Transgender regret is a very real thing. A man who underwent sex change surgery and then regretted it. Caitlyn Jenner has made whispers of sex change regret, hinting she might go back to being Bruce Jenner. The Department of Justice says Americans should be forced to embrace the reality of mental illness and media exploitation as a reality. Here are three truths that could have stopped this charade if society actually cared about truth: 1. Suicide rates among transgender people don t drop after surgery. 2. Most children who are supposedly transgender grow out of these feelings. 3. Transgenders do not decrease in suicide thanks to sex-change surgery. In fact, 41% of transgender people attempt suicide sometime in their life. That s higher than the general transgender suicide rate. And by the way, there s a very high comorbidity between transgenderism and depression and suicidality generally, generally. That s a direct quote from a Vanity Fair piece written by Walter Walter, a man who was on the cover of Vanity Fair last week. It says: "Sex reassigned persons had substantially higher rates of death from cardiovascular disease and suicide. ...and by the end of their life, they were 10 times more likely to attempt suicide than the average person in the general population." What does that mean, you ask the question? Well, here s what it actually means, folks. . This is not a second-guessing a story written in Vanity Fair. It s a real thing, and it s not something that matters, because there s no secondguessing something that s not temporary. And it s a temporary thing. or something that doesn t matter, right? And there s not even a secondguess It s temporary, it s temporary or a second guessing because there's no remorse it s just something that does not matter not that matters anyway, right, right and it doesn t even matter, anyway, because it doesn't matter, because this is not something the media doesn t have a second guess so why does it matter, does it really matter? or is it matter ? or does it even matter or doesn t it matter ? is it a problem, right or not ? And it does? ? Or does it matter, or does it? Or do it matter?
00:00:00.000On Thursday, The Wrap reported on a new book by Ian Halperin.
00:00:03.000He's the author of a book called Kardashian Dynasty, the controversial rise of America's royal family.
00:00:09.000The book claims that, quote, multiple sources told him that the former Olympian had been miserable for months and has now considered transitioning back to being a man.
00:00:17.000According to Halperin, quote, one source confirmed to me, Caitlyn has made whispers of sex change regret, hinting she might go back to being Bruce Jenner.
00:00:25.000Jenner says Halperin could, quote-unquote, detransition, which would be admitting he's a man, within the next couple of years.
00:00:31.000So, this means there are two possible Caitlyn Jenner stories.
00:00:34.000Story one, a mentally ill man, thought he was a woman, was reinforced in this perspective by a perverse sick media and a pathetic medical establishment, urging him to overrule his own second thought, underwent surgery and hormone therapy, realized surgery and hormone therapy don't cure mental illness, now regrets his suffering and is finally considering detransitioning.
00:01:02.000The Department of Justice says Americans should be forced to embrace story number two.
00:01:06.000Instead of recognizing the reality of mental illness and media exploitation, we'll all be told to repeat story number two until it becomes second nature, or we'll be called bigots and have our businesses and our states boycotted, or we'll be fined by the government.
00:01:19.000The reality of sex and the reality of mental illness, these have to be memory hold, just gotten rid of.
00:01:24.000Those who suffer from mental illness must believe, we have to drive them to believe fictions about their own sex, and we must be forced to embrace their mental illness as reality.
00:01:35.000So, here are three truths that could have stopped this charade if society actually cared about truth.
00:01:40.000Truth number one, suicide rates among transgenders do not decrease thanks to sex change surgery.
00:01:46.000Suicide rates among transgender don't drop after surgery.
00:01:49.00041% of transgender people attempt suicide sometime in their life.
00:01:53.000That's compared to 4.6% of the general population.
00:02:22.000Most children who are supposedly transgender grow out of these feelings.
00:02:26.000Dr. Paul McHugh is a former head of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University.
00:02:29.000He finds 70 to 80 percent of all children with transgender feelings grow out of it.
00:02:35.000This is important because the media have already told parents that children confused about their sex should consider whether they're transgender.
