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


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
00:00:57.320 watching on YouTube. But it's the hopefully it's the same great content, a little bit more casual
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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.