Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - December 13, 2022


Ep 723 | The White House's LGBTQ Circus


Episode Stats

Length

40 minutes

Words per Minute

163.13159

Word Count

6,540

Sentence Count

464

Misogynist Sentences

14

Hate Speech Sentences

29


Summary

Joe Biden invited a drag queen who dances for children to the White House today to celebrate the so-called "Respect for Marriage Act." Also, a Biden administration official named Sam Britton is now facing more charges related to stealing women's luggage at the airport. Also, American Girl is responding to the backlash about their book. We ve got all that and more!


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Joe Biden has invited a drag queen who dances for children to the White House today to celebrate the
00:00:07.760 so-called Respect for Marriage Act. Also, a Biden administration official named Sam Britton is now
00:00:14.340 facing more charges related to stealing women's luggage at the airport. Very, very strange. Also,
00:00:23.980 American Girl is responding to the backlash about their book. We've got all of that and more.
00:00:31.920 It's a little bit of a weird episode. This cold open is just for the people who are listening.
00:00:36.780 And then the rest of it is going to be a YouTube live, mostly because the power was out at the
00:00:45.360 studio today. And so this is just I ask you to please give relatable grace because it's going
00:00:52.900 to sound a little bit different and it's going to look a little bit different for the people
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00:01:48.700 So this is a live stream that I'm doing on my YouTube channel. If you are listening to
00:01:59.500 this, then it's going to sound a little different. I've got my headphones on, but it's also going
00:02:04.700 to be a little more casual because the live setting just kind of changes things. But overall,
00:02:09.060 it's going to be the same. We are going to talk about the things that we typically talk
00:02:14.960 about. We have a lot of stories that I wanted to cover today and all that good stuff. Also,
00:02:19.760 if you hear this really loud noise outside of my window, it is a television that was damaged
00:02:25.320 by the storm and I can't figure out how to make it stop making this crazy noise. So we're all
00:02:30.980 over the place today, but we are delivering relatable to you even amidst the chaos of this
00:02:38.640 day. All right. We're going to talk about a few things. The thing that I wanted to talk
00:02:43.120 about the most is this story about the Biden White House signing the so-called Respect for
00:02:54.840 Marriage Act. And I have to open up the document because with all of this technological stuff,
00:03:01.060 I had to close it earlier. And so now I have to open it back up and it's telling me that I need
00:03:06.020 access to it and then I need to switch my account and then I have to verify on my phone that I've
00:03:14.680 switched. Okay. Now I've got it. I've got it. Okay. This story about Joe Biden, um, elected by
00:03:21.840 our beloved pro-life evangelicals for Biden in the 2020 election, inviting a drag queen named Margie
00:03:31.680 Cummings. Okay. To the White House for the signing of this Respect for Marriage Act. So we will discuss
00:03:39.880 that. We will also talk about a little bit about the Respect for Marriage Act. Also American Girl,
00:03:46.420 we talked about this story last week. They've responded to some of the backlash because, you
00:03:51.000 know, they published that book, encouraging girls to get puberty blockers if they don't like their bodies
00:03:55.880 or if they're confused. And they've responded to that a little bit. And then just keeping in this
00:03:59.960 theme of just sexual and moral chaos, we are going to have a follow-up to the Sam Britton story that
00:04:07.080 we discussed last week. He is the guy that's in the Biden administration. He is part of the energy
00:04:12.800 department and he has stolen women's luggage at multiple airports now and his mate is facing felony
00:04:20.500 charges. Of course, we shouldn't be surprised by that at all because women or men who wear women's
00:04:25.640 clothing are always going to be inherently unstable. So it shouldn't surprise us that he's
00:04:29.940 committing these crimes. But we'll talk about that story. And then if we have time, we'll talk about
00:04:34.940 a few other things. There's a former transgender Navy SEAL, Navy SEAL who decided that he was going
00:04:41.540 to detransition. And I've really wanted to get into for the past couple of weeks. And we've just kept
00:04:47.180 putting it off because it's such a big topic. The euthanasia that is not just happening in Canada
00:04:53.960 because it's been happening for a while, but is being promoted and glorified in Canada. And then
00:04:59.500 there's also this artificial womb facility model that has been published that some people are
00:05:05.560 praising. And then some people, as you can imagine, are very concerned about. And I, myself, am one of
