The transgender movement experienced rapid growth from 2010-2024, with 2.8 million Americans identifying as transgender, driven by social media amplification, anti-bullying initiatives, and the success of the gay rights movement. However, this growth led to overreach including censorship of dissent, aggressive language policing, and controversial policies affecting children's sports and medical interventions. The movement's perceived excesses, combined with the 2024 election where 55% of Americans believed support for transgender rights had gone too far, created significant backlash. This demonstrates how social movements can gain power quickly but risk alienating potential allies when they overreach and fail to maintain public support.
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So, folks, I I need to ask the question, where did the transgender movement go wrong? I'm seeing so many different uh clearly unaffiliated people on the internet asking, where did the trans movement go wrong? I mean, after all, uh trans people are are too unstable to be in the military these days, uh according to the current US government, which would never lie to us. And uh after all that the Pentagon's ban on transgender people serving in the military is likely unconstitutional.
>> What >> are we finally getting a trans wrongs segment segment?
>> We are finally getting the uh we're not going to talk about trans rights here.
We're only going to talk about trans wrongs. Sort of kind of. Not really, but maybe. So yeah, it turns out uh an appeals court is overturning the whole uh kicking trans people out of the military thing. Uh because again it it's just discrimination on the basis of sex.
It's not it's not a difficult thing to really wrap your head around. But hey, it's nice to talk about a win right at the top of the uh the segment. You know, we are, however, living in a time when people are getting radicalized to the idea that like, well, trans people just are inherently less peoplely than normal people, right? Like conservatives in particular seem to have really bought into this idea that trans women, trans men, non-binary folks, we're not really people who deserve the same rights and liberties as other types of people.
Instead, we're uh sleeper agents uh that must be uh denied bathroom access, otherwise we will somehow aid China in its secret takeover of the United States, right? And yeah, they they frame it as like normal people deserve rights and trans people ain't normal, right?
That's their their reasoning. And I I think like a good example of this thinking at work here is uh this particular incident that occurred a couple days ago at Cedar Point in Ohio.
Man arrested for pulling down trans women's skirt in front of children at Ohio amusement park. Police say the 18-year-old approached the woman from behind and exposed her body to onlookers, including children at Cedar Point. Because again, they don't really see us as people. They see us as like carnival attractions a or like um standardbearers for some kind of ideological movement that they disagree with, right? Because this 18-year-old doesn't just exist in a vacuum, right? It isn't like an 18-year-old man doesn't just decide to sexually assault a random stranger in the broad daylight at an amusement park surrounded by witnesses, right? Like that doesn't just happen in a vacuum. Something has to go on to convince that 18-year-old man that that's the correct thing to do, right? I guess this story in particular, uh, which for the record, they did arrest that person, like they they they arrested him, they're charging him, um, with several different crimes. It just got me thinking like what has to have gone wrong? What has to have been like a a a component of radicalizing these people? And if you guys are familiar with my content, you guys know that I've talked a lot about anti-trans commentators and and folks who who talk about trans people. And I wanted to take a look at one content creator in particular that I haven't talked about before. And this guy is name goes under the uh name Ken Lort. Some of you might remember him if you've been paying attention to politics, especially over like the last eight or so years.
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Yes, we are going to be talking about the YouTube channel Elephants in Rooms because Ken Leort uh has a channel called Elephants in Rooms where the basic premise is he as a real hard-nosed journalist type goes deep on issues that other people are too afraid to talk about, right? And one of the reasons I wanted to talk about this particular video is because Ken Laort in this video basically lays out uh what killed the transgender movement. Like that's the name of the video, right? And it has 2.1 million views. It was uploaded about a year ago. And I thought to myself, that's a lot of views. You know, this is clearly resonating with somebody. And I also just want to start out by taking a quick look at uh who is Ken Leort exactly, right? Who is he? Cuz I don't know Ken Leort from a hole in the ground. Well, Ken Leort got his start at Fox News and uh he wound up being an executive at Fox News, in fact. And if you are familiar with the events of the last several years at all, then you'll note that he was pretty pivotable in a couple of uh fairly large happenings and goings on.
In particular, he's the executive who made the call to try and kill the Stormmy Daniels story over at Fox. Fzone and Lort argued that Fox News should lift the NDA so the full story could come out. Rather, yeah, here we go. Nick Richie, who claimed to be one of the sources for the Foul Zone story, called the court's account complete [ __ ] adding Fox News was culpable. I voted for Trump and I like Fox, but they did their own catch and kill on the story to protect him. And uh well, that that's interesting. That's interesting. In 2022, the court defended his decision, saying that Daniels and Fzone were not interested in publishing the scandal, but we're using the media to extort Trump. So he helped try and kill the story at Fox to prevent the Stormmy Daniel story from being a thing, right?
So that's back in 2019, right? Or that this comes out. Then you also have this bit of his history where in 2019 the New York Times caught Leort using Macedonian troll farms in order to juice his different uh independent news initiatives specifically with conservative edition news and liberal edition news.
So basically he was in connection with these Macedonian troll farms in order to massively inflate the numbers of his different news outlets which is pretty interesting of course as well. And uh it got so bad that Facebook shut down the pages for these different uh outlets.
And also he was one of the first guys to publish the Hunter Biden laptop story because of course he was. And also we get to this part which I think is fascinating. In 2025, Rolling Stone reported that Rumman Namovski, a Macedonian citizen who had never visited the United States, had previously worked for Leort. Uh, Naomovski operates the exac accounts Defiant L's and Resist the mainstream which together have more than two million followers and have been amplified by figures including Elon Musk, Nancy Mace, Mike Lee, Ron Watkins and Eli Crane. Both accounts focus on American politics frequently alleging corruption and election fraud by Democrats. Leort has publicly described Namovski as a close friend and written about Namovski's attempts to immigrate.
This is a former employee of Laquourtz who is now a close personal friend and this guy previously has dealings with Macedonian troll farms and this guy just happens to be a mass like a Macedonian citizen. Let's uh let's take a look what what are these uh what are these accounts posting? Just as an FYI, you know, we can go take a look at resist the mainstream and uh oh, it's Elon Musk is great. He He's so amazing. President Trump confirms there are no TR troops going to Beirut. You've got uh Oh, RJ Scaring predicts the vast majority of drives can be and should be autonomous within the next 5 years. Yeah, it's just AI slop. Oh, look. Fox News host announces major personal update.
Comments emerge on case involving Jill Biden's ex-husband. Like, it's just uh it's just kind of conservo slop, right?
But what about defiant L's? What is What is this?
Oh, the media is pathetic. Uh, want to slow climate change? Stop having babies.
Only immigrants can reverse America's baby bust. Trump was right. Germany was wrong. First on NATO, now on trade.
Germany versus sanity.
Oh, look. Uh, Abdul Alsed, who is a Muslim, celebrates pride. This is the first day of pride, a celebration of rights. I got to sit with the first same-sex couple, Glenn and Marsha, Glenna and Marsha, ever to be married under our state. Imagine believing this.
Or uh you know, you got you got some interesting stuff here. Just uh a lot of slop. I mean, like it for God's sakes, you're posting Bill O'Reilly in 2026.
It's it's weird, man. It is weird out here. There was a post uh that I was going to show, but appears to have been taken down of uh the account being horrified that gay people are are singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Maybe it's not. Uh oh, no, here it is. Is this what insanity looks like? Boston celebrates Pride Month, singing and raising an LGBTQ flag.
Oh no.
Insanity.
Gr. I'm just so mad. I'm so I'm so mad at all of these ladies singing the Wizard of Oz song.
Gr.
I have strong feelings about musical theater. GR.
very bizarre, right? But not really unexpected.
And we kind of have all of this happening, right? Like, oh, okay. So, where does that leave us with Elephants in Rooms? Well, let's take a look now that we know kind of where Ken Lort is coming from. Let's uh let's take a look. Let's jump in.
What killed the transgender movement? In just 10 years, we've seen one of the fastest social changes in American history. Among young people calling themselves transgender, it exploded from barely measurable numbers to 3% with another 2% who aren't sure. That's millions of young people. But this isn't wo exploded to 3% of the American population calling themselves transgender. Let's just take a quick look at that. Uh, exactly where where exactly are you getting this? Like where where where are you getting this particular information?
Right. Let's take a look at the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute. How many adults and youth identify as transgender in the United States? Let's see. 3/4 of people aged 13 and older who identify as transgender are under 35.
One quarter of individuals who identify as transgender are between 13 and 17.
Among transgender adults, roughly 1/3 identify as trans women, one/3 identify as transmen, and one/3 identify as non-binary. 2.8 million people aged 13 plus identify as transgender in the United States. Which I just want to point out that's ah let's take a look. Wait a minute.
So, when we're talking about 3.3%, we're talking about 3.3% of the youth are thinking they might be transgender, which is fine, but that 3% number is not the number for the entire country overall because the entirety of the adult population in the United States is less than 1% of the population. So already we're we're in a weird territory of halftruths.
>> Just about numbers. It's about how a movement gained unprecedented power quickly. It reshaped America from medical practice to language. Even how society views basic concepts like gender. The elephant in the room is how this movement gained so much power.
Also, basic concepts like gender is doing a lot of intellectual leg work that it doesn't really deserve cuz gender isn't a basic concept. It's actually a very complicated concept, right? And one would know that if they looked at any kind of history about different uh gender uh ideas about gender, right? If you start for example looking at the history even of medieval Europe, you find different ideas based upon different cultures, different uh you know uh political entities. You you find differences in the idea of how gender functions, what gender is, what different gender roles allow you to do or not do. And that changes over time as you track uh different societies, right?
so quickly and why it's now heading downhill. I'm Ken Laort. I dig into uncomfortable topics and give you as fair and straightforward answers as I can, especially when they challenge the mainstream narrative. In the next few minutes, we'll look at the movement's dramatic rise, especially among females.
How a perfect storm of forces. Okay, so I when whenever I hear the caveat, especially among females, that indicates to me that we're going to get some uh irreversible damage mentions. And I just want to point out before I have not watched this, okay, I'm going into this blind. Irreversible damage is written by a lawyer who uh knows nothing about trans issues, knows nothing about trans biology, and is just kind of going off of her internal assumptions about what trans people are and how trans people function.
created that rise and how activists went too far and why 2024 became its turning point. Historically, transgenders were a tiny fraction of the population. Yeah, we're also we're almost certainly going to hear about like social contagion contagion like the uh the I I've mentioned this in a couple of recent videos, but social contagion is this idea that is talked about a lot when it comes to trans people in particular, but it's just recycled rhetoric that comes directly out of the eugenicist movement uh out of it was adopted by the Nazis predominantly. It's part of what led to uh the disabled being killed during the Holocaust. It's part of what uh led to uh LGBTQ people being either killed or uh you know sent to re-education to make them straight uh or at least straight passable or got them sent directly to the front to be used as cannon fodder.
This idea was that gay people, trans people, people who were incapable of reproducing or whose reproduction would harm the gene pool uh in the eyes of eugenicists.
