Ep. 985 - A Nation Divided Over Pregnant Men
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Summary
The chasmic divide between the two sides in the culture war was put on full display during a Senate hearing in which a college professor claimed that men can get pregnant. Also, J.K. Rowling officially disavows me and breaks my heart in the process. She says that I'm really no different than a trans activist. But today we ll talk about why that charge could more rightly be leveled at left-wing feminists like herself.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the chasmic divide between the two sides in the culture war was put on full display during a Senate hearing in which a college professor claimed that men can get pregnant.
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Also, J.K. Rowling officially disavows me and breaks my heart in the process, I must say.
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She says that I'm really no different than a trans activist.
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But today we'll talk about why that charge could more rightly be leveled at left-wing feminists like herself.
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And a disturbing video goes viral showing two very young children in the inner city assaulting two police officers.
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What hope do kids have when they're raised like that?
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Plus, John Bolton admits to planning coups in foreign countries while a remarkably incurious Jake Tapper sits and nods along.
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In our daily cancellation, Gavin Newsom signs a law that will open gun manufacturers up to lawsuits.
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There are all kinds of problems here that we'll discuss today and so much more on the Matt Wall Show.
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Well, Roe v. Wade has been overturned and the battle is now finally leaving D.C. and going back to the grassroots.
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No group in America, when it comes to grassroots fighting over the pro-life issue, is better positioned than 40 Days for Life.
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There are one million volunteers hold peaceful vigils outside abortion facilities in 1,000 cities.
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In fact, most of their volunteers are located in blue states such as California where the lives of innocent babies are most threatened, where they're most needed.
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And that's where they're doing most of their work.
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Many former abortion facility directors say that these vigils can cause the abortion no-show rate to increase to as high as 75 percent, which is a major blow to the abortion business.
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Because these peaceful vigils have even led to many closures of abortion facilities in America, nearly half of which were in cities like San Francisco, Chicago, and Seattle.
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These are hardly pro-life areas, as you may know.
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But that, again, is where 40 Days for Life is doing most of their great work.
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40 Days for Life is effectively changing hearts and minds in the grassroots to end abortion.
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You can check out their locations, podcasts, and free magazine at 40daysforlife.com.
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Again, for more information on 40 Days for Life, simply head to 40daysforlife.com.
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After being criticized by the left and the media for calling my film What Is a Woman effective, though she did so in the context of Criticize Me,
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Rowling finally decided to make it publicly and abundantly clear that she is not my friend and we are not allies.
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On Twitter, in response to Jason Whitlock, that was really a response to me, marking my first official disavowal by a famous person.
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Respectfully, I've been facing down the punch-and-kill Turfs Brigade for a while now,
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and not once have I thought what I really want is to hand this over to a man who thinks feminism is one of the worst things to happen to Western civilization.
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Like many women on the left, I despair that so many self-proclaimed liberals turn a blind eye to the naked misogyny of the gender identity movement
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and the threat it poses to the rights of women and girls.
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Walsh's film undeniably exposed what many leftists are too scared to,
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but a shared belief that women exist as a biological class and water is wet and the moon's not made of cheese does not an ally make.
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I believe women are susceptible to certain harms and have specific needs that feminism is necessary to secure and protect our rights.
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Walsh believes feminism is rotten and his default appears to be denigrating women with whom he disagrees.
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He's no more on my side than the shut-up-or-will-bomb-you charmers who cloak their misogyny in a pretty pink-and-blue flag.
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So you're saying that you like my movie, though.
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She also accuses me of denigrating women with whom I disagree.
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I denigrate everybody I disagree with, woman or not, just to be clear.
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And finally, she claims that I believe feminism is rotten and one of the worst things to happen to Western civilization.
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The 60 million dead children that it's already left in its wake is probably all the evidence I really need to support that assertion.
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But the gender ideology that J.K. Rowling herself opposes and has fought against quite bravely and admirably is itself more evidence of feminism's fatal flaws.
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Though some left-wing feminists, like J.K. Rowling, have staunchly resisted the modern manifestations of gender ideology and its incursions into female spaces like locker rooms and sports teams and all that kind of stuff,
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still, feminism has, as a whole, utterly failed to halt or even significantly slow down the advance of this threat.
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Perhaps Rowling and her feminist allies might want to stop and consider this question.
