Ep 358 | Biden Erases Women & Jobs with Executive Orders | Guest: Kara Dansky
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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.
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Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Tuesday. Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so
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far. Thanks for all of the positive feedback. On yesterday's episode, we talked about taking
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care of babies and cancel culture, what it is, what it isn't, why real cancel culture
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is completely unsustainable, why it's not just holding someone accountable, but it truly is
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this kind of totalitarian tyranny and bullying that we should want no part in and we should be
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pushing back against. We also talked about Christian nationalism. I was a little bit
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rushed in the last half of yesterday's episode, and I didn't get to talk about everything that
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I wanted to in regards to Christian nationalism and distinguishing between some of the dangerous
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aspects of nationalism and real good patriotism. That's also a fear that I have, that people will
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be kind of slinging these vague terms and vague accusations like Christian nationalism to make
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people think that they shouldn't be thankful for their country or they shouldn't be proud of their
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country and to accuse people of idolatry who love their country. That's also a dangerous precedent to
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set. And so I will talk more about that. I'm also going to bring on a guest who has a very different
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perspective on Christian nationalism than most people do. But if you're interested in that, go listen to
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yesterday's episode. Today, we are going to answer some questions that you guys have had in regards to
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the executive orders that the Biden administration has signed in the last few days, in the first few
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days of his presidency. And then I have a guest on who describes herself as a feminist and an advocate
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for women's rights, who is very concerned about this executive order that Joe Biden signed that has to do
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with so-called gender equality and gender identity, what it means for women's sports, what it means for
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women's privacy and protection in what is supposed to be exclusively female spaces. And we're going to
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talk about, in general, this transgender movement, transgender activism, and why from a feminist
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perspective she believes this is so damaging. Obviously, we disagree on aspects of feminism, and we talk
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about that just a little bit. But I think it's really important to get a different perspective on it.
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And I did an episode called The Biblical Telos of Gender, talking about the biblical perspective on
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gender and so-called gender identity and what sex looks like, how Genesis 1, the first chapter of
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the Bible, is so clarifying and is such a good foundation for all of us about that. And so I'll link to that
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episode as well in this description. But today, I wanted to get a different perspective from a feminist on
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all of this. So definitely, definitely excited to let you guys hear that conversation. But first,
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let us go through some of these executive orders. They were, I think, at this point, as I'm recording
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this, 34 or 35 executive orders that Joe Biden has signed in just the first few days of his presidency.
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And most of these executive orders indicate what a lot of us knew, what a lot of conservatives
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knew about him going into the election was that he's not a moderate. He's not a middle of the road
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guy. He is just as progressive, I would say, as Bernie Sanders would be at this point. Now,
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personally, that's probably not true. He probably does not identify as a democratic socialist. I think
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he's a capitalist, at least personally. He probably is a moderate personally in a lot of ways. But we told
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you guys that him choosing Kamala Harris as his vice president signaled who he was trying to reach and
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signaled what kind of presidency this would be. Kamala Harris was the most liberal senator based on her
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votes when she was in the Senate. We knew that he was going to be a far left progressive, at least in
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how he leads to the country. And we have seen through his many executive orders over the past
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few days that that is already shaping up to be true. We're not going to go through all 34 of them,
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but I want to go through four or five of what I think are some of the most controversial. I'll also
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talk about one, at least briefly, that I'm encouraged by, that I actually think, at least on the surface,
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is a very good thing. And I'm also going to talk about how last week he stated very proudly and
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publicly that he wants to codify, codify Roe v. Wade and what that actually means. But first,
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let's go through some of these executive orders. And so I want to talk about the Keystone Pipeline
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because a lot of you guys have asked me about that. He stopped construction of the Keystone Pipeline.
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It's a 1,200-mile structure carrying oil from Canada to the U.S. Now, Canada, being the leftist
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socialist place that it is, you would think would be in line with anything that Democrat President
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Joe Biden would do. But they're actually very upset about this. There was a representative
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from Canada who was on Fox News the other day saying, this is a terrible decision. Like,
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this is not good for Canada. This is not good for jobs. It's not good for the economy. It's not even
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good for the environment, a lot of people are saying. So Canada is also not happy about this
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decision, especially that the United States did not consult Canada before making this decision.