They were considered people to be purged because if they were allowed to exist, they could pollute future generations or spread their social disease of being gay or trans. Right? that was uh a direct response especially within Nazi Germany uh to uh the ideas of like the the sex the institute for for sexology uh in uh the Wimmer Republic, right? these ideas that were challenging traditional gendered uh ideology, they were considered too radical and if they were allowed to exist, they would infect other people across Germany and destroy German civilization. And if all of that sounds very uh similar to how Republicans talk about trans people today, you would be correct because much of Republican rhetoric in 2026 is simply recycled from fascist uh authoritarian regimes. It's not a spurious accusation to just say, "Well, the Trump administration talks about uh this like the Nazis." It's like a direct onetoone parallel. And I could go on about that, but we we need to get back to this video. In fact, before 2010, most medical literature estimated that gender dysphoria affected about 1 in 10,000 biological males and even fewer females.
These numbers held steady for decades and medical and psychological transitions were viewed as last resorts.
Okay, they're still considered last resorts.
They like medical and psychological transitions. one. Okay, let's just take a let's actually slow it down even further.
>> For decades and >> gender dysphoria affected about one in every 10,000 biological males and even fewer females.
That claim is based off of old and faulty data. That's that's the problem.
we got newer information and we're then able to update like the kind of predictive models we had, right?
Like that that's what happened. We had shoddy information, we got better information and we updated like best practices as a result. It's not a conspiracy. It's not difficult to understand. It's not difficult to follow. That's just how medical science works.
medical and psychological transition.
>> Okay, now this one, medical and psychological transitions were viewed as last resorts. They're still viewed that way. There's a reason you have to go to the doctor in order to get a medical like like the means to medically transition. But also, what does it mean to say psychological transitions were viewed as last resorts?
Because historically those have always been the first resort. Because when you are a trans person, you have control over your own mind. You are able to say, "Well, I'm going to consider myself this. I'm going to adopt a new name. I'm going to do X, Y, and Z." What what they mean by psychological transition is just socially transitioning like changing your name or trying out a nickname or like it that's it. That's all it means.
It means trying out using different pronouns, you know? And I know that even mentioning pronouns will cause some people to go into a blind rage.
>> [ __ ] PRONOUNS. But all that a psychological transition is is just recognizing that you might be trans and experimenting with what that might mean by adopting a new name or a new presentation or or what have you. You know, short of any kind of direct medical intervention in the form of medication or surgeries, for example.
>> Were viewed as last resorts. Then the numbers just exploded. But it wasn't just those numbers that changed. It was the very nature of who identified as transgender. Historically, the vast majority of transgenders were biological males going to female. Also, just as an FYI, if you're a conservative and you some somehow stumbled onto this, right?
If you ever hear someone refer to transgender people as transgenders, that's a massive red flag because transgender I mean, let me let me put it this way.
It would be like if somebody was making a video about uh the intricacies of like race relations in America and started calling black people the blacks. You know, it's a big red flag that indicates the person who's speaking is not somebody who should be uh taken uh very seriously for their intellectual rigor. And now that pattern has completely reversed. There are more women seeking to become men and among teens, biological females dominate the numbers. This isn't just in America.
Similar patterns emerged across the entire western. By the way, the images that just flashed on screen are of a trans boy uh who's accepted by his Republican parents. And I remember this because I covered this story multiple years ago. And uh it was covered on Fox News. It was actually like kind of some heartwarming coverage about like an accepting family despite like their politics. And uh just kind of goes to show that like the current Republican party of today like wants to kill the Republican party of like 2 or 3 years ago. You know, anything that isn't obsequisously uh cowtowing to Trump must be purged world, especially in countries with strong social media usage. Sweden saw 1,500% in teen girls trying to get medical treatments for transgenderism.
And in the UK, referrals to gender clinics rose 4,400% over a decade. A fundamental debate is why. Were these transgenders always there but finally free to be themsel? Were these transgenders always there but finally free to be themselves? I mean, it certainly helps to be yourself if by, you know, being yourself, you aren't like murdered when you go out in public.
like that that helps, you know, like which is kind of what would happen to you in the past, right? like there is now a hey don't murder trans people policy in the United States uh at least for now and that generally helps trans people to like come out and exists elves or was there something else going on driving this growth this transformation especially among young people it didn't happen by accident it was a perfect storm of forces that came together it started with the success of the gay rights movement after winning the battle for marriage and legal equality Many of these same activists and organizations shifted their focus to transgender rights and with them they brought proven tactics and an infrastructure for social change. It also coincided with the anti-bullying movement in America. When I was in school in the 70 Oh my god.
Oh my god.
It's because we stopped we stopped bullying the queers and now and now they're not afraid anymore and they're they're becoming adults who are openly gay. That's that's what has caused all of the transes. I can't believe it.
>> And 80s, it was all about don't do drugs. In my children's years, it was all about fighting bullies and being tolerant to all. First up was the battle over words because winning the language war was crucial. All activists understand that. They know that by controlling the conversation, they can control the debate itself. The transgender world successfully shifted the conversation by redefining words like men and women to center on gender identity, not biological sex. Even basic language was rewritten with terms like ladies and gentlemen being called exclusionary and being swapped out. They repl like the level of fear-mongering in this.
You can't say ladies and gentlemen anymore d it's exclusionary d and it's just like it's not it's not it's not difficult to just say something else like number one people still say ladies and gentlemen like you can still say that you can also say ladies gentlemen and gentle them like it's not difficult to just be slight slightly more considerate.
The reason the guidelines exist is to make people aware that there are ways that they could change their language in order to make more people feel welcome.
That's not difficult. Yeah. You could also say ladies, gentlemen, and other distinguished guests. Absolutely. Like this isn't like this is just social nicities.
It's not the collapse of Western civilization.
Like the thing that gets me is that conservatives will throw a [ __ ] fit for over a decade about being asked one time to like use slightly more inclusive language. Not even that there's like a law that they have to just like being asked. Just the ask itself invades their minds, takes it over and makes them feel like you want to take away my freedom. YOU WANT TO TAKE AWAY MY FREEDOM. Like that's crazy.
No one's trying to take away your freedom. You you have the right to be exclude like like exclude people if you want to. But if the goal is to build like a loving uh you know care careful environment that actually shows difference to people like children being more inclusive in your language is is nice. It's helpful.
You know inclusion is pretty important.
Can you show your tits? Uh, if you Venmo me uh $10,000 right now, I might consider it. Not legally binding.
>> Replace clinical sounding terms like sex change with gender affirming healthcare obscuring the medical reality of surgeries and hormone treatments. I mean, think of it.
>> Obscuring the medical reality. No one is obscuring the like I I've been through this process, okay? I went through this process in the easiest way that you can go through this process, right? through like essentially informed consent where you go into a clinic, you say, "I would like HRT because I am trans and I'd like to transition." And like a doctor asks you several different questions and then is able to say, "Well, we'll we'll do your blood work and see if you're all good on the blood work, then we'll we'll write you a prescription." Right? That isn't terribly difficult to get as an adult, but the doctor still does sit down with you multiple times in order to basically go over here is what these pills will do. Here's what these injections will do. Here is how you will be affected by this. Here is how you know you here's like kind of the timeline of changes.
Here's what you can expect. Um, if you want surgery, here are several of the prominent surgeries that many trans people get. And that's how that goes.
There's no obscuring going on. It's not like the doctors are sitting there going, "Haha, yes, we've got another one going through the transp."
Like, they don't benefit from that. They don't get anything out of that. They just want you to be as informed as you can be so that you make the correct decision for yourself. And the controls and information that are given to trans youth are exponentially more than that because it is a multiple yearslong process in order to get like basic medications.
And that's that's a whole other can of a can of worms. You got to go jump through a lot of hoops for that on an ongoing basis. So there's no obscuring going on here.
>> What kind of a decent person would be against gender affirming care? It sounds great. And the most important factor in reaching young people was the ultimate tool, social media. The information flow to kids wasn't just parents, teachers, and friends anymore. Social media algorithms created powerful echo chambers which amplified transgender messaging to kids. Studies show that about half of transgenders cited YouTube videos as influential in their decisions for young people questioning their identity. These digital spaces became powerful influence centers. That's so interesting. So how exactly did this influence take place?
The idea here is that oh I mean at least so far maybe maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this is going to take a definitive turn in a different direction. But what this sounds like to me is that young people got on social media and saw that trans people exist and became aware for the first time that different gender identities exist. And as many young people do, they decided that they would experiment with different identities, which anyone should know if you've ever known a teenager or been a teenager.
Teenagers do I don't like I some teenagers go through a goth phase or an emo phase or a film phase or a gamer phase or like they try out different identities, different presentations, uh different like ideas. they try them out because that they're in the process of building who they want to be. And for some people, you know, they try on like a different labels. Maybe they they try out being like a, you know, trans girl or like a trans boy or they try out being non-binary and then they ultimately are like, "No, this isn't for me." But some people try it out and it turns out, well, it is for them. And like that's okay. The same way it's okay if someone tries out being goth and realizes they're they really like the goth aesthetic and they just continue to wear goth [ __ ] for the rest of their lives. That's okay. You can do that. It's your life.
>> The social dynamic was especially important among teenage girls. And >> I don't know what what's interesting to me here as I look at this, right? I can't help but compare it to my own experience growing up, which is that I didn't see trans people at all, right?
There were like three places on television in the media that I saw trans people. The Mory Povich Show, uh, and Jerry Springer, and maybe like there's probably another one, but I can't remember it off the top of my head. Like m maybe Dr. Phil or something. But like that's where I saw trans people. I didn't know that you could just be a quote unquote normal person and be trans because my my my interaction and knowledge base of trans people living in a fundamentalist conservative conservative household was oh they're like brought on to be gawkked at on like daytime television and and like that that was it like that was the extent of where you saw trans people. And so this is different because it now we have an entire generation of people who grow up seeing that being a normal ass trans person, being like just a trans person who's going to go out, live your life, and not be made into like a like a reality TV media spectacle like is totally like an option you have.
You can just be happy. You can just exist. Yeah. And Jerry Springer paid people to be there, of course. Maui Povich paid people to be there, too. But the issue is like that was the only idea that people had of what trans could be.
Yeah. They they were desperate people to exploit.
>> They're friendship groups. They place high value on social cohesion and fear rejection, making them particularly susceptible to what experts call social contagion effects. Ah, we got it.
We got it everybody. Social contagion.
Your girl called it. Right now, what's interesting to me about this video is that uh I'm not seeing a whole lot of citations like presented on on screen. It's just experts say which experts are we talking about? Lisa Litman whi which studies we talking about the rapid onset gender dysphoria from the uh hilariously discredited Brown study?
Like what what are we talking about here? Are we are we going to are we going to start hearing about rapid onset gender dysphoria? I bet we are cuz he talked earlier about uh he talked earlier about how this happened all very quickly. I think we're I think he's going to reference the Brown study.
>> When one member of a friend group identified as trans, often others followed. Some clinics reported entire friend groups showing up for treatment.
Then as the movement gained power, >> some friend groups report entire uh some some clinics reported entire friend groups showing up for treatment.
That's not how like the assumption that we're being asked to make here is that one trans person then trans the rest of their friends rather than what is very clearly more the case, which is that a bunch of like gay kids found each other and then realized that they weren't just gay, they were all trans, which is something that happens, right?
