Ep 652 ｜ The Left’s ‘Don’t Say Groomer’ Policy
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Gender dysphoria is a mental health disorder that is being normalized by predators across the U.S. and across the world. Does a double mastectomy on a preteen sound like progress? We ll talk about what it means, why we should care, and how we think through these things as Christians.
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Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Monday. So the gender ideologues and the pronoun police
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are panicking and they're pushing back against opposition hard. Conservative activist group
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Moms for Liberty was kicked off Twitter for criticizing a California bill revoking the
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rights of parents whose children want to transition. Twitter and Reddit are censoring
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the word groomer to describe adults who talk to children about gender switching and sexuality.
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What else are we supposed to call them? We'll discuss that. A gender clinic in the UK has
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shut down because of concerns over child safety. It is now being reported that the FDA is showing
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that puberty blockers can cause vision loss and brain swelling in kids. We'll cover all this and
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more craziness today. We'll talk about what's happening, what it means, why we should care,
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and how we think through these things as Christians. As always, this episode is brought
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That's goodranchers.com slash Allie. All right, quickly before we get into it, you guys wanted
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me to tell you about the murder mystery party. It was fun. I highly recommend it. Apparently,
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there are different kinds of murder mystery parties you can do. Ours was 1940s. Apparently,
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you can do 1980s. You could do 1920s. Maybe you can even do the 19th century. To order it online,
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it comes with everything that you need, all the instructions and all that. And for those of you who
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said, who looked at my outfit and you were like, wow, you belong in the 1940s. You're telling me?
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You think I want to be around here when we're debating whether a man is a woman or a woman is
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a man or whether a man could become woman of the year? Yeah, it would be a lot easier to be alive
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in the 40s. But here I am to try to navigate us through the chaos. Anyway, murder mystery party was
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really fun. Neither my husband nor I were ended up being the murderer, but it was great. The host did
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a fantastic job. All right, let me tell you something that we are kind of trying to do
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with our shows that we're not really implementing today, but we're going to try to moving forward.
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And so give me your suggestions and your feedback on all of this. We're going to try to start like
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organizing the show in 10 minute blocks. That might be impossible for me because sometimes a subject
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just demands like 30 minutes. And you guys know I'm very verbose. I like to be as thorough as possible,
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give you as much context and analysis as I possibly can. But we're going to try to start breaking up
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the show a little bit more and then give some like levity in between the subjects. So say we have
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like A through C blocks and then in between that we'll have an ad break and then maybe like a fun
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segment just to try to kind of get us out of the depths of the dregs of society, which we are
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constantly waiting in as we're talking about this crazy stuff. So let me know what you think about
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that. Yeah, we're just going to try to change it up because why not? We have the freedom and autonomy
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to do that. Still not letting go of the seriousness of what we're talking about, but bringing in some
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So this is according to National Review. Twitter suspended the parental rights organization
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Moms for Liberty on Monday for posting a tweet that accused backers of a California quote
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gender affirming health care bill of endangering children by facilitating out of state tourism
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for youth gender transition treatments. Their tweet said that got them suspended.
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Gender dysphoria is a mental health disorder that is being normalized by predators across the U.S.
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California kids are at extreme risk from predatory adults. Now they want to liberate children
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all over the country. Does a double mastectomy on a preteen sound like progress?
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Yes. So the social media platform, according to National Review, locked the Moms for Liberty
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account in response, claiming that the comment violated its rule against hateful conduct,
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which forbids the promotion of violence on the basis of gender and gender identity,
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so-called gender identity. Now, this has happened to me twice for saying that men who identify as
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women who call themselves women who have declared themselves female are actually men. In other words,
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I've been suspended, as many other conservatives have, for telling the truth. Now, last time this
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happened, I was able to appeal it. This was, I got suspended for complaining about the Fox News
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segment, which glorified a young child being transitioned from female to male by his parents
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when he was only a toddler. And I basically said, this is really sad. This is a girl. His parents
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shouldn't be doing this. Fox News certainly shouldn't be promoting this completely uncritically.
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Honestly, still can't believe that happened. And yeah, Twitter suspended me for that. And they say,
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OK, once you delete the tweet, then you'll be suspended for 12 hours. During that time,
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you can't do anything. I think you can actually like look on Twitter. You can't send any DMs. That's
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kind of a new feature. Actually, the first time I got suspended, I'm pretty sure I was allowed to send
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DMs. But it wouldn't let me send like a screenshot of the suspension. But now you can't send DMs.
