The Matt Walsh Show - A Conservative Reacts To A Transgender Children’s Book

00:00:00.000 So one of the fastest growing literary genres is the genre of woke leftist children's books.

00:00:07.540 It's like you walk into the bookstore now, go to the children's section, it's like being at an

00:00:10.740 Antifa rally or something with all these books. The most common subgenre though of woke children's

00:00:15.860 book is the kind that pushes gender confusion on children. There are many adults in this country

00:00:20.960 who want your child to be as insane and confused as they are. And that's why they write books like

00:00:27.760 this. This one is called I Am Jazz, allegedly co-authored by Jazz Jennings, who was, at the

00:00:34.920 time this was written, a kid, a boy, who identifies as a girl. But really, I think we can safely assume

00:00:40.600 that the real author is Jessica Herthel, who's the first author listed there. I'm told by the

00:00:46.900 internet that Jessica Herthel is a straight ally, whatever that means. And she travels the world

00:00:51.880 and she's spreading her gospel. This is her gospel. She's spreading it and speaking to schools and

00:00:56.440 other groups because, yes, this book is read to kids in school. So that's the background on it.

00:01:02.420 We'll crack it open and see what's inside, I suppose. I have to warn you, usually when we do

00:01:06.940 videos like this, I like for it to be sort of funny, but this is a brainwashing tool for children

00:01:12.240 and it makes me too angry to say anything funny about it. So I'm just going to read it and scream

00:01:19.520 like a crazy person. That's probably the way this is going to go. All right. I am jazz. For as long

00:01:25.860 as I can remember, my favorite color has been pink. My second favorite color is silver and my third

00:01:31.080 favorite color is green. Here are some of my other favorite things. Dancing, singing, backflips,

00:01:36.460 drawing, soccer, swimming, makeup, and pretending I'm a pop star. Most of all, I love mermaids.

00:01:42.260 Sometimes I even wear a mermaid tail in the pool. My best friends are Samantha and Casey. We always

00:01:49.600 have fun together. We like high heels and princess gowns or cartwheels and trampolines. All right. So

00:01:55.340 you see what's happening here. They're setting the stage explaining why jazz is actually a girl.

00:02:00.980 Jazz is really a boy, but they're trying to explain, you know, this is why jazz is actually a girl.

00:02:05.840 And of course he's a girl because he likes mermaids in the color pink. This is supposed to give us an

00:02:10.960 indication of jazz's true gender. Except the problem here is that we're also told that there

00:02:16.440 is nothing inherently feminine about the color pink or mermaids. The left for years has been

00:02:24.420 insisting that it's actually not feminine to wear a dress. There's something, that's what they've been

00:02:29.060 telling us. There's nothing feminine about it. These are just social constructs. They don't really mean

00:02:33.680 anything. And now they say, if a boy wears a dress, he's so feminine that he must be a girl.

00:02:39.720 So we went from it's not feminine to wear a dress to if you do wear a dress, it's so feminine that

00:02:46.460 you turn into a girl because you wore one. So this is completely incoherent, but obviously the

00:02:51.480 children who are being subjected to this drivel, they don't know that it's incoherent. And that's

00:02:56.420 the left's ideas of gender are so stupid and absurd that they have to indoctrinate you when you're

00:03:01.840 five years old before you're informed enough to notice what's really going on. We have a lot more

00:03:07.680 to read, unfortunately, but I'm not exactly like Samantha and Casey. I have a girl brain,

00:03:13.740 but a boy body. This is called transgender. I was born this way. Sure. Right. A couple problems here 0.98

00:03:22.480 though. First of all, this is really the biggest problem. It makes no sense whatsoever.