00:02:43.000Transgender regret is a very real thing.
00:02:46.000Walter is a man who underwent sex change surgery and then regretted it, and he wrote at The Federalist, quote, Considering the findings of a 2011 Swedish study published seven years after the 2004 UK review, it looked at the mortality and morbidity
00:03:06.000After gender reassignment surgery, it found people who changed genders had a higher risk of suicide.
00:03:12.000In that study, all the sex reassigned persons in Sweden from 1973 to 2003, that's 191 male to females, 133 female to males, were compared to a comparable random group.
00:03:24.000The sex reassigned persons had substantially higher rates of death from cardiovascular disease and suicide, substantially higher rates of attempted suicide.
00:03:32.000Gender surgery is not effective treatment for depression, anxiety, or mental disorders.
00:03:39.000And by the way, folks, Jenner showed early signs of regret.
00:04:23.000Not that it matters anyway, because there's no turning back.
00:04:27.000So Caitlyn Jenner can't switch back because the media would have a field day and make Caitlyn Jenner out to be some sort of sex traitor to femalehood or something.
00:04:35.000The media and the Obama administration have a narrative.
00:05:49.000Sarah Palin, who's become the screeching, harpy voice of the Trump right, she writes, quote, Trump has a powwow with unsupportive GOP-E, that's GOP establishment, House leader Paul Ryan today, anticipate Ryan, after following crucifiers of our conservative frontrunner and all of his early supporters, to now position himself as the leader of these political wussies to the cool kids table.
00:08:03.000He's a good guy, and I respect him, and he's a very respected guy within the party, but I don't think he fully understands how angry people in the party are at all of the people in Washington, including him, for such things as the trade deal, immigration policies, Syrian refugee relocation, Planned Parenthood funding, the Iranian deal.
00:08:51.000So there's this call from the Trump people for Ryan to surrender.
00:08:54.000Now, there are two ways that Trump could have played this.
00:08:56.000I mean, that Ryan could have played this.
00:08:57.000Number one, he could have just come out in favor of Trump originally.
00:09:01.000He could have done the Bobby Jindal routine.
00:09:03.000I think Donald Trump stinks, and therefore I'm going to vote for him because at least he doesn't stink as much as Hillary Clinton, right?
00:09:08.000He's a flaming bag of dog crap, but he's our flaming bag of dog crap.
00:09:11.000That could have been the Paul Ryan response to Donald Trump.
00:09:15.000I would have disagreed, but it would have been typical.
00:09:18.000Or he could have said, I'm not going to back Donald Trump because I find him utterly unpalatable and I think that he's a smear on our brand.
00:09:26.000So there's all this big media buildup, all this massive media buildup to this big meeting between Paul Ryan and Donald Trump.
00:09:32.000Trump goes to Washington DC to meet with the Speaker of the House and he's ushered in by apparently a guy who was straight from the old Judaic temple, ushering him in with a ram's horn.
00:09:46.000And chanting and singing for his god king, Donald Trump.
00:09:50.000This is a guy who I've started calling folks like this Trumpsexuals.
00:10:53.000They have their secret meeting, their clandestine meeting between Paul Ryan and Donald Trump.
00:10:57.000And Reince Priebus, who has now become the lackey to the kingdom of Trumpkins, he comes out and he says,
00:11:04.000The only way to really fully enjoy the kind of insanity that you're watching here is to take Trump up on his proposal that basically this is just a giant reality show.
00:11:13.000That's the only way to really enjoy all of this.
00:11:15.000So if you see it that way, Reince Priebus is basically the host.
00:11:53.000It was positive, it was give and take, and it was also something that I think if anyone was a fly on the wall would agree with everything that I'm saying.
00:12:00.000But you are a fly on the wall, so what else can you tell us?
00:12:10.000Did they discuss tone and tenor, the things that Ryan has said publicly that he's not thrilled with?
00:12:16.000Did they discuss the policy differences, both?
