EZRA LEVANT ｜ UK police crack down on catcalling while rape crisis rages on
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The United Kingdom has a rape problem, but to distract from the real source of the problem, the UK police are sending out women, attractive women, in tight-fitting jogging outfits, and then capturing anyone who catcalls them. And then the police jump in. It s a crazy non-crime exercise to distract the actual rape crimes in that country.
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Hello, my friends. The United Kingdom has a massive rape problem, but to distract from
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the real source of the problem, the UK police are sending out women, attractive women, in
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tight-fitting jogging outfits and then capturing anyone who catcalls them. I've got the video
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to prove it. But first, let me invite you to become a subscriber to what we call Rebel
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News Plus. It's the video version of this podcast. And I'd like you to see these joggers.
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They're going out jogging. They're sort of, they're not quite supermodels or anything,
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but they're very pretty policewomen who are going out jogging to trap men into whistling
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or complimenting them or even honking their horns. And then the police jump in. It's a crazy
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non-crime exercise to distract from the actual rape crimes in that country.
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Tonight, Britain has become Europe's rape capital, but police have bigger crimes to investigate,
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including honking at pretty women. It's August 14th, and this is the Ezra LeVance Show.
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You're ready for freedom. Shame on you, you censorious bug.
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I keep watching those migrant hotels in the UK that I visited a few weeks ago. There was one in
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a small town called Epping that now has another alleged rape committed by a migrant resident in
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the hotel there. This craziness isn't stopping. And in London, you might remember I went to Canary
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Wharf, which is really a fancy financial sector neighborhood. They've taken over a four-star hotel.
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There's protesters there. And one man who, I have to say, looked demonic. He broke into the country
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a couple of weeks ago. And then yesterday, he broke into someone's house. Take a look.
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This is the guy. This is him. He's been trying to walk into a girl's house on the IOD. We watched
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her chase him. Now he's trying to cover his face. Look. Police, police. We caught you, mate. We
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caught you. We caught you. This man in this vehicle, this man in this vehicle has just entered a lady's
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property without her consent. And these officers have said it's not an offence. They're letting
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him go. They're letting him go. Officer, how is that? How is that not an offence? How is
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it not an offence entering someone's house? Regardless, she didn't want him in the house.
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So he was chased out before he could harm the children. Walked into the house, walked into
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the bathroom. He was chased out before he could do anything. Police said, oh, well, since
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he didn't do anything, it's not an arrestable offence. They actually said that. Take a look.
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You guys are quite unhappy about it. But we have no allegation to arrest people. Okay? I understand
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that. That's not something you want to hear. But obviously, there's only so many people here.
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Obviously, she's the main person there. And she does want to arrest people. She does want
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to arrest people. She does want to arrest people. She does want to arrest people.
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What's the allegation to arrest people? What's the allegation to arrest people?
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Here's a couple of lads who were there on the scene. Upon leaving Tiller Road, we turn right
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into Bing Street to where we see a lady leaving her property and an illegal immigrant who we
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recently see, just before that, leaving the hotel. We pull over. He's trying to gain entrance
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into the lady's house to where we say to the man, like, what are you doing? He decides to
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run, nearly getting hit by the car that we're in. We follow him up the road to where we jump
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out and say, like, mate, what are you doing? You can't be doing this sort of stuff. He runs
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up the road to Marshall where we follow him. We then detain him. We don't touch him. We
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phone the police and we say to the police, like, come down. This is what's happened.
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They turn up. Once they turn up, this is where the two-tier policing comes into play. They
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turn up. And when they turn up, they tell us that they can't arrest a man because of it's
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only trespassing. He didn't say anything. He didn't want to touch anything in their property,
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which they don't know because of the girl managed to get him out of her property. They
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put the man in their vehicle and drive him to return him to the Britannia Hotel on the
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Isle of Dogs, Canary Wolf. We then get down there. And then when we get down there, that's
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where all the two-tier policing starts. They say they can't arrest a man through trespassing,
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not being a criminal offence, a civil matter. What's he doing in there? What's he doing in
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the property in the first place? What's his intentions of going into their house? And
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then once we get down there, they then started issuing, what was this? Section 35. So the
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old bill said, you've got to leave the property and you can't come back to two o'clock in the
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morning. You might find this hard to believe, but the migrant was not charged, but the home
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owner was because she wouldn't disperse. Just absolute two-tier policing. And we're starting
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to get that way in Canada too, aren't we? Imagine saying trespass is not an arrestable
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offense. I really worry for the United Kingdom. By the way, I'm very excited about this news.
