Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 715 ｜ The Bizarre Tale of the Luggage-Stealing Gender-Fluid Kink Star

00:00:00.000 Department of Energy employee Sam Britton, who went viral for his public display of his sexual

00:00:05.620 and gender preferences a few months ago, is involved in a bizarre story. He has been federally

00:00:11.540 charged with theft for stealing a woman's luggage at the airport. You have to hear this strange,

00:00:19.120 strange tale. Also, Tampax sexualizes periods. The NHL apparently thinks that men and women can

00:00:27.360 compete against each other in hockey. And embryos created in 1992 have just been born to a couple

00:00:35.620 in Portland. We've got all of this and more on today's episode of Relatable. This episode is

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00:00:57.360 All right, guys. Happy Tuesday. Hope everyone is having a great week so far. Well, seems like you

00:01:07.520 guys really liked yesterday's episode talking about Balenciaga. Also, Tia Mowry and her comments

00:01:14.800 about divorce. If you haven't listened to that, go back and listen or watch it on YouTube. There is a

00:01:20.520 little bit of an update on the Balenciaga thing before we get into the rest of the story. I'm kind

00:01:26.360 of amazed at how long this is dragging on and how many people finally are pushing back against this

00:01:33.780 major brand that has so many connections to some of the most influential celebrities.

00:01:39.660 It is a little bit encouraging, but at the same time, I think that we should kind of view

00:01:44.780 the repudiations that we are seeing from some other companies and celebrities really just as like

00:01:50.200 a surface level cover up. Obviously, if Balenciaga took it this far and was this overt with child

00:01:57.040 exploitation, there's a lot that's going on underneath the surface that made them and this

00:02:03.000 many people involved that comfortable. And I think that we're really just seeing the tip of the iceberg

00:02:09.080 in all of this. So zero points, zero points to Balenciaga for their apologies and all the people just

00:02:15.260 trying to save face by pretending that they care about this. But here's a new statement from Balenciaga

00:02:24.040 that they posted on their Instagram stories. As we said yesterday, they put out two different

00:02:29.720 iterations of an apology, neither of them sufficient based on everything that we know that we talked

00:02:35.760 about yesterday. And still, they're trying to shift blame here as if they don't take full responsibility

00:02:42.880 for what their company puts up in the way of advertisements. So I won't read all of it because

00:02:47.980 it's pretty long, but let me read some of it. We would like to address the controversy surrounding

00:02:53.480 our recent ad campaigns. We strongly condemn child abuse. It was never our intent to include it in our

00:02:58.320 narrative. The two separate ad campaigns in question reflect a series of grievous errors for which

00:03:03.940 Balenciaga takes responsibility. So they say that, but then they go on to say, well, it's not really

00:03:09.700 our responsibility. Because remember, they're also suing the third party that kind of put together

00:03:16.140 this ad campaign. The first campaign, the gift collection campaign featured children with plush

00:03:21.440 bear bags dressed in what some have labeled BDSM inspired outfits or plush bear bags in the gift

00:03:26.080 collection should not have been featured with children. So again, as I said yesterday, they're not

00:03:31.840 denying that it's BDSM. They're not saying that it's not. They're not saying that this wasn't bondage

00:03:36.940 gear. They're not saying, no, these are genuine kids toys. They were just, you know, wearing some

00:03:42.320 gothic costumes. No, they're not denying that they were sexual in nature. Because remember,

00:03:48.660 these plush bear bags were made for adults and were used on the runway by adults who had makeup on

00:03:56.180 to make them look like they were beaten up. These are the products that they put with children. So

00:04:01.960 they're saying that that was wrong. They should not have paired these bears with children. And yet

00:04:07.140 they did. And yet they did. That's the disturbing part. Then they go on to say the second separate

00:04:12.500 campaign for spring 2023, which was meant to replicate a business office environment, included

00:04:16.760 a photo with a page in the background from a Supreme Court ruling United States v. Williams 2008. We

00:04:21.720 described what that was yesterday. They're suing the company that put this in the background of the

00:04:27.500 photo. He said, they say, while internal and external investigations are ongoing, we are taking the

00:04:32.800 following actions. We are closely revising our organization and collective ways of working.

00:04:37.700 What does that mean? We are reinforcing the structures around our creative processes and validation steps.

00:04:43.720 We want to ensure that new controls mark a pivot and will prevent this from happening. And again,

00:04:50.020 we are laying the groundwork with organizations who specialize in child protection and aims at ending child

00:04:54.960 abuse and exploitation. Who is it going to be like the Trevor Project? I mean, who what organizations

00:05:00.780 are you talking about here? Are you really going to be held accountable? Like I said yesterday,

00:05:06.180 I will be satisfied when they are actually being investigated by law enforcement for how they allowed

00:05:12.880 this to happen. Balenciaga, they say, reiterates its sincere apologies for the offense we have caused

00:05:19.760 and extends its apologies to talents and partners. Close but no cigar. I'm not going to get into the

00:05:28.200 reason why I don't accept all of this commentary. I do in some way appreciate the fact that they are

00:05:36.020 still having to kind of grovel. I appreciate the backlash was that much and they're actually responding

00:05:41.720 to it. I'm not going to get into all of the reasons why it's not sufficient because you can go back

00:05:46.980 and listen to yesterday's episode for my full explanation on that. But I did want to make sure

00:05:52.380 that I gave you the latest update and gave you their most recent statement on that. All right,

00:05:58.600 we've got more bizarre stories to talk about today. Quite a few things, as you heard in the introduction.