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And you can't like retweet. You can't like you basically can't function on Twitter at all. But
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it doesn't actually show. So if you went to the Moms for Liberty page or my page when I suspended,
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it doesn't say this account has been suspended. You can't tell it all. You're just kind of basing it
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on that person's word. So Twitter will tell you, you have to delete this tweet. And then your
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suspension will start. After that, you can log back in in 12 hours. Well, a lot of people don't
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want to delete the tweet because they feel like that's kind of compromising. That's acquiescing.
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That's basically affirming what Twitter is saying, that this is a form of violence. Now,
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I don't think that that's necessarily true. I think you just kind of have to weigh it and decide.
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The last time this happened to me, as I said, I appealed it and I actually won that appeal,
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which was kind of surprising. I actually think it's because a lot of people raised a ruckus
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about it and said this is ridiculous that she got kicked off Twitter. I think Twitter probably
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just didn't want to deal with it. And so they allowed me back in without having to delete the
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tweet. Thankfully, the tweet is still up. Moms for Liberty is now back on Twitter. I don't know
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if they deleted the tweet or if they appealed and won, but they are back on Twitter. However,
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this is still obviously very disturbing that people are getting suspended. People are getting
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kicked off these platforms for telling the truth. Obviously, this has been going on for a long
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time. I'm not the first. Moms for Liberty is certainly not the first. Megan Murphy,
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she is a feminist activist. She's been on this show before. She was kicked off Twitter,
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I think, back in 2018. She might have been one of the first people kicked off Twitter for,
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quote unquote, misgendering someone, calling a man he who identifies as a she. And she has never been
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allowed back on the platform. So basically, this is Twitter's ministry of truth,
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telling the truth about someone is violence. So like calling a man he is violence, but mutilating
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the genitals of minors is not violence, which is exactly what Moms for Liberty was complaining
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about, a bill that makes it easier for minors to have their genitals mutilated. So Moms for Liberty
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is opposing actual violence. This is what the California bill that they were opposing publicly
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on Twitter says. This is California Senate Bill 107. Quote, it would or this is according to National
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Review, their summary of the bill would prohibit California law enforcement agencies from arresting
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an individual pursuant to an out of state arrest warrant based on another state's law against providing
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or allowing a child to receive so-called gender affirming health care. It would also outlaw the
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extradition of an individual charged with violating another state's law, prohibiting the
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facilitation of quote, gender affirming health care for children. Notably, the bill would also authorize
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a court to take temporary jurisdiction because a child has been unable to obtain gender affirming
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health care. Very important for me to put scare quotes around that. So if a child wanted to travel to
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California for puberty blockers and they could figure out a way to do that without the help of
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their parents or that a minor wanted to go there for a surgical castration or a double mastectomy
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with or without the consent of the parents, the state cannot intervene. Now, the author of this
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bill, Scott Wiener, yes, that is his name, he said that he wants to make California a sanctuary state
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for trans kids. Now, as I've said before, there's no such thing as a trans kid. I mean, really,
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there's no such thing as a there's there's no such thing as transgender. Really, there is male,
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there is female, and then there's confusion. There are people who want to identify as something that
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is the opposite of what they are. But this idea of a trans kid, it's imaginary. It's not real.
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There are parents that push this on their children. There are children who may be genuinely confused.
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There are children who suffer from gender dysphoria. But this idea that you can actually
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transition to another gender, it's not real. This is also the same legislator, Scott Wiener,
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who decriminalized sex between adults and minors as long as the age gap or allowed the
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as long as the age gap is 10 years, then the adult did not have to register, does not have to register
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in the state of California as a sex offender. So, I mean, you're talking 24 and 14, you're talking
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20 years old and 10 years old, that 20 year old doesn't have to register as a sex offender.
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Thanks to Scott Wiener, who said that that was the law that made that adult register as a sex
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offender was anti LGBTQ. That's interesting. He also is responsible for the bill that is now a law
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that lessened the penalties for knowingly and secretly infecting someone with HIV. So great track
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record this guy. So he keeps his platform, but those who criticize him don't. I mean,
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this is the definition of calling evil good and good evil. I mean, how is it difficult for someone
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to see what is right and what is wrong in all of this? What is good? What is bad? I mean,
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you just have to have, I guess, a deluded mind like Romans 1 describes. But how could any professing
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Christian not see what is right and what is wrong in all of this? Monster Liberty also says that they've
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gotten kicked off PayPal for their views. So an organization of moms that is pushing back
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against harmful gender ideology, racial division in schools, unscientific and dangerous mask mandates
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in schools, they get punished while the people who push this destruction get rewarded. If you want
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to know who has the power in society, look who gets rewarded for consistently being wrong.
