RadixJournal - January 25, 2021


The Great Transition


Episode Stats

Length

55 minutes

Words per Minute

163.06007

Word Count

9,080

Sentence Count

560

Misogynist Sentences

16

Hate Speech Sentences

67


Summary

Transgender Health Secretary Rachel Levine was confirmed by the Senate on January 20, 2021, making her the first transgendered member of the cabinet to be confirmed, and the first one we know of. The appointment was celebrated by the media as the next stage of progress, but few, maybe none, were willing to critically and scientifically examine the origins and nature of transsexuality. Where does it come from? What does it mean? Are transsexuals, as it were, male brains or souls in female bodies? Or something else entirely?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 It's Monday, January 25th, 2021, and welcome back to The Spencer Report.
00:00:07.520 This progress bus doesn't have any brakes.
00:00:11.200 Joining me today is Edward Dutton.
00:00:14.580 On January 20th, history was made.
00:00:17.960 I'm of course referring to President Joe Biden's appointment of Rachel Levine as his assistant health secretary,
00:00:24.140 the first transgendered cabinet member to be confirmed by the Senate,
00:00:28.780 or at least the first one we know of.
00:00:32.560 The appointment was celebrated by the media as the next stage of progress,
00:00:37.080 but few, maybe none, were willing to critically and scientifically examine the origins and nature of transsexuality.
00:00:45.500 Where does it come from? What does it mean?
00:00:48.060 Are transsexuals, as it were, male brains or souls in female bodies?
00:00:54.120 Or something else entirely?
00:00:55.720 It's past time that we critically investigate this major trend.
00:01:01.500 Ed, welcome back. How are you?
00:01:04.300 I'm okay, yes. How are you doing?
00:01:06.280 Good. Yes, doing well.
00:01:09.580 Ready to talk about one of the most important issues of our time, I guess.
00:01:16.360 Can't believe I'm saying this.
00:01:17.740 I couldn't imagine saying this five years ago, but now I have to.
00:01:21.620 And that is transsexuality and transsexuality in politics.
00:01:25.760 We have gone through the first black president.
00:01:29.800 That is now, who cares?
00:01:32.500 We've had our first woman of color who's either Jamaican or Indian, depending on the year.
00:01:38.380 That's already in.
00:01:40.020 No one's even talking about that.
00:01:41.800 I mean, it's old.
00:01:43.800 I mean, it's like wearing...
00:01:48.140 What were those horrible rubber shoes that people wore circa 2004?
00:01:53.600 Crogs or clogs?
00:01:54.860 Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:01:55.400 It's like wearing combat trousers.
00:01:57.840 Exactly.
00:01:59.000 Well, yes.
00:02:00.500 Or jorts or something like...
00:02:02.780 It's...
00:02:03.860 No.
00:02:05.200 But now we have what's truly important, which is Rachel Levine has been nominated by Joe Biden
00:02:14.480 to be his assistant health secretary.
00:02:16.960 And so she will be confirmed by the Senate.
00:02:20.340 So this is going to be one to watch, I guess.
00:02:25.000 I'm curious if anyone will push back on her.
00:02:27.780 But I think most of them will be afraid, too.
00:02:31.520 But we have our first transsexual member of the cabinet, major appointment.
00:02:40.140 And I think this demonstrates how far we've come in just around five years.
00:02:46.720 It was around six or seven years ago that gay marriage, at least in the United States,
00:02:53.040 was just settled, basically.
00:02:55.220 And in symbolic fashion, Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, came out, even though it was everyone
00:03:03.240 assumed or knew he was gay.
00:03:05.700 He just came out.
00:03:06.980 And that seemed to just end the gay issue.
00:03:10.280 It had been settled.
00:03:11.800 And a month later, Caitlyn Jenner became a household name.
00:03:16.060 And the transsexual issue came up.
00:03:18.660 A year later, we're talking about transsexual children.
00:03:22.940 And 2020, we're appointing them to the president's cabinet.
00:03:27.920 Life goes by pretty fast.
00:03:30.580 If you don't stop to look around, you might know something.
00:03:33.880 Life is stunning and brave, isn't it?
00:03:35.180 Life is stunning and brave.
00:03:37.000 That is what the future of America is going to be.
00:03:39.160 It's not just going to be declined into winter.
00:03:41.140 It's going to be a stunning and brave decline.
00:03:43.480 It just keeps getting better.
00:03:45.740 Yeah.
00:03:46.640 I think it's very, very interesting.
00:03:50.540 As you know, I've had a number of personal experiences with transsexuals.
00:03:56.060 And none of them have done particularly well.
00:04:03.780 And there is a very large body of research on the negative psychological dimensions associated
00:04:12.100 with transsexuality.
00:04:13.820 And increasingly, if you talk about that, even in academia, even in journals with titles
00:04:18.800 like the journal of whatever journals that overtly you would think that they would want
00:04:22.620 to discuss these kinds of things, then you will get at least one of the two peer reviewers
00:04:26.940 saying your research has the potential to marginalize already marginalized people.
00:04:34.220 So what?
00:04:35.260 As if that is therefore an argument that it must be wrong.
00:04:39.620 So you have the sort of fact value conflations, obvious fallacy, which is something I had to
00:04:44.060 go through with an article which I published recently in an academic journal.
00:04:48.920 There was a transsexual researcher who was allowed to write a really scurrilous critique
00:04:55.700 of it.
00:04:56.380 And at the moment, it seems me and my colleague are not allowed to respond.
00:05:00.160 And it's obvious why we're not allowed to respond, because of the pressure the journal
00:05:03.240 editor is under.
00:05:05.540 He has to allow the queer review as someone, what's the fellow's name, once called it.
00:05:13.700 These days, research on this matter has to go through peer review.
00:05:17.300 And then it had Blanchard, that's his name.
00:05:19.640 Blanchard said it has to go through peer review.
00:05:21.520 And then it has to go through queer review.
00:05:23.240 And it's quite possible for something to pass peer review, but fail queer review.
00:05:28.940 Because if you write an article on transsexuality, you'll normally, if you have two reviewers,
00:05:32.780 you'll have one peer reviewer who'll actually be motivated by science.
00:05:35.700 But you may also have a queer reviewer.
00:05:38.000 And that's the hurdle at which it might fall.
00:05:41.720 Because that comes about basically saying that if you, and I had a queer reviewer that
00:05:46.040 said this, that the kind of arguments you are putting about transsexuality are akin to
00:05:51.440 the kind of arguments that people are putting in the 50s about gays.
00:05:55.920 So that's what they're comparing it to, which is no comparison at all.
00:06:00.360 And because the evidence of psychological problems with homosexuals is nothing compared to the
00:06:09.080 evidence of psychological problems with transsexuals.
00:06:13.080 There are psychological problems with homosexuals.
00:06:15.360 Yeah, I mean, abundance.
00:06:17.000 And I would have thought that the fact that a person was not an early onset transsexual,
00:06:24.860 because that can be that there's some sort of problem with development or some sort of
