Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - July 07, 2021


Ep 450 ｜ Sexual Revolution： Drag-ging Your Kids' Minds Into the Gutter


Episode Stats

Length

36 minutes

Words per Minute

168.87982

Word Count

6,236

Sentence Count

354

Misogynist Sentences

9

Hate Speech Sentences

38


Summary

On the heels of Pride Month, we re going all in on some disturbing content and ideas we ve seen promoted in the LGBTQ+ space. In this episode, we dive into an article from The Washington Post, and the controversy surrounding Kink at Pride.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey, guys, welcome to Relatable. Again, we are back. I am back from maternity leave. It is so
00:00:16.340 nice to be with you guys. Again, thank you so much for listening to yesterday's episode.
00:00:21.280 We are going all in this week. Yesterday, we tackled anti-Americanism and why it's not just
00:00:27.820 illogical and ahistorical, but it's also immoral. So if you haven't listened to that episode,
00:00:33.780 go back and do that. Thank you all so much for your positive feedback on that episode.
00:00:38.700 Today, we are going to talk about some news that we have seen in the LGBTQ++ realm. This comes on
00:00:49.680 the heels of Pride Month. We're going to look at some of the disturbing content and ideas that we
00:00:56.140 have seen promoted, that we saw promoted in June, that we're seeing promoted now. And these are
00:01:00.620 just isolated things. The reason that we're talking about any of these videos or posts or articles or
00:01:07.960 statements that we'll be talking about is because they show something that I'm always trying to drive
00:01:12.260 home, that progressivism is never, and I mean never, content to just live and let live. That doesn't
00:01:19.700 mean, and you'll hear me say this a lot in this episode, and I do want to make this distinction,
00:01:23.520 this does not mean that all progressives feel that way. But progressivism as an ideology is
00:01:31.400 imperialistic, which is ironic because progressives say they hate colonialism and imperialism, and yet
00:01:38.080 they are determined to impose their views on every part of this country and abroad,
00:01:43.200 conquering institutions and minds of the people inside those institutions. Progressivism
00:01:49.700 is never satisfied with a little, never satiated with compromise. It wants everything. It wants not
00:01:57.500 just your acquiescence or even just your agreement. Progressivism wants your full acceptance, your
00:02:03.280 full celebration. It wants you to fall in line completely. Progressivism is on the march. It is in
00:02:10.200 your schools. It is in your churches. It is in your city council, and it wants everything. And you,
00:02:16.020 my friend, are the only obstacle standing in its way. Let me give you just one example. I want to
00:02:23.120 talk about, at the top of this episode, what was probably the most shocking headline I've ever seen,
00:02:29.840 and that's really saying something, considering that our media are often dedicated to sensationalism.
00:02:35.980 And maybe it wouldn't have shocked me quite as much if it were just, you know, a blog post or a random
00:02:41.560 tweet. But this article was in the op-ed section of the Washington Post, which is one of the most
00:02:47.160 influential newspapers in the world. The title is this. Yes, kink belongs at Pride, and I want my kids
00:02:55.140 to see it. Now, if you are a sweet summer child like I was before reading this article and you didn't
00:03:03.100 know there was something called kink at Pride, I will fill you in. And by the way, let me pause for just
00:03:09.080 a second and say, this is not an episode to listen to with your children. This is, I mean, this has got
00:03:15.340 some disturbing content, unfortunately, in it as we're talking about some of these stories. So I just
00:03:19.800 wanted to give you that content warning if you hadn't already realized that so far. So anyway,
00:03:25.420 apparently Pride parades aren't just people in rainbow clothes celebrating the ability to be legally married
00:03:31.600 to a person of the same sex. Apparently there is also an aspect of kinkiness. Apparently this is
00:03:36.440 debated on Twitter between, you know, people who go to Pride whether or not there should be so-called kink
00:03:44.420 at Pride. And I guess this is where people dress up and act out kinky acts. So here's how this author
00:03:52.520 in the Washington Post and mother described it. Quote,
00:03:56.440 When our children grew tired of marching, they were at the Pride parade, we plopped onto a nearby curb.
00:04:02.060 Just as we got settled, our elementary schooler pointed in the direction of oncoming floats,
00:04:07.280 raising an eyebrow at a bare-chested man in dark sunglasses whose black suspenders clipped onto
00:04:12.780 a leather thong. The man paused to be spanked playfully by a partner with a flog.
00:04:18.540 What are they doing, my curious kid asked as our toddler cheered them on. The pair was the first of
