Ep. 667 - The Democrats Declare Total War On Reality
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Dems declare total war on reality, passing the Equality Act, which seeks to legally erase women and give delusion precedence over reality. Also, 5 headlines including Rand Paul s brilliant and bold questioning of a HHS nominee who supports drugging and mutilating gender confused children, and another race hoax exposed, but not before lives were ruined because of it. In our daily cancellation, we will discuss the plight of Mr. Potatohead, who is struggling to decide whether he is gender fluid or not, and much more.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Democrats declare total war on reality, passing the Equality Act,
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which seeks to legally erase women and give delusion precedence over reality. Also,
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five headlines including Rand Paul's brilliant and bold questioning of a HHS nominee who supports
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drugging and mutilating gender-confused children, and another race hoax exposed,
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but not before lives were ruined because of it. In our daily cancellation, we will discuss the
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plight of Mr. Potato Head, who is struggling to decide whether he is gender fluid or not,
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all of that, and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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When John Money, the 20th century psychologist, pedophilia apologist, and all around quack first
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invented the concept of gender identity several decades ago, he probably couldn't imagine that the
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Democrat party would one day enshrine his half baked crazy ideas into law. Back when Money was
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running sexual experiments on young boys, having them strip on camera, simulate sex acts on each
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other and forcing one to live as a girl against his will, it would have seemed like a pipe dream that
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in the not too distant future, his ideas, his theories about biological sex and gender being too
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somehow distinct and valid forms of identity would be legislatively imposed on the American population.
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And when his two human experiments eventually went on to kill themselves, I'm sure Money might have
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feared that his theories would end up on the proverbial ash heap of history, but that's not
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what happened. Now the good doctor who died 15 years ago can look up from wherever he is, and I have
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some theories about where that might be, and feel proud that although the concept of gender identity is
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nonsensical and incoherent, and though his attempt to scientifically prove the validity of his
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theories ended with the suicides of two people, still his ideas won the day, and soon the entire
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country will be forced by law to live according to them. So the so-called Equality Act was passed by the
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Democrat-controlled House of Representatives on Thursday, moves now to the Democrat-controlled Senate.
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The law is a sweeping and radical assault on religious liberty, women, children, moral decency, sanity.
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It is indeed the most serious legislative attack on women's rights in American history, as it seeks to
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legally erase women in a way and to an extent that not even the most dastardly and misogynistic agent of the
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patriarchy could have ever dreamed. The people who were worried that Mike Pence would bring
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handmaid's tale to life were, the whole time, working to establish their own dystopia that goes
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far beyond anything that Margaret Atwood conceived. The bill has other significant consequences, too. As
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our own Ian Haworth explains for the Daily Wire, the Equality Act sets the stage to dismantle religious
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liberty. He writes in a recent article, quote, the Equality Act would expand protection against
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discrimination provided by the Civil Rights Act, such as employment and housing, to also cover
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federally funded programs and public accommodations, which include retail stores, online retailers,
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stadiums, transportation service providers, etc. As an example, this would mean that businesses
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targeted in discrimination suits for refusing certain services based on religious objections
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would be impacted by the Equality Act, such as florists or bakeries. The Equality Act would also
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supersede the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, passed in 1993, which, quote, set a higher bar for the
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government to defend laws if people argued those laws infringed upon religious freedom.
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Now, the Act also obliterates conscience protections for those who don't want to fund or
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perform abortions. Alexandra DeSanctis, in National Review, lays out the details. She writes,
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under the Equality Act, healthcare professionals will be required by law to perform sex reassignment
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procedures or offer related hormone treatment, even if such procedures contradicted their own best
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medical judgment. So, too, the law would treat refusals to perform an abortion as pregnancy
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discrimination, which would be treated as an illegal form of discrimination on the basis of sex.
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The Equality Act redefines sex to include pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition.
