Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - January 26, 2021


Ep 358 | Biden Erases Women & Jobs with Executive Orders | Guest: Kara Dansky


Episode Stats

Length

57 minutes

Words per Minute

163.1763

Word Count

9,428

Sentence Count

521

Misogynist Sentences

42

Hate Speech Sentences

35


Summary

On today's episode of Relatable, we discuss the many controversial executive orders that have been signed by President Joe Biden in the first few days of his administration, why they are problematic, and why they need to be fought. We also have a guest on the show who is a feminist and an advocate for women's rights.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Tuesday. Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so
00:00:15.420 far. Thanks for all of the positive feedback. On yesterday's episode, we talked about taking
00:00:20.980 care of babies and cancel culture, what it is, what it isn't, why real cancel culture
00:00:27.120 is completely unsustainable, why it's not just holding someone accountable, but it truly is
00:00:34.340 this kind of totalitarian tyranny and bullying that we should want no part in and we should be
00:00:41.720 pushing back against. We also talked about Christian nationalism. I was a little bit
00:00:46.880 rushed in the last half of yesterday's episode, and I didn't get to talk about everything that
00:00:51.840 I wanted to in regards to Christian nationalism and distinguishing between some of the dangerous
00:00:59.060 aspects of nationalism and real good patriotism. That's also a fear that I have, that people will
00:01:06.180 be kind of slinging these vague terms and vague accusations like Christian nationalism to make
00:01:12.740 people think that they shouldn't be thankful for their country or they shouldn't be proud of their
00:01:16.620 country and to accuse people of idolatry who love their country. That's also a dangerous precedent to
00:01:24.300 set. And so I will talk more about that. I'm also going to bring on a guest who has a very different
00:01:29.400 perspective on Christian nationalism than most people do. But if you're interested in that, go listen to
00:01:35.240 yesterday's episode. Today, we are going to answer some questions that you guys have had in regards to
00:01:41.420 the executive orders that the Biden administration has signed in the last few days, in the first few
00:01:47.260 days of his presidency. And then I have a guest on who describes herself as a feminist and an advocate
00:01:56.340 for women's rights, who is very concerned about this executive order that Joe Biden signed that has to do
00:02:04.320 with so-called gender equality and gender identity, what it means for women's sports, what it means for
00:02:11.160 women's privacy and protection in what is supposed to be exclusively female spaces. And we're going to
00:02:18.680 talk about, in general, this transgender movement, transgender activism, and why from a feminist
00:02:25.780 perspective she believes this is so damaging. Obviously, we disagree on aspects of feminism, and we talk
00:02:32.300 about that just a little bit. But I think it's really important to get a different perspective on it.
00:02:37.580 And I did an episode called The Biblical Telos of Gender, talking about the biblical perspective on
00:02:42.880 gender and so-called gender identity and what sex looks like, how Genesis 1, the first chapter of
00:02:48.640 the Bible, is so clarifying and is such a good foundation for all of us about that. And so I'll link to that
00:02:54.420 episode as well in this description. But today, I wanted to get a different perspective from a feminist on
00:03:00.480 all of this. So definitely, definitely excited to let you guys hear that conversation. But first,
00:03:07.760 let us go through some of these executive orders. They were, I think, at this point, as I'm recording
00:03:12.460 this, 34 or 35 executive orders that Joe Biden has signed in just the first few days of his presidency.
00:03:19.480 And most of these executive orders indicate what a lot of us knew, what a lot of conservatives
00:03:25.340 knew about him going into the election was that he's not a moderate. He's not a middle of the road
00:03:31.160 guy. He is just as progressive, I would say, as Bernie Sanders would be at this point. Now,
00:03:38.940 personally, that's probably not true. He probably does not identify as a democratic socialist. I think
00:03:44.540 he's a capitalist, at least personally. He probably is a moderate personally in a lot of ways. But we told
00:03:51.780 you guys that him choosing Kamala Harris as his vice president signaled who he was trying to reach and
00:04:03.320 signaled what kind of presidency this would be. Kamala Harris was the most liberal senator based on her
00:04:11.580 votes when she was in the Senate. We knew that he was going to be a far left progressive, at least in
00:04:18.420 how he leads to the country. And we have seen through his many executive orders over the past
00:04:26.180 few days that that is already shaping up to be true. We're not going to go through all 34 of them,
00:04:32.560 but I want to go through four or five of what I think are some of the most controversial. I'll also
00:04:38.060 talk about one, at least briefly, that I'm encouraged by, that I actually think, at least on the surface,
00:04:43.960 is a very good thing. And I'm also going to talk about how last week he stated very proudly and
00:04:51.740 publicly that he wants to codify, codify Roe v. Wade and what that actually means. But first,
00:04:58.380 let's go through some of these executive orders. And so I want to talk about the Keystone Pipeline
00:05:05.740 because a lot of you guys have asked me about that. He stopped construction of the Keystone Pipeline.
00:05:11.220 It's a 1,200-mile structure carrying oil from Canada to the U.S. Now, Canada, being the leftist
00:05:19.140 socialist place that it is, you would think would be in line with anything that Democrat President
00:05:23.780 Joe Biden would do. But they're actually very upset about this. There was a representative
00:05:27.800 from Canada who was on Fox News the other day saying, this is a terrible decision. Like,
00:05:34.080 this is not good for Canada. This is not good for jobs. It's not good for the economy. It's not even
00:05:39.340 good for the environment, a lot of people are saying. So Canada is also not happy about this
00:05:45.260 decision, especially that the United States did not consult Canada before making this decision.
00:05:50.180 Now, if President Trump had done something like this, there would be chyrons and headlines
00:05:54.260 everywhere about how he has already rocked democratic norms and he has already torn apart
00:06:04.180 our alliance with one of our strongest and geographically closest allies, Canada, by making
00:06:12.100 a decision without any regard to the Canadian people. This just shows his bigotry, the bigotry
00:06:17.260 of America first. That's what we would be hearing about if he had made a decision without consulting
00:06:23.740 Canada that Canada is saying hurts them. But of course, we're not going to hear that about
00:06:29.260 the Biden administration because the media, as we have seen over the past few days, is
00:06:34.700 just so excited to have an ally again in the White House. And so climate activists and therefore
00:06:42.560 a lot of leftists are excited about this. They have been trying to stop the construction of the
00:06:47.200 Keystone pipeline. They say that, you know, you're carrying this over indigenous lands. That's