00:04:24.380 a few dozen kinksters who danced down the street, laughing together as they twirled their whips and batons,
00:04:30.320 some leading companions by leashes. At the time, my children were too young to understand the
00:04:37.040 nuance of the situation. But I told them the truth, that these folks were members of our community,
00:04:43.100 celebrating who they are and what they like to do. Okay, let me give you a little context. I
00:04:49.860 understand you're very disturbed as you should be. I am very disturbed as well, even a week later after
00:04:55.860 reading it for the first time. Let me give you a little context about who the writer of this
00:05:00.660 article is. Her name is Lauren Ruello. She is a former so-called sex worker. According to her bio,
00:05:09.700 her spouse identifies as a trans woman, a man who identifies as a woman, and they've got two kids
00:05:16.080 together. Apparently, the author goes on to make the argument in this article in the pages of the
00:05:22.260 Washington Post, mind you, that showing kids this kind of thing is actually beneficial to them
00:05:26.960 and that it would actually do more harm than good, she says, to shield them from it. That's an
00:05:31.860 astounding statement, an astounding statement. She doesn't actually explain why it would be harmful
00:05:36.900 to protect kids from seeing adults in leather thongs whipping each other in public, but apparently
00:05:41.960 she is very passionate about this subject. She says this, quote,
00:05:45.540 I want them to see that they can make their own ways in the world and know that they'll be supported
00:05:51.820 and celebrated by their community. If we want our children to learn and grow from their experiences at
00:05:58.020 pride, we should hope that they'll encounter kink when they attend. How else can they learn about the
00:06:03.860 scope and vitality of queer life? She goes on to say that we can't confuse these kinksters, that's what
00:06:11.320 she calls them kinkster self-expression with obscenity, except yes, we absolutely can, because
00:06:18.520 forcing your child, who can't consent by nature of being a child, to watch what basically amounts to
00:06:25.020 soft, sadistic porn between two men is obscene. Like, if that is self-expression, then anything is
00:06:32.200 self-expression. If that isn't obscenity, then nothing is obscenity. And I think, honestly, I think that is
00:06:38.940 the point. The point is to subvert any understanding of normalcy or morality to become comfortable
00:06:45.720 with the grotesque so that we no longer have a proper sense of right and wrong or even innocence.
00:06:53.060 The point, I think, is to make society, and this is so disturbing, to make society comfortable with
00:06:58.900 placing children in sexual situations. Progressivism already asserts that toddlers have the ability to
00:07:04.940 identify as a gender that contradicts their sex. So, of course, it's going to also assert, eventually
00:07:10.360 it's going to be mainstream, I'm sure, that children also have the ability to make decisions involving
00:07:16.520 sexuality as well. What this mother did is, in my opinion, abusive. It is definitely coercive and creepy,
00:07:24.640 because remember, again, kids cannot consent. They can't consent to sex. They can't consent to watching
00:07:30.780 sex or something sexual or even hearing about it. When children are exposed to sex and sexual
00:07:36.880 subjects too early, it is traumatizing to them. It puts their mind in a place where it's not yet
00:07:42.400 supposed to be. It causes confusion and discomfort. It can have lifelong traumatic effects, making them
00:07:48.740 more likely to be both victims and perpetrators of sexual abuse. That is a lot of, unfortunately,
00:07:55.780 the comprehensive sex education that is being pushed into public schools. That's why it is so harmful
00:08:00.980 in some cases. As I've heard Thomas Sowell say, it doesn't actually take 13 years to teach kids about
00:08:07.060 how sex works, but it may take 13 years to indoctrinate kids with a particular kind of sexual
00:08:12.140 ethic. And that is exactly what seems to be going on. And we're going to get more into that in just one
00:08:18.020 second. So speaking of comprehensive sex education, there was a mother in Bloomington, Illinois. She
00:08:30.140 spoke in front of her kids' school board in protest of the new sexual education standards for the
00:08:36.420 district. She actually read from the controversial book that is being used by the school as their guide
00:08:41.840 that's called It's Perfectly Normal, Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex and Sexual Health. She was
00:08:47.720 actually cut off as she was reading out of this book that is being used as a guide for these kids.
00:08:53.140 She was cut off repeatedly by the board. The book reportedly explains gender identity as independent
00:08:59.280 from sex, which we've talked about many times on this podcast, is not real. It's not a scientific fact.