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And as the bill's opponents have noted, federal agencies and courts have already determined that
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the phrase related medical condition can be interpreted to include abortion. This is all quite horrifying on
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its own, but it isn't even the most extreme consequence of the bill. Worst of all, the Civil
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Rights Act of 1964 would be updated to include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected
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classes on the same level as race. The text of the bill reads, in part, quote, an individual shall not
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be denied access to a shared facility, including a restroom, a locker room, and a dressing room that is
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in accordance with that individual's gender identity. In fact, as already noted, this mandate would apply
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to all public accommodations, and conveniently enough, pretty much everything counts or can count as a
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public accommodation. Your home does appear to be exempt at the moment, but the Democrats, I'm sure,
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will not let that loophole remain for very long. What this means is that if this law passes, it will be
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effectively illegal to provide any private or exclusive spaces to women. Bathrooms, sports teams,
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locker rooms, all of these must, by law, be opened to any man who demands access. Under the Equality
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Act, the government would not recognize woman as being a necessarily distinct category from men. All that
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matters is a person's gender identity. This raises an important question. What the hell is gender
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identity? Well, it's not really anything in particular. It's an entirely invented artificial
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concept originating with the child-abusing quack mentioned earlier that's probably best defined,
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if it could be defined at all, by the Human Rights Campaign, which was a fervent and influential
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proponent of the Equality Act. HRC says on the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Definitions
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page of their website that gender identity is, quote, one's innermost concept of self as male-female,
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a blend of both or neither. How individuals perceive themselves and what they call themselves.
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One's gender identity can be the same or different from their sex assigned at birth.
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Let us try to wrap our heads around the sheer lunacy here. Your biological sex is what you actually
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are, your true sexual identity, as determined by immutable physical characteristics. Your gender identity
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is what you feel like you are, or what you want to be, or how you perceive yourself. Under the Equality
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Act, one's perception of themselves, even if incorrect, takes precedence over the reality of what they
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actually are. The reality is no longer legally recognized at all, in fact. Delusion and fantasy
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supplant, officially, truth. Falsehood wins the day. Of course, female sports teams never had anything to do
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with self-perception. It makes absolutely no difference what a male thinks or how he feels
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about himself or how he feels about anything. None of that changes his biological features,
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which give him an unfair advantage over females. And though the male may feel like he was supposed
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to have a vagina, whatever the hell that means, the reality is that he has the same equipment as any
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other male and belongs in the same locker rooms and bathrooms as those other males. The sign on the
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bathroom door says, or said, men and women, not those who feel like men today and those who feel
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like women today. That's the only sensible and coherent way to organize these things, based on
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what actually is, not how you feel. It's also the only way that provides women with the privacy and
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protection they need. But sensibility and coherence are soon to be illegal. It doesn't take much
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imagination to see where this goes. If self-perception is more important than reality,
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if in fact self-perception is our new reality, then there's no reason whatsoever to limit that
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standard to gender. I mean, what about a white man who seeks the advantages of affirmative action
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in college admissions on the basis that he perceives himself to be black? It might be crazy to accept that
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a white man is a black man just because he sees himself that way, but it's still quite a bit less
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crazy than accepting that a male is a female on the same basis. What about a pedophile who perceives
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himself to be nine years old? Again, it makes no sense to give his perception of his own age legal
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precedence over the reality of his actual age, but it's certainly no more senseless than doing the same
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in the realm of biological sex. Any argument for giving gender identity protected status would apply
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absolutely to age identity, race, to age identity, race identity, or anything else.
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As always, the left will scoff at what they will call a slippery slope argument. And then in a few
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years, they will do exactly what they mocked us for predicting they would do. That's the way these
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things always work and will most assuredly work in this case. The Democrats have declared total war
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secretary of Pennsylvania who identifies as a female and who headed up the pandemic response in that
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state, which was clumsy and disastrous and led to thousands of elderly deaths in nursing homes like
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in New York. Pennsylvania also sent infected people into nursing homes on purpose, just like
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New York did. But we're going to reward this person with a position purely on the basis of
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identity politics, of course. Rachel Levine had a hearing in the Senate on Thursday and at least
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one senator stepped up, that would be Rand Paul, to take him to task for his support of drugging and
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mutilating gender confused children. A position that would be totally disqualifying in a sane and
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healthy country. You know, it's it's if you have that position where you're in favor of drugging and
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mutilating confused children, that should qualify you for a mental institution or prison, not for a
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position in government. But as we've been talking about, this is this is we're looking at the
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enshrinement of insanity, a war on reality, which is what the Democrats have been waging for some time
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now. That's nothing new. So Rand Paul questioned Levine and couldn't get a straight answer. But let's
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let's watch some of this. Let's let's watch Rand Paul at least make an attempt. You know, give it
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the old college try to get an answer out of Rachel Levine when it comes to, you know, mutilating
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children and what should the policy be with gender confused children. Here it is. Let's watch.
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Dr. Levine, you have supported both allowing minors to be given hormone blockers to prevent
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them from going through puberty, as well as surgical destruction of a minor's genitalia.