00:06:54.240 that's not fair. That we are endangering animals and birds. This is all arguable, by the way. And if
00:07:02.980 you'll remember, a couple years ago, there were protests, I think mostly held by environmental
00:07:08.800 activists and some indigenous people, protests against the construction of the pipeline. And the
00:07:15.620 pictures that we saw after these people camped out in protest of the construction was just trash
00:07:23.140 everywhere. There was trash everywhere. I mean, it was rancid. It was terrible. And so these people
00:07:27.500 who claim to care about the environment, some of them are protesting and actually are polluting
00:07:32.480 the land through their protests. And so there's just a little bit of irony there. So obviously,
00:07:38.240 the the ending of the construction of this pipeline, one of the immediate consequences
00:07:43.020 is job layoffs in a time where our economy is really struggling, where people need jobs
00:07:48.280 more than ever. This is from MSN.com. A general manager working on the Keystone XL pipeline said
00:07:55.800 that hundreds of guys employed to build the controversial pipeline have already been laid
00:08:00.160 off from their jobs after President Biden signed an executive order to halt construction. Senator Ted
00:08:04.900 Cruz has already spoken out about it, saying during Pete Buttigieg's confirmation, quote, and with the
00:08:11.880 stroke of a pen, President Biden has told those 11,000 workers, these union workers, which the unions
00:08:18.020 were very pro Biden for the most part, has told these union workers, your jobs are gone. Canadian
00:08:25.400 prime minister, like we alluded to just a few minutes ago, Justin Trudeau has also stated he is
00:08:30.140 disappointed in this in this decision. So the U.S. won't use Alberta oil from tar sands. That just
00:08:39.260 reinforces America's dependence on Middle East oil producers. And so that's why people say this doesn't
00:08:45.280 actually help the environment. Like we're still going to be getting oil. We're still going to
00:08:49.420 be spending money on oil production. But now rather than bolstering our own economy and the economy of
00:08:57.160 Canada to produce and to transfer our oil, we're just going to be relying on the Middle East. We're
00:09:03.400 going to be relying on these anti-humanitarian regimes like Saudi Arabia for oil. We're just going
00:09:09.860 to be getting more oil from them. So if we're actually worried about the environment and if
00:09:15.900 we're worried about the humanitarian costs to building this pipeline on what they're calling
00:09:22.200 indigenous lands, then shouldn't we also care about being overly or even more dependent on the
00:09:28.620 Middle East for our oil production? So that is that's one of the executive orders that people are
00:09:35.220 having a very hard time with right now, not just because it lessens our own dependence,
00:09:40.140 our own independence and dependence on one of our allies for oil, but also because of the loss of
00:09:45.240 jobs. A lot of these people are working class people who may have voted for Joe Biden because their
00:09:51.000 union told them to vote for Joe Biden because Joe Biden said that he was pro-union. Joe Biden also put
00:09:57.220 a moratorium on fracking. We're talking about the loss of even more jobs. He said in a debate,
00:10:02.860 Kamala Harris said that he was not going to ban fracking. Well, that's pretty much what he's
00:10:07.460 already done. We told you guys he's a radical. I mean, he is going to pander to the far left.
00:10:12.500 You thought Obama was liberal. This is going to be a more liberal presidency. He also issued an
00:10:18.900 executive order reversing Trump's ban on transgender people serving in the U.S. military. Now, this might
00:10:24.500 sound good, but there needs to be some clarification. Now, here's what Fox 13 Memphis says in reporting
00:10:31.560 this. The order will apply to more than 15,000 transgender people currently estimated to be
00:10:36.940 serving in the military. According to numbers from the National Center for Transgender Equality,
00:10:41.380 the order immediately bars people from being discharged or denied re-enlistment based on
00:10:45.500 their gender identities and orders the correction of previously affected military records. So,
00:10:51.280 really, the reason for the ban was not just people who have a different gender identity,
00:10:57.220 um, but one of the problems was is that people were, uh, these people were transitioning while
00:11:04.240 they were serving in the military and they were being discharged because of that, um, under Trump's
00:11:10.160 so-called ban and activists are saying, well, that's not fair. Their transition should not only be paid
00:11:16.360 for, but it shouldn't have anything to do with whether or not they're able to serve in the military.
00:11:21.540 LifeSite News, um, it talks about, uh, talks about the problems with Joe Biden's decision to
00:11:28.080 reverse this. The order calls for establishing a process by which transgender service members
00:11:33.480 may transition gender while serving and immediately prohibits involuntary separations,
00:11:39.600 discharges, and denials of re-enlistment or continuation of service on the basis of gender
00:11:44.060 identity or under circumstances relating to gender identity. Um, it does not specifically address
00:11:50.220 whether reassignment surgeries, uh, will once more be offered to gender confused soldiers at
00:11:56.580 taxpayer expense, but, uh, conservative critics expect that announcement to soon follow in light
00:12:02.700 of the Biden administration's overall support for the transgender lobby from preferred pronouns to
00:12:07.700 forcing biological males into girls sports. And so the problem with this is that the military
00:12:15.260 is not supposed to be a social experiment. The military is supposed to be about effectiveness.
00:12:21.860 It's supposed to be about lethality. I mean, there's, that's why a lot of people are against
00:12:26.460 women on the front lines and women in combat. That's why they're against, uh, for example,
00:12:31.600 I don't even, I don't even know the proper terminology, but, um, in certain combat situations,
00:12:37.680 I'm mixing men and women because men and women are fundamentally different. Women just can't do the
00:12:42.820 same things men can. And the surgeries and the cross sex hormones that are often used in surgery
00:12:48.580 can hinder someone's ability to be as lethal as possible to be able to carry out their duty. So
00:12:53.600 anything, whether it is, um, whether it's, um, a surgery or transition or any other kind of physical
00:13:02.320 hindrance that could possibly cause someone from being less lethal or to, to be less lethal in combat
00:13:09.660 should absolutely be looked at. I mean, we're not, we shouldn't be talking about, uh, creating some
00:13:15.360 kind of social experiment within the military. The most important thing for the military to be is
00:13:21.080 lethal, to be effective. So anything that could possibly potentially negative effect someone's
00:13:27.660 lethality, someone's effectiveness, whether that is, uh, distracting the men in the military with
00:13:34.300 having, uh, with, uh, with being intermixed with females, which we've actually seen studies of that,
00:13:41.320 how that can hinder lethality and hinder effectiveness, not just because they're distracted
