The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1178 - You Won't Believe What We Discovered In Our Undercover Investigation of 'Gender Affirming Care'

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, the entire gender transition industry is built on lies. 1.00

00:00:04.340 We will reveal today the results of our weeks-long undercover investigation that exposes this fraud.

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00:00:09.220 Also, an activist judge in Florida declares that gender identity is real.

00:00:13.060 What does that mean, and does he even know what it means?

00:00:15.480 And also, Vivek Ramaswamy gives the best answer on Ukraine that any presidential candidate has given so far.

00:00:19.900 In our Daily Cancellation, the artist formerly known as Ellen Page claims that she was viciously hate-crimed 0.97

00:00:24.700 by a right-wing transphobic bigot in Hollywood, where all transphobic bigots are known to hang out.

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00:01:42.520 One of the arguments you hear a lot in the debate over gender ideology across the political spectrum is that adults should be able to do what they want.

00:01:50.280 You know, this is the supposedly moderate position.

00:01:52.500 Several presidential candidates believe it.

00:01:54.260 Millions of Americans believe it, too.

00:01:55.740 As long as you stay away from the kids, they tell you, then there's no problem.

00:02:00.080 The moment you hit 18 years old, do what you want.

00:02:02.680 Live your truth.

00:02:03.600 It's not hard to see why that position is tempting for some people.

00:02:06.840 Children, obviously, can't consent to life-altering procedures, including genital mutilation and castration, especially those.

00:02:14.260 Adults, on the other hand, are able to consent to a lot of things.

00:02:16.780 They can buy guns.

00:02:18.140 They can vote.

00:02:19.120 They can serve in the military.

00:02:20.680 So, if they want to pay a doctor to carve up their bodies, then what's the big deal?

00:02:25.600 That's the argument you hear again and again.

00:02:28.360 No one really means it, though.

00:02:29.880 And you know that no one means it, because none of the people making that argument would use that same reasoning to justify, say, lobotomies.

00:02:37.280 If you walked into a doctor's office today and asked him to drill a hole in your head and sever your prefrontal cortex in order to make you feel better about your life, he would say no.

00:02:47.420 And if he did it, he would go to prison.

00:02:50.220 No amount of informed consent, no matter how old you were, could possibly justify it.

00:02:55.820 It's barbaric.

00:02:56.720 Like, tens of thousands of people's lives were ruined by lobotomies, and everybody recognizes that now.

00:03:02.760 Nobody's marching in defense of lobotomy-affirming care.

00:03:05.780 So, if you defend these gruesome, quote-unquote, gender-affirming procedures on adults, you're not really saying that adults should be able to do what they want.

00:03:13.380 You're saying that, yes, people can change their sex if they want. 0.89

00:03:17.920 You're conceding that these procedures, slicing up a woman's arm to make a fake penis, lopping off healthy breasts, grafting fake nipples onto patients' chest, etc., are medically reasonable. 0.74

00:03:29.280 And in the absence of any kind of statistical data about positive long-term outcomes of these surgeries, you're trusting the doctors to follow an established standard of care. 0.88

00:03:37.080 You're assuming that they're not going to just mutilate anyone who walks in the door without regard for what happens to these people afterwards.

00:03:44.720 The problem is that the entire industry of gender-affirming care is a scam.

00:03:50.980 The whole thing.

00:03:52.780 And we know that because we just spent weeks investigating the largest providers of so-called trans health care in the country.

00:03:59.520 We went undercover at one of them.

00:04:01.240 And what we found is that there are no real standards of care governing any of this.

00:04:07.480 To be clear, there are standards of care, quote-unquote, on paper, and they're provided by the transgender activist group WPATH.

00:04:13.840 WPATH standards are used by major hospitals in this country, including UCLA, UCSF, Mass General, just to name a few.

00:04:21.540 How rigorous are these standards exactly?

00:04:23.340 Well, after a 22-minute video call, the largest trans health care provider in the country, carefully following the WPATH guidelines, approved one of my producers, Greg Ray, for an orchiectomy.

00:04:36.100 That means testicle removal. 0.98

00:04:38.400 Now, 22 minutes would be a record time to get approved for an orchiectomy if you had a real medical reason for it, like testicular cancer.

00:04:44.960 It's insane to approve any serious procedure that quickly, having just met a patient in a video call for the first time.

00:04:53.360 But that's what happened.

00:04:54.780 And we recorded the whole call.

00:04:56.980 At no point did anyone at this health care provider, which is called Plume, push back in any way.

00:05:03.020 They didn't suggest that maybe this was a rash course of action.

00:05:06.400 They didn't verify any of the information Greg provided, including his fake name that he gave them.

00:05:11.640 All Plume did was insist that he pay $150.

00:05:16.380 If Greg did that, they promised to write him a medically sound letter in support of life-altering surgery.

00:05:22.180 That letter, under the WPATH standards, is required for anyone trying to get transgender surgery in the United States.

00:05:27.540 You have to get one of these letters from a health care provider and then present it to your surgeon.

00:05:32.220 And Plume rubber-stamped Greg's letter in 22 minutes.

00:05:36.420 And not all that time was spent discussing the surgery, by the way.

00:05:39.000 Some of the conversation was about traffic and the weather.

00:05:42.000 As I speak, we've uploaded footage of the call on Twitter.

00:05:44.860 You can watch it there right now.

00:05:46.940 In a moment, we'll show you parts of it.

00:05:48.940 In this video call, Greg assumed the name Chelsea Bussey.

00:05:53.100 He didn't dress up as a woman. 0.95

00:05:54.420 He didn't wear any women's clothing or makeup or any of that.

00:05:57.980 He didn't go to Party City and dye his hair blue.

00:06:00.100 He just told them he identified as a woman and that he was taking hormones prescribed by his father.

00:06:05.720 Greg couldn't even pronounce the name of the surgery he wanted.

00:06:08.160 He called it an orchidectomy.

00:06:09.440 He claimed at one point that the reason he wanted the surgery is that it would speed up his non-existent transition,

00:06:17.220 which the Plume nurse said didn't make any sense from a medical perspective.

00:06:20.800 But none of that raised any red flags for Plume.

00:06:24.500 The nurse told Greg she wanted to write him the strongest letter she could anyway.

00:06:29.320 Watch.

00:06:29.660 So, you're currently on the estrogen.

00:06:33.040 You're taking six milligrams a day.

00:06:36.460 Twice a day.

00:06:37.200 Yeah, right, right.

00:06:38.360 You got it.

00:06:39.280 So, you're taking 1.5 tablets a day?

00:06:42.180 Okay.

00:06:42.420 And then, I guess, the system, the significant history.

00:06:50.400 All right.

00:06:52.860 Okay.

00:06:53.360 So, let's kind of get into this a little bit.

00:06:55.280 So, you are seeking what surgery?

00:07:01.060 Things that are irreversible when it comes to estrogen-based therapy is breast development and testicular drainage, right?

00:07:12.980 But there's always a possibility for hair growth to come back.

00:07:15.560 That may change in ORCIEF-T.

00:07:18.680 Once you stop, once you no longer have your testes, you no longer have the ability for your T to convert to BHT because you don't have as much T, right?

00:07:28.820 So, hair growth, facial and body hair may change after ORCIEF-T.

00:07:35.100 Fat redistribution is affected by the estrogen.

00:07:38.980 So, you may have less of a change in fat redistribution if you ever stop eating, but it may change as a whole.

00:07:45.560 So, it's kind of, it's kind of, it kind of does have a benefit without the spironolactone, but you still want to take, you still probably would definitely want to take estrogen as much as you would like.

00:07:59.920 I'm not complaining about the daily pills, just to be clear.

00:08:02.560 I'm just saying, if it accelerates it, then it makes things faster, then that's better.

00:08:06.620 Give me a little bit of history with your gender dysphoria. 0.64

00:08:09.240 That may kind of help me.

00:08:10.140 I want to, I want to make this letter as, as solid as possible to be like, this ORCIEF-T is definitely needed.

00:08:17.800 I'll tell you, I'm happy to.

00:08:19.340 So, when I was, I was in school and I actually wrote a big essay for admission to a club about how I didn't feel like my biological sex went along with how I felt. 0.69

00:08:32.360 And, and I told people that and they thought I was ridiculous.

00:08:35.640 So, because they thought I just, I just look like a guy. 0.98

00:08:38.200 So, they're like, this is ridiculous.

