Ep. 1728 - This Court Case Has Gotten Little Attention But Just Changed Everything
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Summary
Transgenderism has been around since the early days of the civil rights movement, when it was pushed by the ACLU and the Human Rights Campaign. Since then, it has gained ground in the courts, with the Supreme Court ruling in 2015 that legalized gay marriage in all 50 states, the left has continued to push transgenderism at every opportunity. And now, a lawsuit in New York has opened the floodgates that will result in the bankruptcy of every doctor and psychiatrist who pushed transgenderism onto children.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, a lawsuit in New York has opened the floodgates that will result in the bankruptcy of every doctor and psychiatrist who pushed transgenderism onto children.
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Also, as the left pretends to care about Epstein, what about the thousands of illegal immigrant predators and child abusers that have flooded into the country?
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And Lady Gaga attacks Trump's immigration policies in Japan, but do you know who has even stricter immigration policies?
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Well, Japan. Plus, what is Fafo Parenting? The media tells us it's a new parenting trend, except that it isn't new and it isn't a trend.
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We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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When the ACLU won a Supreme Court victory back in the summer of 2015 that legalized gay marriage in all 50 states, they very aggressively pivoted towards pushing transgenderism at every opportunity.
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The HRC or Human Rights Campaign, for example, went from mentioning transgenderism just three times in their 2014 annual report to more than 30 times in 2015.
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Today, transgender issues are still all over their website.
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The HRC also started publicly counting the number of so-called trans people who were supposedly murdered in cold blood while omitting the fact that all of their alleged victims,
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at least the ones who weren't in a pre-existing romantic relationship with their attacker, were either prostitutes or violent felons who were trying to murder police officers.
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It was always fairly clear why the activists on the left carried out this pivot.
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From a financial perspective, the activist groups needed a new fundraising pitch.
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They couldn't demand equality for homosexuals anymore since gays had achieved, quote-unquote, equality, allegedly.
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So the plight of self-described transgenders seemed like a natural next step.
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And on top of that, transgenderism also advanced the main plank of modern leftism, which is that truth is relative and my personal truth is just as valid as the objective truth.
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It also advances the idea that biology doesn't exist and your inherent traits are irrelevant.
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The left implemented affirmative action on the fiction that inferior candidates were simply held back by racism rather than their natural talents or lack thereof.
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The left imported millions of foreigners from the third world on the theory that if we simply introduce them to civilization,
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they would suddenly thrive instead of turning civilization into a replica of the hellholes they came from, which, of course, is what happened.
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And so it followed that the left would also claim that, in fact, there's no actual difference between men and women.
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Women are just as capable as men in the workforce and athletics and so on.
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You can decide in the span of five minutes that you're a man, then you can switch to being a woman, and then you can go back to being a man again, and on and on and on.
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In short, modern leftists believe that they can play God.
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They think they can eliminate natural God-given differences among large groups of people.
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Simply by stating that they're erasing those differences or the differences don't exist and mixing in a flurry of semantics and cancellation campaigns, mass shootings and impotent online rage.
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Now, in order to defeat this ideology, which was always the antithesis of logic and science and Christian morality and basic human decency,
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two distinct kinds of responses were necessary.
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The first response, the fight that some of us undertook years ago, was to attack trans ideology on an intellectual and cultural level.
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As it turns out, if you simply ask self-described experts to define the words they're using, simple words like men and women, as we do in our movie,
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they'll instantly transform into bumbling, hostile, incoherent lunatics who desperately want to get as far away from you as they possibly can.
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It doesn't matter if you're talking to a college professor or a random protester at the Women's March.
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None of these people are capable of defending their ideology because their ideology is total nonsense.
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Additionally, we investigated Vanderbilt, exposed the barbarism of their gender clinic and so on.
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The minute these people were exposed, they caved.
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And then, based largely on our reporting, we won a major victory at the Supreme Court,
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which allowed states to keep their laws banning child butchery in the name of a quote-unquote gender-affirming care.
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So, that's the intellectual and cultural side of the fight.
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But there's another important facet of this war, which is financial.
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And that's because, for leftists, morality and logical reasoning simply don't matter.
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You can convince sane people that gender ideology is demented and evil,
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but it's impossible to convince leftists of anything, really.
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The only way they ever are going to stop butchering children, and not to mention mentally disturbed adults,
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is if they felt that they might get bankrupted for doing so.
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So, the law needed to change at some level to enable the financial ruin of any doctor who participated in the mutilation of a child.
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And in the absence of a nationwide ban on gender butchery passed by Congress,
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the only way we would ever see that kind of change is through the courts.
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Some court somewhere needed to find a fake gender doctor financially liable for the harm that was done to a child.
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Well, on January 30th, in a courtroom in New York, after many years of waiting,
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For the first time, a jury decided, after a trial,
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to hold two gender doctors, a psychiatrist and a plastic surgeon,
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liable for disfiguring a young woman when she was just 16 years old.
