00:01:55.060What has been the journey through life that leads you to be sitting here talking to us across the Atlantic?
00:01:59.340Well, as you said, I'm a child, an adolescent, an adult psychiatrist, a medical doctor.
00:02:09.060Let's see, how did I get to be sitting in this chair right now and talking to you?
00:02:13.520I guess the short answer would be, I always had an interest in female biology.
00:02:20.120I was always fascinated by the female menstrual cycle and pregnancy and maternal child bonding.
00:02:31.020And that's always been my first love in science.
00:02:34.720Now, I have been seeing children and adolescents and families for many decades in my office.
00:02:45.680And most recently, I've been seeing kids who express some distress over being boys or girls and their parents.
00:02:55.820Now, I have done a lot of research into this field of, let's call it gender ideology, or in my book, I call it a belief system.
00:03:10.100And I have concluded that it is a utterly unscientific, without medical basis, system of beliefs that is being thrust on us, foisted on us by a movement, a social, political movement, turbocharged movement.
00:03:33.880And the victims here, primarily, are the children and their families.
00:03:43.720I believe that all of society are victims.
00:03:46.940But I'm focused, since I am a psychiatrist, I'm focused on what's happening with the children, with their parents.
00:03:55.640And I am deeply alarmed and angry about what I've been seeing for the past few years in my office.
00:04:07.180And I felt that a book is necessary to help these parents.
00:04:12.500They tell me that when the announcement was made in their home, mom, dad, I'm not your son, I'm your daughter, when that kind of announcement is made, they were blindsided.
00:04:23.580They were shocked, they never expected it, they didn't know how to respond, and they then took their child to a gender-affirming clinic or a gender-affirming therapist, and that ended up being the worst mistake they could ever have made.
00:04:40.380So, I felt that a book is necessary, not only to help the parents that are currently going through this crisis at home, but in order to help parents prevent such a crisis.
00:04:56.120And, so to speak, to inoculate their children and their families from this dangerous belief system entering and gaining a hold with one of their kids.
00:05:09.700Once that happens, it can be very difficult to get the child out.
00:05:14.880So, my book is called Lost in Transnation, a child psychiatrist's guide out of the madness.
00:05:26.260And I put my heart and soul into that book.
00:05:29.680I've written other books, I wrote four other books.
00:05:33.080I never put so much heart and soul into any book as I have this book.
00:05:38.360And that is because I have seen such suffering and shattered lives that I decided I'm really going to devote, I mean, I'm at the end of my career, but I am going to devote the years that I have left to fighting this.
00:05:59.640And so, that's how I got to be sitting in this chair in front of you right now.
00:06:05.860And it's a real pleasure to have you on the show.
00:06:07.880And I can't wait to talk about your book, particularly, I became a parent recently.
00:06:12.020And so, I know that this is kind of something that a lot of parents are having to now think about, unfortunately.
00:06:17.840But before we get to that, one of the things I wanted to speak with you about, we've had all sorts of people on the show to talk about, you know, whistleblowers from transgender clinics and physicians.
00:06:56.360We can talk about language and how a certain lexicon that has been created by this social movement and this vocabulary has been forced upon us.
00:07:38.400And the way that that is determined, whether a person is male or female, is you look at their reproductive systems and you see whether that reproductive system is organized around creating sperm or eggs.
00:08:29.240I'm just going to – just let me say something here.
00:08:31.380And by the way, I almost chopped my finger off yesterday in the kitchen, so your audience should just understand that's why I have this bandage.
00:08:48.340These individuals at one time were called hermaphrodites and they are now called intersex.
00:08:54.580And some of those intersex people, you know, a minority of them, they may have both male and female elements in their reproductive system.
00:09:09.560And I have had a patient like that who had both testicles that were undeveloped and an undeveloped uterus.
00:09:27.680So, you know, and chromosomally also was an anomaly.
00:09:32.380So, that person, you could argue, is truly an intersex, you know, unclear how to identify this person.
00:09:46.660But the numbers of babies being born that fit into that category are extraordinarily rare.
00:09:54.400And what this belief system of this transgender belief system is foisting on us and on children is the belief that we all fall within some sort of a spectrum of male and female,
00:10:10.540with male and female only being the two extremes at each end.
00:10:15.640But then there's an infinite number of points in between those two extremes.
00:10:22.040And we have to validate all these possible identities and that nothing is pathology, nothing is abnormal.
00:10:33.480These are all variations of human expression.
00:10:37.020Now, to get back to your question, what is gender?
00:10:39.680Gender is the term that was first introduced in the 50s by John Money, psychologist John Money, at Johns Hopkins University.
00:10:57.660He was a famous sexologist and psychologist whose main area of study were these individuals that I just described,
00:11:11.380intersex individuals, babies, then called hermaphrodites.
00:11:16.980And his main interest was in how is that assignment made?
00:11:24.480Now, there's the word assignment, okay?
00:11:51.640Right now, we have, you know, for a long time, those blankets that the newborns are wrapped in for decades now are striped blue and pink, at least in the U.S.
00:12:37.160No, I don't think we have a specific color, but I'm sure it'll be rainbow colors before we know it.
00:12:43.780So, it used to be, I mean, when I was doing my training and working in the delivery room, there were pink or blue blankets.
00:12:53.200And, obviously, that's a very big deal.
00:12:57.000What is the very, what is the first thing, if you haven't had an ultrasound and you don't know ahead of time,
00:13:02.960what is the first thing that the doctor or midwife is going to say,
00:13:07.040congratulations, it's a boy, congratulations, it's a girl.
00:13:12.060What happens if a baby is born and they're not sure if it's a boy or a girl?
00:13:19.000So, these were the cases that John Money was fascinated with and he proposed that we, there's, he introduced the word gender and gender identity
00:13:35.060to refer to our sex as separate from our genitals.
00:13:42.000So, he invented this idea that we have a psychological sex, not just a biological sex, but a psychological sex in our mind
00:13:58.760So, that when we're born, even a normal child, he proposed, is born without any propensity or, you know, masculine or feminine qualities.
00:14:16.300Yes, there were certain physical characteristics, obviously, that were different.
00:14:21.180And John Money would say things like, well, females, they lactate, they menstruate, and they gestate.
00:14:32.320Okay, meaning they, you know, have their periods, their breasts produce milk, and they get pregnant and carry a child and deliver a child.
00:14:44.020But aside from those areas, everything else is imposed by society, a social construct.
00:14:53.580So, all the sort of so-called feminine qualities of being nurturing and, you know, preferring to play with dolls instead of, instead of trucks,
00:15:08.220and interest in the more nurturing professions, and being more, maybe, verbal and articulate.
00:15:22.120I mean, all these kind of stereotypical things.
00:15:27.660So, John Money proposed that this is all imposed by society, a social construct.
00:15:35.460But in addition, he came up with this revolutionary theory that because that's the case, and we are all born gender neutral,
00:15:45.400that therefore, a boy could be successfully raised as a girl, and a girl as a boy.