The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1154 - How Public Schools Became LGBT Brainwashing Factories

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the groomers have flocked to Louisiana to speak out against a bill

00:00:04.420 that would prohibit the sexualization of children in public school. At the same time, and on a very

00:00:08.240 much related note, a new report says that 25% of current high school students identify as LGBT.

00:00:14.180 It's all part of the plan, which we'll talk about today. Also, the Netherlands legalized euthanasia

00:00:18.120 or post-birth abortion relief for toddlers. Brittany Greiner speaks out in favor of men 0.95

00:00:22.720 playing women's sports, and Whoopi Goldberg claims that the Bible endorses sex change surgeries for

00:00:27.500 children. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:01:50.080 expressvpn.com slash Walsh, to learn more. The national backlash against the grooming and

00:01:55.880 sexualization of children in school took far too long to materialize, but better late than never

00:02:00.740 when it comes to something like this. And now, as we've seen, states across the country, the sane

00:02:04.540 ones anyway, have started to pass laws legally protecting kids from this kind of abuse. The latest

00:02:10.440 to wade into these waters is Louisiana, where a couple of pieces of legislation were just advanced

00:02:14.740 out of the state's House Education Committee and are now headed to the floor of the House. So they

00:02:19.000 certainly have a while to go before they are made into law, but they're on the way. The Daily Signal

00:02:24.020 has the details on this. It says, new Louisiana legislation would ban public school teachers and

00:02:28.320 personnel from discussing sexual orientation and gender identity with students from kindergarten

00:02:32.760 through the end of high school. That's not all. Republican Louisiana State Representative

00:02:36.680 Dodie Horton's HB-466 would also prevent teachers from discussing their own sexual orientation or

00:02:42.900 gender identity with students or using pronouns for a student that differ from the pronouns that

00:02:47.360 reflect the sex indicated on the student's birth certificate. If the parents provide written

00:02:51.360 permission, school employees could use pronouns for a student that differ from the pronouns on their

00:02:56.020 birth certificate. So take note of that last part, right? The bill still allows kids to be 0.97

00:03:01.260 identified by preferred pronouns, quote unquote, merely stipulating that the parents have to be

00:03:05.820 involved in that decision. This is a major concession the Republicans in that state have

00:03:11.060 made and one that never should have been made. Schools should not be lying to kids about their

00:03:16.500 identity or participating in the lie, even if the parents want them to. Whether the parents want it

00:03:22.660 or don't want it, the school shouldn't do it. Also, there's no point in a compromise of this sort.

00:03:28.920 The left will shriek in horror anyway. They will be sent into convulsions of demonic rage,

00:03:34.560 vomiting and crawling up the walls like Linda Blair and the exorcist, no matter what. Anything less 1.00

00:03:39.660 than a full capitulation, anything short of fully sacrificing our children on the LGBT altar with no 1.00

00:03:46.360 conditions, a full sacrifice, anything less than that will be considered a genocidal act of homophobia

00:03:52.020 and transphobia. So you might as well just draw a hard line, right? You might as well, you know, deal in,

00:04:00.880 in, in, uh, you understand that this is good and evil, black and white, and that there's no gray area here

00:04:07.520 because anything less again than full capitulation, this is how they're going to react. Case in point,

00:04:12.540 here was the reaction when the education committee voted to advance the pronouns bill. Um, listen to the,

00:04:17.960 the, the, the crowd in the background. As amended favorably to the house floor by a seven to five

00:04:23.660 vote. Do I have a, is there a motion to adjourn? Thank you. Now to be clear again, they are wailing

00:04:38.540 in horror like the souls of the damned in hell because of a bill that simply prohibits teachers

00:04:43.780 from secretly referring to children by preferred pronouns. The law only makes it illegal for schools

00:04:49.900 to hide a child's gender transition. And that's what they're screaming about. Of course, before the 0.95

00:04:54.900 legislation advanced through the committee, there was a whole parade of circus freaks who showed up to

00:04:59.080 voice their disapproval. Here's a, an apparent reject from the blue man group, a, a, they, them drag queen 0.90

00:05:05.100 testifying against HB 466, which prevents teachers from discussing gender identity and sexual sexuality,

00:05:12.480 uh, sexual orientation with children. Um, here he is. Listen, thank you all for letting me speak.

00:05:18.340 I believe we are all here for the same reason, which is to make schools a safe space, safe place

00:05:23.160 for students and for faculty to thrive. So I'm excited to share this space with you. But like I said,

00:05:30.320 I am Maxwell. I am trans. I am big gay baby. My pronouns are they them. What are yours?

00:05:37.380 I'm here to ask you to vote no on HB 466. Speaking before you today is a 27 year old drag artist that

00:05:45.960 lives every day to secure kindness, validation, love, and acceptance for the wounded child that

00:05:53.240 still feels closeted inside me. For the inner child that remembers feeling alone and alien in school.

00:05:59.900 Well, America, it's up to you to decide whose side are you on? Are you on the side of parents

00:06:05.960 who don't want their kids to be sexualized in school? Or are you on the side of a grown adult

00:06:11.120 in blue face paint who refers to himself as big gay baby? Which way will it be Western man? Which path 0.97

00:06:18.460 will lead us to flourishing and prosperity? But it wasn't just the drag queens who came out to defend 1.00

00:06:24.080 grooming. We know that the, you know, the drag queen community, these are the, the nation's loudest and 1.00

00:06:28.360 most prominent advocates for child abuse, but they're not alone. Certainly. Teachers also came

00:06:34.060 to testify. Here's one woman describing a recent conversation she had with her students. Listen.

00:06:39.860 Mrs. T, which is what they called me. Mrs. T, are you a boy or are you a girl? Should I really have

00:06:47.820 shut that conversation down? Should I have shut it down so that the students, the five students that

00:06:55.140 after that conversation came out to me didn't know that it was okay, should I have been punished for

00:07:02.940 having that conversation? Those are not my kids. Those are your kids. And they knew that they could

00:07:14.200 come to me for that acceptance and that love. Uh, yes, exactly. You're damn right. Those are not

00:07:22.080 your kids, Mrs. T. But to answer your question, Mrs. T, no, you don't need to shut down any conversation

00:07:29.780 where students ask if you're a boy or a girl. You don't need to shut down that conversation. No one

00:07:32.960 is saying that you need to shut down that conversation. The legislation that you're tearfully

00:07:37.600 protesting wouldn't require you to shut down that conversation. When you're asked that kind of

00:07:42.780 question by the young kids in your class, you can simply say, uh, I'm a girl. Very easy. It's not

00:07:49.660 difficult. Now, if you, despite being female, assuming that you are female, that's what it 0.53

00:07:54.360 appears, uh, if you, despite being female, self-identify as male or as some nonsense like non-binary,

00:08:01.460 then you should not be able to talk to the kids about that, right? You should be able to tell them

00:08:07.220 your biological identity. Yes, I'm a girl. If you identify something else, you should not be able to tell

00:08:11.680 them that. Why is that? Well, because your actual biological identity as female is a fact of 0.98

00:08:18.260 nature. It's a reality. Facts and reality are the kinds of things we want to teach to our kids in

00:08:25.660 school. That's, that's why schools exist. Okay. They exist to teach kids facts about the world. They

00:08:33.100 don't teach, uh, they don't exist as a, as a forum for you to express yourself individually and talk to

00:08:41.060 kids about your own self-expression and self-perceptions. That's not why the, the students

00:08:46.720 are sent to school. Your self-identity as something apart from your biological sex is not a fact. It is

00:08:53.480 not a reality. It is ideological. It is fantastical. So therefore it doesn't belong in the classroom.