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Moms for Liberty and other concerned parents take a beating in the press constantly from left-wing
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activists, from school boards, from teachers unions, Biden's Department of Justice, who refer
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to concerned parents as domestic terrorists. This group, Moms for Liberty, is often called fascist
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extremists. Of course, that's projection from the people who actually are those things. Those who oppose
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critical race theory in schools are called white supremacists. Those who oppose gender ideology are
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called bigots. Those who oppose mask mandates are called grandma killers. I spoke to a lot of
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these people who have been on the receiving end of this kind of ugliness and hate at the Moms for
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Liberty's national event. It was their first national event last month in Tampa. And I met a lot of these
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women. I mean, they're salt of the earth people. They are genuine. They are kind. They are joyful.
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They simply care about their kids. They want the children of their communities to be free,
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to have a good education without the poisonous left-wing activism that we see infecting curriculum
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today, to be able to go to the library without picking out a graphic novel that is basically
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pornography. These women have had their jobs, their lives, their families, their status in their
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communities threatened, and not just women, but also men, also dads, also grandparents. And this is the
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high cost of being right. This is the high cost of swimming upstream. We talk about being a salmon,
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swimming upstream, when it's so much easier to just swim downstream with everyone else. It is difficult
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to swim upstream. And yet these women, this organization, Moms for Liberty, is doing that.
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And yet there is a cost to it. And the hope by the bullies in the media, in the left-wing activist
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class, is that the cost will be too high, that you'll count the cost and say, I don't want to pay
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that. They know that if you're threatened by the state, if you're deplatformed by corporations,
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defunded by financial institutions, mocked by your peers, bullied by local officials, maligned by the
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media, that you'll stop, that you'll fall in line, that you'll go back to being apathetic about your kids,
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because that's what most people do. But let me tell you what I told Moms for Liberty a few weeks
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ago. Do not back down. Don't back down. You double down. Because see, these people are afraid.
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I told you a few weeks ago that Media Matters, that they did this big hit piece on me that actually
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ended up being a huge compliment. They basically said, I'm a Christian mom and wife, and I think that
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other women would benefit from being Christians and moms and wives, and that I allow my Christian
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worldview to characterize everything I think, say, and do. I was like, thank you so much, Media Matters.
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But one of the things that they said in the article, and I guess a part that they thought was damning,
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is that I am apparently associated with Moms for Liberty, which I'm actually not officially. I just
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love them. I support them. And I spoke at one of their events. I think they're great people in a
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great organization that's done great work. I'm not officially associated with them, but Media Matters
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clumped us all together because they're afraid. They're afraid that normal moms like me and you
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are reaching other normal moms, and that we see what they're doing. We see what these activists,
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what these teachers unions, what these school boards, what these schools, what these politicians are
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doing. And they're afraid that we're speaking up about it, and that we're doing something about it.
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They thought that we were going to be, that they were going to be able to recruit our children
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without us saying anything. They thought that they were going to be able to push gender confusion
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and racial division and medical tyranny without any of us noticing or speaking up. They thought
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they could manipulate us and bully us and silence us. And now they're realizing that they can't,
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and they're terrified. They're terrified that we're making a difference. And to that, I say,
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good. We haven't even gotten started yet. Indignant moms and dads will be the determining force for
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this country. We are done. We are done being complacent. We are done being quiet. Anyone who tries to
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indoctrinate our kids with godless backwards values, anyone who steps on the rights of parents
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to seek the best interest of their kids. If anyone tries to do these things and will not get out of the
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way, we will move them. Teachers unions, corporations, school boards, city councils,
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state representatives, congressmen, governors, the president, anyone. We will rally and fundraise
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and make noise until they are stripped of their titles and their power. They answer to us,
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not the other way around. They, the state, is not our co-parent. Every totalitarian government
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throughout history has made a priority of driving a wedge between parent and child to recruit children
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into their armies. Every tyrannical force has sought to obliterate the bonds of the family
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to replace the parent with the state. We will not let them. We will not let them. We will keep sharing
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arrows with each other. We will keep linking arms. We will keep standing up with each other.