00:05:11.420 those people that has this concern. So that's what we will try to get to today, at least some of this
00:05:16.940 stuff. So let's start with what I think is the craziest story. But at this point, maybe the most
00:05:22.580 expected, maybe the least surprising story. And that is President Joe Biden inviting this drag queen
00:05:28.060 to the White House to celebrate the so-called Respect for Marriage Act. If you missed our summary
00:05:34.560 about what the Respect for Marriage Act is, it is, of course, like many of these bills,
00:05:39.960 not at all appropriately named because it is not about respecting marriage. It is really about making it
00:05:46.060 more difficult for religious individuals, business owners and institutions to abide by the natural
00:05:53.000 view of marriage. That's not the most troubling part about it. The most troubling part about it is
00:05:58.740 that the state is trying to assert authority that it does not have. The government does not have the
00:06:06.220 ability to redefine marriage because the government did not create marriage. Marriage is based on the
00:06:12.940 biological complementarianism that only exists between men and women. And that is pre-America,
00:06:19.880 pre-government, pre-civilization. It is not something that can be changed. It's something that is immutable.
00:06:26.060 It's also something that is good for society. It creates stability and security for children who then
00:06:31.200 grow up to be future adults and voters and business leaders and those who are shaping our culture.
00:06:41.360 And so there are a lot of practical, political, theological reasons to protect the natural
00:06:46.840 definition of marriage as between one man and one woman. Of course, we as Christians know that God
00:06:53.700 ordained marriage in the beginning from Genesis 1. Genesis 1.27 tells us exactly what marriage is
00:06:58.860 supposed to be. Jesus repeats that in Matthew 19. Matthew 19.4-5. Jesus, who is, of course,
00:07:05.960 part of the Godhead or he is a person in the Godhead rather, he also created marriage and he defines
00:07:13.940 marriage. And we as Christians don't believe that any state has the authority to supersede him
00:07:19.480 in that defining. So those are some of the problems with this so-called respect for marriage acts that
00:07:25.840 it tends to do something that it can't and will lead to the further silencing of Christian individuals
00:07:31.940 even more so than we already see in the cases of, for example, Jack Phillips and Laurie Smith
00:07:38.540 and others who are trying to run their business in a way that aligns with their faith. So that's
00:07:44.440 the respect for marriage act. And yet you had a lot of people like David French, who I guess,
00:07:49.820 I don't know how he defines himself, but probably as a principled conservative who puts principles
00:07:56.220 over party. And, uh, you've got people who define themselves as Christians, maybe Christian
00:08:02.480 moderates or Christian independence, or people who see a benefit in both Republicans and Democrats
00:08:07.940 saying that this bill is actually good, that it is a step forward to positive pluralism, that this is
00:08:14.380 how we live together as a society. Don't you think it's interesting that in these battles over
00:08:19.660 pluralism, it's always Christians who have to compromise. Like it's always the pre-civilizational
00:08:25.260 stuff that has to be given up. I think that's interesting. Um, but they said, you know, this
00:08:31.200 is a totally moderate bill. There's nothing controversial about it. And Oh, by the way,
00:08:36.120 it protects interracial marriage as if that was something that was on the line that was, you know,
00:08:42.300 going to expire at some point. And they tried to rally Christians and even conservatives to support
00:08:49.420 it. And of course you had Republicans in both the house and the Senate who supported it even without
00:08:54.800 any religious liberty protections. Keep in mind that Democrats blocked every attempt to protect
00:09:01.960 religious liberty by Republicans in both the house and the Senate. And as I said, there were Republicans
00:09:06.620 that voted yes on this bill, even without those protections. So we have this, uh, we have this bill
00:09:15.280 that people are saying is totally non-controversial. And then what does Joe Biden do? Joe Biden apparently
00:09:21.580 invites this drag queen to celebrate the bill to celebrate the signing of the bill. What does that
00:09:28.100 tell you? Is this bill really about bringing people together? Is it really just this like, uh, moderate
00:09:34.820 common sense piece of legislation to establish the simple union of two men or two women? Uh, it's obviously
00:09:45.900 not. It is a part of the sexual revolution and the fact that he is inviting this drag queen. And if I had
00:09:53.460 the ability to pull up a picture for you, I would shows you, uh, what he's actually about. This is an
00:10:01.900 administration who supports, who condones, who glorifies the most radical parts of the sexual
00:10:07.960 revolution, puts it on display. And still in another year, you will have people who identify as
