Happy Pride Month Kids! Now Salute That Flag
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Summary
Nicole West explains the colors of the non-heterosexual Pride Flag, and why it's so important to be proud of who you are on the inside. Plus, we talk about the name of the day and why we should all be proud to be queer.
Transcript
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I know the Pride Month thing is officially canceled, right?
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But that doesn't mean they will continue trying, right?
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Here's Nickelodeon, the children's television station,
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celebrating Happy Pride Month by wheeling out someone called Nina West
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to do a description for us, an explanatory video
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about what all the different colors mean on the non-heterosexual flag.
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Every color on the Pride flag is a symbol in the sky.
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And I'm proud to be me every time that I see that Pride flag waving high.
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in working to heal the world and healing ourselves.
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Yellow means sunlight because you've got to shine bright.
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Is that like the Palestinian version of the gay flag?
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I'm not sure what the black and the brown mean.
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Some African nations have that combination too, don't they?
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Like with the kind of the triangle on the side.
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This is, of course, an international thing, right?
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I thought that was like a conservative right-wing thing.
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So let's just enjoy the rest together, shall we?
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Purple means spirit, believing you have the power and strength within yourself to do whatever you dream.
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Maybe blue, pink, and white represent transgender people.
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And black and brown represent the queer and trans people of color.
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And black and brown represent the queer and trans people of color.
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I always thought the I in Nick, as you can see down at the logo there,
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I think it kind of looks somewhat of a strange penis.
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There was like some subconscious symbolism in the name.
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I mean, Nickelodeon overall, just the term, right,
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I actually think comes from the early peep show, like, videos in New York.
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And, of course, it was a specific tribe running that at the time.
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But Nickelodeons were like peep shows for, like, you know,
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when they started going over to do the use of the video camera,
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They refused to pay the licensing fees on the cameras.
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That's one of the reasons why they ended up over in Tinselstown, right,
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it was a very cheap land over there or something like that.
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So I'm sure the name has nothing to do with it.
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Yeah, so that's Nina West, a.k.a. Andrew Levitt.
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I did, but so apparently to a couple of sources,
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Otherwise, you wouldn't have people like Stephen Miller out there,
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Because that's a very, that's a very goyish name.
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There seems to be some kind of internal beef in the LGBTIQP community here.
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I'm not sure what it's about, but let's check it out.
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And while, yes, I have seen pansexual people use that label for questionable reasons,
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they pretty quickly get it once you explain things to them.
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And not only that, but do you know who likes to use specific or micro labels?
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Sometimes we just have to do whatever we can to feel safe and comfortable.
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And using a more specific label can be our outlet for that.
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If you took all that energy you spend calling people biphobic
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and saying they're performing bi erasure and just educated them,
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Because you've explained it, and people will know the difference.
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That's blasphemous for the Christians, I would assume, right?
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This girl, Anna Ronka, would have been happier and more meaningful,
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living and more meaningful life growing up under the strict religious auspices of the Taliban.
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But, you know, mental illness is a hell of a thing.
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Well, shout out to you then, Adam, here too, because this I saw on your Twitter feed.
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But I thought you other guys might enjoy that one.
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We're talking about, you know, religious aspects and all the LGBTQ stuff and the queer things.
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Here's a merger of kind of all of those things, really.
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There's six sexes, genders in the town, but with many mentions.
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There's Nakeva and Zakhar, the two here as female and male.
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Druggy nose for an intersex person with both female male sex characteristics.
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Toom toom a person with obscured or unclear sexual characteristics.
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Eloneed, somewhat assigned female at birth, but who expresses male characteristics later in life.
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Saris and Eloneed, often are described as infertile.
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And while life has lots of rules, don't let binaries be a hurdle to loving yourself.
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Clearly, or should I say queerly, I'm very proud to be both Jewish and queer.
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And really it was only once I joined TikTok and was very openly Jewish and queer
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that I started to get questions about how I dealt with my conflicting identities.
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The Jewish communities I've been a part of have never made me feel like my identities are in conflict.
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In fact, I feel like the Jewish value of questioning very much fits with my queer identity.
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Interesting. I'm sorry, but the Jewish value of questioning?
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Is she referencing the culture of critique right there, maybe?
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How can I even debunk this anti-Semitic stereotype when I'm about to steal yo' girl?
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You know, there's a lot of important things here to actually talk about today, but whatever.