00:09:05.120 It is a theory that was started in the 1960s by Dr. John Money, who ended up being an abusive
00:09:10.720 pervert. And so we've talked about the origins of that before. Go listen to Biblical Telos of
00:09:17.700 Gender. We'll link that episode in the description if you want to know more about it. But they're
00:09:22.540 pushing that idea on kindergartners. Kindergarten through second grade, they're learning that sex
00:09:29.260 and gender are two independent things. And gender is something that you feel and can choose that may
00:09:34.440 contradict your sex. They're talking apparently in this book about masturbation and hormone blockers
00:09:40.640 to third through fifth graders. They're talking about oral and anal sex to sixth through eighth
00:09:45.620 graders in this curriculum. And look, I understand that some kids don't have parents to talk to
00:09:51.320 about this kind of stuff. And maybe some children are wondering about these subjects and they need
00:09:56.240 to be taught about them in a controlled setting in a healthy way. And maybe some of the material
00:10:01.160 in these courses is actually helpful. But it will also, without a doubt, introduce a lot of kids to
00:10:07.480 subjects that many of them are not wondering about because they don't even have the imagination to think
00:10:13.080 about them yet. They don't need to know about them. And they'll hear about them from teachers
00:10:17.660 who ultimately, even if they are great, wonderful teachers, have no personal relationship with them
00:10:23.200 or a vested interest in their long-term well-being the way that a loving parent does. This false
00:10:28.800 narrative is that everyone who is against showing their kids kink at pride or confusing kindergarteners
00:10:35.440 about gender or allowing their third grade daughter to learn about masturbation from her male teacher
00:10:40.740 is a prude and is sexually repressive or regressive. There are adults who feel that they were scarred by
00:10:50.140 the purity culture that they grew up in. And so now they feel like they have to swing in the opposite
00:10:54.840 direction to the opposite end of the spectrum. But while I think that we can talk to our kids about
00:11:00.440 the body and sex maybe better than previous generations did and maybe more candidly, that is a wrong
00:11:06.860 and dangerous mentality to go to the other extreme. First of all, it is the parents' job, not the schools
00:11:13.680 or the states, to educate their kids about sex and sexually sensitive topics. The state does not love
00:11:21.520 your kids. The state doesn't know your kids. The state does not and will never have the best interest of
00:11:27.780 your child at heart. The state has an ideology. It has an agenda. They've got boxes to check and a vision
00:11:33.960 to fulfill. And your kid is just a way for them to do that. So stop giving the benefit of the doubt
00:11:40.180 to the government and government schools or even the private schools that are pushing the same kind
00:11:45.340 of stuff. Second, not wanting your children to learn about anal sex in sixth grade doesn't mean that
00:11:52.360 you're teaching your kids to be ashamed of themselves or sex in general. My gosh. I mean, parents can
00:11:58.040 absolutely teach their children when and how they want to, according to their individual child's
00:12:03.960 maturity level and readiness, that sex is a good thing in the proper context. Parents, and Christian
00:12:10.480 parents in particular, God has given you your children to steward for their good and his glory.
00:12:17.700 He has equipped you to help shape their minds and hearts, including when it comes to the topic of sex.
00:12:23.280 The state neither has the proper equipment nor the responsibility to do that. It was you that grew
00:12:30.880 that baby for nine months or sacrificed so much to adopt him. It's you that wakes up in the middle
00:12:36.420 of the night to rock her back to sleep. It's you that he runs to when he falls down and gets hurt.
00:12:41.780 It's you that she looks to to answer the big and small questions about life, not the state,
00:12:46.440 not the school, not even the probably very wonderful teachers that your child has.
00:12:50.580 You have every right, every reason and the pressing responsibility to protect your kids from an
00:12:57.420 ideological agenda that aims to bend your child's mind and morality toward confusion, chaos and possible
00:13:05.340 psychological trauma. We've got to get out of this. It's probably fine mentality, especially when it
00:13:12.060 comes to our kids. You know, my take about public schools in general, I think that you should pull
00:13:17.420 your kids out of them. And that's not because I think all public schools are bad. And I certainly
00:13:22.240 know that there are many amazing public school teachers that in a lot of cases are the only
00:13:27.180 lifeline some desperate children have or the only light of Christ that some kids ever see. And I'm so