Like the shared experience of alienation for being trans does tend to bring different trans people together, right?
Like there is that joke that like all trans people know each other and part of it is like because we kind of gravitate towards each other. It's the the social ostracization that we experience like brings us together. And it's not because like there's an infection traveling between the friend group that's transing everybody. It's not the the trans amoeba in the drinking water.
>> Institutions fell in line one after another. Schools adopted new policies often keeping parents in the dark.
Medical associations rewrote.
>> Schools adopted new policies often keeping uh parents in the dark. What's in again incredible that there is no citations in this the new policies that he's referencing and I can't know for sure unless he's more specific but my understanding is that these policies where schools don't report you know whether a kid is gay or trans to parents those predate like this uh upswing in like transgender acceptance that has allowed more kids to come out or exper experiment with their identities.
etc. And one of the reasons schools have this policy is because historically when schools don't have policies against outing trans students, what winds up happening is parents get told and then the students either get abused or kicked out of their homes. They get disowned, right? because conservatives and you know you'll you'll actually see often times conservatives uh come into my chat during these segments um especially on in the YouTube chat come in and say like oh man if I if my kid was gay I I would I I wouldn't like oh man I I would I wouldn't just kick them out of my house I'd give them a whooping you know like it's they they talk about like beating their kids they talk in cases they talk about killing their kids. They like a lot of conservatives would rather have a dead child than a living trans child. And they make they don't make that a secret. They will openly state it. So that's one of the reasons schools started adopting policies to not out students. And many schools have had these policies in place since like the '9s.
their guidelines, making it easier for young people to start treatments and surgery. Corporations rushed to cash in on things as they always do. I mean, medical associations rewrote their guidelines, making it easier for young people to start treatments and surgery.
Citation needed cuz it it it's it takes multiple years of going to see uh experts in given psychological fields in order to pave the way to get medical treatment. And especially to get surgery, you need to get like second or third opinions for surgeries. If you're a trans youth, oh, Emerald Durge over in Riverbat chat, my friend's dad would joke about killing their own kid if they came out. Yeah, I'm not like this isn't hyperbole. This was a lived reality for many queer children growing up. And corporations rush to cash in on things as they always do. Ah, yes. the copious amounts of money made to be made by uh exploiting the uh the impoverished trans folks of America. Even Donald Trump running in 2016 when pressed said transgender people should be able to use whatever bathroom they feel is appropriate and he had no interest in turning it into a campaign issue. And the movement's demands grew larger. It wasn't enough to accept transgender individuals.
Donald Trump kicked trans people out of the military the first time around too.
Like when you talk even Donald Trump cow out to the trans lobby. I mean he he was yeah when he was trying to moderate then when he got into office what did he do to what did he do to trans people?
>> Had to fully embrace their ideology or be branded transphobic. The notion that biological sex itself was a social >> wait I'm sorry. Okay. you had to fully embrace their ideology or be labeled as transphobic.
Yeah. Because if you're saying you don't have the right to be trans or like your your ident your identity isn't valid, you are being transphobic, right? And like sure maybe you don't care if you're being transphobic. Many people on the internet don't.
But like that doesn't make you not a bigot against trans people. Like if somebody is like, "Well, I'm I'm not a bigot against trans people. I just think they're mentally ill and need to be uh given different legal rights than other kinds of people." Like that you're a bigot. Like you might not like the fact that you're labeled as a bigot. You might not like the consequences of your actions, but that's what you are. you have an irrational hatred or disgust towards trans people >> ideology or be branded transphobic. The notion that biological sex itself was a social construct became mainstream in many circles. Biological sex to an extent is socially constructed. We are the ones who make the categories of biological sex. We we created those categories.
There are other types of people, other cultures of people who might under the same circumstances based on like their cultural understanding of sex have created different categories for it. I'm gay telling you this. Listen up. If you have the privilege to do all this, you need to reconsider.
You need to redirect your tactic. It's obnoxious.
Redirect my tactic towards whom? Stop acting like we don't need straight people.
When have I ever said that we don't need straight people? Yeah. Like, stop I don't know. Stop shadow boxing and engage with what I actually say.
Like like I I don't I don't know. Also, I do have to say if you think this guy stands for all straight people, man, what a low opinion you have of straight people. You know, you want all straight people to be punished. No, I don't. Engage with what I'm actually saying. Engage with what I actually say.
And if you are uh in fact in good faith, I want you to actually respond to the things that I say. If the next thing out of you in this chat is something completely unrelated to something I is completely unrelated to what we're talking about, you're just going to be banned because you're skitso posting.
I'm you're respon you're responding to me. No, you're not. Collect your [ __ ] thoughts and respond in a coherent manner.
>> The phrase trans women are women became anable mantra.
>> Excellent. They're collected. Ask me.
You're the one coming here.
Make a collected point in response to the things I've said. My thoughts are collected. They are pure. you were going to ask me a question. I wasn't. The thing I was saying to you was, "Make sure your comments are related to something I've said because the things you came in here saying that I want all straight people punished are not indicative of what I actually believe or anything I have ever said on this channel. The next thing I see from you in chat should be something related to something I actually said, and that should then continue throughout our exchange. Can't do hair, can't do fashion, can't create art, can't dance.
>> That's true. Straight people need to learn how to do hair, fashion, art, and dancing. And then finally, we can have a a final Armageddon to uh settle all this, one with fabulous dance moves.
Also, Sake Tanuki, thank you for the five tier one subs.
>> This created a growing divide.
>> Also, trans women aren't womenide between activists and medical professionals. Many doctors and researchers.
Can we created a growing divide between activists and medical professionals?
>> Activists and medical professionals. We have a random Twitter account and JK Rowling. Excellent medical professionals to site.
>> Many doctors and researchers had concerns as transition became less about treating gender dysphoria.
>> Many doctors and researchers had concerns.
But you know the the all the major medical institutions uh all the major medical groups all universally agreed that uh gender affirming care was good and necessary and helpful because of a huge amount of data out there that shows that like for example having one gender affirming parent supporting a trans kid reduces their suicidality by 16 times and brings it back down to the same level of suicidality. the same rate of suicidality as cisgender kids. Well done, Nrine.
And what data is that? Oh, I would love to jump into that. Let me uh bring that up. Boing. Here's a study from 2023 Association of Gender identity acceptance with fewer suicide attempts among transgender and non-binary youth.
Using data from a 2018 cross-sectional survey of LGBTQ youth, the current study examined the association of gender identity acceptance from others with suicide attempts among 8,218 transgender non-binary youth. Youth reported gender identity acceptance levels from parents, other relatives, school professionals, health care professionals, friends, and classmates to whom they were out. Conclude, let's see, results. Each category of adult and peer gender identity acceptance was associated with lower odds of past year suicide attempt with the strongest associations within each individual category being acceptance from parents.
The transgender non-binary youth who reported gender identity acceptance from at least one adult had one-third lower odds of reporting a past year suicide attempt and acceptance from at least one peer was also associated with lower odds of a past year suicide attempt. Peer acceptance was particularly impactful for transgender youth and the relationship between adult and peer acceptance remained significant after controlling for the association of each form suggesting unique relationships for each on transgender non-binary youth suicide attempts. Acceptance was more impactful for transgender non-binary youth assigned male at birth compared with transgender non-binary youth assigned female at birth. Overall, 29% of transgender non-binary non-binary youth in the sample reported at least one suicide attempt in the past 12 months. When examined across levels of acceptance, TGNB youth who felt extremely accepted reported on average half the rate of past year suicide attempts across all categories compared with youth who felt not at all accepted.
After dichomization, the proportion of TGNB youth reporting a suicide attempt in the past year was significantly lower among those who reported having gender identity acceptance compared with those who were not accepted at uh for all individual categories of peers and adults. Uh in both bariate and multivariate models, the strongest association was found to be that acceptance from parents.
So yeah, there there you go. Here's a link to the study. And that's just one study. There are multiple studies that confirm this, talk about it, etc. The Trevor Project uh in particular has uh a a study here uh because the re the Trevor Project also has researchers.
Anti-transgender laws cause up to 72% increase in suicide attempts among transgender and non-binary youth according to this study from 2024.
So, what he's talking about here is uh yeah, it'd be interesting if he provided any data to back himself up.
>> And more about affirming any claim of gender identity, but it was becoming harder to resist. Two competing narratives emerged. Activists insisted these transgender youth were always there. They were just finally free to be themselves. Critics pointing to the unprecedented speed of the change and the complete >> boy howdy. Did I [ __ ] call this too?
Look at that. Abigail Shrier.
The speed of the change. Are we about to Are we about to also get a rapid onset gender dysphoria?
Oh god, I hope so. The Litman study is one of my favorite things to tear into >> reversal in gender ratios. They saw evidence of a social contagion. But that perfect storm had gathered strong and the >> they saw evidence of a social contagion, you know, because they were recycling Nazi rhetoric.
>> Movement seemed unstoppable. But as history shows time and time again, rapid gains in political power often lead to overreach. And that's exactly what happened next. Hey, real quick. If I make any substantive mistake in this video, let me know and I'll address it in a pinned comment below. Okay. So, when a movement gains power, >> well, the problem is if I made any mistakes, let me know and I'll address it in a pinned comment below. You aren't actually providing any citations for your claims.
Let's see that pinned comment.
There aren't any pinned comments.
>> Or quickly, overreach almost always follows. What started as a push for basic rights and dignity morphed into something more extreme. And the push back >> alpha wait. Okay, sorry. Vertical chat's being silly. Alphabet people depend on normal pe normal straight folk to make more alphabet people. Have you never heard of bisexual people or pansexual people? Have you never heard of like gay gay people who have sex with other gay people and are still able to uh procreate?
That's crazy. Like there there are like like I I don't know. we need a better quality of troll >> was going to be inevitable. Here's where the movement began to erode public support and turn allies into skeptics.
The first was their use of censorship.
What began as respect turned into forced compliance. Okay, wait. So, sorry. Wait, these are these are where things are going too far. Okay, so what began with what what began as respect turned into forced compliance.
>> Hey, Jack. Okay, >> loving the hair. Red heart emoji. Happy Pride Month. Keep up the awesome work.
Smiling face with hearts emoji and loving your takedown of this bald idiot.
Smiley face emoji.
>> Uh, Christians against dinosaurs, thank you for the five euros. Very much appreciated and I'm glad you're enjoying it. What began as respect turned into forced compliance.
Okay, so let let's just let's just uh walk through this, right?
So if you respect someone or respect a group of people, does somebody coming to you and saying, "Hey, here's a way you can like be more respectful, does that set you off and come across as forced compliance?"
Like if you found out that a group of people you respected were actually being like disrespected by the language you were using, would you not simply go, "Oh my goodness, I'm so sorry." and adopt different language that is more inclusive because that's the normal reaction when there's actual respect, right? The other comp component there is forced compliance. What was the mechanism exactly for forced compliance?
Was it just your co-workers were uncomfortable working with you when they found out that you were posting like uh God hates uh tea slurs on on your Twitter account every day?