00:06:29.140 problem with the brain, so that it really is rather like they are a girl in a boy's body
00:06:33.460 or vice versa, but with late onset transsexuals.
00:06:36.940 And that's what we're talking about with Dr.
00:06:39.880 Levine.
00:06:40.420 We're talking about a person who was in their 50s or something like this, 40s, when they
00:06:44.660 transitioned.
00:06:46.980 Then there is evidence of borderline personality disorder, of narcissism, of things like depression,
00:06:57.200 of course.
00:06:57.560 And people might say, oh, well, you know, this is because they're mistreated and they're
00:07:02.080 excluded, and so this makes them react like this.
00:07:05.680 I'm not sure that that's the case with narcissism.
00:07:07.660 But if that were the case, then why is it associated with all manner of physical problems, like
00:07:11.960 congenital death?
00:07:12.580 I'm not sure Rachel Levine was excluded from anything.
00:07:15.940 She attended Harvard and Tulane Medical School, and she was appointed to major faculty appointments
00:07:24.040 at Penn State and things like that.
00:07:25.740 Maybe not in the top elite, but kind of in the surrounding elite.
00:07:34.220 I don't know if that was a concern that it correlates, being a male to female transsexual, a trans
00:07:41.200 woman, correlates with masculinization, physical and mental masculinization, as I showed in
00:07:47.800 the paper, and all manner of obscure problems, like anorexia, and really obscure sort of physical
00:07:58.460 problems.
00:08:00.420 So, yeah, so it's a peculiar thing.
00:08:04.760 Well, let's back up a little bit, because I think we should make some distinctions before
00:08:13.480 we get into this.
00:08:14.520 I mean, I think a distinction should be made between what we now know as being transgendered
00:08:22.320 and transvestitism and transvestitism of various shades, which have been around since the Stone
00:08:29.600 Age, you could say.
00:08:32.240 Transvestitism is frequently employed in the context of camp, theater, satire, sometimes religious
00:08:42.080 rituals, and so on.
00:08:44.700 It has also been a long-time perversion of certain men who want to put on pantyhose or
00:08:52.520 whatever to get whatever titillation they get from that.
00:08:58.120 It's been around for a long time.
00:09:00.580 It's been a thing, and it's been understood as either theatrics or a perversion or a fetish.
00:09:08.860 And it's been a part of society, but certainly on the margins.
00:09:16.860 What we have now is really fundamentally different, because it is not about, oh, this kind of weirdo.
00:09:28.240 He looks like a boring accountant, but you wouldn't believe what he gets up to on the weekends.
00:09:33.440 He is cross-dressing or doing shows or whatever.
00:09:40.280 It went from that to, this is my identity.
00:09:43.860 This is who I am.
00:09:45.980 I was a woman born into a man's body or a man born into a woman's body or what have you.
00:09:52.680 Now, that has been around.
00:09:54.240 I know there are a few famous cases of transsexual identity, transsexual surgery, gender reassignment.
00:10:05.780 But it was nothing like it is today.
00:10:08.940 It was nothing where we're having these debates on cable news about bullying of trans children
00:10:14.020 and all sorts of things.
00:10:16.020 But I think it's this identity question that is what separates it, because it is now assumed
00:10:25.360 by our talking heads and leaders that you should not understand this in a way as a perversion
00:10:35.420 or as camp.
00:10:36.580 You need to understand this as an identity.
00:10:39.040 It's kind of almost de-sexualized in a way.
00:10:42.420 And I think this is what is new and different and maybe most kind of baffling and important
00:10:50.340 about the phenomenon.
00:10:52.140 I mean, according to Ray Blanchard's research, and he's very much the authority on this,
00:10:57.060 he talks about the transsexual typology.
00:11:01.580 And there are two kinds of transsexuals.
00:11:04.240 So there are those that we would call the homosexual transsexuals.
00:11:10.200 These are people who are highly feminized.
00:11:14.860 They are physically feminized.
00:11:16.860 They are mentally feminized.
00:11:18.780 If they're men, it's normal.
00:11:20.380 They like wearing women's clothes.
00:11:22.780 They show signs of opposite sex behavior very young.
00:11:27.900 And it would be these kinds of people that are going to be the ones that are, as it were,
00:11:32.860 the convincing transsexuals where they transition.
00:11:35.260 And also those that would have been transvestites.
00:11:39.240 And they are distinct from what he calls the autogynephilic transsexuals.
00:11:44.420 And autogynephilic transsexuals, he argues, what we're dealing with is a fetish.
00:11:49.300 And these are people who are sexually aroused or otherwise profoundly satisfied by the idea
00:11:54.860 of having a female body.
00:11:58.200 And this is kind of narcissistic.
00:12:00.300 They are, in a sense, sexually aroused by an idealized version of themselves.
00:12:07.600 And desiring this body...
00:12:09.580 They're becoming the object of their desire.
00:12:11.600 They're becoming the object of their sexual desire.
00:12:15.080 And they are becoming the object of their sexual desire.
00:12:17.760 Now, these kinds of people, they do not tend to have many indicators.
00:12:22.600 They are not feminine.
00:12:23.740 They are not effeminate.
00:12:25.320 They are not feminine men.
00:12:27.940 And this only tends to hit in after adolescence.
00:12:31.460 So people that have autogynephilic transsexuality, there is no indication at a young age that they
00:12:38.660 are transvestites or anything like that.
00:12:44.000 And he's estimated to say that that's the majority.
00:12:46.560 That's about 75% of them are these autogynephilic transsexuals.
00:12:52.520 And, of course, they are trying to...
00:12:55.940 Alice Dreger has done a very interesting book on this.
00:12:58.380 And he notes that they are trying to suppress discussion of this.
00:13:02.540 And they're trying to sort of say that, oh, no, all transsexuals are just people who are
00:13:06.460 the same as those that are born, thinking they're in the wrong body, but they've just realized
00:13:10.780 it late or something.
00:13:11.800 And that's not the case.
00:13:13.000 Because the correlates, the physical and mental correlates of the two categories are
00:13:18.460 different, are very different.
00:13:20.820 And so those are the two things we have to distinguish between.
00:13:26.280 The heritability, it should be noted.
00:13:27.880 If this was all to do with genetics and things like this, then the heritability would be high.
00:13:33.740 But there are a number of studies that have shown that the heritability is low.
00:13:37.580 So the heritability of transsexuality, of gender dysphoria, is something like 0.3.
00:13:42.300 And so this would imply that it is overwhelmingly things going wrong, starting in the womb, but
00:13:49.920 also just more broadly in development that is causing this.
00:13:53.760 They are not born into the wrong body.
00:13:56.180 There's some sort of problem with their development that brings this about.
00:14:01.480 And the correlates with regard to autoguidophilous transsexuality, I mean, the idea that it's
00:14:11.240 to do with, they would try and dismiss correlates like depression and stuff like that as, oh,