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was awarded $1.6 million for past and future pain,
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pain and suffering, as well as $400,000 for future medical expenses.
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A psychologist who pushed the treatment was found 70% liable,
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Now, this case is unequivocally a massive victory in the fight to end the blight of trans ideology in the United States.
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The award should have been 100 times higher, 1,000 times higher,
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It dramatically raises the cost of performing these barbaric procedures on children
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It raises the specter of massive liability for any doctor who carves up the healthy body parts
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of any man, woman, or child in order to affirm a delusion.
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Malpractice insurance just got a lot more expensive for these butchers.
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Now, at the same time, there's an important element of this case
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that isn't being discussed very much in the mainstream media.
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The landmark medical ruling where a woman who detransitioned after identifying as a male
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in her teenage years winning a $2 million malpractice suit.
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That is one of more than two dozen detransitioner lawsuits moving through our courts nationwide.
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The case you mentioned, which is under seal, reportedly involves a minor who identifies
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as a boy and sued New York doctors for leaving her, quote, disfigured for life.
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The question is how the verdict in the one case will impact the dozens of other cases.
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There will be many, many more lawsuits like this.
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They will provide financial compensation to some of their victims.
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Not that any financial compensation could ever be enough.
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And they'll prevent many children from suffering the same fate.
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Now, at the same time, what's missing from this segment, and this isn't a pick on Fox,
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And I didn't quite understand the full picture when I first heard about this either,
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until you really dive into it, into the case itself.
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Well, it's that the case wasn't as cut and dried as it may seem from these reports.
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Only one journalist watched the entire trial play out in the courtroom,
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you know, being physically present there over several weeks.
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And from his reports, it's very clear that the gender industry has switched into a kind of plan B.
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So they have a new game plan now that they realize that they're in a lot of trouble.
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The most important takeaway from Ryan's report is that during this trial,
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neither side actually argued that it's wrong to perform a double mastectomy on a 16-year-old girl
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in order to affirm her so-called quote-unquote gender identity.
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The personal injury attorney who represented the victim throughout the trial
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made the argument that these kinds of barbaric surgeries can be legitimate in some circumstances.
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This is from Ryan's dispatch from the courtroom, quote,
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The plaintiff's attorney did not seek to undermine the basic principles of this medical field during litigation.
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He and the three defendants' attorneys maintained a consensus throughout the trial
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that mastectomies are an appropriate treatment for certain minors with gender dysphoria,
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a psychiatric diagnosis characterized by persistent distress over a conflict
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between a person's gender identity and birth sex.
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Now, this is an important clarification that most outlets are missing.
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Maybe this was a strategic decision since the jury was based in New York,
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or maybe the lawyers actually believe that nonsense,
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the nonsense that there are times when these double mastectomies can be legitimate,
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unless it's to treat an actual medical illness like cancer or something.
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Now, whatever the case, it's vital to understand that this trial didn't address the issue directly
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of whether children should be disfigured by gender doctors in general.
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Instead, the case was about whether this particular child in this particular case
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This is an important paragraph from the Free Press.
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The lawsuit also accused both the psychologist and the plastic surgeon
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of failing to thoroughly explain the risks and benefits of the surgery.
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The plaintiff's attorney alleged that the providers had each failed to properly caution
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that the surgery might not meet the teenager's expectations
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At the crux of the case was the psychologist's referral letter for surgery,
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which made no mention of what the plaintiff's attorney insisted
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The psychologist wrote that the victim suffered from body dysmorphia,
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which involves overwhelming rumination over a perceived physical flaw,
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a diagnosis that is actually a widely accepted reason not to perform plastic surgery.
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That letter to me is a stop sign, testified Dr. Lauren Schechter,
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who is chief of gender affirmation surgery at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
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I looked at this case really hoping, and even with an expectation that there would be
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enough to support the plastic surgeon's care, he said,
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Schechter is also the president-elect of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health,
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WPATH, whose trans care guidelines are widely referenced.
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Now, that's an incredible paragraph on many levels.
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First of all, as we've discussed at length on this show,
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WPATH is not even close to a legitimate medical organization.
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In the Vanderbilt case that went to the Supreme Court and the WPATH files,
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the organization was exposed as, of course, a collection of quacks,
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mad scientists who, by their own admission, have no idea what they're doing.
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This is from Clarence Thomas' opinion on the Scrimetti case.
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recent revelations suggest that WPATH, long considered a standard bearer in treating pediatric
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gender dysphoria, see brief for United States, bases its guidance on insufficient evidence
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and allows politics to influence its medical conclusions.
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Beyond the lack of consensus over the efficacy and ethics of pediatric sex transition treatments,
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these developments provide states even stronger reasons for treating supposed authorities
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WPATH itself recognizes that evidence supporting the efficacy of puberty blockers,
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cross-sex hormones, and surgical intervention for treating gender dysphoria,
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WPATH also routinely changes their so-called standards.