00:06:04.080 The first thing I want to respond to is a tweet that was published by Tampax. Yes, that is the tampon

00:06:11.480 commercial. Now, one of my amazing sponsors is a tampon company called Garnoo, who does not do

00:06:18.960 disgusting things like what Tampax did. Tampax also uses men who identify as women or identify as girls,

00:06:27.420 like Dylan Mulvaney, in their advertisements. And so they're already woke and ridiculous and shouldn't

00:06:35.640 be supported. But they also sexualize periods, as I am about to read to you in their tweet,

00:06:42.460 which I just found really disturbing and disgusting.

00:06:56.120 All right, let's talk about this ridiculous Tampax tweet that went viral. A ton of people liked it. I

00:07:02.340 think it had like hundreds of thousands of likes. They ended up deleting it for reasons that we will

00:07:06.680 explain. So here's what the original tweet said. It said, you're in their DMs. We're in them. We are

00:07:19.740 not the same. And when I posted this on my Instagram stories and responded to it there, a lot of you were

00:07:25.220 like, I don't understand this. And that is because you are not inundated with like Twitter world like a

00:07:33.000 lot of us who are in media are. And God bless you for that. You shouldn't be. This is like a meme

00:07:39.420 template that people use in different ways. Like you're in her DMs, but I'm doing XYZ. I'm a lot closer

00:07:48.480 to her than you are. That's the kind of thing. And it turned out to be like kind of a funny meme.

00:07:53.580 What they are saying, let me break this down for the uninitiated. They're using gender neutral

00:08:00.760 language, which is also why it's confusing. They're saying there instead of her because they

00:08:05.240 hold to the absolutely absurd belief that men can have periods, meaning women who think that they

00:08:11.800 are men and dress like they're men have periods. And so that's why they use this gender neutral

00:08:18.380 language rather than feminine language and talking about people, women who have periods. So they're

00:08:24.960 saying you're in their DMs. So you are in her direct message inbox, but we Tampax are inside of her,

00:08:34.820 inside of her body. We are not the same. So they played upon this meme by, you know,

00:08:43.120 using what their product does and doing it and using this meme in a sexual way because tampons

00:08:51.500 are inside a woman's genitalia. Great, right? A lot of people thought that this was funny.

00:08:58.760 Ton of people retweeted it. I'm sure for a while there, the social media team that they were patting

00:09:04.420 themselves on the back, but they also got a lot of backlash. Why? Because you were sexualizing

00:09:10.240 a natural process that women go through. You were sexualizing periods. How are women supposed to feel

00:09:17.100 when they're using Tampax products? That they're being sexually assaulted, even in the mind of the

00:09:22.940 social media manager? Did you not think that that's creepy? Did you not think about the fact that there

00:09:27.980 are 10-year-old girls who use Tampax going through one of the most vulnerable and awkward and just

00:09:36.180 formative experiences of her young life? We're talking about preteens using these products and

00:09:42.820 you're joking about being sexually involved with her? And again, I would call it sexual assault because

00:09:50.340 there's not consent going on here to the sexualization of using a tampon. Why? Why not only

00:10:01.720 did Tampax approve of this? Because again, this is a major company. Sometimes people will say,

00:10:08.300 oh, it's the social media intern. The social media intern got fired. No, there is not an intern that

00:10:15.460 is tweeting for companies like Tampax. This is someone who makes maybe six figures running Tampax's

00:10:23.460 social media, or at least the person who is in charge of social media and marketing is making that

00:10:28.660 much. Tweets have to go through many hands, have to get lots of layers of approval when you're

00:10:35.100 talking about companies this big. And so again, you're telling me that there was no one in charge,

00:10:41.620 no adult that saw this, male or female, and thought, hmm, you know what? We've got vulnerable

00:10:48.800 preteens that use our products. Maybe we shouldn't joke about tampons being sexual. And it didn't even

00:10:55.920 make sense because they had to be so woke that they couldn't even use feminine language. And so

00:11:02.480 even if it were humorous, which I don't find it humorous, but even if it were humorous, the humor

00:11:07.800 died because of their stupid gender neutral language, because that's what progressivism does.

00:11:13.580 It kills, it destroys, it can't create anything good or funny or true or beautiful. So it just

00:11:18.780 destroys things, including humor or what would be humor. Tampax ended up taking it down,

00:11:25.440 which I didn't think that they would. I kind of just thought that they were going to double down.