00:13:46.260 by each other, but women in general, aren't able to fulfill the same physical duties that men are.
00:13:51.440 That's just the biological reality. Um, or whether it's something like this, someone's, uh, transition
00:13:58.700 hindering their ability to be able to do their job effectively in the military. We have to be able to
00:14:03.420 think logically about this. Like we have to be able to think scientifically about this. This again,
00:14:08.340 is not just about a social issue. It's about the protection of our country and physically what
00:14:13.700 someone is actually capable to, uh, capable of doing, but the Biden administration is always going
00:14:19.020 to prioritize leftist activism over what actually biologically scientifically makes sense. Um, he also
00:14:26.200 issued an executive order reversing the Mexico city policy, uh, the Mexico city policy. This has been
00:14:32.340 gone back and forth between democratic and Republican presidents for as long as it has existed.
00:14:37.580 The Mexico city policy, uh, prevents us aid money from funding groups that perform or promote
00:14:43.200 abortion around the globe. National review notes that this particular executive order does seem to be
00:14:49.340 out of step with most Democrats. Uh, 70% of Democrats said in 2017 that they oppose taxpayer funded
00:14:55.080 abortion around the globe. Now Biden has also said, uh, that he is going to work to
00:15:02.240 reverse the Hyde amendment. The Hyde amendment, um, was instated in the 1970s and it protects our
00:15:09.740 taxpayer dollars, our federal tax dollars from directly funding most abortions. Well, uh, the
00:15:17.540 abortion lobby has said this discriminates against poor women who want abortions. They should be able
00:15:22.240 to get abortions for free. The taxpayer, you know, like you and me should be forced to pay for
00:15:28.440 people's abortions, um, with unrestricted access. And so Joe Biden has also said that he supports that.
00:15:35.720 Like I said, he also believes in codifying Roe v. Wade, uh, the codification of, uh, Roe v. Wade
00:15:42.580 would basically make it very difficult for States to put restrictions on abortion. It would enshrine and,
00:15:51.080 um, make official the rights to have an abortion pretty much at any time in the pregnancy for,
00:15:58.440 any reason. And with the reversal of the Hyde amendment would also mean that you and I are
00:16:02.940 paying for it. So again, like I'm not trying to be rude or anything, or I'm not trying to be prideful
00:16:11.740 in saying this, but when I look at some of these things, um, I just wonder what the evangelical
00:16:18.060 pro-life people for Biden who described themselves as evangelical pro-lifers when they said they were
00:16:24.960 voting for Biden, like what, what, what, what, like, what were you voting for? Were you voting for
00:16:32.440 this kind of superficial promise of, of normalcy and decency? Like, what were you voting for? I
00:16:39.260 understand why you didn't vote for Donald Trump. That's totally fine. But like, we told you guys,
00:16:44.320 this was coming down the pipeline. Like we told you guys, this is what was coming. We told you guys
00:16:48.780 there was going to be a subversion, an official legal subversion of, of gender and what that
00:16:54.660 actually looks like. Like we told you guys that this was going to happen. We told you guys that he
00:16:58.840 was going to be the most pro-abortion president. And this was going to be the most pro-abortion
00:17:03.460 administration that we've seen. We told you guys that like every purported value that evangelicals,
00:17:09.400 that Christians have, I mean, his executive orders over the past few days have already bucked
00:17:14.980 up against. And we told you guys this was going to happen. This is not a surprise. And so now I
00:17:19.540 think we're going to see a lot of evangelicals possibly either you're just not, they're not
00:17:24.100 going to care or they're going to say, wow, I'm, you know, I'm really worried about the equality
00:17:28.120 actor. I'm really worried about this executive order on gender identity, or I'm really worried
00:17:32.900 about this reversal of the Mexico city policy or the codification of Roe v. Wade. I'm really
00:17:39.120 worried about this when you've spent the past four years directing all of your ire at Donald
00:17:44.820 Trump and telling people that they're not good Christians if they do vote for Donald
00:17:48.460 Trump. And even implicitly or explicitly saying that Joe Biden is the adult in the room and
00:17:55.320 he is the candidate of decency. And it would be better to vote for a Democrat who is rabidly
00:18:00.240 pro-abortion and who denies biological reality that God created than it would be to vote for
00:18:06.860 a Twitter bully. I mean, and I'm just, it's going to be very hard for me to watch. That's
00:18:12.260 what I'll say. There was another executive order to pause construction of the border wall.
00:18:19.660 There are various executive orders as well that have to do with immigration. He has signaled
00:18:25.200 that he does not believe in strong borders and he does not believe that we need greater
00:18:32.140 or more effective border security. And that the pathway to getting citizenship as an illegal
00:18:39.360 immigrant really should just be as easy as possible. And citizenship basically becomes
00:18:45.600 this arbitrary thing. So all of you legal immigrants who you came here legally and you worked very
00:18:52.060 hard and you went through the very, very long process of becoming a legal citizen. It really
00:18:58.000 doesn't matter. You know, you didn't have to do that. You could have just come here illegally
00:19:01.520 and you could have broken the law and you could have had the same end result probably a lot more
00:19:05.940 quickly. But because you decided to go through the process with integrity and through hard work
00:19:14.000 and with honesty, you had to wait a very long time and possibly pay a lot of money. You could have
00:19:21.040 just broken laws and done it without integrity and gotten it all for free. That is the message that
00:19:25.580 Biden is going to send on immigration. All right. Now I want to talk about, well, I want to talk about
00:19:34.040 the executive order on gender and in particular what this means to women's sports. And that's what
00:19:40.460 we're going to talk about in the upcoming conversation. But I also do want to say that
00:19:44.460 there is one executive order that I actually appreciated. So there's an executive order aimed
00:19:54.960 at boosting Biden's buy American efforts. It increases how much of a product must be made in the U.S.
00:20:01.500 for it to qualify is made in America. It will also create a website for Americans to see what
00:20:06.640 contracts are being awarded to foreign vendors in a position with the Office of Management and Budget
00:20:11.980 to implement federal procurement efforts. And so I don't know necessarily what this is going to
00:20:19.520 accomplish, but anything that promotes or encourages buying American products, I think, is good.
00:20:29.140 I was also encouraged that the nominee for the Secretary of State, who is probably going to be,
00:20:37.700 I think his hearings are going to end today. He will probably be confirmed that he reaffirmed
00:20:44.020 what Trump's Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, said about the Uyghur Muslims in China. He declared it
00:20:52.400 a genocide and accused China of crimes against humanity, which is obviously a very serious charge to