00:08:39.360 Now, a couple of days after that discussion, as we document on Twitter, Plume sent Greg a letter diagnosing him with significant and ongoing gender dysphoria.

00:08:49.920 Therefore, Plume said he was an appropriate candidate for ORCIEctomy.

00:08:53.880 According to Plume, testicle removal would help Greg make significant progress in alleviating his dysphoria.

00:08:58.820 Now, even after Greg followed up with text messages to Plume explaining that he doesn't have dysphoria, they didn't retract or amend that letter in any way.

00:09:10.460 There's no excuse for that, obviously.

00:09:12.720 Plume had multiple opportunities to tell the truth in their letter, and they chose not to.

00:09:17.420 In his intake form, Greg indicated he didn't have dysphoria for six months or more.

00:09:22.520 Didn't have it.

00:09:23.240 That means, under the current version of the DSM, he never should have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria in the first place.

00:09:30.880 But Plume never once asked Greg about this in his video interview. 0.98

00:09:34.720 Instead, they just said that he had dysphoria in the letter, which they intended to be used by a surgeon who would then carve up Greg's testicles.

00:09:42.260 Why didn't Plume amend the letter once they were made aware that Greg didn't have dysphoria?

00:09:46.520 As Plume's nurse explained, in order for the surgery to be paid for, quote-unquote, the diagnosis would need to remain.

00:09:54.700 In other words, insurance companies won't pay for the operation unless the letter contains a diagnosis of gender dysphoria.

00:10:02.240 So they're going to put that diagnosis in there regardless.

00:10:05.860 That's why Plume uses templates that include the gender dysphoria diagnostic code. 0.96

00:10:10.560 It appears very much so that they plug whatever information patients feed them into this generic template, whether or not those patients actually have the diagnosis.

00:10:21.740 The templates are provided by WPATH, by the way, and Plume admitted that to us.

00:10:26.220 It's not hard to conclude that this operation is fraudulent.

00:10:29.420 But what do insurers think of it?

00:10:31.740 What does Aetna and UnitedHealth think of it?

00:10:35.700 What's their position on paying for surgeries based on cooked-up diagnostic codes?

00:10:39.840 What about Cigna?

00:10:41.460 We understand those insurance companies work directly with Plume.

00:10:44.120 What about David Sachs, whose venture capital firm is one of the many that's funding Plume?

00:10:48.720 What are his thoughts on this?

00:10:50.460 Is he aware this is happening?

00:10:52.400 Those are good questions.

00:10:54.180 But the problem is much bigger than Plume.

00:10:56.320 That's what you have to understand.

00:10:57.560 They're far from the only ones doing this.

00:11:00.020 Folks, F-O-L-X, for example, is a major competitor of Plume.

00:11:04.620 They're in almost every state in the country.

00:11:06.320 They're also extremely well-funded by venture capitalists.

00:11:08.740 Folks, like Plume, also sells letters that authorize surgeries under the WPATH guidelines.

00:11:14.580 On their website, Folks admits, and I'm quoting,

00:11:16.740 It's quite possible that the information in a letter may not be specific to you.

00:11:22.580 For example, they may use a gender dysphoria diagnosis, but you really do not have dysphoria.

00:11:29.020 You may not fit this diagnostic code exactly, but in some cases the code is needed in order for insurers to pay for the surgery.

00:11:37.200 Now, we reached out to folks to ask them about this, and they confirmed that a diagnosis, which they put in scare quotes, was necessary in order for insurance companies to pay out.

00:11:49.520 So that's why they put it in there.

00:11:52.180 Again, that's probably news to the insurance companies, but the bigger issue, of course, is what's happening to the patients who are mutilated as part of this process.

00:11:59.080 It's not just Plume and folks who are authorizing surgeries like this.

00:12:02.560 There's a whole network of doctors who crank out these letters.

00:12:05.920 It's called the Gender Affirmative Letter Access Project, or Gallup.

00:12:10.200 Think of the lives that these doctors and these companies are destroying for profit.

00:12:14.760 Listen, if they will approve Greg for castration in 22 minutes after he said he doesn't have dysphoria,

00:12:21.680 they will approve anyone.

00:12:24.400 I mean, anyone.

00:12:26.760 Many of the luminaries in the field will admit that, by the way.

00:12:29.500 On Twitter, we highlighted this training session from the Juniper Center,

00:12:32.900 which is one of the largest gender therapy practices in the Chicagoland area.

00:12:36.460 I want you to watch as the licensed clinical social worker named Ari Groner

00:12:39.820 explains that she'll rubber stamp whatever letter patients want.

00:12:43.900 She says she'll even authorize a suicidal patient for surgery because she's not a gatekeeper.

00:12:48.280 In fact, Groner says that if her patient is suicidal, that would make the case even stronger for surgery.

00:12:54.180 Listen to this.

00:12:55.600 Any psych history that might be helpful to sort of showing the necessity.

00:13:02.060 So if, let's say, a client has a psych history that includes, like, suicidal ideation or a suicide attempt,

00:13:09.460 and you can connect it to the gender dysphoria, that actually can be sort of a positive, persuasive essay piece.

00:13:18.440 And I'll talk about that in a little bit because you can kind of show what this is so necessary, right?

00:13:23.480 This is how this is impacting this person's life, and this is why this procedure is necessary and needed.

00:13:29.060 I have found that when I frame it in a, you know, we're going to kind of use this as a persuasive essay,

00:13:35.320 and we're going to really, you know, kind of stick it to them,

00:13:37.940 there's a little bit more fun with it in the way we even use language.

00:13:41.560 So I found that to kind of be helpful with clients.

00:13:44.760 And who's asking us to write these letters?

00:13:46.880 So oftentimes we're being asked by surgeons or physicians,

00:13:51.580 but in reality, it's really for the insurance companies.

00:13:55.380 That's what the letters are really for, and I think that's important for us to keep in mind.

00:14:00.700 We have to use the DSM in our letters for insurance company.

00:14:07.040 So I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this.

00:14:09.380 As y'all can tell, I'm not, like, the biggest DSM fan.

00:14:13.080 So I just think it's important to highlight because of this requirement.

00:14:17.380 And this is something I'll explain to the client.

00:14:19.300 So I'll talk about, you know, your insurance company is saying as, you know,

00:14:24.420 sort of a requirement for this letter, for the surgery, that you have to have this diagnosis.

00:14:29.740 And we'll kind of talk about that.

00:14:32.040 So knowing that this, you know, sort of American Psychological Association or DSM,

00:14:38.280 there's this history of pathologizing and categorizing queer people as sort of sexual deviance,

00:14:44.020 there is that minimal trust.

00:14:47.080 So what I talk about is that we're using the diagnosis to ensure that clients get that necessary treatment.

00:14:56.180 So these are letters that are necessary to approve life-altering mutilation procedures.

00:15:06.780 And the people responsible for the letters, in this case, this woman,

00:15:12.120 describing them as persuasive essays that she has fun with.

00:15:17.560 Now, if you're defending gender-affirming care, quote-unquote, for adults, this is what you're supporting. 0.96

00:15:22.740 You are saying that it's reasonable for medical professionals to listen to a suicidal patient

00:15:27.360 who isn't thinking clearly and approve them for surgical castration within minutes.

00:15:32.520 You're saying there should be no barriers to this kind of mutilation whatsoever.

00:15:37.420 At that point, why not bring back lobotomies?

00:15:39.700 What's the serious principled argument against it?

00:15:42.760 No serious person can defend this industry.

00:15:45.460 It's completely corrupted at every level.

00:15:49.060 It's not just targeting children, although it's certainly doing that as well.

00:15:51.960 The underlying claims and promises of the entire gender-affirming industry are lies. 0.82

00:15:58.420 And they are lies propped up by even more lies, as we just showed you.

00:16:04.060 And we'll have much more on WPATH soon, by the way, and how they became so prominent in this field.

00:16:08.560 It's a truly disturbing story.

00:16:10.680 Their supposedly rigorous standards of care are purpose-built to be manipulated, as we've now revealed.

00:16:16.160 A lot more on that.

00:16:17.280 The practical effect of these WPATH standards isn't to protect patients.

00:16:21.860 Instead, the WPATH standards protect doctors who butcher their patients.

00:16:26.200 These doctors understand that they need to follow some kind of standard of care, quote-unquote,

00:16:30.240 or else they'll eventually get sued into the ground for malpractice by the patients they're disfiguring.