00:14:17.800 well, it's just to do with them being mistreated.
00:14:19.480 But the correlates of being a trans woman include high cholesterol, high blood pressure, vision
00:14:24.880 problems, deafness, chronic pain, arthritis, digestive problems, lung problems, kidney
00:14:30.320 complaints, diabetes.
00:14:32.840 So it's simply asthma.
00:14:36.280 It's simply in pubic lice is a correlate, by the way.
00:14:40.400 Among trans men, that is to say female to male transsexuals, the correlate might be
00:14:45.740 environmental.
00:14:47.000 Previous.
00:14:47.520 Yeah, I doubt that's genetic.
00:14:48.700 So previous menstrual irregularities, premature or delayed menage, hyperanginism, that is
00:14:55.080 to say they have complications because they have high levels of testosterone.
00:14:58.620 And you have high evidence of high testosterone in both of these groups.
00:15:03.100 They have higher 2D-40 ratios.
00:15:05.500 They are more likely to have autism.
00:15:07.780 They are more likely to have a number of other markers of testosterone.
00:15:11.940 So it's, I mean, the way that it makes sense to Blanchard and to others is that
00:15:18.700 to say that if you are masculinized, then you, one of the correlates of being masculinized
00:15:25.920 is narcissism.
00:15:27.760 One of the correlates, should I say, is autism.
00:15:30.260 Autism does correlate with, not just with transsexuality, but with other mind-body dysphoria,
00:15:37.760 such as eating disorders, such as anorexia, such as even there's a particular disorder where
00:15:42.400 people like to, they want, they believe they're disabled and they are very satisfied by the
00:15:48.020 idea of chopping bits off themselves or with Munchausen syndrome or these other sort of
00:15:54.460 delusions.
00:15:55.060 And the idea is that if you are autistic, you are high in, very high in systematizing,
00:16:01.220 you're very low in empathy.
00:16:03.060 And therefore your world doesn't make sense because you make mistakes all the time and
00:16:07.460 you upset people.
00:16:08.700 And so, and also you're easily overstimulated, easily overwhelmed by stimuli.
00:16:13.180 And the result of that is that you don't feel in control of your own life.
00:16:16.920 And so you don't develop a stable sense of self of where you are in the world compared
00:16:23.980 to other, compared to other people.
00:16:25.560 So you don't know who you are.
00:16:27.340 There's the kind of a void.
00:16:29.120 And how do you feel, feel, feel this void?
00:16:32.620 Well, one way that you fill it is by, is, is by getting a clear structured identity that's
00:16:38.700 clear and that's you and it's very black and white.
00:16:41.400 And this is what you find with borderline personality disorder.
00:16:44.180 So they will, they will get a very clear sense of identity and that's it.
00:16:48.100 But ultimately it will be unstable because they will still be nagged by these doubts and
00:16:52.720 whatever.
00:16:53.480 And so frequently it will flip and they'll, they'll have a period of complete chaos and
00:16:57.760 depression and then they'll flip into a very different identity.
00:17:01.780 I think you get things like this when you get people that move from being, you know, far
00:17:05.620 right to far left and vice versa, things like that.
00:17:08.580 And an example of borderline personality disorder where you do this is narcissism.
00:17:14.180 And with narcissism, you deal with the fundamental void by believing that you're perfect and
00:17:19.060 you're wonderful and you're superb and whatever.
00:17:21.220 And that's you, that's it.
00:17:22.160 That's, that's how you cope with it.
00:17:24.100 But of course you entertain secret doubts.
00:17:26.340 And so anyone that highlights those secret doubts by highlighting a flaw in your identity
00:17:30.700 will be the subject of narcissistic rage.
00:17:32.980 And you'll get very, very angry with them and you'll want to sort of destroy them.
00:17:36.160 And indeed, um, Alice Jagger, I think it was, someone called Lawrence, her name was, did
00:17:39.800 an article on narcissistic rage in transsexuals, how it's not good enough with transsexuals
00:17:45.480 for them to criticize you.
00:17:46.340 They'll, they'll go after your job.
00:17:47.860 They'll bring up your employer and say, do you want to be working?
00:17:49.860 And they'll try and destroy you because that's what you have to do to destroy the person
00:17:53.800 that's questioning your, your identity.
00:17:55.400 And so you can see why, um, these things will kind of come together in narcissism.
00:18:01.160 And the other thing is the autistics tend to be sexually aroused by things, by objects,
00:18:05.700 uh, you know, breast man or a leg man, whatever, that's more male thing.
00:18:10.020 And so this is taken to an extreme.
00:18:11.800 So you have narcissism where you are, where, where you, where, Oh, who am I?
00:18:16.620 Who am I?
00:18:16.980 Who am I?
00:18:17.340 Oh, maybe I'm a woman.
00:18:18.640 That's the first thing that you have.
00:18:20.760 And secondly, you have, um, the development of a narcissistic sexuality,
00:18:24.920 where you're aroused as it were by yourself.
00:18:27.800 So a fetish with the same underpinning, which is autism.
00:18:31.200 And these two things come together, um, in, uh, in, uh, in, in transsexuality.
00:18:38.260 And then because the process of it, of it, of it occurring is a consequence of sort of
00:18:44.700 high mutational low problems in early development, things like that.
00:18:48.800 Then it correlates with all these other problems like asthma and, and, and deafness and,
00:18:54.320 and whatever.
00:18:55.460 And it also correlates with eating disorders, because in a sense, an eating disorder is
00:18:59.500 a, you know, your world is chaos.
00:19:00.800 You're autistic.
00:19:01.320 You need control.
00:19:02.060 You, you, you take the control by not eating and that's how you control the situation.
00:19:05.860 So it's, it, they parallel.
00:19:07.680 So I think that's what we're dealing with.
00:19:09.140 And so what I would suspect is that a person who is transsexual, um, has very serious,
00:19:14.200 not, not a person that is a, that is a young transsexual, but a person who is a late onset
00:19:20.840 transsexual.
00:19:21.660 And the, the, the later the onset, the worse really, um, is a, is a person who's going to
00:19:27.200 have very serious problems.
00:19:28.660 And, um, I don't know if that's true on the individual basis with the doctor divine, but
00:19:32.800 that's what one would predict.
00:19:34.920 Hmm.
00:19:36.100 What?
00:19:36.300 So a couple of questions, what, what percentage of the population do you think suffers from
00:19:42.480 these kinds of personality disorders that I guess eventuate in transsexual?
00:19:47.980 Personality disorders.
00:19:48.980 Oh, well, that's, that's very, very hard to say, but I mean, I mean, psychopathic personality,
00:19:52.360 for example, has been put at about 1% and they are, they're on a spectrum, remember?
00:19:58.520 So you've got degrees to which we're all, we could, we, it could be argued that we're all
00:20:04.360 on a spectrum from borderline personality disorder to, to, to the, whatever the opposite of that
00:20:09.520 is.
00:20:10.020 So, so, um, that's hard to say, but it would be a low, and with transsexuals, it's been
00:20:14.720 estimated that it's about 0.3%, but, um, it's growing, but I think that's a consequence of