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They change their guidelines on the appropriate age levels for administering cross-sex hormones
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multiple times, including in 1997, 2012, and 2022.
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WPATH doesn't support their standards with any kind of rigorous medical analysis.
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They were founded by genuine lunatics who destroyed the lives of children.
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They acknowledged in internal communications that children can't really consent to any of this.
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So put simply, WPATH exists for one purpose, which is providing a collection of fake experts
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that major hospitals can hide behind when they're asked why they mutilated a child.
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And yet here we have the president-elect, Lauren Schechter, who's a, by the way, evil, disgusting human being
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And here he is taking the stand in this case for the benefit of the plaintiff who's suing a gender doctor.
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Well, everyone should understand what's going on here.
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WPATH and the trans industry in general, what they're trying to do, they're playing a game here.
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You know, they're trying to carve out a kind of legal safe haven.
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They want to present themselves as a serious medical organization with real standards.
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And as part of that ruse, they need to sacrifice some of their foot soldiers who got caught in the act.
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But WPATH knows that the difference between body dysmorphia and gender dysphoria is nothing.
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It's a semantic distinction at best, especially in this case.
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They know that doctors all over the country are currently doing exactly what these two doctors did.
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They're rushing children into undergoing surgery and taking all kinds of horrific medications
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in order to affirm their fake genders and make some money in the process.
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WPATH is trying to distance itself from these kinds of practices as if it's kind of a one-off situation.
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In no universe is it reasonable to mutilate a child under any circumstance.
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There is no situation where anything like this could be remotely justified.
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The chemical and physical mutilation of children and adults, for that matter,
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is wrong and barbaric in principle in all cases.
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What we're seeing from the ghouls at WPATH is the last dying gasp of an organization
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And that probably won't be around much longer if these lawsuits continue.
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Every element of this case was a dead ringer for stories we've heard a million times before.
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For example, during the trial, we heard that a psychologist browbeat the victim's father,
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saying that his daughter would commit suicide unless she could, quote, transition,
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which is a very familiar lie that trans activists will recite,
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even though the ACLU's top lawyer was forced to admit in front of the Supreme Court
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that there's no evidence whatsoever to suggest that the proposition is actually true.
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The psychologist also told the victim's father on a recorded call, quote,
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I don't question people when they want to go through with this.
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I don't question them when they want to go through with this.
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And we all know that this is the standard of care that all young people can expect
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if they go to a doctor and say they're confused about their gender.
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But WPATH is hoping that this case will be seen as a one-off.
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The game WPATH is playing, because they have no other choice,
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is they're saying that, yeah, well, this was bad, but that's not what we do.
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This is totally different, because they knew they were going to lose the case.
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and so either WPATH could come out and say, this is terrible,
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They could either do that, or they could say, yeah, but that's totally different.
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If we don't, that's completely different from what we're doing over here.
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And indeed, the doctors involved in the case seemed to fall on the sword.
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it was the case notes from an LGBTQ-focused nonprofit in Albany, New York,
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Two months after she started coming out publicly as transgender,
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the victim first broached her desire for a mastectomy in therapy.
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On her second visit, just four and a half months before the surgery,
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the victim told a Pride Center staffer that she had continued to question
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her gender identity recently and felt lost at this time,
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Critically, the psychologist never requested those notes,
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so the plastic surgeon never learned of their contents.
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The surgeon said, if he had known about the notes,
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The psychologist admitted that he departed from the standard of care
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by writing the letter, given that he lacked such important information.
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They basically said on the stand that, you know,
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that supposedly exist in the field of trans medicine.
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I mean, it's really no different than a couple of, like,
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low-level goons taking the fall to protect the mob bosses
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because the other option is that they get thrown in the river
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The fact is that the entire gender affirmation field
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psychological, physical, and sexual abuse of children.
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And it's what the left has supported and promoted
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inclined to believe that they didn't understand
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maybe what they were doing or what they were supporting,
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that are underway right now in cities like Minneapolis.
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to the point that they're throwing their lives away
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in some cases about the fact that ICE is deporting criminals
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who have no right to be in this country, first of all.
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about the fact that a teenager was physically abused
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are the same organizations that are currently enraged
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who have abused young women after crossing our border
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It's a whole bunch of predators and child rapists.
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illegal aliens don't commit many crimes at all.
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It's American citizens who do all the crime, we're told.
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and we can see what these illegal aliens are doing.
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And many of the perpetrators flee to foreign countries.
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in the FBI database and so on and so on and so on.
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So it's very hard to track this stuff officially.
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the rate of conviction among illegal aliens in Texas
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than it is for native Texans and legal immigrants.
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I found that Texas is one of the very few states