00:08:59.860 Separation of church and state. Isn't that what you people always say? Well, your religious belief

00:09:04.860 that the spirit of a man or of a, they, them can somehow be mysteriously trapped within the physical

00:09:11.020 frame of a woman or vice versa must be separated from, from your job as an educator employed by the 0.98

00:09:18.580 state. She claims that five students came out to her after they had this conversation. A journalist,

00:09:24.760 Greg Price, who posted all these clips from, from the hearing and you should follow him on Twitter,

00:09:28.840 by the way, he's got a lot of good stuff. He reports that this woman is a fourth grade teacher.

00:09:32.560 So five fourth graders came out of the closet to her on the spot, according to her.

00:09:40.360 You might assume that she's making this up, which is usually a safe assumption. These people lie about

00:09:43.740 everything. But the scary thing is that in this case, she's very likely telling the truth.

00:09:49.560 This is actually what's going on in elementary schools. And it's all by design. It's the result

00:09:54.040 that the groomers have engineered. Their LGBT indoctrination campaign has been so effective 1.00

00:09:59.700 that now by their own testimony, young prepubescent children are coming out of the closet in mass

00:10:05.920 in the middle of class. There are many other teachers and LGBT activists speaking out,

00:10:11.480 often howling and screeching like the sounds you might hear if you were lost in the jungle at night.

00:10:16.040 We'll play one other clip. This is a self-identified they, them, or no, no, I'm sorry. A self-identified he,

00:10:20.700 they, he, they, who, so this is a he, but then also a they, who insists that the failure to groom

00:10:27.920 children will lead to suicide. We're used to this claim. We've heard it many times. And here it is

00:10:31.440 again.

00:10:32.580 I identify as a trans male. And I moved to, I'm not a Louisiana native. I moved here five short years ago.

00:10:39.160 And in that five short years, this place has become my home. I love this state. I moved here for

00:10:44.300 the culture and the people. But this bill fosters an unsafe environment for all children. I keep

00:10:51.940 hearing that we're trying to protect children, but instead we're trying to harm them. This bill

00:10:58.080 will, as we've heard from other people on suicide rates, this bill will directly impact children

00:11:03.840 and cause them suicidality. The blood of trans youth will be on your hands. 1.00

00:11:10.520 Oh, really? Is that the case, he, they? Well, so you're saying we need to have preferred pronouns

00:11:16.520 in school and constant conversations about gender identity and sexual orientation, or

00:11:20.120 there will be mass suicides, you say. Okay, then. That's certainly a theory. That's a theory.

00:11:27.720 And like any theory, it makes predictions. This is how you test a theory. A theory is going to make

00:11:33.280 predictions about the world where we could say, well, if this theory is correct, then we should be able

00:11:39.820 to observe XYZ out in the world if this theory is correct. And then you can go and see, do I observe

00:11:45.240 that? And if I don't observe it, there's something wrong with the theory. The prediction that this

00:11:49.200 theory makes is that as schools become more open and accepting of preferred pronouns and of gender

00:11:55.040 identities and so on, the suicide rate goes down. And since school and society in general are certainly

00:12:01.720 more open and accepting of these things now than they were 10 years ago or at any other point in

00:12:05.660 history, we should find that the suicide rate has gone down over time as acceptance and openness of

00:12:10.300 these things has gone up. But is that what we find? Well, let's check with Pew. Pew has this report.

00:12:15.920 The share of high school students who experienced what is known as suicidality, which includes suicidal

00:12:19.660 thoughts, plans, and attempts, increased from 2011 to 2021, according to new data from the CDC.

00:12:26.040 Separately, the CDC also found that after a brief two-year decline in 2019 and 2020, the total number of

00:12:30.560 suicide deaths increased in 2021, especially among people of color. Overall, 22% of high school

00:12:35.460 students in the recent survey, 22% said they had seriously considered suicide within the past year,

00:12:40.480 up from 16% in 2011. 18% said that they made a suicide plan and 10% said they attempted suicide

00:12:46.740 at least once compared with 13% and 8% respectively 10 years earlier. All demographic groups across race,

00:12:52.780 ethnicity, and sex experienced increases in suicide risk since 2011. That is a very significant

00:12:59.700 6% increase from 2011. But in 2011, nobody was talking about preferred pronouns. Nobody was talking

00:13:08.480 about that in 2011. There was very little discussion of gender identity or transgenderism.

00:13:14.520 It is simply undeniable that schools especially are far more welcoming and accepting of these kinds of

00:13:21.260 things and these ideas today than they were 13 years ago. And yet suicide has gone up significantly

00:13:28.880 from 13 years ago. Your theory makes a false prediction. Your theory is therefore false.

00:13:35.300 But truth, obviously, is not the point. The point is more this. Here's a report published just yesterday

00:13:40.640 in The Hill. It says, quote, about one in four high school students identify as LGBTQ, according to other

00:13:46.860 data from the CDC. One in four. This was released on Thursday using data from 2021. In 2021, 75.5% of high

00:13:54.600 students identified as heterosexual. The CDC's youth risk behavior surveillance system found among high

00:14:00.160 school students, 12.2% identified as bisexual, 5.2% as questioning, 3.9% as other, 3.2% as gay or

00:14:08.540 lesbian, and 1.8% said they didn't understand the question. The CDC says the number of LGBTQ students went

00:14:18.620 from 11% in 2015 to 26% in 2021. 25% of current high school students identify as LGBT. An 11% increase from the high

00:14:30.120 school demographics just eight years ago. It is a 150% increase over the millennial generation. It's 10 times the

00:14:36.680 number of self-identified LGBT people in the baby boomer generation, and 20 times the number in the generation before that.

00:14:43.860 This is the result they're after. It's why they so passionately defend their right to groom and 0.71

00:14:50.680 sexualize children. This is all part of the most widespread and systematic brainwashing campaign the

00:14:56.280 world has ever seen. They are not interested in merely, you know, giving LGBT kids, quote, unquote, 0.93

00:15:02.140 space to express themselves. They are creating the LGBT kids. That's what they're upset about. That's why 1.00

00:15:11.020 they show up and they protest these bills, because it's going to interfere with their ability to create

00:15:16.100 another generation, another crop of LGBT kids. The school system has become a factory assembly line 1.00

00:15:25.100 where new LGBT members are manufactured. Perhaps the more accurate illustration is a massive 0.98

00:15:31.540 cult commune with hundreds of satellites all over the country where children are systematically

00:15:37.260 indoctrinated and then inducted into the LGBT cult. It's happening right in front of our eyes right 0.99

00:15:43.660 now. And the results will be and have been catastrophic for the country and the human race.