00:20:21.040 the fact that it's kind of becoming fashionable.
00:20:23.520 And so, well, I was looking at some statistic, it's still under 1%, but it's, it's like 0.7%
00:20:30.780 among 18 to 35 year olds or something.
00:20:35.160 It's, there, there's clearly a generational thing going on now, whether that's environmental
00:20:40.300 or actually genetic, because we are different, um, every generation.
00:20:45.400 I think it's too, I think it's too quick for it to be, it's too fast and too dramatic a change
00:20:49.940 for it to be, um, genetic.
00:20:51.620 I think it's mainly environmental that we, you, you, you, you just have this, this spiraling,
00:20:56.900 um, individualism where you, where you question everything and things that are previously,
00:21:01.900 uh, but completely unacceptable are now acceptable.
00:21:05.240 Um, I mean, gender dysphoria, there was one study which found that 57% of people, uh, who,
00:21:10.060 who have gender dysphoria fit the criteria for narcissistic personality disorder and 81%
00:21:15.120 have some kind of personality disorder, normally borderline personality disorder.
00:21:19.000 So, so that, that's, that's how prevalent it is.
00:21:22.680 Um, only 20% of them don't have a personality disorder.
00:21:26.020 Um, and so, so yeah, I think it's, it, it is growing because it's, it's more acceptable
00:21:31.820 and it's, it's, it's a way of playing for status.
00:21:34.980 Um, it may be a way of making sense of a sort of a gay phase, um, particularly with this sudden
00:21:41.460 onset, uh, gender dysphoria, which there was a paper on by someone called Littman a few
00:21:46.260 years ago, which was very controversial. And that seems to be mainly among teenage girls.
00:21:51.720 And so it's almost like teenage girls are going through because remember sexuality in
00:21:56.460 girls is only 0.2 to do with genetics. So it's overwhelming to do with environment and
00:22:01.220 in England and whatever, they have these all girls schools. And so they go through, you
00:22:05.380 know, they have the little sort of lesbian issues feelings, which in the past they would
00:22:09.480 have just, it would be a phase. You don't talk about it. It's totally unacceptable and you
00:22:12.980 get over it and that's that. And now of course they're encouraged to act upon
00:22:16.080 them, but no, no, it's not even homosexual. It could be what, maybe I'm actually a man
00:22:19.580 and there've been instances of, of, of entire girl friendship groups. So in days of old
00:22:26.520 would just be anorexic. Um, in the nineties, it's the, yeah, the nineties, but now in the
00:22:33.060 2000s, they're anorexia is it's like wearing combat trousers or whatever. I mean, it's just
00:22:39.260 so no one's anorexic anymore. Get with the modern day, get into the 21st century. And it
00:22:44.520 seems that the, and, um, it seemed, uh, it seems that the same people, uh, who would
00:22:49.860 have been, uh, who was it? Uh, the, the, the, someone, someone mentioned this. I've got
00:22:53.760 is it drunk a bit blank on his name. Steve Saylor, uh, I mentioned this actually in one of his
00:22:58.340 articles. It's the same people that used to be anorexic that are now, uh, that are now
00:23:03.420 and they go through a phase. And then of course the problem is that they're now encouraged because
00:23:07.500 it's an identity to act on it, to mutilate their bodies. And, um, if we were under normal
00:23:13.920 environment, normal conditions, then that wouldn't happen. It's terribly, terribly sad. As you know,
00:23:18.400 I have a personal experience of it. I have a good, I had a good, had a good friend, uh,
00:23:23.080 when I was at university who was, uh, eventually a male to female transsexual. And, um, he fitted
00:23:29.840 the stereotype very clearly. Uh, he was clearly autistic. He, I've done a couple of videos on him
00:23:36.120 actually, a guy called Alex Waddle. And, uh, he, he, um, fascinating guy. He, he dealt with
00:23:41.740 everything as though it was a philosophical proposition. So you'd say, Alex, you want to
00:23:45.660 come to the bar? You want to come to the pub? You want to come to the student bar? Um, so, um,
00:23:49.240 when you say you're going to go to the student bar, are you going to go there just to hang
00:23:52.600 out or are we going to have a drink? We're going to have a drink, Alex. We're going to have
00:23:55.480 a drink at the student bar. Um, so when you say a drink, are you saying just like one drink
00:24:00.000 or are we going to have many drinks? We're going to have a lot of drinks. We're going to go to the
00:24:02.740 park. I'm going to get drunk, Alex. Um, right. The thing is, I haven't got to, and it would
00:24:07.820 just go on like this. And he was very, very clever in classes and he achieved some very
00:24:11.980 interesting things. He was president of the philosophy society. And then suddenly when
00:24:14.960 he was about 21, he just suddenly decided he wanted to be a woman. And, and, uh, it went
00:24:22.520 downhill from there. Um, and it was, it was just, and he ended up dead, then up dead, but
00:24:28.540 he had all these terrible physical conditions. And when I looked into, when I looked into
00:24:32.440 it later and I've been researching it, those conditions, uh, do actually correlate with
00:24:37.420 subsequently becoming a transsexual. Transsexuality correlates with those precise, with those
00:24:42.720 precise conditions that he had, these obscure, uh, disorders, uh, which meant he had constant
00:24:47.820 back pain and, and, uh, and whatever. Um, but yeah, he, he, um, he really finished at
00:24:55.180 university. He went away for a while and then he went to Brighton University of Sussex
00:24:59.980 to a master's degree in philosophy and politics, uh, transitioned into being a woman. And then
00:25:05.220 I don't know the details, but by 2009, he was working as a prostitute in, in Brighton, uh,
00:25:11.540 which is a known like the gay capital of England basically. And, and he was working from home
00:25:17.380 and he kept thousands and thousands of pounds in his, in, in, in, in his, in his flat in
00:25:21.980 Brighton and from his money working as a prostitute. Cause he was a very good looking,
00:25:26.300 um, successful male to female transsexual, I should say. I mean, on occasions after he
00:25:31.640 had declared that he wanted to be a woman, um, I, I would be walking through Durham and
00:25:35.760 I would see this pretty blonde, tall girl over the road at a distance smiling at me.
00:25:41.120 I'm like, what's this? God, I'm in luck to, oh God, it's Alex. Um, and, and, um, and,
00:25:47.320 and, and decided that he wanted to be called Dreher and Alexandria, I suppose. And, and
00:25:53.220 all this. And then, and then eventually, yeah, he was one day, he very naively, he had no
00:25:59.300 pimp or anything. And he took the, I always think of him as he took the clients back to
00:26:03.200 his home. And I can, it seems, we're not a hundred percent sure, but it seems what happened
00:26:08.300 was there was a sky television fitter called Neil Millen or something, Neil Millen or something.
00:26:13.260 And, uh, and he said, he must've said to him something like your breasts are very
00:26:16.920 pertal, you know, very, very nice breasts. And Alex would say, well, yes, they would
00:26:20.300 be very nice because I was born a man. So the fakes, obviously they're going to look