Was it what? Like because this has literally happened. There was there was a guy who like got like got into my DMs years ago and in order to tell me that as a as like a trans person, he wanted to burn me alive and rape me. And uh I found his mom and had a nice talk with her about that. But like that's not really forced compliance, is it? Like if that guy had lost his job as a result of his uh actions, that's not really forced compliance.
That's him suffering the consequences of like his co-workers knowing he's a hateful piece of trash, right? Wild stuff going on with that. By the way, his mom told me some things that was that was one of the weirdest conversations of my life. All right.
That's not really censorship if you get fired from your job because in your off time you're just a hateful piece of [ __ ] to others online. Yeah. Freedom of speech is not freedom of consequence.
Exactly. Dirt.
>> It was less about acceptance and more about enforcement. Descent wasn't just discouraged. It was silenced. Criticism of any kind, even mild or well-meaning, it became transphobia. And those who voiced it got slammed. So >> it became transphobia.
Yeah. You know, th those people with concerns, they they were all just so well-meaning, you know, all all just so well-meaning when they described trans people existing as irreversible damage to the psyches and bodies of of people. That that's just a that's just a subtle uh disagreement. It's not, you know, a long-term project to deny the humanity of trans people. Definitely not. No, sir. social media platforms became ground zero as the transgender movement gained traction. Those >> Can we Can we like Okay, I I know I'm being a real pause champ in this video, but can we take a moment to really like social media platforms became ground zero? ground zero like 911 like like like are we are we talking about like trans people advocating that we should be extended basic respect is now being like directly compared to like a [ __ ] atomic bomb explosion or a one of the biggest acts of terrorism against the United States like man. Yeah.
Hiroshima level gender bending. That's going to come up in the new uh Avatar uh series. By the way, I'm calling it now.
>> Platforms implemented policies aimed at curbing what they called hate speech or >> Yeah, I bet you guys all knew that while jet fuel I bet none of you guys knew that while jet fuel can't melt steel beams, gender identity can.
gendering or dead naming in practice.
This >> I know I know what ground zero means. I was making a joke because like the entirety of this video is scary be be scared and worried music over this man making a colossal amount of claims without actually providing any evidence. I'm having a little fun with semantics.
Punishing users for sometimes stating basic biological facts or expressing concerns about the movement successes.
Women were banned from Twitter for referring to biological males as a he.
>> Wait a minute. Uh just real real quick.
What what what exactly is the uh what exactly is this? Uh the the family policy alliance are key issues. Oh, protecting uh girls sports, parental rights, protecting row. Let's uh let's actually zoom out a little bit. Help not harm.
learn how we are protecting children from dangerous trans surgeries or drugs that have irreversible effects.
They're just uh they're just a bunch of well-meaning godly godly folks. All right. Definitely not like a conservative think tank meant to uh specifically advocate against trans people. You know what? Let's uh take a look here. Just to go to Google Family Policy Alliance Transgender here. What do What do we got? Oh, hey, look. They have an entire section of their website on uh Oddly enough, when you do the drop- down menu here, it gives you the option for life, parental rights, help not harm, and save girls sports, but it doesn't give transgender an option. That's interesting.
God created mankind male and female in his image and likeness which cannot be changed. Oh, like Oh, okay. So, they're just religiously against trans people existing. Oh, that that's different. Men and women are fundamentally different from each other and yet complimentary to each other. People are born genetically with clear male or female chromosomes and a vast majority with clearly identifiable biological characteristics that indicate male or female. Indeed, sexual identity is written into the DNA of every cell in our bodies. As such, our biological sex is intricately interwoven with how we live in society and relate to others. As men and women made in the image of God, transgender identifying individuals deserve our respect, compassion, and care as neighbors, oddly in in quotations there, whom we should love as ourselves. As an outflowing of this care for our neighbors, Family Policy Alliance supports public policy that affirms the unique and complimentary roles both men and women play in society and for the family. We oppose efforts that would bring further harm, physical, mental, emotional or spiritual, to those struggling with their identity in this way and attempts to normalize this behavior in society, especially amongst impressionable children. Again, when a group like this says they are against normalizing transgender people in society, what they mean is they want to remove trans people's ability to exist publicly, right? That's what they're that's what they're doing, right? All of this is very carefully corporatized uh conservo speak in order to basically try and make uh the argument that man and woman are biological terms rather than gender terms. And biology and gender two very different things. Two very very different things. And that's pretty interesting, right? like sexual identity is written into the DNA of every cell in our bodies. That can be true, but also the chromosomes and sexual identity that might be written into any given part of your body at any given time might be different than what you think it is, right? Like there are for example people with uh chimeism, right?
This this is fascinating. There are people who have different parts of their body that have chromosomes that are female or male. Isn't that isn't that fascinating?
Like some people might have like a leg or a set of organs that has like female chromosomal markers. Well, other and maybe the majority of their body has male chromosomal markers because biology isn't as straightforward as well male and female, duh. Like that's not how that works actually in reality. Reality is much more complicated. And that's just like one example of how that could be different. And it is one of the things that like a lot of a lot of this is an effort to simplify everything down to the point of like non-existence, right? Where like basically the argument being made just in this page alone is that well if somebody has that chimeism uh whichever makes up more than 50% of their body that's what their real sex identity is. And like your biological sex and your gender identity have nothing to do with one another.
Yeah. I mean like it's literally setting up a situation where someone could have a male chromosomeal brain and a female chromosomeal heart. But either way it doesn't matter because that's irrelevant to what your identity is. But it's fascinating stuff. The science is really cool. There are a few types of chimeism.
Uh not all result in interex, but think reverse twins. That's a common one and happens far more often than people think. Yeah, exactly. The the thing is you can only make these arguments because people live in ignorance of the diversity of their biological experience. Right? This simplification is something that actually robs people of being able to see the nuance in the world.
It's way more interesting when you recognize gender is a social construct.
And that's very clear when you look at like how gender has functioned in different societies throughout history.
Right? My the common one I I defer to here is that India has a recognized third gender in their society, the Heijra. And they have a history in India going back and not just India but Pakistan and and Tibet going back thousands of years.
You can find it in like the Kama Sutra.
You can find you can find Hijra mentioned in the Kama Sutra.
They they have held prestigious roles in Indian society and like they they are the most populous country on earth, India.
And so when we actually look at this, gender is a complicated thing and it changes from society to society. And when you look at something like this where it's like, well, it's just male and it's just men and women, that is counter to the majority of the human experience on this planet. But uh I'm sure I'm sure whoever's behind uh this uh this account um censorship alert. Twitter banned focus citizen from their platform. The crime a tweet which identified assistant health secretary picked Rachel Levine as a biological male if stating the facts gets you banned. None of us belong here at Twitter. We're wondering # are we next RT to to speak out. I I I don't know. If the worst thing that happened to you to censor your ideas is that you got banned off of Twitter, I think you'll live. I think you'll be okay. And I think your bigotry will continue to be spread. Academics who question gender identity lost positions. Even comedians found their jokes subject to the language police. Take Megan Murphy, a Canadian.
>> Even Even comedians found their jokes subject to the language police. Yeah.
When has a comedian ever gotten in hot water for, you know, being rude and bigoted? That's never happened before. It's unique to the trans people, those mean transes.
Man, don't look up the history of comedy in America.
Feminist banned from Twitter for tweeting men aren't women. Her account was permanently suspended, at least until Elon came along, in a legal battle that set precedent for silencing even factual biologically grounded statements. Harry Potter author JK Rowling, who criticized gender ideology while affirming trans rights, became the target of widespread boycots who while while affirming trans rights except, you know, like basic rights like being able to use the bathroom. She didn't she didn't she didn't affirm those rights.
>> Death threats.
>> Yeah. Which, by the way, you can look at what the the new laws in the UK revolving around how trans people get to use the bathroom. And effectively, it's trans people can't. If you're trans, you can't get [ __ ] >> Re, you'll never be a real man, Jack.
Re, >> no. How could you be so How could you be so confining, sake?
No.
But thank you for the five tier one subs and I I guess you're right. I will never be a man >> and being labeled a bigot. These weren't just fringe cases. They reflect >> She literally put together like a podcast series about how trans people were invalid.
She has written extensively. She's put like hundreds of millions of dollars into campaigning against trans people having basic rights like being able to piss and [ __ ] in public washrooms.
The movement's broader intolerance for disscent. And censorship went beyond individuals. Social media algorithms began suppressing certain content, making sure that alternative viewpoints wouldn't reach a broader audience.
Platforms like YouTube demonetized creators who discuss transitioners or raise concerns about medical intervention on minors. Reddit banned entire communities. Academia and medicine weren't immune.
>> Real real quick.
>> CR rent. Thank you for the $20.
>> You say when we ask them to be respectful like normal [ __ ] human beings, they scream about the first amendment as if government and social expectations are the same thing.
Not a peep when her inability to write came out. nothing after book four or even the garbage stage play. H >> yeah, also we're it feels like it'd be worth noting at this particular moment in time in this video elephants in the room is making that JK Rowling literally wrote a book with like a trans like serial killer as like the antagonist.
Like it it seems somewhat relevant. I I would imagine feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on meta platforms found no political effects.
Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X. Shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behavior. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed, increased engagement, and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump, and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm nor switching it off significantly affected uh affected polarization of self-reported participation.
>> Happy Pride Month, Jack and all.
>> CR rent. Thank you so much for being a member and happy pride month to you as well. Yeah. So this study in nature from earlier this year actually shows right that using the algorithm provided by X does in fact push more conservative media content and radicalizes users politics towards conservative ideas. Off topic, but go into bed, so no good time to ask. How discreet is the shipping for the lingerie? My package room is very much an open space.
>> It It's just uh It's a It is a pink package, but otherwise there it's just It says, you know, where it shipped from and it will say like your name or whatever name you want it shipped to. Um but apart from that, it's a pink like plastic shipping thing. It It It's cute, but I wouldn't say it draws a ton of attention. All right.
>> Either researchers who cautioned against fast-tracking transitions for minors faced careerending repercussions. Dr. Lisa Litman, who published a >> My package room is mostly open space, feels like the tagline for non-tucking.
Hey, true, true, true, true. Sake Tanuki, thank you for the 531 subs. And uh also, can I just say I [ __ ] called it. I [ __ ] called it. We got Lisa Litman.
We got rapid onset gender dysphoria.
Let's go. [ __ ] called it.
>> Study on rapid onset gender dysphoria.
phenomenon suggesting social contagion among teens was vilified in a work discredited by activist despite being grounded in some solid empirical research. The >> Oh, despite being grounded in some solid empirical research, huh? You know what?
Let's You know what? Let's take a look at this solid empirical research. I am I am loving this. Let's uh let's go take a look. Lisa Litman, uh, Brown University, uh, rapid onset gender dysphoria.
Let's take a let's take a quick look at this, uh, because this is maybe one of my all-time favorite studies for trans phobes to site. So, here is the study.
It was published in 2018.
apparent reports of adolescents and young adults perceived to show signs of a rapid onset of gender dysphoria.
Now, let's take a quick look because this is also not the original title of the study, but we'll get to that. We'll get to that, right? So, all right. purpose.
In online forums, parents have reported that their children seem to experience a sudden or rapid onset of gender dysphoria.
So, what was actually corrected in this?
