The Matt Walsh Show - SHOCKING New Documentary On ‘Transkids’ Accidentally Tells Disturbing Truth

00:00:00.000 On Monday, a horrifying clip from a recently released HBO documentary went viral.

00:00:05.420 In the scene, congregants at a Unitarian Universalist church are invited by the female

00:00:10.900 pastor to, quote, proclaim their identity publicly as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer,

00:00:17.780 queer or questioning, intersex, pansexual, asexual, or any category I've left out, unquote.

00:00:24.200 A mother then pulls her young son, four years old it turns out, onto the stage to announce

00:00:29.900 that he's really a girl.

00:00:31.440 But the poor child has no interest in being paraded around like his mother's show pony,

00:00:36.920 so he hands the microphone back, saying that he doesn't want to do it.

00:00:40.900 The mother takes it upon herself to come out on her son's behalf, informing the audience

00:00:45.800 that her son, Phoenix, would, quote, like you to know that she's a girl and she prefers

00:00:50.920 she and her pronouns.

00:00:53.320 Completing this apparently familiar ritual, the pastor hands the child a pink flower as

00:00:58.920 a congregation repeats its creepy affirmation in unison, quote, may you be well, safe, and

00:01:05.820 whole.

00:01:06.440 We honor you exactly as you are.

00:01:09.100 Of course, that's the exact opposite of what they're really doing.

00:01:12.980 This isn't even the worst scene in HBO's transhood documentary, which is now available

00:01:18.460 on their streaming platform.

00:01:20.660 The film follows four transgender children over the course of five years.

00:01:24.760 It's clearly meant to promote and normalize the deranged sort of child abuse just described,

00:01:31.060 but any rational person who subjects themselves to the film, which I did, but I wouldn't recommend

00:01:36.860 it, will come away with a number of important insights that the filmmakers did not intend.

00:01:42.880 Phoenix's case is, I think, especially instructive.

00:01:45.380 Before the forced coming out party, we see the boy in a dress, in a different scene, on a bed filled

00:01:52.520 with lots of pink and rainbow-colored things, and he's being read a book called

00:01:57.300 Jacob's New Dress by his mother.

00:02:00.520 Here's that scene, if you can stomach it.

00:02:03.020 Then we slid into a shiny yellow dress, while Jacob wiggled into a sparkly pink dress.

00:02:08.240 What are you wearing, asked mom.

00:02:10.220 It's like a dress.

00:02:11.500 I made it.

00:02:12.560 Dad frowned.

00:02:13.100 Mom, you can't go to school with that.

00:02:15.380 Put on some shorts and a shirt under that dress thing, mom said, and hurry. 0.99

00:02:19.180 We're late for school.

00:02:21.880 You're never late for school, right?

00:02:24.440 That's your home school.

00:02:27.080 Let's get the sewing machine, she said finally.

00:02:30.280 Jacob felt the air refill his body.

00:02:32.700 He grinned.

00:02:33.680 Mom smiled back.

00:02:35.020 There are all sorts of ways to be a boy, she said.

00:02:38.240 Right?

00:02:38.740 Wait, I'm going.

00:02:40.060 No.

00:02:40.620 And also.

00:02:41.700 You're available.

00:02:42.140 And I'm also wearing clothes.

00:02:45.400 Girl clothes. 0.95

00:02:46.600 You are wearing their your clothes, so they are boy clothes. 0.99

00:02:50.180 Dad looked up on his butt. 0.99

00:02:51.400 Yeah. 0.99

00:02:52.020 Okay, those are girl clothes.

00:02:53.460 I can do whatever you want to be.

00:02:56.420 I am a girl boy.

00:02:58.280 Next, in an interview, the mother, Molly, tells us that Phoenix is, quote, gender expansive,

00:03:04.900 non-binary, gender non-conforming, gender awesome, under the trans umbrella, girl boy, and rainbow

00:03:12.320 boy.

00:03:13.160 All of those things.

00:03:14.300 Before finally concluding that, quote, we don't really have a good term.

00:03:17.720 Well, I have a really good term.

00:03:20.220 It's called boy.

00:03:22.180 Now, for his part, the father, Zach, mostly sits quietly, a common theme in the film, which

00:03:26.920 we'll return to in a moment.

00:03:28.180 But he agrees that his son's gender is somehow, quote, up in the air right now.

00:03:33.320 Eventually, Phoenix, who never at any point shows any strong desire to be a girl and appears

00:03:39.300 to be mostly confused and bored with the whole thing, is nonetheless socially transitioned

00:03:44.180 into one.

00:03:45.780 But the years pass, and Phoenix continues in the nasty habit of being a boy, despite his

00:03:50.420 parents insisting.

00:03:51.200 Otherwise, eventually they get divorced, another common theme, and decide that, never mind,

00:03:56.500 actually their son is a boy, after all, it turns out.

00:03:58.760 But the good news is that Molly feels better at the end because she's worked through her

00:04:03.780 issues and is starting a new leaf, where we are not exactly told how her son really feels

00:04:09.020 about having his gender switch back and forth.