00:10:14.440 Christians, the pro-life evangelicals for Biden, uh, saying that this guy is the unifier. This guy
00:10:20.480 is a moderate. This guy is the real Christian. So who is this person? Margie Cummings, who is
00:10:26.920 bragging about being invited by the white house to the signing of the so-called respect for marriage
00:10:32.140 act. Well, according to Elizabeth TikTok, she tweeted this, Biden invited a drag queen to the white
00:10:37.160 house today for the signing of the respect for marriage act. This drag queen performs and puts on
00:10:41.180 shows for, you guessed it, kids. The Biden administration admin encourages this, lives at
00:10:48.700 TikTok says, sorry, I said Margie. This person's name is Marty G Cummings. Um, to be a non-binary drag
00:10:56.580 artist, this drag queen says, invited to the white house is something I never imagined would happen.
00:11:03.380 Thank you, president and Dr. Biden for inviting me to this historic bill signing. Grateful doesn't
00:11:10.020 begin to express the emotions I feel. And then there are a lot of pictures online of this man
00:11:15.780 who was dressed up as a scantily clad woman. That's what a drag queen is posing with children,
00:11:21.380 dancing with children. There is a particularly disturbing picture that was posted by libs of
00:11:25.380 TikTok where this man dresses scantily clad woman with these like knee high boots on. And this like
00:11:31.360 one, you know, leotard thing is spinning on what looks like a bar with his legs in the air,
00:11:37.860 with his crotch out there, um, in the direction of a little kid who appears to be, I don't know,
00:11:44.220 maybe six feet away from him watching this display. Um, as I've said before, there is no innocent
00:11:51.320 reason for a man to want to dress up as a woman and dance for children. Like there is no innocuous
00:12:00.660 reason for that. There's no non predatory reason for that. Like a normal, stable man is not excited
00:12:07.780 by, is not even willing to dress up like a woman, one, then dress up like a scantily clad woman,
00:12:14.760 two, and then three dance for children. You have something wrong with you if you are doing that.
00:12:20.580 And yet these are the kinds of people that the Biden administration keeps on hoisting up,
00:12:25.600 keeps on inviting in, keeps on, um, including as a part of their coalition. I mean, we have Rachel
00:12:33.340 Levine, the name that this person goes by who has condoned and has recommended things like puberty
00:12:42.660 blockers and chemical castration for minors. Again, there is no innocent reason for that. We know enough
00:12:50.340 about the science about puberty blockers and cross sex hormones and the double mastectomies and the
00:12:55.780 castration that's going on in minors who are simply confused about who they are, or sometimes they're
00:13:01.720 dealing from with some kind of sexual trauma that has led them into the spiral of confusion that then
00:13:08.620 is exacerbated by these irresponsible psychologists and doctors and parents who allow them to then go
00:13:17.020 through these medical procedures. I mean, the Biden administration has released guidance.
00:13:22.140 The HHS has released guidance under the Biden administration and under the direction of people
00:13:27.820 like Rachel Levine saying that all of this stuff is good. The stuff that causes permanent sterility,
00:13:32.940 this, uh, mutilation of people's bodies. I mean, there is just no indication whatsoever that Joe
00:13:39.180 Biden is a Christian, that he has any Christian values. The things that he and his administration
00:13:44.080 pushes for are radical. They're sexually radical. They're morally radical. Not to mention his support
00:13:53.280 of the legalization and the taxpayer funded legalization of abortion through all nine months
00:14:00.420 of pregnancy. This is a wicked administration. Wicked leadership causes chaos. We know that God is
00:14:08.240 not a God of confusion, that he is a God of peace. We see from Genesis to Revelation that
00:14:14.020 he is a God of order. He is a God of definitions. He is a God of distinctions and he is a God of
00:14:20.400 processes. He creates the things that he creates. He sets the rules that he does. He defines things
00:14:26.460 the way that he does, not because he's a fuddy-duddy, but because he loves us and he gets glory from human
00:14:34.500 flourishing. He gets glory from us living out our created order. And when any leader tries to purposely
00:14:41.740 confuse that created order, especially at the expense of the most vulnerable, well, to borrow a
00:14:48.000 phrase from Jesus, I think it would be better for Joe Biden to have a millstone wrapped around his
00:14:54.980 neck than it will be in the day of judgment for him. That's what I'll say. This is yet another example
00:15:02.140 of the wickedness, the evil, the confusion, the chaos of this administration. Just a little bit more
00:15:07.240 about this, um, uh, drag queen. I mean, this is someone who goes by the drag queen name of Marty