00:12:19.000Look, I hate to spoil the fun, but I'm just not going to get into the details other than to say that, um, it was, uh, it was a meeting that I think went as well as I would have hoped.
00:12:44.000So in other words, it was just a first date, but they're not ready for the fantasy suite yet.
00:12:49.000That's where we are right now, so apparently Ryan is not ready to take him up on the fantasy suite, and where they go into the jacuzzi and massage each other's back.
00:12:57.000They're not quite there yet, but they had great chemistry, and he was given a rose, so that just means that we'll have future episodes of this particular season of The Bachelor, and we'll have to tell you whether Ryan chooses Trump or Trump chooses Ryan, it's all very exciting.
00:13:11.000Ryan then comes out looking like something from a hostage video.
00:13:14.000I mean, honest to God, straight from a hostage video.
00:13:17.000The hostage videos are piling up here.
00:13:18.000You've got Chris Christie from his hostage video, and you've had Ben Carson from his hostage video, and now you have Paul Ryan from his hostage video.
00:13:26.000The hostage videos at the hands of Donald Trump just keep piling up.
00:13:30.000Here is Paul Ryan at his press conference talking about his bachelor experience with Donald Trump.
00:13:42.000I was very encouraged with what I heard from Donald Trump today.
00:13:46.000I do believe that we are now planting the seeds to get ourselves unified, to bridge the gaps and differences.
00:13:53.000And so from here, we're going to go deeper into the policy areas to see where that common ground is and how we can make sure that we're operating off these same core principles.
00:14:08.000You don't put it together in 45 minutes.
00:14:10.000So that is why we had, like I said, a very good start to a process on how we unify.
00:14:16.000And it's very important that we don't fake unifying, we don't pretend unification, that we truly and actually unify so that we are full strength in the fall.
00:14:26.000There are policy disputes that we will have.
00:15:17.000I know not everyone is pro-choice in our party, and we accept all comers, but we are a majority pro-life party, and these are things that are important to us.
00:15:25.000has gotten more votes than any Republican primary nominee marked right in the history of our country.
00:15:34.000He hasn't even gone to, like, California yet.
00:15:36.000So it's really a remarkable achievement.
00:15:39.000So the question is, and this is what we think we can be a party to helping, how do we unify it all?
00:15:45.000So this is really a big and growing movement.
00:15:47.000How do we keep adding and adding and adding voters while not subtracting any voters?
00:15:52.000And to me, that means a positive vision based on core principles, taking those principles, applying them to the problems facing our country today, and offering people positive solutions, and speaking to people where they are in life, addressing their anxieties, and show that we have a better plan.
00:16:08.000Okay, so, there are a bunch of things that he says there, all of them are stupid.
00:16:11.000So, my favorite, of course, is the part where we clipped in, for those who missed it and you're not watching, you missed the joke, but it's from the Manchurian candidate, okay?
00:16:19.000In the Manchurian candidate, a bunch of U.S.
00:16:21.000soldiers are kidnapped by the communists, and they are programmed, they're brainwashed.
00:16:25.000To be at the behest of the bad person in the movie, but one of the things they're trying to say is they're trying to say that one of the guys from their squad is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most generous human being I've ever met in my life, right?
00:16:47.000And then when he says my favorite thing here, my favorite thing is when he says that we're not going to just compromise for the sake of compromising.
00:16:52.000We're not just going to cave for the sake of caving.
00:16:54.000But I can tell you that Donald Trump and we agree on limited government and we agree on the Constitution.
00:17:57.000Minority leader again, instead of the Speaker of the House.
00:17:59.000So, he's playing this game, and it's the same game that he's played with President Obama a thousand times, and the Republicans constantly play with Democrats.
00:18:06.000In this case, Trump is the Democrat, because Trump is a Democrat.
00:18:09.000And the game that they play is play, fight, and surrender.
00:18:40.000And whether Trump is willing to say a couple of conciliatory things before he reverses himself and says zero conciliatory things.
00:18:46.000I also like the part in this press conference where Paul Ryan said, our policy teams are going to get together.