00:13:31.700 thankful for them. It is also not because I think all private schools are great, but public schools
00:13:39.920 are government schools. And like I said, the government is characterized by a progressive ideology
00:13:45.180 that will eventually make its way into the classroom of your kid's school, even in rural Alabama, if it
00:13:51.520 hasn't already. And government run schools have no real incentive to listen to parents because they're
00:13:57.880 going to get their funding anyway. Private schools, even though they can be just as left wing and
00:14:04.000 just as indoctrinating, at least can be swayed, may be swayed by parents threatening to take their money
00:14:10.220 elsewhere. And Christian private schools can, though it's of course not guaranteed, be corrected
00:14:16.540 by parents coming together in good faith with biblical explanations for why a particular curriculum
00:14:21.500 is harmful. But beyond that, you want your kids to have a biblical worldview, correct? If you're a
00:14:27.700 Christian, not just when it comes to sex and sexuality, but when it comes to race, when it comes to
00:14:32.500 justice, morality, everything. They're not going to get that at any school, public or private,
00:14:39.620 that is not dedicated to it. The best you can hope in that kind of situation is that their teacher is
00:14:45.200 maybe a closet Christian that won't actively indoctrinate them with progressive secularism and
00:14:50.220 that they'll actually learn math rather than woke math, which basically says that two and two equal
00:14:55.380 white supremacy. That means for eight hours of the day, they would be getting a worldview that
00:15:01.580 contradicts the worldview that you would like them to have. And before anyone gets uptight about that,
00:15:07.500 every parent indoctrinates their kids with a particular worldview. Every single parent,
00:15:12.640 whether you're progressive, secular, Muslim, conservative, whatever, every parent teaches
00:15:17.360 their kids according to their own worldview. Even the parent who says, oh, figure it out on your own,
00:15:22.720 man. Like, you know, nothing is true except for whatever you think is true. That is in itself a
00:15:28.260 worldview with a set of beliefs about human nature, where truth comes from, and how to determine
00:15:32.760 morality. Everyone has a worldview, including people in education. You don't want to compete
00:15:38.620 with your child's school for their worldview. And you don't have to put your child on the front lines
00:15:43.360 of apologetics when they're eight years old, when they're not even big enough to carry
00:15:46.660 a proverbial shield. Now, that said, I understand. Not everyone can financially or for other important
00:15:55.180 reasons make the decision to leave your public school. Unfortunately, private schools don't always
00:15:59.780 have, for example, the special needs services for kids, which is really a shame. And maybe for some
00:16:05.940 reason you can't homeschool. It is all the more important for you then to take seriously teaching
00:16:12.720 your kids biblically about sex, about gender, about morality, about creation, human nature, etc.
00:16:19.460 Even if your child isn't in public school, you still have the right to stand up to the school board
00:16:26.000 about certain curriculum because you're a taxpayer and you have an interest in what the community
00:16:31.200 you're a part of is teaching children. Don't you think, for example, if a school decided to present,
00:16:36.600 for example, Nazi propaganda to students as a set of good values, everyone in the community would be
00:16:42.660 obligated to show up and protest that kind of curriculum? Yes, of course. You have a right to be
00:16:49.320 like this mother that we just talked about in Illinois and to say something about the sex ed
00:16:55.160 curriculum that is unfortunately more akin to grooming than to healthy education. This insistence
00:17:01.080 upon indoctrinating kids with confusing with immoral views of sex and sexuality flows from
00:17:06.560 postmodernism, which puts the self at the center to determine everything that is true or true or false
00:17:12.740 or right or wrong, which itself flows from godlessness. It's actually a product of a godless
00:17:19.300 postmodern progressive theory called gender theory, which is another critical theory like critical race
00:17:24.800 theory that holds, among other things, that children are already indoctrinated from an early
00:17:29.820 age with cis heteronormativity, a system that asserts that normal is to identify with your
00:17:36.360 biological sex and be attracted to the opposite sex and thus must be offered a counter queer narrative
00:17:42.360 to liberate them from the white male capitalist cisgendered heterosexual patriarchy. That's what this all is
00:17:48.360 coming from. And just as a side note, I do wonder if the same professing conservative evangelical
00:17:55.200 Christians who say that there are redeeming attributes to critical race theory that we should
