Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - August 01, 2022


Ep 652 ｜ The Left’s ‘Don’t Say Groomer’ Policy


Episode Stats

Length

42 minutes

Words per Minute

170.06749

Word Count

7,165

Sentence Count

454

Misogynist Sentences

12

Hate Speech Sentences

22


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Monday. So the gender ideologues and the pronoun police
00:00:07.260 are panicking and they're pushing back against opposition hard. Conservative activist group
00:00:12.400 Moms for Liberty was kicked off Twitter for criticizing a California bill revoking the
00:00:17.760 rights of parents whose children want to transition. Twitter and Reddit are censoring
00:00:21.800 the word groomer to describe adults who talk to children about gender switching and sexuality.
00:00:26.660 What else are we supposed to call them? We'll discuss that. A gender clinic in the UK has
00:00:31.400 shut down because of concerns over child safety. It is now being reported that the FDA is showing
00:00:40.060 that puberty blockers can cause vision loss and brain swelling in kids. We'll cover all this and
00:00:46.240 more craziness today. We'll talk about what's happening, what it means, why we should care,
00:00:51.520 and how we think through these things as Christians. As always, this episode is brought
00:00:57.120 to you by our friends at Good Ranchers. Go to goodranchers.com slash Allie for a discount.
00:01:03.180 That's goodranchers.com slash Allie. All right, quickly before we get into it, you guys wanted
00:01:17.680 me to tell you about the murder mystery party. It was fun. I highly recommend it. Apparently,
00:01:23.900 there are different kinds of murder mystery parties you can do. Ours was 1940s. Apparently,
00:01:28.220 you can do 1980s. You could do 1920s. Maybe you can even do the 19th century. To order it online,
00:01:33.600 it comes with everything that you need, all the instructions and all that. And for those of you who
00:01:38.560 said, who looked at my outfit and you were like, wow, you belong in the 1940s. You're telling me?
00:01:43.380 You think I want to be around here when we're debating whether a man is a woman or a woman is
00:01:47.760 a man or whether a man could become woman of the year? Yeah, it would be a lot easier to be alive
00:01:53.160 in the 40s. But here I am to try to navigate us through the chaos. Anyway, murder mystery party was
00:01:58.980 really fun. Neither my husband nor I were ended up being the murderer, but it was great. The host did
00:02:05.160 a fantastic job. All right, let me tell you something that we are kind of trying to do
00:02:10.640 with our shows that we're not really implementing today, but we're going to try to moving forward.
00:02:16.860 And so give me your suggestions and your feedback on all of this. We're going to try to start like
00:02:21.100 organizing the show in 10 minute blocks. That might be impossible for me because sometimes a subject
00:02:28.140 just demands like 30 minutes. And you guys know I'm very verbose. I like to be as thorough as possible,
00:02:33.160 give you as much context and analysis as I possibly can. But we're going to try to start breaking up
00:02:39.240 the show a little bit more and then give some like levity in between the subjects. So say we have
00:02:43.860 like A through C blocks and then in between that we'll have an ad break and then maybe like a fun
00:02:49.080 segment just to try to kind of get us out of the depths of the dregs of society, which we are
00:02:58.040 constantly waiting in as we're talking about this crazy stuff. So let me know what you think about
00:03:02.220 that. Yeah, we're just going to try to change it up because why not? We have the freedom and autonomy
00:03:06.940 to do that. Still not letting go of the seriousness of what we're talking about, but bringing in some
00:03:12.080 levity and some laughs in all of it.
00:03:25.660 So this is according to National Review. Twitter suspended the parental rights organization
00:03:30.140 Moms for Liberty on Monday for posting a tweet that accused backers of a California quote
00:03:34.640 gender affirming health care bill of endangering children by facilitating out of state tourism
00:03:40.100 for youth gender transition treatments. Their tweet said that got them suspended.
00:03:45.720 Gender dysphoria is a mental health disorder that is being normalized by predators across the U.S.
00:03:50.780 California kids are at extreme risk from predatory adults. Now they want to liberate children
00:03:56.180 all over the country. Does a double mastectomy on a preteen sound like progress?
00:04:00.360 Yes. So the social media platform, according to National Review, locked the Moms for Liberty
00:04:04.740 account in response, claiming that the comment violated its rule against hateful conduct,
00:04:09.480 which forbids the promotion of violence on the basis of gender and gender identity,