Just to start off, after the publication of this article, questions were raised that pro uh prompted the journal to conduct a post-publication reassessment of the article involving senior members of the journal's editorial team, two academic editors, a statistics reviewer, and an external expert reviewer. The post-publication review identified issues that needed to be addressed to ensure the article meets POS1's publication criteria. Given the nature of the issues, in this case, the POS1 editors decided to republish the article, replacing the original version of record with a revised version in which the author has updated the title, abstract, introduction, discussion, and conclusion sections to address the concerns raised in the editorial reassessment. The materials and methods section was updated to include new information and more detailed descriptions about recruitment sites and to remove two figures due to copyright restrictions. So what what exactly is this right emphasis that this study that this is a study of parent observations which serves to develop hypothesis because I'm gonna go over this. What Lisa Litman originally alleged was that teenagers were suddenly transitioning. There was a rapid onset of gender dysphoria that then resulted in very sudden transitions that came out of nowhere, right?
And that this was a concerning trend that needed to be looked into. What was obfiscated in her original study and merited several different rounds of corrections was essentially that this was not a study of self-reports from the trans kids themselves.
This was in fact a study based on the parents perceptions of their children because it wasn't based on what the kids were actually undergoing. It was based on what the parents saw happening. And you might think to yourselves, well, it is still weird that the parents only became aware that their kids were experiencing gender dysphoria in a ve relatively quick time frame. Well, that's because Lisa Litman also recruited the parent responders from anti-trans websites.
very specifically websites that are notorious for hating trans kids and trans people.
So you recruit, it's not just now a study on the parent perceptions, it's a study on bigoted parent perceptions of their own kids. And then it suddenly makes sense that yeah, their kids wouldn't be telling them and communicating to them about the fact that they have these trans ideas and trans thoughts because their parents are bigots and the kids are well aware that their parents are bigots. So they're not openly communicating how they're feeling with the parents that are going to be bigoted towards them. It's not difficult to figure out. So suddenly the idea of rapid onset gender dysphoria in this particular case is wildly insane because it's very easily explained away by the the mere fact that you recruited people who are objectively uh biased against trans people to report on their perception of the timeline of their children's transition.
It's very bizarre. Is this the study from only transphobe parents? You nailed it, Fod Fodzig.
Like look at how many corre like I I want to I want to really hammer home here. Look at how many corrections.
Emphasis that this is all the things that needed to be added for it to be republished. Emphasis that this is a study of parental observations which serves to develop hypothesis. Questions on whether the article described describes adolescent onset gender dysphoria or if it describes something new. expanded discussion of qualitative analyses, clarification of study design methods and related limitations, updated information about recruitment. Concerns were raised that this study only posted links to the recruitment information on selected sites that were viewed as being unsupportive of transition.
However, announcements about the study included requests to distribute the recruitment information in link. And because information about where the participants encountered the announcement was not collected, it is not known which populations were ultimately reached, which is one of the most charitable things I could ever imagine saying. Well, sure, you posted your your calls uh for respondents on only bigoted websites, but we didn't track you didn't track who actually responded and where they heard about it from. So maybe it was from other websites. We don't know.
Like that's crazy.
Absolutely nuts. Parental approaches to gender dysphoria and views on medical interventions. To oversimplify parental approaches as simply accepting or rejecting misrepresents the range of responses and complexity of approaches that parents take when addressing the needs of their gender dysphoric children. Parental approaches are complex and cover many variables. For example, one parental approach might be to affirm the child as a person, support gender non-conformity, support gender exploit exploration, support mental health evaluation and treatment as needed, support the exploration of additional underlying causes for the gender dysphoria while expressing caution about medical interventions.
Another approach might be to affirm the child's newly declared gender identity, support gender non-conformity, support a liberal approach to medical intervention while expressing caution about mental health evaluation and caution about the exploration of potential underlying causes of the dysphoria. to categorize the former as rejecting and the latter as accepting would be inaccurate.
The study recruited participants based on whether participants thought their child exhibited a sudden or rapid onset of gender dysphoria beginning during or after puberty and did not recruit based on parental beliefs about what types of approaches towards gender dysphoric aas are best which again holy [ __ ] the charitability.
Yeah. Uh look, we uh we can't say for sure uh whether or not uh the respondents to this survey were uh you know, racist or not racist because racism has a broad range of ways it could manifest. A and given the fact that you uh you did post your recruitment on uh Stormfront forums, you know, we can't be sure that everyone who responded was racist. Um, but uh we'll we'll let you republish anyway. It's genuinely insane. Like Brown University had to put out a statement on this study in particular. 7 months after the academic journal PLOS1 indicated plans to seek further expert assessment on a study focused on rapid onset gender dysphoria, the journal has republished the research with a series of corrections and updates by the study's author to address concerns raised by in the journal's reassessment.
Previous statements: Brown University published a news story detailing a research article in the journal POS1. On the morning of August 27th, uh POS1 issued a comment on the study and Brown responded by removing the news story from the news distribution. The same day, the university issued the statement below regarding the decision to remove the article due to inaccurate reporting about the nature of events. Brown on September 5th issued an expanded statement regarding its decision. Yeah.
As a general practice, university news offices often make determinations about publishing faculty research based on its publication in established peer-reviewed journals considered to be in good standing. The journal POS1 on the morning of August 27th published his comment on the research study by Lisa Litman who holds the position of assistant professor to the practice of the practice of behavioral and social sciences at Brown indicating that the journal will seek further expert assessment on the studies methodology and analyses. Below is the comment posted on the study in the journal POS1.
Poss one is aware of the reader concerns raised by the study's content methodology. We take all concerns raised about publications in the journal very seriously. were following up as per our policy and coop guidelines, literally cope guidelines. It's crazy. Expanded statement. After the research paper was published in the journal POS1, concerns were raised about the paper's research design and methodology by leading academics in the field. These concerns were serious enough that POS1 announced that it would conduct a post-publication re-review of the article to seek further expert assessment of the study's methodology and analyses. Given the concerns about research and design uh methods, not the conver controversial nature of the subject, the university decided to stop featuring the news story on its news site. However, the research article is still available on the journal's website and the authors researchers at Brown Page. The university does not know how long the re-review of the paper will take or what if any actions the journal will take.
This is not about academic freedom. This is about academic standards. Academic freedom and inclusion are not mutually exclusive. Uh at the same time, we've confirmed our long-standing support for members of the trans community. Brown is proud to be among the first universities to include medical care for gender uh reassignment in its student health plan and that our medical school is a leader in education on care of tr for transgender individuals. Academic freedom and support for the trans community or any other group is not are not mutually exclusive. These values can and indeed must coexist. So just as an FYI, the research that he is trying to say, the research that he is trying to say undergards the existence of rapid onset gender uh dysphoria is not about actual people experiencing rapid onset gender dysphoria. It's about parents seeing their children suddenly develop a desire that is vocalized to transition. But uh interestingly enough, he's not going into that.
>> Mass media played its role, too. By presenting one-sided narratives, outlets often framed any opposition as bigotry.
Critics weren't debating. They were portrayed as enemies of progress. The result was an environment where one side of the debate could dominate unchecked and they dominated. And it also made genuine concerns taboo to say. And the two biggest concerns people had were related to, >> hey, River by Jack, what happened to that user with the bad faith argument of taking you what you said the other way?
They weren't responding to anything I was actually saying and instead just devolved into like being transphobic. So like they they got banned.
>> Kids and women's spaces. The movement's focus on children became its most contentious battleground early on. For many, this wasn't just about respect or inclusion. It felt like an attack on childhood innocence.
>> I'm sorry. It felt like an attack on childhood innocence.
What? What is the attack on childhood innocence here?
>> Just about respect or inclusion.
>> Like a drag class for your kids.
Okay. What do you think they're going to teach kids how to do? Oh no. Children are going to learn how to dress up in funny, silly outfits. The horror.
Why? You're practically sending them to a drama camp. What next? Are they going to put on a production of King Lear?
Are they are they going to do a Romeo and Juliet?
It felt like an attack on childhood innocence. From explicit materials in schools to controversial medical treatments, activists pushed boundaries that left even moderate supporters questioning their methods. Like one flash point was graphic sexualized material in children's libraries. When parents have >> Oh, no. Graphic sexual material in children's libraries.
You mean like the Bible? Did you mean you mean like catch her in the rye? You like you you do know that Shakespeare is full of [ __ ] dick jokes, right? The Bible literally has the Songs of Solomon. For for [ __ ] sake, the guy who flees Sodom and Gomorrah gets raped by his own daughters. But that that's that's okay.
I don't know. This is weird.
Oh, but but a graphic novel geared towards children who have had sexed classes, that's the problem. That's the real problem.
>> They were labeled as bigots or sensors themselves. But most people agree with the concept of age appropriate material for kids. Then came drag queen story hour that exploded across the country.
>> Well, also the idea being that like see this this is what I mean, right? The idea here is like look at look at this poor innocent girl.
This poor innocent girl will be in a school with with a library that has gender queer in it. The the book gender queer. You all know gender queer, right?
It will rob her of her innocence. And it's like one that that girl is not going to read gender queer.
Two, that book is written for teenagers, and teenagers should already know what sex is, just as a matter of keeping themselves safe.
And drag events build as inclusive, family-friendly entertainment. But on social media, videos came out showing men in drag gyating on kids or family shows where people were singing about eating dicks.
Accounts like Libs of Tik Tok posted over-the-top material every day and schools didn't jump.
>> Yeah, you know, you're right. The sexualization has gone too far. I'm convinced.
You know, I've always thought there is something about adults making media for children that's been a bit sussy. You know, I think we need just a total and complete shutdown of any media made for children until we figure out what the hell is going on. I mean, I can't help but uh remember that scene from Osmosis Jones.
You all know the one the the one with the song written by Kid Rock. Osmosis Jones, by the way, a movie uh from the 90s, early 2000s, I think. early 2000s.
Uh, that has the lyrics. Let me just uh see here. Yes. Now, some people say, "My mind's blown. I'm cooling like a snow cone on my cell phone. I'm paid. G can't call me. Just page me." Young ladies, young ladies, I like am underage. C.
Some say that's statutory, but I say it's mandatory.
Thanks, Kid Rock, best friend of Donald Trump, the current president of the United States.
But, uh, weirdly enough, uh, a lot of people don't seem to have an issue with Kid Rock performing in front of children.
That that seems weird. But uh when you find examples of drag shows that parents brought their kids to, suddenly that's all that's all a huge problem. What about the parents who brought their kids to go see Osmosis Jones? What about those parents? H yeah, that's right.
That's right. But uh let's continue.
host events, but integrated activism deep in their curriculum. Some districts kept parents in the dark about their kids.
>> Yeah. Also, how dare how dare kids support LGBTQ people? It's not like kids wind up growing up to be LGBTQ.
God, what's next? Are are are schools going to start teaching about the civil rights movement and be advocating for the basic human dignity of other people in society? Disgusting. They should be learning how to run a business and pay taxes.
>> Gender identity at school. And teachers were trained to affirm any child questioning their gender without telling their parents.
>> Yeah. Because if you tell their parents, sometimes they get beat, killed, or disowned.