00:11:32.800 They, well, they did double down, but I thought that they were just going to stay there. So

00:11:36.540 here was their doubling down. They quote tweeted their original tweet, and they said,

00:11:41.020 refuse to let Twitter shut down before we share this tweet. Because if you don't know,

00:11:45.580 people were talking about, oh, Twitter is going to die, it's on its deathbed, because

00:11:51.000 Elon Musk fired 75% of the employees, and it's not going to function anymore. And just as an aside,

00:11:58.280 Elon Musk fired 75% of its employees, and Twitter is somehow working better than it was before.

00:12:04.520 What does that tell you about how these media companies, how these tech companies are run,

00:12:11.120 and just how much incompetence and bureaucracy is really weighing them down?

00:12:14.600 Anyway, so they did double down on it. They joked about it. They thought it was funny.

00:12:19.500 Then they got more backlash. And they tweeted out on November 26, they said,

00:12:27.560 we messed up with our last tweet. We removed it, and we apologized to everyone we offended.

00:12:31.940 I really hate that kind of apology. You'll remember from yesterday that that's what Balenciaga

00:12:37.380 originally said in their tweet. Like, we're sorry to have caused offense. We apologize to everyone we

00:12:44.820 offended. No, I don't want you to apologize to me for offending me. Whatever. You don't have to

00:12:51.320 apologize for hurting my feelings or for hurting anyone else's feelings. You need to apologize for

00:12:56.840 sexualizing periods, you freaks. Like, you need to apologize for saying something that was so wildly

00:13:04.200 inappropriate and was actually violative in a lot of ways of young girls and their privacy.

00:13:11.940 Respect is central to our brand values, Tampak says. Somehow, I don't believe that. If you're using

00:13:18.240 Dylan Mulvaney to advertise your products, a guy who disrespects women by his very character,

00:13:27.640 by creating a ridiculous, floozy caricature of females in all of his videos. So I don't really

00:13:33.840 believe that you respect your customer base. I don't believe that you respect women in general.

00:13:39.740 So when they say your respect is central to our brand values, I just, I'm not really buying it.

00:13:44.900 And then they say, our recent language did not reflect that. We have learned from this,

00:13:49.660 and we will do better. Do better. Do better. That's always what you see from the social media

00:13:54.260 people. And you never have, or social media, social justice people is what I meant to say.

00:13:58.880 And you never have any specifics on what that actually means. Look, I am all for a joke. I think

00:14:06.200 that humor is really important. I think pushing buttons is important. I think even pushing and

00:14:13.240 pressing boundaries of what is considered like appropriate topics of discussion and subjects of

00:14:21.040 jokes is important. I think that satire, I think that humor can make points that literalism can't.

00:14:29.360 And so I don't want to be a fuddy-duddy when it comes to humor. I just think that this is extremely

00:14:34.820 inappropriate for a company that has to do with like private and sensitive bodily functions of women

00:14:42.340 to say, I think that it is weird to sexualize young girls by saying things like this.

00:14:48.920 I just think it's odd. And I'm glad a lot of people agreed. And again, I'm glad that they

00:14:53.380 apologized. That's why I do think even if these companies that we're talking about,

00:14:58.300 even if they don't make substantive changes, which as I've said, I have my doubts,

00:15:02.620 I still think it's important for us to speak up. I still think it's important for us to complain,

00:15:07.040 for us to say something, because at the very least, it scares them a little bit. At the very least,

00:15:12.980 they can see that the values that they're trying to push are controversial, and that millions of

00:15:18.880 people don't appreciate them and don't agree with them. And I think that that counts for something,

00:15:25.740 right? That counts for something.

00:15:26.880 All right. So the NHL tweeted a week ago, the NHL is proud to support this past weekend's team

00:15:43.640 trans draft tournament in Middleton, Wisconsin. This was the first tournament comprised entirely

00:15:49.580 of transgender and non-binary players with around 80 folks participating. So that's,

00:15:56.880 not real. It's not real to be anything other than male or female. You can imagine something in

00:16:06.500 your brain. You can pretend to be something that you're not. So when you see language like this,

00:16:11.020 this is a team that's comprised of transgender and non-binary players. You're looking at imaginary

00:16:17.160 descriptions here. They have no correlation, no foundation in reality. So there's nothing really

00:16:24.200 unprecedented about these teams. Like these are just men and women playing hockey as men and women

00:16:31.000 have played hockey for a very long time. There was a response by someone named Blue Mountain 12 who says,

00:16:38.540 so men playing on women's team. I appreciate the innocence and the simplicity of this question,

00:16:47.080 Blue Mountain 12. And the NHL responded, trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-binary identity

00:16:57.320 is real. Well, no, it's not. No, it's not. It's not actually real. It's not. You can dress in an

00:17:04.760 androgynous way. You can say that you're both masculine and feminine in your different interests,

00:17:11.380 in your personality type, in how you like to dress, whatever. But it is not possible to be something

00:17:17.640 in between male or female. Now, you can have a disorder that is intersex. That's not what people

00:17:23.260 are talking about when they say non-binary. That's not what people are referring to when they say

00:17:27.780 transgender. Intersex is a very, very small population of people who are born with a mixture

00:17:36.600 of male and female parts and sometimes hormonal makeups. But they really shouldn't even be included

