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The cancel culture and antiwokeism moral panics invert the balance of power, portraying marginalized groups as powerful and elites as needing protection. The reactionary crusade against wokeism and cancel culture is fueled by anxiety over increased scrutiny and criticism of societal elites. Traditional power structures have held up fine, but the threat to elite impunity is real. The renegotiation of norms surrounding public speech and expression is messy, but necessary to prevent continued elite dominance and impunity. The real question is where is the line and who gets to draw it. The assault on marginalized groups is escalating, yet antiwoke crusaders focus on protecting elite free speech.
@tzimmer_history - Thomas Zimmer
The “cancel culture” and anti-“wokeism” moral panics rely on a complete inversion of the actual balance of power, portraying traditionally marginalized groups as mighty forces that urgently need to be reined in – and those in elite positions as desperately in need of protection.
@tzimmer_history - Thomas Zimmer
It’s an unbelievably cynical game: Some of society’s most vulnerable groups – trans people, for instance, whose fundamental rights, including their right to exist in the public square, are being stripped away – are presented as a dangerous, powerful cabal.
@tzimmer_history - Thomas Zimmer
In a way, the New York Times recently elevating an unhinged anti-“woke” crusader like Pamela Paul is actually useful: In everything she writes, the cynical inversion of power is dialed up to 11 – which gets you to “In defense of JK Rowling.” It’s not gonna get any more obvious.
@tzimmer_history - Thomas Zimmer
Think about how silly this is: “Oh, the woke militants dominate everything over there!” – when the New York Times has just hired staunchly conservative David French to join the existing stable of famous anti-“woke” columnists like Pamela Paul, Bret Stephens, and David Brooks.
@tzimmer_history - Thomas Zimmer
The only “persecution” that is happening here is David French being criticized online. Some of that criticism may even be unfair or cross the line – the internet is a nasty place. But that’s it. No one is firing or “canceling” him. No one in a position of power is doing anything.
@tzimmer_history - Thomas Zimmer
In this way, this whole affair captures the anxiety that fuels the reactionary crusade against “wokeism” and “cancel culture”: Societal elites - and elite white men, in particular - face a little more scrutiny and public criticism today than in the past. And they don’t like that.
@tzimmer_history - Thomas Zimmer
As soon as traditionally marginalized groups gained enough power and acquired the technological means to make their demands for respect and their criticism heard, traditional elites started bemoaning “persecution” - “The hordes are coming to cancel us!”
@tzimmer_history - Thomas Zimmer
Important to note that it’s mostly the *threat* of scrutiny, the *potential* of being held to account that is enough to cause the next round of reactionary panic. In practice, the power structures that have traditionally defined American life have unfortunately held up just fine.
@tzimmer_history - Thomas Zimmer
These moral panics appeal to (predominantly white, predominantly male) elites because the threat to elite impunity is real - “cancel culture” and “wokeism” may have made it slightly more likely that people get in trouble for racist, misogynistic, disrespectful behavior.
@tzimmer_history - Thomas Zimmer
Simply put, elite life in the public spotlight has become slightly more uncomfortable, at least for elites who used to be able to get away with absolutely everything and now they (potentially) don’t anymore. People like David French and Pamela Paul get more public criticism.
@tzimmer_history - Thomas Zimmer
The reason is that traditionally marginalized groups have forced their way into the conversation, necessitating a re-negotiation of norms surrounding public speech and expression. That process can be messy at times - but the alternative is continued elite dominance and impunity.
@tzimmer_history - Thomas Zimmer
Everyone agrees that certain transgressions, certain public speech should be met with shaming or shunning. The real question is: Where is the line, and who gets to draw it? Traditionally, this was the prerogative of a predominantly white, predominantly male elite.
@tzimmer_history - Thomas Zimmer
This prerogative has come under fire. And if you believe - as much of America’s traditional elite evidently does - that you are entitled to say and do whatever you want without legal or cultural sanction, that you are actually entitled to unconditional affirmation, that’s bad.
@tzimmer_history - Thomas Zimmer
Think about how cynical, how utterly vile this is: “No right are being ‘stripped away.’ None.” As red states have introduced *hundreds* of anti-trans bills, passing ever-more extreme anti-trans laws every week. What an unbelievably disingenuous bigot this man is. Despicable.
@tzimmer_history - Thomas Zimmer
So many people proudly taking the Sullivan “You’re just making stuff up” line in my responses. When this, below, is what’s happening across the U.S. There is no plausible deniability for this level of willful ignorance or bigotry. You’re just telling the world who you are. https://t.co/A0fsqQiF9H
@tzimmer_history - Thomas Zimmer
As the reactionary assault on one of the country’s most vulnerable, most marginalized groups is escalating, anti-“woke” crusaders are focused on the real threat - elite “free speech”: “Famous billionaires need our protection! Famous NYT columnists are being persecuted!” Perfect.