>> Amber Lavine of Newcastle is suing the school. Last December, Lavine said she found a chest binder used to flatten someone's breasts in her 13-year-old child's room. Lavine says the school either provided it or helped obtain it.
And maybe these people were just having a good time with their chance, but it wasn't funny to a lot of other people.
>> Also, it's not hard to get a chest binder, kid. Like, like it you you can just go buy one at a store here. How about we get an update on that story?
How about how about we do that real quick?
The United States Supreme Court has denied the appeal of a mother from Maine.
>> Yeah. She was suing a school for not telling her about her child's attempted gender transition. Amber Lavine claimed a school counselor at Great Salt Bay Community School in Dar Muscata secretly encouraged her child to begin a gender transition. The school also allegedly gave that child a chest binder and allowed the child to use a different name and different pronouns and didn't tell Lavine.
WHAT >> [ __ ] PRONOUNS?
>> YOU You mean schools have to report nicknames? So when like a kid starts getting like called by his friends like I I don't know uh beefs and that's just his name in the friend group that needs to be reported to parents.
Come on.
So, she sued saying her 14th amendment rights had been violated, but a federal judge dismissed that case back in 2024.
An appeals court also dismissed the suit last July. The panel of judges said that Lavine had not provided enough evidence of the district having a custom or a policy of withholding information. I just made three. Yeah. So, uh, this case was dismissed by three different courts, including the Supreme Court. I mean, I guess technically not dismissed by the Supreme Court. They refused to hear it because it had been dismissed twice.
Like, I don't know. She spent multiple years of her life trying to sue her kid school district for like helping her kid. That's crazy.
for your children.
>> The medical side was even more polarizing between 2007.
>> Wait a minute. I I I remember this.
Wait, what? One second.
Also, it's interesting to me that like all of these uh are sourced to like 2023.
New York City kicked off last weekend of Pride Month with its annual drag march on Friday. Hundreds of drag performers marched through Manhattan's East Village and elaborate costumes on their way to the iconic Stonewall Inn, chanting, "We're here. We're queer. We're coming for your children. Oh, shared on Twitter by TimCast News. That's right.
Others can be heard saying in the clip, "We're here. We're queer. We're not going shopping."
Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. However, others said the chant was mocking conservatives.
They are mocking the [ __ ] weirdos who think they are coming for their children. Evil predators who are coming for your children. Don't chant about it in public. One Twitter user wrote, "The reality here is, yes, it's a chant designed to mock people like Marjorie Taylor Green who think that like gay people are coming to like indoctrinate kids." Jack, I'm sorry. I can't get over Beefoms. Look, Beefoms grew up to be a great investment banker, okay? He's still he's still friends with some of the old gang.
>> 17 and 21, nearly 18,000 minors in the US started puberty blockers or hormone treatments and the numbers were rising each year. These drugs often creating irreversible changes carried >> no they don't create irreversible changes.
Like I I can't believe I have to keep saying this. Most puberty blockers are given to cisgender children. And we have decades upon decades of research on cisgender children about the effects of puberty blockers. And what we know is that puberty blockers delay puberty and once you stop taking the puberty blockers, you go through puberty. These are not permanent changes. You are not just permanently prepubertal.
You just take the puberty blockers until you either stop taking them and go through your normal puberty or you start taking HRT and transition. Like that's how that works. And the puberty blockers are literally there to buy more time for children to make more informed choices about who they want to be. Beefoms is irreversible irreversible change. I regret my words.
>> Significant risks. Yet they were given to children as young as 10. And >> yeah, we we have a [ __ ] ton of research on what those drugs do to children 10 and under because they're primarily given to children 10 and under in order to stop early onset puberty. By 2021, over 5,700 minors underwent surgeries like double mystctomies to align with their gender identities. Hey, guess what? What's crazy to me, right, anytime this gets brought up, anytime like, oh man, surgery on kids, the overwhelming majority of mastctomies on children are done by cis boys who are dealing with gymastia, which is breast growth on cisgender boys. That who that's who gets the overwhelming majority.
And when we take a look at the other majority, it's cisgender girls who are getting breast reductions. Notice how it just switched to minors and not a specific age as well. Yeah, because that includes like 15 and 16 year olds. I I had a 15-year-old classmate, 15-year-old girl in my school in when in my high school, right, who got breast reduction surgery as a teenager because her breasts were too large and were causing her body discomfort.
This happens all the time and no conservatives give a single [ __ ] about it. It's only when it becomes a cudel used against trans kids that they give a [ __ ] about it. Suddenly, when it's the same treatment that cis children overwhelmingly get, that a trans kid might get, suddenly it's a huge existential problem.
>> Proponents argued these interventions save lives by preventing suicides, but the evidence >> they they do. They also do that.
>> On that was pretty shaky. Many critics pointed out that mental health conditions like anxiety and depressions often went untreated in favor of rushing into gender transitions. And >> no, they don't often go untreated because when you are a trans kid, getting getting your your your your actual medical treatment requires you to talk to multiple medical professionals and psychological professionals. You're literally talking to multiple experts in child psychology in order to access this care.
>> His excesses didn't alienate just conservatives, but many of the movement's original supporters. And if targeting kids was one misstep, the transgender movement's collision with women's rights was the other. Despite what some activists claim, it's abundantly >> Oh god, Leah Thomas. I should have called this I should have called that Leah Thomas was going to come up at some point in here. I had two friends in high school who underwent breast reduction.
Unfortunately, one had the last name Titleman.
>> Oh, no.
That that's that's unfortunate. And I'm sure they got a lot of [ __ ] for that in high school cuz high schoolers can be mean. But thank you for the five tier one sub, Saket Danuki. Also, God, I I I can't believe I also have to talk about Leah Thomas again. Good thing I did a bunch of deep dives into this years ago. clear that in any activity that requires strength and speed, men just have a massive advantage over women. I'm not even going to go through those statistics. Leah >> Oh, how convenient for you. Now, what's interesting to Let's let him talk about Leah Thomas, then I'll uh jump into this.
>> Thomas was one early example. He was a mediocre male swimmer who after transitioning do >> I'm sorry. Was that a misgender? I heard >> an early example. He was a mediocre >> Ah, yes, it is a misgender. I I see it's not exactly about respect anymore, is it? It's so It's so interesting. I guess the transgender movement went too far and now uh Ken Laquort uh just doesn't feel the need to respect uh trans people. that uh of course of course of course >> of course >> male swimmer who after transitioning dominated women's competitions Thomas went from ranking 462nd as a male to breaking women's records and winning NCAA championships.
Now, this is pretty interesting because the only way you could possibly uh frame Leah Thomas's uh you know, sports achievements in this way is if you are incredibly intellectually dishonest.
Now, why am I saying that? An excellent source, the Leah Thomas Wikipedia page.
Let's take a let's take a quick look here. Swimming career. That might be an excellent place to start. Thomas began swimming on the men's team at the University of Pennsylvania in 2017.
During her freshman year, Thomas recorded a time of 8 minutes and 57.55 seconds in the 1000y freestyle, >> dominating for tying fifth. Got it.
>> Yeah, exactly. Well, we'll get there, Sak. Thank you for the 51 subs. that ranked as the sixth fastest national men's time and also recorded 500 yard freestyle and 1,650 yard freestyle times that ranked within the national top 100 on the men's team on the men's swim team in 2018 to 2019.
Thomas finished in the men's 500, 1,000, and 1,650 yard freestyle at the Ivy League Championships as a sophomore or finished second rather in the men's 5001, and 1,650 yard freestyle in 2019. In the 2018 to 2019 season, Thomas recorded the top UPEN men's team times in the 500 free, the 1000 free, and the 1,650 free, but was the sixth best among UPEN men's team members in the 200 free. So, just to be very clear here, Leah Thomas in the 2018 to 2019 season was literally literally one of the top you swimmers for her college and one of the top Ivy League swimmers in the country.
Okay. But, oddly enough, something really odd happened after the 2018 to 2019 season. What might that be? Oh, Thomas began uh transitioning using hormone therapy in May of 2019 and came out as a transwoman during her junior year to her coach's friends in the women's and men's swim teams at the University of Pennsylvania. She was required to swim for the men's team in the in the 2019 to 2020 academic year as a junior while undergoing hormone therapy and then swam on the women's team in the 2021 to 2022 year after taking a year off to maintain her eligibility. Happy Pride, Jack and Friends. Heart emoji, orange heart emoji, yellow, thank you for the $5 super chat emoji, blue heart emoji, purple heart emoji.
>> So, what what exactly happened here?
Well, all of the data that conservatives site about how Leah Thomas was the 462nd ranking swimmer when she competed in the men's division. That's from when she was on HRT.
That's from when her muscle mass started significantly declining because that's what happens when trans women go on HRT.
And then she took a year off. So by the time she was competing in the women's division, she had had two years on HRT.
Like like it's just very obvious that the reason she was a good swimmer after she transitioned is because she was a good swimmer before she transitioned.
But the reduction in muscle mass, the reduction in like muscle power led to her being comparable and competitive in the women's division. Like that's the that's the story there. It's not that she went from being the like one of the worst swimmers in at UPEN to like one of the best in the women's division. That's not what happened.
>> Is a top 50 program nationally in swimming. They don't have any mediocre swimmers. Thomas was a good swimmer before transition, too, just in different events.
>> Yeah, exactly. Like, she's always been a good swimmer.
So, this is just a blatantly dishonest way to portray this. if you bothered to do any kind of background research on your points at all.
>> At the end of this race, Thomas starting to pull away.
>> Female athletes who train their entire lives suddenly found themselves losing races, scholarships, and opportunities.
A recent UN study showed that more than 600 biological female athletes lost over 890 medals to transgendered opponents in 29 different sports. other transgendered opponents. It's just transgender opponents.
I don't know. Like the the the the terminology being wrong is very weird.
>> Suffered injuries competing against biologically stronger opponents. These weren't >> Yeah. Because women never get injured doing sports against other women. That's never happened before.
You know, when women do MMA against each other, they never get hurt.
>> With the bells being rung for final lap at swimming, I now want to see a mall Santa swimming race in full costume.
>> I mean, I've never wanted to see that before. I've never been able to articulate that thought in my head before, but uh I I think that'd be a great I think that'd be a great spectacle event. Theoretical concerns.
They were happening on track.
>> Also, let's uh let's get a Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer uh at at the track.
Let's do it.
>> And in pools and on playing fields across the world. The problems went beyond competitions. A Vermont high school banned its entire girls volleyball team from their locker rooms.
Their crime, it was objecting to a biological man changing with them.
Women's prisons became another flash point. Male inmates began declaring themselves transgender, then being sent to female facilities. Some people call that a government sanctioned rape. in California.
>> What is fascinating about that to me is that we have the data when it comes to uh the safety of transgender women in men's prisons. Yeah. Results from the Vera Institute of Justice and Black and Pink National Survey of currently incarcerated transgender people reveal their policy recommendations around housing, healthcare, safety, dignity behind bars across diverse experiences in state prisons. Let's take a look. Nearly 90% of respondents had spent time in solitary confinement and one in five sent in a survey from solitary confinement which many reported to be the only option for separation from people who threatened harm. More than half, 53% of respondents reported experiencing a non-consensual sexual encounter during their current sentence.