00:17:59.520 listen to would say the same of gender theory comes from the same exact place. I don't know,
00:18:06.220 just interesting to wonder. Okay, we're going to get into more of this.
00:18:09.920 Now, I would like to think that the people pushing this stuff that we are talking about,
00:18:22.440 the woman who wrote the op-ed piece, the people who are so bent on introducing sexually mature and
00:18:31.160 confusing concepts to young children, that there's just something mentally off there, that there are some
00:18:36.680 mental problems there. And maybe there are. But I noticed that I actually do that internally a lot,
00:18:44.480 that I try to make that kind of judgment or excuse when it comes to people perpetrating such obvious
00:18:50.640 evil like this, that I say, okay, they must have some kind of mental issue or something like that.
00:18:57.780 And I think that's actually a way to curb my horror a little bit, to try to comfort myself into thinking
00:19:03.700 that surely people can't just be this bad. But the truth is, people don't have to have some kind of
00:19:10.980 mental imbalance to write things like this and to parent this way. People are depraved. Without Christ,
00:19:18.020 we are all equally dead in our sin. Now, that doesn't mean that all non-Christians think this way
00:19:23.540 at all, because depravity doesn't mean that we're all as bad as we could be. But it means that we are
00:19:29.740 all helpless to save ourselves. And then we all have the capacity, without Christ, to be even more
00:19:36.320 evil than our minds can fathom. As Charles Spurgeon says, you cannot slander human nature. It's worse
00:19:42.880 than words can paint it. And it means that this world needs Christ. Too many Christians, at least for
00:19:50.560 the past few decades, have bought the lie that it's bigoted or pushy or wrong to do anything except for
00:19:57.140 sit on the sidelines. We have said that the culture wars are beneath us. Politics are too dark for us,
00:20:02.860 that the world is just going to go the way that it's going to go. So there's really no use in saying
00:20:07.580 or doing anything about it. Or worse yet, there are now professing Christians who approve of it,
00:20:13.360 or at least think it's not so bad. They always think that Christian conservatives are overreacting.
00:20:18.560 The people who claim to be progressive or moderate Christians always claim that it's conservative
00:20:25.560 Christians who are using this kind of slippery slope fallacy. And they're always embarrassed
00:20:29.900 that other Christians aren't as secular, aren't as down with secular culture as they are. It's
00:20:35.860 really quite amazing. They think that drag queen story hour, in which a man puts on fake boobs and
00:20:42.700 draws on fake cleavage and wears a miniskirt to play a bizarre caricature of a woman, reads stories to
00:20:49.240 young children. They think that that's just a blessing of liberty and a way of inclusion,
00:20:53.200 or that Nickelodeon at Blue's Clues putting out videos with drag queens talking about pansexuality
00:20:58.980 and transgenderism is perfectly normal. And if you don't know what I'm talking about,
00:21:03.380 or you think that I'm making that up, I'm going to play one clip from Blue's Clues,
00:21:07.860 one clip from Nickelodeon back to back, and you can listen to or watch them for yourself.
00:21:13.540 Trans members of this family all love each other so proudly,
00:21:17.800 and they all go marching in the big parade. Baby blue, pink, and white represent transgender
00:21:25.540 people because every letter in LGBTQ plus is equal. And black and brown represent the queer and trans
00:21:32.460 people of color. Okay, so that was on a kid's show, and it was also on a kid's network. And if
00:21:41.740 you're watching this, you'll also notice that in both of those on in both of those very disturbing
00:21:47.100 videos, there was a communist fist. Okay, so in case you just thought that, oh, you know, this is
00:21:52.780 just about love is love. This is just about people being themselves. This is a political ideological
00:21:57.960 movement that apparently is one in the same with communism. I mean, really quite astounding that more
00:22:07.260 people don't have a problem with this, and that there are people who profess to be Christians
00:22:12.360 that think that other Christians are just making too big of a deal with this. It's not normal.
00:22:17.500 Don't you see that progressivism, like we said, especially the sexual progressivism that we see,
00:22:22.320 is on the march that it was never going to be content with live and let live. It was never going
00:22:27.620 to be content with equal rights. Now, again, I say it because I'm talking about the ideology,
00:22:33.580 which is not necessarily representative of all people who call themselves progressives. And it's
00:22:38.520 certainly not representative of all people who identify as gay or transgender, but it is representative
