Trans Activist Emotional Blackmail, Silencing Women, and Redefining Words to Win Arguments, with Helen Joyce | Ep. 590
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Summary
In this episode of The Megyn Kelly Show, host Meghan Kelly is joined by journalist and author Helen Joyce to discuss her new book, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality, about the roots of transgender ideology and how it became mainstream.
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So we're very excited to have them both come on tomorrow.
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And I'm sure there'll be plenty of blowback tonight,
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the American Medical Association are all saying
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it's good it's actually the standard of care it's
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go along with this do find it deeply distressing
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along with things that in their heart of hearts
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about suicide is that it's emotionally and it's
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socially contagious like there's guidelines for
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person who committed suicide as being brave and
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you're exactly right I mean it sadly it is it is a
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contagion but they talk about it so loosely they
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threaten it and yet your book reports on the actual
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studies about the risk the suicidality of trans
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people and kids like is it true that as they say
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something like 48 percent of them will attempt suicide
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if they don't get the quote gender affirming care
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absolutely not so the best study that we have looks at the
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children who are on the waiting list for the nhs clinic in
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london and because the waiting list is quite long so these children are sort
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of the same basically as the children who are getting the care
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and they are more likely to self-harm and sadly slightly more likely to
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commit suicide but it's still extremely rare for a child to kill
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surprising because these are kids who also have a lot of other mental health
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difficulties there's outsized numbers of them who
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are depressed anxious self-harming eating disorders
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autistic spectrum disorders and so on so those co-morbidities as doctors call
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it those co-occurring conditions that totally explains why you would
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expect to sadly see a slightly higher risk of suicide among these kids and the
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second thing to say is there's no evidence whatsoever that allowing them to
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transition helps they still have the mental health
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conditions they're still autistic they're still
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self-harming they're still depressed so the treatment doesn't work
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yeah this is this brings me to the july 14th uh of this year wall street
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journal opinion by several experts experienced professionals as they call
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themselves involved in direct care for the rapidly
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growing numbers of gender diverse youth uh from all over they they these
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clinicians from finland the uk sweden norway belgium france switzerland
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south africa and even the united states nine countries represented wrote this
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opinion piece in the wall street journal a few days ago and said and it was in
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response to the president of the endocrine society backing this alleged
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gender affirming care all of it is a misnomer and they take issue with the
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suggestion that this is anything of the sort they say he claimed that this gender
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affirming care of the kind we've been discussing improves the well-being of
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transgender and gender diverse people and reduces the risk of suicide they write
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this claim is not supported by the best available evidence every systematic review
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of evidence to date including one published in the journal of the endocrine society has
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found the existence for mental health benefits of hormonal interventions interventions for
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minors to be of low or very low certainty by contrast the risks are significant and include
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sterility lifelong dependence on medication and the anguish of regret for this reason more and
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more european countries and international professional organizations now recommend
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psychotherapy rather than hormones and surgeries as the first line of treatment they go on to say
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that this guy dr ham who runs the endocrine society in america his claim that gender transition reduces
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suicide is contradicted by every systematic review including the one published by the endocrine society
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which states we could not draw any conclusions about death by suicide they go on to say there is no
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reliable evidence to suggest that hormonal transition is an effective suicide prevention measure i mean this
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is so encouraging is it not to see this in the wall street journal people from all those countries
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these are you know these are liberal countries you know these are it's not like i don't know it's not
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like russia it's not like vladimir putin you've got the uk you got sweden norway france switzerland
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all these joining together to say what are we doing
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i mean it's so hard to explain isn't it except it's like a madness of crowds thing sometimes things go
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so badly wrong that people can't reverse i mean the moment when somebody who has gone along with
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what i've said is the worst medical scandal of the 21st century the moment they realize that they might
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have been wrong is the moment that they realize that they have been complicit in a horrific human rights
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abuse against children and people are very motivated never to accept that so i think some of the people
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who are now most actively speaking in favor of gender affirming a so-called care for minors are
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people who have step by step got themselves to a position that they would never have thought was the
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right position where they when they started but now there's no way back for them because the way back