00:03:26.720 See, your brain is your body. Okay. So drawing a distinction between your brain and your body

00:03:34.460 makes no sense. It's the same thing. Your brain is your body. It's like drawing a distinction between

00:03:41.460 your limbs and your left arm. See, if you have a boy body, then you have a boy brain. 0.94

00:03:49.380 Do you know how I know you have a boy brain? Because you have a boy body. That's the way it 0.90

00:03:55.780 works by definition. But what else could it possibly mean for a, for a boy to have a girl

00:04:00.940 brain, especially because again, we've been told that there's no such thing as girl brains and boy 0.95

00:04:06.500 brains. The left told us that for decades. And now they're saying, oh, you know what? Actually,

00:04:12.400 there is such thing as a girl brain and somehow it can end up in a boy's body. We don't know how it 1.00

00:04:16.840 ends up in there. It just does. When I was very little and my mom would say, you're such a good

00:04:22.580 boy. I would say, no mama, good girl. At first, my family was confused. They'd always thought of me

00:04:29.100 as a boy. As I got a little older, I hardly ever played with trucks or tools or superheroes, only

00:04:34.360 princesses and mermaid costumes. My brothers told me this was girl stuff. I kept right on playing.

00:04:39.980 Notice how we keep going back to mermaid. So mermaid is a fictional character. This has nothing to do

00:04:45.880 with someone's gender whatsoever. My sister says I was always talking to her about my girl thoughts

00:04:51.160 and my girl dreams and how one day I'd be a beautiful lady. She would giggle and say, you're

00:04:56.720 a funny kid. Okay. So not only do we have a girl brains and boy brains, we have girl thoughts.

00:05:01.960 What's a girl thought? You know, here's the thing. I don't know what a girl thought is, I guess, 0.99

00:05:07.220 because I've never had one because I'm not a girl. If the term girl thought means anything,

00:05:13.280 it must be the thoughts that a girl has. So you can't pass possibly have a girl thought unless 1.00

00:05:19.540 you are a girl, which jazz is not. Sometimes my parents let me wear my sister's dresses around

00:05:27.580 the house, but whenever we went out, I had to put on my clothes again. This made me mad. Still,

00:05:32.620 I never gave up trying to convince them pretending I was a boy felt like telling a lie. Then one amazing

00:05:38.160 day, everything changed. Mom and dad took me to meet a new doctor who asked me lots and lots of

00:05:42.160 questions. Afterward, the doctor spoke to my parents and I heard the word transgender for the

00:05:46.200 very first time. That night at bedtime, my parents both hugged me and said, we understand now. Be who

00:05:52.220 you are. We love you no matter what. This made me smile and smile and smile. Okay. They, they understand

00:05:58.800 now. So what convinced them? What convinced you? You didn't understand before, like your four-year-old

00:06:06.580 son or a toddler comes along and says, I'm a girl. And you're the parents. And at first you thought,

00:06:12.480 well, no, you're not. But then he kept wearing pink clothes and he, any, and he watched the movie

00:06:17.900 Little Mermaid one too many times. And you said, by golly, I guess he really is a girl. Well, what do

00:06:22.880 you know? It is no, it is no different than if your, your three-year-old son comes up to you and says,

00:06:28.820 I'm a doggy. And you say, no, I don't really think you are a doggy. And then he gets down on his hands

00:06:34.400 and knees and crawls away. And you say, wait a second. Did you see what he just did? Well, he

00:06:38.600 must be a dog. No, there's no way a human could do that. There's no other explanation. It's a

00:06:45.640 miracle. He's a, he's a spiritual dog. He's a, he's a, he's a, he's got a dog's brain inside a boy's

00:06:52.500 body. Yes. That, that, that's it. How absolutely useless and feckless do you have to be as a parent

00:06:58.680 to let your four-year-old convince you that he's really a girl?

00:07:04.680 How useless and feckless do you have to be as a parent to let your four-year-old convince you of

00:07:09.240 anything? I have kids. Okay. I have never been convinced of anything by a four-year-old. A four-year-old

00:07:18.240 has never said anything to me that made me go, huh? You know, you raise a good point. Actually,

00:07:23.640 I changed my mind. That's never happened to me ever in life. Is it because I'm stubborn? Maybe so.

00:07:30.540 But I think it's because I'm an adult. Okay. They're four. They don't know anything. There is

00:07:38.820 nothing they can tell me about anything that will make me change my mind about anything

00:07:44.540 because they don't know anything because they're four. Okay. Like they just started walking a couple

00:07:53.160 of years ago. They're barely, they, they, they're just now at the point where they could go to the

00:07:59.140 bathroom on their own. So no, um, you, you don't say to your four-year-old, be who you are. You know

00:08:05.440 why you don't say that? Because your four-year-old doesn't know who he is. He's four. Doesn't know what a

00:08:10.780 boy is. Doesn't know what a girl is. That's why you're there. You're the parent. You're supposed

00:08:14.900 to explain. And when your four-year-old says, four-year-old boy says, I'm a girl, you know what?