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We have a new contributor from the UK. That way I don't have to fly over there all the time,
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even though I love it. Emma Dunwell did this demo video for us, which I love so much. We published
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it here. We won't run the whole thing. You can watch it on our channel, but I think she's doing
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a great job. Take a look at this. This is Emma Dunwell reporting for Rebel News. And today I am
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in Waterlooville near Portsmouth, and I'm just outside of Boots on London Street, the flats above
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which were proposed by the Home Office to be used to house 35 asylum seekers. This then faced
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massive local backlash that turned national with figures like Suella Braverman calling it an
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inappropriate decision. And a protest was held about two weeks ago where about 2,000 people turned
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up calling the decision undemocratic. The Home Office, since the protest, has reversed their decision
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I don't agree with anything at all with illegal immigration. Illegal immigration is what it
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says. It is illegal and nothing is done about it. These people aren't vetted. We don't know
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what they've done, where they've come from, whether they're criminals or not. But these are
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illegal migrants and they are not refugees. I won't walk through a park in the daytime.
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And I think the priorities are wrong. I think we should be housing our own homeless first
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because they're the ones that paid the taxes. I think they should start putting Britain first,
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British people first, and then not. That's Emma Dunwell. And I hope to have a lot more videos
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from her. She's a young woman who's doing citizen journalism. I think she's got a really good style
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job. And hopefully she can be our feet on the ground. I'll still go over there from time to
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time, of course. But I think she's doing a great job. The United Kingdom has something unusual
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in the West. And I'm sorry to talk about it. Whenever I talk about it, I feel like it's a
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little bit gross. It's an adult conversation. It's about something called a rape gang.
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In North America, we have rape. Typically, it's a smash and grab situation or someone trapped in a
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situation. And it's a one-off. It could be random. It's terrible. It's horrific. In North America,
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you hear help, rape, and men go to help the woman victim. In the United Kingdom, they have a different
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phenomenon that I hope we are unfamiliar with in Canada. I hope it never comes here. It is the rape
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gang. Tens, 20, 30 men raping together or consecutively, the same girls night after night.
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So it's not a random mugging style smash and grab. It is young children, as young as 11, 12 years old
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girls who are tricked and groomed and extorted. And then they're forced to have sex with a gang of men
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every night, sometimes for years. You may have seen this image that I've shown before. It's the
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front page of a newspaper when 1,400 girls in the small city of Rotherham, UK, about 100,000 people
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were raped for years by overwhelmingly Pakistani Muslim men. How does it happen? How does it happen
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that men would rape together as a dark team? Well, part of it comes from the rape culture
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in Pakistan. The fact that there's a high level of trust and secrecy amongst the men because of clan
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ties, because of cousin marriage, believe it or not. I mean, who could you possibly just engage in a
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dark thought experiment? If you were to commit such a horrific crime, really a crime tantamount to
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murder, could you name one other person, let alone 5 or 10 or 20 or 30, that would commit this most
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diabolical crime with you night after night and keep the secret with you? It's unthinkable in Western
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society. And by the way, in Rotherham, policemen got in on it. Politicians got in on it. It's
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something specific to Pakistani Muslim culture. And I know that sounds very racist. I don't think
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it's racist. It's not the race that's the issue. It's the cultural practices. Here's a story. I wrote
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about this back in 2014 for the Toronto Sun. Let me read the first couple of paragraphs.
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Pakistan's troubling rape problem was my headline. This was published in September, 2014.