00:17:44.600 in this conversation about identity because that's a biological disorder that doesn't negate,

00:17:51.000 by the way, the gender binary. In the same way that there are some people who are born with one leg,

00:17:56.800 that doesn't negate the fact that human beings are bipeds. So this idea of non-binary identity being

00:18:03.880 real is just not true. And by the way, if trans women were women and trans men are men,

00:18:10.740 which is just a circular maxim, it doesn't have any real meaning to it, then you wouldn't have to

00:18:17.960 say that. Like if trans women are women, then okay, we just have women. What actually is a trans woman

00:18:25.340 then? If trans women are women, why do you even have to say that trans women are women? Just say women

00:18:31.800 are women then. Doesn't that make, don't you understand how that doesn't make sense? And some

00:18:37.380 people say, well, it's just like saying black women are women or Hispanic women are women. No, it's not

00:18:42.020 because those are actually women. You're saying men who identify as women are women, which means there's

00:18:47.220 no such thing as a woman or a trans woman. Don't you see how it's illogical? It doesn't actually make

00:18:51.580 any sense. And the NHL doesn't believe this. Just like I've said before, no one actually believes

00:18:56.380 this. No one actually believes this. And we're going to get into another example of showing that

00:19:01.280 no one actually believes this. Even the people who identify as this, they don't actually believe this

00:19:05.720 in just a second. But the reason I know the NHL doesn't believe this is because you don't see

00:19:10.520 any quote unquote trans men playing on men's hockey teams. If trans men are truly men, then get you

00:19:19.680 the best trans men who are women, the best trans men hockey players in the world from all over the

00:19:28.280 country, from Russia, from China, from Australia, from Canada, from America. Bring them all together in

00:19:36.640 the best, most elite hockey team of trans men in the world. And then have them play against your average

00:19:49.000 all male hockey team. I mean, truly male, you know, the whole thing. And see how that goes down.

00:19:56.260 Let's see. I would love to see a competition between a full trans man team and a full actual

00:20:02.400 man's team and just see how it goes down. I mean, if trans men are men, then it should be a nail biter.

00:20:08.200 They should be neck and neck. It should be an amazing game. But somehow, I just, I have a feeling,

00:20:15.660 I have a feeling, just like if there were a team of trans women who are actually men playing against

00:20:20.980 women, that that also would be a very easy game for the trans women to win. I just have a feeling

00:20:32.700 that so-called trans men playing against men, that it wouldn't turn out the way the NHL is implying

00:20:40.900 that it would by saying that trans men are men and trans women are women. No one actually believes

00:20:47.060 it. No one actually believes that a man can become a woman. No one does. No one really does. I know

00:20:52.060 they say it. I know they repeat all of this academic language. I know that they say that they believe

00:20:57.340 that. No one actually believes that someone is literally non-binary. And I have another example of

00:21:06.180 that in this incredible news interview that was on CNN. Now, this happened after the tragic Colorado

00:21:15.140 Springs shooting in which five people were shot and killed at a gay club there. Absolutely tragic.

00:21:25.480 These are people, first of all, just humans, humans made in the image of God. But these are

00:21:30.240 brothers, friends, family members, parts of community that is now, they're now lost. They're

00:21:38.900 now gone because an idiot decided to inflict violence on a group of people. We still don't know

00:21:46.060 the full motivation for that. And so it was a tragic incident. And we should be praying for the

00:21:52.780 community, praying for their families. We should also be praying for the people on the left to

00:21:57.920 immediately after it happened, blamed people on the right, blamed people who believe in traditional

00:22:03.920 marriage, blamed people who believe what human beings have believed for all of human existence,

00:22:09.720 that we are made male and female, and that biology matters, that there are real biological differences

00:22:16.680 that can't be trumped by feelings or declarations. They blamed all of us who have traditional and

00:22:24.340 logical and in some cases theological beliefs about the body, about gender, about marriage and about

00:22:31.260 sexuality for this violence and said that, you know, it's stoked by lips of TikTok by Matt Walsh and by

00:22:40.600 the Republicans who don't believe in changing the definition of marriage that, again, has existed for

00:22:47.400 all of human history. And so it was really disgusting. The bodies weren't even cold before the left started

00:22:53.080 politicizing it in a very, very ugly and divisive way. But that's, of course, what they always do in

00:22:58.160 these kinds of tragedies. But then we found out that the shooter apparently identifies as non-binary

00:23:05.820 and wants to go by the pronouns they, them. And you might have noticed that the reporting about this

00:23:12.340 person died out like pretty quickly after we found out that fact. And there was an interview on CNN

00:23:20.340 that was conducted with someone who was at the nightclub and who identifies as a woman, is a man. And here's

00:23:30.240 what this person had to say about the shooter now identifying as non-binary.