@ImMeme0 - I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸
Biden is giving these people your tax money. https://t.co/3eaft4apyk
@RepMTG - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸
Inspired by the sick gender ideology of the Democrats and the left, trans terrorism is a real threat. Today in the @HomelandGOP Committee, I addressed the mass murders and violence committed in the name of “trans vengeance.”
Video Transcript AI Summary
In this video, the speaker highlights recent mass shootings and identifies the shooters as non-binary and transgender individuals. They express concern about the small percentage of trans people in the population and mention a trans day of vengeance, which they associate with left-wing extremism. The speaker asserts that the right-wing believes in only two genders, male and female, and supports women's sports and privacy. They criticize the movement that they believe coerces and brainwashes children into a "sick ideology." The speaker thanks Mr. Schiemer and concludes their statement.
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Speaker 0: I wanted I wanted to point out because there's been a lot lost here. Let's talk about the recent, 4 mass shootings in the past 5 years. Colorado's being shooter identified as non binary. Denver Denver shooter identified as trans. Aberdeen shooter identified as trans.
Audrey Hill, the Nashville shooter identified as trans, but trans people only make up about 1 half of 1% of the population. Just recently, there was a trans day of vengeance, which is definitely not right wing extremism or violence. This looks terrifying, and it's definitely from the left because on the right, I can assure you we believe in 2 genders, that's male and female. And we support title 9 women's sports, you, Riley, Gaines, and any other female athlete that wants biological men to stay out of their sports dressing rooms and women's privacy areas. This is what left wing extremism and violence stems from is the movement that wants to use trans terrorism against Americans violating, the whole idea of biological science that there's 2 genders and that children should not be coerced and and brainwashed into this into this sick ideology.
Thank you, mister Schiemer, and I yield back.
reSee.it AI Summary
The Trans Agenda encompasses depopulation, transhumanism, weakening and demonizing men, destroying families, erasing women, castrating/sterilizing/mutilating kids, undermining women's sports and rights, stealing their safe spaces, creating lifelong Big Pharma customers, grooming and sexualizing kids. The support for this raises questions.
@DrLoupis - Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis
The Trans Agenda and what it’s about: -Depopulation. -Transhumanism. -Weakening men. -Demonizing men. -Destroying families. -Erasing women. -Castrating/sterilizing/mutilating kids. -Destroying women’s sports. -Destroying women’s rights. -Stealing women’s safe spaces. -Lifelong Big Pharma customers. -Grooming kids. -Sexualizing kids. Why are people supporting this?
reSee.it AI Summary
In a surreal video, trans activists demand prepubescent kids (8-12 years old) be put on puberty blockers & cross-sex hormones to avoid "the wrong puberty." The celebration of these activists raises questions about the money trail.
@scarlett4kids - Scarlett Johnson
Don’t scroll past this video. I was there. Surreal. Listen to the trAns activists that descended upon my capitol👇🏽 Prepubescent kids(8-12 years old) MUST be identified and put on puberty blockers & cross sex hormones to prevent “the wrong puberty.” https://t.co/AJYwimPgR9
Video Transcript AI Summary
The speaker discusses the standards applied to children and the potential benefits of going on blockers. They mention that blockers can prevent the development of a deep voice, Adam's apple, and facial hair. The speaker shares their personal experience of spending $5,000 on facial hair removal and $25,000 on facial feminization surgery. They believe that blockers can prevent the need for such procedures and alleviate stress.
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Standards are very well done and I'm assuming the same standards I had to go through are applied to the kids. And then last I want to talk about something really interesting and that's if you don't I would have loved to go on the blockers I want to just tell you really quickly what happens if you don't go on blockers. Well the first I think and my understanding they are reversible but I'd like to see more data on that actually but anyway one of the things that blockers stops is getting the deep voice. I'm stuck with this deep voice and I think the blockers would have stopped that and if you take them off the blockers you get another thing I have is like the Adam's apple facial hair. Time is up. Okay real quick I spent $5,000 trying to have my facial hair removed through electrolysis and only half of it is gone and then the most important thing is I had facial feminization surgery and I paid that out of my own pocket that was $25,000 and my point is the blockers can prevent having to be forced and it caused a lot of stress for me today having these but there were some solutions.
@scarlett4kids - Scarlett Johnson
Want to know why these activists aren’t shut down immediately, instead they are celebrated…follow the money.https://t.co/uZx3Ji7KpP
Video Transcript AI Summary
Transgender Inc., the market for sex reassignment surgeries and hormone replacement therapies, is a lucrative industry worth billions of dollars. The number of transgender individuals has doubled in the past decade, with over 1.6 million in the United States alone. However, there is a lack of long-term studies on the efficacy and consequences of these procedures and pharmaceutical products, especially for minors. The medical community, influenced by organizations like WPATH, has embraced transgenderism as a political and advocacy movement. The profit-driven nature of the industry, coupled with the cultural and ideological shift towards subjective reality, has led to the rapid growth of transgenderism. The involvement of pharmaceutical companies, health systems, and corporate America further perpetuates this trend.