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You know, we hear so much from them about, we've been in this fight for years, we've been fighting.
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So, well, why haven't you achieved more than you have if you've been fighting it for so long?
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At the risk of being accused of mansplaining, I'd like to give my own answer to that question.
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Now, since What Is A Woman came out, feminists have debated amongst themselves, and we've talked about this,
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they've debated whether they should champion the film, whether they should team up with an unsavory character like myself for the sake of defeating the gender ideologues,
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and ultimately, with very few exceptions, they've decided that the answer to both conundrums is a resounding no.
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So, Rowling's statement yesterday puts kind of an exclamation mark on that answer.
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They really don't want the help of any man at all unless he takes an explicitly subordinate role in the fight.
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This is one of the reasons why feminism has failed to stop transgenderism, I think.
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That feminists are naturally antagonistic towards men.
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They always have been from the beginning, way back in the so-called first wave,
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So, they might complain about, you know, the way that women are treated when they speak out against the trans mob,
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and they might lament that women, they believe, are left alone to face down this horde.
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But then, when any man tries to stand beside them, they can't help but turn on him.
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They ask for help, but then they say to the man who answers the call,
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any real and effective counterinsurgency against the gender ideology movement
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will require the coordinated efforts of both men and women.
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Men have a totally crucial, absolutely crucial role to play in this fight.
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Women cannot rescue society from this madness alone, neither can men.
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Our complementary nature means that we're more powerful working together than we are apart.
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This is true of men and women in the context of marriage and families,
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and it's true, I believe, on the societal level.
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But feminism is inherently antagonistic towards and competitive with men.
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That's why feminism is deadly in a marriage, because in a marriage you need that complementary unity,
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but instead, through feminism, you get antagonism and competition.
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And it's also why it weakens, not strengthens, the fight for sanity and truth in our culture.
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I have been for the past month and more at the center of one of these arguments
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among feminists about whether they can really work hand-in-hand with a man,
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and the answer that most of them have come to is no, they can't.
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Feminists have decided, and I've been told this explicitly,
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that I am just one side of the same coin with the trans activists.
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As Rowling professed, I'm no more her ally than they are.
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She says, I'm just as much her enemy as, you know, rabid trans activists who threatens
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I'm just as opposed to her as they are, she says.
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And yet, if I'm on the same side of, if I'm on one side of the same coin with these people,
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then why is it that I oppose trans activists, not just on the matter of transgenderism,
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I disagree with the trans activists on every conceivable issue.
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Any conservative, if you're a conservative, this is going to be the case.
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You disagree with the trans activists on not just this issue, but like everything.
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We are diametrically opposed all the way down the line on everything.
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Clearly, that's not the case for J.K. Rowling and the trans activists.
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It's not the case for any of the left-wing feminists who seemingly oppose the trans agenda.
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They all agree with the trans activists on nearly every issue except transgenderism.
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And even on transgenderism, many of them agree with the fundamental proposition even when it
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I'm not sure if this is the case for Rowling specifically, but you often hear the so-called
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gender-critical types say that, well, they have no issue with a man identifying as a woman.
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Their problem is specifically with the male invasion into private female spaces.
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Very often, they go to great lengths to make it clear that they are not denying the underlying
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But whether they oppose transgenderism on that level or not, the fact is that left-wing feminists
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certainly agree with trans activists on most other major issues.
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That's why the two groups can march hand-in-hand at the pro-abortion rally, at the gay pride
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This is because the trans activists and the feminists actually share an overarching worldview.
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Why do you think Planned Parenthood has gotten into the gender transition game?
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It was not only a savvy business move for a company that stands to lose millions from
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all the babies that will no longer be allowed to kill, but also a natural evolution.
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Transgenderism itself is a natural evolution from feminism.
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Feminism came first, setting the stage, and then transgenderism.
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These are not two separate and distinct things, but rather two branches on the same tree, deeply
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intertwined and associated with, connected with each other.
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Inez Stepman, writer for The Federalist and other places, explained this, I thought, pretty
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I respect my many feminist allies in this fight, but this is fundamentally true.
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Transgenderism is not an aberration away from the fundamental assumptions of feminism,
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The central tenet of all waves of feminism has been that the differences between the
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sexes are not biological but socially constructed, that your sex should not matter with regard
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to any important decisions in your life or how society interacts with you.