00:26:23.860 very good. It's something like that. And so of course this guy went absolutely mad
00:26:29.020 and strangled him and then set fire to the flower. Awful. Um, and, uh, it, I, I think
00:26:37.000 it's terrible in a way for society, because I think in normal times society wouldn't
00:26:42.440 have let him do these destructive things and society would have looked after him and
00:26:48.420 would have sort of, which is what he needed. He needed someone to look after him so he
00:26:53.240 could do philosophy. That's what he needed. But no, no, society let him go off on his
00:26:58.260 own and mess up his life.
00:26:59.980 Um, in terms of the sexual attraction of transsexuals, um, I, I noted that with Caitlyn
00:27:11.480 Jenner, who is, you know, the world's most famous transsexual, um, she or he, um, is dating
00:27:21.320 another male to female transsexual. And so it's in this kind of weird way, uh, you know,
00:27:31.520 Caitlyn Jenner is still attracted to women. Um, but is that, is, is, is, what, is that
00:27:38.460 a typical relationship? I mean, what?
00:27:40.760 Yeah. Yeah. We looked at, we looked at, we looked at the data on that in the paper that
00:27:44.280 we did and that, that is the case. So these, these relations, when they transition into
00:27:48.940 being women, overtly women, they are disproportionately lesbians, like way above the percentage of what
00:27:57.180 would be lesbians among women. So, yeah. So, and that would be consistent with the evidence
00:28:03.260 that, um, they are high in masculine traits. Cause what, if you're a homosexual, if you're
00:28:08.980 attracted to the opposite sex, then, then that's, that is associated with being feminized.
00:28:13.820 People that are high in being masculinized tend to be attracted to the opposite sex. And that's
00:28:18.480 yet another marker, which is consistent with this mob. They, they do tend to be, in fact,
00:28:23.400 I know a transsexual, um, uh, uh, another one, uh, male to female transsexual. And, um, I, I met
00:28:31.020 her as a woman and she looks like a woman. So I always call her she, but she, and she once
00:28:36.120 said to me that she was, she has a girlfriend and, um, and she was, um, having sex with this
00:28:41.880 girlfriend. And she said to me that she just kept thinking to God, I wish I still had my
00:28:46.080 dick. Um, well, I think we, I think we can go into this area as well, because I, I am
00:28:53.600 hearing more and more stories about gender transition regret that ha that, that of course, you know,
00:29:02.480 if you go through a phase in high school, you know, and you haven't botched your body, then
00:29:09.100 you can be okay. But there's serious regrets among people after going through a, you know,
00:29:17.480 surgery, uh, a major genital mutilation surgery. And it just sounds extremely tragic. Uh, listening
00:29:26.100 to these people, they've made it, they've made a decision that they can't reverse. I
00:29:29.440 mean, it's, it's, it's infinitely worse than getting a bad tattoo. You could say it strikes
00:29:34.820 me. Yeah. It's true. It strikes me that you can think about narcissism and borderline personality
00:29:39.480 and whatever. And we think, we think about it in a black and white way. So people like
00:29:43.820 to say, you know, Donald Trump's a narcissist or whatever. And it's, it's as though it's as
00:29:48.700 though it's sort of, that's him and that's what he is. And he always will be, but that's
00:29:52.060 not how it works. People go through phases, um, many people of being mentally ill or unstable
00:30:01.020 or whatever. And they deal with that in various ways. And one way that it can, that they can
00:30:07.100 deal with it is by having, you know, borderline personality, narcissism, something like that.
00:30:13.360 And then eventually as they, as they get older, um, and they, they get more intelligent and their
00:30:17.980 conscientiousness goes up and their neuroticism goes down, which it does. Mental instability
00:30:22.040 goes down with age. Then, then these things can change. And it's true with, uh, fetishes
00:30:29.120 as well. A person can develop a sexual fetish and then, but that can be, and it does become
00:30:34.320 less powerful with age. So it's perfectly possible that they could have, um, a sexual fetish at
00:30:41.460 a certain age in their lives, and then it would weaken considerably later on. And so these are
00:30:47.100 the kind of things that may well be happening with these people. They may well be going through
00:30:50.600 a phase of mental instability resulting in narcissism and a fetish and whatever. And, um, and then
00:30:57.780 as they get older, they, they grow out of it and they're mentally more stable and they're
00:31:04.520 sexually more normal. And then they deeply regret what they've done. Yeah. But, but we can't,
00:31:11.620 and, and, and, and so it strikes me that in a way of responsible society would understand
00:31:16.860 that, um, um, and would, would not allow them, you could argue to, to do this, but, but we,
00:31:25.840 yeah, because I think what is truly disturbing and shocking, I mean, if, if it were only Caitlyn
00:31:33.780 Jenner or if it were only some just, you know, stupid person, I remember the, um, I've been
00:31:40.880 a homebody for 2020, but, um, I, I did do one driving trip and I was driving across the
00:31:46.460 Midwest from Chicago here. And I was actually, I think I was in Wisconsin. I was in some really
00:31:51.820 small kind of podunk town in Wisconsin and I was getting gas, filling up the tank. And
00:31:58.160 I went in to go get a coffee or a bag of chips or something. And, uh, at this small little
00:32:03.740 town where you see a bunch of, you know, bearded, uh, truck drivers and, you know, all these kinds
00:32:09.680 of, you know, real earthy types. And, um, this man came in with his daughter and he was, you
00:32:18.300 know, overweight, didn't look particularly interesting in any way, but he was there with his teenage
00:32:25.460 daughter and he was dressed up basically like a female porn star. You know, he, he, he was
00:32:32.880 wearing just tight, you know, this guy is not in shape yet. He's wearing all this just
00:32:37.300 tight, like hot pink garb or something. And I, I remember I was, I was just walking past
00:32:44.120 him and I, I was at the, uh, the, um, uh, you know, cashier lady and we were just kind
00:32:49.620 of looking at each other and we, we didn't even have to say anything. I was just kind of
00:32:53.960 like, what has happened to this world? How is this even possible? Like I'm in rural
00:32:59.400 Wisconsin and I'm encountering these freaks. Um, you know, I can't you guys just be boring
00:33:07.080 again? I mean, it's just, it was just bizarre. And I, and I think, you know, the, where it's
00:33:12.800 really disturbing, it's in, in that case where he's doing that around his teenage daughter.
00:33:16.720 I mean, if he wants to go get his freak on of the weekend, then whatever, but, uh, he's
00:33:22.640 exposing, you know, malleable minds to this, but I think even worse. Oh, go ahead.
00:33:29.600 I was going to say that there was a study. It's quite an old study now. I haven't seen
00:33:33.140 anything done recently on it, which I came across recently from the seventies, which found
00:33:38.180 that people that are transsexual, of course, this is based on a tiny sample. I mean, this
00:33:42.540 is the seventies, um, are more, are more intelligent. They have elevated intelligence and that, and