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We will keep remembering that courage begets courage, that when you don't have courage,
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I will let you share some of mine and vice versa. We will keep raising a respectful ruckus. We will
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keep standing up, speaking up, and pushing back until people realize that we are not going to allow them
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to recruit, to indoctrinate, to, yes, groom our children. So there are a few things that you can do.
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You can start a Moms or Liberty chapter in your area. You can join an existing chapter. You can show
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up in numbers in full force, exercise every bit of liberty that you can in organizing and pushing back
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against the harmful policies in your school district, at your children's school. You unapologetically push
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your values in every sphere that you occupy. Progressives do. You think that when progressives are
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reading kindergartners' books like Jack Not Jackie or encouraging them to play around with pronouns
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or to reject the gender binary, that they're not pushing their own ideology and pseudo-religious
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beliefs on your child? They are. Chris Ruffo just published a thread on what Portland public schools
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are teaching their elementary schoolers, that white colonizers created the idea of male and female.
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They're giving graphic anatomy lessons in kindergarten that argue that girls can have penises and boys
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can have vaginas. In fifth grade, the students are forced to memorize and recite these maxims about
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using correct pronouns and affirming the history of black trans women. And this is not just happening
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in Portland. It is probably in some form in your school district right now. I've seen similar stories
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from Texas suburbs, rural schools in Ohio, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Florida. No school district is
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immune. No school is immune. Even private schools. Because progressivism, like cancer, metastasizes and
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destroys every time and in every way. These progressive activists say that they fear a theocracy,
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that Christian nationalism is threatening to take over the school system. But they're actually lying.
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They're not scared of theocracy. They just want their own theocracy. They actually just fear
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Christianity, which has always posed a threat to totalitarianism. They want to force your children
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to worship their God, to recite their secular progressive catechism, to bow down to their altars,
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to conform themselves to their idols. The world wants to disciple your children. Do not let them.
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That is what we are here for. To stand in the gap. That is our role as parents. To steward our time
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and our responsibility as vigilantly, as diligently as possible for the sake of our kids and for the
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sake of the most vulnerable. What do we always say? Children are always the unconsenting subjects of
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progressive social experiments. This is another form of child sacrifice taking on a new form. We've seen
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child sacrifice throughout history. What has been the role of Christians always throughout history
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to stop it. That's been the role of God's people. And we will not stop now. All right. Before we get
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into this debate about groomers and the censorship of groomers and talking about, okay, what should we
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actually call them to try to skirt this ban? Let me pause. So another word for people who want to drive
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a wedge between children and those who protect them, their parents and guardians, the people who
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have their best interest and their well-being at heart. Groomers. That's another word for them.
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There's really no better word. Groomers. And when we say groomers, go back and listen to my recent
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conversation with James Lindsay where we discussed this and why this word is appropriate to what we're
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talking about. We're not necessarily using that word for the purpose that it is typically
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used for. We're not necessarily talking about adults who are grooming children for direct physical
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sexual assault, although that is part of it. And like I would argue that taking a child to
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a drag show where you have a man who is dressed in fake boobs and fishnets and a thong twerking for
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money, I would say that that is a form of sexual abuse. Maybe the child is not being physically
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touched. Maybe you could argue that it is psychological abuse, but it is absolutely
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abusive. I always think about that verse and it's in Song of Solomon. It's probably in the
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first chapter of Song of Solomon where it says, do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.