00:16:36.000 So medical providers point to the WPATH standards and say,

00:16:39.100 look, we follow the standards.

00:16:41.140 These gruesome surgeries are, in fact, legitimate medical care.

00:16:45.000 Now it's time to put an end to this.

00:16:46.380 Insurance companies should cut off these providers.

00:16:49.900 Investors should stop funding this barbarism.

00:16:52.940 At the political level, we need laws so that any doctor who mutilates patients or lies to insurance companies goes to prison,

00:17:00.080 regardless of the patient's age.

00:17:01.480 Florida recently passed a law outlawing, among other things, trans telehealth services that require in-person visits for most of these procedures.

00:17:10.140 That's a start, which is why the media and trans activists are furious about it.

00:17:14.660 They're probably going to sue to block that portion of law, just like they blocked the part of the law outlawing child castration yesterday.

00:17:20.420 But once people see the truth about what's happening, the radical gender activists won't win that fight. 1.00

00:17:27.660 That's why we published our investigation today.

00:17:29.560 The truth is obvious and undeniable.

00:17:32.400 Now that the standards of care have been exposed for what they are,

00:17:36.220 there's nothing to stop a flood of lawsuits that could shut down these butchers. 0.95

00:17:40.060 We saw it in the UK with Tavistock.

00:17:42.960 If something like that happens here, it could save tens of thousands of lives.

00:17:46.240 That's why this investigation is just one part of what we have planned for Pride Month.

00:17:50.860 We're going to expose the full extent of the depravity that you're told and insisted that you must believe is medically legitimate.

00:18:00.120 We're going to show you the truth behind all the euphemisms.

00:18:02.960 We're going to reveal how exactly activists have managed to hijack the medical profession so they can mutilate patients for profit.

00:18:11.020 And this is just the beginning.

00:18:13.420 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:18:16.240 We'll see you next time.

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00:19:18.320 Daily Wire has this report.

00:19:19.480 A federal judge on Tuesday concluded gender identity is real in a ruling that partially strikes down Florida's new law banning doctors from prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to minors.

00:19:29.000 Which we just mentioned this ruling briefly in the monologue.

00:19:33.960 Judge Robert Hinkle issued a preliminary injunction against Senate Bill 254, which also criminalizes permanent mutilating surgical procedures and mandates that a healthcare practitioner's license be terminated if they violate the law.

00:19:45.400 Hinkle wrote in a 44-page ruling, the elephant in the room should be noted at the outset.

00:19:49.220 Gender identity is real.

00:19:50.920 The record makes this clear.

00:19:52.140 Despite the defense admissions, there are those who believe that cisgender individuals properly adhere to their natal sex and that transgender individuals have inappropriately chosen a contrary gender identity, male or female, just as one might choose to read, whether to read Shakespeare or Grisham.

00:20:08.540 Hinkle continued.

00:20:09.340 Hinkle's ruling centered around two 11-year-old girls and one 8-year-old boy whose parents filed a lawsuit against the state's Surgeon General, arguing that banning this stuff, the puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, violates the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.

00:20:26.180 Well, that's really interesting and horrifying.

00:20:30.080 11-year-old girl, 8-year-old.

00:20:34.140 But at the same time, we're told that, well, they're not doing these things to children that young.

00:20:39.340 Well, yeah, well, parents of an 8-year-old sued so they'd be able to mutilate their child, and a judge agreed with them.

00:20:47.420 Did they do that because this never happens?

00:20:51.620 So this is just a flat-out activist judge, trans-activist judge.

00:20:55.980 Now, this judge has a long history of judicial activism, siding with leftists on spurious grounds, to say the least.

00:21:05.260 And in this case, making no effort to hide it, using made-up nonsense terms like cisgender in his legal opinion, declaring that gender identity is real, which is a statement that means nothing.

00:21:21.000 What do you mean gender identity is real?

00:21:22.940 Like, what do you mean?

00:21:23.640 Yes, it's real in the sense that it's really a concept that people talk about, and that was invented.

00:21:32.720 So it's a real idea that people have.

00:21:37.060 It's a real term.

00:21:39.140 It's like a word that exists as a word, a term.

00:21:42.020 But it's also a really incoherent and useless idea, and it's not an idea that has any kind of, that is reflected in physical reality.

00:21:54.760 And that's why, if you read this opinion, the judge is not going to be able to, now he can make statements, he can make assertions.

00:22:00.600 Gender identity is real.

00:22:01.960 It's real.

00:22:04.460 That's why they're constantly saying, this is real.

00:22:06.280 It's real.

00:22:06.560 Well, then you say, okay, it's real.

00:22:08.340 What is it then?

00:22:09.320 What do you mean, what is it?

00:22:11.320 What is it exactly?

00:22:13.100 Well, they can't explain that.

00:22:16.460 So let's not make any mistake about this.

00:22:18.480 We focus so much, and rightly so, on the what is a woman question. 1.00

00:22:23.200 But let's not be confused about this and believe that the word woman is the only term related to this issue that they can't define.

00:22:33.560 Remember that they can't define any other term either.

00:22:38.340 Okay.

00:22:39.640 And this is, in a very literal sense, all of the terms that they use in relation to this issue, all of them are nonsensical, and they can't define any of them.

00:22:51.340 So when they talk about gender identity, gender expression, they use a phrase, a term like trans woman, and you try to get them to explain what exactly all of that is, it immediately falls apart into total nonsense.

00:23:12.820 They can't do it.

00:23:13.580 All they can do is, they can assert it.

00:23:15.820 They can't explain it.

00:23:16.900 And now we have this from a judge.

00:23:21.680 I also wanted to mention this.

00:23:23.540 This is not a story yet, not a headline yet, but it will be.

00:23:29.460 We got an email from some reporters at Rolling Stone, and my team got an email from reporters at Rolling Stone, and this is an email from someone named Nikki McCann Ramirez.

00:23:44.180 And when they sent me this email, I recognized that name.

00:23:48.800 I wasn't sure where I recognized it from, and I looked it up, and okay, sure enough, Nikki McCann Ramirez used to be a shill over at Media Matters, and then she left Media Matters at some point, and now is a shill for Rolling Stone.

00:24:01.120 So, it's like, Media Matters, obviously, far-left activist group.

00:24:06.340 Rolling Stone brings her over as a reporter. 0.99

00:24:09.060 She is now a journalist.

00:24:11.700 Here's the email, because this is kind of funny.

00:24:14.960 And this also shows you, this is how these people operate, okay?

00:24:17.080 And any time, like, any time you read a hit piece about someone, a conservative, in one of these corporate media outlets, and it'll always say something like, we reached out to so-and-so, but didn't get a comment.

00:24:32.780 And they put that in there, and then it's supposed to make it look like, oh, that person's hiding.

00:24:36.480 They didn't want to talk about it.

00:24:37.800 You really got them this time.

00:24:38.820 Well, if you want to know why there's no comment, it's because when they reach out, this is what it sounds like.

00:24:48.020 Here's the email.

00:24:49.420 My name is Nikki McCann Ramirez, and I'm a politics reporter with Rolling Stone.

00:24:53.620 We're reaching out because my colleague, E.J. Dixon, and I are working on a piece about right-wing influencers increasingly focused on posting transphobic content, and we're citing Mr. Matt Walsh as an example.

00:25:03.960 As we have noticed, he has centered much of his content around transgender individuals in the past several years.

00:25:08.280 Would he like to provide comment regarding why he has made this topic an area of focus and what initially drew his attention to it?

00:25:14.080 Please let us know by tomorrow, EOD, if Mr. Walsh would like to add anything to our piece.

00:25:19.120 That's so generous of you.

00:25:20.340 Hey, we're about to publish a hit piece, and there's zero chance of it being objective or anything, and we don't care about Mr. Walsh's perspective in the least.

00:25:29.420 We're going to call him a transphobe. 0.86

00:25:30.980 It's an article all about how he's a transphobic bigot.

00:25:33.740 Would he like to contribute to his own hit piece?

00:25:35.660 I mean, never mind the fact that, and they haven't published the article yet, but I'm going to assume that they're not going to put any disclaimer on the article noting that the journalists, quote-unquote, involved in this article, used to work at Media Matters, are far-left ideologues, and are on the record personally hating the people they're reporting on.

00:25:58.720 They're not going to – there's going to be no disclaimer, no qualifications there.

00:26:05.020 That won't be mentioned.