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Speaker 0: What I call Transgender Inc. Deserves to be highlighted in very visible way. Why? Sex reassignment surgeries and hormone replacement $7,500,000,000. There are no long term studies that show the efficacy of taking these very powerful pharmaceuticals is one of the most graphic and invasive procedures as a vaginoplasty.
That is where male to female patients is castrated, testicles are removed, and the penis is inverted to create a vaginal cavity.
Speaker 1: They can't even do lip filler in a convincing way in this country. You can't tell me they can recreate something Of course. As complex as female genitals.
Speaker 0: The Biden administration has We endorse reconstructed surgery for minors.
Speaker 2: Title often know that they are transgender from
Speaker 0: the moment that they have any ability to sex rehab. There's 300,000 transgender youth. That number has, by the way, doubled over 5 years. They face a lifetime of zero sexual function. It's almost too crazy.
It's perverse.
Speaker 1: If someone had told you 15 years ago that kids in your, say, Daughter's 9th grade class would be coming to school in drag and would be affirmed in that by their Teachers and the broader community would say there's no chance that could happen in this country. And, of course, it has happened and it's now happening at scale. Transgenderism is not just a fad. It's a fact of life across this country, not just the elites, but in small towns everywhere. And so the question is, how did something this unnatural and prima facie demented happen so quickly?
Well, of course, there's got to be money involved. Interestingly, no one that we're aware of is taking a close forensic look at where the money's coming from and where it's going. And that's why we're so delighted to see research done by our next guest, Chris Moritz, who's a Longtime investment banker and policy guy has done on this question, transgenderism. It didn't happen by accident. Some people are profiting from it.
And with that, we introduce our guest
Speaker 0: who joins us here on set. Thank you. Thank you, Tucker. It's beyond pleasure to be here.
Speaker 1: Well, it's We're grateful to have you. And there's been a lot of complaining about this. It's clearly a destructive The trend that's hurting people, particularly children, destabilizing the society. And it doesn't make any sense, so it's making all of us irrational. But for some reason, nobody has Taking the time to figure out who's profiting from this, and you've done what I think is a spectacular dive into this, an amazing overview of the economics of transgenders.
And so with that, I'll just kind of back off and let you describe what you found.
Speaker 0: Well, I think, there's so many elements to this to this issue. Yes. Philosophical, Religious even. Yes. You know, social media.
Especially. Of course. Yeah. But the economics of it, what I call Transgender Inc. Is something that, has gotten very, very little attention, and it deserves to be highlighted in very, visible way.
Because this is a market that in 2018, This market is made up of sex reassignment surgeries and hormone replacement therapies which include a number of different pharmaceutical products. But the combined value sales of sex reassignment surgeries and the pharmaceutical products in 2018 was $2,940,000,000. By 2022 that that figure had rose to $4,180,000,000. And by 2030, our analysis indicates that that would increase to $7,500,000,000 which represents an 8.5% compound annual growth rate, which is relatively significant within a health care vertical.
Speaker 1: Well, it's bigger than the entire health care budgets of some African countries. Screens a lot of money.
Speaker 0: Well, considering also that the population of patients is about a 1000000 people. There's 1,600,000 transgender adults, or I should say over the age of 13, transgender individuals in the United States, as of 2022. Now that number has doubled in 10 years. So in 2011, There were 700,000 transgender, Americans over the age of 13. And by 2022, that had risen to 1,600,000.
Now, and so you just ended the debate over whether this is something
Speaker 1: a person is born with?
Speaker 0: Well, I think that there is absolutely zero scientific evidence that would suggest that there is, a gene, chemical alteration, any kind of somatic physical biological element to transgenderism that would result in, what has become known as gender dysphoria. And in fact, we if we get deeper into the medical research, we find that there are no clinical studies, none, on the long term efficacy consequences and in many cases debilitating life term, effects of these procedures and pharmaceutical products, especially on children. With there are no studies? There are none. In fact, The FDA has not approved a single, pharmaceutical product used in gender transition, specifically for gender transition.
So, testosterone, estrogen and what are called GnRH agonists or puberty blockers, are all prescribed off label. So they do not have specific FDA approval for gender transition. Because this is such a new field of medicine, and, many of these drugs, especially these GnRH agonists or puberty blockers, have been traditionally prescribed for cancer patients. Right. Prostate cancer famously.
Exactly. So there's a drug called Lupron developed by AbbVie Pharmaceuticals. And this has gotten a lot of controversy and a lot of attention because, in Texas, Ken Paxton has actually brought suit against AbbVie and another pharmaceutical company that makes, puberty blockers called Endo Pharmaceuticals, based on the fact that they are advertising to children, These, these drugs off label.
