EPISODE 616: THE TRUTH ABOUT GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER
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Summary
In the wake of the recent attack in Nashville, Tennessee, a radicalized gender ideology may have played a role in the motivation behind the attack. In this episode, we speak with two detransitioners, Ollie London and Chloe Cole, who share their personal stories about how they became radicalized by gender ideology.
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This is what happens when the fourth turning meets fifth generation warfare.
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A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran.
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This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily.
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Today is Thursday, November 30th, 2023, Anno Domini.
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Today we've got a special episode for you, the truth about gender identity disorder, and
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we've got two detransitioners that are going to be joining us, Ollie London and Chloe Cole.
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They're going to tell you not only the truth about this movement, but they're going to tell
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you about how they themselves found themselves sucked into this rabbit hole, sucked into this
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world of likes and clicks and retweets that every time they made an alteration to their
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body in the name of gender, in the name of transitioning their gender, they were then
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You know, you hear the media talk about toxic influencers and toxic internet, but guess what?
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And they give you two very personal and powerful interviews.
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Now, you may know Ollie, you may have read the book, but Ollie, if you can, please introduce
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Hey, well, thank you so much for having me first, Jack.
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I'm an author of the upcoming book, Gender Madness.
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I was also previously struggling for many years with identity issues.
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I was transgender and then I later detransitioned and now I've become an ambassador, you know,
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fighting for gays against groomers, fighting against, you know, the gender ideology that's
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Well, I mean, that's incredible because it's, you've, you've been working on all this.
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And then this week, all of a sudden, and I think this issue had been something that a
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There was a lot of interest in, there's been a lot of discussion about, but suddenly this
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week here in the United States, we have this horrific act down in Nashville, Tennessee.
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And for Christians and just for Americans in general, and I think everyone in the West,
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they're trying to make, make some sense of, of how could something like this happen?
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How could someone become so, uh, radicalized to commit and act like going after children?
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And there are people questioning as to whether or not this ideology played a role in this attack
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Do you think it's possible that this ideology led to that?
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I mean, we of course need to see the manifesto, but I really do believe that the Nashville police
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chief said there was a credible substance to the claim that this was motivated by radicalized
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And we also need to note as well, this individual only transitioned and became transgender within
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So their friends at high school, they described them as normal, as shy, as sweet.
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So something has happened within the last couple of years that has really pushed this
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person to become so extreme and so radicalized that they would do that to a Christian community.
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So I definitely think, uh, gender ideology, we look at the rhetoric now, you know, we have
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so many, um, trans organizations calling for retaliation in Tennessee based on the law that's
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banning gender affirming care that just went in, uh, to law just a few weeks ago.
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So we're seeing this increased hate and rhetoric coming from the trans activist community, not
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all of them, but there's a, there's a growing portion of people in that community that are
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calling for violence and more extreme measures.
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Um, so I really believe that has played a significant part, if not the leading factor in
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And in fact, it wasn't even, um, anyone on, on the right or conservatives that started
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saying that we had ABC news and mainstream media here in the United States that in the wake
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of this, before we even really knew all the facts that were clearly pointing out that
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this obviously took place in Tennessee just a few weeks after this law was passed.
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Now we're also know there's some, some connection.
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She may or may not have known the pastor, uh, of the school pastors.
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Um, and just, just since we're talking about the investigation, the pastor's own daughter
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who attended the school was one of the victims.
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And so it certainly appears that there's also a, this personal element to the entire thing.
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So if, if you can, because you know, this story from your own story, uh, can you walk
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us through this process of how does someone first get involved in this ideology, you know,
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Because we've seen some of the photos of this, uh, Audrey Hale, and she seems to be just
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a, a sweet, uh, young, um, girl from, again, from middle Tennessee, go, you know, pretty,
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pretty traditional family go into a Christian school.
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How do you go from that to being involved in this ideology?
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Like most of her school friends, uh, when she went to school, you know, they all had good
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They did say she was an outcast and she was always different though.
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But the real issue is this, um, kind of ideology has become a very recent phenomenon.
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You know, nobody had even heard of, you know, kids being medically transitioned.
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This is a very recent phenomenon that spurred on within the last five years.
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We've had an increase in the pediatric clinics in America.