00:04:11.340 While his home life is ripped in two and his parents give up on their marriage, his feelings

00:04:15.760 and well-being appear to be more of an afterthought amid his mother's psychodrama.

00:04:21.080 Shades of the Phoenix story can be easily detected in the other three trans kid profiles.

00:04:26.240 There's Jay, age 12, when filming begins.

00:04:30.200 She's a girl making the, quote, transition into a boy.

00:04:34.240 Her father doesn't appear to be in the picture at all.

00:04:36.400 I don't think we see him at all.

00:04:37.560 But her mother, Bryce, is a lesbian who eventually meets and marries a defensive lineman from the 0.97

00:04:42.140 local women's football league.

00:04:44.080 We're first introduced to Jay when she's being given her first hormone blocker injection

00:04:47.860 before the onset of puberty.

00:04:49.880 Later, she goes into surgery to have a blocker implanted in her body.

00:04:53.020 Bryce, the mother, seems unsure, even at times distraught by all this, but she goes along

00:04:59.940 with it and funds it and facilitates it every step of the way.

00:05:03.620 Similar dynamic with Lena, 15 years old at the beginning of the film, also just beginning

00:05:08.140 the medical transition, in this case from boy to girl.

00:05:11.580 We meet Lena and his divorced father, Mike, as the two are out bikini shopping for the young

00:05:17.300 man.

00:05:17.480 We learn that Mike had his hesitations about the transgender thing when Lena first announced

00:05:22.300 his gender confusion around the time of the parents' divorce, nine years prior.

00:05:26.160 There's that theme again.

00:05:27.580 But has since learned to accept it.

00:05:29.520 And now his sons, or his quote-unquote daughters, ambition is to become a victorious secret model.

00:05:34.680 And Mike, along with his ex-wife, accompany Lena to his first modeling tryout.

00:05:38.720 By the end of the film, Lena has decided to take it all the way, going under the surgeon's 0.82

00:05:44.460 knife, the surgeon is also transgender, to make his physical transition permanent and 0.95

00:05:49.980 basically irreversible.

00:05:51.460 The most disturbing story of all is that of seven-year-old Avery.

00:05:56.020 He's a boy who, according to his parents, is really deep down a girl.

00:06:01.640 Avery's mother, Debbie, traipses the child all around the country, doing media interviews,

00:06:05.800 attending marches, rallies, et cetera.

00:06:08.660 The cameras catch the moments when Debbie informs Avery that he'll be, quote, writing

00:06:13.620 a trans-affirming children's book and then going on a book tour against his will.

00:06:18.400 He doesn't want to do it.

00:06:19.520 And also when Debbie tells Avery that a National Geographic photographer will be arriving shortly

00:06:24.520 to take pictures for the magazine's upcoming cover story on gender.

00:06:28.820 Avery is visibly and audibly unhappy with all of this, all throughout the entire film.

00:06:35.800 He objects to all of his mother's schemes.

00:06:39.200 And at one point late in the film, upon hearing that he'll be forced to attend yet another LGBT 1.00

00:06:43.820 rally in D.C., says that his life is ruined and voices a level of exhaustion and weariness

00:06:49.760 that no child should ever experience.

00:06:52.760 Let me play that scene for you now.

00:06:54.540 We're going to Washington, D.C.

00:06:56.280 Again.

00:06:57.100 And we're going to be moving to the White House potential area to throw a book in Donald

00:07:03.620 Trump's face.

00:07:05.220 I don't think that we want to say that, no.

00:07:07.640 This one is Time to Thrive, and it's for people who work with LGBTQ youth.

00:07:12.580 We actually go and meet with our senators, some representatives.

00:07:16.700 After we do that, we go and sit and sell some of Avery's books for a little while.

00:07:22.140 So, Avery, manners.

00:07:25.960 I just don't want to even have a book.

00:07:29.020 I've done too much in this world.

00:07:31.000 It's ruined my life enough.

00:07:32.740 And now everyone in this world is going to know.

00:07:36.880 If I sell my book, it's going to go on the news along with me for like the 50th time at

00:07:43.000 this point.

00:07:44.060 And it's just going to make my life worse.

00:07:47.160 A couple years ago, you wanted people to know. 0.99

00:07:49.840 Yeah, I did, but now that was really stupid, silly mistake, and now I don't. 0.97

00:07:57.380 Yeah, that's something. 0.97

00:07:59.520 I'll go back now.

00:08:02.860 Avery doesn't seem too invested in this female persona.

00:08:07.460 Minus the long neon-colored hair and the overcompensating rainbow outfits that his mother puts him in,

00:08:13.480 he comes across like a relatively normal young boy.

00:08:16.840 Debbie, noticing this with some level of alarm, decides that Avery is just a, quote,

00:08:21.880 tomboy trans girl. 0.99

00:08:24.100 Yes.

00:08:25.040 That would be a boy who is a girl who acts like a boy. 0.75

00:08:28.900 As for Avery's father and his view of everything, it's never made entirely clear.

