OPINION： It's time for adults to stand up for their kids against the transgender mob.
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In this episode, I discuss the controversial topic of transgenderism in schools, and why it needs to be talked about in kindergarten classes. I also talk about the dangers of hormones being used in the school setting, and how they can have a negative impact on a child's mental health.
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So let's talk about last weekend's opinion column. It's one of the ones that tends to
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ruffle a lot of feathers. It's a sensitive issue, and that's on the transgender language
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battle, basically. Yes, there's a lot going on, obviously, with transgenderism in schools,
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as you can see, not just in Canada, but in the U.S. and DeSantis' bill in Florida,
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you know, preventing sex from being talked about in kindergarten classes. I don't know
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how this is really a thing, since when I was in school, I think we didn't have sex ed until
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grade seven, and parents had to sign a permission form. Now you can give a kid life-altering
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hormone drugs and not have to tell the parents because it's the privacy of the kid. Like,
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it makes no sense. But what I talked about this past weekend is I call it the transgender mob,
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and that is basically, you know, there's a group of individuals that are pushing an ideology
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that doesn't actually affect that many people. I mean, I actually have a psychology degree,
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and when I graduated in 2008, back then, transgenderism was called gender dysphoria.
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It still is to today as a technical medical term, but it was treated as a mental illness
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back then. Just to give you an example, people with gender dysphoria have 10 times higher chance
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of committing suicide than someone in the regular population. And the way that people are dealing
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with this now is to transition the person from male to female, or from female to male. And as we know,
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biology says, no, that's not exactly how it works. And because of that, you're now seeing a huge
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backlash against it. We've seen the thing with Disney, for example. And there was a professor that
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did a report. And the reason she did this report on this sort of rise, and it's been since 2010,
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that there's been this massive rise in females wanting to transition to males.
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Well, it turns out, she called it rapid onset gender dysphoria. Turned out, she studied, you know,
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what happens when one person in a school decides that they're transgender, all of a sudden,
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it catches on in the school. I know when I was in journalism school in the UK, there was one
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grade school with kids up to the age of 12, where 20% of the students were medically transitioning
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in a single school. Now, she called it a social contagion, basically means it's being passed,
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not genetically. There's no way the human beings would have changed that much genetically that all
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of a sudden, this rapid rise in transgenderism would happen. It's just, there's no way for it to
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genetically happen that fast, but that's some sort of huge change in humans genetically. And we would
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notice that in some way, shape or form. So she released her study, and said, it's based on
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entirely, it's a social thing. First, a kid will see something on TikTok, and then that kid will want
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to transition. And then the next thing you know, it's a peer group thing, oh, maybe I should transition.
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And then all of a sudden, you got four or five students in a single grade, a single peer group that
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all of a sudden feel that they're the opposite sex. And then they go about doing, well, life
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alternating. And that's where the concern comes, is if you start doing irreversible changes. I mean,
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fine, like kids consider things, try things. And some, I think, you know, it's a pain, but are genuinely
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trans. And even once they become adults, they're going to say, I want, I identify as such, and I'd like
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to transition, and I'll go. But when you see those numbers that high, yes, then this, you know, again,
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let's not start some hormone replacement and things that might stunt things. When a kid,
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as we know, we did, you change your mind on everything every six months. You don't want
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to make a life-altering decision. They can't vote by the, until they're 18, yet we're allowing a
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permanent body alteration. It's a dangerous term. Without parental permission. I mean, the fine thing
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is, if my daughter has a headache at school, they have to call me to get permission to give her a
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Tylenol. But they don't, to give her life-alternating puberty blockers. I mean, she can't
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go to the zoo on a school field trip without me signing something. But all of a sudden, over in
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this one area, nope, sorry, parents, you're not involved in this anymore. And I think it's just a
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part of a larger assault on family values that we've seen, particularly in the last 25, 30 years.
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And it's gotten to the point that it's somewhat ridiculous. I mean, in Wisconsin right now,
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there's a school with three middle school students. They're all, they're 12 and 13 years
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old. And they're being charged with sexual assault for not using the preferred pronouns
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of a classmate. They use the biological pronouns. If you look up in Wisconsin, what the definition
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of sexual assault is and what it can be charged for sexual assault for, using the wrong pronouns
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isn't one of those things. And so we're now seeing this craziness go into the court system
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just because some 13-year-olds will not call a classmate he when it's a she.