31% named harassment, threats, and attacks by other incarcerated people as the top reason they felt safe on unsafe behind bars. of respondents who sought medical medication to support gender transition in prison, 53% were unable to access it due to obstacles such as blanket bans, diagnosis requirements, or discrimination by medical or prison staff. So again, there is a disproportionate threat of sexual violence towards trans people in prison.
Also, you know what? We could, you know, don't even take my word for it. Let's take a look at what the US government says.
here. This was submitted to uh into the record survey. Transgender inmates more likely to be victims of sexual assault.
In a first of its kind survey of the federal and state inmate population in America, data shows that transgender individuals are nine times more likely than other inmates to encounter sexual harassment or assault within 12 months of admission. The National Inmate Survey administered by the Bureau of Justice Statistics found 35% of transgender inmates held in prisons and 34% held in jails experienced one or more incidents of sexual assault at the hands of facility staff or other inmates within a one-year period.
A third of the biological men seeking to be housed with women had been convicted of a sex crime. In Wisconsin, it was over half. To many, the pattern became clear. women's rights hard one over decades were being s >> also just to be clear women in women's prisons some of them have also done sex crimes like even assuming this is true women in women's prisons did sex crimes sometimes godamn sacrificed on the altar of gender ideology spaces once reserved for biological females from locker rooms to prison cells no longer offered protection. All of these overreaches helped combine to fuel a backlash that they'd never seen. It started in Europe where countries like Sweden, Finland, and the UK changed their policy on medical transitioning. These nations had been early adopter of gender affirming care, but reverse course after data revealed it was a serious risk to minors. The dransition movement gained steam, too. It's so crazy for him to keep saying the data shows and then not provide any citations whatsoever.
That's crazy. You wrote this. You could you could just like include the citations you used when you wrote the script for this. I'm reacting on the fly.
>> Peters, like many women in prison, did sex crimes.
>> That is technically correct.
Saki, thank you for the five tier one subs and the the constant zingers. I appreciate them.
>> More young people, especially girls, started speaking out about rushing into transitions they later regretted.
>> I used to believe that I was born the wrong body and the adults in my life whom I trusted affirmed my belief in this. Man, it's so weird that this is uh supposedly a really widespread phenomenon of dransitioning, but they can only find like the same three dransitioners to talk about how they were uh forcibly transitioned by the the trans movement.
That's really weird and strange.
>> Caused me lifelong irreversible harm.
Among those starting hormone treatments, only 64% of biological females continued. And that suggested that many young women might be misidentifying normal teen struggles as gender dysphoria. Public opinion shifted hard as well. By 2024, 55% of Americans believe support for transgender rights had gone too far, including a quarter of Democratic voters. In sports, the numbers were even more dramatic. 69% believe transgender athletes should compete only on teams matching their birth gender. And it what's really interesting about this, by the way, is that there's a complete abdication of uh any any of the origins of this debate, right? As if like the American public is just responding to new information in a rational way, which is not what's happening. The entire debate, for example, over trans athletes is entirely fabricated as a wedge issue by Chris Rufo, who's been for years one of the people in the conservative movement that has found these wedge issues to try and uh drum up uh culture wars, right? He's the guy who did critical race theory and and mainstreamed and popularized that idea in conservative circles. He's the guy who did trans girls in sports and he is currently trying to workshop news new new stuff for the conservative movement.
Like all of this is a conservative project funded by billionaires, you know? Like that's what's happening here.
It's just a distraction to like keep conservatives from remembering that billionaires are just wantingly stealing their uh their hard-earned dollary dues.
For the first time ever, it made a difference in political campaigns. In the 2022 election, Republicans had tried to make it an issue, but it fell flat.
In 2024, that changed big time. Internal polling showed the transgender issue resonating negatively with voters in key swing states, particularly among Hispanic, black, and working-class voters, and Republicans bet big on it.
During Donald Trump's debate with Kla Harris, he mentioned that she supported transgender surgeries for inmates. It sounded like something he may Okay, but also there's no evidence that trans issues were what moved the election, right? Like as far as the data coming out of the elections within the top 10 issues, trans people weren't one of them. Like when you ask like when you ask conservative voters, you know, do do you like to rank what they care about?
They don't rank trans issues up there.
They don't really give a [ __ ] unless they're reminded that we exist, right?
And so when we're actually looking at, you know, did did trans issues swing the 2024 election? No. Obviously, conservatives want that impression to be the case. So, they keep making videos like this because anything other than talking about the actual problems that are affecting society. Am I right? Like the issue here is like, you know, you'll get people who who say like uh what Larry Snuts uh says in chat, just stay away from the kids uh and uh women's sports and y'all are okay with us. But like what does that like stay away from the kids?
Can trans people not go to malls because kids might be there and might see a trans person? What does that mean?
doesn't mean like we don't want trans people talking to our kids. What if your kid has like a trans uncle? Well, we don't we don't want we don't want them trying to to like sexually indoctrinate children, that's great. We don't want that either. We don't want anybody to be sexualizing children. But the idea that you think trans people are trying to do that is a huge problem that doesn't comport with reality. Kid kids means existing at all. I mean that's that's the correct thing, right? Like that's what they mean. Also, there are trans kids. That is true. You know, trans adults were once trans kids up as he kind of does sometimes. But it turned out he had the receipts and his campaign put out two commercials similar to this one.
>> Kamla was the first to help pay for a prisoner's sex change.
>> The power that I had, I used it in a way that was about pushing for the movement, frankly, and the agenda. Kamla's agenda is they them, not you.
>> I'm Donald J. Trump and I approve this message.
>> Research showed those commercials move voters more than any other in the election and it was one of the most persuasive ads in years.
>> Republicans understand that for the GOP this is about thought control. If they can eliminate trans existence from media, they can do other things.
>> I mean that's true, right? Like that that is true. I will also say right that there is like he's correct about that particular ad in that particular context but the reason it moved a lot of people was because they weren't thinking about trans issues unless there was an ad reminding them about trans issues because for the vast majority of people when they are making a political decision like who to vote for they aren't they aren't thinking to themselves that one likes trans people and that one doesn't. What they're thinking about is who's going to be able to make sure that my kid has med like has their medical bills paid? Who's which which candidate is going to make it easier for me to make sure my kid can go to the hospital? Which candidate is going to make it easier for me to stay in my house? Which candidate is going to make it easier for me to get a job? Then why the drag queen story hour in schools? Because people come into schools to read books to children all the time.
people like like grandmas will dress up as like princesses or queens to like go in and read stories to children. There's a long and storied tradition, pardon the pun, of people dressing up in silly outfits to read the kids because kids like silly outfits like like it's not a complicated idea. Yeah, it's ju just it's just dressing up in an outfit. I don't know. Like I'm sure you've seen like a dad who has like a daughter and like the daughter wants to play castle and like is like daddy like you're you're a princess now. and like does like poorly does like the dad's makeup and like has them put on like a dress or something like that happens just in the course of children playing because they like seeing adults dressed up silly. That's it. That's blatantly untrue. Those ads had little to no impact. The real problem Well, Drew Puit, I would I agree with you that the reason But I will I I will tweak that a little bit. The reason those ads were able to be effective was specifically because Kla Harris did not talk about trans issues at all during her campaign. At all. She didn't say the word transgender once during the 2024 election. Not once. And by not by avoiding that issue, by not engaging with it, what wound up happening was she left ideological real estate available for Republicans to take advantage of.
Instead of being a bold fighter, she allowed herself to be bulldozed and then they could literally say whatever they wanted. It didn't matter if it was true and their voters would believe it because they weren't hearing anything else. 200 million on anti-transgender advertising in 2024, the most ever spent on a social issues ads in a presidential race. Post election, Democratic politicians began openly criticizing the party's alignment with far-left positions on transgender issues for the first time ever.
Massachusetts Congressman Seth Molton summed it up this way. I have two little girls. I don't want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete. Yeah, and Seth Molton is now facing the music on that one.
>> But as a Democrat, I'm supposed to be afraid to say that they weren't afraid anymore. And neither are corporations.
And that backlash has started there.
Companies that had previously embraced anything gender ideology scaled back their >> man. Can we just like take a moment here?
>> Start there. Companies that had pre >> Companies that had previously embraced gender ideology. Bud Light gave her one sponsorship for one video on Instagram that you never would have seen unless like it was boosted to all of you and like you guys [ __ ] your pants over it.
That's not embracing ideology. This was an attempt to market to queer people and you guys [ __ ] lost it. Previously embraced anything gender ideology scaled back their messaging after boycots and public criticism. Hollywood recognized this, too. And they're scaling back with transgender topics that they integrated into so many movies. The pendulum is swinging back.
>> What?
Hollywood is scaling back on transgender people that they integrated into so many different projects. I'm sorry. Did I miss the golden age of like trans people in movies?
Every movie had trans people? What are you What are you talking about? I'm I'm baffled. absolutely baffled. Let's actually take a look at the data that came out, right? Let's see. This was October 9th. Um, so right before the election here, economy, most important issue for the 2024 presidential vote.
This is from Gallup Gallup polling.
Pretty pretty respectable. Here they here they take a look at the different issues. You have the economy, democracy in the US, terrorism and national security, uh Supreme Court justices, immigration, education, health care, gun policy, abortion, taxes, crime, distribution of income and wealth, uh federal budget deficit, foreign affairs, situation in the Middle East between Israelis and Palestinians, uh energy policy, Russia relations, race relations, China relations, trade with other nations, climate change, and transgender rights. And literally the issue that the fewest number of people listed as important is transgender rights. In terms of what is motivating people politically in America, it's not this.
Now what are the top issues according to party? Maybe maybe Republicans have a different set of priorities here.
Republicans and Republican leading independent voters. Most important issue is the economy 66%, immigration 63%, terrorism and national security 60%, crime 52%, taxes 46%.
Like trans rights or rolling them back is not even in like their top range of concerns.
Let's take a a quick look here. when it comes to what issues conservatives care the least about and find the least important, right? You can take a look at how it stacks up. We have Republicans.
There is only one issue that Republicans care less about than trans rights, at least regarding the 2024 elections, and that was climate change. only climate change was something that Republicans cared less about than trans rights.
The narrative that this fueled Donald Trump's election and supercharged it, it's just not accurate to the data we have on what was happening to the Republican electorate in 2024.
It was a very convenient narrative for uh DC consultants to spin which to explain away Kla Harris's loss. Oh, she was just too woke. But that was not the reason she lost. Kla Harris didn't lose because she was too woke. Kla Harris lost because she was taking economic policy from an Uber executive. Kla Harris lost because she was cowardly.
Kla Harris lost because like she frankly could not live up to the moment and could not mobilize the highly invested forces of the left in order to go to bath for her because she was also playing defense for a genocide.
That's too many things get that that were that were gotten wrong. But uh I want you all to know this guy's just full of horseshit.
Now, that doesn't mean everything will reverse. But the transgender community is on the defense, and it will be for the next few years. You know, another movement that also lost some of its power in the past couple years was the Me Too movement, which took down a whole lot of men. Now, many of them were completely justified. Bad guys who abused their power and got what they deserved. But in hindsight, other cases, like the one against Louis CK, they're not nearly as clear-cut. In fact, >> what?