00:04:15.580 so-called gender identity. Now, this has happened to me twice for saying that men who identify as
00:04:23.300 women who call themselves women who have declared themselves female are actually men. In other words,
00:04:29.220 I've been suspended, as many other conservatives have, for telling the truth. Now, last time this
00:04:34.600 happened, I was able to appeal it. This was, I got suspended for complaining about the Fox News
00:04:40.940 segment, which glorified a young child being transitioned from female to male by his parents
00:04:48.520 when he was only a toddler. And I basically said, this is really sad. This is a girl. His parents
00:04:54.100 shouldn't be doing this. Fox News certainly shouldn't be promoting this completely uncritically.
00:04:58.740 Honestly, still can't believe that happened. And yeah, Twitter suspended me for that. And they say,
00:05:04.920 OK, once you delete the tweet, then you'll be suspended for 12 hours. During that time,
00:05:09.980 you can't do anything. I think you can actually like look on Twitter. You can't send any DMs. That's
00:05:14.940 kind of a new feature. Actually, the first time I got suspended, I'm pretty sure I was allowed to send
00:05:18.720 DMs. But it wouldn't let me send like a screenshot of the suspension. But now you can't send DMs.
00:05:26.420 And you can't like retweet. You can't like you basically can't function on Twitter at all. But
00:05:31.440 it doesn't actually show. So if you went to the Moms for Liberty page or my page when I suspended,
00:05:36.080 it doesn't say this account has been suspended. You can't tell it all. You're just kind of basing it
00:05:41.020 on that person's word. So Twitter will tell you, you have to delete this tweet. And then your
00:05:45.900 suspension will start. After that, you can log back in in 12 hours. Well, a lot of people don't
00:05:50.940 want to delete the tweet because they feel like that's kind of compromising. That's acquiescing.
00:05:54.840 That's basically affirming what Twitter is saying, that this is a form of violence. Now,
00:05:59.980 I don't think that that's necessarily true. I think you just kind of have to weigh it and decide.
00:06:04.540 The last time this happened to me, as I said, I appealed it and I actually won that appeal,
00:06:08.760 which was kind of surprising. I actually think it's because a lot of people raised a ruckus
00:06:12.980 about it and said this is ridiculous that she got kicked off Twitter. I think Twitter probably
00:06:17.480 just didn't want to deal with it. And so they allowed me back in without having to delete the
00:06:22.020 tweet. Thankfully, the tweet is still up. Moms for Liberty is now back on Twitter. I don't know
00:06:27.520 if they deleted the tweet or if they appealed and won, but they are back on Twitter. However,
00:06:33.500 this is still obviously very disturbing that people are getting suspended. People are getting
00:06:39.940 kicked off these platforms for telling the truth. Obviously, this has been going on for a long
00:06:43.860 time. I'm not the first. Moms for Liberty is certainly not the first. Megan Murphy,
00:06:48.580 she is a feminist activist. She's been on this show before. She was kicked off Twitter,
00:06:53.200 I think, back in 2018. She might have been one of the first people kicked off Twitter for,
00:06:57.680 quote unquote, misgendering someone, calling a man he who identifies as a she. And she has never been
00:07:04.480 allowed back on the platform. So basically, this is Twitter's ministry of truth,
00:07:09.360 telling the truth about someone is violence. So like calling a man he is violence, but mutilating
00:07:15.780 the genitals of minors is not violence, which is exactly what Moms for Liberty was complaining
00:07:20.580 about, a bill that makes it easier for minors to have their genitals mutilated. So Moms for Liberty
00:07:26.880 is opposing actual violence. This is what the California bill that they were opposing publicly
00:07:33.540 on Twitter says. This is California Senate Bill 107. Quote, it would or this is according to National
00:07:40.340 Review, their summary of the bill would prohibit California law enforcement agencies from arresting
00:07:46.360 an individual pursuant to an out of state arrest warrant based on another state's law against providing
00:07:51.840 or allowing a child to receive so-called gender affirming health care. It would also outlaw the
00:07:57.580 extradition of an individual charged with violating another state's law, prohibiting the
00:08:02.660 facilitation of quote, gender affirming health care for children. Notably, the bill would also authorize
00:08:10.000 a court to take temporary jurisdiction because a child has been unable to obtain gender affirming
00:08:17.800 health care. Very important for me to put scare quotes around that. So if a child wanted to travel to