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There's now 60, 60 plus, um, there were none a decade ago.
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So there's an increased rise, uh, there's schools teaching now this ideology telling kids about
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sex education, but there's a real cultural shift and there's a push to try and normalize
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And no, many people didn't have a problem with anyone being trans, you know, five, 10 years
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It wasn't until they started medically transitioning kids, tearing families apart, taking away parental
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So, you know, when it comes to someone wanting to change, I think there are so many factors.
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There are a very small minority of people that do generally feel that way their whole life,
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you know, since they were born, but we have to look at the fact the majority of kids these
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They're going with what's being pushed on them.
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And there are also many of these kids that they may just, as a teenager, they're just
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You know, it might be, you know, it might be to do with their sexuality.
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They might be gay, lesbian, or bi, and they're being told by adults, by teachers that they
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And then when you're putting young people on high doses of testosterone or estrogen,
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when you're giving them surgeries, you know, this has a severe effect on the body.
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It leads to bone density issues, heart attack increases.
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It also changes the chemical imbalance in the brain.
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So what will be interesting to see with the Nashville investigation, was this individual
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Because that can lead to severe anger issues, and that could have played a factor in this
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We know the fact that this Audrey Hale was under the care of a doctor for an unspecified
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We need to find out, was that related to them being transgender?
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And were they being pumped with abnormally high doses of testosterone?
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Because, of course, you know, given the age here, this I mean, we keep talking about her
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So if those indeed procedures were going on under the current Tennessee law, her parents
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would not have been required to be informed of this because because, again, she's 28 years
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She's a 20 year old woman still living with the parents.
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And so they they may have known some things, but apparently she was able to hide these
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guns, hide this arsenal of guns that she had from them.
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So I don't know exactly what how what level of scrutiny.
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It's certainly possible that all of that could have been been done without the parents
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At 28, I mean, she could easily be able to walk into any doctor and do this.
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But so that that's also kind of my question, I guess, because, you know, we we talk about
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This is someone who was an adult, yet somehow targeted children.
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So it seems as though there's an angle of that.
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And I personally believe that it's that social media, that the Internet and specifically Reddit,
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there's been some discussion that she may have had a Reddit account.
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They found some accounts that have similar profile names to some of the screen names that
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So you can't say for sure whether or not it was her.
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But we do know that that certainly there's a lot of these out there.
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But then with Reddit and TikTok, I think these sub communities online have become a sort of
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a sort of echo chamber for this type of ideology.
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I mean, you know, before we had social media, before we had TikTok, we didn't really have
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You know, kids, you know, always struggle with identity, but we didn't have such a severe
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But now we need to find out what were they looking at online, because there is an increased
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radicalization in the trans activist community.
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So when the Tennessee law was passed, there were multiple organizations that are well known
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that were pushing for retaliation in Tennessee.
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So, you know, that's what needs to come out in the investigation, because we need to see
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Were they in these communities that were changing their mind and almost brainwashing them
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Because unfortunately, there's so much hate happening right now.
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We tend to see in the news, the mainstream media, we see the extremes, you know, one
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So I think these people in these communities, they're seeing the extremes going on.
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They think, oh, trans rights are being taken away.
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Nobody had an issue until they started doing this to children.
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You know, we just had Libby Emmons on the other day talking about this, this this trans
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And it's you can go to Wikipedia dot com right now.
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And there's a whole article with paragraph chapter after chapter of the trans genocide.
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And, you know, I'm sitting here thinking, is the trans genocide in the room with us
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I was I was completely unaware that this was going on.
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Are there are there, you know, the anti trans death squad storming the nation right now?
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I mean, what what exactly are they talking about?
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I mean, they tend to use that word all the time.
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They keep saying, you know, their rights are being taken away.
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Because if you look at any protests that involves trans activists and, you know, against
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women or people that are Christian or conservative, it's always the trans activists that use the
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There are people that, you know, do get assaulted in any community.
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You know, we saw the rise in Asian hate crimes since COVID.
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Most of the violence in the trans community is actually sexual based violence.
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So it's nothing to do with someone because of their identity.