00:20:58.780 level. The nominee for Biden Secretary of State agreed with that characterization. So I think
00:21:05.960 that's good. Like, I am not scared at all to cheer on this administration if they put America first
00:21:12.900 when it comes to job creation, which obviously we know that they're not doing that because they're
00:21:20.220 talking about raising the minimum wage to $15, which is going to crush small businesses. And they're
00:21:24.580 also talking about raising taxes, which will crush the middle class. They're also getting rid of the
00:21:29.220 Keystone Pipeline, which is taking away jobs. But where they do try to focus on American jobs,
00:21:35.540 I will applaud them. Where they do condemn China, our greatest economic and in some ways safety threat,
00:21:44.080 it's hard to say military threat because we're still the strongest military power in the world,
00:21:47.760 but our biggest threat in many different categories, as long as they're strong on those things,
00:21:53.680 I will applaud them on the things that they're doing well. So this particular executive order,
00:21:57.900 at least superficially, I actually do appreciate. So lots of other executive orders. This is,
00:22:05.480 you know, we've talked about this, how this phrase is so overused, or this word is so overused,
00:22:10.160 unprecedented. It really is an unprecedented number of executive orders that are being signed right now,
00:22:16.740 not just to reverse everything that Donald Trump has done, but to enact new orders and new measures
00:22:23.580 as well. They also reversed Donald Trump's executive order banning critical race theory
00:22:30.820 at the federal level. So now critical race theory will take its place back in training sessions in the
00:22:38.940 federal government. You guys know how I feel about that. We've talked about critical race theory and how
00:22:44.240 damaging it is many, many times, but of course, that's what they're going to do. They got rid of
00:22:50.660 the 1776 project, which was a counter to the fallacious and false 1619 project, the mythical 1619
00:22:59.260 project. Of course, they are going to be pushing critical race theory and identity politics and
00:23:05.040 things like the 1619 project and all of this craziness that is very damaging and divisive
00:23:10.860 for society. Meanwhile, they will be saying that they are the unifying force, bringing people
00:23:16.700 together. There's a lot more to talk about, about the first few days of the Biden presidency. But now
00:23:22.040 we're going to talk about the executive order that has to do with so-called gender identity
00:23:27.240 and how it affects women and girls. And I'm going to speak to Kara Dansky. She is an attorney
00:23:35.240 and a member of the steering committee of the women's rights campaign, the U.S. chapter.
00:23:46.740 Kara, thank you so much for joining me. I am really excited to get your perspective
00:23:51.240 on this executive order. First, I kind of want to back up and just start with the basics,
00:23:56.920 the fundamentals of what to a lot of people is a crazy and confusing conversation.
00:24:02.860 Uh, when this executive order talks about, um, not being able to discriminate on gender identity,
00:24:10.280 what does that phrase even mean?
00:24:14.040 It's a great question. And thank you so much for having me, you know,
00:24:18.520 unfortunately our society seems to have adopted the notion that there is such a thing as gender
00:24:25.740 identity and that it merits protection in the law. So I would say two things. One,
00:24:31.700 I would say that really gender identity doesn't mean much of anything. When you really dig down
00:24:38.340 into the particulars, it's a made up ideology that has no grounding in material reality whatsoever.
00:24:46.100 It is fundamentally anti-science and it really doesn't merit being protected in civil rights law.
00:24:53.500 Now, to the extent that so-called gender identity means anything, what it means from a feminist
00:25:00.200 perspective, which is where I come from, gender, as far as we're concerned, is a caste system.
00:25:06.680 Gender is a set of sex-based stereotypes, which we're all really familiar with. It's the notion
00:25:14.520 that girls are supposed to like pink and boys are supposed to like blue, that men are innately
00:25:20.520 aggressive and women are innately nurturing. And these are sex-based stereotypes that feminists have
00:25:27.960 been fighting for centuries to destroy. And to the extent that gender identity means anything at
00:25:34.840 all, it means a person chooses to adopt or identify with the sex-based stereotypes of the opposite sex.
00:25:44.840 And from a feminist perspective, that's extremely harmful because we don't want those sex-based
00:25:49.880 stereotypes to exist at all. From our perspective, if a man wants to wear a pink outfit,
00:25:56.360 he ought to be able to do that. If a woman wants to wear pants and become an attorney or a CEO,
00:26:04.520 she ought to be able to do that. We want to get rid of sex-based stereotypes. And to the extent that
00:26:10.520 so-called gender identity ideology exists, it would enshrine those sex-based stereotypes in society. And what
00:26:19.800 President Biden's order does is enshrine them in the law. And we think that that is horrible for women
00:26:25.960 and girls. But even going back, really at its core, when you really examine it, gender identity doesn't
00:26:33.880 mean anything. It is not grounded in material reality and is anti-science.
00:26:38.680 Right. And we would acknowledge that something, an anomaly like intersex obviously exists.
00:26:46.600 Something like gender dysphoria actually exists. I mean, these are diagnoses that really exist,
00:26:52.920 people feeling uncomfortable in their bodies. But what you are saying is that this idea that we are
00:26:59.720 just able to declare what gender we are independent of our sex has no basis in reality and therefore
00:27:09.800 should have no holding in our law, correct?
00:27:13.960 Yeah. And it's important to bring up the real topic of intersex. It is true that there are people
00:27:22.120 with what is commonly referred to as intersex is sometimes referred to as disorders of sexual
00:27:28.360 development or differences of sexual development. And what that means is that there are some people,
00:27:34.040 a very small minority of people who have chromosomal anomalies, right? Women have XX chromosomes,
00:27:40.280 men have XY chromosomes, and there are some people who have different chromosomal makeups. It's a very
00:27:46.360 tiny minority of the population. And from what I understand of the science, I'm not a scientist,
00:27:52.760 but I have read a lot about this and spoken with scientists and doctors. If anybody has a
00:27:58.200 Y chromosome, that person is still male, because the Y chromosome triggers a certain gene that develops
00:28:05.720 into a male body, right? So what you're referring to as intersex is real, certainly. And yes,
00:28:16.280 my understanding is that there are people who are uncomfortable in their bodies. But I also just want
00:28:21.160 to say there's nothing unusual about being uncomfortable in our bodies. Most people
00:28:28.920 struggle a bit with puberty, especially girls. And there's nothing unusual or strange about one
00:28:37.480 being uncomfortable in one's body. But that doesn't make a person actually the opposite sex.
00:28:43.320 Which is one of the dangers, and especially when it comes to this movement,