00:08:24.340 California for puberty blockers and they could figure out a way to do that without the help of
00:08:28.840 their parents or that a minor wanted to go there for a surgical castration or a double mastectomy
00:08:35.760 with or without the consent of the parents, the state cannot intervene. Now, the author of this
00:08:42.420 bill, Scott Wiener, yes, that is his name, he said that he wants to make California a sanctuary state
00:08:49.680 for trans kids. Now, as I've said before, there's no such thing as a trans kid. I mean, really,
00:08:56.280 there's no such thing as a there's there's no such thing as transgender. Really, there is male,
00:09:02.760 there is female, and then there's confusion. There are people who want to identify as something that
00:09:07.920 is the opposite of what they are. But this idea of a trans kid, it's imaginary. It's not real.
00:09:14.100 There are parents that push this on their children. There are children who may be genuinely confused.
00:09:18.180 There are children who suffer from gender dysphoria. But this idea that you can actually
00:09:22.580 transition to another gender, it's not real. This is also the same legislator, Scott Wiener,
00:09:28.480 who decriminalized sex between adults and minors as long as the age gap or allowed the
00:09:35.440 as long as the age gap is 10 years, then the adult did not have to register, does not have to register
00:09:42.840 in the state of California as a sex offender. So, I mean, you're talking 24 and 14, you're talking
00:09:47.840 20 years old and 10 years old, that 20 year old doesn't have to register as a sex offender.
00:09:51.940 Thanks to Scott Wiener, who said that that was the law that made that adult register as a sex
00:09:58.780 offender was anti LGBTQ. That's interesting. He also is responsible for the bill that is now a law
00:10:06.180 that lessened the penalties for knowingly and secretly infecting someone with HIV. So great track
00:10:12.560 record this guy. So he keeps his platform, but those who criticize him don't. I mean,
00:10:18.160 this is the definition of calling evil good and good evil. I mean, how is it difficult for someone
00:10:23.960 to see what is right and what is wrong in all of this? What is good? What is bad? I mean,
00:10:27.800 you just have to have, I guess, a deluded mind like Romans 1 describes. But how could any professing
00:10:33.960 Christian not see what is right and what is wrong in all of this? Monster Liberty also says that they've
00:10:41.340 gotten kicked off PayPal for their views. So an organization of moms that is pushing back
00:10:46.420 against harmful gender ideology, racial division in schools, unscientific and dangerous mask mandates
00:10:52.580 in schools, they get punished while the people who push this destruction get rewarded. If you want
00:10:58.360 to know who has the power in society, look who gets rewarded for consistently being wrong.
00:11:04.400 Moms for Liberty and other concerned parents take a beating in the press constantly from left-wing
00:11:12.220 activists, from school boards, from teachers unions, Biden's Department of Justice, who refer
00:11:17.320 to concerned parents as domestic terrorists. This group, Moms for Liberty, is often called fascist
00:11:22.620 extremists. Of course, that's projection from the people who actually are those things. Those who oppose
00:11:28.340 critical race theory in schools are called white supremacists. Those who oppose gender ideology are
00:11:33.120 called bigots. Those who oppose mask mandates are called grandma killers. I spoke to a lot of
00:11:39.140 these people who have been on the receiving end of this kind of ugliness and hate at the Moms for
00:11:44.980 Liberty's national event. It was their first national event last month in Tampa. And I met a lot of these
00:11:52.480 women. I mean, they're salt of the earth people. They are genuine. They are kind. They are joyful.
00:11:59.280 They simply care about their kids. They want the children of their communities to be free,
00:12:04.500 to have a good education without the poisonous left-wing activism that we see infecting curriculum
00:12:10.100 today, to be able to go to the library without picking out a graphic novel that is basically
00:12:15.860 pornography. These women have had their jobs, their lives, their families, their status in their
00:12:22.600 communities threatened, and not just women, but also men, also dads, also grandparents. And this is the
00:12:28.440 high cost of being right. This is the high cost of swimming upstream. We talk about being a salmon,
00:12:35.540 swimming upstream, when it's so much easier to just swim downstream with everyone else. It is difficult
00:12:41.400 to swim upstream. And yet these women, this organization, Moms for Liberty, is doing that.
00:12:48.160 And yet there is a cost to it. And the hope by the bullies in the media, in the left-wing activist