00:18:52.000Somebody said to me today, okay, well, you know, you should really stop complaining about Trump, and you should work on working with his policy team.
00:18:59.000Donald Trump does not have a policy team.
00:19:01.000He has a group of people who write positions that he ignores at will and has never read.
00:19:05.000And Donald Trump doesn't even know his own tax plan, which is why he's disassociated from it.
00:19:08.000He doesn't know his own immigration plan, which is why in the middle of a debate, he disassociated from his own immigration plan.
00:19:23.000So the idea that Donald Trump is suddenly going to become a policy wonk and you'll be able to convince him to be a conservative Republican... Again, I prefer Bobby Jindal's, he's a sack of crap, but he's my sack of crap, to
00:20:42.000Okay, the only thing Donald Trump might do that Hillary Clinton wouldn't is if there was some magic move and suddenly Republicans kept the House and Senate and the presidency and they passed some sort of pro-life bill.
00:20:53.000Maybe then he would sign it, but that's not gonna happen.
00:21:24.000It continues, we are extremely proud of the fact that many millions of new voters have entered the primary system far more than ever before in the Republican Party's history.
00:21:53.000Okay, so before we get all hot and bothered about him winning 10 million votes, understand, Bernie Sanders will finish the Democratic primaries with probably as many votes as Donald Trump.
00:22:03.000So the idea that Donald Trump is just some world-beater when it comes to driving vote, yes, both for and against.
00:22:10.000A record number of voters voted against Donald Trump, too.
00:22:12.000Final sentence, this was our first meeting, but it was a very positive step toward unification, and we look very much forward to sharing chocolates and bath oils in the fantasy suite.
00:22:21.000So that final sentence was the Paul Ryan sentence.
00:22:25.000Okay, so, they're all coming together now, and they're unifying, and it's just glorious,
00:22:30.000And as I say, this is more damaging to the conservative cause because Paul Ryan played this game.
00:22:33.000Again, Paul Ryan saying, I don't like Donald Trump very much, but he's our guy.
00:22:46.000That would be better for conservatism than, he's actually conservative.
00:23:07.000He's much better than the other person.
00:23:08.000I don't think Trump is much better than the other person.
00:23:10.000I think he's probably going to lose anyway.
00:23:12.000And beyond that, I think that he's really, really bad for our argument that we're not a bunch of racist bigot nativists who hate trade and are know-nothings about politics.
00:23:21.000I don't think he's helpful to that at all.
00:23:23.000I think he's gonna be a smear that we're gonna be running down the rest of our lives.
00:24:03.000People will not come in unless they come in illegally.
00:24:06.000Drugs will not pour through that wall.
00:24:08.000As far as other people, like in the migration, where they're going, tens of thousands of people having cell phones with ISIS flags on them, I don't think so, Wolf.
00:24:36.000And as I said at the time, radical Islam provides a danger to the United States.
00:24:40.000That means that our screening procedures should be more strenuous for Muslims trying to enter the United States because radical Islam is a subset of Islam.
00:24:48.000It doesn't mean that no Muslims ever get into the United States.
00:24:50.000I mean, there are Muslims who serve in the United States military.
00:24:53.000There are Muslims on our police forces.
00:24:55.000It means that you can apply different levels of scrutiny to people based on their ideology.
00:24:58.000But this is like saying there should have been no German immigrants during World War II.
00:25:02.000Well, it turns out that there are many types of German immigrants, right?
00:25:04.000Including Jews who are trying to escape.
00:25:05.000There are Muslims who are trying to escape from Syria who may not be the world's worst people, but we have to check them out.
00:25:38.000And when I called for a temporary ban, I thought that was a very bad thing for me to do politically, but I felt I should do it.
00:25:44.000And I didn't know that I would go up in the poll as opposed to down.
00:25:48.000I did that because I really felt there had to be something done.
00:25:51.000Okay, there had to be something done, but he didn't know he was going to go up in the polls.