Speaker 1: For a non FDA approved use. Correct. So, testosterone feeds prostate tumors.
Speaker 0: Yes.
Speaker 1: So if you are diagnosed with prostate cancer, one of the therapies might be to lower your testosterone. Correct? Correct. That's where the drug is
Speaker 0: used for. That's exactly right.
Speaker 1: But It's now being prescribed at scale to kids. Yeah. And there's no study suggesting the outcomes Long term?
Speaker 0: None. No peer reviewed.
Speaker 1: Can you think of any is there any other part of, air quotes, medicine where Over a 1000000 people are being prescribed a course of quote therapy where we
Speaker 0: don't know the outcome. Yeah, I think there is a there is an analogy that can be made, you know, as a millennial growing up in the 90s. What it what was a what was a big trend at that time in, for that cohort? ADHD, everyone was put on Adderall at a young age because, you know, school teachers identified hyperactive kids and the process of getting going from, you know, being identified as, you know, maybe a little different or whatever at the school level and then getting elevated to guidance counselors, then to psychologists, then to clinicians. And before you know it, You're prescribed, you know, a very powerful pharmaceutical drug.
And I think something very
Speaker 1: That's an addictive drug that will give
Speaker 0: you brain damage. For sure. And I'll tell you the drugs that are taking, that are being administered for, transgender patients, especially these puberty blockers are far, far more dire. Can we back up for
Speaker 1: a second? So and I remember that very well. I had kids in school at the time. The ADHD thing happened. And I always thought it was a cope for, you know, boring teachers teaching pointless material.
And when kids got jumpy, they're like, you need drugs. Right. But I always assume there was some sort of longitudinal research on the effects of this?
Speaker 0: Well, at the time, you know, at that time, it was Still kind of a novel, a novel therapy, and really gained You know, enormous amount of traction in the 90s. And I think what we're seeing
Speaker 1: But they had no data to show that this would improvement. I can't
Speaker 0: say whether there were peer reviewed studies at the time. I believe that Even today, we don't know the long term consequences necessarily of some of those specific drugs. But certainly with respect to the transgender pharmaceuticals. There are no long term studies, peer reviewed that show the efficacy or not, of taking these very powerful pharmaceuticals. And, you know, we may not know for some time.
And in fact, what has resulted in, this has resulted in A situation where clinicians and institutions and academics and elementary schools and the entire gamut of this supply chain, has had to fall back on protocols established by an organization called WPATH. WPATH stands for the World Professional Association of Transgender Health. It's technically a medical, professional body established in the 1970s. And, but I think what's unique about it, is that it's It is it is for sure, you know, a medical entity, but it is also an advocacy organization. And a political advocacy for sure.
So insofar as they are advocating for the advancement of transgenderism. So in other words, the protocols and clinical protocols that health systems, you know, large and small that are fall are falling back on are the standards that WPATH, has enacted over the years. So can
Speaker 1: I ask you a positive one sec? So in order for all of these therapies to become Mainstream, you have to change the definition of gender dysphoria from something that you treat, a problem, of psychiatric illness, you have to
Speaker 0: change it from that to something very different. And in fact, the clinical history It shows just that. So in 1952, the 1st sex reassignment surgery happened, I believe at Johns Hopkins with a patient named Christine Jorgensen, it was very big news at the time. And Then about 10 years later, Johns Hopkins established the 1st gender clinic, for purposes of performing sex reassignment surgeries. But for most of the 20th century and certainly the post war period, Transgenderism or gender dysphoria as it's become known, was deemed to be a mental illness.
It was called transsexualism or gender identity disorder. And this was kind of the basis for understanding treatments and it was deemed to be psychiatric. However, in 2013, the American Psychiatric Association amended DSM. DSM is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Illness. And in this change, They altered the nomenclature of of of the condition such that transsexualism or gender identity disorder became gender dysphoria.
And what's significant about this change
Speaker 1: This is why the term transsexual, which was the term of art that people used, all people on all sides of the question, has disappeared, of course. And and well,
Speaker 0: I mean, let's let's face it. If you remove the pharmaceuticals, if you remove the surgeries, what are you left with? You're left with A transvestite, you're left with a cross dresser, right? And that's it. And that's what it was for decades decades.
I mean, There were, you know, like I said, some surgeries here and there, very small numbers, but really this what we're seeing today accelerated after 2010.
Speaker 1: But I think most people, if I can interject, didn't feel threatened by that or threatened at all, speaking for myself, Because the stakes are low. Yeah. You put on different clothes. It's an eccentric copy of yours or whatever it is. Right.