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And I think that in context that is also talking about lust, that is also talking about physical
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desire. We know that there are some serious psychological, lifelong psychological and
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sexual repercussions of introducing a child to pornography, to sexual subjects, to sexual
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interactions at an early age. That can set them up for all kinds of failure and yes, also make them
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vulnerable prey. So it's a very serious thing when we're talking about the dangers of drag queen story
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hour, when we're talking about sending kids to pride parade where there is always nudity, where there's
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always kink introducing kids to subjects that have to do with each other's genitalia, that have to do
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with sexuality, especially when it's not the parents that are introducing these things to their kids in
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a way that is like age appropriate and is actually safe for them. When it's adults without the consent
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in the presence of the parent introducing kids to these things, that is especially disturbing. And yes,
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that is a form of grooming. It is at the very least ideological grooming, if not sexual grooming. It
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is, I often call it gender grooming. You are introducing kids to an idea that they were not naturally thinking
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about. I don't care what you say. A three-year-old girl is not thinking, hmm, maybe I'm, you know, maybe
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it's possible to go by they. Maybe it's possible to switch my gender. They're still trying to figure out,
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yes, in some ways, what and who they are, what and who everyone else is. Kids are constantly putting
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things into categories. They're constantly labeling things. Like, you notice that if you're around your
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own kids or other kids. Like, you notice they're constantly trying to make their world smaller. And
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that makes sense for their sense of safety and their own sense of identity and place in the world. The
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world is really new to them. It's really big to them. So if they can make it smaller, if they can order
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things so that things make more sense, so that things are more predictable, so that things
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are clear to them, then that helps them function, right? Like, that helps them interact with other
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people. That helps them feel protected. That helps them feel safe. That's not only normal for young
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kids. That's really good. That's really healthy. And so when you throw that off, especially when it
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comes to something so fundamental, like gender, and when you throw that child into chaos, that's going
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to cause a lot of harm. Not to mention, it's just not true. It's just not true that a man can become a
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woman and vice versa. And you could be leading them down a path of really serious, not just psychological
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harm, but physical harm when you are talking about puberty blockers and transitioning and all of that
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stuff. And so this word groomer has become more prevalent on social media, especially when it comes
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to the videos that Libs of TikTok posts on her Twitter, teacher after teacher, adult after adult,
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even parent after parent talking about their teaching young children about switching genders. And so rather
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than taking the normal approach of saying, yeah, this is really bad and like adults shouldn't be talking
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to kids about this. Reddit has just banned the word groomer. And then Twitter has jumped onto that.
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They suspended Jenna Ellis for calling an adult who was doing this, a groomer, and James Lindsay as
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well. I think they're both back on Twitter now, but they are clearly punishing people once again for
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telling the truth. The Daily Dot reported on this. The subreddit, Our Political Compass Memes,
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has a moderating team that informed its half a million subscribers that the platform had decided
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that the term groomer was officially hate speech. I've seen people call it an anti-LGBTQ slur,
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which is just really interesting. Like, it's just interesting that you see it as that because
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I'm not calling all people who identify as gay or lesbian or bisexual groomers or predators or
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pedophiles. That's not what I'm saying. I haven't seen anyone say that. I haven't seen anyone say
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that everyone who is confused about their gender or everyone who is attracted to the same sex is
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trying to make the younger generation feel that way or identify it as that. I'm not saying that.
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And so I think it's really interesting. I think it's really interesting that they are saying that
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this is banned because it is an anti-LGBTQ slur. It's kind of like the whole monkey pox scandal
00:26:00.060
where they were saying, oh, it's homophobic to say that, OK, maybe men should stop going to gay
00:26:06.380
orgies for a little bit. So they stopped passing monkey pox around. That same state legislator we
00:26:11.780
were talking about earlier, Scott Wiener, who he was just it's all so muddled. He, of course,
00:26:20.540
was on board on on board with vaccine and mask mandates. But he is now saying that telling gay
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men not to have sex with a bunch of like random partners in a week is just not feasible and it's
00:26:32.940
not a public health strategy. It's also crazy. I just think it's a tell, though, if you're saying
00:26:37.040
that it is homophobic to say that you can't go to gay orgies, you're basically saying that gay
00:26:40.800
orgies is so integral to homosexuality that it can't be extricated. Very interesting. So once again,
00:26:46.880
we have been placed in this Orwellian dystopia, we've been placed right in the middle of 1984,
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where accurate language is being censored. It's being memory hold. It is being policed. Policing
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language plays a very important and can be a very destructive role in shaping the culture. And when
00:27:11.320
you control the cultural megaphones like Reddit and Twitter, and you can limit the words that people
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use, then of course, you control the culture, you control public opinion. Because policing language
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eventually, as we see in 1984, limits people's range of thought. So it is a form of thought
00:27:28.220
policing. But also, ironically, minimizing the language that people can use to describe violative
00:27:35.080
acts is a tactic of groomers. That's one reason sexual predators target children. They know that
00:27:40.960
children, very young children, often don't have the words to describe what is being done to them
00:27:45.740
and why it's wrong. And here we are with them saying that we can't actually say that the grooming that
00:27:52.280
they're doing is grooming. So if we want to get around the ban, what should we what should we call
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them instead? What nickname should we have? So I asked you guys on Twitter, some of the suggestions
00:28:04.600
were better than others, I will say. So there are a few top contenders, and we can maybe we can have a vote.