00:25:54.000But now that he's gone up in the polls, everything is hunky-dory, the world has turned in its orbit again, and everything is fine.
00:26:00.000By the way, this notion, we talked about it yesterday at length, the kind of might-makes-right notion of Trump, the idea that what he does is popular and therefore it's okay?
00:26:08.000is so antithetical, really antithetical, to what the founders stood for.
00:26:13.000So I just want to read you this quote from James Madison.
00:26:34.000It would be the interest of the majority in every community to despoil and enslave the minority of individuals, and in a federal community to make a similar sacrifice of the minority of component states.
00:26:43.000In fact, it is only reestablishing, under another name and a more specious form, force as the measure of right.
00:26:49.000That's what James Madison had to say back in 1787, 1786, around the time of the Constitution, about this idea that the majority always ought to rule and the majority is always right.
00:27:48.000People will have to solve the problem.
00:27:50.000But I think by putting together a commission, a group of people that are highly respected in this field, like Rudy and others, I think that could lead to something pretty good.
00:28:00.000The ban the way it's described, even as a temporary ban, would have, for instance, barred Amir Hekmati, the Marine who was over in Iran, held prisoner.
00:28:15.000I mean, we have exceptions, and again, it's temporary, and ultimately, it's my aim to have it lifted.
00:28:20.000Now, right now, there is no ban, but I would like to see, there has to be an idea, there has to be something, because there are some pretty bad things going on, and I have Muslim friends, great Muslim friends, who are telling me, you are so right, it's, there's something going on that we have to get to the bottom of.
00:28:36.000Okay, so he says he's sort of backing off of it now.
00:28:48.000He said he was against minimum wage, then he said he was for minimum wage, then he said he was against minimum wage again, and late last night,
00:28:54.000He tweeted that he is for minimum wage again.
00:28:55.000So he's taken four positions on minimum wage in the last week.
00:28:58.000He's flipped on taxes twice this week.
00:29:00.000He's flipped on his pro-life positions multiple times during this campaign.
00:29:22.000If you're not deporting anyone, what's happening right now is people are waiting across the Rio Grande and flagging down ICE officers knowing they will not be deported.
00:29:30.000So we'll see if Trump has the guts to actually deport people.
00:30:36.000It's inappropriate for anybody not to release their tax returns.
00:30:38.000You remember Mitt Romney got smacked with this in 2012 and ended up releasing his tax returns because there was so much pressure.
00:30:45.000Former presidential nominee Mitt Romney says Donald Trump's refusal to release his tax returns is, quote, disqualifying.
00:30:52.000In a Facebook post, Romney, a longtime Trump critic, says, quote, it is disqualifying for a modern-day presidential nominee to refuse to release tax returns to the voters, especially one who has not been subject to public scrutiny in either public military or public service.
00:31:08.000Okay, so there's a guy who actually has seen Trump's tax returns?
00:31:27.000And he says he saw because Trump sued him for libel because he said that Trump was worth less money than Trump said he was worth.
00:31:57.000He says, Trump has made the size of his fortune a centerpiece of his presidential campaign, implying it's a measure of his success as a businessman.
00:32:04.000He said Trump is not responding to requests for income statements.
00:34:18.000So he's Jesus, and they're joking about how he's Jesus and no one can criticize Donald Trump under any circumstances.
00:34:23.000He is a Christ figure, and that means that he's being crucified according to Sarah Palin, and he cannot be criticized according to... By the way, Jesus himself was probably cool with being criticized, right?
00:34:34.000Because if he was, in fact, as the Christians claim, the Son of God, God can take it, it turns out.
00:34:40.000But the whole thing is just insanity at this point.
00:34:43.000That's the story with Trump and Paul Ryan and the continuing worship for the Trump train.
00:35:28.000Nothing will give you... You put this on Blu-ray and you watch this, nothing gives you the sensation of what the danger and chaos of war must be like more than this series.
00:37:14.000So over the last couple of days, Joe Biden has been out there talking, and one of the things he's been talking about is what he likes to call the Cancer Moonshot.