00:22:44.680 of the left-wing activist donor class who has a lot of control over education, over media, and over
00:22:51.860 policy. And speaking of policy, I want to talk about a piece of very controversial proposed legislation
00:22:58.980 in Canada that is supposed to ban conversion therapy, which is a bill that's being celebrated
00:23:06.200 by a lot of LGBTQ activists. And it probably sounds good to you, too. I mean, when we think of conversion
00:23:12.460 therapy, we think of shock therapy or some kind of physical torture or psychological torture. But that's not
00:23:18.340 what this bill bans. If that's all it did, then I would be all for it. I think that that is barbaric and
00:23:24.460 wrong to treat anyone that way for any reason. But it goes far beyond that because those kinds of
00:23:30.760 therapy hardly even exist today. This bill prohibits the speech of pastors and Christian counselors or
00:23:36.880 counselors or psychologists of any background who want to give help to people who are voluntarily
00:23:43.260 seeking it. So if someone who is struggling with, say, gender dysphoria and they want help from a
00:23:49.760 Christian counselor or even just a secular psychologist to help them be more comfortable
00:23:54.460 in their own body, they will not be able to get it if this bill passes. Or, and I know that this is
00:23:59.900 scandalous to say, but there are people who have feelings of same-sex attraction, Christians who have
00:24:05.520 feelings of same-sex attraction, who don't want to live that out in their lives, that actually need help
00:24:10.080 with that. And they won't be able to get the help that they are voluntarily seeking. There was a similar
00:24:15.900 bill in Australia. I can't remember if it passed. Any Australian listeners can tell me that even
00:24:22.020 restricted the personal conversations and out loud prayers of parents and pastors of people who are
00:24:28.000 struggling in these areas. I promise you that if this bill passes, this will lead to more suicides,
00:24:35.200 more depression, more anxiety, more despair, not less. Right now, the bill is actually in limbo
00:24:40.840 after getting so much pushback, which tells you that it really has to be a radical bill because
00:24:46.480 Canada is extremely liberal. This is what progressivism does. This is its nature. It is
00:24:52.960 conquering. It is coercive. It is not enough to say, okay, people who want to transition can, people who
00:24:59.000 want to live gay lives can. Progressivism says you can't even talk about or pray about the possibility
00:25:05.580 of a person not aligning themselves with all of their sexual and dysphoric feelings. There was
00:25:12.200 actually a 60-minute special a couple months ago. Some of you probably saw it that featured
00:25:17.540 young people who had detransitioned. So they got surgery to appear like the opposite sex. Then they
00:25:23.900 regretted it. Then they stopped the hormone therapy because they regretted it. And they started presenting
00:25:30.020 themselves again as their own sex. And these young people, many of them in their early 20s who
00:25:36.660 transitioned as teens, talked about the lack of pushback they received when they said that they
00:25:43.220 decided to, quote, become the other gender. No pushback from psychologists or doctors or surgeons
00:25:48.720 or even parents. These young people, most of them a long way from having their frontal lobe developed
00:25:55.880 when they made these decisions, got double mastectomies, breast implants, hormone therapy
00:26:01.680 that completely changed their bodies. And then they realized later they'd made a horrible mistake
00:26:07.240 that they really had been dealing with other kinds of trauma and mental disturbance that was never
00:26:15.020 properly dealt with. Some of them talked about being encouraged by people online to be trans or it was
00:26:20.860 suggested to them by someone online. And it made them think that they were. One young man in the
00:26:25.720 60-minute special actually said that after he got his breast implants, he wanted so badly to commit
00:26:30.960 suicide because he was so miserable. I thank the Lord that he didn't. That, of course, is the reason
00:26:37.120 why the suicide rate among transitioned people is so much higher than the rest of the population.
00:26:42.000 It has nothing to do with society not accepting them because we see this worldwide, even in countries
00:26:47.560 that are even more progressive than the United States. It has to do with mental health issues that are
00:26:52.500 not being properly dealt with by psychologists and by doctors because of politics. It is hateful.
00:26:59.240 It is hateful for us as a society, especially as a church, to tolerate that kind of mistreatment of
00:27:05.260 young people. It is not love. It is hate. Love is wanting the best for people. This is ruining people.
00:27:12.360 But the activist class of the LGBTQ world does not want to acknowledge detransitioners because they