00:28:48.440 as it pertains to children. Is that a child who expresses any discomfort in their body or
00:28:53.560 any discomfort with, like you said, gender stereotypes? Maybe a girl who wants to
00:28:59.560 only wear pants and not wear dresses. That was me when I was younger. I never wanted to wear a dress.
00:29:04.040 I wanted to wear a white t-shirt and jeans. I liked bugs and snakes. And I just wasn't into the frilly
00:29:12.200 stuff nowadays that is almost seen as well. Is that young girl confused about her gender? Is she
00:29:19.240 confused about her identity? Should we talk to a psychologist? Should we perhaps use cross-sex
00:29:25.320 hormones in order to suppress puberty or to delay puberty so we can talk about who she really is?
00:29:31.640 I mean, it's kind of scary to think about that there are a lot of kids, there are a lot of girls and boys
00:29:36.680 who have different interests and don't fit maybe the typical gender stereotype that has been constructed
00:29:43.640 that you talked about in the beginning, who now are being told, even sometimes by pediatricians
00:29:49.720 and psychologists and parents, well, that must mean that your body is wrong. That must mean that your
00:29:55.320 biology is wrong. And to me, that just seems like it would be so damaging for adolescents who don't
00:30:02.760 really have gender dysphoria but are almost being pressured into changing their bodies just because
00:30:07.880 they don't fit this narrow definition of what it means to be a boy or a girl, right?
00:30:12.920 Yes. And you're right to say it's very scary. It is extremely scary. And I think that a lot of
00:30:19.320 people are really under-informed about what is really going on here. And what is going on here is that
00:30:24.920 you're absolutely right. Children in schools are being told that if they're uncomfortable in their
00:30:29.960 body, then perhaps they are the opposite sex. And parents are not getting the information
00:30:35.240 that they need to really navigate this very difficult situation. It is scarier than most
00:30:41.240 people understand. We are dealing with a situation in which children, as you say, are getting puberty
00:30:46.840 blockers at alarmingly young ages. And we do not know the long-term effects of puberty blockers on
00:30:54.040 otherwise healthy children. It's worth understanding that puberty blockers were created and first
00:30:59.960 administered for people who have what is referred to as precocious puberty. These are kids who just
00:31:05.080 start puberty early and their medical professionals feel like they're starting puberty at an age where
00:31:11.320 they're not psychologically prepared to handle those kinds of changes. So doctors will halt the process
00:31:17.960 of puberty until the kids are at an age and at a psychological level of development where they're
00:31:24.200 in line with their peers and they're psychologically prepared to handle it. Nobody's disputing the
00:31:29.240 validity of that. The problem here is that we're talking about children who are otherwise
00:31:35.480 normal, we would say, sort of developmentally, and they're being given puberty blockers. And we do not
00:31:41.480 know the long-term effects of this. One thing that we do know is that the overwhelming majority of
00:31:46.520 children who are given puberty blockers go on to take cross-sex hormones. And, you know, this results
00:31:54.120 in some serious health effects. We know that this is more likely to cause cancer in children and young
00:32:02.280 adults. And we know that it causes permanent sterility. And this is happening in children who are not prepared
00:32:09.160 to make the kinds of decisions that our society is pressuring them, as you said, to make.
00:32:16.040 And some of your viewers may not know, there's been a really helpful development in the UK in a case
00:32:24.040 involving a young woman named Kira Bell. She's in the UK and she was given puberty blockers at a very
00:32:31.960 young age, went on to take cross-sex hormones, then turned out to regret all of that and sued the gender
00:32:38.920 identity clinic that she was sent to. And she won her case. And a court in the UK has now ruled that
00:32:45.560 children under 16 cannot legally consent to these kinds of medical interventions. And that case is now on
00:32:53.560 appeal. But it's a very positive development for kids in the UK.
00:32:56.920 Right. Absolutely. I mean, we understand it's just kind of common sense that there are a lot of things
00:33:03.160 that children can't consent to, that they're just not able to kind of make those long-term
00:33:10.200 decisions. That's why the family is important. That's why parents are important. That's why the
00:33:14.600 strength of families is important, because parents are instilled with that responsibility
00:33:21.240 of good stewardship of their kids to help them and guide them to navigate these very confusing
00:33:28.040 questions. And when you kind of surrender that responsibility that you have as a parent to this
00:33:34.840 social experiment that says, well, let's try to change my child's biology because she doesn't want
00:33:40.440 to wear a dress or something like that, or because she learned about this at school and is now confused.
00:33:46.760 Like you said, it becomes very frightening. I'm encouraged by what we saw in the UK.
00:33:52.360 I hope and I could see this kind of snowballing where people are at least able to say,
00:33:59.240 okay, let's not make our kids a social experiment. I want to talk about how this order in particular,
00:34:08.440 and this movement in general has an effect, um, not just on the kids who are getting these puberty
00:34:15.960 blockers at say eight to 11 years old, but also, um, female athletes, uh, young girls in female only
00:34:24.680 spaces, locker rooms, bathrooms. This executive order basically says, if you get federal funding,
00:34:31.160 you're not able to say that boys who identify as girls can't go in the girls' bathroom or
00:34:36.280 run and track against girls. Correct. What's the implication of all of that?
00:34:42.040 Yeah. I, so I want to talk about the order, but just going back to the, to the question of parents
00:34:46.440 and how frightening this is, I'm aware of cases in which parents have lost custody of their children.
00:34:52.600 Children have been removed from their parents' homes in cases where the parents do not go along with the
00:34:58.280 so-called affirming approach. Um, it is impossible to state how alarming this is and how much danger
00:35:06.360 we are all in because, um, the ideology of so-called gender identity has taken over throughout all of
00:35:14.680 our social institutions, including the law, including government, including journalism,
00:35:19.400 including academia. Every single institution has been completely captured by this.
00:35:24.040 And it trumps other rights too. It trumps parental rights. And obviously it's not in the best interest
00:35:29.960 of the child when you think about our foster care system. And unfortunately, in a lot of cases,
00:35:34.520 the abuses and the neglect that goes on there to think that taking a child from the loving home and
00:35:41.000 the caring home and the attentive home of their parents, even parents who think that, okay, you know,
00:35:46.760 I'm not going to go along with this newfound gender identity to think that that could be good
00:35:52.360 for that child. I mean, it's, it just shows you that this is ideologically driven. This is not about