00:15:15.160 Good Cummings. All right. Just a sicko, a weirdo. And this is a person who dances for children, a man,
00:15:22.040 a, this is how Fox News describes it. A non-binary drag queen who was repeatedly attacked,
00:15:27.500 who has repeatedly attacked police online to attend the Respect for Marriage Act signing ceremony
00:15:32.660 Tuesday. I mean, that's the least of my concerns about this person, but it does just kind of show
00:15:37.160 the duplicitousness and, or duplicity, if you will, or the hypocrisy of Joe Biden. This is someone who
00:15:44.960 claimed to care about blue collar jobs, to care about the police. That was a part of his campaign.
00:15:50.180 Of course, he is inviting this radical anti-police drag queen to a signing of his legislation.
00:15:56.100 Uh, uh, Cummings is a New York city-based drag artist, television personality, and political
00:16:03.520 figure, uh, a regular fixture in the city's nightlife and in politics. It says, I'm a proud
00:16:11.280 femme queer non-binary drag artist who wants to defund police and fund education. We already fund
00:16:16.920 education. Education is more funded than it's ever been. The problem is those funds go to bureaucratic
00:16:21.520 bloat and not to student success or to teacher equipping affordable housing, social work. And
00:16:28.800 I'm running for city council along with a lot of other queer candidates. And we are going to fight
00:16:33.460 for you, the people, not police unions, not real estate, but for you. Um, this person says, uh,
00:16:42.180 F the police Cummings tweeted on, uh, August 24th, 2020. Yes, we want to defund the police. He says,
00:16:49.560 yes, we want to abolish ICE. No, we won't settle for anything less. And we'll continue to fight for
00:16:55.440 this to happen. And of course, this is someone who said ACAB, which stands for all cops are,
00:17:01.680 if you have kids, maybe close their ears. All cops are bastards. Uh, Cummings also performed a
00:17:07.440 drag event while singing baby shark to a small child. That should be enough to put this person in
00:17:14.480 jail. According to video Cummings shared in a March, 2019 tweet on uncovered by the daily signal.
00:17:20.900 Anyone who thinks drag isn't for children is wrong. Cummings tweeted after posting the video
00:17:26.080 drag is expression and children are such judgment free beans. They really don't care what you're
00:17:30.860 wearing, just what you're performing. And that's really the point. Isn't it like they don't have the
00:17:34.960 ability to judge things yet. And they basically just do what they're told. They believe what they're
00:17:43.260 told. And it's really easy to convince children of something because they're very malleable. They're
00:17:49.620 very moldable. They're very naive, which is of course, why activists like this seek affirmation about
00:17:57.880 their life choices and their sexual preferences and their so-called gender identities from them.
00:18:02.460 It's very sick. It's very perverse. Of course, there's something sexual about drag performances.
00:18:09.220 There is something inherently sexual and perverse about a man dressing up like a caricature of a
00:18:14.780 woman with fake boobs on and a thong and twerking for children. And I'm not going to be gaslit into
00:18:20.140 thinking that that's innocent, that there is any non sick reason for something like that. And yet this
00:18:29.320 is the kind of person that Joe Biden is including in his coalition that tells you something. This is
00:18:37.600 just one of many people, by the way, he's got people actually in his administration who promote
00:18:41.860 these kinds of lifestyles. What was the guy who was the head of monkeypox? By the way, what happened
00:18:48.420 to monkeypox? It's not weird how it just kind of went away after they couldn't sell the line to the
00:18:56.600 public that this was something that apparently equally affected everyone, but that it was
00:19:01.460 actually being passed typically through gay orgies. And they realized, oh, no, you know what? This is
00:19:06.900 going to cause too much homophobia. So we're just not going to talk about this anymore.
00:19:10.700 All right, let's go to the next story that we've got. So I do want to talk about the American girl
00:19:28.880 thing, but let's go to the Sam Britton story. Let's just keep with the Biden administration.
00:19:34.040 So this person was not appointed by Joe Biden, but does work technically in the Biden administration.
00:19:40.680 He's a nuclear official and the Biden admin. And as we talked about, I think it was last week,
00:19:47.420 or maybe it was a couple of weeks ago, this guy, again, I'd put up pictures if I could, but
00:19:52.200 he went viral earlier this year when he got this job because he is a man who dresses in women's
00:20:02.860 clothing. And he has taught very explicit and very disturbing and dark sex workshops,
00:20:10.640 different places, including on college campuses. I mean, we are talking about like BDSM violent kind
00:20:18.080 of stuff. Also something that I could have gone my whole life, uh, without knowing about. And that