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And it's not just that, like, I don't know if you've seen this, but Target this past weekend
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in the States came out with an entire, I mean, there's cups, there's clothing, you name it,
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everything, and it's all transgender. So you can buy a mug that says they or they're on them
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Well, they can have at it. I mean, it's, we'll see if it actually sells.
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Yeah, Vine, you're talking about being cross, though, is when you're criminally charging people
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for saying things. I mean, it's an unfortunate trend, I think, in the sense that the activists
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have taken it over, though, the extreme end of it. You know, I mean, we saw this when gay rights,
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I think, thankfully, you know, were brought up and did much better and came out in the open
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and we had pride events. And then the activist element, though, you go to a pride event,
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and I went to some of those in the 90s. It helped me change, you know, my thinking
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and become more tolerant and accepting of people, getting to interact and meet people.
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But there was always the one who insists also that I want to put on a leather g-string
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and stick my ass in somebody's face during the parade, or it should be my right to swing
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my nuts around on a float. And you've got to push it too far.
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And, but the difference now, it seems, with the trans activists, I mean, I know a lot of,
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you know, one trans adult, it seems she's very well adjusted and knows what she wants
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and knows what she did. But that's, she's not out there with the screaming activist element
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who's on the front line. And we're not indulging, we shouldn't be indulging the extreme fringe,
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Unfortunately, I mean, the definition of democracy is mob rule, but right now it's not.
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And I don't mean mob and like, you know, kill them sense of a mob, but I mean, that's the
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definition of democracy. The largest group gets to kind of decide the rules. And we're seeing a
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change in that where a small minority group is making the rules for everybody else and then
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trying to do the same thing onto them. And that is where the issues come up. And parents need to start
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being involved in any of these medical decisions. Like, like, it's important for parents to be
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involved in their kids. Like if my daughter decided that she was trans, I would hope the school would
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come to me and tell me before they would start doing things. Like in the olden days, that would
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happen no matter what it was. And it's interesting, you mentioned about the gay pride and back in the
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90s and stuff like that. I have had people reach out to me who are in the LGB part of the community
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do not like all these other things being tacked on to them because one, there's a sexual preference.
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Transgender has nothing to do with sexual preference. And some people in the community are upset that
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they're being put all together, when in reality, it's kind of different.
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Well, the alphabet crowd is getting really crowded and complicated. And I mean, the trans
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community is fighting a lot with the feminist community now, too. Well, that's the thing.
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There's women have been fighting as feminists for their unique identity and who they are and
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established. And suddenly, you know, Larry over there says, oh, I'm a woman this week. And you have
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to indulge Larry, Loretta, and whatever that may be. And there's where some of the ridiculousness came
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along, too, is when it came to the point of just identifying. The second somebody identifies,
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suddenly you're calling it full blown. I mean, I don't know how you measure, but there should be a
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degree of commitment. I mean, if the nuts and berries are still hanging there, I'm sorry,
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but technically you're a guy. Caitlin Jenner is a guy. And if you want to be called she,
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and as much as I can indulge, I'm fine with that, of course. But sports, prisons, we've had that.
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I mean, we've had some very serious problems in prisons and hospitals. Yes. I mean, there's cases
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where we segregate people of different sexes for a reason. Yep. There's a hospital in
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the UK where a woman was raped and it took the hospital a year to admit that she was raped.
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And you wrote on that before? And I wrote about that before
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because they said, no, there's no males on this wing because there's a transgender person.
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Well, not only was it witnessed by a nurse, there was video and it took the hospital a year to admit
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that it was a man. And when the police called the hospital, they said, no, that couldn't happen.
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There was no men on the ward. Well, there's an American prison. I think there were two female
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prisoners got pregnant from a trans roommate or cellmate, I guess you could say, or whatnot.
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Like, it's just, we're getting to the point of absurdity. And I mean, allow a nuanced discussion.
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I think we can be sensitive while just maintaining some common sense on some of these things.
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Try, but they've shut down the discussion. That's the problem.
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And that's the problem is that as soon as you say something like, oh, you're transphobic.