00:23:37.840 I think that's complete ludicrous. I believe they're just saying that because they want to have

00:23:47.820 the easy way out on this. That's really, really offending, especially being a transgender woman

00:23:57.700 myself, that a male, which it was obvious with the mugshot, that's a man. That's not a non-binary

00:24:06.300 person because in no way, shape, or form could they appear as a woman the next day. It's really

00:24:12.620 offensive to even hear that, that they're playing that role. And if they're non-binary, why would you

00:24:18.640 go after the club where you feel safe at? Why would you do that to a community where you are welcomed in

00:24:24.840 if you are non-binary?

00:24:26.480 Excellent question.

00:24:29.800 All right. So this is really interesting logic here from this person. And by the way, the lower

00:24:37.080 third said that he is a friend of a Club Q shooting victim. So I don't know if that person was,

00:24:43.800 was actually there. So this is fascinating. So this person who is very clearly a man with long hair and

00:24:51.780 makeup on, but who identifies as a transgender woman says that the shooter is not non-binary based

00:24:57.360 on his pictures. So if we applied that same logic to this person who is speaking, what conclusion would

00:25:05.200 we come to? We would also come to the conclusion that this person is a man. And so you see that

00:25:11.220 these people don't even believe their ideology. On the one hand, we hear, oh, it doesn't matter how

00:25:15.860 you look. It doesn't matter what your body is. It doesn't matter what your haircut is. It doesn't

00:25:19.540 matter how you dress. However you identify is totally valid. And everyone needs to respect that.

00:25:25.280 And yet this person who very much looks like a man looks at another person who looks like a man and

00:25:30.480 says, no, your stated identity is not valid, but yours is just because you're wearing highlighter and

00:25:36.420 you have long blonde hair. Come on. And so that's what I mean when I say no one actually believes this.

00:25:43.180 Even the people who say that they are a part of these communities, when it comes down to it,

00:25:48.800 they only really agree with this ideology when it suits them. They have their own rules that they

00:25:56.840 play by when it comes to this. And like, by the way, if people who don't respect a so-called

00:26:04.220 non-binary identity are stoking violence, then what is this person doing? Is this person also stoking

00:26:12.740 violence? Are they encouraging a shooter because they are not acknowledging as valid this person's

00:26:19.460 apparent non-binary identity? And so they don't even play by the rules that they set for others.

00:26:26.160 Unfortunately, it is very political for them. And unfortunately, this shooter is not just unstable

00:26:35.040 because of his stated identity, which I would say anyone who identifies as like multiple people as

00:26:41.420 they, them, or something that they are not. Like there's something definitely mental going on there.

00:26:47.960 But this person was unstable in a lot of other ways. I mean, his background, his family situation,

00:26:54.940 the things that his parents have said, his track record, he threatened a bomb just last year,

00:27:02.060 I believe, and nothing happened to him. And so this is just another example of people dying needlessly

00:27:09.580 because the FBI, because in some cases the system, the law enforcement system didn't do its job to

00:27:17.880 protect innocent people. I mean, probably in the name of social justice, this person was allowed to

00:27:25.280 make the threats that he did with impunity. And now, unfortunately, five image bearers of God,

00:27:32.060 are dead. So this really isn't, this story isn't about the right not supporting the left's new

00:27:40.380 fangled gender ideas. This is a story about the failures of our justice system. This is a story

00:27:47.280 about unstable mental health. This is a story about the consequences of the breakdown of the family

00:27:58.400 and of community. It's a story about godlessness and a lack of morality. And it's tragic. Now these

00:28:05.040 lives are lost forever because of these multiple, multiple failures. But within that is also just the

00:28:12.700 highlight of the incongruence of gender ideology. And it really just does delude people into believing

00:28:20.780 things that are so illogical and so inconsistent that unfortunately it's in times where we're

00:28:27.880 supposed to be able to come together and unite. We're speaking two different languages and we can't

00:28:33.940 even agree on the fundamentals of human existence, which makes it really difficult for us to come

00:28:38.540 together in times of tragedy and try to really have a common understanding of how we can prevent things

00:28:44.220 like this in the future. So a very tragic situation, but I just kind of wanted to highlight the inherent

00:28:51.620 absurdity in some of the commentary about this. And we're going to talk about another absurd story with

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00:30:21.300 very strange story of this individual named Sam Britton, who we were told a few months ago is one

00:30:29.400 the first, quote, openly gender-fluid individuals in federal government leadership. And he works for

00:30:36.780 the Department of Energy. He is not an appointee by Biden. He's just a bureaucrat that was recently

00:30:45.380 hired. And he was recently charged with felony theft last month after stealing a woman's luggage

00:30:54.520 at MSP Airport. Let me tell you a little bit about Sam Britton. If you don't already know,

00:31:01.960 it can kind of give us context for why he would do something like this. So this is according to

00:31:07.440 alphanews.org. The MIT grad went viral earlier this year when he announced his new role as the

00:31:12.480 Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the U.S. Department of

00:31:18.800 Energy. Prior to working in government, Britton was an anti-conversion therapy activist who taught

00:31:26.160 kink 101 workshops on college campuses. By the way, conversion therapy is not something that is

00:31:32.260 happening in a pervasive sense in any way in the United States. What left-wing activists mean when

00:31:38.540 they say conversion therapy is basically just counseling of people who are confused about their