But you're not Defacing your body, you're not stopping the natural process of maturation. Right. Right? So by defining
Speaker 0: this condition is gender dysphoria. What it effectively achieved was removing The notion that this is a psychosexual disorder and that is in fact a conflict between A subjective, self, perception of gender or even as a social perception of gender and, one's natural feelings about gender. And therefore, that can be that distress from that comes from the discontinuity between those 2, can be alleviated by surgeries and these very radical pharmaceuticals. So I feel like I was born
Speaker 1: in the body through plastic surgery and drugs, I can eliminate all of the anxiety that comes from feeling like I'm trapped?
Speaker 0: I mean that that is the argument and certainly for many like transgender patients, they report, positive benefits from the process. However, many, many also report regret, Severe physical ailments that come from the surgeries themselves, which we can get into and, the complications that arise from those, and then of course the pharmaceuticals.
Speaker 1: Well, let's get into that if we could because I spent, I don't know, the last 5 years talking about Transgender stuff on TV, and I don't and debating people on it. And I don't think I've ever heard anyone describe what exactly the surgeries are. I don't think you're allowed to ask. I haven't Googled for photographs because I'm not sure I want to see them, but that's like not part of the conversation. The details have kind of been omitted here.
So what are the surgeries?
Speaker 0: They're purposely admitted. So okay,
Speaker 1: so let's get specific and drop this off if it bothers you.
Speaker 0: No, no. For instance, I think probably one of the most graphic and invasive procedures is called a vaginoplasty. And that is where A, male to female patient, is castrated, testicles are removed, the penis is inverted to create a vaginal cavity and then, skin grafting is used to create, other, you know, other elements of female genitalia, vulva, labia, etcetera. But what we're what we found is that, there's a study from California
Speaker 1: They can't even do lip filler in a convincing way in this country. You can't tell me they can re creates something as complex as female genitalia. I'm sorry. Of course they can.
Speaker 0: And in there's a study out of California of 869 thiagnoplasty patients. And of those 8 69, 25% post op had side effects to the surgery that were so severe that they required additional hospitalization. Of those 25 25%. Yes. And of those 25%, 44 had to have major revisional surgery due to bowel injuries, bleeding.
Also associated with this particular procedure is total loss of sensation. In other words, sexual functioning. And Total loss. Total loss. Irreversible.
So, that's one of the I think the more It's one of the more explosive of these procedures, but it also includes mastectomies, which are performed rate increasingly rate on minors, on girls. Even the Biden administration has kind of tacitly endorsed gentle reconstructive surgery for minors on a case by case basis. This was promulgated by, I believe, Admiral Levine. Rachel Levine. Oh, the dude In the military outfit.
Sure.
Speaker 1: But can I ask so like 10 years ago, again, just having spent life in cable news, I remember all the debates? You sort of wonder like whatever happened to that? Like the female genital mutilation, FGM. This was something that your garden variety NPR Donor was very upset about Sure. Like 10 years ago.
Yeah. I haven't heard anybody mention female genital mutilation in the United States in quite some time now. Is that because we now officially engage
Speaker 0: in it? Of course, we export it the rest of the world. The rest of the world the rest of the developed world which were in fact, the Scandinavian countries in particular had had, you know, kind of, you know, prior in the early 2000s and in the 90s even, were really at the forefront of this field of medicine.
Speaker 1: I thought it was the Muslims who had these crazy radical ideologies and they were exporting female genital mutilation. Now it's go
Speaker 0: west? Actually I mean, actually in in Iran, Iran is one of the largest centers for sex reassignment surgery in the world. What? Yeah. Because because they're anti gay.
And transgenderism, I mean, it's It's a very quietly held, but widely held view I think amongst, the LGB community. The transgenderism is anti LGB?
Speaker 1: Well, of course
Speaker 0: it is. Of course it is. And and in Iran, where homosexuality is illegal, A very simple solution. Badgino plasty. Cut it off?
Yeah. So,
Speaker 1: Well, you just blow my mind. I had no idea.
Speaker 0: Yeah. Wow. And I'll tell you, in terms of the pace of growth for let's say, clinics, serving pediatric patients on gender issues. In 15 last 15 years In the United States, we had 0 down to over a 100. Clinics.
Clinics for kids. Why? It's very complicated, It's a very complicated question and there's a lot of different reasons why. I would say that The biggest single policy catalyst for this explosion is Obamacare. When Obamacare was, enacted in 2010.
There was a kind of very quietly kind of written into the law, a provision in which insurance companies were mandated to provide coverage for what is deemed to be medically necessary gender affirming care. As a result of that, Between 2010 and 2016, there was a 50% increase in sex reassignment surgeries, 25% increase in, insurance coverage for transgender individuals. And then at the very end of the Obama administration 2016, an additional amendment to the Affordable Care Act was made whereby, gender identity could no longer be a basis for denial of coverage, by private insurance companies. As a result of that, the next year from 2016 to 2017, there was 150% increase in sex reassignment surgeries in United States. The Trump administration and very early on revoked this provision.