00:35:58.920 the wellbeing of these kids. Absolutely. And, you know, as, as you said earlier, I, you know,
00:36:04.840 I, it's just worth emphasizing. I come at this from a feminist perspective and I agree with you a hundred
00:36:09.280 percent on what you just said. Um, so maybe turning to the order, it might be helpful to go back
00:36:15.400 to last June with the Supreme court's ruling in the Bostock decision. Is that okay to maybe ground
00:36:20.500 this? Okay. Let's definitely do that. Cause this is what the executive order is based on.
00:36:25.240 So the Supreme court last year first combined a couple of cases. It combined two cases in which
00:36:34.240 gay men had been fired from their jobs because they were gay. And it combined those two cases with
00:36:40.560 the case called Amy Stevens, in which a man named Amy Stevens demanded recognition by his employer to
00:36:47.440 be considered to be a woman. And so the court conflated these three cases. It's ruling that the
00:36:54.820 gay men should not have been fired for being gay. We would argue is great from the perspective that it
00:37:01.260 is wrong to fire someone for being gay. We are all in favor of protection of sexual orientation
00:37:08.600 in employment law. But then what it did is it also ruled that it is, it constitutes sex discrimination
00:37:16.360 in the employment context to fire someone based on so-called transgender status. The Supreme court
00:37:24.080 never defined what transgender status might mean. So we don't know. The other thing that's important
00:37:31.320 to note about the Bostock decision from last June is that the court was very clear that it's ruling
00:37:38.580 was limited to employment discrimination. Now, there were many of us at that time that said, well,
00:37:45.980 that's not going to work because for practical purposes, a lot of people are going to interpret this
00:37:52.060 as applying outside of the employment context. And that is exactly what this executive order does. It says
00:38:00.060 inaccurately that Bostock ruled that gender identity is protected. Bostock didn't actually rule that.
00:38:07.720 The language that the Bostock decision used is that people are protected in employment based on
00:38:13.100 transgender status, again, without defining it. And the Bostock decision limited its ruling to the
00:38:20.420 employment context. One thing that this executive order does is state inaccurately that gender identity
00:38:27.660 is now protected in all sorts of other contexts. It uses some tricky language. It says under the reasoning
00:38:35.040 of Bostock, the gender identity protection applies in Title IX and in other contexts. And that's just
00:38:43.980 inaccurate. It's a complete misrepresentation of the Bostock decision. So Bostock happened. And
00:38:52.520 our view is that Bostock was terrible for women and girls. Notwithstanding that, as bad as that was for
00:39:00.900 women and girls, the order takes it even further. And I just want to, sorry, I just want to know for
00:39:06.800 my audience to remember that when Bostock was decided, Justice Gorsuch, a conservative constitutionalist
00:39:14.760 justice, is what swayed the decision in this direction, which a lot of conservatives were
00:39:22.040 very disappointed in. So I just want to remind people that this is not just a matter of liberal
00:39:27.780 versus conservative, that there was a conservative judge that was appointed by President Trump,
00:39:32.840 our justice, that decided that went with the concurrence for the Bostock decision. So I just
00:39:41.800 wanted to note that for everyone. That's right. Thanks for that clarification. So I just think it's
00:39:48.720 really important to understand. We talked about what gender identity is. We didn't really talk about
00:39:54.700 what it isn't. One thing that gender identity, whatever it is, it is not sexual orientation.
00:40:01.780 And I think it's important that everybody really understand that all of the lesbians and gay men
00:40:08.560 that I know do not want to have anything to do with this so-called gender identity movement.
00:40:15.200 They just don't want to be affiliated with it because same-sex attracted people are attracted to
00:40:21.140 other people on the basis of sex. Opposite-sex people are attracted to people on the basis of
00:40:26.660 sex. This is all grounded in material reality. It has nothing to do with so-called gender identity,
00:40:32.960 whatever that means. And we need to understand that it is simply not possible to protect women and girls
00:40:41.860 in the law, in sports, in same-sex or in sex-segregated spaces, in prisons, in domestic violence shelters,
00:40:53.320 rape crisis centers, homeless shelters. We cannot protect women and girls and also say that gender
00:41:01.800 identity is a category of people worthy of civil rights protection. They are just not compatible.
00:41:10.240 So we just need to understand that if we're going to have laws and policies that protect so-called
00:41:17.760 gender identity, what we are doing is obliterating women and girls as a sex-based class of people in
00:41:25.840 the law. And obviously the reason why that's important is because it's something that I think a lot of
00:41:32.220 transgender activists deny, and that is that there are fundamental biological differences between men and
00:41:38.600 women. The reason why we raise so many concerns about biological men entering women's spaces, and
00:41:44.080 we don't so much, quite as much, talk about biological women entering men's spaces, and the danger of that
00:41:50.300 is because there is potentially a physical threat, especially when you're talking about physical
00:41:55.600 competition and track or something like that. There is a physical advantage that biological men
00:42:02.360 have over the average woman that poses a threat to her, that can be a danger to her. And I actually
00:42:10.700 talked about that once, and the response that I got from someone, which I just think is so detached
00:42:17.860 from reality, but is indicative of how a lot of activists apparently think. And this person told me
00:42:24.020 that that was internalized misogyny, that there's no reason why a woman wouldn't be able to beat a man
00:42:30.440 and track. There's no reason why a woman wouldn't be able to defend herself in a situation in which a man
00:42:35.860 entered what is supposed to be a private, exclusively female space. That's just me affirming gender
00:42:42.360 stereotypes about women being the weaker sex. It's almost like we're not even allowed to talk about the
00:42:48.160 biological advantages that men, even those who identify as women and, you know, maybe taking cross-sex
00:42:56.000 hormones have over women. Why, why this detachment from reality?
00:43:01.700 It's not even almost as though we're not allowed to talk about it. It is, it is exactly that we are
00:43:07.360 not allowed to talk about it, but feminists will keep talking about this. And you're absolutely right.
00:43:13.000 Men do retain physical advantages over women in sports. And I also just think, even if that weren't
00:43:19.760 true, and it is men retain physical advantages over women in sports, even if they're taking
00:43:25.020 puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones, they do, they retain physical advantages just in terms of size
00:43:31.040 alone. And, um, other things like bone density, lung capacity, hormones don't change any of that.
00:43:38.500 Right.
00:43:38.720 But even if that weren't true, women need to have the right to say no to men under any circumstances