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The differences in our brains and corresponding psychology have just as much scientific backing
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Only difference is one threatens the premise of feminism and the other doesn't.
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But they both come with societal and personal implications.
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Feminism has preached from the beginning that the physical differences between the sexes
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are largely unimportant and irrelevant, while, as Stepman points out, outright denying the
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It's only a short distance from that to the trans activists claim that all of the differences
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It's a thing that an individual chooses to participate in or not.
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Now, that idea is absurd, but it's absurd in the same way that feminism is absurd.
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Feminism and transgenderism are cousins at the very least, but probably more like twins
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Both gender ideology and feminism are hostile to the nuclear family.
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Both see it as an inherently oppressive and patriarchal structure, which has to be demolished.
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This, again, has been feminism's professed intention from the beginning of the movement,
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The trans activists are explicit about this as well.
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But, you know, and so when they talk about the evils of the family, they are indistinguishable
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The two, once again, are looking through the same lens.
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But most of all, they have this in common, and this is what really means.
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In fact, you could stop using the word leftist and simply call them relativists because relativism
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A left-wing feminist may believe that there's an objective physical truth about the world,
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So, but if she's on the left, then she certainly at least believes that moral truth is relative.
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One cannot be pro-abortion without having this view, the view that there is no objective
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So, once again, the trans activist takes this to its logical conclusion.
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If there is no objective moral truth, then who is to say that there's any objective truth
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If I can create my own moral universe, then why can't I create my own physical universe?
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The trans activist takes the left-wing feminist up on her own word.
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He follows her premise all the way down to the bottom, to its core.
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And she looks and sees what it looks like, and she recoils in horror at the results.
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But she doesn't realize she's looking in the mirror.
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It is feminism and transgenderism, which are two sides of the same coin.
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That's why the feminist can't take a swing at gender ideology without hitting herself in
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And this is why she ultimately fails in the fight.
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And that's why they cannot accept me or any of us as allies.
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But at least, or J.K. Rowling is concerned, if we don't have that in common, we will always
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still share a bond as best-selling children's authors.
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Now, speaking of Martians from outer space, this is from the Daily Wire.
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It says, in a contentious exchange in which an abortion rights advocate and law professor
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acted patronizingly towards Missouri GOP Senator Josh Hawley, who asked whether her phrase
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people with a capacity for pregnancy simply meant women, the professor accused him of being
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This is University of California Berkeley law professor Kiara Bridges, and she appeared at
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a hearing held by the Senate Judiciary Committee to examine legal concerns following the Supreme
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And rather than describing the exchange, I think it's better if we just watch it.
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Professor Bridges, you said several times, you've used a phrase, I want to make sure
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You've referred to people with a capacity for pregnancy.
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Many women, cis women, have the capacity for pregnancy.
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Many cis women do not have the capacity for pregnancy.
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There are also trans men who are capable of pregnancy, as well as non-binary people who are
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We can recognize that this impacts women while also recognizing that it impacts other groups.
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Those things are not mutually exclusive, Senator Hawley.
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So your view is that the core of this right then is about what?
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So I want to recognize that your line of questioning is transphobic, and it opens up trans people to violence by not recognizing that.
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You're saying that I'm opening up people to violence by asking whether or not women are the folks who can have pregnancies?
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So I want to note that one out of five transgender persons have attempted suicide.
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Because denying that trans people exist and pretending not to know that they exist is dangerous.
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I'm denying that trans people exist by asking you if you're talking about women having pregnancies.
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Where they're opening up people to violence by questioning.
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So to use a phrase that I absolutely hate, there's a lot to unpack here.
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First, we again get this straw man of you deny trans people exist.
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Now, we have to answer this charge, I think, in a specific, in a particular way, because
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We deny the logical and scientific validity of transgenderism as a concept, or at least we
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So in effect, we deny that, quote, trans people exist as a category.
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We don't, though, deny the existence of people who identify as trans.
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And the left, though, when they say you deny trans people exist, they're trying to conflate
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But it's also a clever trick because it provokes conservatives oftentimes to say, and I maybe
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have been guilty of this in the past, and it's just when you're not being, you know,
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when you're being lazy in the way that you speak, you might respond and say, no, we don't
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deny that trans people exist, and just leave it at that.