00:31:43.120 gender sexuality and want help with that. They believe that you should only be affirming someone's

00:31:49.500 gender confusion and their any form of sexual deviance rather than giving them the actual holistic

00:31:56.260 help that they need. So when he says that he is an anti-conversion therapy activist, that's what he

00:32:01.520 is talking about. He taught kink 101 workshops on college campuses. According to the National Pulse,

00:32:07.800 a photo from one of these workshops shows Britton in a dress as he stands over three males in leather

00:32:14.080 dog masks. And the I mean, the photo itself is not sexually explicit. We can probably show you on

00:32:23.020 YouTube. One of the what something that he said to in a 2016 Metro Weekly article is that he has a pup

00:32:34.120 play fetish. Disgusting. One of the hardest things about being a handler is that I've honestly

00:32:39.500 handler. What? I've honestly had people ask, wait, you have sex with animals? And then he goes on to say,

00:32:46.100 oh, they believe it's abusive. It's taking advantage of someone. I'm very confused about whether or not this

00:32:52.000 person is actually engaging in bestiality or whether it's just a fantasy. Either way, disgusting. He is also

00:32:58.240 a member of the sacrilegious drag queen society called Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and they have

00:33:03.800 lots of disgusting sexually explicit names for their characters. And according to the Washington

00:33:09.500 Examiner, Britton once talked with college students about how he enjoys tying up his significant other

00:33:14.300 like a table and eating his dinner on him while he watches Star Trek. And so he's a freak. He's a

00:33:20.940 sexually deviant freak. And he is very outspoken about all of his paraphilias and what seems like violent

00:33:27.920 and humiliating sexual activity that he is not content to keep in the privacy of his own home

00:33:37.400 and bedroom, but actually wants to publicize and to teach other people about on college campuses. This

00:33:43.500 is one of the bureaucrats that is working in the Department of Energy. So here's what happened though

00:33:50.700 recently. As if that's not enough, law enforcement at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport were

00:33:57.520 alerted to a missing suitcase in the baggage claim area on September 16th. The adult female victim

00:34:02.420 said she flew into MSP on a Delta flight from New Orleans and went to retrieve her checked bag at

00:34:07.540 Carousel 7. Airport records confirmed the navy blue Vera Bradley roller bag arrived at 4.40 p.m.

00:34:15.260 but was missing from the carousel. So law enforcement reviewed video surveillance footage from the baggage

00:34:18.880 claim area and observed Britton removing a navy blue roller bag from Carousel 7, according to a

00:34:23.940 criminal complaint. Now, maybe you're thinking, well, it's just a mistake. This weirdo probably did

00:34:29.220 have a Vera Bradley bag. Well, the complaint says that Britton removed a luggage tag from the bag,

00:34:35.340 placed it into a handbag he was carrying, and then left the area at a quick pace. Britton arrived at

00:34:40.780 MSP Airport around 4.27 p.m. on an American Airlines flight from Washington, D.C., but did not check a bag,

00:34:46.740 meaning he had no reason to visit baggage claim, according to the complaint.

00:34:52.420 Oh, police drove the surveillance video to the victim, and she confirmed it was her bag.

00:34:58.180 Britton left the airport in an Uber for a stay in the Intercontinental St. Paul Riverfront Hotel,

00:35:02.380 where he checked in with a blue bag, the complaint says. He returned to MSP on September 18th

00:35:07.160 with the bag in hand for a departing flight back to Washington, D.C., authorities allege.

00:35:11.720 Surveillance video from Dulles International Airport shows Britton traveling with the bag on

00:35:16.160 an October 9th return trip from Europe. The complaint notes the victim said the estimated

00:35:20.520 value of the bag is about, and the contents, about $2,300. Police questioned Britton about the

00:35:26.580 bag on October 9th at a phone call, and he said that when they asked, did you take anything out of

00:35:33.580 the bag that didn't belong to you? And he said, not that I know of. He later admitted to taking the

00:35:39.620 bag but said the clothes inside were his, according to the complaint. If I had taken the wrong bag,

00:35:44.380 I'm happy to return it, but I don't have any clothes for another individual. That was my

00:35:48.300 clothes. That was my clothes. When I opened the bag, he told police, according to the complaint.

00:35:53.600 Britton allegedly called the investigating officer, though, two hours later and apologized for not

00:35:58.920 being completely honest. This time, Britton said he took the bag because he was tired and thought it

00:36:03.880 was his, the complaint says. He allegedly told police that he realized the bag didn't belong to him

00:36:08.820 when he opened it up at the hotel, but got nervous and didn't know what to do, worried that people

00:36:13.360 would think he stole the bag. Britton told police he left the victim's clothes in the drawers in the

00:36:18.820 hotel room, according to the complaint. Britton said he brought the bag, he brought the bag back

00:36:27.520 to D.C. with him because it would have been weirder to leave a bag in the hotel room, according to the

00:36:31.680 police. Police told Britton how to return the bag to Delta, but as of October 27th, the victim still had