00:15:50.220 In conclusion, get your kids out of the public school system. Just get them the hell out,

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00:17:25.240 upsetting here after coming out of something pretty upsetting. So let's break it up just a

00:17:29.000 little bit with some good news. Last week, as you know, on this show, demonetized on YouTube,

00:17:36.080 hacked, everything's falling apart. The left is celebrating my demise. Today, I just got word my

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00:17:58.840 I believe. So thank you for all of that. You know, the SPG, everybody in the audience.

00:18:04.780 I often say that you can't be canceled unless you consent to it, that they can't cancel me unless I go

00:18:10.920 along with it. And that's true, but there's another part of that equation that I should acknowledge

00:18:16.240 because, and that's the reason, right? The reason why they can't cancel me without my consent.

00:18:20.940 And the reason is you, as long as I have your support, there's nothing these people can really

00:18:25.780 do because they can't force you to stop supporting me or anybody else. They can't, they might try,

00:18:32.100 this is part of the game. And that's really what the canceling is all about. At least if you're

00:18:35.980 someone in the public eye with a platform, canceling is all about trying to, it's taking

00:18:40.660 platforms away, but it's also trying to convince the audience, like, well, don't listen to this

00:18:45.240 person. It's a horrible person. And that's what, and that's when the canceling actually works, 0.93

00:18:49.040 when they can convince you to go, to go, to stop listening, to go somewhere else, to stop supporting.

00:18:55.280 That's when the canceling actually happens, but they can't force that. They can't force as much

00:18:59.080 as they would like to, they can't force it. So as long as I have that, you know, we're a team and,

00:19:03.520 and, and they can't stop it. And the reason why I can, I could be canceled if I went along with

00:19:10.620 the cancellation. The reason why I could be canceled if I apologized and backpedaled is that

00:19:15.780 I would lose your support. And I should, you know, if I were to, to sit here and, uh, because I can't

00:19:21.100 take the pressure anymore and I don't want to be attacked anymore and all the rest of it and, uh,

00:19:24.780 whatever. And I were to sit here and apologize, uh, and pledge to reform my ways so that I'm, so that

00:19:31.420 I'm more in line with what the left wants me to be. If I were to do that, um, then you guys should

00:19:37.780 abandon me because I will have betrayed you. I won't be worth listening to anymore. Um, or

00:19:43.660 following. And that's the case for anyone. Once, once the apology happens, the apology, you know,

00:19:48.800 cow, uh, uh, cowering before the cancellation mob and apologizing. And we've seen it so many times.

00:19:55.780 And what makes it so tragic is that when the person does that, this is why I I've said many times,

00:20:01.560 like, I can't defend you anymore. I want to defend you. But now that you've done that, I can't.

00:20:08.780 Because I'm defending, how am I going to defend you and the things that you say and the positions

00:20:13.140 you take if you won't even do it? Um, and if I were to do the same thing, which would never happen,

00:20:19.540 but if it did, then, uh, then you'd have no choice but to say, well, that's, that's unfortunate,

00:20:24.560 but we can't listen to that guy anymore. So anyway, I don't want to make this sound like an Oscar

00:20:30.620 speech. I want to thank the fans and God, but, uh, but anyway, I do want to thank the fans and God.

00:20:35.360 Um, all right. This is from the Daily Wire. Officials in the Netherlands are expanding the

00:20:41.760 availability of life termination for children between one and 12 years of age. I told you we're

00:20:47.520 getting into something upsetting and it's about as upsetting as it gets. The European nation will

00:20:51.900 soon permit doctors to euthanize children deemed to have conditions which will lead to hopeless and

00:20:56.600 unbearable suffering. According to an announcement from the Dutch government released earlier this

00:21:00.840 month. Officials claim that the, uh, new policy only concerns a small group of terminally ill children

00:21:07.000 whose, uh, palliative care options are not sufficient to relieve their suffering and who

00:21:11.680 are expected to die in the foreseeable future. This is a very complex subject that deals with

00:21:17.900 very harrowing situations, situations you wouldn't wish on anyone. Dutch health minister Ernst

00:21:22.520 Coopers said in the, said in the announcement, I am pleased that after intensive consultation with all

00:21:27.540 parties involved, we have come to a solution with which we can help these terminally ill children, 0.98

00:21:31.940 their parents, and also their practitioners, um, help the terminally ill children by killing them 0.99

00:21:38.140 is what he's saying and killing them against their will. Okay. Now consent does not make 1.00

00:21:46.140 euthanasia. Okay. That's why I'm 100% absolutely opposed to euthanasia across the board for adults

00:21:54.940 also, but at least with, with adults, there is, uh, there is the possibility that they can consent to

00:22:01.680 it with a, a one-year-old. It's obviously no consent. So this is something that you're doing

00:22:08.620 against the child's will, killing a child, um, and doing it for their own sake. Now 0.54

00:22:14.760 of course they say, they say that, well, this is only for terminally ill children and, uh, unbearable

00:22:24.020 suffering. Death is forced is in the foreseeable future. Even if it, it was relegated only to the

00:22:32.640 most extreme cases of terminal illness, it would still be unfathomably horrifying. But we also know

00:22:42.940 that, uh, it, it's, it's never relegated to the area that, that they first claim. It never works

00:22:51.080 that way. As I've said many times on the left, the left, leftism, progressivism, it's, it is like a

00:22:56.720 cancer. It progresses like cancer. It might start small in this area, but it spreads and it grows.

00:23:02.160 And, and that always happens. Um, the slippery slope fallacy is not a fallacy. It is a, it is an

00:23:08.620 observation of reality. And this is the way that it works. You know, we know in like, like in Canada,

00:23:15.720 there was a time in Canada when, uh, euthanasia was only an option for terminally ill people.

00:23:21.440 Well, it's not the case anymore. Keeps getting expanded, expanded, and you can already see

00:23:25.140 them setting the stage for that. Now death is in the foreseeable future. Well, death is in the

00:23:30.340 foreseeable future for everybody. Okay. Like we can foresee death for everyone because we're all mortal

00:23:37.720 beings. And, uh, and when, when you, when you compare our lifespan to the, um, entire history

00:23:43.800 of the human race and of the earth, you know, our, our lifespans are like the blink of an eye. So

00:23:48.540 death is in the foreseeable future, even like comparatively the near future for all of us.

00:23:55.600 Unbearable suffering. Well, what is that hopeless and unbearable suffering? That's the standard they're

00:24:01.380 putting in place. Well, how do you, how do you qualify unbearable? What is unbearable?