00:20:24.480 is pup play. That is where Sam Britton and his buddies dress up like dogs and leather masks and
00:20:32.940 do weird stuff. And he's very public about this. He posts this kind of stuff. And apparently he also,
00:20:39.680 even outside of just the, uh, sexual perversion that this guy very openly demonstrated that he had a
00:20:48.760 horrible reputation for being extremely dishonest and manipulative. Someone who was untrustworthy,
00:20:55.720 someone who was very unstable. He always built himself as like an anti-conversion therapy, um,
00:21:04.140 activist. Uh, but from what I see, but also what I heard, people were really surprised. Even people
00:21:11.740 in his circle were surprised when he got the job because everyone knows that he has such
00:21:15.760 a bad past, a past that is riddled with all kinds of, um, uh, sneaky, if not criminal things. And now
00:21:25.280 he has gotten in trouble with the law again, because he was caught in October stealing a woman's Vera
00:21:32.820 Bradley suitcase from the, uh, baggage claim at the Minneapolis airport. And then he lied
00:21:40.800 to authorities about it. And it wasn't just an accident because he did not check a bag. So he
00:21:47.340 had no reason to wait a baggage check and he did not return the clothes as far as we know. And now
00:21:55.340 it's happening again. Like he was already facing charges and I believe that his first trial was coming
00:22:01.820 up, but now he has another luggage theft charge, according to the New York post.
00:22:10.800 So the New York post says the non-binary by the nuclear official, Sam Britton fired after
00:22:15.760 multiple luggage theft charges. Sam Britton is no longer a DOE employee. Uh, they're not going to
00:22:22.460 comment on it. They said the 35 year old Biden administration deputy assistant secretary for
00:22:27.140 spent fuel and waste disposition at the DOE's office of nuclear energy was reportedly canned
00:22:31.860 after being charged with stealing a woman's suitcase from Minneapolis airport in September. Okay. I said
00:22:37.220 October and another woman's bag from Las Vegas airport in July. Okay. So this had happened
00:22:42.160 previously. This is not something that happened since his theft in September. This is something
00:22:47.040 that happened back in July. And I guess that is just now coming to light Britain who was appointed
00:22:53.600 to his former position in June was caught on surveillance cameras making off with a $320 bag from
00:22:59.200 Las Vegas is Harry Reed international airports baggage claim area bag that contained more than
00:23:03.220 $3,500 worth of jewelry, clothing and makeup. According to police Britain who uses they them pronouns and does
00:23:09.920 not identify exclusively as either male or female. I think we had a sign that this person wasn't doing
00:23:18.040 well. I was described by a detective as a white male adult. Oh my goodness. This, oh, this transphobic
00:23:25.960 detective. I can't believe that they described this person as a white male adult wearing a white t-shirt
00:23:32.060 with a large rainbow colored atomic nuclear. Oh, simple design in the Las Vegas metropolitan, uh,
00:23:43.440 police department's arrest warrant. Wow. A white male. How could they not tell from Sam
00:23:51.320 Britain's just aura that he is clearly non-binary guys when it comes down to it? No one actually
00:23:59.420 believes in anything called non-binary. No one actually believes that someone can actually
00:24:04.660 transition genders. All right. We all know at the end of the day, you're either male or female.
00:24:11.480 It does not matter how, what you say that you are or the pronouns that you announce or what you declare
00:24:18.600 or what you feel everyone knows and has known for literally all of human history. The gender is not
00:24:24.840 something that you choose. It's not something that you feel on the inside. It's something that is
00:24:28.920 something that goes down to your DNA and is very often, very often, but not always obvious through
00:24:35.480 secondary sex characteristics. It's literally how we have ordered societies for all of time for good
00:24:42.120 reason and chaos breeds chaos. As you can see, uh, Britain faces felony grand larceny charges in the
00:24:50.600 Las Vegas theft case and felony theft charges for the Minneapolis St. Paul airport incident where he's
00:24:57.200 accused of stealing that fear of Bradley suitcase. Last week, a group of house Republicans led by a Georgia
00:25:02.600 representative, Andrew Clyde called on the energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm to remove Britain from the DOE.
00:25:08.760 Yeah, I would say so. I would say so. Oh my goodness. Very strange. Very strange. So people,
00:25:18.120 some people are just now coming out to say, you know what, this guy, he's a klepto. He's probably
00:25:24.200 weird. And wow. We didn't know that he was so unstable. That's not good. He should be fired. Well,
00:25:30.200 maybe someone, maybe a man who wears women's clothing and teaches BDSM like sex workshops,