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involves saying we the endocrine society recommended something that we now accept as a medical and human
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right scandal so they're not going to they're you know there's just they're going to defend
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themselves to the last possible breath and the last drop of blood rather than accept how culpable
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they are and i heard you on peter bogosian's talking about how a lot of the people who are pushing this
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whether it's inside these medical societies because the american medical association is just as bad
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the american academy of pediatrics the worst again the endocrine society i mean these are terrible
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they're all on the wrong side but you were saying if you it doesn't take a lot of digging to find the
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people at the top of these and on similar organizations have a trans kid or have they
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they have done this to their own child this is the way i think a lot of people and this is nothing
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against uh folks who are pro-choice but a lot of people who are the biggest pushers of abortion had
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abortions and you're you've seen something similar in this movement i think there's a very natural
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human instinct to justify decisions that you've made that can't be reversed and you know it's that
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thing of saying and you know such and such happened and it was the best thing that could have happened
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like sometimes it's the only way that you can make sense of your life like my husband left me and i now
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realize that that was the best thing that could ever have happened like we couldn't live if we didn't do
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this but with the child thing it's so high stakes you've been told that the child will commit suicide
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you did your due diligence you went and you looked at what all the bodies that you thought were
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trustworthy charities with good names governments medical associations they all told you one thing
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maybe you thought this doesn't sound right but you don't want your child to kill themselves you
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made a decision it's now not reversible and so you become radicalized and you know it's not even at
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the top of organizations it doesn't have to be at the top often it's that there's somebody in the
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organization and nobody can now speak truth in the whole organization so there are specific people
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i'm thinking of here in the uk who it's not openly known have a trans child but it is known on the
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grapevine and those people are the ones who pop up all the damn time to claim that women like me
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are you know dinosaurs that were the wrong side of history that trans rights are human rights they're
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going to dedicate themselves to these things forever and you're like why are you so sure you
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know there's nothing in your history that suggests to me that this is what you're going to be like you
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know this person might be you know quite conservative have been working in some totally unrelated field
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and then you find out why i guess there's a still small voice in the middle of the night that says what
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if you were wrong and that's the thing you never want to listen to between that and i wanted to read
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this i skipped past the end of our autogynophile discussion without reading this and i wanted to
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so you've got those people trying to justify their own life choices their own decisions that are
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irreversible with respect to their children and instead of owning it and trying to save everybody
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else's child they want our kids to go down with them and then you've got this other group of
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autogynophiles you know the men who are getting off undressing like women or joining women's circles and
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you and you write the following this is so interesting to me and again eye-opening away i was like okay
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this makes sense because we've talked many times on the show about why the trans activists are the
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worst activists the worst i mean they're worse than blm they're worse than anybody in terms of the way
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you must say it this way and you must go along with everything that they believe and you are still
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on the subject of ray blanchard you say his observations of extremist trans activism in recent years
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have led him to believe that the leaders are mostly autogynophiles their anger results from envy
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of women and resentment at not being accepted by women as one of them quote they direct their ire at
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women because it is women who frustrate their desires men are largely irrelevant this this is exactly
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right they are such an angry group and then you realize it's because that as you pointed out earlier
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they need you and me to engage in their fantasy so you've got them then you've got these activists
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who made different life choices who need to force them on us and that these are all the reasons again
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it's the theme of the show why we must must push past trans women are women that's the tweet we must push
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past yeah exactly and you know then there's a whole there's the whole kind of people who aren't so
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invested in it but it's a very cheap virtue signal and then there's another group that we haven't
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mentioned but i think it's quite a large group and that's people who are basically bullied and
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terrorized by their own children having adopted this ideology so there's obviously a strong age
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difference like older people are the least likely to think that people can change sex i mean a bit of
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life wisdom maybe but anyway for whatever reason this is also just a very recent ideology so it's young
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people and people who've been to university so i know loads of people and they tell me about it
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whenever they see me on the street or whenever i meet them at something they say to me i cannot tell
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my children in particular i cannot tell my daughters where i stand on this because my daughters will cut
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me off and they will never speak to me again and so you know when you go to events and conferences in
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this field there will often be people who aren't willing to be photographed and they give out stickers that say
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no photographs um and often the reason is i don't want my child to see me here and it's not necessarily