00:24:05.480 Unbearable. Especially when we're talking about children. So you're making that determination for

00:24:10.840 them. Hopeless. Well, that's the most subjective standard you could possibly put in place. Hopeless

00:24:19.460 according to you. But that's, that's precisely the point that if you are an advocate of euthanasia,

00:24:27.600 it's because you don't see any point or hope in life, period. This is nihilism.

00:24:36.200 But there's always hope. I mean, what, what, what are we claiming? That,

00:24:41.440 that it's hopeless. There is no hope so long as death is in the future. Well, then there's no hope

00:24:46.800 for any of us. Then we should all get, you know, we should all take the, uh, take the ticket and,

00:24:53.400 and, and, and head out of town. There's no hope for any of us. And that is, that is where this heads

00:24:58.080 eventually. Like eventually this is, this is nihilism. This is eugenics. This is, uh, the anti-human 0.94

00:25:04.800 agenda, the anti-life agenda. And ultimately that's what they would like to. They'd like to have 0.87

00:25:10.940 euthanasia, uh, available for everybody of all ages. Um, that, and it's an option that can be

00:25:18.800 taken casually for no real specific reason. As I said, it's already basically what's happening in

00:25:24.700 Canada. I think there was a, what was it? Futurama had, uh, one episode where they, the vision of the,

00:25:32.280 you know, the future where there was suicide booths that you could just walk in, go to a, like a

00:25:36.200 telephone booth and it commits and, you know, be killed. That's, that's basically where we're headed.

00:25:42.980 Um, hopeless because they say that it's hopeless. Yeah. That's what they say, but it doesn't make

00:25:51.720 it true. There's always hope in life. As long as you have life, there's, there's hope, there's purpose.

00:25:59.360 And even when they're suffering, like there's always suffering in life. We all, we all suffer.

00:26:03.420 Uh, people that have serious illnesses are suffering to a much greater degree,

00:26:08.380 but the fact of suffering does not remove hope. It doesn't mean that there's no point to living

00:26:14.600 anymore. Now, you know, we often assume that say this is the anti-life agenda. It's also the anti-God

00:26:23.980 agenda. And those two things go hand in hand. Um, you know, you're in favor of euthanasia because you

00:26:30.160 don't believe in God, you don't see any purpose to life. And that's true. Like that is what,

00:26:33.760 what this is rooted in, but it doesn't even make sense from that perspective. Like I, it's,

00:26:40.540 it's hard for me to imagine and put myself in the mindset of an atheist. But I think that if I was

00:26:45.680 an atheist, I might be even more opposed to euthanasia. Well, I couldn't be possibly more

00:26:50.000 opposed to it. I'm as opposed to it as you could possibly be. But, but in that case, then what's

00:26:54.780 afterlife? There's nothing, it's nothingness afterlife. After this, there's just, you, you

00:27:00.620 are going into the abyss. This is all you have really. The idea of giving up on that. And that's

00:27:07.600 even, that's, that's also an argument for continuing to live as long as you have it and making use of,

00:27:13.840 of all the time that you have life, even if they're suffering. So really no matter what angle

00:27:18.500 you inspect this from, it's horrifying. Um, but it's also, as I said, to be, to be expected.

00:27:27.340 And in a culture all across the Western world and across the world generally, where there's

00:27:32.340 abortion, abortion is legalized. Um, this is essentially a version of post, this is post birth

00:27:39.040 abortion, which many conservatives have been, have been warning about that as well. We've been

00:27:46.400 telling you that's where this is headed. Just like we've been saying, um, much of what's happening

00:27:52.180 with the, with the, uh, with the left's agenda, with sexuality and gender, you know, it's headed

00:27:57.220 towards and has now become this open campaign to sexualize children. And we were told for years that

00:28:03.360 that that's crazy. It's slippery slope. It's not going to happen. We'll look. And we've also been

00:28:08.240 saying that the pro abortion agenda will lead eventually to, to actual post birth abortion.

00:28:13.560 And why does it lead to that? Well, because the, the, the pro abortion agenda rests on the

00:28:20.500 assumption that human life has no value. There's no real, there's no real inherent value to it,

00:28:26.480 that the value of human life is contingent on other factors, um, that other people can decide

00:28:33.600 whether a child's life is, is, is worthwhile. That's what, that's what the pro abortion agenda is. 0.72

00:28:43.560 This is a logical extension of that. There's not any logical reason. If abortion is permissible 0.99

00:28:51.180 morally and legally up to the moment of birth, there's actually not any moral or logical or

00:28:56.880 legal reason, not any coherent reason anyway, why that should be the cutoff. Why is birth the cutoff?

00:29:02.440 Totally arbitrary. Birth is a birth is not the creation of a person. Person doesn't come into

00:29:08.900 being in that moment. It's just that the person changes locations, goes from one location to

00:29:15.000 another. That's all that happens. And so if that child's life, a second before emerging from the

00:29:22.780 birth canal is fundamentally worthless and hopeless, which anyone who supports abortion, that's what 0.99

00:29:29.480 they think. Um, then it remains so after birth and for the entirety of a person's life.

00:29:37.980 And, um, and then youth, euthanasia becomes permissible. So this is where it's headed.

00:29:42.800 Uh, a lawmaker in Montana who has been leading the charge against gender mutilation in, in the state,

00:29:50.140 um, stood up to address the claim that we talked about in the opening monologue that, you know, we,

00:29:56.340 we have to have gender transitions for children so that they don't kill themselves. 1.00

00:30:00.640 And this lawmaker's Republican was addressing that claim, talking about her own experiences

00:30:05.720 as a parent. And she has some direct experience with this kind of thing. Uh, this clip has been

00:30:10.000 circulating online with leftists talking about how terrible and horrifying it is. And it's the

00:30:14.360 worst thing ever. This woman is a monster. Chris Hayes from MSNBC, uh, posted it. And there's wide 1.00

00:30:20.020 agreement on the left anyway, that what you're about to witness from this woman is terrible. She's an 0.97

00:30:24.740 evil, terrible person, but we'll play the clip and, uh, you decide. Here it is. 0.96

00:30:29.260 One of the big issues that we have heard today and we've talked about lately is that, that without

00:30:36.520 surgery, the risk of suicide goes way up. Well, I am one of those parents who lived with a daughter

00:30:46.140 who was suicidal for three years. Someone once asked me, wouldn't I just do anything to help save her?

00:30:54.740 And I really had to think. And the answer was no, I was not going to give into her emotional

00:31:05.460 manipulation because she was incapable of making those decisions. And I had to make those decisions 0.72

00:31:11.660 for her. I was not going to let her tear apart my family. And I was not going to let her tear apart

00:31:17.400 me because I had to be strong for her. I had to have a vision for her life when she had none, was incapable

00:31:25.280 of having none. I was lost. I was scared. I spent hours on the floor in prayer because I didn't know

00:31:36.940 that when I woke up, if my daughter was going to be alive or not.

00:31:44.700 But I knew that I had to make those right decisions for her so that she would have a precious,

00:31:50.620 successful adulthood at that time.