00:28:11.000
And maybe I'll put the poll on Twitter, or I'll put the poll on Instagram, and we can have a vote
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for what what we call them. And maybe we can just kind of shorten it to an acronym. So it will make
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it harder for it to be for it to be censored. So some options that you guys came up with instead of
00:28:28.900
groomer pronoun predator, rainbow recruiter, that's a good one. Kid creepers. Someone said you should just
00:28:36.660
say, where you take your dog to get a haircut. That's a little wordy, but I get what you're going
00:28:42.200
for. And then we've got some acronyms that you guys came up for or came up with PAGS, predatory adult
00:28:48.060
groomers, PERV, this is clever, PERV, P-E-R-V, people eager to remove virtue, LOL. And then someone
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came up with A4, adults after adolescent affirmation. And you know, that's actually like a very
00:29:01.380
profound point. I think it is this perverse and weird desire from a lot of these adults,
00:29:10.780
like to get the affirmation and attention of adolescents. And they should probably dig a
00:29:16.220
little bit deeper to ask themselves why that is. So let me know what your favorite is. Pronoun
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predator, rainbow recruiter, kid creeper. But kid creeper kind of seems to denote that it's the kids
00:29:26.480
that's doing the creeping, which it's really adults. And so then you've got PAGS, predatory adult
00:29:30.920
groomers, PERV, people eager to remove virtue, A4, adults after adolescent affirmation. So tell me
00:29:35.960
what you think that we should be using. Or if you have another suggestion, let me know and I'll put a
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poll up on Instagram. All right, I want to talk about the real life harm of this ideology and how it is
00:29:58.520
hurting children, not just psychologically, but physically. So this was reported by the Daily Wire.
00:30:04.340
FDA officials warn of brain swelling and vision loss in minors using puberty blockers. Huh? Who
00:30:10.580
would have thought that disrupting the natural process of a human being's body, of an adolescent's
00:30:16.020
body, a child's body, and its most formative years would have consequences? Now, we know that it has
00:30:20.940
consequences in a lot of ways. You're talking, in some cases, permanent sterility. You are talking
00:30:26.680
about basically chemical castration in some ways, especially when it's, when it leads to cross-sex
00:30:31.800
hormones. In boys, I mean, you are talking about long-term irreversible damage, even though the
00:30:37.840
Biden administration has put out misinformation saying that puberty blockers are totally irreversible.
00:30:44.380
No, it's not. You're actually, go listen to my episode with Genevieve Gluck. We'll link it in the
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description. We'll link that and the episode with James Lindsay. Both of those episodes are doing,
00:30:54.820
like, insanely. I mean, they're doing insanely well, especially on the listening side, because
00:31:00.600
so many people are sharing it because the revelations that both those guests shared when it comes to the
00:31:04.160
subject are just truly mind-blowing. Go listen to them if you haven't already. But the sick part of
00:31:10.140
this is that puberty blockers really does trap a person, like, in a permanent, in a permanent place
00:31:17.140
of adolescence. And we're not just talking about your body, but in some ways in your mind too. You know
00:31:21.700
that brain development requires puberty? And when you stop that, you are actually hurting the person's
00:31:28.360
ability to develop mentally? And then again, you just have to ask yourself, like, for what purpose?
00:31:33.480
Who benefits? Who benefits from locking a child in adolescence, both mentally and physically?
00:31:40.040
Maybe you should ask yourself that. So I'm glad the FDA is at least sounding the alarms
00:31:44.880
about other things, other consequences of puberty blockers. So here's what the Daily Wire says.
00:31:50.940
FDA officials said there is a plausible association between using puberty blockers and pseudotumor
00:31:55.640
cerebri, a pseudotumor that displays symptoms similar to brain tumors. This association was
00:32:02.600
identified in six young girls between the ages of five and 12. Five patients were undergoing treatment
00:32:08.300
for central precocious puberty. So this is not gender transition, although these are the same
00:32:17.160
treatments used for gender transition. These particular patients were actually on puberty
00:32:22.720
blockers because they started puberty too early. Sometimes that can happen, particularly in girls.
00:32:28.860
So these five patients were undergoing treatment for central precocious puberty, a condition which
00:32:33.100
causes puberty to appear in girls before eight years old and boys before nine years old.