Okay. I I could I could never in a million years have uh predicted where that was going to go. Louis CK literally would just masturbate at at fellow comedians when they came into his room. Like like it genuinely awful [ __ ] I I think a lot of people forget how awful Louis CK was. Yeah.
Louis CK is accused by five women of sexual misconduct.
In 2002, a Chicago comedy dua Dana Min Goodman and Julia Wool landed their big break, a chance to perform at the US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado.
When Louisis CK invited them to hang out in his hotel room for a night cap after the late night show, they did not think twice. The bars were closed. They wanted to celebrate. He was a comedian they admired. The women would be together.
His intentions seemed college.
Uh, as soon as they sat down in his room, still wrapped in their winter jackets and hats, Louis CK asked if he could take out his penis. The women said they thought it was a joke and laughed it off, and then he really did it. He proceeded to take all his clothes off and get completely naked and start masturbating.
In 2003, Abby uh Shatchner called Louis CK to invite him to one of her shows.
During the phone conversation, she said she could hear him masturbating as they spoke. Another comedian, Rebecca Corey, said that while she was appearing with Louis CK on a television pilot in 2005, he asked if he could masturbate in front of her and she declined. Now, years after unsubstantiated rumors about Louis CK masturbating in front of associates, women are coming forward to describe what they experienced. Even amid the current burst of sexual misconduct allegations against powerful men, the stories about Louis CK stand out because he has so few equals in comedy. In the years since the incidents the women describe, he has sold out Madison Square Garden eight times, created Emmy Uh, Miss Corey, a comedian and writer and actress, has long felt haunted by a runin with Louis CK. In 2005, she was working as a performer and producer on a television pilot, a big step up in her career. When Louis CK, a guest star, approached her as she was walking to the set. He leaned close to my face and said, "Can I ask you something?" I said, "Yes," Miss Corey said in a written statement to the New York Times. He asked if we could go to my dressing room so he could masturbate in front of me.
Stunned and angry, Miss Cory said she declined and pointed out that he had a daughter and a pregnant wife. "His face got red," she recalled. and he told me he had issues. Word quickly reached the show's executive producers, Courtney Cox and David Arette, who both confirmed the incident. "What happened to Rebecca on that set was awful," Miss Cox said in an email, adding that she felt outrage and and shock. "My concern like like things were going well for me," Miss Corey said in the statement. "And I had no interest in being the person who shut down a production." A fifth wopen who spoke on condition of anonymity to protect her family's privacy because she had not been publicly linked to the incident with Louis CK also has disturbing stories about an incident with the comedian in the late 90s. She was working in production on the Chris Chris Rock show when Louis CK, a writer and producer there, repeatedly asked her to watch him masturbate. She said she was in her early 20s and went along with his request but later questioned his behavior. It was something that I knew was wrong. uh said the woman who described sitting in Louis CK's office while he masturbated in his desk chair during a workday other colleagues just outside the door. I think the big piece of why I said yes was because of the culture. He abused his power. A co-orker at the Chris Rock show who wished to remain anonymous confirmed that the woman uh told him about the experience soon after it happened. But you know nothing happened.
And uh just to finish reading up this one, Miss uh Shatchner, a writer, illustrator, and performer, admired Louis CK's work. They had met in the comedy scene. Miss Shatchner's uh former boyfriend was a comedy writer who had worked with Louis CK. In 2003, when she called Louis CK with an invitation to her show, he said he was at work in an office as a writer on the series Cedric the Entertainment Entertainer Presents, she recalled. Their conversation quickly moved from the personal. Louis CK had seen photos of her at her boyfriend's desk, he said, and told her he thought she was cute to unprofessional and inappropriate, Miss Shatchner said. She said she heard the blinds coming down.
Then she then he slowly started telling her his sexual fantasies, breathing heavily and talking softly. She realized he was masturbating and was dumbfounded.
The call went on for several minutes, even though Miss Shatchner said, "I definitely wasn't encouraging it." But she didn't know how to end it either.
You want to believe it's not happening?
She said a friend Steuart Harris confirmed that Miss Shatchner had described the call to him in 2003.
The idea here that like well he didn't really do anything.
He didn't really do anything. Also, can we just talk for a second?
>> Cases like the one against Louis CK, they're not nearly as clearcut. In fact, >> yeah, it's not it's not clear-cut at all. It's just, you know, a rich, powerful man trying to hold women in thrral while he masturbates in front of them like a [ __ ] creep. It's not that clearcut. I want I want men who think like this. Imag and and I I I know this is uh maybe cringe, but imagine if a man forced your daughter to watch him masturbate.
Would you consider that not clear-cut?
Would you consider that like a really nebulous situation?
I don't know. I don't think it's really that uh difficult to untangle.
Also, maybe the least surprising thing I could have expected at the end of this video.
Uh why were the Nazis so fashionable?
Like of course this guy is stands for Nazi uniforms. Of course, >> you could make a good argument that he was actually a victim of me, too. I learned a lot in producing that video and looking at the specifics. Hey, thanks for watching. I'm active in the comments below. And if you're not being a jerk, I'd love to chat. And if you enjoyed this, subscribe to see more.
Man, I I hope you guys appreciated me uh waiting through this. I I did not expect us to take a bajillion minutes to cover a 15minute video, but like I think like well I didn't learn anything, right? He certainly didn't learn anything. He seems it seems like his jam is just kind of making up [ __ ] Exactly. But like I hope you guys learned stuff. I hope I hope this was valuable to you guys, the viewers. view was directed at him. Ah, I see. Because what was that guy's name?
Ken Laort. That that video is Elephants in Rooms. That's the name of his channel. So, um, yeah, I I God damn, that was a lot.
>> I just defended a man openly exposing himself to employees and co-workers.
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Uh God, it's just I I'm I'm I'm actually kind of flabbergasted at how bad this video was, you know, and it's one of the most viewed things from uh the past couple years about trans people on YouTube, which uh which was interesting uh to say the least. This guy has almost 800,000 subscribers on YouTube. It's not difficult to defend trans people. We need to demand better from our elected politicians than what Kla Harris gave trans people in the 2024 election, which was absolutely nothing.
And that is what allowed any anti-trans messaging from the Trump campaign to flourish. Okay? We need to demand better. And you know, frankly, I have a lot of problems with Ed Marky running. I I think he's old as dirt. But if Ed Marky, someone who is old as dirt, can actually nail like protrans rhetoric, any Democrat can do it.
>> Massachusetts deserves better than a senator who scapegoats trans kids to secure secure political points.
Okay. Massachusetts Massachusetts Massachusetts Massachusetts deserves better than a senator who cashes in and who trades stocks and companies with businesses before the very congressional committees he serves on. Massachusetts deserves better than a senator who says universal healthc care is too much to ask for and that taxing billionaires is class warfare against the rich. I don't trade stocks. I don't take corporate pack donations. I don't take money from fossil fuel companies.
Massachusetts, like this is this is how you do a progressive campaign that's also protrans. It's not difficult. It is not difficult. And I look, I'm not I'm not dragging Ed Marky. Like if if he's the progressive in the race, you should vote for Ed Marky, right? But like, damn, I wish he was like 20 years younger, you know? But that being said, other candidates are able to like marshall this too. It's not it it is not impossible. It isn't like this pie in the sky idea where like, oh, what you you want you want politicians to like stand up for their constituents who are marginalized. Well, next you're going to be saying you want a rocket ship full of ponies. Like it's not it's not difficult. It's not an unreachable like bar to have uh for elected politicians in >> like here I want to play this. This is uh with Tommy Styer here. Many of you probably uh saw this but it's not difficult to get these issues correct.
>> I saw um you guys were talking about me and the support that I had despite all the social media drama. So, I thought I found it pretty interesting that you you're set on just a basically a set choice on where you stand with trans athletes.
>> I am.
>> It was nice to have just have a straight decision on who you support.
>> Well, you know what I always say, and I think I said this to your mom, most people support you 90% of the time, just not the 10% you need them for. If we're going to be on side, then we're on side 100% of the time. I've been outed like so many times over and over, you know, docks where I go to school. So, I feel like more safety aspect and not just supporting but >> protecting.
>> Yeah. Protection.
>> I totally agree. Look, it you know, it's the I was saying in this um town hall, it's the job of the governor to stand between danger and Californians.
And I mean it. And to make sure that people are safe and to protect them from all the malign influences in this world.
And I take that super super super seriously for you, just so you know. And I'm so proud of you for what you're doing. So proud of you for succeeding.
So part proud of you for competing.
>> I That's really the point. And I'm going to hope like heck that you don't just make state, but you do really well there.
>> Thank you.
>> Deal.
>> Deal.
>> Deal. Congratulations on what you've done as a mom and congratulations what you've done as an athlete.
>> Thank you.
>> Way to go. Bunch of winners.
Congratulations. You guys are special.
That's that's how you do it. It's not hard.
It is not hard to support trans people or to support trans youth. It's not difficult.
And to the trans people out there who are watching, you are not difficult to love.
You are not difficult to love.
>> I miss Ferman Supreme. Can you get him on the stream, Jack? He's the hero we need now. No, I can't. I I pro Well, maybe I could, but I have no connection to Burman Supreme whatsoever.
Thank you for the $5 super chat. Like Tom Tom Styer is one of the few politicians I have seen along with Ed Marky. Some of the handful of politicians I've seen who are actually willing to stand up and say with their full chest that they support trans people, trans rights, and like trans competitors.
And it's not a difficult ask that that's that's a trans kid asking for support, asking for protection, asking for anything, any shred of decency. And Tommy Styer says with his whole chest, we are here to keep you safe. And I take that seriously. I'm going to do whatever I can. So, I I hope that he wins uh you know the get gets through the primary process in California tonight. I I I wish him the best. Um I know that there is some promising uh like the numbers right now where it stands not looking great, but there are some promising uh mail and ballot results that could swing things in his favor to get him through the uh the primary. We'll we'll have to see, but I I hope I hope that he makes it.
Anyway, if you got anything out of this, hit the like button, subscribe, leave a comment. Com like I I'm genuinely curious what your guys's takeaways are going to be on this guy. I haven't covered him before, but maybe I need to pay more attention to some of these folks.
Um, you know, I I we'll we'll see. We'll see.
And uh folks, remember, join your local Dems, join your local DSA, get involved with PV, Progressive Victory. We got a link to them down below as well. If you need help getting involved with your local Dems and your local DSA, reach out on Discord and uh reach out to GamerG for DSA. Reach out to Dragonfly for your local dems. We want to get you plugged in to the political ecosystem that is available to each and every one of you.
And these three orgs are available to each and every one of you to get involved uh both with organizing folks uh in labor, organizing folks in your local political party, and also organizing folks uh to take concrete electoral action across the United States. It is some good stuff. I highly encourage you guys to check out one or two or all three and to get involved today. Last but not least, check out imagining Olivia.com. Gender euphoric lingerie designed from the ground up for trans fe. Also tested with cis men, cis women, non-binary folks. Go check it out. It is comfortable, sexy lingerie.
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