00:37:22.000Well, I didn't know cancer was on the moon, but there you have it.
00:37:37.000I've committed, and I promise before we leave, we will mow down any of the impediments that exist bureaucratically in the federal government to slow up the process.
00:38:06.000The barrier... There's always this idea on the left, and it's easy to fall into on the right, too, that all the differences between us curing cancer and not curing cancer is just throwing money at the problem from a federal government perspective.
00:38:19.000There are certain areas in which the federal government is useful and good, although they screw it up a lot, too, like vaccinations, for example.
00:38:25.000Production of vaccinations during an emergency.
00:38:27.000There have been times in American history where we've gone into production on vaccines and it's been a complete waste of time, like in the 1970s.
00:38:34.000When it comes to cancer, first of all, people think of cancer as one disease.
00:39:05.000What's actually going to cure cancer is not the kind of things the federal government is doing, but the things that the federal government hates on.
00:39:11.000Like the pharmaceutical companies, the drug companies that actually produce the research that leads to practical results.
00:39:16.000So what the federal government does, they fund grants.
00:39:18.000My wife works in the medical industry.
00:39:37.000It's not like, oh, we're going to go at it conceptually, a priori, blank slate, we just come in, tabula rasa, and we just create it out of our mind.
00:39:46.000Instead, what it is, is here's a cancer, we know it exists, let's try a bunch of different things on it and see what works.
00:40:05.000If it fails, we come up with another hypothesis.
00:40:07.000If it fails, we come up with another hypothesis.
00:40:09.000So even from that perspective, the idea of mass federal funding is actually a relatively large waste of money.
00:40:14.000Certainly the idea of punishing pharmaceutical companies
00:40:17.000Which is so near and dear to Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton and probably to Donald Trump as well.
00:40:22.000This idea is actually horrible because those pharmaceutical companies create the exact drugs that you are going to need if God forbid something happens to you.
00:40:34.000So, Sylvia writes, Well, you use it as a vehicle.
00:40:35.000So just like any other political vehicle, the idea is that you nominate candidates inside the Republican Party in order to take advantage of their infrastructure.
00:40:55.000Think of the Republican Party as a car that can be driven in many different directions, but we have to determine who the driver is going to be.
00:41:01.000The reason I'm not going to get in the passenger seat right now is because Donald Trump was chosen as the driver, and that dude be crazy.
00:41:07.000So I'm not going to ride over the cliff with him Thelma and Louise style in the name of unity with the car.
00:41:12.000That's not something I'm interested in doing.
00:41:13.000Who drives the car matters to me a lot more than the car itself.
00:41:38.000When we can watch a woman undress in her own changing room and call her degrading names if she doesn't like it, then make her leave, it's safe to say the victory is ours.
00:41:45.000It is true the new patriarchy wears a dress.
00:41:47.000I think we can all agree this is a small price to pay for all the implied benefits.
00:41:51.000That is obviously sarcastic and Matthew funny email.
00:41:54.000Yes, it turns out that if you want to destroy the notion of femininity and destroy what it means to be a female, just say that anyone can be one if they say they're one.
00:42:02.000Okay, as I said, I watched my wife actually give birth to a child the other day.
00:42:06.000Caitlyn Jenner never did and does not belong to the same sex as my wife, and if you think this, you are clinically stupid.
00:42:12.000Okay, you are a clinically stupid human being.
00:42:38.000She took off a year with our first baby.
00:42:39.000She created her schedule so that she could have more time with this baby, and she's taking maternity leave right at the beginning of her new job.
00:42:51.000And then I was here on Monday doing this podcast.
00:42:54.000If you level the playing field to the extent that the transgender advocates seem to want, where we're all held to the same standard, and if we get rid of the differing standards for men and women, then I'm not sure women are going to like the outcome of this.
00:43:06.000As I've said before, transgenderism kills feminism dead.