00:26:07.840 Well, I did offer a response on Twitter anyway, and I said – and this is, you know, and this goes in general to any media outlet that wants to publish a hit piece on me.

00:26:18.580 And, you know, you're welcome to do it.

00:26:21.180 I'm always happy for all the coverage.

00:26:23.960 If you want me to contribute to it and you want my comment, I'm also happy to provide comment if you can first answer my question that I've been asking, which is, you know, if you can provide a definition of the word woman, then I will give you a comment.

00:26:37.440 So pretty simple.

00:26:38.480 That's the trade.

00:26:39.800 And that's what I would say to you, Nikki McCann Ramirez.

00:26:42.220 Just get – you know, and you can email me.

00:26:44.260 You can put it on Twitter.

00:26:45.180 You can message it.

00:26:46.460 However you want to do it.

00:26:48.020 Send me your definition of the word woman, and then I'll send you a comment. 1.00

00:26:51.420 It's fair trade.

00:26:54.540 We'll see.

00:26:55.160 We'll see if they take me up on the offer.

00:26:58.440 Speaking of far-left organizations, the Human Rights Campaign put out a press release yesterday, and it got a lot of coverage, as expected.

00:27:06.620 Here's the headline of the press release.

00:27:12.140 For the first time ever, Human Rights Campaign officially declares state of emergency for LGBTQ plus Americans, issues national warning and guidebook to ensure safety for LGBTQ residents and travelers.

00:27:23.860 It says, today, the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer civil rights organization, officially declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ plus people in the United States for the first time in its more than 40-year history, following an unprecedented and dangerous spike in anti-LGBTQ plus legislative assaults, sweeping state houses this year.

00:27:44.340 State of emergency, because some people disagree with you.

00:27:49.740 A state of emergency, because some people, there are states where you're not allowed to mutilate children anymore, which is absurd, obviously.

00:27:57.520 But also, this is where we are now, where these leftist activist groups think that they can declare a state of emergency.

00:28:03.820 Okay, so, okay, you know what, I declare one too.

00:28:07.740 I'm also declaring a state of emergency. 0.99

00:28:10.260 State of emergency, because of all the, it's, we have reached critical capacity with idiots, like those who work at the Human Rights Campaign and Media Matters and Rolling Stone. 1.00

00:28:19.020 Due to the, the, just the sheer weight of all of this idiocy, it's threatening to break the idiot dam, and we're all going to be drowned in it. 1.00

00:28:29.680 And so, I am also, right now, today, declaring a state of emergency, because that's apparently how it worked. 1.00

00:28:34.240 Anyone can declare a state of emergency.

00:28:37.760 Now, you know, I laugh about it, because I said, well, of course, they're not a government organization, so they can't declare a state of emergency.

00:28:43.320 But in reality, they, they basically function like one.

00:28:48.740 So maybe it's not a surprise that they think that they can make a declaration like this.

00:28:53.820 Because the Human Rights Campaign, it's a far-left activist group, but they essentially operate like a quasi-governmental agency.

00:29:01.700 And they've been given that kind of power and that kind of authority.

00:29:05.780 So that now they think they can declare states of emergency.

00:29:07.880 And we might get to the point where that actually does have some sort of weight behind it.

00:29:11.800 All right, moving on to this.

00:29:15.580 Vivek Ramaswamy, a couple days ago, I wanted to play you this clip.

00:29:18.820 He was asked about the situation in Ukraine, and he gave his answer for how to handle it.

00:29:25.060 And of all the presidential candidates, I'm not sure I've seen anyone give a better answer than this.

00:29:29.000 Let's listen.

00:29:29.880 Let's talk about Ukraine.

00:29:31.040 You said in a speech in New Hampshire on Friday that you would not spend another dime of American money on a war that does not affect our interests.

00:29:40.160 You don't think the possibility of Russia taking over Ukraine is in our interest?

00:29:45.060 I don't think that's a top foreign policy priority.

00:29:47.000 But I did also in that same speech identify what is our top priority.

00:29:49.960 I want to stick to this for a minute.

00:29:51.720 You do not believe that Russia taking over Ukraine would be bad for our national interest?

00:29:57.540 I do not think it is a top foreign policy priority for us.

00:30:00.460 I don't think it is preferable for Russia to be able to invade a sovereign country that it's its neighbor. 0.63

00:30:05.000 But I think the job of the U.S. president is to look after American interests.

00:30:08.660 And what I think the number one threat to the U.S. military is right now, our top military threat, is the Sino-Russian alliance. 0.91

00:30:16.020 I think that by fighting further in Russia, by further arming Ukraine, we are driving Russia into China's hands. 0.93

00:30:22.720 And that Sino-Russian alliance is the top threat we've faced. 0.95

00:30:25.920 And what I've said is I would end this war in return for pulling Putin out of that treaty with China.

00:30:32.240 How do you do this? No one tells Vladimir Putin what to do.

00:30:35.620 That has not worked yet.

00:30:37.060 And you said you would want to give him the Donbass.

00:30:40.240 That would be rewarding Putin, wouldn't it?

00:30:42.600 I don't trust Putin, but I do trust Putin to follow his self-interest.

00:30:46.800 I don't think he enjoys being the little brother in the relationship with Xi Jinping.

00:30:51.080 And so what I think we need to do is end the Ukraine war on peaceful terms that, yes,

00:30:55.320 do make some major concessions to Russia, including freezing the current lines of control in a Korean war-style earnest disagreement.

00:31:02.940 Which Ukraine really wouldn't want to do.

00:31:03.980 Which Ukraine wouldn't want to do.

00:31:05.020 And also a permanent commitment not to allow Ukraine to enter NATO.

00:31:08.520 But in return, Russia has to leave its treaty and its joint military agreement with China.

00:31:14.100 That better advances American interests and actually further deters China from going after Taiwan.

00:31:19.440 I mean, we've heard a lot, I mean, way too much about Ukraine, including from all the presidential candidates on both sides.

00:31:27.800 But I don't think we've heard anything as thorough as that.

00:31:32.700 And at least this is someone who is, like, engaging with the issue and actually trying to come up with what could be a practical solution.

00:31:39.840 What we usually get on Ukraine and really every other issue, just a bunch of platitudes and assertions and all of that.

00:31:46.740 But no one is saying, okay, well, here's the issue.

00:31:50.560 Here's how we solve it.

00:31:51.840 One, two, three.

00:31:54.200 Very rarely, you know, do we get that from politicians generally, of course.

00:31:58.480 But especially on this.

00:32:01.600 Which I appreciate.

00:32:02.460 And then, of course, you hear the interviewer there shocked and appalled and saying, well, it makes major concessions to Russia.

00:32:12.060 So what?

00:32:12.560 Yeah, if you want to have peace, that's what is involved in having peace.

00:32:17.080 You do make concessions.

00:32:20.680 And you're giving away pieces of Ukraine to Russia.

00:32:23.420 So who cares?

00:32:25.460 Who cares?

00:32:27.160 I don't care.

00:32:28.960 Okay.

00:32:29.140 It doesn't affect my family.

00:32:30.620 It doesn't affect my country.

00:32:33.860 You make concessions to Russia. 0.51

00:32:37.840 Ukraine's not happy about it.

00:32:38.880 But why should we care?

00:32:40.700 You can't explain it.

00:32:41.780 Why should we care whether Ukraine is happy? 1.00

00:32:44.740 What we do care about is the potential for world war, which they're the ones who have been telling us that that's where this could lead.

00:32:54.380 So we do care about that.

00:32:56.680 And that is something that affects us greatly.

00:32:58.740 But we talk about America first.

00:33:02.700 I mean, this is what America first sounds like.

00:33:05.100 It's like, let's come up with a solution that will protect our interests.

00:33:08.400 We're putting our interests first because we don't expect other countries to do that.

00:33:13.420 That's the point.

00:33:14.180 If you as a nation are not going to put your own interests first, then no one else will.

00:33:22.080 And that just means your interests aren't being represented.

00:33:23.940 As a nation, either you represent your own interests and you represent them strongly and unwaveringly,

00:33:28.820 or they won't be represented at all in the world.

00:33:32.780 And that's all that America first really means.

00:33:34.760 It's really quite simple, I think.

00:33:38.680 Here's another clip that's been going around.

00:33:40.960 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went on a rant a couple days ago about how her faith leads her to support the mutilation of kids and other atrocities. 0.99

00:33:49.780 Let's listen to that.