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Well, no, I just want to have a discussion about this. I'm not saying that some people
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shouldn't transition. What I'm saying is there needs to be a conversation, particularly with minors,
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you know, like that, as a parent, I want any decision medically about my daughter to be involved
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in that. So, so here's where it gets a little more dicey too, though. I mean, some kids might
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genuinely be getting, you know, being trans or so on moving towards it. When the gay street alliances
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were a big issue in Alberta for a while. But there was a valid point put out that,
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unfortunately, there are some intolerant or abusive parents out there. And if some parents
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might have found out that their child was gay, they could potentially abuse or be abusive or just
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not respond well to it. So the kid would only feel safe in the school environment to start,
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you know, coming into their being and realizing who they are and so on. It's just a complicated area,
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is all I'm saying. I mean, the parental involvement is critical, as you say, especially when there's
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medical involvement in what we're talking about. And it's life-alternating. Like we're not talking
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about like, you know, deciding to wear a different color t-shirt or something. We're talking about
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things that medically speaking, like once you do something, you can't go back. No, and that's part
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of, well, and that's where I debated a bit when I did a podcast interview with Tiffany, who I've spoken
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with, and she's trans. But she felt that the gender, you know, blocking is doesn't necessarily
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as permanent. I don't know. I mean, part of the goal, though, is to get it as fast as you can,
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so you can stop things from developing, because it makes it for a more complete transition later.
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Okay, I can understand the need. But again, that shows that it's irreversible. Then we're talking,
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you know, with a 12 year old, a 13 year old, are they really sure yet?
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Yeah. And I'm doing a story on Jazz Jennings. She was entered into interviewed in 2007 by Barbara
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Walters, her and her family. And she decided to transition at a very young age, about five.
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And she's now in her 20s. And she had a reality show for seven or eight years
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about her living her trans life through school and stuff like that. And now she has had multiple
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surgeries to try and fix certain issues, including at one point, she was told not to look between
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her legs by both her doctor and her parents. She's gained 100 pounds, she's depressed,
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and she's come out publicly now, talking about this, and being like, you know, like, they took part
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of her colon to make a female body part. Originally, she was male, but she was raised as a female that whole
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time. And so there are some people who have a lot of issues with the surgeries and what happens,
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and things that just don't work correctly, the way they're supposed to.
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It's just a lot to be discussed. I mean, there's a lot of misunderstanding.
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It's like, you know, some of the commenting we got, I just, you know, in looking at Wildrose
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saying, homosexual proclivities are a learned behavior. Oh, that's a load of baloney, buddy.
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They don't choose it. And you can't choose to, I can't choose not to be straight. I'm sorry,
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nothing I do. No amount of movies or instruction or anything else is going to change that. And for
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a gay person, you're not going to make them suddenly crave the opposite. It doesn't work.
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I know there's some people who feel like that. What do they call the conversion, conversion
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therapies and things like that. All you can really do is mess with somebody. If you've got somebody
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who really is gay and you try and push and you're just going to really make it much worse. Well,
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the guy who ran the biggest conversion therapy camps in the US ended up shutting it down.
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Cause he realized he wasn't helping anyone. And he realized he was just fighting his own battles
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inside of him. And then went back and said, you know what, I'm gay. And I don't think any amount
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of this therapy is going to work. It hasn't worked in these camps I've done. It hasn't worked for me.
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I mean, if it gets me to say people who were gay in the seventies and eighties, it wasn't illegal yet,
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but I mean, you got ostracized, you went through grief, you put up with crap with your family.
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Do you really think people chose that? I'm sure I can't imagine it wasn't there. I was fortunate.
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I was in the sense that I was always with the majority. I didn't have to question myself or
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where I was going. And, and, uh, but I mean, I'm sure a lot, a lot when they were coming into,
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it was just, why can't I be straight? Why can't I? Because they can't, because that's not who they
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are. And one of my friends, his dad threw a brick at him when he told him he was gay,
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like a literal brick and thinking that that would make him straight. And I was like, no,
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that just hurt your kid. Like, it's just a tough area. That's the main goal with kids. But again,
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with somebody coming out or, or learning about themselves becoming gay, it's not the same as
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starting to get ready for surgery or transitional drugs. Okay. We've been on this for a bit though.
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Let's talk about some of your other stuff. You had a story. Well, let's talk about your next column
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though. Actually, you were already thinking a bit about that or looking ahead or?