And then of course, the Biden administration put it back in place with I think within the 1st 100 days.
Speaker 1: So they're required to pay for it. How expensive is it?
Speaker 0: Well, A total transformation or a transition rather, for male to female is Approximately $142,000.
Speaker 1: And what does that entail?
Speaker 0: That would entail what's called bottom surgery and top surgery.
Speaker 1: So that would be castration, fake non functional vagina and breast implants. Exactly. But that does not I mean, this is too it's almost too crazy. It's perverse. Can I ask a question?
Does anyone study the sex lives of post op transsexuals? Like how
Speaker 0: are they? Well, as I said, for many, many patients that have, especially the male to females that have procedures, general reconstruction procedures, they face a lifetime of 0 sexual function because they look they lose sensitivity, you know, in this artificial vagina.
Speaker 1: What about constructing artificial penis? Are they better at that?
Speaker 0: That seems to be more efficacious, because it involves Less complicated. Well, it's less complicated. It's also part of the process of let's say administering testosterone to women results in an enlargement of the clitoris. Yes. And that can be used, as a basis to create a neophallus.
So that's one procedure. That costs about $50,000. That can actually cost up to $150,000 depending on, you know, the the health system, but it's generally about 15 months.
Speaker 1: So in that specific case, if I mean, since we know that testosterone and estrogen too, I mean, these are Really powerful chemicals, and they're implicated in all kinds of health. They're necessary, but they're implicated in health disorders like cancer and but but others as well. If you pump a man full of estrogen or a woman full of testosterone, like, what are the health consequences of that? Leaving aside,
Speaker 0: I mean, again, we have no long term studies on the effects, long term effects of these pharmaceuticals, on transgender patients. There's simply not. So clinicians fall back on guidelines established by, WPATH. By a transgender political group? Yes, yes.
This is a very interesting anecdote about WPATH. There was a Clinical psychologist at UCSF, who is the US chapter president of WPATH and She is transgender. And in 2000 I believe 2021, she made a public statement that, She believed that the industry was moving way too fast and there was sloppy medicine and propensity for false positives in adolescence resulting in potentially irreversible changes for these kids. As a result of this statement, WPATH forced her to resign, and then issued a moratorium on all of its board members from ever speaking to the press.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. Yeah. That's not science. No. But you have to wonder about just your garden variety physician who is swimming in the soup funded by The insurance companies led by the nose by activist groups like WPATH and Human Rights Campaign, etcetera.
And the effect is, Like scary medicine that's destroying people's lives. Like, where all the doctors standing up and saying, woah, that's not science. This is bad for people. I don't ever see them. Where
Speaker 0: are they? In this country, They're hard to find. In other countries which actually has longer histories of this kind of treatments and product lines, there's a significant pushback. In fact, in England, The leading, pediatric clinic for gender dysphoria, it's called the Talas Talasbach Clinic, was shut down by the NIH, which is the, the UK health system, or health administrator, because of of again, sloppy diagnoses, concerns that Doctors were neglecting their duty of care, informed consent. And so it's opening up potential tort litigation.
Speaker 1: But it does seem like I mean, we have tens of thousands of physicians in this country, and they're all well educated and by definition smart. And you'd like to think they're responsible and ethical. But it seems like they've been so corrupted like how could they stand by and allow this to happen?
Speaker 0: Well, how can they go on TikTok and and Instagram and advertise, specifically to targeted transgender youth that are following these feeds and promoting their services, is that is that medicine or is that retail medicine?
Speaker 1: So I wanna ask you about the economics in a minute, but I'm just I'm struck by the moral corruption
Speaker 0: Of course.
Speaker 1: And wondering I mean, there are a lot of crappy talk show hosts out there, and I always felt like, why don't I talk show host? I should probably say something. You know what I mean? Sure. Like because it's embarrassing.
But I don't wanna hold anyone's life in my hands. If I was a doctor, it would it feels like there's a moral obligation to say something. So, this is a Gender affirming surgeon. This is a lunatic with a knife called Sieve Gallagher, describing a brand new group of of patients. Watch this.
Speaker 2: A group of gender diverse individuals who Haven't been very visible are UNOCs. And there is an entire chapter devoted to these folks In the most recent version of the WPATH standards of care, WPATH is World Professional Association of Transgender Health. And so, basically, a eunuch is somebody who's the same male of birth, but may not be comfortable with the masculine features And may also benefit from gender affirmation care, which could mean Orchiectomy in some patients. Now we have to be very careful Because we know that if we just take away sex hormones completely, patients can have problems with osteoporosis and Vascular disease. So usually the patient will supplement on either low dose testosterone or low dose estrogen, and it requires specialized care.
But sometimes This is an important part of gender affirmation surgery for this, group of patients.
Speaker 1: So Just in case you're wondering if this is medieval, here you have apparently a physician proudly creating eunuchs Presumably to guard the harem somewhere.