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Now, if President Trump had done something like this, there would be chyrons and headlines
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everywhere about how he has already rocked democratic norms and he has already torn apart
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our alliance with one of our strongest and geographically closest allies, Canada, by making
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a decision without any regard to the Canadian people. This just shows his bigotry, the bigotry
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of America first. That's what we would be hearing about if he had made a decision without consulting
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Canada that Canada is saying hurts them. But of course, we're not going to hear that about
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the Biden administration because the media, as we have seen over the past few days, is
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just so excited to have an ally again in the White House. And so climate activists and therefore
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a lot of leftists are excited about this. They have been trying to stop the construction of the
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Keystone pipeline. They say that, you know, you're carrying this over indigenous lands. That's
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that's not fair. That we are endangering animals and birds. This is all arguable, by the way. And if
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you'll remember, a couple years ago, there were protests, I think mostly held by environmental
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activists and some indigenous people, protests against the construction of the pipeline. And the
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pictures that we saw after these people camped out in protest of the construction was just trash
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everywhere. There was trash everywhere. I mean, it was rancid. It was terrible. And so these people
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who claim to care about the environment, some of them are protesting and actually are polluting
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the land through their protests. And so there's just a little bit of irony there. So obviously,
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the the ending of the construction of this pipeline, one of the immediate consequences
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is job layoffs in a time where our economy is really struggling, where people need jobs
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more than ever. This is from MSN.com. A general manager working on the Keystone XL pipeline said
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that hundreds of guys employed to build the controversial pipeline have already been laid
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off from their jobs after President Biden signed an executive order to halt construction. Senator Ted
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Cruz has already spoken out about it, saying during Pete Buttigieg's confirmation, quote, and with the
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stroke of a pen, President Biden has told those 11,000 workers, these union workers, which the unions
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were very pro Biden for the most part, has told these union workers, your jobs are gone. Canadian
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prime minister, like we alluded to just a few minutes ago, Justin Trudeau has also stated he is
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disappointed in this in this decision. So the U.S. won't use Alberta oil from tar sands. That just
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reinforces America's dependence on Middle East oil producers. And so that's why people say this doesn't
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actually help the environment. Like we're still going to be getting oil. We're still going to
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be spending money on oil production. But now rather than bolstering our own economy and the economy of
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Canada to produce and to transfer our oil, we're just going to be relying on the Middle East. We're
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going to be relying on these anti-humanitarian regimes like Saudi Arabia for oil. We're just going
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to be getting more oil from them. So if we're actually worried about the environment and if
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we're worried about the humanitarian costs to building this pipeline on what they're calling
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indigenous lands, then shouldn't we also care about being overly or even more dependent on the
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Middle East for our oil production? So that is that's one of the executive orders that people are
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having a very hard time with right now, not just because it lessens our own dependence,
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our own independence and dependence on one of our allies for oil, but also because of the loss of
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jobs. A lot of these people are working class people who may have voted for Joe Biden because their
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union told them to vote for Joe Biden because Joe Biden said that he was pro-union. Joe Biden also put
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a moratorium on fracking. We're talking about the loss of even more jobs. He said in a debate,
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Kamala Harris said that he was not going to ban fracking. Well, that's pretty much what he's
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already done. We told you guys he's a radical. I mean, he is going to pander to the far left.
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You thought Obama was liberal. This is going to be a more liberal presidency. He also issued an
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executive order reversing Trump's ban on transgender people serving in the U.S. military. Now, this might
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sound good, but there needs to be some clarification. Now, here's what Fox 13 Memphis says in reporting
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this. The order will apply to more than 15,000 transgender people currently estimated to be
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serving in the military. According to numbers from the National Center for Transgender Equality,
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the order immediately bars people from being discharged or denied re-enlistment based on
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their gender identities and orders the correction of previously affected military records. So,
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really, the reason for the ban was not just people who have a different gender identity,
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um, but one of the problems was is that people were, uh, these people were transitioning while
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they were serving in the military and they were being discharged because of that, um, under Trump's
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so-called ban and activists are saying, well, that's not fair. Their transition should not only be paid
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for, but it shouldn't have anything to do with whether or not they're able to serve in the military.
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LifeSite News, um, it talks about, uh, talks about the problems with Joe Biden's decision to
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reverse this. The order calls for establishing a process by which transgender service members
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may transition gender while serving and immediately prohibits involuntary separations,
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discharges, and denials of re-enlistment or continuation of service on the basis of gender
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identity or under circumstances relating to gender identity. Um, it does not specifically address
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whether reassignment surgeries, uh, will once more be offered to gender confused soldiers at
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taxpayer expense, but, uh, conservative critics expect that announcement to soon follow in light
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of the Biden administration's overall support for the transgender lobby from preferred pronouns to
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forcing biological males into girls sports. And so the problem with this is that the military
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is not supposed to be a social experiment. The military is supposed to be about effectiveness.