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So, you know, when they're saying about this non-existent genocide and suddenly, you know,
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six people from the Christian community had their lives taken by a trans gender person,
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you know, we have to kind of, you know, stop that rhetoric because it's not helping the
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trans community either going on about the genocide when other people are being killed
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I want to hold you on because I want to get more into we can speculate what Audrey Hale's
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And when we come back here on human events, I'd like to ask you to tell your story because
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it might shed some light into these questions, these burning questions that so many people
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are asking that when we have, look, and as a Christian, as a father of two little boys,
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when I see a little girl lying dead at the foot of the cross in a school, I, it's very
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And we're back with Ali London, the author of the forthcoming book, Gender Madness, about
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this ideology, the radicalization and your own personal story.
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Now, we don't know the story yet of Audrey Hale.
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So I was hoping that you could share that with us for our audience to understand and
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see if we can find any points of overlap between what's going on here.
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Yeah, so I wrote Gender Madness basically to help a variety of people.
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So I want to help people that struggle with identity, particularly young people, because
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this is one of the most pressing issues of our time right now.
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We're seeing, you know, thousands and thousands of young people question their identity and
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want to change themselves when really they should try to focus on finding happiness from
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So, you know, part of my book covers my struggle with identity.
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So we look at, you know, these kids, many kids get bullied.
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Many of the kids that are being diagnosed with gender dysphoria have underlying issues.
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It's also exploring what is driving this growing number of young people to want to transition.
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So I've got multiple chapters on the influence of TikTok, how that suddenly came about in
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And then that's when we really started to see a huge rise in the numbers of kids wanting
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So I also discussed that, the social media implications, how the education system is changing
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In particularly, a lot of my book is about America.
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You know, a lot of these schools now in the woke school districts are pushing gender ideology
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So they're basically encouraging these kids to change their gender before the child even
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I also have chapters on the different state laws, the current legislation being passed,
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either banning gender affirming care or trying to not ban it.
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So I'm looking at all those different laws and how we as a society can stop this happening
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to children, how we can protect women's rights, protect parents' rights, while also being
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You know, it's important to understand that many of these people, these young people,
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they're really struggling with their mental health.
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But, you know, gender affirming care is not the solution.
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You know, putting these kids on hormones is only going to amplify the problems they face.
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It's also about my faith journey, how, you know, I got to a point in life I was so obsessed
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with trying to look a certain way and become a different person.
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So it's about finding identity and how we as a society can come together to fight this
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gender ideology that's harming so many people across America.
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Well, can you can you tease that out for us a little bit?
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So you say you you say you lost your identity and then you went on a faith journey.
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So since I was a teenager, I really did struggle with myself.
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I used to prefer doing girls things like playing with Barbie dolls.
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So I used to get bullied a lot because of my femininity.
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And as an adult, I started having plastic surgery to just to try and improve myself.
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And that kind of became an addiction because I was using that as an outlet to try and deal
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with my past traumas when instead I should have gone to therapy.
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I resorted to, you know, going through this surgical journey, which now I've realized was
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You know, I was enjoying at the time the pain I was going through because I felt I deserved
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So that that you you just equated this this using plastic surgery as an outlet to self
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harm the same way we might consider, you know, cutting that that goes on for teens and preteens
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that for you, though, because they both require or they both include this this this this pain
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So that's so interesting to me that you draw a parallel between essentially between the two.
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Yeah, I mean, it was an outlet to deal with pain.
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And I think that's what many young people do these days.
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You know, when you see young teenage girls having double mastectomies and then proudly
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showing their scars on TikTok, I really think, you know, they must be struggling with a lot of
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And, you know, doctors have a responsibility not to do that to them, you know, because if somebody
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was anorexic, you wouldn't give them liposuction.
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So why on earth would you give a child that's struggling with their mental health, you know,
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So I really believe, you know, these kids, it's an outlet.
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They want to almost self harm inflict pain on themselves because they don't fit in.
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They maybe get bullied and they're just trying to, you know, be included in this kind of very
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harmful trend of, you know, self harming and body mutilation in the name of gender.
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I mean, look, there have been so many fads that go through.
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Everyone knows that when you're in teenage years, fads are the most highly susceptible.
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So that's, you know, I remember when, for me, when I was going through high school, you
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know, you had the goths and you had, or you wore flannel, you know, in the 90s because
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Kurt Cobain wore flannel and you were doing the grunge thing and everything was, you know,
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And those are actually coming back a little bit now.