Speaker 0: Exactly.
Speaker 1: I mean, what so but but like where are the other surgeons who are like, wait, that's fully crackpot that's pre science?
Speaker 0: There is definitely a pushback, but institutions are crushing That descent.
Speaker 1: That's what it is.
Speaker 0: Just like what I cited with the clinical psychologist at, you know, who is the the WPATH.
Speaker 1: No, that's what it is. US chair. It's the institute. It's like everyone watched the 2020 election get stolen, but nobody can say anything because you'll get crushed.
Speaker 0: Look, And it's not just healthcare institute, it's not just health systems, it's not just pharmaceutical companies, it's corporate America. So for instance, There isn't a, an entity called the Tuwanee Foundation. Tuwanee Foundation is led by Jennifer Pritzker, who is the transgender sister of Governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker. And she established a, a nonprofit, NC called Tuani Foundation, and then a private equity vehicle called Tuani Enterprises. Tuani Foundation has, has established grants all over the world to propagate transgenderism at the university levels, funding, legal battles, and legislative initiatives, but they have also partnered with corporate entities.
So for instance, in 2013, To Lonnie, in conjunction with Wells Fargo Foundation, established a grant at UC Santa Barbara to study transgenderism in the U. S. Military?
Speaker 1: To study transgenderism in the U. S. Military, Promote. Promote. So can you tell me what you think the motive is in corporate America Getting behind something so obviously destructive?
Well,
Speaker 0: I think that, as you have opined many, many times. Corporate America gets their marching orders from, HR departments. HR departments get their marching orders from universities. Universities are we know what the culture and mores are of our elite institutions. And even these medical associations and boards, WPATH included, have strong affiliations with universities.
These ideas are coming out of universities. And why that is? There's many of it many of the reasons why. I would argue it's a kind of extension of postmodernist cultural Marxism because transgenderism, if we're looking at it philosophically, is ultimately about rejecting What is a foundational principle, philosophical principle in Western civilization, which goes back to Aristotle, That there is such a thing as objective truth and reality. Yes.
But transgenderism And beauty. Yes. But transgenderism is to say, There is no such thing as an objective reality that you are born a male or female. It is your subjective perception of your gender identity that is actualized and made real and where it becomes kind of authoritarian as a movement in the fact that the movement demands society recognize that subjective reality as truth. And I feel that that is one of the most disturbing things about this entire movement.
They've created entire lexicon that is, you know, for instance, gender affirming care. What does that mean? What does it mean, to be assigned a sex at birth as it's often, referred to in the literature. I mean, I you know, one argument can be made. It's very anti God, Right?
It's it is you are assigned a gender and that can be changed by medical science. Because
Speaker 1: your God. Because Right. It also looks a lot like human sacrifice to me. I mean, castrate your sons. Yeah.
And you'll somehow Benefit? I mean, most people, I would say, throughout you know, as long as people have existed, kind of want their children to reproduce and sort of carry on the line. That's like the core human desire. And this ends it. I mean, you castrate your son, you have no grandchildren.
But why why are parents agreeing to this. They're doing so because
Speaker 0: and there are many, many anecdotes, related to this and across the literature and across a lot of investigative journalists reports on this subject is that parents are presented, you know, especially in that initial meeting, with the at a gender clinic with a, you know, a choice. They'll say, you can either your son can either be a daughter Or you can have a dead son. Right. And they will scare the hell out of them with statistics about suicide rates and all sorts of other mental illnesses that will suggestively, come to fruition if you do not take this course of action. Ironically, in Sweden, which was really at the a leader in this area of medicine and in this field, A Swedish study, couple of years ago found that post op transgender patients have a significantly higher likelihood of making suicide attempts and, requiring, inpatient psychiatric care than the overall general general population.
Speaker 1: Is it is this is it only the white countries that are doing this or the non white countries that are super anxious
Speaker 0: to castrate their kids? Well I can tell you it's not happening in China, right. It's not happening in Japan. It's not happening in India. In Thailand, they have long had a cultural concept of like a third sex.
And so there's a lot of, In fact, it's a big market for sex change surgeries. And for sex trafficking. Yeah. And sex trafficking too. So, But what about sub Saharan Africa?
I mean, they certainly have, I think a Strong market share on the genital mutilation sub segment. But in terms of transgenderism. I I think that's a that's a nonstarter. This is an American export at this point.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But it's the it's the anglosphere too in Scandinavia. And so it's Western Europe, the United States.
Speaker 0: But in England, they're push pulling back from this as well. There are a number of important tort cases centered around neglect, negligence by doctors when it comes to duty of care and, informed consent for transgender youth.
Speaker 1: So what just back to the money, which I've given short shrift to. My apologies. So who's profiting? You know, you bring your 8th grader into a gender clinic. Kid's got to transition or else he's going to kill himself.