00:33:49.240 that also seems to be true of homosexuals, that they have elevated intelligence compared to
00:33:53.320 heterosexuals. And we can speculate on why that might be. And one of the things I, I guess
00:33:58.680 is perhaps the correlation between an intelligence and openness. So you're just more open to bizarre
00:34:03.660 things in a way that you wouldn't otherwise be ideas including, right? Exactly. Um, you,
00:34:09.940 so you're, you're more open to this kind of thing and a more lower in sort of instinctiveness
00:34:14.340 and just instinctive gut reactions. Another thing is people that are intelligent are more,
00:34:18.740 um, thoughtful, I suppose, in some ways. And so therefore that they are in that sense,
00:34:24.420 they think too much. And there is an association between very high intelligence and autism as well.
00:34:30.640 And so then this can make very, very high intelligent people like just the, which is it
00:34:35.020 better to be an unhappy Socrates or a happy pig? You know, you are definitely an unhappy Socrates.
00:34:39.400 And so you might think too much and then you start, what's the point of my life? Who am I? And then
00:34:44.200 you start, Oh, maybe I'm a woman. And I can see how this kind of might've been true with my
00:34:49.480 friend, Alex. This is exactly what was going on. And, um, and I mean, another example, I was on the
00:34:56.600 plane and coming back from America in about 2016. And, uh, it was a very rocky flight. It was very,
00:35:04.200 I was really horrible. I don't like flying at the best of times, but it's horrible. And I was next to
00:35:09.180 this male to female transsexual who was a Canadian, but who was a waitress, uh, wait in, um, um,
00:35:16.080 New York and who looked like a transsexual. I mean, there's no question about it. And I,
00:35:22.780 I, um, noticed she, she, she introduced herself to me as Collie. And then I saw, I saw the, him,
00:35:30.420 her show the passport to the passport or something to this guy. And, and it's a Colin. And so I,
00:35:38.460 after judicial pause, I just said, so when did Colin become Collie?
00:35:41.720 And then, um, this, this person was quite happy to, you know, chat about this very intelligent
00:35:48.460 person and reasonable person, but for some reason she couldn't quite make sense of this
00:35:55.340 felt like the right thing to do at quite a late age.
00:35:59.120 No, but the thing that is disturbing about it, I mean, again, you know, if, if this were just
00:36:06.260 some weird thing or some, you know, isolated individual, it's not a big deal, but, um, particularly
00:36:14.420 where gender reassignment surgery is happening among young people. And you would of course agree
00:36:21.820 as, as a father yourself. I mean, you know, my daughter thought she was a dinosaur for, for a while.
00:36:28.420 I mean, it's inherent to being young that you're asking questions like, who am I? What am I?
00:36:34.920 What does this all mean? You know, kind of thing. You're, you're inherently going through
00:36:38.900 phases of, of alienation and identity changes. You're going through puberty. You don't know what
00:36:44.540 you're feeling. Um, it it's, it's natural. And the fact that a parent would, you know, take some
00:36:52.800 isolated moment that might, that is probably very genuine of questioning who I am or going,
00:36:59.640 going through a weird puberty phase or whatever, and take that moment and then botch their child
00:37:06.700 in a way that is all but irreversible, just seems so shockingly immoral that I, I, it's hard for me
00:37:16.660 to put into words actually how angry it makes me that this is allowed, that this is actually legal,
00:37:24.580 not just legal, but applauded and celebrated. There was a recent case where Joe Biden, our
00:37:29.320 new president was at some LGBT town hall. And there was some just goofy, you know, librarian
00:37:36.360 looking woman who was just grinning, thinking how progressive she is. Oh, look, I've just gender
00:37:41.420 reassigned my son. Uh, it's just, it's, it is truly grotesque and horrifying. And I, I, I, I,
00:37:49.860 I guess maybe my, my question is, is also kind of this, um, you know, I, I don't discount all that
00:37:59.280 you've talked about in terms of core, you know, strong correlations with, um, medical conditions,
00:38:06.220 personality disorders. Uh, but do you think there's maybe even something a little,
00:38:10.840 I guess you could say strategic at play here. Um, you know, it's like the cuckoo will lay
00:38:18.300 its egg in another bird's nest and it will actually insidiously get that bird to raise
00:38:24.160 its young to, you'll get the other bird to engage in parental investment in its young
00:38:28.260 in nature. There are ways of camouflage and trickery and so on that goes on. Um, do you think
00:38:36.020 that, you know, there's an environmental factor, let's say for that woman who went to Joe Biden,
00:38:41.860 she looks like just a tedious, boring woman. And now she feels like a hero because she's part of
00:38:48.740 this new wave. And even for a, say a white male, you know, for a white male, how do you join the
00:38:54.860 diversity gravy train? Well, you, you know, you can become gay, but even becoming gay is now getting
00:39:00.580 old. You know, that that's passe. Now you can kind of be a woman and enter into the world of diversity
00:39:09.380 and shaming other people disagree with you and so on, all of these perks and that there, there,
00:39:18.340 this, there's almost a kind of, for lack of a better word, strategic quality to all this that's
00:39:26.500 happening. Yeah, I think that's probably right. I think so. If you, if what we should make sense
00:39:32.720 of it in terms of is kind of runaway individualism. So throughout history, humans are evolved to be
00:39:40.480 pack animal. And in that sense, they have pack instincts, but they are evolved to ascend to the
00:39:44.960 top of the pack. And in that sense, they have individual, individualizing instincts because
00:39:49.920 it's only in prehistory. It's only if you're at the top of the pack, particularly if you're male,
00:39:53.600 that you get any women. So, so you can see and pass on your genes. So you have, we have these two sets
00:39:58.740 of instincts. And so one of the things that you get under conditions of group selection,
00:40:03.780 when two groups are fighting each other, which has been the case until relatively recently, is
00:40:07.860 you can't become too individualistic because if you become too individualistic,
00:40:12.000 then the group falls apart and can't break the united front. But you also can't become too group
00:40:17.220 oriented because if you become too group oriented, maybe you suppress genius and original ideas and
00:40:21.940 that's no good either. And so you have to have a balance between the two. Now, if you take away group
00:40:27.360 selection, you just get runaway individualism. And so you start off by, let's say, questioning the
00:40:32.640 religious dogmas. And then from there, you question whether God exists. And then from there,
00:40:36.900 you're advocating nihilism or whatever. And you can see how this works with sexuality. It becomes,
00:40:44.080 and there's nothing to stop it. And so at some point, once you start having individualistic ideas,
00:40:50.000 which are anti your own fitness interests, that can perfectly conceivably happen. The individualism