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If you've noticed that the Zoomers kind of have this sort of like retro 90s thing going
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on the same way that in the 90s, there was a retro 70s thing going on.
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And yet that didn't include these extremes of behavior that we're starting to see now.
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But let me ask you as well, because with social media, it almost serves to validate those types
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So basically what's happening now is these kids that are struggling with loneliness, they're
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They see very successful influencers like Dylan Mulvaney that gets millions of views, that
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So, you know, so, you know, these kids want to get validated.
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So when they see someone that's sharing their transition journey online, I guarantee you all
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So the kids that are questioning themselves or have been indoctrinated to question themselves,
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And it's, you know, these days it's all about likes and views to feel good about yourself.
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When really we should be, you know, switching off the social media for kids.
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You know, let them go do soccer or outdoor activities.
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Instead of spending all the time on TikTok trying to seek validation because it's only going
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This is what they're doing is they're short-circuiting the dopamine cycle in the brain.
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And they're creating, it's, people refer to this as love bombing.
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People, it can be, it can be used to manipulate people in many ways.
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And certainly with children, you're already dealing with undeveloped brains, developing brains.
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And this idea that, you know, you're going to flood so much of this at them.
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I mean, this, this, these types of techniques work on adults too, by the way.
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But when you're kids, you have no defenses whatsoever to it.
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So the idea that, that, that we're pushing this with kids and then rewarding it for kids,
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So how did you, and, and, and, and I'll ask this question, might be a little sensitive,
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How did you begin to change, you know, was there a moment, was there a pivot point?
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What was it for you that led you to that inflection?
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So I basically felt like I got to the end of the road.
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I've been doing so many surgeries over a number of years.
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I'd really struggled to accept myself and I still wasn't happy.
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And I thought, you know, I've done all this surgery.
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I've had six nose surgeries, three eye surgeries, three facelifts.
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So I'd basically done so much extreme and I was thinking, what else can I do to, you
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And I was thinking, okay, I can either do more surgery or, you know, I was reaching a
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point where I was maturing and I was actually taking some time out from life.
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You know, I can either, you know, the famous Robert Frost poem, two roads less traveled.
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You can either take one road that leads to something that is unexpected, or you can take the path
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I decided to go down the road that was unexpected, take a step back, go to church and just reflect
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on what I was doing to myself because I was harming myself, but I was also harming people
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that watch me on TikTok and watch me on Instagram because I get a lot of views on there.
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And no, I had a duty to be a good role model for these people.
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So it really made me reflect and want to actually realize I need to find the real me that's been
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So you just, now for, for church was, was that part of your family life when you were younger?
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Was there someone that, that was calling you there or was it just sort of more a, an internal
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Um, so I'd always been spiritual, but what's interesting, I was actually atheist most of
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Um, when I was a kid, I did used to go to a church school in England.
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Um, so I'd been to church many times as a kid, I had very familiar memories, but, you
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know, as an adult, I just kind of lost touch with that, um, and just kind of didn't really
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And I think, you know, the fact that I didn't believe in anything really was why I was so
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So it wasn't until I started going to church again, that I really found some sense of purpose
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You know, life is more than just getting surgery.
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Life is more than just trying to change who you are.
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It's actually better to accept who you are, to feel good about yourself, and then to try
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Ollie London, thank you so much for sharing your story with us for your journey and for
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Tell people where they, can they follow you and how do they pre-order the book?
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It's Ollie London TV, also Truth Social, Ollie London, Instagram London Ollie.
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Amazon, Barnes and Nobles, Books A Million, and all good other book retailers.
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Someone that I've been meaning to have on the show for the longest time, uh, is Chloe Cole,
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She is one of the most outspoken detransitioners in the country.
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She's currently suing Kaiser Permanente, which I completely support.
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Um, and, and please go and support that, uh, that fundraiser if you can.
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Chloe, thank you so much for joining us here on Human Events.
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So, so before we get into that, I do want to get into that, but I've got to ask you about
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this, this week we're sitting and we're watching this, the, so much going on, which seems like
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with this trans movement is hitting all at once.
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And we were told this was the trans week of visibility, the trans day of vengeance.