00:31:55.780 We're supposed to hear that and think that she's a terrible mother. And when actually what she's

00:32:01.080 describing is obviously the correct response in the situation that she was in, clearly. I mean,

00:32:09.060 you know, the key line there is she says, as a mother, I had to have a vision for her life

00:32:15.520 when she had none. And that's exactly correct. That is that as parents, that is our job. Our kids are

00:32:23.780 confused. They don't understand. They do. They become emotional. They get lost. And in this case,

00:32:29.680 worst case scenario, they get sucked into this cult. They have no vision. They have no idea

00:32:35.620 what's going on. A child who's lost in the cult has no clue what's going on. Totally lost in the

00:32:43.300 dark. And so you are the guiding light. Okay. And what you have to say to your child is, here's the

00:32:49.960 light over here. Follow me. And what your child is going to say, especially when they're very lost,

00:32:53.940 is they're going to say, no, I don't want to go there. Okay. You only want me to go there because

00:32:57.140 you hate me. Follow me instead and deeper into the darkness. You can't do that. That's not how

00:33:02.260 you save your child. You don't say, well, okay, you know what's best. Let's just, here, I'll turn

00:33:09.560 the light off and we'll wander around in the dark together, getting more lost and more lost.

00:33:15.560 That's what apparently the one people criticizing here, that's what they think is the correct

00:33:17.920 response. No, you have to be strong. And you also cannot, as a parent, that's correct. You cannot

00:33:24.680 give in to the emotional manipulations of your children. And when they, and so many parents have

00:33:30.200 gone through this. And I can't even imagine. It's one of the worst things you can experience as a

00:33:36.680 parent. But when you have a child who is saying, you know, a daughter who's saying, I'm a boy.

00:33:43.180 I want to transition. Get me the drugs. Get me the surgery. Okay. Call me by this name that I made up,

00:33:50.980 not the name you gave me and have called me since I was a baby. You know, don't call me by that. Call

00:33:58.060 me by this new name, this ridiculous name I've come up with. You know, your daughter's gone now. 0.99

00:34:03.340 I'm a son. Embrace me as a son. And if you don't do that, I'm going to hurt myself. I'm going to run

00:34:09.660 away from home. No, what the left says is that, is that when your child says it to you, you're supposed

00:34:14.600 to say, okay, whatever you want, I'll do anything you want. Even if it hurts you, I will do it.

00:34:20.980 Well, no, because these people don't know anything about being a parent. They don't

00:34:23.760 know anything about being a good, loving parent. These people are just monsters. 1.00

00:34:32.640 They're either, they're either insane or monsters. If you think that that is what parents are really 1.00

00:34:38.880 supposed to do in that situation. I can understand why parents do it as they, they, they give into the

00:34:44.240 pressure. They don't know how to handle it. They're, they're confused themselves. They're scared.

00:34:47.780 So I, I, I understand how parents can, um, and then they, and then they, they go, maybe they take

00:34:55.960 their child to a counselor and they go to a counselor themselves. And then they don't realize

00:34:59.880 that many of these counselors are not on their side. And then the counselors even start saying

00:35:05.180 to them, well, yeah, you have to go along with this or your child's going to kill herself and that

00:35:10.300 blood, blood's going to be on your hands. I mean, that's, if you're not prepared to hear something

00:35:13.240 like that, and you don't really understand what's going on yourself and you hear that it's, uh,

00:35:17.260 it's quite an incentive to do what you know is wrong. Um, but in truth, as the parent,

00:35:29.140 you have to be, even when it's difficult, especially when it's difficult, you, you have to be the,

00:35:35.760 the lighthouse, right? You have to be the lighthouse in the, in the raging storm. You, you stand there

00:35:42.720 in the light saying, here, here's the way, come here. You have to be that. If, if you won't, then,

00:35:51.860 then, then all is lost. I mean, your only hope, the only hope for your child is for you to be

00:35:57.840 firm and steady. And that's clearly what she was trying to express. All right. Lighten the mood a

00:36:07.820 little bit. I haven't followed the NBA in a long time. You know, I, I gave up, uh, on the NBA when

00:36:11.720 they went full BLM. Um, and that's also when I gave up on LeBron James. People maybe will be 0.99

00:36:16.340 surprised by this, but I was actually a big LeBron James fan for a long time. Uh, I just, as an athlete,

00:36:21.440 I was a big fan of his to my shame. I was up until about three years ago, uh, when he really went full BLM 0.94

00:36:27.720 So anyway, I don't watch anymore, but this one moment jumped out at me as it's gone viral. The,

00:36:32.020 um, the playoffs have started, I guess, and the Milwaukee Bucks were just eliminated and their

00:36:36.800 star player Giannis with the last name, I won't even attempt was asked about whether the season

00:36:41.940 was a failure because they got eliminated from the playoffs. And, uh, and this is one of the very

00:36:47.420 rare moments when an athlete in a post game press conference says something worthwhile and

00:36:52.000 interesting, but, uh, here it is. Let's watch. Do you view this season as a failure?

00:36:57.720 Oh my God. Uh, okay. Because I'm not, uh, you asked me the same question last year, Eric.

00:37:08.900 Okay. Uh, do you get, do you get a promotion every year on your job? No, right? So every

00:37:14.500 year you work is a failure. Yes or no? No. Every, every year you work, you work towards something,

00:37:20.660 towards a goal, right? Which is to get a promotion, to be able to, uh, take care of your family,

00:37:26.100 to be able, I don't know, um, provide the house for them or take care of your parents. You work

00:37:31.340 towards a goal. It's not a failure. It's steps to success. You know, and if you've never, I don't

00:37:37.320 know, I don't want to, I don't want to make it personal. So there's always steps to it. You

00:37:42.320 know, um, Michael Jordan played 15 years, won six championship. The other nine years

00:37:48.380 was a failure. That's what you're telling me. No, I'm actually a question. Yes or no?

00:37:53.660 No. Okay. Exactly. So why are you asking me that question? It's a wrong question. There's

00:38:00.080 no failure in sports. You know, there's good days, bad days, some days, some days you are

00:38:04.820 able to, uh, be successful, some days you're not. Some days it's your turn, some days it's

00:38:08.880 not your turn. And that's what sports is about. You don't always win. Some other, other people

00:38:13.620 is going to win. And this year, somebody else is going to win. Similar to that. We're going

00:38:17.180 to come back next year, try to be better, try to build good habits, try to, um, play better,

00:38:22.660 not have a 10 day stretch with, uh, play bad basketball, you know, and hopefully we can

00:38:27.160 win a championship. So 50 years from 1971 to 2021 that we didn't win a championship, it

00:38:33.180 was 50 years of failures. No, it was not. It was steps to it, you know, and we were able

00:38:39.840 to win one. Hopefully we can win another one. You know, I, sorry that I didn't want to make

00:38:45.360 it personal because you asked me the same question last year. And last year I was in the,