00:40:55.760 instinct doesn't care about fitness. The fitness comes about as a consequence of the relationship
00:41:01.760 between the individualism instinct and other selection pressures. Take away the selection
00:41:06.700 pressures, off it goes. And so it doesn't matter if these people are damaging their own fitness and
00:41:12.120 meaning they can't have children or damaging society's fitness or whatever. What matters is that they're
00:41:15.820 winning in the individualistic battle to be at the top of the hierarchy. That's what matters.
00:41:20.200 And that's your right. And so one way they could do that, if they're men, is by becoming women. Oh,
00:41:27.060 I can't be a successful sports star as a man. Become a woman. Yeah. Or if you're a woman,
00:41:36.300 how can I get in on this? Oh, I'll have a transsexual child. Some people could argue that's a bit like
00:41:42.280 Munchausen syndrome by proxy. You're like, you're like doing this to your child. It's like abuse.
00:41:48.440 Yeah.
00:41:49.320 And I would agree with that. And also, I would expect women to be particularly messed up in
00:41:54.420 these circumstances because they're evolved to patriarchy and patriarchy is collapsed.
00:41:58.380 So this will mean that they'll make independent decisions, which will be potentially extremely
00:42:02.640 bad and damaging. So yeah, I think you're right that there could be an element to which that,
00:42:09.580 with some people anyway, that that is, that is what is going on, that you, you can, Eddie Izzard,
00:42:14.660 for example, is a comedian in the UK, which is very funny, or used to be funny. And his big thing was,
00:42:20.980 oh, I'm a transvestite, I'm a transvestite. And now, and now he's also rich background,
00:42:27.180 privately educated, whatever, but I'm a transvestite. And now you suddenly decided, oh, he's, you know,
00:42:33.040 he's, he's a she and all this stuff. And it's a way of, of his career is on the downer.
00:42:40.340 Is he a Dame Edna?
00:42:42.340 No, that's a different person. A Dame Edna ever was just a transvestite.
00:42:45.300 That's just a, just a transvestite.
00:42:46.260 I always found him point, yeah. I point to that character.
00:42:50.640 Yeah, well, that's, no, he's just a, he's just a bloke that likes dressing up in women's clothes.
00:42:53.840 He's just, yeah.
00:42:55.080 Well, this is, okay, well, finish your point and then I'll add another.
00:42:58.220 No, no, I was just going to say that you, I agree with you that you can see how,
00:43:01.900 I mean, an element of it could therefore become playing for status with a transsexuality.
00:43:06.800 Yeah, yeah, which is, and in playing for status is an evolved behavior if there ever was one.
00:43:13.120 But yeah, I mean, I think this is another thing.
00:43:15.720 I mean, that, I think that was kind of the darker element to that, that, that a, you know,
00:43:20.820 a boring woman will transition her child for attention or status and, and permanently botch
00:43:29.640 him or her.
00:43:30.380 It is truly sad.
00:43:31.980 I think there's a kind of lighter element.
00:43:33.940 I mean, I mentioned Dame Edna or so on.
00:43:37.140 And I, I mentioned earlier at the beginning that transvestitism, or if you want to call
00:43:41.720 that transgenderism, has often taken place in the context of camp or theater.
00:43:47.400 I mean, it, you know, and some of the greatest pieces of literature ever written, um, some
00:43:53.860 of the most fully fleshed out female characters like Cleopatra or Rosalind or Ophelia were played
00:44:00.060 by men in the Globe Theater.
00:44:01.420 And, and, and Shakespeare would kind of sometimes throw in some, you know, uh, self-aware jokes
00:44:06.860 about that, but he, he was depicting a female character.
00:44:10.280 Um, but also, uh, transvestitism is, you know, it's a fetish, but it's also kind of fun.
00:44:16.920 It's, it's part of, you know, Saturday Night Live, one of the great characters, the church
00:44:21.100 lady, uh, whenever, um, I remember being in, in college that we would always do sketches
00:44:27.100 or something.
00:44:27.820 I did this in graduate school as well.
00:44:29.140 And you would, I, I remember impersonating one of the professors and I put on a wig and
00:44:33.500 did all this kind of funny stuff and everyone was rolling in the aisles.
00:44:36.360 This was, um, 2003.
00:44:39.300 So this was before our great awakening on this subject.
00:44:42.120 I think all of that kind of stuff is probably now impossible.
00:44:45.080 If a man put on a wig and spoken falsetto and did this kind of, you know, mocking impersonation
00:44:52.700 of a woman, I think he might be called out, uh, for misgendering or, or just, you know,
00:44:59.940 cultural appropriation or, or, uh, shaming of the trans community.
00:45:04.620 Uh, it, it does seem in this way that when you, when we create these identities out of
00:45:11.540 things, um, it, it suppresses a lot of culture, um, whether that's, you know, low body culture
00:45:19.960 or whether that's, you know, Shakespeare or whether it's just fun, um, that we, we kind
00:45:25.940 of can't experience these things because of the puritanical suffocating aspect of identity
00:45:34.120 politics.
00:45:36.040 Um, yes, that's, that's a fair summary.
00:45:39.040 I mean, so much comedy.
00:45:40.240 I mean, even I was watching friends the other day with my wife and you keep thinking, oh,
00:45:44.520 they wouldn't do that now.
00:45:45.440 They wouldn't do that now.
00:45:46.440 They wouldn't.
00:45:46.940 It's, it's too real.
00:45:48.100 It's, it's, it's, that was heavy laden in the sort of left wing proto woke propaganda.
00:45:54.640 But even so they could, they know it was too realistic.
00:45:57.880 It was too much like life is like that men have jokes about gays.
00:46:02.940 Yeah.
00:46:03.640 Men don't want to go out with ugly women, men, you know, women like life is like that.
00:46:09.540 And what you increasingly, it's a group of friends and they're all white and life in
00:46:15.020 New York.
00:46:15.820 I've been there many times.
00:46:17.100 It's definitely like that.
00:46:18.560 I mean, you'll go in a restaurant and there might be black people and Hispanic people
00:46:22.100 and white people in them, but they'll be at separate tables.
00:46:24.900 Yeah.
00:46:25.420 Um, and, and, uh, perhaps it's the Asians that will cross over.
00:46:29.900 They'll be at the white table.
00:46:31.200 They're honorary white, but, but it's, it's, it's, yeah.
00:46:34.320 And it's too like life is like, and even though they did these nods to it, like Ross has a
00:46:40.540 girlfriend of pretty much every race while he's in friends and whatever.
00:46:45.780 Um, it's just too realistic and they can't cope with that.
00:46:49.380 They can't cope with reality, reality.
00:46:52.220 They're these neurotic people who they, they can't cope with reality.
00:46:56.320 Reality is horrible.
00:46:57.300 Experience reality is horrible.
00:46:58.980 And they want to be shown this, what they see is this idealized world where wise black
00:47:06.540 judges and, and they want to do all they can to make the world into that.
00:47:10.580 And they don't understand the consequences that will have either.
00:47:13.380 And it's, it's, it's, I, I can't, I don't know how much longer it can spiral for before
00:47:18.960 people, the sense of dysphoria that people feel most people is strong.