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There's a shooting conducted by a, a transgender, uh, woman in Nashville, Tennessee, attacking
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They're storming the capitals in Kentucky, in Tennessee.
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They stormed the Capitol in Oklahoma last month.
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A lot of people are making this out to either be a gun issue or a transgender issue.
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They're saying that either guns or this entire group of people are inherently dangerous.
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But I think that's, I think both those arguments are pretty disingenuous.
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I think that it's really a mental health issue.
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This is a group of people that is being strongly misled and being,
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they're being failed by people who should be, sorry.
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They're being fed the idea that not only they can actually transition something that they're not,
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that they can become the opposite sex or another sex entirely, but that they're oppressed.
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They're an oppressed group and they should fight tooth and nail for the rights.
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It's like, and you hear this and you, it seems like it's, it's happening more in conservative states.
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And because these bills are being passed and they're being told not that, not that, oh, this is a new, but they're actually being told that this is a genocide, that this is the stripping of rights, that this is the taking away of health care.
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And what, what, what, what kind of emotion does that elicit from a person who's told those things and believes them?
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They think their lives are being threatened because they're being told that the rights are being taken away, that their health care is being stripped of them, stripped from them.
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Chloe, we have to understand that there's something driving all of these events that we're seeing, whether it's in Tennessee at a Christian school or the Tennessee Capitol, or in Kentucky or in Oklahoma last month, that there is a movement behind this.
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And, and, and we're trying, we're struggling to understand what is this movement, who is behind it, who are the people benefiting from it?
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They push transition as the only means of treating gender dysphoria and anything else is conversion therapy.
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It's genocide and because legislators, especially in these red states are trying to stop practice of childhood transition and improve the model of care for these kids.
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They are painting it as something, as a human rights issue that these kids are having their livelihood, their health care stripped away from them.
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And I've, one thing that I've noticed, um, I travel around a lot and, um, I testify on legislature across the, the U S and a lot of these, in a lot of these red states that I've testified in.
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Um, the activists during these hearings are a lot more desperate.
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They often interrupt the hearing by, um, by making a show of themselves, by shouting, by laughing.
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And I often get shouted at when I'm leaving the room.
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And I think part of that is because they're more, they're more desperate.
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You know, when, when, when they, when they target you in these events have, uh, what about your, or have you been personally threatened by this movement?
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Have they, uh, have they passed threats like credible threats to you in any way?
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I actually hosted a rally, um, earlier this month at the, at the California Capitol.
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It wasn't, yeah, it wasn't, it wasn't political in any way.
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It was just about people like me who have been harmed by the affirmative care model and detransitioned.
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Antifa had to, had to step in and make it a political thing.
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And, um, I got dozens of threats over Twitter and, um, luckily police kept the, uh, the riots
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away from the actual event, but they showed up at a local park and they actually, um, they
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destroyed, um, they destroyed media equipment and assaulted several people.
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And, um, outside of that, I've gotten, I can't even count the number of threats that I've,
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that I've gotten online, um, threats of, of physical assault, of, of rape.
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Chloe, we're coming up on a break right now, but I'd like, if we can, for in the next segment,
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because we do have you for one more segment, I'd love for you to share that story with us
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Because I think as we look into what happened with Nashville, we don't know all the details,
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but your story might be able to show and shine some light on it.
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Chloe, in our last segment, you know, you, you shared with us some very powerful testimony.
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And I would say that that was testimony about what this movement is doing to this country,
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the radicalization of the youth in many cases, but also other members of society like this,
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But, but I wondered if you can to share with us your story for the audience.
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Uh, you, we, we, we know about the law that you're suing Kaiser Permanente now, but, but
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take us back to when you yourself first encountered, uh, the transgender movement, transgenderism online
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as an ideology and walk us through what that was like for you.
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So my first exposure to it was through the internet, through social media.
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Um, I got my first phone when I was 11 and the first social media app that I really used
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And, um, I'd say that I was a pretty vulnerable kid in a lot of ways because I was a little
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I was, I was more of a tomboy and I had some body image issues.
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I started puberty pretty early and I became pretty conscious of, of that from a very young
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And I was being fed a lot of these images of women that I just, I felt like I couldn't
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And on top of that, I was in the communities that, um, that I would browse, um, on things
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And there were a lot of other kids and young adults who identified as either gay, lesbian,
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A lot of them were non-binary or they identified as the opposite sex.