00:27:19.240 think that delegitimizes them. And I've got a good example of an LGBTQ activist group showing their
00:27:25.960 disdain for detransitioners in just one second. Okay, I'm going to show you an example of GLAAD. This is,
00:27:38.200 you know, the preeminent LGBTQ advocacy organization. They tweeted out last week,
00:27:48.120 it's time for our Friday night chat. Let's talk wins. What's been a win for you this week,
00:27:53.280 big or small? Tweet us and let us know. Love and celebrate each other. Someone named Carol responded,
00:27:59.940 working through a lot of trauma I have from transitioning. Feel like I made some gains this
00:28:04.600 week. And GLAAD responded saying, sending love, heart emoji. And then someone responded to that
00:28:11.400 tweet by GLAAD and said, thank you for recognizing detransitioned people and their struggles. After they
00:28:19.300 received that reply, GLAAD deleted their tweet saying, sending love. So this person named Carol, who said
00:28:26.980 that they are experiencing trauma from transitioning, actually detransitioned from being transgender,
00:28:33.340 still apparently, according to her Twitter bio, identifies as a lesbian. So still a part of what
00:28:41.860 they would call the gay community. And she posted one of her wins, like GLAAD asked them to. GLAAD said
00:28:49.600 that they supported her. And then when they found out that she detransitioned, they deleted their tweet
00:28:55.060 saying, sending love. So what, you no longer sending love to people who still identify as gay,
00:29:01.140 but are no longer transgender? What? It's all about power. It's all about ideology. It's not about
00:29:10.920 love and acceptance. Don't buy the lie that this is a movement about love and acceptance of everyone,
00:29:16.920 no matter their choices. It is about acceptance of some people who make some choices. It is a subversion
00:29:23.800 of the traditional moral order and detransitioners. And anyone who doesn't fall in line gets in the way of
00:29:30.420 that. That was also demonstrated in L.A. last week. This is a horrifying story when a woman on Twitter
00:29:36.760 went viral after posting a video of her confronting the staff at a place called We Spa, confronted the
00:29:43.960 staff about a man in the locker room who allegedly exposed himself to her and the little girls in the
00:29:49.700 room. But he couldn't be kicked out because he apparently identified as a woman. Now, I didn't post
00:29:56.060 about this originally because I didn't tweet about it or retweet it or anything because there was no way
00:30:01.320 for me to verify if it's true. And there still isn't. But the reason why I'm talking about it now,
00:30:07.400 the story is really about what happened after. A group of people came to peacefully protest in front
00:30:14.660 of the spa with signs that said things like, protect women and girls. And then a group of violent
00:30:19.900 left-wing protesters came and assaulted and harassed these people, calling them transphobes.
00:30:25.360 I'll show you a little clip of that now.
00:30:35.240 Now, I am old enough to remember when a man flashing his genitalia at a woman made him a pervert and a
00:30:43.620 criminal and a man doing it in front of kids made him a pedophile. But now that's enough to get you
00:30:48.320 rallied support from left-wing activists. And again, whether or not this actually happened
00:30:53.740 is irrelevant because there are people who think that it happened or suppose that it happened and
00:30:59.900 are defending this person. There was also a review from a couple years ago online from someone who
00:31:08.240 went to the spa and said that she had a very similar experience. She even said, look, I support trans
00:31:13.640 people, but there was a literal man in the women's locker room who said that he identified as a woman,
00:31:19.060 but who was asking another woman for sex. I mean, come on, guys. Come on. If you know anything about
00:31:27.460 dysphoria, there are people who really struggle with gender dysphoria. They really struggle with
00:31:32.100 discomfort in their bodies. You know that they are not brazenly walking around naked in the locker
00:31:39.020 room of the opposite sex. That's just not how the disorder works. If you actually talk to people
00:31:45.780 with dysphoria, that is not the attitude and the behavior that they demonstrate. Unfortunately,
00:31:51.460 there are perverted men who are going to exploit this movement in order to harass and assault women
00:31:56.760 and girls. Abigail Schreier, she wrote Irreversible Damage. We've had her on this podcast. She talks a lot
00:32:02.960 about this subject. She wrote a piece a few weeks ago for the Wall Street Journal about policies in
00:32:09.680 California that make it legal for a man who identifies as a woman in prison to be in women's
00:32:17.020 prisons. And these are not men who have gotten surgery and look like women. In a lot of cases,
00:32:22.340 they are big, strong men with male genitalia who are placed in cells with vulnerable women.