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Like surgical mutilation, hormonal interruption of puberty can permanently alter and prevent
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secondary sexual characteristics. The American College of Pediatricians reports that 80 to 95 percent
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of pre-pubertal children with gender dysphoria will experience resolution by late adolescence
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if not exposed to medical intervention and social affirmation. Dr. Levine, do you believe that minors
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are capable of making such a life-changing decision as changing one's sex? Well, Senator, thank you for
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your interest in this question. Transgender medicine is a very complex and nuanced field with robust
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research and standards of care that have been developed. And if I am fortunate enough to be
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confirmed as the Assistant Secretary of Health, I will look forward to working with you and your
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office and coming to your office and discussing the particulars of the standards of care for
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transgender medicine. Okay, so this is the old, you got to pass the bill to find out what's in it.
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In this case, we're being told you got to confirm the nominee to find out what they actually think
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about this issue. Because the response that Rand Paul gets, and we'll play the next clip, yeah,
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because he, again, or we'll play the next clip in a second because he makes another attempt. But
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the response is, well, why don't you confirm me? And then we'll all come to your office and we can
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talk about it. No, why don't you talk about it now? This is a very simple question.
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Very easy question. Of course, we already know the answer to it because we have Rachel Levine's
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previous statements on this subject and he's been very clear about it. We already know the answer to
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it. And if we didn't already know the answer, we'd know it now because, you know, when you're asked,
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um, do you support genital mutilation of gender confused children and drugging them? When you're
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asked that, that it's, if you answer anything, but hell no, what are you crazy? Of course not.
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Any answer outside of that tells me that your real answer is yes.
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And you don't belong anywhere in government or anywhere in civilized society.
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Okay. This is, this is one of those issues and there are several of them, but this is certainly
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one where if you ever, you know, if you're more on the, the, the moderate in the middle kind of person,
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um, and you, you, you may be a little confused about who the real bad guys are. And I'm not going
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to sit here and tell you that the Republicans are heroes, courageous heroes. They're, they're far from
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it. Um, I think I like Rand Paul thing. Rand Paul is great, but I'm not going to tell you Republicans
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are in general. There are clear bad guys though. And if you ever get confused about it, if you need
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to be reminded, then go back and watch this exchange again, because there is one political party
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that supports drugging and mutilating children, children who are simply confused as all children
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are, it's very normal for a child to be confused. And of course, a child is going to be confused
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about something like biological sex. If he's not given explanations, you know, if a child at the age
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of four is, you know, a four-year-old boy start saying, Oh, I think I'm a girl. If at that moment,
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his parents and his teachers, if he's in school and his doctors, if they all say to him, Oh no, no,
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no, no, no, no, little Johnny, you're, you're, you're not a girl. You're a boy.
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Or you can even ask him, why, why do you, why do you say that? Why do you, why do you say you're a girl?
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Well, that's a really simple question. If you get any kind of answer at all from the four-year-old,
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I guarantee it is going to be something along the lines of, um, he likes to play with dolls and he
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thinks that, that pink dresses are pretty something like that. And because in his little four-year-old
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brain, you know, he, that's, that's what he thinks a girl is. He doesn't know. He doesn't actually know
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what a boy or girl is at the age of four or five or six. They don't, they don't really understand
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what, what that means. So that little child, he's that's, that's all he's, he's drawing an
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association. He's noticing, he's perceptive. And he's noticing that generally, uh, the, the,
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the people that the adults call girls are, you know, they have the pink stuff and the dolls and
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everything. And the, the people, the adult, the grownups call boys, they wear the blue and the
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darker colors and they like trucks. And so if that four-year-old boy is going through a phase
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where, you know, he's a little bit more interested in the dolls, big deal. Who cares? Fine.
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What he's going to say is, oh, I am a girl. He doesn't know what that means because he's four.
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What he actually means is I am interested in these things, which I associate with girls
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and sane, decent adults will respond to that by saying, okay, great. You want to play with a doll?
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I'll go play with a doll. It doesn't matter. Fine. You're still a boy though.
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The child gets that kind of response from his parents, from, you know, all the adults in his
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life. He'll be fine. He'll, he'll, he'll get over this phase of calling himself a girl
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in a few weeks. If not, if not right that second.
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But if the child is told, um, oh, well, if you say you're a girl, then maybe you are.
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And if he's told this by all of the adults in his life, we trust, then of course, he's going to be
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confused. Who wouldn't be? Fast forward a few years and now we're going to drug that child.