00:43:46.880 for any reason or no reason at all, including in the bedroom, in our bathrooms and on the playing
00:43:53.440 field. We have to be absolutely relentless about this. Women have the right to say no to men.
00:44:00.200 Yeah. Yeah. And I think that's probably a point that is lost in all of this. And it also seems like
00:44:06.500 there are many people who are comfortable with living in this cognitive dissonance that for example,
00:44:11.400 we can say that Kamala Harris is the first female vice president. And so we obviously
00:44:18.540 acknowledge that sex is significant, that it actually means something, that it's not just
00:44:24.160 her gender identity that makes this a special event or a special accomplishment. We still call
00:44:32.320 people, I would say normal, most people in society still refer to people by gendered pronouns and the
00:44:39.300 gender binary of he and she and her and him. And yet when it comes to something like this executive
00:44:45.400 order, when it comes to activism, we push all of that common sense away and we start embracing this
00:44:52.480 dissonance, detached from reality language of, well, gender identity is this very fluid thing that has
00:44:59.520 nothing to do with sex. And like you said, it also confuses things like homosexuality. I saw someone the
00:45:05.600 other day, call out Miley Cyrus. Miley Cyrus said, you know, I'm attracted to women because of this
00:45:11.300 part of their anatomy and it's better than this part of guy's anatomy. And, you know,
00:45:16.220 And she used fairly cruise language, characteristically of Miley Cyrus.
00:45:20.540 She did. She did. And people were upset about that. Not because I guess of her attraction,
00:45:25.800 but because she associated certain anatomy with women and certain anatomy with men. And this person who
00:45:32.360 was trying to refute her said, no, no, no, no, no. Homosexuality is really about being attracted to
00:45:36.840 gender identity, not, not about being attracted to anatomy. And I just, like you were saying, I just
00:45:44.020 don't think that's true. This all seems very unsustainable to me. Like it's just going to come
00:45:49.480 to a head at some point. One can only hope. The dissonance that you talk about is absolutely
00:45:58.080 astonishing. I have been following this issue for years and because of my feminist activism and my
00:46:04.420 feminist background, I have known how devastating this all is to the rights, privacy and safety of
00:46:10.560 women and girls. What I did not see coming and what most of us did not see coming is the speed and force
00:46:17.060 with which this ideology has completely captured all of our institutions. And you're absolutely right
00:46:22.700 about the dissonance. So just another example, uh, also yesterday, Keira Knightley, the actress from
00:46:29.320 the UK announced that she will no longer, uh, she will no longer be filmed doing sex scenes that are
00:46:35.860 directed by men. And the thing of it is, this has nothing to do with so-called gender identity. This is
00:46:40.800 just her making a statement about what she is and is, and is not willing to do on, on camera.
00:46:46.180 And every single person who read that story knows exactly what she means. She knows, we all know
00:46:54.460 that she is a woman and we all know what she means by a sex scene. And we all know what she means by
00:47:02.160 sex scenes directed by men. When we have conversations like this, normally when we're not talking about so
00:47:09.420 called gender identity, everybody knows what a woman is and everybody knows what a man is. But all of a
00:47:15.400 sudden when the phrase gender identity comes onto the scene, people act like they're all of a sudden
00:47:20.700 confused, but in reality, no one's really confused. It's just the dissonance. It's the dissonance that
00:47:27.020 you're talking about, which is just astonishing. It's, it's forced confusion, which I think, um,
00:47:34.300 a good portion of the sexual revolution, at least from my conservative perspective is a lot of forced
00:47:41.360 confusion. Um, and it's damaging, like you said, not just to individuals, not just to people's safety
00:47:47.660 and privacy, but also to families, um, to children, to people's minds. Um, something that has really
00:47:54.880 been settled science for as long as humans have been around is now being called into question.
00:48:00.500 And we're already seeing the damaging societal ramifications for that. And what I hope is that,
00:48:07.680 you know, I always say that truth is like a beach ball. You can try to push it under the water,
00:48:12.260 but eventually it's going to pop back up to me. This is such an irrefutable reality. The reality
00:48:18.880 of male and female that the beach ball is going to pop back up one way or another. It's just a matter
00:48:23.980 of how much damage is going to be caused in the process. Do you agree? I completely agree. I think
00:48:30.100 that you and I could probably have a very interesting conversation about what is meant by the sexual
00:48:34.780 revolution. And I'm sure that you and I probably disagree about a lot of things that, that that's,
00:48:40.100 that's entailed in that. And that's fine. I'm, I'm happy to talk with people who disagree with me on
00:48:44.760 a lot of things. Um, but I guess I just want to say that what feminists were doing during the second
00:48:51.460 wave of feminism in the 1960s and 1970s was not about denying the category of women. You know,
00:48:59.740 you and I might disagree about a lot of things about second wave feminism and that's okay.
00:49:03.660 But one thing we have to be very clear on is that feminists never tried to suggest that women don't
00:49:09.220 exist. It's the exact opposite of that. And now it's all just been perverted.
00:49:14.220 Yeah. I think my argument would be when it would be around like what women were purportedly
00:49:25.140 liberated from. And I think that trying to minimize gender harmful gender stereotypes is good. And
00:49:35.140 obviously affirming people's sex, even if they don't fit into narrow categories is really good.
00:49:40.380 I think I take issue with the parts of feminism that say, well, women need to be able to be exactly
00:49:46.920 like men. And we need to get away with this idea that women are more nurturing or, uh, women tend to
00:49:52.400 like these things when in general, a lot of those descriptors are true. And when we try to tell women,
00:49:58.780 no, you can be like this and you can be exactly like a man to me, it's almost inevitable that it
00:50:04.640 leads to kind of the confusion that we're seeing right now that, okay, if we get rid of all unique
00:50:10.640 descriptors of men and women, then there's going to be a whole lot of confusion. So I'm not saying I have
00:50:17.080 the answer to the balance of that, but I can also see how the logic of feminism has led to where we
00:50:21.960 are right now. I mean, I can understand the argument that you're making and I would disagree
00:50:27.720 with it because I don't think that feminism was saying that it also becomes a little bit difficult
00:50:31.800 because there are different kinds of feminism and we have to get into like, you know, labels of
00:50:37.440 this type versus that type and all sorts of things that I don't think we have time for. Um,
00:50:42.040 so I, I think, I think that what we're talking about right now actually leads to a really interesting