00:25:42.360 maybe that person shouldn't be hired for a government position. Like maybe those are really
00:25:48.040 good indicators that this person is not stable, that this person needs help. I know that we have
00:25:53.580 removed all limits and we were removed all definitions and we've tried to remove all stigma
00:26:01.340 and all shame so that we accept everyone's choices and everyone's identities. And we're not allowed to
00:26:07.340 distinguish between right and wrong, stable and unstable, well and unwell anymore. But I'm not
00:26:12.700 playing that game. There is a reason that we have those instincts. There is a reason why we have
00:26:18.300 distinctions. The reason is because it keeps us safe. It helps us order society. It helps us have
00:26:24.940 strong and stable communities. When you get rid of all of those distinctions in the name of
00:26:30.300 de-stigmatization, what you have is anarchy. People do not operate in anarchy well. People crave truth.
00:26:37.420 They crave clarity. They crave distinctions and definitions, which is why all of this is going to lead
00:26:44.220 to a total state of disorder and disarray as we are already seen. And disarray and disorder is always
00:26:51.100 a precursor for totalitarianism. I mean, if you can't see that that is where we have been headed
00:26:57.260 for a while, I honestly am not really sure what to tell you. All right. Unfortunately, our YouTube live
00:27:13.500 cut off. I don't really know what happened. So I'm recording the rest of this on my computer.
00:27:20.140 So hopefully we can get the full episode out there. It's just crazy over here with the weather
00:27:27.500 and all of that and not being able to be in studio. So thank you so much for bearing with me.
00:27:31.300 I just want to quickly talk about this American Girl story, this body book that they put out and that
00:27:37.920 received a lot of backlash that we talked about last week. Go listen to last week's episode if you
00:27:41.740 haven't done that already. American Girl is responding to the backlash. Just as a quick
00:27:46.940 summary, they published a book about girls' bodies and about puberty and about growing up that included
00:27:54.300 the promotion of puberty blockers and the promotion of the ridiculous and very harmful and even deadly
00:28:00.440 idea that you can switch genders based on how you feel and promoted the outright lie that puberty
00:28:06.980 blockers are just a temporary pause so you can figure out who you are. Puberty blockers can cause
00:28:11.900 life, long sterility, infertility, all kinds of reproductive issues. Your mind and your body both
00:28:18.020 require puberty to grow up in a healthy way. And again, I'll ask what group of people benefits
00:28:24.740 from children being stuck in perpetual physical and mental adolescence and immaturity. Just ask yourself
00:28:32.640 that. Ask yourself that question. American Girl is promoting this. American Girl used to be a company
00:28:37.820 that cared about confidence, that cared about loving your body, stewarding your body well, and now they
00:28:42.760 have completely betrayed the girls that they say that they are serving. And they are responding to this
00:28:47.860 according to USA Today. So Julie Parks is the spokesperson for American Girl and she says,
00:28:55.600 as far as we are aware, no other American Girl book has received similar criticism. Yeah, I wonder
00:29:00.560 why? Oh, it seems like she's clued in. She says, a Smart Girl's Guide body image book is about loving
00:29:10.200 yourself, living life to the fullest, and celebrating all kinds of bodies. It's the first book that they
00:29:16.720 have published that addresses issues surrounding gender identity and expression. Yeah, maybe that's why
00:29:22.460 you're getting the backlash that you are. She says, our Smart Girl's Guides are known for supporting
00:29:27.460 young people and their families through a variety of complex adolescent topics. They weren't known for
00:29:32.860 supporting young people. They were known for supporting young girls. And I know that people say
00:29:38.080 this is not the erasure or transgenderism is not the erasure of women. It's not the erasure of girls.
00:29:43.760 Of course it is. Of course it is. Yes, it is. Girls don't have anything special to them anymore.
00:29:49.080 There's nothing that can just talk about a girl's body. There's nothing that a girl can access,
00:29:55.520 no space that a girl can have that is just her own, no team that she can compete on against other
00:30:00.680 girls. Of course it is the erasure and in some ways the subjugation of women and girls. According
00:30:08.260 to USA Today, American Girl's website has been overwhelmed with negative reviews of the book.
00:30:13.340 Its backlash also comes amid a historic year of states considering or passing anti-LGBTQ legislation,
00:30:19.500 including book bans in schools, bans on gender affirming care. This is of course USA Today's
00:30:25.080 ridiculous language. Care for transgender young people, restrictions on discussions of LGBTQ topics
00:30:30.900 in elementary school classrooms. It's so revealing when they use this kind of euphemistic language in