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By the way, another thing, we'll hear this from Rand Paul in a second, just so you know,
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um, when, when the left says that puberty blockers and all these hormone treatments and hormone pills
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and stuff, um, given to children, when the left says that it's safe, that there are no long-term
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side effects, they are lying. They are lying through their teeth. Either they are speaking out of
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ignorance, um, or they are straight up lying because the fact is number one, it is definitely
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not safe. You're using this, this medication off label. You're using medication that was not
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made to be, to be given to children who are physically healthy. You are stunting intentionally
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their normal physical growth. That is by definition, not safe in terms of all of the long-term
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consequences. We don't know. Now a rational person can guess, can assume that there are going to be
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a number of, of, uh, any number of, of serious physical, emotional, psychological, long-term
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effects. But in terms of the full extent of it, we don't know because this, we are, we talk about
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experiments. We're running experiments on a whole generation of kids right now. We don't know what
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it's going to look like in 30 years. Democrats will just lie and they'll say, oh, it's safe. We
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already know it. They don't know that. What they mean is, well, we hope it's probably safe. We hope
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it's safe. And, uh, so we'll find out what we'll use these kids as guinea pigs and we'll check back
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in 30 years, see how destroyed their life, their lives are. Unless they've killed themselves by then
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as, uh, as, as the Reimer twins did. John Money's victims. All right, let's go back to, uh, Rand Paul.
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He's makes another attempt to get an answer out of Rachel Levine. Here it is.
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For most of our history, we believe that minors don't have full rights and the parents need to
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be involved. So I'm alarmed that you won't say with certainty that minors should not have the
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ability to make the decision to take hormones that will affect them for the rest of their life.
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Will you make a more firm decision on whether or not minors should be involved in these decisions?
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Senator, transgender medicine is a very complex and nuanced field. Uh, and if confirmed to the
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position of assistant secretary of health, I would certainly be pleased to come to your office and
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to talk with you and your staff about the standards of care and the complexity of this field.
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Let it go into the record that the witness refused to answer the question.
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The question is a very specific one. Should minors be making these momentous decisions for most of the
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history of medicine? We wouldn't let you have a cut sewn up in the ER, but you're willing to let a
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minor take things that prevent their puberty. And you think they get that back. You give a woman
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testosterone enough that she grows a beard. You think she's going to go back looking like a woman
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when you stop the testosterone, you have permanently changed them.
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Rand Paul is exactly right. Of course. Um, and he got a lot of grief from the left
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for calling genital mutilation, genital mutilation. What the hell else do you call it?
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mutilation. You're taking a physically healthy person, uh, you know, a girl chopping their breasts
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off. What else do you call it about mutilation? This is a, if this is a physically healthy person
00:24:26.240
or, you know, a male and doing a lot of incisions and cutting and things to, to, to, to fashion their,
00:24:37.400
their male reproductive organs to look like some approximation of female genitals. What,
00:24:50.260
This is why I like Rand Paul. Um, uh, you know, I, he's a little too libertarian for my taste
00:24:54.460
on, on some things, but he gets the gender issue, right? He gets the life issue, right?
00:24:58.820
A lot of libertarians don't. And, uh, so I'm a big supporter of Rand Paul. Okay. Number two from
00:25:04.780
the New York post, it says a black student's allegations that she was targeted for eating
00:25:08.440
while black at a private Massachusetts college were deemed unfounded according to investigation
00:25:13.040
of the incident. Umu, uh, Kanute, then a rising sophomore at Smith college had claimed that all
00:25:19.480
she did was all, all she quote did was be black when a janitor, when a janitor called security on
00:25:25.620
her, when he found her in a closed lounge in July, 2018, a 35 page investigation carried out by an
00:25:32.080
outside law firm found no evidence of discrimination. The findings were issued in October, 2018, but not
00:25:38.340
widely reported. The incident began when Kanute was, uh, inside a cafeteria and dormitory that was
00:25:43.820
reserved for a summer camp program for young children. Since students were not supposed to
00:25:47.340
be used the area, a cafeteria worker, Jackie Blair reminded her of that fact, but then decided to drop
00:25:51.740
the issue. A janitor who was in his sixties had poor vision, then noticed a figure in the distance
00:25:55.680
eating in a closed off lounge area. Uh, and, uh, and, uh, so the school guidance calls for employees
00:26:01.860
not to confront strangers on their own. So the janitor notified security about the person who
00:26:06.220
turned out to be Kanute, uh, the outlet reported the janitor who reportedly later claimed he couldn't
00:26:11.300
tell the person's gender because it was dark, told dispatchers that there's someone sitting there
00:26:15.620
lying down in the living room. A security officer then drove over engaged in a polite conversation.
00:26:20.460
Uh, but this woman recorded it. And so she, she was where she was not supposed to be.