00:12:55.240 class, is that the cost will be too high, that you'll count the cost and say, I don't want to pay
00:12:59.960 that. They know that if you're threatened by the state, if you're deplatformed by corporations,
00:13:05.380 defunded by financial institutions, mocked by your peers, bullied by local officials, maligned by the
00:13:11.840 media, that you'll stop, that you'll fall in line, that you'll go back to being apathetic about your kids,
00:13:16.920 because that's what most people do. But let me tell you what I told Moms for Liberty a few weeks
00:13:24.000 ago. Do not back down. Don't back down. You double down. Because see, these people are afraid.
00:13:31.680 I told you a few weeks ago that Media Matters, that they did this big hit piece on me that actually
00:13:37.140 ended up being a huge compliment. They basically said, I'm a Christian mom and wife, and I think that
00:13:43.400 other women would benefit from being Christians and moms and wives, and that I allow my Christian
00:13:50.200 worldview to characterize everything I think, say, and do. I was like, thank you so much, Media Matters.
00:13:55.740 But one of the things that they said in the article, and I guess a part that they thought was damning,
00:14:00.180 is that I am apparently associated with Moms for Liberty, which I'm actually not officially. I just
00:14:05.660 love them. I support them. And I spoke at one of their events. I think they're great people in a
00:14:10.640 great organization that's done great work. I'm not officially associated with them, but Media Matters
00:14:16.240 clumped us all together because they're afraid. They're afraid that normal moms like me and you
00:14:23.120 are reaching other normal moms, and that we see what they're doing. We see what these activists,
00:14:30.580 what these teachers unions, what these school boards, what these schools, what these politicians are
00:14:34.480 doing. And they're afraid that we're speaking up about it, and that we're doing something about it.
00:14:39.320 They thought that we were going to be, that they were going to be able to recruit our children
00:14:44.820 without us saying anything. They thought that they were going to be able to push gender confusion
00:14:50.120 and racial division and medical tyranny without any of us noticing or speaking up. They thought
00:14:56.260 they could manipulate us and bully us and silence us. And now they're realizing that they can't,
00:15:02.260 and they're terrified. They're terrified that we're making a difference. And to that, I say,
00:15:07.980 good. We haven't even gotten started yet. Indignant moms and dads will be the determining force for
00:15:15.860 this country. We are done. We are done being complacent. We are done being quiet. Anyone who tries to
00:15:22.340 indoctrinate our kids with godless backwards values, anyone who steps on the rights of parents
00:15:27.640 to seek the best interest of their kids. If anyone tries to do these things and will not get out of the
00:15:36.760 way, we will move them. Teachers unions, corporations, school boards, city councils,
00:15:43.460 state representatives, congressmen, governors, the president, anyone. We will rally and fundraise
00:15:50.880 and make noise until they are stripped of their titles and their power. They answer to us,
00:15:57.140 not the other way around. They, the state, is not our co-parent. Every totalitarian government
00:16:04.800 throughout history has made a priority of driving a wedge between parent and child to recruit children
00:16:10.800 into their armies. Every tyrannical force has sought to obliterate the bonds of the family
00:16:15.440 to replace the parent with the state. We will not let them. We will not let them. We will keep sharing
00:16:22.400 arrows with each other. We will keep linking arms. We will keep standing up with each other.
00:16:26.700 We will keep remembering that courage begets courage, that when you don't have courage,
00:16:31.280 I will let you share some of mine and vice versa. We will keep raising a respectful ruckus. We will
00:16:36.640 keep standing up, speaking up, and pushing back until people realize that we are not going to allow them
00:16:45.580 to recruit, to indoctrinate, to, yes, groom our children. So there are a few things that you can do.
00:16:53.280 You can start a Moms or Liberty chapter in your area. You can join an existing chapter. You can show
00:16:59.920 up in numbers in full force, exercise every bit of liberty that you can in organizing and pushing back
00:17:06.560 against the harmful policies in your school district, at your children's school. You unapologetically push
00:17:12.760 your values in every sphere that you occupy. Progressives do. You think that when progressives are
00:17:20.940 reading kindergartners' books like Jack Not Jackie or encouraging them to play around with pronouns
00:17:27.080 or to reject the gender binary, that they're not pushing their own ideology and pseudo-religious