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And I started seeing a lot of posts that were specifically about transitioning and gender
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And because I was at a pretty, I was at an age where naturally I would start to wonder
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like about myself, where I stood in the world, where, who I was attracted to and what role
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And after being exposed to, after being exposed to this stuff for so long, I started to wonder
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And after a while, it just made sense that as a very masculine girl who never fit in, never
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It just, it just made sense that this whole time I was a boy and I started to change myself
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I started to, um, to wear different clothing and I tried to act more like the boys at school
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And, um, I came out to my parents when I was 12 going on 13 and their reaction was to take
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me to a therapist because they didn't know how to handle this.
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They didn't know anything about this and they thought that it would be best to get a professional
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But what ended up happening was that my delusion of actually being the opposite sex was affirmed.
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They, they only referred to me by my, by my preferred name and by my preferred pronouns
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They never even went into the underlying, um, issues that I had and what they knew of,
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It was just treated as a completely standalone issue from my gender dysphoria.
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And they told my parents later that in an appointment they had, I don't think I was there for this
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So I couldn't really refute anything that was, that was said.
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And I didn't, I didn't know what they were, what they were telling my parents at the time,
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but they told my parents that if I wasn't allowed to transition, then it was very likely
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And this was when at the time I was, uh, I was starting to ask my parents to take me to
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an appointment to put me on hormones because I thought that that was the natural progression
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of things, that it was the only means of treating gender dysphoria and that I should be on these
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treatments ideally as early as possible, because that was, that was how the trans community
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That was how the research that I did both from the community and, um, from official medical
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resources seem to point to this as the only way of, of treating my condition.
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Would, would your, did your parents question the doctors at all?
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Did they, did they ever have a time where they pushed back and said, does this, is, this seems
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extreme, uh, you know, you know, and of course you want to trust your doctor, but obviously
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some of the things that you're talking about here are quite, uh, quite extreme and, and
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certainly, um, uh, shall we say not, not, not exactly commonly, you know, commonly understood.
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I mean, I, I, I don't think people are used to, and certainly at that age, these types of
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So was there any, was there any level of pushback like that?
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Yeah, there, there was actually, they, they were okay with me changing the way I dressed and
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they tried to go along with my name change, but they didn't want to, they didn't want me
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They didn't want me to make any choices that I very well could regret as an adult.
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And they told this to the doctors, they voiced their concerns and they were, they were just
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And so at that point did, and I know at some point, and obviously you, you've told the
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story before, at what point did, does it, did they go from not just, uh, blockers and
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So just about half a year after I was, um, I was diagnosed with gender dysphoria was when
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I was put on blockers and a month after that was when I was, I was put on testosterone and
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they actually broke their, uh, their protocol for gender dysphoric children.
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Yeah, it was, it was actually pretty, pretty similar with the surgery.
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Even, um, I started treatment at, at 13 and two years later, um, after my sophomore year
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And my first appointment for that was roughly around the same time, time period.
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And then, so at, at this point, you know, you've, you've, you've undergone all this.
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Are you, are you feeling though at some point you, you talked about the feelings that you
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had when, and when you were online, you were interacting with, with this content online,
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other users, and that you were feeling these, these feelings of not fitting in at any point.
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And did you start to feel like you were actually, um, you know, becoming your true self?
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With each treatment, there was like a honeymoon period.
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Um, once I started on testosterone, which I was, I was in my eighth grade year and had,
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I wasn't initially accepted by, by my peers when I started transitioning because, I mean,
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I, I mostly attribute it to the fact that I was in middle school and people just aren't
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nice, especially towards kids who present differently.
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But once I was in high school, um, I was on testosterone for long enough that, um, my voice
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was fairly deep, deeper than most boys my age at the time.
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Actually, I looked, I appeared to be just like any other boy, my age and nobody other than
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people who I went to elementary and middle school with knew that I, that I even was a biological
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And there were a few instances when I was outed behind my back, but for the most part, nobody
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And they just saw me as another one of the boys.
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And there was kind of that comfort of being able to, to make male friends and be as part
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of a group and seemingly be accepted for who at the time, who I thought I was, but that
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I, um, reality started set then and my relationships weren't as close anymore.