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And if you say that, though, if you say, no, no, of course trans people exist, then it sounds
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like you're endorsing the whole concept, like the idea that a person can be trans in that
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the claims they're making about the world are actually true.
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So that's, you know, it's, that is a self-identification that people have made about themselves, claiming
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to be transgender, that is sort of beyond gender to exist in this other category.
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There are people who have made this claim about themselves.
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There are, there are men out there, males who make the claim that they're women.
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The claims they're making, though, are not true.
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But there are a few other points to make based on this exchange.
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Another is that, is that this woman is, we always have to note this, is a, is a law professor.
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She is a, and yeah, she's at Berkeley, but even so, she's a highly educated academic in
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charge of informing and teaching and tutoring young minds.
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People spend exorbitant amounts of money to send their children to this person.
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Now, there might not be a lot of conservative parents sending their kids off to, to Berkeley,
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but conservative parents spend thousands of dollars plunging themselves and their children
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into years of debt for the privilege of being brainwashed by this fruitcake or fruitcakes
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Because what we have to understand is that she is not at all an aberration.
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Nearly every college professor in the university system is just like that.
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There are very few who at least publicly would disagree with anything you just heard that
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Almost all of them have bought in, in a public facing way, at least.
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Because if they know better, but in their heads, but, you know, but they're still preaching and
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teaching this kind of madness, then that's all that matters.
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I mean, at this point, I really see no difference between sending your kid to a university and
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sending them off to some sort of like suicide cult in the jungle somewhere to be indoctrinated.
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Like there are a few colleges out there that are still safe.
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And when I say safe, I mean colleges that are actually interested in educating people.
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The vast majority have gotten out of the education game.
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And now what they are educating children in, not even children, young adults, the education
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they're providing is indoctrination into the most insane worldview the world has ever seen.
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Also note how she says, well, when you say this, or when you ask this question, it's not
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As he points out, he was asking a question, not even making a statement.
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But when you ask this question, she says, you're opening trans people up to violence.
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She doesn't point to the mythological epidemic of hate crimes against trans people.
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So when she says violence, when you're provoking violence against trans people, what she's
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saying is you're provoking trans people to commit violence against themselves because
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What she's saying is trans people have guns to their own heads.
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And if you don't stop saying what you're saying right now, they're going to pull the trigger.
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And of course, it's not based in reality whatsoever.
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And you cannot sacrifice the truth for any reason whatsoever.
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But it also just happens that the claim she's making is not true.
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Or at least the implication, insinuation that if you, trans people are committing suicide
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As we have seen, as we went over in What is a Woman in the film, Scott Nugent talked about,
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trans people are the most suicidal 10 years after transition.
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So what that means is that you can give them all of the affirmation in the world.
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It doesn't do anything to solve the suicide problem.
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In fact, arguably, the statistics show it makes it worse.
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I mean, I think the left would at least admit or would concede that today,
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you know, on this day in the year 2022, we are a far more affirming culture of transgenderism
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Yet, is the trans suicide rate lower today than it was 30 years ago?
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That doesn't make any sense if affirmation is what prevents the suicide epidemic from happening.
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And then, of course, we have evidence, again, illustrated for all to see,
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the two universes, as we talked about in the opening, the chasmic divide,
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You hear the professor, the way she says it, she says,
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This is supposed to be a gotcha from her against Senator Hawley.
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What, are you actually saying that men can't get pregnant?
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Yeah, I'm saying the thing that every single person on earth would also say
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And even now, in the last 12 seconds, the vast majority of people would still say this.
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Now, perhaps she doesn't believe what she's saying.
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There are a lot of thoroughly unimpressive, lackluster people in academia and beyond
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who've made careers and names for themselves by repeating the nonsensical tripe
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So it could just be that, or maybe she does believe it.
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As I said, it doesn't make a difference really one way or another.
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Because that clip has gone viral on the left and the right.
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With people on the left, if you go to social media saying,
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oh, this professor, she demolished Josh Hawley, embarrassed him, humiliated him.
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These are people who watch the exchange you just watched
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with a woman claiming that men can get pregnant.
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but believing that she totally dismantled and humiliated
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Like there is, I'm sorry to say, but as I have been saying for years,
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but you have to renounce everything that you believe,
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Because you're still going to take a subservient role.
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The fact that you ever disagree with us at all,
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The only difference is that we have grace and forgiveness.
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That's the only way that we could be united with you.