00:17:33.660 beliefs on your child? They are. Chris Ruffo just published a thread on what Portland public schools
00:17:40.420 are teaching their elementary schoolers, that white colonizers created the idea of male and female.
00:17:46.180 They're giving graphic anatomy lessons in kindergarten that argue that girls can have penises and boys
00:17:52.400 can have vaginas. In fifth grade, the students are forced to memorize and recite these maxims about
00:18:00.500 using correct pronouns and affirming the history of black trans women. And this is not just happening
00:18:06.560 in Portland. It is probably in some form in your school district right now. I've seen similar stories
00:18:12.620 from Texas suburbs, rural schools in Ohio, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Florida. No school district is
00:18:20.280 immune. No school is immune. Even private schools. Because progressivism, like cancer, metastasizes and
00:18:26.060 destroys every time and in every way. These progressive activists say that they fear a theocracy,
00:18:32.880 that Christian nationalism is threatening to take over the school system. But they're actually lying.
00:18:37.780 They're not scared of theocracy. They just want their own theocracy. They actually just fear
00:18:42.500 Christianity, which has always posed a threat to totalitarianism. They want to force your children
00:18:49.880 to worship their God, to recite their secular progressive catechism, to bow down to their altars,
00:18:55.940 to conform themselves to their idols. The world wants to disciple your children. Do not let them.
00:19:03.520 That is what we are here for. To stand in the gap. That is our role as parents. To steward our time
00:19:10.620 and our responsibility as vigilantly, as diligently as possible for the sake of our kids and for the
00:19:18.080 sake of the most vulnerable. What do we always say? Children are always the unconsenting subjects of
00:19:24.260 progressive social experiments. This is another form of child sacrifice taking on a new form. We've seen
00:19:31.420 child sacrifice throughout history. What has been the role of Christians always throughout history
00:19:35.880 to stop it. That's been the role of God's people. And we will not stop now. All right. Before we get
00:19:43.420 into this debate about groomers and the censorship of groomers and talking about, okay, what should we
00:19:50.060 actually call them to try to skirt this ban? Let me pause. So another word for people who want to drive
00:20:06.160 a wedge between children and those who protect them, their parents and guardians, the people who
00:20:12.080 have their best interest and their well-being at heart. Groomers. That's another word for them.
00:20:19.220 There's really no better word. Groomers. And when we say groomers, go back and listen to my recent
00:20:24.720 conversation with James Lindsay where we discussed this and why this word is appropriate to what we're
00:20:28.840 talking about. We're not necessarily using that word for the purpose that it is typically
00:20:35.280 used for. We're not necessarily talking about adults who are grooming children for direct physical
00:20:44.500 sexual assault, although that is part of it. And like I would argue that taking a child to
00:20:50.320 a drag show where you have a man who is dressed in fake boobs and fishnets and a thong twerking for
00:20:58.580 money, I would say that that is a form of sexual abuse. Maybe the child is not being physically
00:21:04.360 touched. Maybe you could argue that it is psychological abuse, but it is absolutely
00:21:09.040 abusive. I always think about that verse and it's in Song of Solomon. It's probably in the
00:21:15.800 first chapter of Song of Solomon where it says, do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.
00:21:23.660 And I think that in context that is also talking about lust, that is also talking about physical
00:21:29.180 desire. We know that there are some serious psychological, lifelong psychological and
00:21:34.100 sexual repercussions of introducing a child to pornography, to sexual subjects, to sexual
00:21:41.440 interactions at an early age. That can set them up for all kinds of failure and yes, also make them
00:21:50.160 vulnerable prey. So it's a very serious thing when we're talking about the dangers of drag queen story
00:21:55.620 hour, when we're talking about sending kids to pride parade where there is always nudity, where there's
00:22:01.060 always kink introducing kids to subjects that have to do with each other's genitalia, that have to do
00:22:07.880 with sexuality, especially when it's not the parents that are introducing these things to their kids in
00:22:13.160 a way that is like age appropriate and is actually safe for them. When it's adults without the consent
00:22:18.920 in the presence of the parent introducing kids to these things, that is especially disturbing. And yes,