00:47:24.860 It's so strong that, that, that, that, that you start to get serious kickback.
00:47:29.540 I don't know how, but it's, it's, uh, I think a lot of, you'll just get increasingly people
00:47:33.700 being very, very angry.
00:47:35.580 Well, there is, I mean, there's tons of kickback.
00:47:38.120 We, we have people just, you know, the other week, I think there's tons of kickback, but
00:47:45.060 it kind of doesn't go anywhere.
00:47:46.920 It's always a losing argument.
00:47:49.020 And I, I think people are tired of the identity politics, the, the transgender stuff that, you
00:47:56.200 know, I mean, again, the, the homosexuality is almost passe at this point.
00:48:00.440 Um, but it can't go anywhere because the, the, the left, if we want to call it that, I'm
00:48:07.140 not, you know, it's bigger than that, but it's, it is on the ascendancy.
00:48:11.100 It is creating a religion of itself.
00:48:13.940 It is a hegemonic force and you can kind of yell at it and get mad at it or think it's
00:48:20.980 stupid or make fun of it, but you're ultimately going to lose.
00:48:24.380 And you're ultimately, you know, maybe 10 years too late, you're ultimately going to
00:48:28.780 be in line with its dictates.
00:48:32.300 Um, I mean, so much of the Trump, I mean, yeah, the Trump movement, they raided the Capitol.
00:48:37.340 They went mad.
00:48:38.020 I mean, I have never seen such public displays, public celebrations of gay pride or transsexuality
00:48:48.800 in any political movement than I saw in the Trump 2020 campaign.
00:48:53.060 It's just a fact.
00:48:54.380 Uh, they, they got on board, they were five years too late or whatever.
00:48:59.560 And, and of course the left doesn't like it and it thinks it's fake or it's, you know,
00:49:03.980 um, strategic or whatever.
00:49:06.520 Uh, but they, you know, there, there can be a backlash, but that backlash is just always
00:49:11.840 going to lose because it doesn't have a, that religious component that the left now has,
00:49:17.980 uh, in the sense that it is, you know, it's, it's not just kind of politically incorrect
00:49:23.460 or whatever it is immoral.
00:49:26.020 Uh, you are going to hell symbolically, or maybe even literally in some of their minds.
00:49:31.800 If you question their agenda, they have the power of belief behind them in the way that
00:49:37.340 the right has the power of the knee jerk or the backlash that, that ultimately isn't that
00:49:43.800 powerful.
00:49:44.300 It ultimately comes to heal.
00:49:47.060 So I, I, 20 years ago, you could say, Oh, is political correctness is out of control.
00:49:52.480 It can't get any worse.
00:49:54.200 It can get to the point where it normalizes and tries to render acceptable pedophilia.
00:50:04.860 That might be the point.
00:50:07.300 That might be the next thing.
00:50:09.920 And there are people pushing for that.
00:50:11.900 And in, in much the same way that 20 years ago or 10 years ago, this whole transsexual
00:50:16.300 thing was considered ludicrous and utterly fringe.
00:50:19.640 That is so now, and that will be their next, that is the next thing that, and they're starting
00:50:25.760 it.
00:50:25.960 You see it, the, the, the, the exposing children to these, these, and so, um, that I think is,
00:50:34.920 is, is surely the next thing.
00:50:36.520 And I think the problem is that, that, uh, Corona has kind of got in the way of their ability
00:50:40.800 to do that.
00:50:41.520 We've got other concerns.
00:50:43.200 So if Corona ever goes away, then they can, cause that's what myself and people were discussing
00:50:48.080 before Corona came along, which was this normalization of child abuse.
00:50:51.480 And that's what I think is the next, because they don't, they, everything is questioned.
00:50:54.800 You question everything.
00:50:56.020 You create dysphoria.
00:50:57.240 And one of the things that they have started to question is the divide between, you question
00:51:01.200 the divide between male and female, between black and white, between all of these things
00:51:04.940 that make sense of the world and then, um, and make, uh, make sense of the world in a pot,
00:51:08.900 in a, in a useful way.
00:51:10.080 Well, the next one to do is to question the divide between being an adult and being a child.
00:51:14.440 Right.
00:51:14.540 And to say, and this is start, what, what right have you got to tell the child is, where
00:51:19.360 do you draw the line between adult and child?
00:51:21.040 What do you mean by child?
00:51:22.220 It's a social construct.
00:51:24.580 And, you know, I, I would say that that is the line where it can go, go no further, but
00:51:31.300 I don't know.
00:51:31.920 I mean, what is worse or more shocking child abuse or gender reassignment?
00:51:39.060 I mean, it's all, I mean, we're already, we're already so far gone that I don't, I don't even
00:51:47.520 know.
00:51:47.940 I mean, it, I, I'm not sure that would be the limit now there, there has been liberals
00:51:54.120 have kind of done things in their way of, you could say, normalizing child abuse in
00:52:01.320 this way.
00:52:01.960 They, they've certainly, they've already normalized, you know, gender reassignment for children,
00:52:06.060 but they've normalized child abuse in the sense of like, well, let's, let's listen to the
00:52:10.440 pedophile and, you know, try to think about what he means and so on.
00:52:14.400 And, and, and I think there's some good in that.
00:52:17.040 I think you should try to understand something, uh, even if it is horrifying.
00:52:21.260 Um, but yeah, I do agree that that is the next frontier.
00:52:25.280 I mean, that's almost where they have to go inevitably.
00:52:29.860 Um, I, I don't, you know, bestiality, I, I don't know.
00:52:34.840 Um, but yeah, interesting times.
00:52:40.920 Well, bestiality is even in that case, I don't think backlash politics will ever solve it
00:52:46.920 because again, it's, it's just a backlash.
00:52:49.840 I mean, when, when is the backlash of the knee jerk really won out over the power of
00:52:54.580 hegemonic religious belief?
00:52:57.340 You have to, what you said about Trump, what you said about Trump, that wasn't a backlash
00:53:04.540 with a lot of these people.
00:53:05.560 That was religious belief.
00:53:08.300 As misguided as you might think it is.
00:53:12.020 That was definitely religious.
00:53:13.720 I agree.
00:53:14.140 And that's what really shook him up.
00:53:17.160 I mean, a serious, really, I mean, that, that was also a scam.
00:53:21.560 I mean, it was this weird, I mean, yeah, but I, I mean to re in it, in it never QAnon,
00:53:27.820 never fun.
00:53:28.660 I mean, QAnon was salacious and, and it demonized liberals, but it never really undermined them.
00:53:37.620 QAnon is a liberal religion at the end of the day.
00:53:40.240 It's about, you know, freedom and individualism and so on.
00:53:44.460 It's just a kind of older version of, of liberalism.
00:53:47.580 So they think it's right wing.
00:53:49.740 I mean that it, it, the only way, so it is a backlash.
00:53:53.880 The only way to change it is to attack it at its core.
00:53:58.940 And that means attacking liberalism at its core.
00:54:01.460 And on also engaging it with your own hegemonic religious belief.
00:54:05.500 That is the only way to defeat these horrible people.
00:54:12.780 And the things they did to Alex.
00:54:16.040 Against the
00:54:25.460 Against the
00:54:41.120 We'll be right back.
00:55:11.120 We'll be right back.