00:36:37.300 not received her bag back. Police also learned that no clothing was recovered from the hotel room,

00:36:42.680 so he did not leave it in the hotel room. Britton's first court hearing is scheduled for December 19th

00:36:47.660 in Hennepin County. Alpha News attempted to contact Britton via email, but received an automatic reply

00:36:52.340 saying he is on leave and unable to access his email. So the dude did never check the bag. He went to

00:36:58.120 the baggage claim, even though he didn't check a bag. He decided that he was going to steal a bag,

00:37:02.460 probably that he could tell was a female's bag. And it's probably because he wanted to steal

00:37:06.540 women's clothes because he gets off on that. Because as we've talked about many times, so many

00:37:11.080 people that have these so-called identities really just have sexual perversions that they are trying

00:37:17.220 to indulge and get other people to affirm. So that is my theory and my guess about what went on here.

00:37:24.560 You know, it used to be that we realized that when men wear female clothing, that they are mentally

00:37:30.420 unstable in general, that it wasn't something to affirm, but a reason to say, oh, you know what,

00:37:35.740 that person is probably not someone that we should allow to have a whole lot of influence

00:37:42.120 and responsibility. Certainly we don't allow them around certain kinds of people. I mean,

00:37:46.800 my husband talks about that there is a guy in his community growing up that would wear women's

00:37:51.100 dresses and ride a bike around. And okay, people just knew that that person is strange. That's

00:37:56.440 certainly not someone that you would ask to come teach your class or to read, you know, books to

00:38:01.460 kids at the library. It's probably not someone that should be hired by the federal government.

00:38:07.260 And yet now we've just accepted these so-called identities. We've normalized them. We've

00:38:15.120 mainstreamed them. And not only that, but we have actually glorified them to the point to where we

00:38:20.840 are allowing unstable people to run things like the energy department. I would say that that is a

00:38:28.380 problem. We've gone too far in the whole destigmatizing movement. I mean, some things

00:38:35.020 need to be stigmatized. Men wearing women's clothing is not normal. It is not indicative of

00:38:42.880 a stable individual. I mean, this is Silence of the Lambs type stuff, type perversion that I think is

00:38:48.180 really worrisome. I'm glad that he is being held accountable for this theft by law enforcement. I hope

00:38:55.400 that he is not able to get a job in the government, but knowing the corruption that's in our government,

00:39:01.040 I'm sure that he will be back at his job post-hence. So I just wanted to tell you that bizarre,

00:39:07.180 bizarre story. This person who went viral a few months ago and people on the right were understandably

00:39:12.340 concerned about it. It turns out that he actually is quite, quite unstable, just as unstable as a lot

00:39:18.020 of people said that he was. All right. I wanted to quickly comment on the story that a lot of you

00:39:33.820 have been asking me about. It was reported by the BBC, twins born from embryos frozen 30 years ago.

00:39:39.800 The reason a lot of you guys are asking me about this is because I have done several episodes with

00:39:44.700 several experts on surrogacy, on IVF, on different kinds of reproductive technology and the ethics

00:39:51.900 behind that. And so this is a very interesting ethical story. Let me tell you what happened and

00:39:57.900 then I'll give my commentary on it. On April 22nd, 1992, the BBC says embryos were created for an

00:40:05.040 anonymous married couple using in vitro fertilization. The husband was in his early 50s and they used a

00:40:10.480 34-year-old egg donor. For nearly three decades, he sat in storage on tiny straws kept in liquid

00:40:18.220 nitrogen at nearly 200 degrees below zero, in a device that looks much like a propane tank.

00:40:24.760 The embryos were kept at a fertility lab on the West Coast until 2007, when the couple who created them

00:40:30.780 donated the embryos to the National Embryo Donation Center in Knoxville, Tennessee, and hopes another

00:40:36.220 couple might be able to use them. The five embryos were overnighted in specially outfitted tanks to

00:40:42.020 Knoxville, said Dr. John Gordon, the Ridgway's doctor. The Ridgway's, I guess, they are the couple who

00:40:50.180 adopted these embryos. The National Embryo Donation Center is a private faith-based organization that

00:40:57.040 has helped birth more than 1,200 infants from frozen embryos. On October 31st, Lydia and Timothy Ridgway

00:41:03.440 were born to Rachel and Philip Ridgway. They were birthed from what may be the longest frozen

00:41:08.920 embryos to ever result in a live birth, according to the National Embryo Donation Center. There is

00:41:15.120 something mind-boggling about it, Philip Ridgway said, as he and his wife cradled their newborns

00:41:20.800 in their laps at their home outside Portland, Oregon. I was five years old when God gave life

00:41:25.080 to Lydia and Timothy, and he's been preserving that life ever since. The Dr. John David Gordon,

00:41:32.180 who performed the embryo transfer, said the decision to adopt these embryos should reassure

00:41:38.380 parents who wonder if anyone would be willing to adopt the embryos that they created 5, 10,

00:41:42.560 20 years ago. That answer is a resounding yes. Now, that part I don't agree with, and I'll tell

00:41:48.740 you why for a second. Let me say what I think is good about this. I think that it is fine for couples to