00:32:37.000
But one of them, one of them actually, according to this report, was for transgender care. So we are
00:32:45.140
an interesting phrasing there, but we are talking about between the ages of five and 12, one of them
00:32:52.880
had puberty blockers for so-called transgender care. Other effects of the treatment were visual
00:32:57.420
disturbances, headaches, vomiting, high blood pressure, brain swelling, and neuropathy, eye movement,
00:33:02.660
paralysis. The FDA has also said that the cases are clinically serious and determined that a warning
00:33:08.100
should be added to all puberty blocking products approved for pediatric patients. The Florida
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Department of Health, which is very based, based on the currently available evidence encouraging
00:33:18.140
mastectomy, ovariectomy, uterine extirpation, penile disablement, tracheal shave, the prescription of
00:33:27.180
hormones, which are out of line with the genetic makeup of the child, or puberty blockers are all
00:33:32.360
clinical practices which run an unacceptably high risk of doing harm. This is all true. This is going
00:33:38.620
to be like the many, many, many scientific treatments, medical treatments that we have been told are totally
00:33:45.680
fine, that are totally healthy, that are great and should be given to children indiscriminately.
00:33:51.420
We are going to find out more and more the destruction that they have brought. We talked
00:33:56.940
last week with Dr. Bhattacharya, an epidemiologist from Stanford, not just about the failed COVID
00:34:02.780
response, but also the scandal surrounding Alzheimer's treatment and also the kind of not
00:34:10.460
great science behind prescribing SSRIs for depression. Go listen to that conversation if you
00:34:18.040
haven't already, but so often we are told the science is settled and that you're crazy for
00:34:22.740
questioning any of the treatments, any of the prescriptions, any of the routine procedures
00:34:28.400
that we're told are perfectly fine and are told are effective treatments for different kinds of
00:34:39.600
maladies. You're not supposed to question that because you're not supposed to question the science
00:34:43.600
and then come to find out the science was wrong. The scientists were wrong because human beings are
00:34:49.360
fallible and therefore scientific discovery is often fallible. And so we are seeing real life harm
00:34:55.940
when it comes to the kids that are being treated with this. So much so that a gender clinic was actually
00:35:02.000
shut down in the UK. Tavistock Children's Transgender Clinic has been shut because of a damning report
00:35:11.980
that warned that the gender clinic was not safe. And this is according to the Daily Mail. In the end,
00:35:19.340
it was NHS England that ordered the Tavistock Trust to close down its gender identity clinic for children
00:35:25.040
in the wake of a damning review by an eminent pediatrician. But its far-reaching decision yesterday
00:35:30.580
would never have been taken but for the brave voices of a few individuals who spoke out against
00:35:35.240
the controversial center. Patients, parents, and even the Tavistock's own staff turned whistleblower,
00:35:42.000
some putting their careers in jeopardy, to warn that vulnerable children unsure about their gender
00:35:48.460
were being put at risk by being prescribed powerful drugs to stop the onset of puberty. The first to raise
00:35:55.340
concerns in 2005 was Sue Evans, a nurse of the Tavistock's Gender Identity Development Service
00:36:00.640
in North London. She was worried that teens were being assessed too quickly and that treatment plans
00:36:05.200
were being influenced by transgender rights groups. So really, it was political. These kids,
00:36:11.580
they're being told, hey, this is reversible. This is no big deal. So they go on these puberty blockers,
00:36:16.860
they go on the cross-sex hormones, they get the surgeries. If you've read the stories of
00:36:20.720
detransitioners, it's awful what has been done to their bodies, what has been done to their sexual
00:36:25.980
function, what has been done to their ability to bear children. Of course, they're often going to
00:36:30.740
change their mind. Of course they are because their children and their frontal lobe hasn't been
00:36:35.280
developed yet. And the adults in their lives who are allowing them to do this, I mean, it's a
00:36:39.200
dereliction of duty. It's a tragedy. I mean, the level of depravity in the kids who are being
00:36:44.900
sacrificed on the altar of it, it's just too much to bear. And that is why we have the responsibility
00:36:51.080
to speak up about this. Anyone who says it's not empathetic or it's not loving or it's not gentle
00:36:56.340
enough or it's not kind to say that a man can't become a woman or a woman can't become a man or
00:37:02.680
that there's no such thing as a trans kid, they don't understand the harm that is being placed on
00:37:08.380
these kids. I think it is actually the most empathetic and the most loving thing that you can do
00:37:12.640
to speak out about this. I mean, there's a million other stories I wanted to get to today
00:37:16.860
about the real life harm that this is causing on vulnerable women, whether it's in children
00:37:21.340
or whether it's in, yes, in children, but also whether it's in women's prisons, whether it's in
00:37:28.080
domestic abuse shelters, whether it's in locker rooms and bathrooms and athletic teams.