00:45:35.000It says, encourage a culture of life adoption and educate Americans about the consistent pro-life ethic, which means abolishing the death penalty.
00:45:43.000Yeah, it requires more than a culture of life.
00:45:45.000It requires that the government prosecute abortionists who kill babies, right?
00:45:49.000On crime and punishment, he believes that we ought to basically let a lot of prisoners out.
00:45:54.000I'm not in favor of the war on drugs generally, but when it comes to people who are distributing hard drugs to children, they should be in jail.
00:46:00.000So, there are a lot of problems that I have with some of the libertarian positions.
00:46:04.000I agree with some of them, I really disagree with some of them.
00:46:09.000You know, Austin Peterson is probably better than Trump, but he's not a conservative, he's a libertarian, and I have significant disagreements with the libertarians.
00:46:17.000Okay, I have a couple questions on Judaism.
00:46:18.000I don't know how to pronounce this name, I think it's Siabhan?
00:46:29.000I understand Shabbat rituals include not touching electricity or driving a car or using a telephone, having grown up near the Orthodox synagogue in Newton, Massachusetts.
00:46:36.000Do emergencies preclude the observation of rituals, or are such emergencies mitigating actors?
00:46:44.000It's called pikuach nefesh, and this means that if a life is in danger, then you're allowed to violate the Sabbath.
00:46:49.000So, I was allowed to take my wife and I was allowed to jump in the car in an emergency and drive to the hospital.
00:46:55.000During the actual procedure, during her labor, we didn't use my phone.
00:47:00.000There was a doula there who used my phone to kind of notify people, friends and family what was going on.
00:47:05.000But I didn't use my phone, we didn't play music, we didn't use electricity, we did not write, we minimized everything that would be violating Sabbath.
00:47:13.000But if you have to break Sabbath in order to save a life or protect health, then you're allowed to do that, and it is save a life, is the general standard.
00:47:34.000The basic spiritual concept of circumcision, unlike female circumcision, which does actual damage to a human being, permanent damage that cripples women for life.
00:47:43.000Male circumcision has never crippled anybody for life.
00:47:45.000Everything is in working order and everything feels great.
00:47:47.000So, you don't have to worry about that.
00:47:49.000From the medical perspective, most doctors still say circumcision is more healthy than non-circumcision.
00:47:54.000It lowers the rates of STDs and penile cancer.
00:47:57.000Putting aside the science, the spiritual rationale behind circumcision in the Bible is the idea that if there's one driving force for masculinity, it is the penis, okay?
00:48:05.000This is just... men think with their penis far too often, okay?
00:48:11.000The idea behind circumcision is that you are marking yourself and you are dedicating your highest passions, the things that drive you the most, and the things that can get you in trouble the most, to God.
00:48:23.000It's the idea that you're now able to... you're supposed to control yourself.
00:48:27.000Every time you look at yourself, presumably, it's a reminder that you are dedicated not to your own hedonism, but to the God who created you, and that's what it's all about.
00:48:36.000And that's why one of the blessings that we say over at the circumcision, I'm looking it up right now so I get the text exactly right, because I'll be saying this in a couple of days, so I want to make sure that I get it right when I actually do, is there's a blessing.
00:48:49.000And what we say is, what we say is, blessed are you, Lord our God, King of the Universe, who has sanctified us with his commandments and commanded us concerning circumcision.
00:48:57.000By the way, cool thing about circumcision in Jewish law, it always happens on day eight.
00:49:01.000Day eight is the day in a human being's life when your clotting factors, vitamin K in your blood, is the highest of any time it will ever be in your life.
00:49:10.000So what you actually say is you say, and then you say about your son, just as he was introduced into the covenant, so may he enter the Torah, marriage, and good deeds.
00:49:22.000And that's the idea here, is that you're entering him into a covenant with God, which means subjecting your own passions, subsuming your own passions for the glorification of God.
00:49:31.000And notice the importance of those three things, right?
00:49:34.000Torah, which is our rule book, marriage, which is how you become a better person and generate children,