00:26:28.520
And, uh, you had school, you know, employees followed proper protocol to enforce the rules,
00:26:36.980
what they were supposed to do. Now you also have to keep in mind from their perspective,
00:26:41.520
you know, you've got a stranger in this area where they're not supposed to be as reserved for a summer
00:26:45.220
camp for kids. If they don't say anything and allow that person to be there,
00:26:50.460
and then, you know, if something happens, anything happens related to that, that person,
00:26:55.720
well, they're going to be in trouble for that. You know, they might be liable for that.
00:27:01.900
So they enforced the rules and, um, and the woman claimed that it was racism,
00:27:08.780
no basis for that claim whatsoever. This was back in 2018. The media ran with it. Everyone ran with
00:27:13.600
it. It went viral online. You may, I vaguely remember this when it first happened hearing
00:27:17.800
something like this. Um, and of course, you know, as a rational person, when I first heard the story,
00:27:23.600
I immediately thought, what, how, what, is there any evidence that this is race-based at all?
00:27:32.220
Obviously there wasn't. And, um, but even so, uh, a lot of the people involved with this,
00:27:39.300
the janitor was placed on leave the following day. I mean, people lost their jobs. People were
00:27:44.080
smeared, um, across the media as being racist. These are normal. I mean, talking to a janitor
00:27:51.020
at a school, these are normal working class people, totally innocent who were smeared, libeled, um,
00:27:58.420
you know, defamed as racist, had their lives ruined, had their careers ruined, lost their jobs.
00:28:08.220
All because of this, all because of this lie from this despicable person who was looking for attention.
00:28:16.240
You know, for her, that's all she was at, she, she's at this fancy college. Everything's,
00:28:21.980
everything's going well in her life. Her life's going to be fine, but she wanted a little bit of
00:28:27.780
attention. She wanted some attention on social media. She wanted to get some Facebook likes
00:28:31.660
and some retweets. And for that, just for that sake, she was willing to destroy the lives of
00:28:37.460
however many people. Didn't matter to her. Think about what a, what a sociopath you have to be
00:28:43.360
for such little reward. You're willing to completely destroy innocent people.
00:28:54.900
All right. This is number three from Reuters. Um, the United States on Thursday carried out an
00:28:59.480
airstrike in Syria against a structure belonging to what is said where I ran back, back to a militia,
00:29:05.040
um, which is an apparent response to rocket attacks against us targets in Iraq. Well,
00:29:08.800
this is, you know, the neocons are back in business. This is, this is the return of normalcy.
00:29:16.620
Normalcy is restored. We're bombing overseas again.
00:29:21.980
This I guess is what, it's what the left wanted, right?
00:29:27.380
So congratulations. You get, you got what you wanted.
00:29:31.140
Starting the wars in the Middle East again. Uh, number four from the daily wire, it says internet
00:29:35.140
mega retailer. Amazon appears to have quietly updated an internal rule, uh, just the news
00:29:40.260
reports, eliminating an exemption for books and periodicals from its site-wide policy against
00:29:45.180
selling items that contain or promote hate speech. So Amazon appears is now, um, in fort. Now they
00:29:53.220
haven't made, as far as I know, any official announcement about this, but it appears that
00:29:58.940
they are expanding their, um, their policies against hate speech. And they're now taking down books.
00:30:04.540
And, uh, this started earlier in the week with, um, Ryan T Anderson and his book, when Harry became
00:30:12.660
Sally responding to the transgender movement, that was unceremoniously removed from Amazon.
00:30:19.320
Um, and it looks like this is the beginning of, of, of, of something, you know, there's, there's more
00:30:24.200
yet to come, but keep in mind with, with this book, when, when Harry, um, became Sally, rather the
00:30:32.180
Ryan T Anderson book, this is a very, we talked about this on the backstage. If you watch backstage
00:30:36.720
episode, it's a very scholarly book. Um, very civil, compassionate. Uh, you know, it's a good
00:30:46.460
book. And this, this, as Ryan T Anderson does, if you're familiar with his work, that's how he
00:30:52.680
approaches this issue. Like any issue from a scholarly, really intelligent kind of way. It's,
00:30:57.200
it's, it's, it's, it's not inflammatory at all. Okay. He's not like me. He's not throwing digs in
00:31:03.600
there. He's not being inflammatory. He's not yelling and screaming in written form. So if this
00:31:09.680
book can be, can be taken down as hate speech for no other reason, then it presents the other side
00:31:19.540
of the argument. It simply argues against left-wing gender theory. And that's why it was taken down.
00:31:28.480
And if Amazon is doing that, then, I mean, it's, it's game over as far as Amazon goes.