00:38:50.460 in the, that's a, that's good stuff. I like that. It's a very, it's a dad speech. That

00:38:54.860 is, uh, and that's what I do. It's like my entire show, but it's, it's, uh, that is,

00:38:58.720 I can imagine, I don't know if he's a father or not, but he'll, he'll make a very good father

00:39:02.020 if he's not, because that's, uh, that's like the speeds. It sounded like a father talking

00:39:06.160 to his son, just lost, you know, uh, coming home from, from little league and he's given

00:39:10.900 the speech to him. And I think it's very good. And also it's, as I said, it rare to hear

00:39:15.740 something eloquent and interesting from an athlete in a post-game press. Usually all

00:39:19.060 they do is mumble cliches. You know, they were out playing with all this energy. And

00:39:23.160 then for some reason, they get in front of cameras, they can barely speak. And it's, then

00:39:26.120 it's just, yeah, you know, uh, we fought hard out there and, uh, the other team fought hard

00:39:30.500 and, um, take my hat off to him, tip my cap, got to tip my cap, just taking my hat off to

00:39:36.460 him, take my hat off to the other guys, really taking my hat off. For some reason, every athlete

00:39:40.460 in every major sport has glommed on to this one cliche about taking their hat off. I'm

00:39:44.880 not really sure. It's, it's funny. It's a funny one too, because it harkens back to

00:39:48.580 Victorian era chivalry where men tip their top hats when a lady walks by. And this is 0.63

00:39:53.720 what we're supposed to imagine these seven foot lumbering dudes are doing. But anyway,

00:39:58.960 um, I think it's, uh, it's an important lesson and it's really what we were, what we were

00:40:04.160 talking about earlier in the week about the, uh, the rocket explosion for SpaceX, that if

00:40:08.240 you're pursuing a goal and you don't achieve it, but you learn from the failure and you

00:40:14.420 get better and you keep up the pursuit, then it's not a failure. The only true failure is

00:40:18.700 the failure to try at all. And I know that that sounds like a cliche too, but, and maybe

00:40:22.900 it is, but it's true. Um, there are people out there who we could unfortunately describe

00:40:28.260 as failures. There are a lot of people out there these days, sadly, who we could say are

00:40:33.900 failures. These are failures of human beings. Um, but we only can label them failures because

00:40:40.160 they didn't try to do anything. They didn't try anything. They didn't pursue anything.

00:40:45.760 They didn't have any goals that they went out and chased. Um, they didn't do that. They

00:40:51.120 didn't do anything because they were afraid and because it takes too much effort. And, um,

00:40:54.640 and they took the path of least resistance and that's a failure. That's a failure of a person.

00:40:58.520 So that's a person who's failing, failing every day to try. But if you're pursuing your

00:41:05.740 goals, even if you don't reach them every single time, not a failure overall. So going

00:41:10.220 from an admirable sports star to someone who is a not that Brittany Griner did a press

00:41:15.540 conference also yesterday and she was asked a bunch of questions. She was also asked about

00:41:19.660 men playing against women in a women's sports. I'm not sure if she's, this is the first time

00:41:25.680 she's chimed in on this subject of trans and sports and all that. Her answer will

00:41:29.980 not surprise you though. Uh, let's listen to that.

00:41:32.900 Brittany, I'm a Bill Roden from ESPN Anscape. It's really great to see you. It's good to

00:41:37.740 know the prayers have been answered. Um, the question, um, you've always represented so

00:41:42.380 much throughout your entire career about access and, you know, being able to do stuff. And

00:41:48.440 I hate to put one more thing on your plate, but there are a number of states who are aggressively

00:41:53.500 moving to prevent transgender athletes playing. And I was wondering, again, I hate to put one 1.00

00:41:59.860 more thing on your plate, but in terms of your, on your radar, where is that? Um, you're going

00:42:05.000 to have a tremendous platform, but where is that going to be on your radar in terms of advocating

00:42:09.800 for, um, you know, athletes, all athletes, transgender to be able to play?

00:42:14.100 Oh, I mean, that, that ranks high on the, on the list of things that I'll be fighting for

00:42:19.560 and speaking up against, you know, everyone has, everyone deserves the right to play. Everyone

00:42:23.880 deserves the right to, to come here, sit in these seats and feel safe and not feel, um,

00:42:30.560 like there's a threat or they can't be who they are or, um, like, like it's just all eyes

00:42:37.600 on them. Uh, so, um, I think it's a crime, honestly, to, to separate, um, someone for any

00:42:50.600 reason. Um, so I definitely will be speaking up against, against those that legislation and

00:42:56.040 those laws that are trying to be passed for sure.

00:42:58.600 That's the first time I've heard her speak. Um, I think I, well, I'm not surprised that

00:43:06.080 she's in favor of men playing women's sports, but the, even before the, the answer is, that's 0.89

00:43:12.880 actually the first time I listened to that clip. I didn't, I didn't even listen to this

00:43:16.100 clip. I assumed, I knew that it was, this is her chiming in on the trans sports thing.

00:43:19.240 And I knew that she would be in favor of it. Of course she is. Uh, but the, the question,

00:43:23.940 could you grovel any more to this person? My God, a little bit of self-respect.

00:43:30.700 You can't simply ask the question as an ESPN, ESPN reporters, they're so terrified.

00:43:38.660 Okay. Especially now talking to Brittany Griner, you gotta be, they're terrified that they might

00:43:43.400 say anything that seems disrespectful somehow. So we couldn't simply say, uh, what do you make

00:43:49.100 of the trans, trans and sports issue? What's your take on that? Instead it's, well, listen,

00:43:54.240 Brittany, I, I, I don't want to put more on your plate. I understand that there's so much

00:43:58.140 going on in your life and, and you're, you're very, very important and you've done so many

00:44:01.700 things and you, and you've, and you've suffered and you've overcome them and you're very heroic.

00:44:05.100 I just was wondering if I could possibly ask you this one question, uh, about trans people

00:44:09.960 in sports, but if you don't want to answer it, that's totally fine. I know there's a lot on your

00:44:12.720 plate, but if you wouldn't mind maybe answering it, please, I just wanted to know. And, but I could

00:44:16.700 also leave if you don't want to answer it. That's also fine too. I could leave. I could quit my job

00:44:19.980 if that, if you want me to, I could also do that. My God, man, no self-respect, but I guess that's a,

00:44:27.160 that is right now a prerequisite at this point to work at ESPN. You cannot be a self-respecting

00:44:32.040 journalist or person, uh, to, to work there. And Bernie Griner says it's yes to keep,

00:44:38.100 to say that, um, males should compete in their category and women in their own is a,

00:44:46.960 it's a criminal. It's a crime. In fact, not a surprising answer there. Let's get to our comment

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00:45:47.300 University. Visit gcu.edu. That's gcu.edu. Lonnie says, Matt might get fat phobe of the year next.