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Yeah. Well, I have a story that came out today on, um, there is, uh, a repeat sexual offender
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with child pornography who, um, it was, it was just released publicly, but, um, earlier, like last
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month, uh, he had his, um, when you commit certain crimes, uh, in this case, child pornography, you,
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when you're getting sentenced, you go in front of a certain type of judge to see whether or not you
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should be put on the national sex offender registry list. Uh, and there's two parts to the list,
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um, that you can be put on. Now, this guy is a repeat offender. It's been a long problem for this
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individual. They were first caught in 2008, charged, went to jail, came out, caught again in 2019. This is
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the second time, uh, uploading, uh, child pornography to, uh, they won't tell us what website, but an
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unidentified website and it was reported by the website. So obviously it wasn't, they didn't want
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it. They didn't want it on that website, whatever website it was. And so this guy got the, um,
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trial unit, uh, in the Saskatchewan police force, um,
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um, was able to track it to his house. Uh, they did go to his house. They looked at his phone
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first. That was the only warrant they had originally. Uh, they found child pornography
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on his cell phone. Since he was on his own property, they can then search the whole property,
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which they did. They found computers. They found like USB drives. They found another cell phone with,
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uh, pornography on it, all child pornography. Um, and obviously arrested him. Uh, and this is the second
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time. And so he had this, um, court hearing, um, and he got what is called a, sorry, uh, a long-term,
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um, offender list. Uh, now this is not the one that you want to put someone on who has been
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a repeat offender. Uh, there is one called the dangerous offenders and that's a permanent list.
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That's when you're on the registry. You have to register wherever you live.
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You're under constant supervision. If you ever get out of jail for the rest of your life. And quite
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often the ones who are on the dangerous offenders list actually have no end to their sentence until
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they feel that they could be possibly safely put in outside of the criminal justice system.
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So he gets six years in jail, um, for all of the different offenses. There was multiple offenses.
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Uh, and then he's going to have 10 years of being on this long-term list. Now he's 50,
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which means he's by his mid sixties. He's going to be back out with no supervision at all. Uh,
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because the longest you could be on that long-term list is 10 years. Uh, this now puts him in a
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position that by his mid sixties, he could be repeat offending and going for his third jail
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sentence for child pornography. Um, also in his sentence, there was no limit when he gets out on
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whether or not he can have access to the internet or a cell phone and things like that.
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Quite often that is put onto those sorts of, uh, offenses to prevent the ability for that person to
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even, um, commit the crime again. Uh, he also got, uh, time served as well, uh, which means that in 48
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months, he's going to be back out on the street. Um, and then 10 years, he'll have the long-term, uh,
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uh, uh, supervision list. This is, uh, I think a prime example of some of the problems we have
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with the sex registry list in Canada. He has clearly, and you can go and look at this on the
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government website. It lists what you need to be considered a dangerous offender. One of the things
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is just possessing child porn, nevermind uploading it onto sites and sharing it with others, which he did.
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The only thing he didn't do was actually create the pornography himself. Still, the distribution is
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also a major issue and he distributed and multiple different places. And he had thousands of images.
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This type of behavior does not deserve six years in jail. I mean, he was not released to the public.
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So he got his time serves counted towards his six years. So he couldn't make bail because he
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was too dangerous to be let out back into the community, but we're going to let him out in 48
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months. It just does not make any sense. It's ridiculous. And I was just, I was searching for
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a while. If people saw me looking for something while you were talking, because we had a story
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by Arthur green the other day too. This is a convicted child, racist, racist, rapist is on the lamb
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with new charges. We knew he was a child rapist and now he's gone out again and he's aggravated
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assault, forcible confinement, rape, theft of a motor vehicle. A victim was a woman.
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And the story I wrote last week or a column, I was going on about two, three Alberta women
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all killed in the last year by repeat offenders. One was the police warned us. They said,
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this man's a sex offender. We know he's going to re-offend, watch out for him. He's probably
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going to assault a woman and or a child. It turned out he killed a woman and a child.
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The other one who shot a young lady, killed her, a 23 year old. He had a long history in and out
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of jail with domestic abuse and police warned again. And these guys are on supposed registries,
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but they're obviously not watching it very closely because they're getting in and near victims again
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There's something broken in our criminal justice system.
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I mean, even if you look at the U.S. Supreme Court justice, I realize that's America.
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But the latest justice that's just put on court shortly, one of the big things at her hearings
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was her very short sentencing for people, child rapists, child porn, giving them like two years,
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the absolute bare minimum. And it's like, why are you giving some person like this that rapes a kid
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like two years in jail? How does that make any sense at all?
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There's certain ones you'd think would be no brainers that almost all of society
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is horrified by wants to prevent, wants to stop, yet we can't seem to keep them.
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Child porn guy here. He's a repeat offender, 2008, which means he was
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viewing it before 2008 because that was the first time he was caught.
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Who knows how long he was actually viewing and possessing and transmitting this to other
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individuals before he actually got caught. And that's the problem.
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This guy has clearly been involved in child pornography for over a decade and a half.