00:31:35.620
You know, they, it's not like they started with some fringe book from some super inflammatory,
00:31:43.680
you know, fringe figure, a way off on the far right. If they're starting with Ryan T Anderson,
00:31:50.180
that's bad news. Five. Finally, the daily wire reports in a nine page Instagram post,
00:31:57.240
singer and songwriter Demi Lovato called gender reveal parties transphobic and claimed that, um,
00:32:04.480
there are boys with vaginas and girls with penises. Lovato claimed throughout the lengthy post that
00:32:10.180
transgender activists dislike gender reveal parties because they divert from reality quote
00:32:15.580
unquote to Lovato and other activists. Reality is the concept that humans are born without any concept
00:32:19.960
of gender. So she's, this is a lengthy post. She's against gender reveal parties. And I, I read this
00:32:27.020
and I thought this is unfortunate because now that means, now that means I guess I have to be in favor
00:32:32.780
of gender reveal parties. I have very consistently been opposed to gender reveal parties, not on the basis
00:32:38.940
of them being transphobic, but just on the basis of them being completely silly and ridiculous.
00:32:43.760
And also it turns out dangerous because people are dying every year from these, from these dumb
00:32:47.760
things. That's the reason I oppose them. I think it's, you don't need to, we don't need all the
00:32:53.780
pageantry over the fact that, uh, you know, your, your child has a gender. Just tell people you're
00:32:59.960
having a boy. Great. Let people know, send out a text message, call people up, post it on Facebook,
00:33:04.680
whatever you want to do. We don't need a whole party just for that reason.
00:33:07.620
That's been my take on gender reveal parties. But now that the left is coming out, out against
00:33:13.600
them for being transphobic. Now I feel like as a, as a contrarian, especially where the left is
00:33:21.800
concerned, I have to completely change my opinion. And now, you know what? I'm in favor of gender
00:33:25.620
reveal parties, have gender reveal parties, throw a, throw a freaking parade through the street
00:33:30.960
for our next kid. That's what we're going to do now. Even though I hate gender reveal parties,
00:33:35.980
we're going to have a, we're going to have a gender reveal parade through the street floats
00:33:40.420
and everything, throw in candy to the kids just to spite you. Um, a gender reveal party out of,
00:33:50.620
I don't like gender reveal parties, but I like gender reveal parties out of spite.
00:33:53.700
That's how I guess I would, uh, split this, this issue. All right, let's go now to reading
00:34:01.660
the YouTube comments. Um, this is from Jamboree Johnson says, Matt, in September of 2019, I was
00:34:08.940
actually diagnosed with gender dysphoria. This was solved not by getting surgeries, but by going to
00:34:14.720
church and attending specialized therapies. In many States, a diagnosis is not even required to
00:34:19.640
medically transition. What are your thoughts on this? Well, my thoughts are number one, uh, I'm,
00:34:26.080
you know, I'm, I'm grateful that you were able to find the actual help you needed. You were suffering
00:34:32.820
from this rather than people who will, who would contribute to that suffering by making your dysphoria
00:34:40.500
worse. Uh, you found actual help. So I'm grateful for that, but we're getting to a point where this,
00:34:47.660
that's going to be illegal soon. You know, the, the, the therapy that the real therapy that you went
00:34:53.540
out and sought and thankfully received, that's now considered, um, you know, conversion therapy.
00:35:02.100
That's how that's going to be labeled. And pretty soon that's going to be illegal.
00:35:07.220
But thankfully you were able to get that help. Christian says, no one is indoctrinating children.
00:35:11.340
You do realize that more kids are gay now because there is less bigotry. Yes, this,
00:35:17.420
of course, Christian is the argument. I've, I've, I have heard this argument, um, that the reason why
00:35:23.680
the LGBT numbers are skyrocketing among the younger generations is, uh, is, is simply because we're more
00:35:30.300
accepting. And so that means that, um, that people feel, uh, that they're able to safely come out and
00:35:37.960
express their true identities. Okay. But 11 and a half percent, that was the number, right? If I
00:35:44.980
remember correctly, 11 and a half percent Gen Z identifying as bisexual. Are you really going to
00:35:53.700
tell me, Christian, do you really think that that is reflective of the real numbers in the general
00:35:58.820
population? That do you, do you really think that for the, for the whole globe, all 7 billion plus
00:36:06.720
people, 11% or more are bisexual, but most of them don't feel comfortable to come out and admit
00:36:13.120
it. Does that seem reasonable to you? Of course, you know, the great thing about the claim you're
00:36:23.080
making is that it's, it's impossible to prove and also therefore impossible to refute because you're
00:36:30.500
saying that there are millions and millions of people out there who are really bisexual. They just
00:36:34.600
won't admit it. Well, it could be the case. Sure. Uh, I don't see any reason to assume that I think
00:36:42.720
that is a wild assumption with no evidence for it. I think there are much more reasonable explanations
00:36:49.660
for why we're seeing this increase in numbers. And I talked about those explanations yesterday
00:36:53.260
and a big, big one is yes, that it is trendy. Now it's not merely accepted and tolerated to be gay
00:37:01.660
or bisexual or to identify somehow, uh, in the LGBT spectrum. It's not just accepted and tolerated.