00:30:36.820 the media. First of all, there's no such thing as gender affirming care. Gender affirming care is the
00:30:41.160 exact opposite of what it is. Gender affirming care when it comes to so-called transgender people
00:30:47.160 is actually telling people that they're in the wrong body. It's telling people that they need to
00:30:53.540 change some fundamental things about themselves in order to be authentic. And that does not make any
00:30:59.740 sense. It's harmful to their bodies. It's harmful to their minds. There absolutely should be bans
00:31:04.480 on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and procedures for minors. Absolutely.
00:31:10.280 Anti-LGBTQ legislation. I guess what they mean by that is these bans on puberty blockers and
00:31:17.260 restrictions on discussions of LGBTQ topics in elementary school classrooms. Is that a problem?
00:31:23.260 Why is that a problem? Why does this need to be discussed in elementary schools? Why do you need
00:31:27.420 to talk to a five-year-old about whether or not they like their genitalia? You're a bunch of weirdos.
00:31:34.720 You're a bunch of weirdos. The 96-page book is marketed as a resource for everything you need
00:31:40.400 to know about developing a healthy body image, providing readers with activities, tips, crafts,
00:31:44.920 real girl stories, and a reminder that all bodies are worthy of love and respect. Totally agree with that.
00:31:50.880 And one way to love your body is to embrace what it is. You were born a girl. It's good to be a girl.
00:31:58.700 It's great to have a girl's body. And you can wear what you want to wear. You don't have to like
00:32:05.480 frills. You don't have to be a ballerina. You don't have to be dainty. You can like four-wheelers. You can
00:32:11.000 like sports. You can like to wear pants. But you're still a girl. That's something to embrace. That's
00:32:17.040 something to be proud of. That is worthy of love and respect. You don't have to pretend that you're
00:32:22.700 a boy in order to find comfort and confidence in your body. That is the message that we need to be
00:32:28.420 telling our young girls. The book says being transgender is not an illness or something to
00:32:33.340 be ashamed of. If you're questioning your gender identity or if you already know for sure that you're
00:32:37.680 trans or non-binary, talk with an adult you trust like a parent or a school counselor. Now you'll remember
00:32:43.440 that these stories that we have told, these testimonies from parents where the school
00:32:49.040 counselor got involved, they were the trusted adult and the parent wasn't. When a child goes
00:32:54.120 to this school counselor and says, hey, I think I'm non-binary, which is a nonsensical term that again
00:32:59.120 doesn't have any correlation to reality. Or I think I'm transgender, but hey, I don't trust my parents.
00:33:05.160 But often the state will step in and take this child out of its parents' custody. And the
00:33:11.100 terrible story out of California of the immigrant family of Yaley Martinez. She killed herself by
00:33:18.320 jumping in front of a train after this process of jumping from group home to group home after she
00:33:24.420 was insisting that she was a boy. And the school affirmed her, did not tell her mother. Her mother,
00:33:31.040 when she found out, did not support this so-called transition. And then eventually, because she was
00:33:37.980 totally disconnected from her support system, she had no one that really cared about her
00:33:42.260 and really loved her. She ended up killing herself. Now ask yourself, did the school counselor and all
00:33:47.720 of the people at school who affirmed her, did the social worker, did they show up to the funeral?
00:33:52.860 Did they take any responsibility for it? No, it's the mother who is picking up the pieces. It's the
00:33:59.080 parents who know. It's the parents who care. These doctors, these psychologists, these surgeons,
00:34:04.780 they're making money off of it. The teachers feel a sense of self-validation and affirmation from it.
00:34:11.160 And yet they will not be there when this girl turns 25 and realizes that she wants children and can never
00:34:17.660 have them. Or when she does miraculously have a child, but she wants to breastfeed and she never can.
00:34:24.680 They won't be there picking up the pieces of her lifelong depression or anxiety or her suicidal
00:34:31.260 thoughts. The parents will be. And yet American girl is trying to divide parents from their children
00:34:38.360 and push this deadly and dangerous ideology on the very girls that they say they love.
00:34:45.820 And then we also include in this, it's not just girls who want to identify as boys that they're
00:34:51.400 addressing here. Apparently they are also addressing boys who identify as girls. So this is not a book
00:34:56.360 like for girls in any way, because they quote someone named Jazz Jennings, who is a young man
00:35:03.360 who was a boy who transitioned a long time ago, who seems to be going through like a lot of really