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There are 1.5 million street kids in Pakistan, and estimated 90% of them have been sexually abused
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at some point in their lives. Rape in Pakistan is so common, it's barely taboo. Last week, the Daily
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Mail interviewed a bus driver from Peshawar, who says after his shift is over, he likes to go into
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the slums and rape street kids. It was a shocking story in the Daily Mail. Sometimes he pays them a
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dollar, but often he doesn't. He just joins in a big gang rape. Quote, once there was a boy on the bus
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and everyone had sex with him, he told the Daily Mail. I did it too, but what else could I do? They
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invited me. And he was that kind of boy anyways. He says he's raped 12 different children. This wasn't
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a solitary rapist hiding in the shadows, afraid of being seen or being caught. This was men joining
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together, unworried about social norms, unworried about someone stopping them. A poll of 1,800 Pakistani
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men found that a third don't think raping street kids is a crime. And they don't even think it's a
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bad thing to do. It's a story I wrote 11 years ago when I barely had heard about Rotherham. But do you
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understand the phenomenon I'm talking about? Rape is so shocking, so taboo, such a heinous crime.
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It's a capital crime in various parts of the West. But the idea that you would commit it just with
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other people and you wouldn't tell on them and they wouldn't tell on you and you would join together
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to commit the crime. It's so unthinkable in the West. But these grooming gangs, as they're
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misleadingly called, exist en masse in the UK. And that is why the UK has amongst the highest rape
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rate in the world. It's not Welshman or Englishman or Scots. It's the mass migration from rape culture
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countries. And finally in the UK, women are leading the counter-protest. Women are standing up
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Just outside of a tiny hotel. Now you've kicked off what's being called, you know, the pink
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ladies movement. We've seen it obviously started here last Sunday. I know it's spread to Epping.
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I think other places are picking up as well. But also women and children, you know, the mothers
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and grandmothers who've come out to protest against, you know, migrants who committing sexual
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assault and stuff. Like, are you glad to see the movements growing?
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Yeah, it's great that it's took a momentum and the other groups, you know, other areas are
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hooking on. Basically, it's, it's, we don't hate these people. I don't know these people. I can't
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hate someone I don't know. What I hate, what I hate is the system. That they could go walk
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freely. And they're all undocumented men. Yeah, in their 20s and 30s. They haven't, they haven't
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been with a woman for donkeys, well, months and months and months and months. And you're letting
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them out with our girls who they don't respect. You see? And that's our worry.
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So that's the UK. But you know all of that. That's what we've been reporting about. But look
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at this. Here's some news from Surrey, not Surrey BC, the original Surrey in the UK.
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These women aren't friends out for a run. They're actually undercover police officers
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taking to the streets in Surrey as part of a new operation trying to stop people catcalling
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and harassing female runners. We get honked at, they're staring, they're hanging out of
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the window just to look at us and it just, it's so, so, so prevalent. And police teams are
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ready to intervene the moment the officers are beeped at, followed or shouted at, pulling
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Those kind of behaviours may not be criminal offences in themselves, but they still need
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to be addressed. And of course, the people that are likely to commit those kind of behaviours.
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Oh really? Here's another video from the Surrey police. Take a look.
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Hi, I'm Abby. I'm going out on my evening run, afternoon run. I enjoy running. I'm trying
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to get fitter and trying to get a bit more cardio done. What happens if I do get catcalled?
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I feel diminished. I feel, it's just, I just feel uncomfortable. It just makes me feel a
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little bit like, what are they getting out of it? It makes me feel uneasy. And then instantly
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it's just ruined my run. I just don't want to, I just, yeah.
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My name is P.C. Abby Hayward. I work out of North Division. So I'm on Runnymede Safer
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Neighbourhood team. So the change I'd like to see is for people to recognise that it's
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not right. It's not just a small act. It's a thing that can make someone feel really quite
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uncomfortable. So I think it's important Surrey Police are taking it so serious. It's one
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of our forced priorities. And for me, that makes me feel proud to work for Surrey Police,
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because for me, it's such a personal experience. And I know for a lot of other, if not all other
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women who experience it. You know, being grabbed off the streets
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and raped in a dark corner, that is a problem, but it's not as widespread as the grooming gangs
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who go after vulnerable children again and again. This idea that joggers, though, should
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be able to jog in skin tight Lululemon clothing without anyone winking at them or saying, what's
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up baby or other catcalling? That is not threats, not, you know, crimes, just hooting and hollering
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or whistling. The idea that that should be a police priority in an age of gang rapes is
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a luxury belief. The police should stop catcalling as opposed to fighting real crime, especially
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rapes. It's not actually policing at all, is it? It's so obviously a misdirection. Look
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over there. Stop talking about rapes from rape gang. Stop talking about migrant rapes. Look
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over there. Some pretty girls are jogging and some white guy whistled at her. Cops go after
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that. What a crazy story the United Kingdom has become. Stay with us for more.