00:37:08.900
It's, it's celebrated. It's a, it's a trendy thing. It is social capital that you earn in that
00:37:15.160
generation. And so, yes, younger people, kids are encouraged to find a way to sort of wedge
00:37:22.400
themselves into that LGBT, uh, you know, somewhere into those letters somewhere. That's why we keep
00:37:28.500
adding letters onto it, right? It's LGBTQIA, so on and so forth. Keep adding letters on because
00:37:34.380
people are trying, people are desperate to be in that acronym. John Dixon says, I wouldn't say the
00:37:41.360
left hates all religions except for Islam. It's more accurate to say that the left hates Christianity
00:37:45.160
and Judaism while loving Islam and being indifferent, um, to all other religions. Well,
00:37:51.580
you might be the left hates the other, right? The left hates anyone who, um, is different from
00:38:01.840
themselves. The left hates any ideological competition. And that's why I would say they
00:38:07.300
hate all religion except for the religions, except for the religion of leftism, because it is competition.
00:38:13.340
Even Islam, you know, it's not that the left loves Islam. I wouldn't say that's the case at all.
00:38:18.820
Uh, it's simply that they don't feel oftentimes as entitled to criticize it
00:38:25.520
because of all the, you know, all the intersectional identity complications.
00:38:35.180
When you think of, of Muslims, oftentimes these are non-white people from, from oftentimes poor
00:38:41.280
regions of the world. And so, you know, it's, they don't associate it as much with white people like
00:38:45.500
they do with Christianity, even though the majority of Christians are not white either, but this is
00:38:50.720
how they see it. And so they don't, they don't feel as entitled to criticize Islam, but when it
00:38:53.900
comes down to it, I think they hate all religions except for their own. Um, and finally, Maximilian
00:39:01.400
says, is it just me or is Matt's beard turning gray at the bottom left? I have, I have seen a lot
00:39:05.980
of comments about the graying in the beard. I don't know if it comes on, if you can see it in camera
00:39:08.980
right now, but I'm so excited about it. I have to tell you, I've, I have been accused many times
00:39:13.860
by people of dying my beard. And, uh, I, I, of all the false accusations, that is the only one
00:39:20.020
that, that, that, that really, really bothers me because it is so widely accepted. But in reality,
00:39:26.440
I would never dye my beard. I've been excited to go gray. My wife noticed the gray in the beard and
00:39:32.660
she said, Oh, can I pluck that out for you? I said, are you kidding me? I've been waiting for this
00:39:35.840
moment. The dignified graying in the beard. Very excited. Thank you for noticing. Well,
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00:40:32.280
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00:40:36.480
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get to our daily cancellation. Today for our daily cancellation, we must discuss Mr. Potato Head
00:41:47.240
or rather Potato Head. Um, we must not dead name Potato Head by calling him Mr. Potato Head any longer.
00:41:53.420
According to numerous reports on Thursday, Hasbro was said to be, to be dropping the Mr. in order to
00:42:00.060
make Potato Head gender neutral. Kimberly Boyd, the senior vice president of global brands at Hasbro
00:42:05.720
explained the move saying, culture has evolved. Kids want to be able to represent their own
00:42:11.060
experiences. The way the brand currently exists with the Mr. and Mrs. is limiting when it comes to both
00:42:16.380
gender identity and family structure. The website Fast Company, which interviewed Boyd, went to more
00:42:21.420
details saying this mean the toys. This means the toys don't impose a fixed notion of gender identity
00:42:26.960
or expression, freeing kids to do whatever feels most naturally to them. A girl potato might, um,
00:42:33.320
might want to wear pants. A boy potato might wear earrings. Hasbro will also sell box sets that don't
00:42:39.040
present a normative family structure. This approach is clever because it allows kids to project their own
00:42:43.680
ideas about gender, sexuality, and family onto the toy without necessarily offending parents that have
00:42:48.280
more conservative notions about family. Well, yes, we cannot force this outmoded idea of mother and
00:42:56.200
father potato heads onto kids, onto society. Some children may want a potato family with two mom
00:43:01.500
potatoes or two dad potatoes or three mom potatoes, a dad potato, a chicken sandwich in order to have the
00:43:06.840
full value meal. These are the choices that children must be able to make. This is the world that children
00:43:12.420
deserve to live in a world with transgender potatoes, homosexual potatoes, pansexual potatoes,
00:43:20.140
bisexual potatoes. Why can't the potato be polyamorous, bisexual, trigendered, and sometimes
00:43:25.180
dabble in a little BDSM? These are all valid expressions, valid identities, and they deserve to be
00:43:32.260
represented. And that's why today I did not originally intend to cancel Hasbro or Potato Head.