00:33:50.340 I know, and it is part of my faith, that all people are holy, and all people are sacred, unconditionally.

00:34:07.520 And that is what makes faith sometimes, that's what prompts us to transform, because it is unconditional.

00:34:15.120 It's not about that it is up to us to love parts of people.

00:34:19.840 We love all people.

00:34:22.420 There is nothing holy about rejecting medical care of people, no matter who they are on the grounds of what their identity is.

00:34:33.020 There is nothing holy about turning someone away from a hospital.

00:34:38.200 There's nothing holy about rejecting a child from a family.

00:34:44.040 There's nothing holy about writing discrimination into the law.

00:34:49.080 And I am tired of communities of being of faith, being weaponized, and being mischaracterized, because the only time religious freedom is invoked is in the name of bigotry and discrimination.

00:35:03.740 I'm tired of it.

00:35:04.920 It is not up to us.

00:35:07.460 It is not up to us to deny medical care.

00:35:10.500 It is up to us to feed the hungry, to clothe the poor, to protect children, and to love all people as ourselves.

00:35:19.780 Absolutely. 1.00

00:35:20.460 On that last bit anyway, it is up to us to protect children, including protecting them from being sterilized and castrated, you freak, you disgusting monster. 0.99

00:35:30.020 I agree that we should never reject medical care to anyone. 0.98

00:35:33.180 But if somebody needs medical care, you know, they need to get medical care.

00:35:36.120 And there should never be any law, certainly never, should never be any law that would prohibit anyone from getting medical care.

00:35:45.400 However, castrating and sterilizing people, especially kids, but really anybody, is not medical care.

00:35:52.620 It's not care, and it's not, there's nothing medical going on here.

00:35:56.740 Medicine is about healing and treating and curing.

00:36:03.780 And so that's not medical care.

00:36:06.600 Also, and I agree with one of the things she said, which she says that her faith and her religion leads her to all these conclusions.

00:36:14.080 I totally believe that.

00:36:16.240 Her faith in leftism, in the religion of leftism, which is Satanism, which is indistinguishable.

00:36:22.420 It's the worship of the self.

00:36:23.800 And so, yes, her faith, that faith has led her to all these conclusions.

00:36:29.260 She says, all people are holy, which is nonsense.

00:36:34.400 Okay, that's not true.

00:36:36.060 And she doesn't believe that.

00:36:37.180 All people are holy, really?

00:36:39.340 So Hitler was holy? 0.99

00:36:42.140 Holy Hitler?

00:36:42.900 Saint Hitler? 0.85

00:36:43.660 Is that what you're saying?

00:36:44.640 All people are holy?

00:36:45.720 Is that, so you go up to any prison, find any child molester in a prison, and you're going to say that that's a holy person?

00:36:55.340 Maybe you would.

00:36:57.700 Now, all people are not holy.

00:37:00.380 However, all life is sacred, because all life is created by God, is given to us by God.

00:37:10.640 And so, therefore, it is a sacred thing that we should cherish.

00:37:15.760 But she doesn't believe that either, obviously, because she believes in abortion up until the moment of birth, and probably afterwards.

00:37:24.560 So she can say, all life is sacred.

00:37:26.460 While at the same time, applauding, as a child, five seconds from birth, is dismembered, or has his brain sucked out of his head.

00:37:40.360 That's how you treat something that's sacred, AOC? 1.00

00:37:45.860 You demented weirdo. 1.00

00:37:49.060 You sociopath. 1.00

00:37:51.480 I mean, that's what these people are. 1.00

00:37:52.500 Let's, you know, we laugh at AOC for being a moron, and we should. 1.00

00:37:58.260 But let's also keep in mind, these are truly, hideously monstrous, evil people. 0.99

00:38:04.380 When you consider what they are doing, and what they're advocating for, and trying to facilitate and fund.

00:38:10.880 I mean, it's just, it's, the modern Democrat Party is responsible for evil that is, like, unprecedented in human history.

00:38:22.500 Some of this stuff that they're doing.

00:38:27.400 And let's always keep that in mind.

00:38:30.560 Speaking of demented freaks, finally, this is from Fox.

00:38:33.220 Sam Britton, the embattled former senior Department of Energy official, was arrested as a fugitive from justice by Maryland police late Wednesday.

00:38:40.880 According to county records reviewed by Fox News Digital, Britton was taken into custody in Rockville.

00:38:46.280 A spokesperson for the Mitch Parleton Washington Airport Authority, which is the lead law enforcement agency for both Washington, D.C. area airports, said that the arrest was related to the theft of airport luggage, which is the third such criminal case involving Britton.

00:39:01.380 And I said this is from Fox News.

00:39:02.560 Frankly, I'm a little surprised that Fox News is running this article critical of Sam Britton during Pride Month of all time.

00:39:07.480 Because we know that Fox News is a big, you know, really, really believes in Pride Month and celebrates it. 0.83

00:39:12.400 So that's a little bit interesting.

00:39:15.020 But the story is that we have a third case now.

00:39:18.400 This is a third case of Sam Britton stealing a woman's luggage.

00:39:21.860 And, you know, I love this whole story because it's hilarious and it's also embarrassing for the Biden administration if they were capable of being embarrassed.

00:39:29.560 But I also like it because it exposes the absurdity of the idea, an idea that really needs to be exposed, which is that somehow a person's personal life, you know, their proclivities, their fetishes that they engage in, all that stuff.

00:39:42.240 That somehow that's irrelevant to the rest of them and that we can't make any broader judgments about a person and about their character just based on their sexual interests, we're told.

00:39:54.580 But of course you can.

00:39:56.320 I mean, of course you can.

00:39:58.780 It was guaranteed, based on this guy's sexual proclivities and his personal life, guaranteed that he would be involved in all kinds of weird and disturbing and probably illegal behavior.

00:40:10.300 Nobody is surprised by this.

00:40:14.340 That's why the first time you heard about him stealing luggage, even though it's such a bizarre crime to commit, everyone heard that and they thought, well, okay, that makes sense for him.

00:40:24.900 Sure.

00:40:26.540 Yeah, I guess, you know, if someone's going to do something like that, I guess it'd be that guy.

00:40:31.200 Don't judge a book by its cover.

00:40:32.820 Well, you know, when the cover is a naked guy in bondage gear with a dog mask on and a dog leash, yeah, you should probably judge it.

00:40:41.000 In fact, that's all you need.

00:40:42.900 Like, you don't need to know anything else about them.

00:40:45.380 Every single thing you need to know is contained right there and you can make all the judgments in the world about them just based on that.

00:40:53.880 Let's get to the comment section.

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00:42:16.440 Well, I went to the comments today, and every single comment has to do with the alien story, which is just how it worked out because that's the thing that the audience cares the most about.

00:42:28.540 Either it's because of that or because I cherry-picked and looked for only the alien-related comments.

00:42:34.700 Who knows?

00:42:35.460 You know, I can confirm nor deny either way.

00:42:38.800 But there's one comment that says, I used to believe in aliens until the government started openly acknowledging their existence.

00:42:43.720 Yeah, and that's, and I hear this a lot, this claim, but if that's how you're making these judgments, and I don't really blame you, I mean, that is a healthy instinct to have.

00:42:55.340 At this point, where the government officially declares something, and so you're automatically skeptical, it's a very healthy attitude to have, absolutely.

00:43:05.920 But then you should be interested to know that the government has not officially declared any of this.

00:43:10.580 And in fact, in an official capacity, has still denied it.

00:43:13.620 The Pentagon put out a statement yesterday denying what that whistleblower said.

00:43:18.500 So these are whistleblowers.

00:43:20.240 These are people going to the media, going to the public on their own with this information.

00:43:26.720 The government has gotten a little bit more open, I suppose, about this, slightly less dismissive than they have been in the past.

00:43:33.840 But I don't think that that's a decision that they made ahead of time.

00:43:38.980 I think it's just like they don't have a choice.

00:43:40.860 The information is getting out there.

00:43:42.160 It's the Internet.

00:43:42.800 It's the age of the Internet.

00:43:44.100 Everyone can see this stuff.

00:43:45.100 They can see the videos.

00:43:45.940 And, you know, we're way past the point where they can say, oh, it was a weather balloon or, hey, it was swamp gas in the atmosphere or whatever.

00:43:56.660 We're way past that.

00:43:58.100 And so they have no choice but to at least acknowledge, to a certain extent, some of this.

00:44:04.640 And I think that's what's happening.