00:35:09.140 terrible things that I really feel sad for this person, but they quote Jazz Jennings being transgender
00:35:15.320 isn't a medical transition. It's a process of learning to love yourself for who you are, but it's actually
00:35:19.820 not. You can't love yourself for who you are. And so you're going through all of these very
00:35:24.280 painful and, um, destructive procedures to try to change who you are. And this just goes back to a
00:35:33.600 worldview that is completely opposed to not just science, but also the Christian worldview. It's
00:35:39.100 this kind of dualism that separates the body from what someone thinks and what someone feels on the
00:35:45.200 inside. And it's this idea that what you feel on the inside is who you really are. And the body really
00:35:52.340 is just arbitrary. It doesn't give you any indication of your identity or, um, or who you should be,
00:36:02.280 or it doesn't really have any purpose. It doesn't tell you what you can do. It really is just kind of
00:36:09.380 a clump of cells. It's just a ball of matter and you can shape it to whatever you want to conform to
00:36:20.000 how you feel on the inside. But the Christian worldview cares very much about the flesh. We care very much
00:36:26.720 about the body. We believe the body has a telos. We believe the body has a purpose, that it was
00:36:31.620 intentionally created by God, that it was very, uh, purposefully created by God. We believe in a
00:36:38.780 resurrection of the bodies one day. We believe that Jesus is God made flesh. That's how much we care about
00:36:46.540 the body. We don't diminish the body as something that's unimportant or something that is secondary
00:36:51.240 to what we feel, but actually our inside and outside are inextricably intertwined. God really
00:36:58.540 cares about the body. First Corinthians 6, 19 or 6, 9 rather says that the body is the dwelling place
00:37:05.600 for the Holy Spirit. It's not something that we should be mutilating. It's not something that we can
00:37:11.340 change to try to match what our feelings are on the inside. It doesn't work like that. Genesis 1, 27
00:37:16.780 says very clearly that God made us male and female. And we saw that it was not just good, but very good.
00:37:24.120 And if God is the creator of the heavens and the earth, he's the authority over it. He's the definer
00:37:28.940 of all things. He is the giver of our, of all value. First John 4, 8 says that God is love. Therefore,
00:37:35.480 everything that God defines, everything that God designs is done from love. We cannot love our
00:37:41.420 neighbor by disagreeing with God and his creation. We cannot out-compassion him. We can't out-justice
00:37:48.120 him. We can't out-empathy him by disagreeing with what he says about marriage or the family or sexuality
00:37:54.120 or gender. The most loving thing that we can do at all times is agree with God. He's wiser than us.
00:38:00.760 He's better than us. He's more loving than us. He created us male and female. There's a lot
00:38:05.460 of people, some even professing Christians who think they can out-love God by being more tolerant
00:38:10.380 than him, being more inclusive than him, being more accepting than him, that they've moved on.
00:38:14.820 They've graduated from God's definition of right and wrong or male and female. And they've moved
00:38:19.500 into this new enlightened definition of what it really means to be a good person. They will always
00:38:24.620 fail. God will not be mocked. He is the source and the arbiter and the creator of all goodness and
00:38:31.480 all righteousness and all truth. Every time you disagree with him, you are not just, you are,
00:38:39.560 you are not just hating God. You are hating other people. He and he alone knows what is best for us.
00:38:45.080 All right. So that's, that's all I have time for today. There was something I wanted to react to,
00:39:01.280 but you know, I don't think that I'm going to have time to do it. It's a TikTok. I'll react to it
00:39:07.320 tomorrow. Tomorrow. What I think that we are going to talk about is Santa. Why I don't do Santa. We
00:39:14.900 don't do Santa with our kids. I've thought about this a lot, and this is not a judgmental take on
00:39:22.580 my part. It's just is what it is. And I've thought about this a lot. And I think that you're really
00:39:28.480 going to enjoy the episode. And we're also going to discuss whether or not Christmas is pagan. Should
00:39:34.380 we even be celebrating Christmas? And so we'll discuss all of that tomorrow. All right. Thanks
00:39:41.140 for bearing with us today with all of the crazy technological things. And we'll be back in the
00:39:46.000 studio tomorrow and everything will be smooth sailing there. And then guess what? On Thursday,
00:39:51.020 we've got Dallas Jenkins. He's going to be in studio with us. He's the creator of The Chosen.
00:39:56.440 So if you've got questions for Dallas Jenkins, send them my way. I will try to get those questions
00:40:00.760 answered for you. All right. That's all we have for today. We will see you guys back here tomorrow.