00:08:21.040 Your four-year-old boy has no idea what a girl is. He literally doesn't know what he's talking about.

00:08:27.860 He doesn't know what that thing, it's just a word to him. It doesn't mean anything.

00:08:32.400 Mom and dad told me I could start wearing girl clothes to school and growing my hair.

00:08:35.940 They even let me change my name to jazz. Being jazz felt much more like being me.

00:08:41.140 Mom said that being jazz would make me different from the other kids at school, but that being

00:08:44.920 different is okay. What's important, she said, is that I'm happy with who I am. Being jazz caused 0.96

00:08:50.740 some other people to be confused too, like the teachers at school. At the beginning of the year,

00:08:54.740 they wanted me to use the boys' bathroom and play on the boys' team in gym class.

00:08:58.460 Well, what? I can't imagine why. Could it be because you are a boy? But that didn't feel normal at all.

00:09:03.060 I was so happy when the teachers changed their minds. I can't imagine not playing on the same

00:09:07.940 team as Casey and Samantha. Even today, there are kids who tease me or call me a boy name

00:09:12.660 or ignore me altogether. This makes me feel crummy. Then I remember that the kids who get to know me

00:09:17.800 usually want to be my friend. They say I'm one of the nicest girls in school. I don't mind being

00:09:23.320 different. Different is special. I think what matters most is what a person is like inside.

00:09:28.120 And inside, I am happy. I am having fun. I am proud. I am jazz.

00:09:36.280 You see, it's exactly what I said. It just made me angry. Now I'm just mad. This video was a mistake.

00:09:43.040 Like, this stuff in this book, it's not just nonsense, right? I mean, it is nonsense, but it's

00:09:48.860 harmful nonsense because kids are being brainwashed into it and their lives are being destroyed. You know,

00:09:55.320 Jazz Jennings is actually, this is a tragic story about Jazz Jennings. In fact, if we lived in a sane

00:10:00.580 society and there was a book about Jazz Jennings, it would be a tragedy is what it would be. Now,

00:10:05.440 I think Jazz Jennings is an adult now. His whole life has been ruined by his horrible parents and by

00:10:12.480 the horrible, deranged lunatics who have done this to him. So the whole theme of this book is be

00:10:19.020 yourself, right? Be who you are. And I used to think that be yourself was the dumbest slogan

00:10:24.120 imaginable because who else are you going to be? I used to think that growing up when I was told,

00:10:28.200 well, just be yourself. And I would say, well, right, but who else am I going to be? And what

00:10:33.140 other, what other option do I have? Unless I'm a, unless I'm a shapeshifter, it seems like that no

00:10:37.400 matter what I'm doing or what I'm being, I'm being myself. So it's not really helping me out much by

00:10:42.320 saying that. But now I see that this is actually good advice because this book is a perfect example

00:10:47.740 of a child who has been trained to not be himself. Himself is precisely who Jazz is not being. He is

00:10:56.040 being anyone but himself because he has been conditioned to hate himself. So our message to

00:11:01.200 a child who struggles with his identity, our message to a boy who struggles to accept that he is a boy

00:11:06.300 should be, be yourself, actually be yourself. And you are a boy and it's wonderful to be a boy.

00:11:12.940 It's a beautiful thing to be a boy. You should embrace that. Love it. Love yourself. Be who you are.

00:11:19.280 You aren't a she. You're a he. That's okay. That's good. Be that. That should be the message. 1.00

00:11:27.880 That's the loving, true, real message that you give to a kid. This is garbage. This is noxious,

00:11:34.300 poisonous, filth, and garbage. So buy this book for firewood if you want.

00:11:41.180 Just don't read it to your kids. That's all I can say.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 16, 2021

A Conservative Reacts To A Transgender Children’s Book

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