00:45:56.620 Well, that's a goal. That's a goal. We were just talking about, you got to set goals for yourself

00:46:01.660 and pursue them. You know, lay down your marker, call your shot, go for it. You don't make it. It's not a

00:46:08.280 failure because you tried. And, uh, that is a title. I would like to add that. I'd like to add that to

00:46:15.140 my, uh, that's another plaque I would like to put on the wall. Fat phobe of the year. That would be 0.98

00:46:18.800 great. Um, Luke says you can make judgments about a person without judging them almost as if MF

00:46:26.380 haven't been to court. Case in point, a drug addict will most likely be unreliable, but that doesn't

00:46:31.900 mean that's who they are as a person, especially when they find the help they need. Stop being whiny

00:46:36.440 babies, make judgments. And if people take them to heart, perhaps they'll change themselves. 0.95

00:46:41.360 Right. I think you're, you're drawing the distinction here between you can make judgments

00:46:43.980 about a person's behavior and their character and, and all of that without judging them as a person,

00:46:50.760 which is true. But it's also true that, you know, maybe the distinction between making a judgment about

00:46:55.920 a person's character and behavior and making a judgment of them personally, that distinction is,

00:47:00.920 that's a very fine distinction. And maybe, you know, in practice, it's sort of irrelevant.

00:47:06.440 You know, there's this, we often hear that, well, the Bible says, love the sin, uh, or sorry,

00:47:12.800 hate the sin, love the sinner is what the Bible says it's claimed. And then that, that sometimes

00:47:16.760 will turn into, um, judge the sin, not the sinner. The thing is that neither of those verses are

00:47:23.940 actually in the Bible. That's those are not biblical verses that that's a kind of an interpretation

00:47:28.240 people have come up with. And now they assume that it's directly in the Bible when it's not.

00:47:31.360 Um, it is true that we are not the ultimate judge over anyone, anyone's life or over their soul.

00:47:41.760 We can't judge somebody's soul. We can't see inside their soul, inside their minds. Only God can do

00:47:46.080 that. So we cannot judge in the way that God judges, obviously, but we can still make judgments.

00:47:52.800 Uh, we have to be able to make judgment, as we talked about yesterday, that every second of the

00:47:59.160 day, you're making some kind of judgment. Anytime you make a choice, you're judging, you made that

00:48:03.660 choice because you judged that to be the best choice. You might've judged wrongly. Very often

00:48:08.260 we judge wrongly when we make choices, but you're still making a judgment. And that can relate to

00:48:13.460 people too. Um, you can make judgments about, again, the things that they do. And we can say,

00:48:19.880 well, that was the wrong thing. You shouldn't do that. But you can go deeper and you can make a

00:48:24.240 judgment about a person's character, about the sort of person that they are. And we all make those

00:48:29.840 judgments also, all the time. So any, I, any, any notion that we can't judge at all or that we

00:48:37.660 shouldn't judge is just, uh, it's not only biblically false if anyone claims that it's rooted in the Bible.

00:48:43.740 It's also, it's, it's incoherent. It's not possible. It's not possible to live that way.

00:48:51.800 Um, L Boogie Daman says, she's right. I'm actively losing weight through diet and exercise. I'm afraid

00:48:59.900 of dying from complications from obesity at an early age. At my largest, I was 245 pounds and I'm

00:49:05.760 currently down to 203 pounds. My goal is 180 pounds and I'm five foot, 10 inches tall. Since cutting

00:49:11.960 weight, more women approach me and my friends and family compliment my looks. I am very fat phobic

00:49:17.060 and proud of it. Well, we know from the weight neutral wellness advisor yesterday that that's,

00:49:24.020 uh, that's, that is a, that is an internalized kind of self fat phobia. That is an internal fat

00:49:32.000 phobia that you're struggling from. But you also are a perfect example of why

00:49:37.480 they have this fat acceptance agenda in the first place.

00:49:43.060 Because when they see someone like yourself taking steps to improve your life, uh, feeling

00:49:49.300 better, looking better, and they see that it makes them feel bad about themselves. And we can all

00:49:54.480 relate to that on some level. Like I, I have, have gone through a little bit of a lazy stretch

00:49:59.380 right now. Personally, I have the, you know, we just had twins and it's like a lot going on in life.

00:50:03.000 I have that as my excuse. Um, but it's an excuse and excuses are excuses, but, uh, I haven't been

00:50:10.860 in the gym in a little while. I'm feeling kind of, you know, like I got, I got to get back into it.

00:50:14.620 And so when I see someone on Twitter or on social media, who's talking about, I just started to die

00:50:19.600 and I'm back in the gym. It makes me feel a little bit bad about myself. I have a moment of, oh man,

00:50:22.960 that makes me feel kind of bad, but that's, that's good. That's, that's, that is a judgment of

00:50:29.020 myself that I should be making. And I can, I can either say, well, that makes me feel bad about

00:50:33.420 myself. So you shouldn't say that anymore. And you shouldn't live that way because of how it makes

00:50:37.740 me feel. Or I can take that as motivation to self-improvement. Um, and I think I know which

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00:51:59.020 dailywire.com slash subscribe. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:52:02.080 It's always going to be somewhat redundant and maybe a bit cheap to use the howling banshees of

00:52:11.320 The View as fodder for the daily cancellation. That show could be harvested for this segment every

00:52:15.420 day if I wanted to, but then nobody else would ever get a chance to be canceled, and that simply

00:52:18.980 wouldn't be fair. Today, though, I must revoke the usual cancellation pass I give to The View

00:52:23.780 because this one is too cancellation worthy to pass up. From The Daily Wire, quote,

00:52:28.840 Whoopi Goldberg suggested on Thursday that the Bible would support parents having the right to

00:52:33.180 subject their minor children to sex reassignment surgeries. Goldberg made the comments during

00:52:36.880 Thursday's broadcast of ABC Midday talk show The View following a conversation about a trans-identifying

00:52:41.200 Montana lawmaker who faced disciplinary action for breaking the rules of decorum. Representative

00:52:46.400 Zoe Zaffire, which we can guarantee is not his actual name, a biological male who identifies as female,

00:52:54.060 lashed out of Republican colleagues who oppose transgender surgeries for minors. Quote,

00:52:57.540 I hope the next time that there's an invocation when you bow your heads in prayer, you see the

00:53:01.360 blood on your hands. The GOP-controlled House voted to censure Zaffire, Zaffire is the name,

00:53:08.220 barring the lawmaker from appearing in the House but allowing votes by remote through the end of the

00:53:13.080 current legislative session. Goldberg and co-host Sonny Hostin criticized the move, however,

00:53:17.720 claiming it was proof that Republicans were banning speech. Whoopi then turned to the argument that had

00:53:21.800 gotten Zaffire banned over a bill that would ban transgender surgeries for minors and claimed that if

00:53:26.300 the GOP believed in parental rights, then parents should be able to consent to life-altering and

00:53:31.020 irreversible procedures for their children. Here's what Whoopi had to say. Watch.