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I didn't really have a lot of room to talk about my feelings or my personal struggles and
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my dating, um, my dating pool was really severely limited by this.
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I mean, everybody, a lot of my other friends were getting into relationships and getting girlfriends
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friends and boyfriends, but I was somebody who appeared to outwardly be male, but I was still
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attracted to males and this proved very difficult.
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There were, there were a few people, there were a few guys who expressed interest in me, but it often
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felt like if anything, I was just an object of a fetish, mostly.
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What, what changes did you notice when you're on testosterone?
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So I was, I was on the blockers first and I was already about like three or four years
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And I'd already been having my period for almost two years by that point.
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So it basically sent me into a state of menopause.
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Um, I was, I had pretty much no sex hormones in my body.
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My, I was very lethargic and I was getting hot flashes and itching all over my body.
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Um, and so once I started on testosterone, naturally I felt great.
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All my energy was back and, um, I had a massive spike in my sex drive and I felt I started to
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develop a competitive streak and I became more confident.
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Um, but at the same time, it was a little, a little bit more difficult to regulate my, um,
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And you mentioned this, this aggression, they, and they, they've said, and they show it
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study after study shows this, that testosterone of course increases aggression.
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It's something by the way that men deal with at an early age that we, you know, we, we are
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prone to anger, uh, a lot more and because of men's physical, uh, you know, stature, even,
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You know, that's why there's a lot of fistfights that go on.
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I've got two little boys, you know, I've got to pull them apart from time to time when they
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want to, they're both going for the same toy or something.
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And, and then even that continues on into, you mentioned middle school, but then even
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high school to some extent, and, and you learn that you have to, you have to regulate
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Because you don't want to just go through life, um, answering everything with aggression
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and anger and physical, uh, you know, physical, um, you know, violence in some cases, but,
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but we also, and I think Jordan Peterson even mentions this, that he talks about how all,
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all male to male relations have this sort of underlying, um, subtext of, you know, we could
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do this another way, but we're gonna, you know, we're going to, we're going to do this through,
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But, but I can't even imagine that if you're, if you're just being, you're given this by
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some doctor at some point in an aggressive way, very, it sounds like very ramped up and
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straight to surgery that there's, there's no explanation whatsoever about how to deal
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with these things or what changes to expect or how you should act because there's no playbook
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Because I'm sure, are they, are they sitting there talking to you, explaining to you that
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Everything that they, that they talked about with me was in very vague terms.
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It was the, uh, the prescription for these things were given to me by a female.
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So, so she wouldn't understand what it was like to say, I don't mean to laugh, I'm just
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Cause that's ridiculous because someone who has no idea what any of these hormones even
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So you've got to the point where you've launched this lawsuit and I apologize for, um, cause
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we're, you know, we're, we're coming up on time, but tell us a little bit about the
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lawsuit where the, what is, what specifically are you seeking here and how can people get involved?
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Um, yeah, so, um, Harmeet Dillon with, uh, Center for American Liberty, um, is, is my attorney
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and we filed the suit recently, um, just a few weeks ago and we, uh, the parties that
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were suing are my surgeon, um, the hospital that I had surgery at my gender specialist
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who referred me to surgery and endocrinologist who put me on hormones as well as, um, Kaiser
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Permanente, which is both my healthcare provider and my, um, my insurance provider.
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So it's, it's a pretty huge undertaking, but my, my hope in, in this lawsuit is that not
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only that I can get justice for myself and get the care that I need because, um, I haven't
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gotten any help with, um, with any of the complications that I've had with transitioning or even
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with, with going through the de-transition, but I also want to, I hope that I can create
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a precedent for other de-transitioners and other people who have been harmed through these
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treatments to be able to get justice for themselves as well.
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Where can people go to find out more about that and where to follow you?
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So my lawsuit, the information and the fundraiser for my lawsuit is available on the Center for
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And I, I'm, I'm active on Twitter and Instagram at C H triple O C O L.
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Thank you so much for sharing so much of your story with us.
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And I know for the folks back home who want to get involved, please go follow Chloe.
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We need to share this story with as many people as possible so we can understand what's going
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on and help other people that are caught in the same situation.