00:44:05.320 Yeah, I've heard that quote before, and I really disagree with it.

00:44:19.960 I think that I think the former possibility is certainly more terrifying, at least more depressing, you know.

00:44:29.260 To me, and this is not why I've come to the conclusion I have on this topic, but, you know, the idea of a vast, endless universe that spans gazillions and gazillions of miles with billions of galaxies in it,

00:44:44.120 and that it's completely empty except for us alone on this one little rock spinning around one, you know, mid-sized star in a nondescript solar system, you know, in some backwater of the galaxy, like that we are alone completely.

00:45:07.500 That could still be the case.

00:45:09.280 I'm not saying it's 100% that we're not.

00:45:10.500 But to me, I find that certainly a lot more depressing.

00:45:15.760 The idea that we're not alone, I don't think that's terrifying at all.

00:45:20.180 B. Yen says, I love how the human race has become so jaded that the potential discovery of extraterrestrial life doesn't even phase us as a species.

00:45:27.780 It is, that is what is most terrifying at all.

00:45:30.100 That's the most terrifying thing, is that this doesn't, like we talked about yesterday, that this doesn't even register.

00:45:37.420 People have already moved on from it.

00:45:41.120 And I really think, I think the assumption is that, well, each new revelation is just not compelling enough.

00:45:47.220 It's not convincing enough.

00:45:49.460 No, I, honest to God, it's not even a joke anymore.

00:45:52.780 I think that we, that a UFO could actually just land in full view of everyone and there could be cameras live streaming it and the aliens could get off their ships and say, hi, we're aliens or whatever they would say.

00:46:09.780 Probably not that, but that could happen and it would trend for maybe a day and a half.

00:46:16.340 And then people will be arguing about something else.

00:46:19.260 Christian says, I can't speak for everyone, but ultimately my don't care is that this has been a thing for as long as I've lived.

00:46:25.800 There's always a whistleblower, some new big deal story, some top clearance person saying this.

00:46:30.680 My personal stance is I'll believe it when I see it.

00:46:32.480 Until then, I don't care to waste mental energy and time listening to rumors that have yet to be shown as anything but rumors.

00:46:37.440 I hope it's real.

00:46:38.400 It would be so cool to have all this released.

00:46:40.400 So if this guy is telling the truth and it makes a difference with the government opening up, then great.

00:46:43.140 But until then, the story is just noise and that probably explains why most of us don't really care.

00:46:47.540 It's not because we think it hurts our faith.

00:46:49.620 It doesn't.

00:46:50.560 I classify this with Bigfoot and Chupacabra.

00:46:53.380 It would be cool to see it if we prove it, but until then, it's just a story and possibly a fiction.

00:47:00.700 Well, even if I, like, isn't it at least interesting though?

00:47:03.820 That's what I don't understand.

00:47:04.800 No matter how you, where you fall on the issue, whether you're skeptical or not, or you rule out the possibility or whatever it is, how can you not at least find it interesting?

00:47:16.660 And you say that it's just noise and like, okay, but we live in a culture that it's nothing but noise all the time.

00:47:26.900 And people are talking about things that are incredibly uninteresting all the time, that dominate people's attention.

00:47:36.000 Like just today, for example, the big, if you go on social media, the big story is that the CEO of, or the president of CNN is stepping down.

00:47:47.100 Chris Licht is stepping down.

00:47:48.820 That's the big story people are talking about.

00:47:50.400 It's like, who cares?

00:47:52.900 Who cares?

00:47:54.080 I can't make myself care about that kind of story.

00:47:57.860 Who's in charge of CNN? 0.70

00:47:59.500 Who gives a damn?

00:48:00.640 Like, there's nothing less interesting than that.

00:48:03.640 And yet that gets more attention than a whistleblower from, you know, with classified information coming out and saying, we have, we have space aliens in our possession that crash landed on Earth.

00:48:16.820 So, yeah, there's a lot of noise.

00:48:20.940 That's true.

00:48:21.720 But even if this is just noise, isn't it at least much more interesting noise than a lot of the other noise that people talk about?

00:48:29.560 Finally, Anthony says, I honestly could listen to Matt Walsh every day talk about aliens.

00:48:33.420 Well, Anthony, you feel that way.

00:48:36.900 I feel that way.

00:48:37.880 I can listen to myself talk about it.

00:48:40.200 We may be alone in that.

00:48:42.720 But that's okay.

00:48:45.480 It's us against the crowd.

00:48:47.560 And no matter how boring this is to the audience, my solemn pledge is that I will continue to talk about it.

00:48:55.800 Alienating more and more people every day.

00:48:58.640 It will all be worth it in the end, I think.

00:49:01.480 But probably not.

00:49:02.800 If you're looking for something interesting to watch, check out our series, What We Saw, hosted by storyteller Bill Whittle.

00:49:07.540 Season one is focused on Apollo 11, and now season two of What We Saw is in full swing.

00:49:11.440 In episode 13, President Nixon's visit to China introduces a three-power dynamic,

00:49:15.340 but the Watergate scandal undermines his administration and diminishes American morale.

00:49:19.820 The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan further exposes American weakness.

00:49:22.800 In this context, an older president brings renewed optimism, youthful vigor, and a plan to end the Cold War and achieve victory after four decades of stalemate.

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00:49:33.740 Hear this amazing story in this week's episode of Cold War.

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00:49:41.440 So go to dailywire.com slash coldwar to start watching.

00:49:44.940 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:49:50.500 A few weeks ago, the writers in Hollywood went on strike.

00:49:53.360 And for the most part, as a member of the audience, you can't really tell the difference.

00:49:56.140 Most movie studios, you know, generate their films using AI chatbots anyway, I assume.

00:50:01.560 Superhero movies don't have any writers at all, since every film is exactly the same as every other film.

00:50:06.680 One guy wrote a superhero movie 45 years ago, and every other one has just been a version of that one.

00:50:13.100 Overall, the writers are obsolete in Hollywood.

00:50:16.980 It's like if I told you that the master carpenter at your local IKEA store was going on strike.

00:50:21.220 It would make sense, because IKEA doesn't need carpenters. 0.92

00:50:23.720 Their mass-produced junk is made to look like all the other mass-produced junk.

00:50:28.480 And that's how Hollywood has operated for a long time. 0.97

00:50:30.380 But there have been rare occasions recently where you can still really feel the absence of the writers.

00:50:38.320 Times when Hollywood has come out with something that obviously needed to be workshopped in the writer's room for a little while longer.

00:50:46.360 And here is one such example.

00:50:48.700 Ellen Page, the actress who now calls herself Elliot Page and identifies as a man,

00:50:53.860 has just revealed an alleged hate crime that she experienced last year.

00:50:57.980 She didn't tell us about this event until right now, right when she has a book coming out, which, you know, the timing, I'm sure, is a coincidence.

00:51:04.580 An article in interview and an interview in the LA Times recounts this terrible experience.

00:51:09.000 Reading now, quote,

00:51:09.640 And yet here, downstairs at his Sunset Strip hotel, he is less than a mile from the spot where a man on the street threatened to assault him just last year.

00:51:18.640 As he describes in his book, Page, who lives in New York, was standing at the corner of Sunset and La Cienega, I think that's right,

00:51:25.580 taking a quick walk to the Pink Dot convenience store when a stranger approached him. 0.99

00:51:29.960 I'm going to effing gay bash you, gay slur, the man threatened. 0.99

00:51:36.160 Terrified, Page began running toward Pink Dot, where employees ushered him inside. 0.99

00:51:41.720 On the other side of the door, the man yelled, this is why I need a gun.

00:51:45.600 Quote, now when I'm in Los Angeles, I don't feel comfortable like I used to going for walks, Page says.

00:51:50.040 Yes, as a right-wing bigot myself, I can attest that this is exactly how we talk. 0.98

00:51:56.500 I'm going to gay bash you. 1.00

00:51:58.180 I swear I'm going to commit homophobia against you. 1.00

00:52:00.700 Why, I ought to hate crime you. 1.00

00:52:03.180 Hate crime you to death, you hear me? 0.99

00:52:05.980 You're about to get genocided, pal. 0.85

00:52:09.140 These are the kinds of things we say in Page's fevered imagination anyway.

00:52:14.460 At least now we know why Page infamously took Jussie Smollett's story so seriously.

00:52:18.820 In fact, let's go back and, just for fun, relive that moment again.