00:32:27.720 Many of these men, it is reported, have been convicted of sexual assault. Many of these women are victims
00:32:32.560 of sexual assault. And some have reported being assaulted by these fellow inmates who identify
00:32:38.500 as women. And then, of course, you have an Olympic weightlifter named Laurel Hubbard,
00:32:43.820 who lived as a man for 35 years before transitioning and is now competing against women. I mean,
00:32:50.500 sadly, this is what we get. What we see is that the sexual revolution, like all progressive
00:32:55.180 revolutions, will harm the most vulnerable, in this case, women and children, in the same way that
00:33:00.240 progressive economic revolutions always end up actually harming the poor, the very people
00:33:04.820 they always claim to want to help. Again, I want to make clear that this radicalism doesn't represent
00:33:11.940 all or most people who identify as gay or lesbian or even transgender. That does not represent all
00:33:18.260 people who identify as progressives. But the revolutionaries at the top are waging a war against
00:33:23.580 reality that, ironically, firmly establishes the so-called patriarchy and subjugates women and
00:33:28.840 children to the whims of males who want to enter women's and girls' spaces. I don't understand how
00:33:34.040 some people don't see that. You have got to, Christian especially, you've got to stand firm on
00:33:40.460 this stuff. You've got to get your head, get out of your head that neutrality exists anywhere. It
00:33:47.100 doesn't. Not in school, not in church, sadly, not at work either. You've got to be willing to represent
00:33:55.700 your views with boldness and kindness without embarrassment or shame. When people say that you
00:34:01.000 can't bring religion into this, you can't bring religion into politics, what they mean is your
00:34:06.540 religion. Progressivism has its own religious dogmas, and it just doesn't want to tolerate yours.
00:34:12.820 But that's too bad. You have to be courageous enough to speak that which is good and right and true,
00:34:18.400 and courage begets courage. Look at the videos of all of these parents standing up to the school
00:34:23.360 boards. Take some of their courage and do that in your own life, in your own spheres.
00:34:28.080 It can be effective. That bill in Canada, the reason why it's in limbo, like we said, is because
00:34:33.320 people spoke out about it. Curriculum can change. Policies can change. Minds can change. Cultures can
00:34:40.040 change. And even if they don't, even if we continue down this slippery slope, which is a reality, not a
00:34:46.340 fallacy, by the way, I am encouraged that we are being forced as Christians to think through very
00:34:54.000 fundamental questions about our faith, about our existence, about human nature, right and wrong,
00:34:59.720 epistemology, science, questions that our parents and grandparents didn't have to think through.
00:35:05.860 We have to think through them. We are being asked to teach our kids things that our parents
00:35:10.200 didn't have to teach us, which requires us to know our stuff. It requires us to know God's word,
00:35:16.360 to ask tough questions, to ask him desperately for wisdom, which he promises to give, by the way,
00:35:21.320 to get involved in our schools and our districts and our local politics, to try to infuse wisdom and
00:35:27.440 light into the spheres we enter in a way that past generations in the U.S. didn't necessarily feel the
00:35:33.440 need to. There will be no more sideline on the fence cultural Christians. You're either
00:35:39.760 in or you're out. And I think that's a good thing. As hard as it is, I think that's a good thing.
00:35:44.780 The church has the opportunity, the amazing opportunity to be a beacon of truth, of clarity,
00:35:51.080 a refuge in the storm, a place where the confused and the hurt can run to for peace, for answers,
00:35:57.200 for purpose, for belonging. Let's strive to be that. We have the blessed privilege of providing
00:36:04.660 answers to life's questions with the wisdom of the Holy Spirit and the truth of God's word.
00:36:09.760 Let's be so clear, so bold, so truly loving that when this moral revolution chews people up and
00:36:16.620 spits them out, they come running to the church. Like I said, if you need a biblical perspective
00:36:22.600 and biblical arguments to counter a lot of this madness that we talked about today,
00:36:27.380 I encourage you to read Love Thy Body by Nancy Piercy. Listen to a biblical telos of gender. I will link the
00:36:32.580 episode in the description to this podcast. If you go to my website, allibethsucky.com slash podcast,
00:36:38.600 you will see all the categories of all the podcasts that we have. Over 400 podcasts. We've got a category
00:36:45.860 for gender and sexuality that you can dig into and you can listen to all the podcasts that we've done
00:36:51.460 on this subject. Thank you guys so much for listening. We will be back here tomorrow.