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It is human nature to be aware of dangerous things. We teach this to children. Beware of
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strangers, stranger danger. It's a natural instinct. Fear is an important emotion over the generations.
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It is a evolutionary strategy to stay safe. And there's nothing more innate than parents
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protecting children from other predators, including other adults who would have their way with them.
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And one of the tactics that is necessary by people who take advantage of young children
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is to defeat that natural reflex, that defensiveness, that revulsion or fear when an adult presents
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himself in an inappropriate way to a child. There's a psychological term called DARVO. It's an
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acronym. Deny, accuse, reverse victim, and offender. What I mean by that is if there's a sexual offender,
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who is challenged on that, one of the manipulative techniques, a form of gaslighting is to flip
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things around and say, no, no, you are the offender. I'm the victim. I didn't do anything wrong. You did.
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And it's a strategy that is implicit in the fight against transphobia. Let me be more specific what
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I'm saying because I'm speaking perhaps too abstractly. How do you get mama bears? How do you get
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mothers to back away and let men, including grown men, have access to their girls in a change room?
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How do you defeat that maternal protective instinct? How do you defeat that instinct in teenage girls
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to stay away from men in a change room? If you go into a bathroom or a change room and there is a man
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there, let alone a naked man, the instinct is to withdraw, to call for help, to sound the alarm.
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But transphobia, a made up word, means that if you do so, darvo, deny, accuse, reverse victim and
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offender. If you make a fuss about it, if you rely on your instincts that this is a dangerous situation,
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you are now called the offender and the man in the change room is called the victim. And these are
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very difficult stories to report on for obvious reasons because anyone who talks about them
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is darvoed. Anyone who reports about them is called an offender, a transphobe. And in so many of these
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sports environments, children have been practicing their sport for years since they were very little,
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and perhaps they're trying to make a national team. And it would wreck it if they got into a political
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fight. Very hard to report on. Our friend David Menzies is one of only a handful of reporters in Canada
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who dares to do so. And so I am delighted to see a second reporter covering this beat. Let me read to you
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a recent headline in True North, our friends in an independent media outlet. Exclusive girl athletes silenced
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over concerns about male teammate in dorms. Members of Team Nova Scotia's girls volleyball roster returned
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from the Canada Cup in Toronto under threat of sanctions after raising private concerns
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against competing against a male teammate. The author is Melanie Bennett, and she joins me now
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from a secret location in Ontario. Melanie, great to see you again.
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Hi, Ezra. Thank you for asking me to join your show again.
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Well, you know, if you keep writing stories like this, I'm going to keep asking you to join the show
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because I want to hear about it. It is difficult to report because people do not want to pop their
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head up to warn, to blow the whistle about men in women's change rooms because they'll be
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Right. But in this case, it's not a man. We're talking about a minor. So it's a boy. As far as I
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understand, he's 17 years old and the adults around him are the ones I think that require a little bit
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of scrutiny because this whole story upset me an awful lot when the whistleblower, I guess whistleblower
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leak, the person came to me. I can't really disclose any of their information, but the whole premise is
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that this this kid, this young male was included on a team and his his team kept winning and winning
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and winning and winning and he ended up winning most valuable player, ended up doing the cup in Toronto
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and some girls complained, some young girls complained. They're all underage, that they're away from their
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parents out halfway across the country, unaware of what's going on and raised some private concerns,
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like like you pointed out, private concerns on a private app amongst themselves. I'm sure that young
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girls knew that they weren't allowed to complain about these sorts of things, given the education
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that we we give them now. But that wasn't enough. They're not even allowed to complain in private
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messages that was leaked to the coaches and the girls returned home, like you said, under sanctions.