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It's supposed to be about lethality. I mean, there's, that's why a lot of people are against
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women on the front lines and women in combat. That's why they're against, uh, for example,
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I don't even, I don't even know the proper terminology, but, um, in certain combat situations,
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I'm mixing men and women because men and women are fundamentally different. Women just can't do the
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same things men can. And the surgeries and the cross sex hormones that are often used in surgery
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can hinder someone's ability to be as lethal as possible to be able to carry out their duty. So
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anything, whether it is, um, whether it's, um, a surgery or transition or any other kind of physical
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hindrance that could possibly cause someone from being less lethal or to, to be less lethal in combat
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should absolutely be looked at. I mean, we're not, we shouldn't be talking about, uh, creating some
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kind of social experiment within the military. The most important thing for the military to be is
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lethal, to be effective. So anything that could possibly potentially negative effect someone's
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lethality, someone's effectiveness, whether that is, uh, distracting the men in the military with
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having, uh, with, uh, with being intermixed with females, which we've actually seen studies of that,
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how that can hinder lethality and hinder effectiveness, not just because they're distracted
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by each other, but women in general, aren't able to fulfill the same physical duties that men are.
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That's just the biological reality. Um, or whether it's something like this, someone's, uh, transition
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hindering their ability to be able to do their job effectively in the military. We have to be able to
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think logically about this. Like we have to be able to think scientifically about this. This again,
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is not just about a social issue. It's about the protection of our country and physically what
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someone is actually capable to, uh, capable of doing, but the Biden administration is always going
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to prioritize leftist activism over what actually biologically scientifically makes sense. Um, he also
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issued an executive order reversing the Mexico city policy, uh, the Mexico city policy. This has been
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gone back and forth between democratic and Republican presidents for as long as it has existed.
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The Mexico city policy, uh, prevents us aid money from funding groups that perform or promote
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abortion around the globe. National review notes that this particular executive order does seem to be
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out of step with most Democrats. Uh, 70% of Democrats said in 2017 that they oppose taxpayer funded
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abortion around the globe. Now Biden has also said, uh, that he is going to work to
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reverse the Hyde amendment. The Hyde amendment, um, was instated in the 1970s and it protects our
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taxpayer dollars, our federal tax dollars from directly funding most abortions. Well, uh, the
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abortion lobby has said this discriminates against poor women who want abortions. They should be able
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to get abortions for free. The taxpayer, you know, like you and me should be forced to pay for
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people's abortions, um, with unrestricted access. And so Joe Biden has also said that he supports that.
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Like I said, he also believes in codifying Roe v. Wade, uh, the codification of, uh, Roe v. Wade
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would basically make it very difficult for States to put restrictions on abortion. It would enshrine and,
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um, make official the rights to have an abortion pretty much at any time in the pregnancy for,
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any reason. And with the reversal of the Hyde amendment would also mean that you and I are
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paying for it. So again, like I'm not trying to be rude or anything, or I'm not trying to be prideful
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in saying this, but when I look at some of these things, um, I just wonder what the evangelical
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pro-life people for Biden who described themselves as evangelical pro-lifers when they said they were
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voting for Biden, like what, what, what, what, like, what were you voting for? Were you voting for
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this kind of superficial promise of, of normalcy and decency? Like, what were you voting for? I
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understand why you didn't vote for Donald Trump. That's totally fine. But like, we told you guys,
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this was coming down the pipeline. Like we told you guys, this is what was coming. We told you guys
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there was going to be a subversion, an official legal subversion of, of gender and what that
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actually looks like. Like we told you guys that this was going to happen. We told you guys that he
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was going to be the most pro-abortion president. And this was going to be the most pro-abortion
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administration that we've seen. We told you guys that like every purported value that evangelicals,
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that Christians have, I mean, his executive orders over the past few days have already bucked
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up against. And we told you guys this was going to happen. This is not a surprise. And so now I
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think we're going to see a lot of evangelicals possibly either you're just not, they're not
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going to care or they're going to say, wow, I'm, you know, I'm really worried about the equality
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actor. I'm really worried about this executive order on gender identity, or I'm really worried
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about this reversal of the Mexico city policy or the codification of Roe v. Wade. I'm really
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worried about this when you've spent the past four years directing all of your ire at Donald
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Trump and telling people that they're not good Christians if they do vote for Donald
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Trump. And even implicitly or explicitly saying that Joe Biden is the adult in the room and
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he is the candidate of decency. And it would be better to vote for a Democrat who is rabidly
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pro-abortion and who denies biological reality that God created than it would be to vote for
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a Twitter bully. I mean, and I'm just, it's going to be very hard for me to watch. That's
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what I'll say. There was another executive order to pause construction of the border wall.