00:43:37.500
I was going to cancel all of those, all of you, who are mocking this move, calling it silly,
00:43:43.180
superficial, ridiculous, woke virtue signaling, and so on. I mean, you are canceled for your lack
00:43:49.080
of a progressive worldview, for your lack of appreciation and respect for the lived experience
00:43:54.200
of gender-fluid potatoes. Those of us with a more enlightened outlook saw the potato news for the
00:43:59.300
landmark occasion that it was, or we thought that it was. This story has a twisted and tragic ending,
00:44:04.920
but before we get there, I just want you to understand what this meant to me and my family.
00:44:11.900
In fact, I'll never forget this. I told my seven-year-old daughter about the potato head
00:44:16.960
news yesterday. I came into the living room. She was sitting at the table, drawing a picture of
00:44:21.420
Greta Thunberg, and I turned to her and I said, listen, Addison, I need to tell you something.
00:44:27.920
And she looked at me and she was a little concerned, and she said, what is it, Father? And I took a deep
00:44:32.800
breath and I said, it's happened. It's finally happened. Mr. Potato Head has come out as gender
00:44:40.460
fluid. Now, always remember the look on her face. She was shocked at first, but then a smile spread
00:44:46.860
quietly across her face, and she started to tear up. And she said, finally, I had been waiting for
00:44:53.700
this day my entire life. Now I can be at peace. And we just hugged each other and sobbed. It was
00:44:59.600
beautiful. And there were so many conversations just like this across the country. A great burden
00:45:04.760
had been lifted. Now, admittedly, there was still so much work to do. Mr. Peanut, Mr. Clean,
00:45:10.560
many fictional characters must still be freed from their gender binary prison. Mr. Pibb, most of all.
00:45:16.000
Pibb is already a fluid, and yet we bottle it, both physically and metaphorically,
00:45:20.780
and force Pibb to live a lie. But progress takes time, and we were taking the first step.
00:45:28.040
At least that's how it seemed. Then later on Thursday, in the midst of the jubilation,
00:45:34.060
came the crushing blow. Hasbro sent out another tweet from their official account saying,
00:45:39.440
quote, hold that tot. Your main spud, Mr. Potato Head, isn't going anywhere. While it was announced
00:45:45.280
today that the Potato Head brand name and logo are dropping the mister, I am proud to confirm
00:45:50.700
that Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head aren't going anywhere and will remain Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head.
00:45:56.660
Devastating. And for Hasbro to be so flippant, making potato puns in the midst of a great national
00:46:03.220
crisis like this, is unconscionable. One minute, I thought that bigotry had been defeated, that the
00:46:09.540
patriarchy dismantled, transphobia annihilated. The next, we're back in our oppressive reality
00:46:13.860
with plastic potatoes that uphold the gender binary. I'll never forget breaking the news to
00:46:20.000
my daughter. I went back into the living room, found her cradling her Potato Head in her arms,
00:46:25.200
whispering, you're free, my child. You're free. And I sat her down and I said, Addison,
00:46:30.780
a tragedy has just occurred. The Potato Head is still a man. Hasbro duped you. They duped all of
00:46:41.140
us. And I broke down and I wept. And Addison threw the potato across the room, began to kick me violently
00:46:47.860
saying, Father, you lied to me. You lied to me. You scum. All I could do was apologize and plead with her.
00:46:53.700
It was no use. I knew her life was ruined and so was mine. So it was a roller coaster day. It ended
00:47:02.280
by careening off the tracks and there were no survivors emotionally. And that's why Hasbro is,
00:47:08.140
in the end, canceled. Mr. Potato Head is canceled. And all of you who would mock our pain or our joy
00:47:16.560
before the pain are also canceled. How dare you? How dare all of you?
00:47:25.320
And that's going to give us a lot to think about over the weekend. Have a great weekend.
00:47:37.380
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