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Let me read one of the most infuriating lines from your report. The male's inclusion on the girls
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provincial team required him to travel to Ontario and share accommodations with female athletes. I
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remember when I was young and I would go on tours with other high school kids. Of course, you would share
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hotel rooms with, you know, a couple of beds in the room. You were saving money. And it was same
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sex. Girls were with girls and boys were with boys. What you're reporting to me is that this 17 year
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and yet it's a minor, but a 17 year old boy is tantamount to being a man. Certainly physically,
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a 17 year old is a man. And to have this man be clear, I'll correct you on this. Just to be clear,
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I'm from what I was told, they didn't actually share rooms. They did have a shared bathroom,
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but the rooms themselves were private. So the girls weren't sharing rooms at all.
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Thank you for clarifying that. I'm glad you did. Sharing a bathroom could, you know, I don't know
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the actual physical setup. Was there a lock on the door, et cetera. So that makes it less acute.
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I should tell you that the case of Leah Thomas in Pennsylvania that kicked off so many of these
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protests, he would travel with the girls and, and they're terrified to speak up. And that's what I
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mean by having your stranger danger instincts dulled. Because if you dare instinctively say,
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this isn't right, you're the one called a trans folk. Well, listen, these, these girls are terrified
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too, because if you think about it, they're at an age where next year, uh, like they're elite. Okay.
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So these are elite youths who are competing at a high level, perhaps for scholarships for, uh, maybe
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to, to be professional. And so right now there's a male coming in at the, um, at the elite level at 17
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years old, they have another year of the high school left. And these girls complaining about somebody
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being in their spaces, possibly taking their, their trophies and their scholarships and, and whatever
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else, um, they're being threatened with being exposed from the team in their last year. Uh, that would
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effectively remove them from any possibility in the future. So there's a really heavy hand here by the
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adults in the situation to keep this quiet. And also I'll point out, um, I saw many communications
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that I couldn't share because I would identify the people who spoke to me, but it seems to me,
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they were talking to the coaches and volleyball Canada. We're talking about an LGBTQ plus, I think
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you called it athlete, but they never specified that this person was a trans identified male in the
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girls sport. They didn't say that they said LGBTQ plus athlete. So it seems to me there's a lot of
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effort to hide what's going on and make it look like it's, uh, this, this kid who happens to be
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gay, who's being bullied, which is not the case at all. He's, he is the bully, even if he's not,
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uh, expressing himself verbally as the bully, his presence is bullying. And the fact that everyone
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is terrified to talk about it proves it, um, I see that the coach in your story, coach John Elliott,
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um, summoned players in a meeting, condemned the chat as disgusting, uh, laced with transphobia,
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rude and disrespectful. This is pure Darbo. This is how you extort a youth. And you know what? It's
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funny because one of the things I cover, Melanie, is I look at how these girls in the United Kingdom
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and I mean, girls, they're, they're as young as 11, um, are, they use the word groomed over there.
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They're exploited. They're not just raped once they're raped every night for years by scores of
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men. It is a mass industrial rape. How, how do they get these girls to do it? And through extortion
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and fear. And if you talk about it, we'll expose you to your mom. And if you talk about it, we'll
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punish you. Like it's, it is such a psychological extortion of these girls. I see that happening
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on a grave scale in the UK. Obviously this is not rape. So there's that important distinction,
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but psychologically terrifying the victims. Don't you say a word? If you do, you're the bad one.
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We will condemn you. We will ruin your life. It is the same gaslighting tactics. Thank God on a
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smaller scale, but it's the same species as what I see in the UK. Well, I would agree. I think the,
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the adults here are bullying. However, I went and looked at the, uh, the policies because I wanted
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to see if this is actually within their code of ethics and absolutely is in the code of ethics and
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their policies. They, they do it. There's some research and scientific research apparently that
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they based it on. And they do recognize that males jump higher, hit harder, uh, serve faster or serve
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harder, all these things, but that, that wasn't enough really to stop the males within the female
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sports. Uh, and so they create all these policies to include trans people and obviously keep it quiet
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from everybody else. And in this case, I think absolutely these girls are being bullied and that
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bullying by adults and threatening, frankly, is being supported by policies. So unless those policies
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change, unless, um, the ethics and sports committees actually do anything about this,
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which at this point, I'm not sure they will, uh, without a significant amount of pressure,
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this is just going to continue because it's all about protecting the male who happens to be in
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female sports, uh, from, from any kind of outing, I guess you could say, and exclusion from, from the
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sport, regardless of the fact that we consistently see males who play on female sports, even with, uh,
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estrogen, uh, winning best player, they're winning cups, they're winning trophies. And obviously the
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team that has the male on the team, they like that because their team is, is consistently winning.