00:52:23.740 Watch.

00:52:25.020 I think the thing we need to know, and I hope my show, Gaycation, did this,

00:52:28.960 in terms of connecting the dots, in terms of what happened the other day to Jussie.

00:52:32.340 I don't know him personally.

00:52:33.520 I sent all of my love.

00:52:38.580 Connect the dots.

00:52:40.600 This is what happens.

00:52:42.260 If you are in a position of power and you hate people,

00:52:45.300 and you want to cause suffering to them,

00:52:49.040 you go through the trouble,

00:52:50.540 you spend your career trying to cause suffering,

00:52:53.780 what do you think is going to happen?

00:52:57.400 Kids are going to be abused, 0.98

00:52:59.080 and they're going to kill themselves, 0.95

00:53:00.640 and people are going to be beaten on the street. 0.95

00:53:02.940 I have traveled the world,

00:53:08.180 and I have met the most marginalized people you could meet.

00:53:12.260 I am lucky to have this time and the privilege to say this. 0.67

00:53:19.480 This needs to f***ing stop.

00:53:21.360 I have a media that's saying it's a debate 0.79

00:53:23.660 whether or not what just happened to Jussie Smollett is a hate crime.

00:53:26.940 It's absurd. 0.74

00:53:28.360 This s*** isn't a debate. 0.97

00:53:30.120 I mean, I will say that Stephen Colbert's late night show 0.85

00:53:34.600 has been on the air for years now,

00:53:35.920 and the one good thing about that moment is

00:53:37.800 it's the one time that his show has actually been funny.

00:53:41.620 But it isn't a debate.

00:53:42.980 You heard it from her.

00:53:43.720 Jussie Smollett was assaulted by two Trump supporters

00:53:46.000 in MAGA hats in Chicago at 2 a.m. in February,

00:53:48.180 and she was accosted by a transphobic right-winger in Hollywood

00:53:52.280 where transphobic right-wingers are, of course,

00:53:55.300 known to congregate.

00:53:57.100 You must believe all this without question,

00:53:58.600 or you are a bigot. 0.58

00:54:00.120 That's what we're told.

00:54:01.400 To which we all respond,

00:54:02.960 well, okay, I guess we're bigots then 0.83

00:54:04.820 because this is nonsense.

00:54:07.040 Nobody uses the phrase, 1.00

00:54:08.460 I'm going to gay bash you, 1.00

00:54:09.740 and anyone who would use the phrase, 1.00

00:54:11.460 if such a person exists,

00:54:13.020 isn't hanging out in Los Angeles

00:54:14.640 and probably wouldn't even know who this woman is

00:54:17.380 if she passed by on the street.

00:54:20.140 Besides, if someone really was screaming anti-gay slurs

00:54:22.680 and making physical threats

00:54:23.800 against a prominent Hollywood actress

00:54:25.240 in broad daylight in L.A. in front of witnesses,

00:54:27.560 you'd think we would have heard about it by now,

00:54:30.440 and you'd think the police would have gotten involved,

00:54:33.300 given that making physical threats,

00:54:34.620 whatever the reason, is illegal.

00:54:37.180 Is there security camera footage of this event?

00:54:39.700 Where are the witnesses?

00:54:41.060 Why haven't they said anything?

00:54:43.200 I think we know why.

00:54:44.420 It's hard to say something when you don't exist.

00:54:46.720 But this fanciful tale from Jussie Page

00:54:49.380 is not even the most important takeaway

00:54:51.240 from the L.A. Times article.

00:54:52.480 Earlier in the piece,

00:54:53.560 we're given the story of how Page came to the conclusion

00:54:56.520 that she's really a man.

00:54:59.240 So I want you to listen to this.

00:55:01.760 Quote,

00:55:02.440 One night, he tried to knock himself out,

00:55:04.840 took his knuckles to his face,

00:55:06.000 and pounded over and over until bruises formed.

00:55:08.740 Four days after, he sat in a lawn chair on the porch,

00:55:11.000 ashamed, his face sore.

00:55:13.020 And then he heard a voice.

00:55:14.660 You don't have to feel this way.

00:55:16.520 It was a small voice, barely discernible,

00:55:18.480 but it kept echoing in its head,

00:55:20.340 a way out.

00:55:21.880 It was as if something in my brain turned around,

00:55:24.080 recalls Page, now 36,

00:55:25.240 the agonizing voice saying,

00:55:27.460 No, you're not.

00:55:29.060 And no, you can't,

00:55:30.100 just switched and became very gentle and loving.

00:55:32.420 Oh, maybe I'm trans.

00:55:34.080 Why don't I explore that?

00:55:35.980 Within weeks, he'd scheduled a Zoom consultation

00:55:37.800 with a doctor to discuss top surgery.

00:55:40.020 The procedure was scheduled for November.

00:55:41.880 A month later, he announced to fans on Instagram

00:55:43.540 who have known him since the release of Juno

00:55:45.840 13 years prior that his name was Elliot.

00:55:48.420 The writers of The Umbrella Academy,

00:55:50.020 the Netflix superhero series

00:55:51.080 on which he'd played a female character for two seasons,

00:55:53.680 immediately began rewriting the role

00:55:55.100 to make him trans.

00:55:56.480 After shooting the third installment of the show

00:55:57.820 in early 2021,

00:55:59.600 Page sat down with Oprah Winfrey

00:56:00.920 to discuss his transition.

00:56:02.760 Within a span of a few months,

00:56:04.060 he had become the most famous transgender man

00:56:06.340 in the world.

00:56:07.520 And there was so much joy.

00:56:10.460 Now, that last part there

00:56:12.300 is just there to conform

00:56:14.280 with the apparent legal requirement

00:56:16.520 that anytime you write an article

00:56:17.960 about quote unquote Elliot Page,

00:56:20.020 you have to claim that

00:56:21.360 she is experiencing joy

00:56:23.340 or trans joy

00:56:25.140 as it often is described.

00:56:27.480 We are presented with the image

00:56:28.920 of this small, frail, mutilated woman 1.00

00:56:31.340 who no longer looks feminine

00:56:33.040 but also looks nothing like a man at all

00:56:35.260 and is stuck like so many

00:56:36.900 in this perpetual limbo state,

00:56:38.620 not feminine but not masculine,

00:56:40.440 the worst of all worlds.

00:56:42.180 And we're supposed to believe

00:56:42.980 that this is a picture of joy.

00:56:45.400 There is no evidence of this joy.

00:56:47.280 There's no evidence of joy

00:56:48.240 in the trans community at all.

00:56:49.780 There's a lot of anger,

00:56:52.020 a lot of resentment.

00:56:53.300 There is a desperation

00:56:54.500 for approval and affirmation.

00:56:56.240 There's self-victimization

00:56:57.240 and persecution complexes.

00:56:59.200 There's not much joy to be found.

00:57:02.060 Yet the joy is there,

00:57:03.200 we are assured.

00:57:04.180 So much joy.

00:57:06.840 Putting this phantom joy aside,

00:57:08.840 pay attention to the process

00:57:10.220 by which the artist

00:57:11.480 formerly known as Ellen Page

00:57:12.740 realized that she was really a guy

00:57:14.920 named Elliot Page.

00:57:16.660 She was depressed.

00:57:17.620 She was in despair,

00:57:18.320 literally beating the hell

00:57:20.220 out of herself,

00:57:21.040 engaging in self-harm.

00:57:23.140 And in the middle of what we now call

00:57:24.820 a mental health crisis,

00:57:26.620 hearing a voice in her head.

00:57:29.120 And in that moment

00:57:30.200 of a total emotional desperation

00:57:32.780 and deep confusion,

00:57:34.040 it occurred to her

00:57:35.740 that maybe she might be trans.

00:57:38.780 And a few weeks later,

00:57:40.160 she had scheduled 0.99

00:57:40.740 to chop off her breasts. 1.00

00:57:42.580 A few weeks after that, 0.99

00:57:43.360 she announced her trans identity

00:57:44.340 to the world

00:57:44.900 and immediately became,

00:57:46.260 as they say,

00:57:46.760 one of the most famous trans people

00:57:48.060 in the world.

00:57:49.620 So she went from

00:57:51.120 a depressed actress

00:57:52.620 to a joyful trans person

00:57:54.700 in a matter of weeks.

00:57:56.920 Again, focus on this.