00:22:24.080 that is a form of grooming. It is at the very least ideological grooming, if not sexual grooming. It
00:22:33.480 is, I often call it gender grooming. You are introducing kids to an idea that they were not naturally thinking
00:22:39.900 about. I don't care what you say. A three-year-old girl is not thinking, hmm, maybe I'm, you know, maybe
00:22:46.720 it's possible to go by they. Maybe it's possible to switch my gender. They're still trying to figure out,
00:22:52.080 yes, in some ways, what and who they are, what and who everyone else is. Kids are constantly putting
00:22:58.100 things into categories. They're constantly labeling things. Like, you notice that if you're around your
00:23:02.480 own kids or other kids. Like, you notice they're constantly trying to make their world smaller. And
00:23:07.660 that makes sense for their sense of safety and their own sense of identity and place in the world. The
00:23:13.940 world is really new to them. It's really big to them. So if they can make it smaller, if they can order
00:23:19.040 things so that things make more sense, so that things are more predictable, so that things
00:23:24.060 are clear to them, then that helps them function, right? Like, that helps them interact with other
00:23:30.420 people. That helps them feel protected. That helps them feel safe. That's not only normal for young
00:23:36.460 kids. That's really good. That's really healthy. And so when you throw that off, especially when it
00:23:41.300 comes to something so fundamental, like gender, and when you throw that child into chaos, that's going
00:23:50.080 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
00:23:56.420 woman and vice versa. And you could be leading them down a path of really serious, not just psychological
00:24:03.100 harm, but physical harm when you are talking about puberty blockers and transitioning and all of that
00:24:10.080 stuff. And so this word groomer has become more prevalent on social media, especially when it comes
00:24:16.740 to the videos that Libs of TikTok posts on her Twitter, teacher after teacher, adult after adult,
00:24:22.480 even parent after parent talking about their teaching young children about switching genders. And so rather
00:24:30.020 than taking the normal approach of saying, yeah, this is really bad and like adults shouldn't be talking
00:24:36.580 to kids about this. Reddit has just banned the word groomer. And then Twitter has jumped onto that.
00:24:43.440 They suspended Jenna Ellis for calling an adult who was doing this, a groomer, and James Lindsay as
00:24:51.380 well. I think they're both back on Twitter now, but they are clearly punishing people once again for
00:24:56.460 telling the truth. The Daily Dot reported on this. The subreddit, Our Political Compass Memes,
00:25:02.600 has a moderating team that informed its half a million subscribers that the platform had decided
00:25:08.000 that the term groomer was officially hate speech. I've seen people call it an anti-LGBTQ slur,
00:25:14.360 which is just really interesting. Like, it's just interesting that you see it as that because
00:25:19.740 I'm not calling all people who identify as gay or lesbian or bisexual groomers or predators or
00:25:27.420 pedophiles. That's not what I'm saying. I haven't seen anyone say that. I haven't seen anyone say
00:25:31.920 that everyone who is confused about their gender or everyone who is attracted to the same sex is
00:25:39.240 trying to make the younger generation feel that way or identify it as that. I'm not saying that.
00:25:46.740 And so I think it's really interesting. I think it's really interesting that they are saying that
00:25:50.840 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
00:26:27.840 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,
00:26:53.240 where accurate language is being censored. It's being memory hold. It is being policed. Policing
00:27:01.380 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
00:27:16.400 use, then of course, you control the culture, you control public opinion. Because policing language
00:27:22.040 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
00:27:58.440 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
00:28:15.320 for what what we call them. And maybe we can just kind of shorten it to an acronym. So it will make
00:28:22.040 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
00:28:56.000 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
00:29:21.000 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
00:29:41.160 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
00:30:50.420 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
00:33:13.780 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.
00:40:07.440 Matthew 7, 22 through 23, Jesus says,
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.
00:42:06.640 We will see you back here tomorrow.