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that it's a trans child it's a child who believes that this is the latest um good cause that you know
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you have to be um you know pro gay rights um pro blm uh pro trans women are women you know anti-trump
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a whole bundle of things and they won't talk to their parents and they tell their parents they will
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never talk to their parents again unless their parents agree with them on this and some of those
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parents just go along with that they're like all right then fine you know um it doesn't seem right
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to me maybe but you know my daughter tells me it's right so yeah it's terrifying that's terrifying and
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those parents you know many of them not all but many of them may have missed the warning signs the
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three hours a day on tumblr or reddit or youtube where they're getting drawn into this ideology sucked
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into this very unhealthy messaging these lies and the indoctrination's already happened it's it is tough
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to fight once it's already happened um i'll say this you write the following in chapter 12 which i
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completely agree with and it's i mentioned megan rapinoe because she's out there saying it's fine
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we're you know they should compete against us uh you write this not about her but in general female
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athletes who support trans inclusion get to appear generous and inclusive even as they position
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themselves as superior to women who acknowledge that they do require a separate sex class to be
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competitive i was trying to explain this to joe pags he was on the show the other day he's like
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why does megan rapinoe say this why do these women do it and i said because they want to appear
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morally superior it's a psychic income for them they get to virtue signal to their base um that's what
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they get out of it even if it puts our children in danger all right stand by because when we come
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back i would like to get into the uh sports situation which is getting better it is getting better
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one other point on the children which is very important to make you point out in the book
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that the most recent and best study published in march of 2021 followed 139 boys seen at a
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toronto clinic between 1975 and 2009 that's a long-term study of 139 children around two-thirds
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of whom satisfied the clinical criteria for a diagnosis of gender dysphoria it found more than
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90 percent of them later ceased to feel dysphoric and became reconciled with their biological sex
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that means leave them alone that's the answer leave them alone yeah that and they will grow out of it
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yeah exactly and don't tell them that there are things that only boys can go do and only girls
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can do tell them that anyone can be anything you do you you know if they want to be a boy who plays
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with barbie or a girl who plays rugby go for it you be your own special little self and you'll be
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supported and don't teach them that they're you know unstereotypical desires actually make them
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members of the opposite sex it's super regressive to do that it confuses kids and it's sexist nonsense
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right exactly so what i mean i know you spend a lot of time in the book on this being a social
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contagion abigail schreier's written about at least a litman you quote her too she's both of whom been
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on the show love them um but for girls in particular girls never suffered from this historically and now
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they're overwhelmingly the dominant force girls thinking that they're boys um yeah given that's a
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social contagion you got a daughter let's say in you know middle school or high school and it turns
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out that 10 people in her class are suddenly trans including three of her closest friends what do you
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do i mean ideally you don't get into that situation in the first place i mean parents who are alert to
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this movement will look at uh the possibilities for their child's school and if you look around the
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school and you see that it's trans flags everywhere and that teachers are wearing pronoun badges and
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ask around in your community and find out are there lots of children who are identifying as non-binary or
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whatever don't send your child there because you know they go through this natural period in teenage
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years when they think that everything their parents say to them is wrong and they may want to just oppose
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you for the sake of it but also they think that you're not cool and you're backward and they listen to their
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own friendship groups so it's really really hard to counter the influence of what happens in school
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and i would also look at what the school is teaching and what it's got in its library and what
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it models to the kids because a lot of schools are you know they're transitioning kids behind their
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parents banks and they're teaching children lessons in which they explicitly tell the children
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that biological sex is a construct that what makes you a boy or a girl is your gender identity
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you know your gender identity and so on they just teach them a mixture of unscientific nonsense
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like they're passing around the social contagion now the schools in a lot of states
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i don't know how you can inoculate your child against being taught lies and being socially
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indoctrinated by school you can't put your child in that environment it's too dangerous
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but if it's happened i mean it's really difficult to to deprogram someone who has been programmed into a
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cult and i mean all i can say is don't end up there don't let your child be indoctrinated into a cult
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that's exactly right and honestly this is one of the reasons why we're we tell our kids if somebody
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asks you to say your pronouns just say i'm not comfortable talking like that just say that just
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say like take it up with my mom if you don't like my answer that'd be another follow-up but i'm not
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letting them even start getting my kids talking about things like that it you know it it's a gateway
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it's a gateway it is all the pronouns are all right so on the sports front it's been a calamity