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So what are you going to be looking at this weekend that you were going to expand further
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Yeah. Well, I'm going to do my opinion column this weekend on like this individual type of thing
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and sort of the attack we've seen on children in terms of the lack of, in this case, protecting kids
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from someone who's a child pornographer and also, you know, going out and, you know, transitioning kids
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from one sex to another without even asking the parents permission. I feel that there's a sort of
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assault on kids right now. And we, as parents kind of need to stand up and be like, look,
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someone who's convicted of child porn doesn't get six years, they get 25. You know, think of the
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psychological damage to a child being involved in child pornography.
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Six years for this dude over here, but he affected how many kids because of his addiction to child
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pornography and the effects on them for the rest of their lives. And then you have also things like
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the transgender thing. You're affecting a kid for the rest of your life. Parents should be involved
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in that situation. And they're not. And in many cases, you know, there's a case in Florida where a
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father was going to court to stop his kid from being transitioning as his ex-wife was transitioning
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the child. He lost the court case because he was only the father. And we're seeing this over and over
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again, this assault on kids. And we need to stand up and start protecting our kids and being involved
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in the equation because right now in certain states, you, and even in provinces, you're taken out of the
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equation completely. And since when do we allow the educational system to decide our kids? I mean,
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it's getting to the point now that it's almost like homeschooling is starting to look really good
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because of this, this complete assault on kids and particularly, you know, family values in general.
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Just let kids be kids. Why is it so hard? You know, they got a whole lifetime after 16, 18 years old
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to move on and adjust and grow and learn. And if you're 18, if you want to transition,
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I have absolutely no issues with that because you're an adult with a lot of this too, where
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they're hung up. Oh, it's six or seven years old. Come on guys, they're eating dirt under the slide.
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Yeah, this is that they are not making life decisions at this point. Quit trying to push,
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just let them go. Yeah, we're not allowed to say that these days. Well, they're trying not to,
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but we're still saying it for now. And I appreciate you coming in to say it all for us today.
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Before I let you go then. Yeah, because we're kind of running over time. It's good. It's always
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a good talk. Good to you. You know, anything else you're covering on the news quickly before we
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Yeah, there's a new political party in Saskatchewan, the United Party. I've met with some of the leaders
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of the party. I've had three stories up already about them. You can go and kind of see what their
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platform is. But they, some of the things we're talking about here, they want to reform the
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educational curriculum so that families are involved in the decisions. Even so much as, you know,
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no permission to have, like when I was a kid, your parents had to sign a permission form for you to
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have a sexual education in grade seven. You know, they want to bring things like that back. But then
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they're also talking about, you know, lockdowns or these digital IDs and forced vaccinations. And they
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also are interested in civil liberties in general being given back to citizens. Now, some people
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involved with this, you might recognize some names, is Jerry Ritz, his former federal agricultural
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minister, the Dean Wilson, who's an MLA in the Saskatchewan legislature. She's involved in it as
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a advisor. And then there's a couple other people, Ken Rutherford, he ran as a Maverick Party candidate
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at one point. He's involved on the board of directors of the news party. Small C conservative
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type of alternative. Yeah. They're basically like other parties popping up, like the Ontario Party,
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the New Blue Party in Ontario in this election, because a lot of the conservative parties out
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here, the Saskatchewan Party has been just moving away from conservatism in general. And they had 1,200
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people at their first meeting in Saskatoon. And then they had 300 in Regina a couple days later,
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and they've been going around the province. They've been getting 250 people in places like North
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Battleford, which is only like, I think 12,000 people in total. It's significant.
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Yeah, they are getting good numbers. Those seeds are starting. And again,
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I've been involved in a lot of small party organizing and growing, you know, and sometimes
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we would have town hall meetings where you'd have 10 people. And then if you get 100 and a couple
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hundred certain show up, you're getting some momentum. So it shouldn't be dismissed.
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They're almost at the amount of signatures they need to become an official party,
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which means they can then get donations, they can open an office, they can hire staff.
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So they are now able through elections Saskatchewan to actually now online, go in and actually sign
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to be one of the 2,500. Because there's a couple of rules to become an official party, so.
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Great. Well, thank you very much for coming in to talk with us today. Good to see you out here in
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Calgary. I'm sure we'll talk again, perhaps remotely, but to keep the coverage out there in Saskatchewan,
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Chris. It was always a good discussion. And to remind everybody else, it's Christopher Oldkorn
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on westernstandard.news. Lots of stories and information out there. On the go.