00:53:36.180 My God, this is a party that says we believe in parents' rights. You're telling me that as a parent,

00:53:44.660 I don't, I'm not smart enough to decide if my child and I need to have gender affirming,

00:53:50.580 our doctors are not involved. So I can't decide what my kid reads. I can't decide for my child,

00:53:59.180 what my child says is going on. You're telling me your beliefs, and they keep saying it,

00:54:04.860 and I keep saying, what Bible are you reading? Because God was really clear.

00:54:10.520 Very clear.

00:54:12.460 Yes, Whoopi, you're exactly right. God was really clear. This could not have been more clear.

00:54:16.760 From the book of Genesis, so God created mankind in his own image. In the image of God,

00:54:20.540 he created them. Male and female, he created them. God blessed them and said to them,

00:54:24.480 be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. At the very beginning of the book,

00:54:28.740 we are given three essential facts about the human race. These are the first three things that we are

00:54:34.640 told. First, that God made us and determined our sex for us. There's nothing here about choosing our

00:54:40.960 identity for ourselves sometime after we're born. God gives us our identity. It wasn't that Adam was

00:54:49.640 created, and then God said, Adam, how do you identify? Oh, non-binary. That didn't happen.

00:54:57.380 God gives us our identity, and there are two broad identity groups, male and female,

00:55:01.360 a binary system. No other options are mentioned. Finally, third, we're told that males and females

00:55:06.980 are meant to pair up and reproduce. The first commandment, the very first commandment given 0.95

00:55:14.220 by God is not the first commandment in the Ten Commandments. The first commandment given by God

00:55:18.460 to human beings, the very first instruction is to be fruitful and multiply. You brought up the Bible.

00:55:25.540 I'm telling you what it says. And there is, it turns out, nothing in the Bible, not one passage in

00:55:30.640 the Old and New Testament that even hints at the possibility of changing or choosing our sex.

00:55:34.680 There is no mention of anything resembling the modern day notion of gender identity,

00:55:39.020 and that's because the notion of gender identity wouldn't be invented until about 1900 years after

00:55:44.140 the last book in the Bible was written. It doesn't matter how creative you are or how heretical you're

00:55:49.700 willing to be. You cannot proof text your way into a biblical defense of transgenderism and gender 0.57

00:55:55.040 transition. It's not possible. And this is the part where if you're a leftist, you drastically switch

00:55:59.860 course, accusing me of being a Bible thumper, imposing my religious worldview on you. I know

00:56:05.200 how the game is played. This is how it's played. You want to pretend that recognition of the binary,

00:56:09.600 the biological nature of sex is somehow religious. You want to believe that our recognition of this

00:56:15.880 reality is rooted in blind faith. And so you bring up the Bible and make erroneous claims about what it

00:56:22.200 says. We correct you. And then you accuse us of trying to use the Bible to prove our point,

00:56:27.840 even though you're the one who brought it up. Every argument from the left, especially on this

00:56:31.940 topic, is a sleight of hand trick. And this one is their favorite trick to pull. Now, what about

00:56:37.540 Whoopi's claim that child mutilation is a matter of parental rights? Needless to say, she doesn't 0.99

00:56:42.560 actually care about parental rights and opposes such rights in almost all other circumstances.

00:56:46.640 Her concern for parental rights is about as genuine as her concern for fidelity to scripture.

00:56:50.800 But she does inadvertently raise an interesting and important point. And I believe in parental

00:56:58.920 rights. I've always been a strong advocate for such rights. But as conservatives, we make a mistake

00:57:04.180 when we root our entire argument on this topic in parental rights. When we do what the Louisiana GOP

00:57:11.300 has done by insisting that children should be referred to as their biological sex, unless their parents say

00:57:16.920 it's okay for them to identify as something other than their biological sex. That is not the right 0.97

00:57:21.420 approach. Because the problem with pretending that a boy is a girl isn't just that his parents don't

00:57:27.740 approve. It's that it isn't true. Our position should be rooted in truth. The question of rights is farther

00:57:35.400 downstream. And that's also why, though I believe in parental rights, I don't believe that parents have the

00:57:41.000 right to transition their children. I think you have parental rights, but you don't have the right to do that. 0.99

00:57:45.300 No 14-year-old girl should be getting cosmetic double mastectomies, no matter what the girl's 0.99

00:57:50.580 parents might say. It's not our position that physical and sexual abuse of a child is wrong

00:57:55.860 unless the parents consent. Our position is that it's wrong, period. And everybody who participates

00:58:03.440 in such evil should go to prison, including and especially the parents. Parental rights, like all

00:58:09.640 rights, are not absolute. We have rights as parents, but we don't have the right to do anything we

00:58:15.040 want as parents. And we can lose our parental rights. They can be revoked if we prove ourselves

00:58:21.140 to be dangerously incompetent, neglectful, or abusive. Therefore, reducing this whole conversation

00:58:26.660 down to parental rights can ultimately end up creating more confusion than clarity, I think.

00:58:30.940 And that's why I think we might want to start using a different R word. There's another side to 1.00

00:58:36.700 the rights coin. And on the other side of it is responsibility. With rights come responsibilities.

00:58:43.260 With responsibilities come rights. You can't have one without the other. Though in our culture,

00:58:48.080 we usually just talk about one and hardly ever the other. We clamor for our rights. We don't like to

00:58:54.240 acknowledge our responsibilities. But that could be clarifying on this issue in particular. Do I have

00:59:00.300 the right to raise my boy as a boy and prevent other adults from trying to groom him into identifying

00:59:06.760 as a girl? Yes, I have that right. Do I have the right to raise my boy as a girl and groom him into

00:59:13.660 that lifestyle myself? No, I don't have that right. I don't have the moral right. I don't have the

00:59:18.320 natural right. I shouldn't have the legal right. So how can I have the right to do the first thing,

00:59:24.580 but not the second? Well, because of responsibility. Okay, because the first thing lines up with my

00:59:32.080 responsibility as a parent and the second doesn't. So let's just drop the rights talk and go right to

00:59:39.120 that. I have the responsibility to raise my boy. I have the responsibility to raise my boy as a boy,

00:59:45.740 to help him accept himself for who he really is, to guide him towards manhood, and to protect him from

00:59:51.800 anyone who would want to sow confusion or dysfunction into his mind. I have the responsibility to do that.

00:59:57.100 I am called to do that. I am commanded by God and conscience to do that. And because I have that

01:00:04.040 responsibility, I must also have that right. In other words, I have the right as a parent to fulfill

01:00:11.100 my responsibilities as a parent. I have the right to be a good father to my children. I don't have the

01:00:17.900 right to be an abusive and neglectful father. Those are my rights, but more importantly, my

01:00:23.940 responsibilities. And that's how we should be talking about this issue, I think. And it might help

01:00:28.760 alleviate some of this confusion, though I suspect there is no saving Whoopi Goldberg from her

01:00:33.200 confusion, which is why she is today canceled. Talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - April 28, 2023

Ep. 1154 - How Public Schools Became LGBT Brainwashing Factories

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