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for female athletes but i mean talk about shoots of grass right there we've had some positive
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developments like the world cycling organization uci just said no more they'd we we had had two of the
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top cyclists in in the country on the show recently they did not feel hopeful that it was going to come
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down this way because the people advising that body were trans activists but it was there wasn't
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apparently they didn't have a majority there was so much blowback to this organization for men winning
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in the women's events over and over taking the prize winning the prize money they reversed themselves
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they they said this international cycling organization said no more men in women's sports if you want to
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compete and you're a trans woman you can compete in the open category we've seen similar results in
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the world running organization at least in i don't know world qualifying competitions in certain
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competitions in any event we're making progress but can you spend some time on the men running in
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women's uh competing in women's sports yeah sure so i mean i didn't know until i wrote my book how big
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sex differences are in all the things that matter in sport i mean obviously i knew they were there i'm
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actually from a very sporting family although i'm not sporting myself i'm one of nine kids and of the
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other eight seven of them have played cricket and five of them have played for ireland and that's two
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girls and three boys among them the girl who was the captain of the irish women's team for many years
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who's probably the best irish female cricketer that we've ever had so i've always seen sex differences
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in sport and also by the way the very sexist differences in which men's sport is lauded and women's
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sport is underfunded but when i looked into it in the book the differences in strength speed stamina all
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those things they're really much bigger under the hood than you'd realize if you've never been
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beaten up by a man or you've never tried to arm wrestle with a 14 year old boy or any of those
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things i mean actually quite mediocre men are better than the very best women like in most sports
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an under 18 boy has and often many times thousands of times in a year has beaten the world record in
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that sport for a woman so you just can't have women and men competing in the same competitions
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because all professional athletes would be men there would just be no women's sport so sports
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have always done sex testing which is just a simple swab of a cheek swab you just put a cotton
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bud in the woman's mouth you check dna yes that's a woman she has that card for the rest of her life
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it's that simple but in the 1990s they fell for the idea that people can transition men can change sex
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and that if a man has had his testicles removed and therefore has no testosterone circulating anymore
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that he should be allowed into women's sport now actually most of the advantage is baked in during
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puberty so that was always nonsense but anyway it was allowed and the thing is it didn't really
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become an issue because most of the men who'd gone through that surgery were in their 40s
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so they weren't really very competitive and then step by step as has happened so much in this movement
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you know you give them an inch which you should never have done but you give them an inch and they
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take a mile so they said okay if you've had sex change surgery you can compete as a woman
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and then they got rid of that condition for sex change surgery they just said lower your
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testosterone levels but now like that's something that someone can do in their teens or in their 20s
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and anyway it's very hard to monitor and some sports have even just said don't bother with
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lowering your testosterone levels some women have high testosterone and you end up with just a mad
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situation and i think the reason there's been pushback in sports before anything else is because it's so
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visual it's not like in prisons which i actually think is the very worst place that this happens
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allowing men who are rapists and murderers and torturers into women's prisons but that's done
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behind closed doors nobody sees it whereas sport is on the podium and the other thing about sport is
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it activates our fair play sort of module you know you look at this enormous man and often it's like
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a man in his 40s and a bit out of shape and he's standing there lauding himself over the two women on
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either side on the podium and he looks like an idiot he looks ridiculous you know i laugh when i see these
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men even though it's not funny it's just a sort of an automatic reaction and so that's why it's
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happening in sport before anywhere else because it destroys the whole thing no one will even watch it
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they won't be able to get advertisers they won't be able to get anyone watching their competitions
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the um the latest polling uh reports nbc news shows that 69 percent of people say trans athletes
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should only be allowed to compete on the sports teams that correspond with the sex that they were born
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with 69 so if you think you're in the minority you're not if you want to speak out about this
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issue about 70 percent of americans do not think men should be competing in women's sports no matter
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what their gender confusion is there are so many great nuggets in helen's book you've just got to
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read it to get the full appreciation of it i'm so grateful to talk to you would you please come back
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we can continue this discussion there's so many more things that we could talk into of course i'd
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absolutely love to i've really really enjoyed this conversation and i think you know it's great
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work what you're doing i i think you'd already proved that you were a very brave journalist but
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now you know like you've doubled down and tripled down on that and i think women and children
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everywhere can thank you for that right back at you helen all the best to be continued oh amazing
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