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They have the best player on there. So I think we need to start putting pressure on, on the
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organizations and the policies that allow this to happen. Yeah. As another way to describe what
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you're talking about is cheating. There's a reason why sports have different gradations,
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different ages. You wouldn't have 12 year old hockey players skating against 18 year old hockey
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players. That's not sport anymore. You wouldn't have a 250 pound super heavyweight boxer fighting
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against a featherweight. That's not sport anymore. And to get around that is cheating. And when you have
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someone who's biologically male, I, you know, I don't know the 17 year old biological male to which
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you refer, but I'm guessing that he was a mediocre athlete on the men's team. And then he decided he
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wanted to win like so many of these gross us cases. That's a, that's called cheating. The thing is,
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it's not just cheating. It's putting these girls in a terrible position, violating their, their physical
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integrity, safety, security, peace of mind. And like you say, stealing the awards from them. I got one
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last question for you. The United States is going gangbusters in the other direction. The University
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of Pennsylvania has stripped Leah Thomas of his medals and has re-awarded them to the girls
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who should have won him. Donald Trump passed an executive order within hours of becoming president,
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banning this sort of thing and enforcing it through civil rights laws. Universities across the U.S. are
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complying. So are different sports leagues. It really is a complete pendulum swing back towards
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women and girls and away from trans extremists. It's actually incredible to behold. Has that U.S.
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state of affairs or will it cause things to change in Canada? And one of the ways it could
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is if Canadian teams travel to the U.S. to compete, I presume they wouldn't be allowed to bring their,
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their trans player along. Is there any sign that that U.S. reaction is coming to Canada?
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I mean, I would be speculating. What I can say is that within the documents that I saw,
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there was some recognition that when the athletes play abroad, that there might be different rules.
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Like for example, in Canada, the males or females who participate on the other side,
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but really we're talking about males and female sports here, that there's no requirement for them to
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take any tests like estrogen tests or, not estrogen tests, sorry, hormone tests or anything like that.
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But they recognize that that might be the case when they go abroad. So there's already sort of
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provision. Like they understand that the rules might be different in different countries. Whether or not
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that actually translates, what they're doing in America actually translates in Canada, I don't see
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any evidence of that happening within our country right now because it seems to me these policies,
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they, they, they, they're not changing. There's no, there's no conversation around changing gender
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identity and expression policies, whether it's in sport or education or anything that I've looked
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at so far now that I think that could change. But it will fire a little bit of pressure for that to
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happen. Yeah. Well, Melanie, I sure am glad you reported on this story. It's very rare to do so.
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And I'm sure you've received flack from trans extremists for it. You're smiling. No, no, no,
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not yet. They haven't noticed. However, I will just say this as we close. I, I reached to obviously reach
00:32:42.060
out to people when I write stories because I want their side of the story. Few people do actually
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respond to me. And I reached out to the athlete in question because they put their email on their public
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social media. And I presume that if you're putting email on your public social media,
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that's advertising you as a fantastic athlete, then you want to be contacted by the media.
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The athlete's mother got very, very upset with me. How dare I get in touch with a minor
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and ask such sensitive questions? Of course, she denied everything.
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But that was, I guess, the only pushback that I got. I didn't, I didn't hear back from anybody yet.