00:37:33.040
Unfortunately, this is happening at a consistent rate across the country. Men who identify as women
00:37:38.880
are preying upon vulnerable girls and women, if you care about children, if you care about the most
00:37:45.860
vulnerable, you should care about this and you should have the courage to speak up about it.
00:37:49.880
Yes, you might get deplatformed. Yes, you might get bullied. Yes, someone might even say that you're
00:37:54.340
not a good Christian or you're not doing the right thing or you're not being loving enough. But look,
00:37:59.860
the God who is love made us male and female. And therefore, the most loving thing that we can do
00:38:04.760
is agree with him. All right, I tweeted something to this effect over the weekend. And I think it's
00:38:20.240
just a good reminder that God is a God of order. 1 Corinthians 14.33 says that for God is not a God
00:38:28.380
of confusion, but of peace. I think that that enlightens us as to what is good and what is
00:38:36.580
evil, what is right and what is wrong, and often what side we should be on on a particular issue.
00:38:42.760
Not just when it comes to gender, but really when it comes to anything. What we see throughout
00:38:46.580
Scripture that God is a God of processes. He is a God of order. He is a God of hierarchies.
00:38:52.980
He is a God that cares about male, female. We see that in the very beginning. He is a God who
00:38:58.360
cares about the structure of the family. We see that in the very beginning and throughout Scripture.
00:39:03.620
He is a God that cares about the structure of the state. He is a God that cares about our
00:39:08.200
relationships, how the world is ordered. He is a God of boundaries, of definitions, of parameters,
00:39:13.980
and of clarity. And he understands that if we follow these things, we will have greater peace,
00:39:19.900
greater fulfillment, greater happiness, greater wisdom than if we follow our own way. Our own way is chaos.
00:39:26.780
Chaos and lawlessness are always described as evil. Satan is described as an agent of chaos and
00:39:35.880
lawlessness throughout Scripture. If you look at the book of Titus, you see how much God cares about
00:39:40.540
order. The order of the family, the order of the church. We see throughout Scripture that he cares
00:39:45.860
about even the order of the state as it pertains to its authority versus the church's authority versus
00:39:54.340
the state's authority. And then, on the other hand, we see that lawlessness and chaos and anarchy are
00:40:02.120
evil, are something to be opposed, something that God opposes and will ultimately defeat.
00:40:10.420
On that day, many will say to me, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and cast out demons in
00:40:14.740
your name and do many mighty works in your name? And then will I declare to them, I never knew you.
00:40:19.200
Depart from me, you workers of lawlessness. Romans 6, 19. For just as you once presented your members
00:40:25.880
as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as
00:40:31.620
slaves to righteousness, leading to sanctification. So sanctification, becoming holier through the power
00:40:37.620
of the Holy Spirit is actually the opposite of lawlessness from the chaos that we see characterizing
00:40:42.480
the world. Titus 2, 12 through 14, Jesus Christ, who gave himself up for us to redeem us from all
00:40:48.900
lawlessness and to purify for himself of people for his own possession, who are zealous for good works.
00:40:56.000
Satan is an agent of chaos. God is a God of order and peace. Therefore, as his ambassadors, as his
00:41:03.560
followers, we should also be ambassadors and agents of clarity, of courage, of peace.
00:41:11.820
We should not be confused about what male is, what female is. We should not be confused about the
00:41:16.600
definition of marriage. We should not be confused about the roles of men and women. We should not
00:41:21.100
be confused about the roles and the order of the church, about the authority of the church versus
00:41:25.500
the family versus the state. God is a God of order. He is also a God of love. And so we know that his
00:41:31.560
order, his laws, his rules, his boundaries, his parameters are for our good. And the most loving thing
00:41:38.480
that we can do is to represent God's good order to the world in every sphere that we occupy, come what
00:41:44.640
may. We know that everyone who desires to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
00:41:52.120
And that is true whether you live in America or whether you live in the Middle East. The persecution
00:41:56.580
might be different, but it's coming. It's already here. And we are called to stand firm in all of it.
00:42:01.980
And by the power of the Holy Spirit, we can do that. All right. That's all I got for today.