00:57:58.260 It only occurred to her

00:58:00.080 that she might be trans

00:58:01.820 in that moment

00:58:02.820 when she was punching herself

00:58:03.960 in the head. 0.53

00:58:05.600 Shortly thereafter,

00:58:06.360 she was surgically removing

00:58:07.760 parts of her body.

00:58:10.240 Now, we've already seen

00:58:11.020 how these surgeries

00:58:11.660 are approved basically

00:58:12.780 on a whim.

00:58:14.700 And they're so often approved

00:58:15.820 for people who have

00:58:16.440 documented histories

00:58:17.400 of self-harm.

00:58:18.300 It never occurs to the surgeons,

00:58:19.520 or it does and they don't care,

00:58:21.360 that the surgeries themselves

00:58:22.660 are just another form

00:58:23.600 of self-harm,

00:58:25.260 which in this case

00:58:26.300 have been given

00:58:26.700 the veneer of medical validity.

00:58:29.740 And what about this realization

00:58:31.240 of her alleged transness?

00:58:32.780 We're told that the rapid

00:58:34.200 and exponential increase

00:58:35.460 in trans identification

00:58:36.100 is not a result

00:58:37.160 of any kind of social contagion.

00:58:38.360 We're told that trans people

00:58:39.460 have always been trans people

00:58:40.820 and that they've always existed

00:58:42.880 in the world

00:58:43.340 all throughout history.

00:58:44.700 And yet so often,

00:58:45.500 just as with Jussie Page,

00:58:47.400 the self-identified trans people

00:58:49.040 themselves will tell you

00:58:50.360 that they didn't even consider

00:58:52.720 the trans possibility

00:58:53.820 until recently.

00:58:56.480 Ellen Page was a lesbian 1.00

00:58:57.780 for years before she decided

00:58:59.100 that she's actually

00:58:59.640 a heterosexual man,

00:59:00.660 which means that,

00:59:01.460 by the way,

00:59:01.780 her transition was a form

00:59:03.040 of conversion therapy

00:59:04.080 from gay to straight,

00:59:05.800 which the left says

00:59:06.640 is impossible,

00:59:07.280 but never mind that.

00:59:09.440 So what does this tell us?

00:59:11.360 Does it tell us

00:59:12.260 that transgenderism

00:59:13.260 is an innate reality,

00:59:14.680 a fundamental part

00:59:15.660 of a person's identity?

00:59:16.620 No, it tells us

00:59:17.300 that transgenderism

00:59:18.120 is a theory, okay?

00:59:20.380 It's a very modern

00:59:21.540 and new theory.

00:59:23.220 It is a theory

00:59:24.200 much like germ theory

00:59:25.480 or the theory of gravity.

00:59:26.780 And I don't mean

00:59:27.340 it's like those theories

00:59:28.300 in the sense of being

00:59:29.000 scientifically proven,

00:59:30.260 like other theories are,

00:59:31.300 obviously not.

00:59:32.380 I mean that it's a theory

00:59:33.600 in the sense that

00:59:34.360 it's a system of ideas

00:59:36.120 meant to explain something.

00:59:38.960 It's what a theory is.

00:59:40.520 But not all theories

00:59:41.540 are created equal.

00:59:43.100 Some succeed in explaining

00:59:44.480 what they intend to explain,

00:59:45.640 just as the theory

00:59:46.320 of gravity does

00:59:47.100 and germ theory.

00:59:48.420 Others fail utterly,

00:59:49.720 like transgenderism. 0.97

00:59:52.060 So there is a real phenomenon

00:59:54.480 that transgenderism

00:59:55.720 seeks to explain.

00:59:57.240 There are people out there

00:59:58.620 who feel depressed,

00:59:59.500 out of place,

01:00:00.200 lost, confused,

01:00:01.120 uncomfortable with themselves,

01:00:02.700 self-loathing.

01:00:04.220 Those kind of people

01:00:05.040 exist in the world

01:00:05.700 and they exist in greater

01:00:06.500 and greater numbers every day

01:00:07.580 as modern culture specializes

01:00:09.080 in creating this sort of

01:00:10.220 depression and confusion.

01:00:13.020 Transgenderism offers

01:00:13.820 its theoretical explanation.

01:00:15.820 It says that

01:00:16.320 you feel out of place

01:00:17.980 and uncomfortable

01:00:18.480 because actually

01:00:19.640 you should have been born

01:00:20.560 with a different body

01:00:21.380 than the one you have.

01:00:22.840 The solution is to identify

01:00:24.120 as having that body

01:00:25.500 even though you don't

01:00:26.420 and to insist

01:00:27.580 that the world play along

01:00:29.040 with your imaginary game.

01:00:30.580 The next step is to begin

01:00:31.320 cutting pieces of yourself off, 0.90

01:00:33.020 surgically altering your body

01:00:34.240 to make it somewhat

01:00:35.460 potentially appear

01:00:36.540 as some kind of

01:00:37.500 pale imitation

01:00:38.260 of the body

01:00:39.280 that you think

01:00:39.820 you should have been born with. 0.95

01:00:41.620 And once you've done all this,

01:00:43.160 you'll feel better.

01:00:44.520 That's the theory.

01:00:45.960 And it's failed catastrophically

01:00:47.640 by all objective measures.

01:00:49.800 It also makes no rational sense

01:00:51.300 to begin with.

01:00:52.160 Saying that you should have been born 0.63

01:00:53.360 with a different body,

01:00:54.220 it's like saying that

01:00:54.680 you should have been born on Venus

01:00:55.880 or you should have been born

01:00:57.760 as John Adams

01:00:58.560 in the year 1735.

01:00:59.980 It's incoherent.

01:01:00.940 What do you mean should have?

01:01:03.520 Nobody can explain

01:01:04.400 what that means

01:01:05.020 because it doesn't mean anything.

01:01:06.900 But that's the theory.

01:01:08.960 And people like Ellen Page 0.75

01:01:10.000 who are depressed,

01:01:10.900 self-loathing,

01:01:11.440 unhappy,

01:01:12.500 begin to find this theory appealing.

01:01:14.840 They start toying

01:01:15.560 with the idea in their minds

01:01:16.800 and then they commit themselves

01:01:18.400 permanently to it

01:01:19.760 so that by the time

01:01:21.360 the theory fails,

01:01:22.080 it's too late.

01:01:23.680 You know,

01:01:23.840 it's like if somebody came up

01:01:24.880 with a competing theory

01:01:26.180 of gravity,

01:01:26.820 deciding that Isaac Newton

01:01:27.840 was wrong

01:01:28.460 and they have a new theory

01:01:31.000 and then 15 minutes

01:01:32.460 after inventing the theory,

01:01:33.640 decided to jump out of a window

01:01:35.100 on the 25th story

01:01:36.280 just to test it out.

01:01:38.940 Well,

01:01:39.360 they'll probably realize

01:01:40.200 sometime before

01:01:40.860 splattering all over the ground

01:01:42.060 that the theory needed

01:01:42.800 a little bit of work.

01:01:44.640 But by then,

01:01:45.580 it's a little bit difficult

01:01:46.480 to backtrack.

01:01:48.500 This is what gender theory does. 1.00

01:01:49.960 It tells people

01:01:50.800 that they can fly

01:01:52.120 and then opens the window

01:01:53.820 and coaxes them to jump out.

01:01:57.080 All of them,

01:01:58.060 every single one,

01:01:59.560 will hit the ground

01:02:00.400 and it will hurt

01:02:01.240 and many will not survive.

01:02:03.920 If there is any trans joy, 1.00

01:02:06.700 if it happens at all,

01:02:08.240 it happens very briefly

01:02:09.300 sometime between

01:02:10.080 the 25th story

01:02:10.900 and the ground.

01:02:12.860 And it always ends in tragedy.

01:02:16.120 And that is why

01:02:17.080 it would be useless

01:02:17.720 to say that Jussie Page

01:02:18.920 is canceled.

01:02:19.780 Instead,

01:02:20.340 all the people celebrating this,

01:02:22.100 not to mention amplifying

01:02:23.200 her outlandish hate crime stories,

01:02:25.200 are today canceled.

01:02:28.340 That'll do it for the show today.

01:02:30.820 We'll talk to you tomorrow.

01:02:32.400 Thanks for listening.

01:02:32.980 Thanks for watching.

01:02:33.680 Have a great day.

01:02:34.540 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - June 07, 2023

Ep. 1178 - You Won't Believe What We Discovered In Our Undercover Investigation of 'Gender Affirming Care'

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