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Burger King has a new CEO, Daniel Schwartz, and he has begun donating 40 cents for every
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sale of its new chicken sandwich to a radical LGBT lobby group that supports child sex changes.
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Burger King, under the new leadership of CEO, Daniel Schwartz, have begun donating, as we
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I don't know if it's the chicken sandwich thing.
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Is that because they're running low on chicken, so there will be less sales of that?
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So, but regardless, 40 cents for every sale of that chicken sandwich will go to a LGBT
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lobby group that supports child sex changes, the drugging of children with opposite sex
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On June 3rd, Burger King made a cheeky tweet saying it will donate up to $250,000 of the proceeds
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Um, was that focus, was that focus group checked?
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Uh, the heel reported for every hand-bred chicken sold, 40 cents will go to the cause.
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The company emphasized that checking is available on Sunday, taking a jab at Chick-fil-A's, which
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observer, oh, okay, there are, all right, here we go, there we go.
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Uh, taking a jab at Chick-fil-A, which observes the Sabbath on Sunday.
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So why would they, uh, it would be like going to church or something, right?
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The human rights campaign supports child sex changes and has a manual on their website
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to help guide parents through drugging and maiming their adolescent children.
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This is, uh, good, uh, education here from the HRCs.
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For children, pre-adolescents and early adolescents, gender transition is mainly a social process.
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Uh, children beginning puberty may also use puberty-suppressing medication as they explore
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I don't think puberty-suppressing medication is reversible.
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If you take that during the time that you grow, right, you're permanently screwed.
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Anyway, uh, social transitioning is equally important for adults and older adolescents.
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People in these age groups may also take additional steps, including gender-affirming hormone therapy
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Transgender people also often change their legal name and gender record on identity documents,
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like a driver's license, birth certificate, or passport.
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These steps can happen at any stage in transitioning, although some states require certain types of
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medical treatment before allowing gender marker changes.
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Let me say, HRP puts out their own drag queen story.
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Are we targeting children with books about kids transitioning with titles such as
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I am the proud mother of a trans kid, and so it gives me so much pleasure to read this
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The book that my daughters read to their daughter.
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When Aiden was born, everyone thought he was a girl.
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It's a fun room, but maybe it's not quite what Aiden wants.
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But as Aiden got bigger, he hated the sound of his name.
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It was hard to tell his parents what he knew about himself, but it was even harder not to.
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And it looks like here's Aiden and his parents with other families with trans kids getting
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They changed his bedroom into a place where he belonged.
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He also took much better care of his new clothes, which, by the way, I'll say are very cute.
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Then one day, mom and dad had something to tell him.
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Aiden loved getting to choose his own, but he remembered that it had been hard for his
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He looked for names that could fit this new person no matter who they grew up to be.
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Two weeks before the baby's due date, Aiden started to worry.
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Do you think the baby will be happy with everything, he whispered.
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I don't want them to feel like I did when I was little.
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When you were born, we didn't know you were going to be our son.
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We made some mistakes, but you helped us fix them.
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And you taught us how important it is to love someone for exactly who they are.
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Yeah, tell that to the whites you're hating on.
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And that was the most important part of being a brother.
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I wish I had cute little books like this when I was growing up.
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All students need to have access to books that reflect the rich diversity of this country.
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And thank you for continuing to read books by LGBTQ authors about LGBTQ characters.
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Yeah, so I think it was a, I had a clip about the HRC, the human rights campaign.
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But I think that might be a little too spicy for, even for Trova.
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I hear people are banned from Trova every other day, right?
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But we'll play it in one of the Weekend Warrior shows.
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But that's a good reminder, kind of, you know, how they began.
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Basically, the gist of the clip is, and it's a guy who's been, you know, following HRC and the work that they've been doing.
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And whereas it begins with you kind of just accepting the presence of these new things that they're pushing in a clip like this,
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he demonstrates how they're moving over, right, to, basically, they're forcing you to celebrate it.
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It's not this, like, well, let us just be alone and do our thing over here.
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It's this demand that they need to be let into society, and then it's a demand that they need to be celebrated, right?
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I guess I can go up full screen, and you can read that, read that for yourself.
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Source, archives of sexual behavior, comparative data on childhood and adolescence molestation in heterosexual and homosexual persons from 2001.
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Has that statistics for you that you can read, which, of course, would be a big problem, if true, as they say.