student organization, Turning Point USA at Penn State
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University is holding a free speech event scheduled for the Hub Lawn at four.
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The student group confirmed this morning that Riley Gaines is attending.
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A quick wiki search indicates that Turning Point is a conservative organization that is
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And Riley Gaines is a former athlete who is anti-trans.
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Then the email goes on to say, also on this day, Dignity Day is planned as a university and
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This seems like a good way to counter the hateful messages espoused by miscarriage.
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Gaines, while not providing more attention and exposure to such message.
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The coming out day celebration sponsored by the Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity
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Someone who is supposed to be teaching the next generation.
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For saying men are men, women are women, and you can't change what you were born as.
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That's why the silent majority, that's why we're in the position that we're in.
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And the loud minority seems to be, we seem to be catering to this group.
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Also, two arrests were made for disorderly conduct.
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We had two protesters, of course, and masks, which I just think is hilarious.
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All of the masking and different things, I don't even think it's because of COVID anymore.
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I think it's because these people are ashamed to show their face.
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I would be ashamed to show my face if I was in college, you know, 20, 21, 22 years old,
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You know, cursing, obscenities, all these different things.
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But these two protesters flipping tables, knocking stuff over, pushing reporters, different things.
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And so two arrests were made, which I want to say I'm so grateful for the police and how
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effective they acted, how quickly and immediately they acted, and really just doing their job.
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That's not the same action that I've seen be taken by police at other universities.
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But we have these trans rights activists, which, let me just say, I don't even think
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they should be called trans rights activists anymore.
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I think they should be deemed men's rights activists.
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Again, all wearing masks, chanting things such as Trans Lives Matter, calling me a fascist,
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I mean, this is like Keith Olbermann level, saying can't swim over and over and over and
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Meanwhile, these people chanting this at me have never played a sport in their entire
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life, have no idea what it takes to be an elite athlete.
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And of course, have no idea the things that I had accomplished in my sport.
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And look, by no means am I saying I'm the best swimmer on the planet.
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But I would challenge any of them, even the men, to a race.
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And I'm pretty sure I could predict the outcome, which that might just prove my point that men
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I think I could take, of course, all of those protesters.
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Besides the point, I was able to deliver a speech just using a megaphone.
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I was able to drown out the protesters and different things.
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There were student athletes who were there, which was really cool for me to see.
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I even opened it up for questions after I delivered a 20-minute talk or so.
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The only questions I got were from supporters, which I just think, again, is ironic.
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I gave the opportunity to the protesters to ask a question.
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I would have loved to answer their question, to have cleared up any confusion or anything
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They weren't even willing to ask a question, which shows you.
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I don't even know if they know what they're protesting.
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Of course, we found out some of the activists were paid to be there to protest.
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I mean, it's the most bizarre thing to look out into a sea of people and see.
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But I guess my question is, what are they so scared of?
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I mean, we saw the video that the president of Penn State released.
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She actually released this video back in September.
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And in this video, she's essentially explaining a nap to a kindergartner,
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talking about, you know, the freedom of speech and why, unfortunately,
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it's necessary to implement, even for bigots like myself, which she had said,
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Why don't they want you hearing the simple message that men and women are different?
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We complement each other, man and woman, in a beautiful way.
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It makes me worried, really, that we don't have people acknowledging that what's happening here
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It's as if our authority figures and policies and guidelines and people leading this country
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are trying to make us say two plus two is five.
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We're denying the essence of humanity, man and woman.
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And of course, a lot, a lot more than just that in terms of cultural issues plaguing this country.
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And it's a lot bigger than just denying man and woman.
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We should all be asking ourselves the question of what's next?
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Where will we be as a country in five to ten years if we allow this to continue like we have?
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And truthfully, I don't know the answer to that.
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I don't know how we can deny a more basic truth.
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But it's something we should all be asking ourselves.
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Our founding fathers predicted that we would be here in this day and age going through what
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And they, of course, created the Constitution to prevent this from happening, to prevent
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unelected bureaucrats and officials from taking away our freedoms like we're seeing today.
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But I think the real victims of the lack of freedom of speech are the ones
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being denied it, the ones who aren't able to hear the truth, like those students, those
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I pray for them because I think the deceived are more dangerous and evil than the deceivers
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because the deceived, they don't know right from wrong.
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Whereas the deceivers, the people who are actively deceiving us, they do and they're choosing
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to not tell us what is right, to not tell us what is true, not tell us what is fair, not
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And so it's the deceived who are more dangerous and evil than the deceivers.
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And so I was glad to get out there and share my message along with the four other speakers
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who were deployed yesterday for Real Women's Day, which was pretty incredible.
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One more awesome thing about Real Women's Day, October 10th, XX, was Representative Lisa
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McClain read into the congressional record a bill acknowledging 1010 as Real Women's Day,
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Um, she is a strong woman fighting for, um, to really, for sanity to prevail, fighting
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Um, there was a lot of traction on social media for this day.
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And so, uh, you better believe this will continue on Real Women's Day.
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We will be celebrating October 10th, XX, Real Women's Day next year.
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Um, I'm going to continue on my speaking tour on college campuses because it is so important
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Do you know how often I'm told it's Gen Z who's going to ruin this country?
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Um, which is frustrating because, I mean, again, I do think it's us.
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The future of this country is up to us, but I think it's the people who came before us
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Um, so, so really trying to engage people my age, let them see the truth, let them see
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how they're being deceived because I think it's important.
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And I think the message is being really, really well received.
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Um, despite the few protesters who truthfully they're a lost cause.
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Um, there are some people who will just never agree with me regardless of what I say.
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I mean, they're not even willing to listen to what I say as made evident by yesterday,
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the chanting and different things over my voice.
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And those people are a lost cause and we have to forget about them in terms of trying to
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But there are a lot of people out there who are looking for the truth.
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Um, speaking at Baylor, um, then UT Dallas this week.
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Actually, my, my speech at UT Dallas, I just have to read this too, because again, I just think
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Um, they are having a celebrating Leah Thomas event.
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They have free pizza and join us to make protesters honoring the gender center celebration of Leah
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I can tell you what those pro or what those posters are going to be used for because they'll
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be marching over to my event afterwards to protest me.
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Um, truthfully, when they want you silent, it should only encourage you to speak louder,
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And I, I hope this can be encouragement to everyone.
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Um, if you're scared of, of things such as that, that's what we do in fourth grade is
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What should be scarier to all of us than the name calling and the petty personal attacks,
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What should be scarier to all of us is not standing firm in the truth.
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Um, there is a list there of different schools and such that I will be speaking at this semester,
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If you're around any of these areas, um, I would love to see you guys there.