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So what I'm saying is, I don't think it's necessarily as dangerous to address these issues
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as people would like to think. I think maybe people are perhaps a little bit too shy
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and too worried about the impacts on them. I think we just need to be a little bit braver
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because at the end of the day, you know, I don't have activists coming up on canoes
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trying to attack me right now, do I? Well, it looks like you would be very difficult to spot
00:33:38.300
and you could defend yourself is my guess. Listen, it's great to chat with you. Melanie Bennett is the
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journalist. True North is the publication. The headline is exclusive girl athletes silenced
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over concerns about male teammates in dorms. I hope you're right that we can be braver and
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there's no reason to fear. I don't want to disagree with you because I learned so much from you,
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but it may be that by not naming any of the people involved, they have not felt spurred to counter
00:34:10.540
attack you. And that may be the reason I think of our friend, David Menzies, who goes out and films
00:34:15.500
the trans athletes like Ash Davis and et cetera. And it may be that you, that you've kicked the
00:34:22.220
hornet's nest more gently by, by not naming names. I'm not disrespecting your work at all. I'm just
00:34:29.500
saying we have to be clever about these sorts of things sometimes. Well, listen, I'm a huge fan. I
00:34:34.060
am so glad you're covering this beat. I intend to follow your work and I look forward to having you on
00:34:39.260
again to talk about these important issues. Um, what's the best way for people to follow you?
00:34:44.780
Well, my speaking of activists, I did get attacked by activists on my Twitter, which used to be
00:34:49.340
Finkledusty, which, uh, that's a whole story we'll get into, but so they, they, they managed to ban
00:34:56.540
that account. So now it's real Finkledusty, which you're welcome to go, uh, follow me there to gather
00:35:01.180
my following count again, or, uh, I'm on Substack, Melanie Bennett on Substack where all of my articles
00:35:06.060
get published in the post there. All right, well, we'll check it out. There she is.
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Melanie Bennett in an undisclosed location, ready to defend against any attack,
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amphibian or terrestrial. Stay with us more ahead.
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Hey, welcome back. We put Emma's video online already, and we got some letters. Let me read
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them to you from in vino veritas. You may as well fight because there is nowhere to run to.
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Well, that's the thing. I mean, we talk about indigenous homelands and ethnic homelands.
00:35:46.140
What is the homeland for the British people? Uh, uh, an ethnicity, you know, Anglos,
00:35:52.300
the Welsh, the Scots that goes back centuries or even thousands of years.
00:35:56.860
Why should they not have a homeland the same way Italy should be for Italians and France for the
00:36:02.300
French? I support that. And the thing is the UK, they got nowhere else to go.
00:36:07.500
Next letter from Hen Sid who said, Starmer, that's the prime minister over there.
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Starmer tells us they are doing something about it. And that is true. He's paying the French
00:36:16.860
millions to push the boats out to sea, sending them on their way to the UK.
00:36:21.100
You know, Donald Trump has got the flow of illegal migrants in across the southern border
00:36:26.540
down to practically zero. In fact, I think some months it actually is zero. There's no technical
00:36:33.340
problem, physical problem stopping the United States from, you know, letting in what was let
00:36:41.180
in under Joe Biden's term, 13 million people. There was no technical problem that Joe Biden had.
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The border police had the tools. They were just told not to use them. The United Kingdom has
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remained a free country for centuries because of the English general, a natural moat. And the Royal
00:36:58.860
Navy even to this day is a mighty force. The only reason they're allowing these dinghies to cross is
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because that is a choice made by their government. John Hunter says, Canadians need to be doing the
00:37:11.020
same thing. It's not racist to disagree with people who have different values than Canadians.
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Their skin tone is irrelevant. That's exactly right. And when I talked about the rape culture,
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that's not connected to the hue of skin of people from Pakistan. It's just a culture in that country.
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And I quoted from a 2014 article I wrote about a shocking incident. By the way, in the rest of that
00:37:33.260
story, the bus driver saw the rape in the back of the bus, he pulled over and joined in. That is
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unthinkable in Canada. Absolutely unthinkable. That is a true rape culture. And how can you bring in
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hundreds of thousands of men, millions even, from those countries, dump them in the middle of a
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high trust society where, yeah, you have women jogging in Lululemon. The problem is not the cat
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calling, I can assure you. It's the rape. It's our show for today. Sorry to talk about such heavy things.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters to you at home, good night.