00:08:33.280 Like the other fathers in the film, he's basically a useless lump of nothingness floating along with

00:08:37.680 the tide while his wife psychologically and physically destroys his son in order to satisfy 0.98

00:08:42.480 her own unquenchable narcissism.

00:08:44.360 These men are literally watching their sons be turned into girls.

00:08:47.980 And that's one of the ingredients that is always present whenever a young boy is forced

00:08:52.240 to sacrifice his masculinity in this way.

00:08:54.680 They always have fathers who have already willingly sacrificed their own.

00:08:59.020 That is a necessary ingredient.

00:09:00.660 And that is one of the important lessons the film doesn't want to teach us, but does anyway.

00:09:07.500 There is no mystery to the transness of Avery, Phoenix, Lena, or Jay, or any trans child. 0.52

00:09:13.760 In Avery's case, his mother has, it would seem, very clearly imposed a trans identity onto him.

00:09:21.220 Munchausen syndrome by proxy is a known mental illness where a parent, usually a mother,

00:09:26.020 pretends that their child is sick or sometimes even causes the child to be sick in order to

00:09:30.140 gain sympathy and attention for themselves, from the public.

00:09:33.560 If the psychiatric industry was at all honest and trustworthy, Debbie would be diagnosed with

00:09:37.740 this disorder and her children removed from her care for their own safety. 0.75

00:09:41.000 As it happens though, and as the film clearly portrays, doctors and therapists are much

00:09:45.880 more likely to feed into this kind of mania than to diagnose and treat it.

00:09:49.700 That's the other piece of the puzzle that removes any mystery from the trans epidemic among 1.00

00:09:54.220 children.

00:09:54.540 The entire medical field, with very rare exception, has bought into this radical left-wing gender 0.96

00:10:00.380 theory.

00:10:01.200 A gender-confused child with a parent like Debbie stands no chance. 1.00

00:10:06.500 He will find no help, no protection from his pediatricians or his therapist or his school.

00:10:14.200 They're just going to send him off to be drugged, mutilated, and further abused.

00:10:18.500 But not all trans kids have parents like Debbie. 0.53

00:10:22.080 The other kids in transhood seem to have mothers and fathers who are perhaps less exploitative 0.67

00:10:27.140 than they are confused, incompetent, and self-absorbed.

00:10:30.220 But all throughout the documentary, we constantly see the parents turning to their kids and asking

00:10:38.080 them for direction, relying on their children to take the lead, asking them, what do you want

00:10:44.840 to do?

00:10:45.080 How are you feeling?

00:10:46.220 How do you identify?

00:10:48.020 You tell us, putting it all on them, on their shoulders, the burden of leadership, placing

00:10:53.680 it on their five-year-old son's shoulders.

00:10:55.920 Phoenix's dad gives the closest thing we hear to a fatherly lecture in the whole film, telling

00:11:02.460 his son-turned-daughter-turned-son that it's okay that he was a girl before, and it's okay

00:11:07.660 that he's a boy now, and it's okay if he's a girl later.

00:11:10.740 And really, it's all up to him.

00:11:12.720 Well, gee, thanks for the advice, Pop.

00:11:14.260 Very clarifying.

00:11:16.260 Like any other child, Phoenix desperately needs direction and leadership and clarity. 0.99

00:11:21.400 What he gets instead are shrugging shoulders and his pathetic, hen-pecked father's refusal 0.99

00:11:27.380 to offer any guidance of any kind whatsoever. 0.98

00:11:30.660 So it's up to Phoenix to figure out who he is, what reality is, what anything is.

00:11:37.340 His parents will provide nothing to the child except food, a bed, a roof, and a bunch of

00:11:41.880 pretty dresses should he decide he wants to wear them.

00:11:44.240 Other than that, the boy's on his own.

00:11:47.120 And that's how you end up with transgender children. 0.99

00:11:49.700 Of course, the documentary wants us to learn a different lesson.

00:11:52.640 In the epilogue before the credits roll, the last thing we're told is that Lena, right

00:11:59.680 after waking up from his, as they call it in Orwellian speak, gender affirmation surgery,

00:12:05.480 supposedly turned to his mother and whispered, I'm free.

00:12:09.080 Now, I doubt whether he said that at all, but if he did, it was yet another expression of

00:12:14.400 the tragic confusion that has plagued this kid since early childhood.

00:12:18.200 But he is not free now that he has rejected himself and his own biological nature in a

00:12:23.340 way that can never really be undone.

00:12:25.780 But that is another lesson he'll have to learn on his own with no help from his parents.

00:12:31.820 And the sad thing is that when he does, like so many other kids, it'll be too late.

00:12:36.580 Thank you.

00:12:37.780 Thank you.

00:12:38.160 Thank you.

00:12:39.660 Let's pray.

00:12:39.860 .

The Matt Walsh Show - December 28, 2020

SHOCKING New Documentary On ‘Transkids’ Accidentally Tells Disturbing Truth

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