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There are various executive orders as well that have to do with immigration. He has signaled
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that he does not believe in strong borders and he does not believe that we need greater
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or more effective border security. And that the pathway to getting citizenship as an illegal
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immigrant really should just be as easy as possible. And citizenship basically becomes
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this arbitrary thing. So all of you legal immigrants who you came here legally and you worked very
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hard and you went through the very, very long process of becoming a legal citizen. It really
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doesn't matter. You know, you didn't have to do that. You could have just come here illegally
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and you could have broken the law and you could have had the same end result probably a lot more
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quickly. But because you decided to go through the process with integrity and through hard work
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and with honesty, you had to wait a very long time and possibly pay a lot of money. You could have
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just broken laws and done it without integrity and gotten it all for free. That is the message that
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Biden is going to send on immigration. All right. Now I want to talk about, well, I want to talk about
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the executive order on gender and in particular what this means to women's sports. And that's what
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we're going to talk about in the upcoming conversation. But I also do want to say that
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there is one executive order that I actually appreciated. So there's an executive order aimed
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at boosting Biden's buy American efforts. It increases how much of a product must be made in the U.S.
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for it to qualify is made in America. It will also create a website for Americans to see what
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contracts are being awarded to foreign vendors in a position with the Office of Management and Budget
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to implement federal procurement efforts. And so I don't know necessarily what this is going to
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accomplish, but anything that promotes or encourages buying American products, I think, is good.
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I was also encouraged that the nominee for the Secretary of State, who is probably going to be,
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I think his hearings are going to end today. He will probably be confirmed that he reaffirmed
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what Trump's Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, said about the Uyghur Muslims in China. He declared it
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a genocide and accused China of crimes against humanity, which is obviously a very serious charge to
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level. The nominee for Biden Secretary of State agreed with that characterization. So I think
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that's good. Like, I am not scared at all to cheer on this administration if they put America first
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when it comes to job creation, which obviously we know that they're not doing that because they're
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talking about raising the minimum wage to $15, which is going to crush small businesses. And they're
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also talking about raising taxes, which will crush the middle class. They're also getting rid of the
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Keystone Pipeline, which is taking away jobs. But where they do try to focus on American jobs,
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I will applaud them. Where they do condemn China, our greatest economic and in some ways safety threat,
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it's hard to say military threat because we're still the strongest military power in the world,
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but our biggest threat in many different categories, as long as they're strong on those things,
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I will applaud them on the things that they're doing well. So this particular executive order,
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at least superficially, I actually do appreciate. So lots of other executive orders. This is,
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you know, we've talked about this, how this phrase is so overused, or this word is so overused,
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unprecedented. It really is an unprecedented number of executive orders that are being signed right now,
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not just to reverse everything that Donald Trump has done, but to enact new orders and new measures
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as well. They also reversed Donald Trump's executive order banning critical race theory
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at the federal level. So now critical race theory will take its place back in training sessions in the
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federal government. You guys know how I feel about that. We've talked about critical race theory and how
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damaging it is many, many times, but of course, that's what they're going to do. They got rid of
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the 1776 project, which was a counter to the fallacious and false 1619 project, the mythical 1619
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project. Of course, they are going to be pushing critical race theory and identity politics and
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things like the 1619 project and all of this craziness that is very damaging and divisive
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for society. Meanwhile, they will be saying that they are the unifying force, bringing people
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together. There's a lot more to talk about, about the first few days of the Biden presidency. But now
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we're going to talk about the executive order that has to do with so-called gender identity
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and how it affects women and girls. And I'm going to speak to Kara Dansky. She is an attorney
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and a member of the steering committee of the women's rights campaign, the U.S. chapter.
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Kara, thank you so much for joining me. I am really excited to get your perspective
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on this executive order. First, I kind of want to back up and just start with the basics,
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the fundamentals of what to a lot of people is a crazy and confusing conversation.
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Uh, when this executive order talks about, um, not being able to discriminate on gender identity,
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It's a great question. And thank you so much for having me, you know,
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unfortunately our society seems to have adopted the notion that there is such a thing as gender
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identity and that it merits protection in the law. So I would say two things. One,
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I would say that really gender identity doesn't mean much of anything. When you really dig down
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into the particulars, it's a made up ideology that has no grounding in material reality whatsoever.