00:41:55.580 adopt embryos. We believe and we know that life begins at conception, as this father said. He says,

00:42:02.860 I was five years old when God gave life to Lydia and Timothy. He is talking about the moment of

00:42:06.960 their conception. He's absolutely right that that is when God gave their children life. That is when

00:42:13.220 their life began, and their life was on pause in a lot of ways. Their growth and development was

00:42:19.580 deferred and deterred. They should be the same age that I am right now. I was born in 92, and so they

00:42:28.400 should be 30 years old, and they're just being born, which really is mind-boggling, as he said. That

00:42:32.880 really is wild. So as far as the ethics of embryo adoption go, yes, these are human beings. They are

00:42:42.420 made in the image of God. I think that it is ethically, morally fine to adopt these embryos. I

00:42:49.200 wish that all embryos could be adopted because I do believe it is unethical and it is immoral to put

00:42:57.020 children on ice, to put human beings in a frozen state for however many years, not knowing if they

00:43:05.740 will ever be implanted and adopted. I mean, you are talking about basically abandoning human beings

00:43:13.340 for years on end. And this doctor who says you should be comforted knowing that there are couples who want

00:43:19.080 to adopt your embryo, maybe, perhaps, but there are thousands of embryos right now who are not being

00:43:26.720 adopted, who will never be adopted. There are probably not enough willing parents to adopt these

00:43:32.080 embryos. And by the way, there are already born infants and babies and toddlers and preteens and

00:43:39.340 teenagers who also need a home. And so this is the complication of the ethics behind IVF.

00:43:47.660 Now, we've talked about this in depth and I won't get into all of that right now. I know it's a very

00:43:53.020 sensitive topic and my hope is not to offend when I talk about what I think are the questionable ethics

00:43:58.460 of IVF. But one of the problems is when you create embryos that you have no intention or no capability

00:44:07.000 of implanting and growing yourself and you put them on ice and you basically abandon these human beings

00:44:14.500 that you created. You are no longer taking responsibility for their care and their well-being

00:44:19.800 and you just don't have a guarantee that they are ever going to be implanted. And even if they are,

00:44:25.060 if they are implanted and they are grown by other human beings, you are giving your child away to other

00:44:33.120 humans to raise, which I understand is the same thing as adoption in general. I think adoption is a

00:44:39.660 beautifully redemptive and healing process that is reflective of God's adoption of us Gentiles.

00:44:48.960 And so I think adoption is a beautiful thing, but it is something to consider when you are creating

00:44:54.100 these embryos if you have no intention or capability of caring for them yourself. I mean,

00:45:00.840 you are surrendering them. You're either surrendering them to a freezer indefinitely,

00:45:05.260 or you're surrendering them to other people who may or may not be Christians, who may or may not

00:45:10.720 have the same values that you do. You don't know how they are going to be raised. So these are all

00:45:15.820 things to consider as we create human beings. I just think that the consequences that children,

00:45:22.820 that humans have to pay for adults' wishes when it comes to how adults exhibit their sexuality,

00:45:32.820 so if it's two men coming together, two women coming together, or adults desiring to reproduce,

00:45:40.420 I think that they are very often just not considered. And they should be. These human beings,

00:45:45.440 even these embryos, I believe that they have rights, that they are made in the image of God.

00:45:50.100 They have souls, and therefore they matter. What we do with them actually matters. And so I am thankful

00:45:57.000 that these embryos were adopted. It is pretty incredible. I am thankful that these parents seem

00:46:03.480 to be pro-life and seem to be Christians themselves. And I hope that these children grow up feeling loved

00:46:11.040 and knowing who they are in Christ and that these people have a wonderful life. I do take issue with

00:46:17.560 the ethics and the morality of how they were conceived in the first place. And I simply think that IVF is

00:46:24.020 something that Christians need to think about a little bit more thoroughly and carefully. I know

00:46:29.380 as pro-lifers, we love life. We love babies. And so I think it's easy to think that however children

00:46:35.860 are reproduced, that that's fine, that's good. But as I've said often, whenever we go from what's

00:46:41.840 natural to what's possible, there are always going to be ethical and moral questions that we have to

00:46:48.060 consider. Sometimes those questions can be resolved in a way that is sound, but sometimes they simply

00:46:54.820 cannot be resolved in a way that is moral and ethical and biblical. And when it comes to any

00:46:59.600 kind of child abandonment, when it comes to any kind of violation of a child's right, whether it's

00:47:05.520 a child's right to life, whether it's a child's right to a mother and a father, we have, I think,

00:47:10.660 a responsibility to speak up, not just think about those things, but also speak up about those things.

00:47:15.220 So anyway, I mean, good for these parents for adopting these children. And as I said,

00:47:19.780 I hope that they have a wonderful life. Very, very interesting story. It'll also be interesting

00:47:24.000 to just kind of follow their life and to follow the lives of people who were created in this way in

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Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - November 29, 2022

Ep 715 ｜ The Bizarre Tale of the Luggage-Stealing Gender-Fluid Kink Star

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