00:50:48.100 conversation about how in our society today, people can talk with one another, right? Like
00:50:54.000 I heard what you just said and I can understand your argument and disagree with it. And I don't hate
00:51:00.920 you, you know, I don't, I definitely don't hate you either. Yes. I feel like there are a lot of ways
00:51:07.340 in which our society has lost the ability to have decent conversations with people with whom we
00:51:13.340 might disagree. And, you know, we might change each other's minds. You know, I don't know. I'm
00:51:19.160 open to that possibility. I would welcome more conversations like this, but when it comes to the
00:51:24.260 topic of gender identity, people who push back against it are generally shut down. Um, I, you know,
00:51:30.200 I think you mentioned my Tucker Carlson appearance. I related a story to him about how, uh, about a year
00:51:35.980 ago, I, and a couple other women wanted to have a conversation, a public conversation in a public
00:51:41.120 library about how so-called gender identity is destroying the rights of women and girls.
00:51:46.500 And I'm not kidding when I say that as we left, literally hundreds of people ran after us and
00:51:51.940 threatened us. And you know, it's just astonishing. I know women who have, I literally know women who
00:51:58.560 have lost their jobs because they speak up for the rights, privacy, and safety of women and girls.
00:52:03.300 And the, um, the tyranny of this is just, is, is really destructive to civil society and to humanity.
00:52:15.720 And I think it speaks to how bad the idea is. Bad ideas have to be forced. Bad ideas have to come
00:52:23.040 tyrannically. Bad ideas have to be bullied into the populace and have to, um, the, I mean, I think
00:52:30.380 this executive order goes against popular opinion. I think it goes against what most people know is
00:52:35.480 good and right and true, uh, for society. And yet, uh, because of the tyrannical nature that you just
00:52:42.480 described because of the bullying, sometimes with these lobbying groups, I think a lot of politicians
00:52:47.240 and, um, just private citizens are forced to conform. And like I said, it's not a good idea if it doesn't
00:52:55.800 allow for the, um, for the airing out of other ideas too. Um, so thank you for what you do. Thank
00:53:03.660 you for being willing to speak out, even when it's unpopular, even when it can feel dangerous at times,
00:53:08.960 can you tell people where they can find you and how they can support what you do?
00:53:13.980 Sure. Please visit womensdeclaration.com. Check it out. See if you like it. If you like it,
00:53:19.520 sign onto it. You also might want to check out the 11th hour blog. That's the number 11 11th hour
00:53:25.940 blog. Uh, this goes into extraordinary detail about the funding that is fueling this movement.
00:53:32.480 And, um, yeah, just check us out. There's, there's actually a lot of information out there. It's just
00:53:37.960 very difficult to find, but you can find it, but go to womensdeclaration.com as a starting point.
00:53:43.560 Awesome. Well, thank you so much. I really appreciate you taking the time to talk to us.
00:53:47.240 Thank you. I appreciate it.
00:53:49.520 All right, guys, thank you so much for listening to this episode and, uh, that conversation.
00:53:59.540 Obviously there's a lot more to be said about, um, all of this. I think the thing that we worry
00:54:05.980 about as Christians is obviously parental rights, obviously what this means for our kids and the
00:54:11.360 subversion of reality, not just biblical truth, which, like I said, at the beginning of this episode,
00:54:16.180 as we've talked about before is so fundamental to our worldview that God created the male and
00:54:20.980 female. Um, really that God is just in charge, that he created the universe, that he says what
00:54:25.600 is and what is it, what's right. And what's wrong, what's male and what's female. And he made them male
00:54:30.020 and female and he made them very good. And so it is a fundamental tenet of Christianity that we affirm
00:54:35.720 that which God says is very good, that we therefore affirm God's authority over the world,
00:54:42.060 over our bodies, over our so-called identities, that the world is his. That's why my favorite hymn is
00:54:47.780 this is my father's world. When chaos and confusion are waging, when we have gotten so far into
00:54:55.180 postmodernism and the denial of absolute truth that we can't even say what a woman is, something that
00:55:00.640 has been established since the beginning of human existence that hasn't been arguable in any sense of
00:55:07.760 the word. Now we've decided with all the human hubris in the world that this is up for debate
00:55:13.780 at the expense of the protection of children, uh, the cohesion of the family and the preservation and
00:55:20.920 the privacy of women. And so we've got to stay grounded in the truth, biblical truth, moral truth,
00:55:27.160 natural truth that we can observe with our eyes and ears. And this also matters politically as well,
00:55:33.220 because, uh, the more we look to the state or the more we look to the popular party or the mainstream
00:55:38.860 dogma about what is true and what is not, what is scientific reality and what is not, the more
00:55:45.340 vulnerable we become to being overtaken by totalitarianism. We talked about yesterday that
00:55:52.080 totalitarianism, it doesn't start with the state. It doesn't start with politics. It's a cultural
00:55:58.140 revolution that happens. It starts on the private level. It starts on the interpersonal level.
00:56:02.520 It starts in the pulpit. It starts in all of our interactions, um, in daily life. And it starts
00:56:10.040 with the subversion of truth. Hannah Arendt, who is an author who, uh, wrote about the origins of
00:56:15.960 totalitarianism in the mid 20th century. Uh, she says this quote, which I think is just very profound.
00:56:22.260 The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced communist,
00:56:28.240 but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, i.e. the reality of experience and the
00:56:35.060 distinction between true and false, i.e. the standards of thought no longer exist. We see that
00:56:40.720 this is true. And George Orwell's 1984, that if the party says two plus two equals five, then it has to
00:56:47.840 equal five. And you, as just a mere agent of the state, have no ability, have no existential right
00:56:57.060 to be able to say, no authority to be able to say that two plus two actually objectively equals four.
00:57:03.020 That's a dangerous place to be. I think that we see bits of this actually on the right and the left.
00:57:07.920 This doesn't just have to do with gender. It has to do with truth in general. Um, and so we have a
00:57:13.280 blessed privilege as Christians to know truth, to know the source of truth, to know where it comes
00:57:17.020 from, to appeal to the authority of all things when we are confused and when the world is confused.
00:57:22.540 And that is what our comfort is, that this is our father's world. He created it. He says what is and
00:57:28.200 what isn't. He says what's right and what's wrong. He says what is male and what is female. Um, and even
00:57:33.920 in the craziness of all these executive orders and maybe in leadership and decisions we don't like,
00:57:38.560 we can trust that he is still as much on his throne and as much in control as he has ever been.
00:57:43.520 And I'm thankful for that. All right. We will be back here tomorrow.