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It is fundamentally anti-science and it really doesn't merit being protected in civil rights law.
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Now, to the extent that so-called gender identity means anything, what it means from a feminist
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perspective, which is where I come from, gender, as far as we're concerned, is a caste system.
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Gender is a set of sex-based stereotypes, which we're all really familiar with. It's the notion
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that girls are supposed to like pink and boys are supposed to like blue, that men are innately
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aggressive and women are innately nurturing. And these are sex-based stereotypes that feminists have
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been fighting for centuries to destroy. And to the extent that gender identity means anything at
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all, it means a person chooses to adopt or identify with the sex-based stereotypes of the opposite sex.
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And from a feminist perspective, that's extremely harmful because we don't want those sex-based
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stereotypes to exist at all. From our perspective, if a man wants to wear a pink outfit,
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he ought to be able to do that. If a woman wants to wear pants and become an attorney or a CEO,
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she ought to be able to do that. We want to get rid of sex-based stereotypes. And to the extent that
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so-called gender identity ideology exists, it would enshrine those sex-based stereotypes in society. And what
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President Biden's order does is enshrine them in the law. And we think that that is horrible for women
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and girls. But even going back, really at its core, when you really examine it, gender identity doesn't
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mean anything. It is not grounded in material reality and is anti-science.
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Right. And we would acknowledge that something, an anomaly like intersex obviously exists.
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Something like gender dysphoria actually exists. I mean, these are diagnoses that really exist,
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people feeling uncomfortable in their bodies. But what you are saying is that this idea that we are
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just able to declare what gender we are independent of our sex has no basis in reality and therefore
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.
00:43:38.720
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.
00:53:49.520
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
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female. Um, really that God is just in charge, that he created the universe, that he says what
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is and what is it, what's right. And what's wrong, what's male and what's female. And he made them male
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and female and he made them very good. And so it is a fundamental tenet of Christianity that we affirm
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that which God says is very good, that we therefore affirm God's authority over the world,
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over our bodies, over our so-called identities, that the world is his. That's why my favorite hymn is
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this is my father's world. When chaos and confusion are waging, when we have gotten so far into
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postmodernism and the denial of absolute truth that we can't even say what a woman is, something that
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has been established since the beginning of human existence that hasn't been arguable in any sense of
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the word. Now we've decided with all the human hubris in the world that this is up for debate
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at the expense of the protection of children, uh, the cohesion of the family and the preservation and
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the privacy of women. And so we've got to stay grounded in the truth, biblical truth, moral truth,
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natural truth that we can observe with our eyes and ears. And this also matters politically as well,
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because, uh, the more we look to the state or the more we look to the popular party or the mainstream
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dogma about what is true and what is not, what is scientific reality and what is not, the more
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vulnerable we become to being overtaken by totalitarianism. We talked about yesterday that
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totalitarianism, it doesn't start with the state. It doesn't start with politics. It's a cultural
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revolution that happens. It starts on the private level. It starts on the interpersonal level.
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It starts in the pulpit. It starts in all of our interactions, um, in daily life. And it starts
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with the subversion of truth. Hannah Arendt, who is an author who, uh, wrote about the origins of
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totalitarianism in the mid 20th century. Uh, she says this quote, which I think is just very profound.
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The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced communist,
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but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, i.e. the reality of experience and the
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distinction between true and false, i.e. the standards of thought no longer exist. We see that
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this is true. And George Orwell's 1984, that if the party says two plus two equals five, then it has to
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equal five. And you, as just a mere agent of the state, have no ability, have no existential right
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to be able to say, no authority to be able to say that two plus two actually objectively equals four.
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That's a dangerous place to be. I think that we see bits of this actually on the right and the left.
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This doesn't just have to do with gender. It has to do with truth in general. Um, and so we have a
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blessed privilege as Christians to know truth, to know the source of truth, to know where it comes
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from, to appeal to the authority of all things when we are confused and when the world is confused.
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And that is what our comfort is, that this is our father's world. He created it. He says what is and
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what isn't. He says what's right and what's wrong. He says what is male and what is female. Um, and even
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in the craziness of all these executive orders and maybe in leadership and decisions we don't like,
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we can trust that he is still as much on his throne and as much in control as he has ever been.
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And I'm thankful for that. All right. We will be back here tomorrow.