Who makes money going forward?
Speaker 0: Well, Cedar Sinai Hospital health system in Los Angeles is the market leader in the sex reassignment surgery, US sex reassignment surgery market, they have a 8 approximately 8% market share. It's highly fragmented overall. No, no, no, single entity really has a share greater than 8%. So these are very often regional and highly competitive space, but regional. And Cedars has a dedicated transgender clinic.
The revenue from the surgeries brought on by that clinic in 2022 amounted to over $200,000,000. That is on revenue of, I believe, $8,000,000,000 for Cedars overall. Cedars doesn't have
Speaker 1: a board or there are no I mean, there's no oversight of this?
Speaker 0: The board encourages it. In fact, There are very perverse incentives for health systems, to go full on board with, this line of service and this line of products, because entities like the Human Rights Campaign have established, what is essentially ESG for trans. They call it HEI, health equity inclusion. So Human Rights Campaign about 15 years ago established this national benchmarking tool and it effectively is a Equity and inclusion gauge for health systems and it is used coercively. And examples of that, would be that in 2020, the Children's National Hospital, received a low HEI score.
As a result of that, the board of directors of the hospital, immediately, established a DEI subcommittee and then extended sex reassignment surgery coverage to all of their employees and their dependents under the age of 18. The next year, h, Children's National Hospital received a 100% HAI score.
Speaker 1: But it's a Hospital filled with self described scientists. Nobody's piped up and said, there's zero evidence this is a good idea. We don't have a single study suggesting this works.
Speaker 0: No one said that? Well, I mean, there are certainly, studies that would show that, and again, like They're not necessarily peer reviewed, but there's studies that show that transgender patients, are sometimes very satisfied with results. But On the other hand, many times they're not. Over what period? Well, I mean, that's a great question too because I mean,
Speaker 1: if you take A 17 year old and pumping full of hormones he wasn't born with like, you know, there have to be massive See physical and psychological consequences.
Speaker 0: Okay. So with puberty blockers in particular, which suppress Testosterone, in men in particular for prostate cancers as you cited and affect the pituitary gland, and suppress the onset of puberty. This was this was also developed to address what's called precocious puberty. Right. That would be kids early onset.
Early onset. 6, 9 years old who start developing early and this is what it's administered for. But The long term effects of these drugs, especially in healthy patients and let's face it, transgender Patients do not necessarily have any other comorbidities or medical problems. They are healthy adults. It's It's in the mind, you know, that results in the initiation of treatment.
And in the case of puberty blockers, you have concern even amongst gender clinicians that Brain development may be significantly impacted by the administration of these drugs, because if you suppress natural maturation that includes brain development at a very critical stage in adolescence. So we have, that's a side effect. There's concerns about bone density. There's Certainly concerns about long term fertility rates. It goes on and on and on.
You said there are 2 Big manufacturers of puberty blockers? Well, there's several. The leading pharmaceutical players in this space include Pfizer, a company called AbbVie Pharmaceuticals. Pfizer? What does Pfizer mean?
Pfizer makes testosterone, estrogen and puberty blockers. Primarily though, it's testosterone and estrogen. And I want to stipulate that, the overall sales for these product lines, at the within the pharmaceutical companies are relatively small because the number of patients is very small. There's, 300,000 transgender youth, so 13 to 17 in the United States. That number has by the way doubled over 5 years from 2017 being 150,000 to, to 300,000, by 2022.
And so, so these pharmaceutical companies are not necessarily making huge amounts of money off of these drugs. I think really the big money is coming from health systems and the surgeries because they're just so expensive, and incorporate obviously a lot of ancillary costs related to surgeries in general. As I said, you know, revision surgeries are, a frequent issue, with the transgender sex reassignment, because they're just so invasive and so complicated. It takes 12 to 18 months to recover from a aginoplasty or a phalloplasty.
Speaker 1: Knowing as much as you do about how this began and who's profiting, if you wanted to stop it or slow it down Will make it less likely that your 8th grader wants to transition. What would you do?
Speaker 0: Well, I think I think that, I think when you're talking about an 8th grader, for instance, who exhibits, let's say, you know, strong feminine qualities at early age, may very well just be just be gay. But, in the date in the kind of the time that we live in now, that 8th grader is scrutinized by, you know, a element 8th grade teacher, Identified as potentially gender dysphoric, referred to a guidance counselor, who then refers to a local psychologist, who then refers, The the the the the the the 8th grader and his parents who are gender clinic go to the gender clinic, and a, a clinician will will make a very stark, assessment and raise the stakes for these parents saying, you know, you can have again as I said, a dead son or a transition daughter. And there was a study that Reuters did last year of, 18 pediatric clinics, gender clinics in the US, and to assess basically the process of evaluation, they came to the following conclusion. Effectively, patients will meet with a social worker, a psychologist And the clinician, either pediatrician or endocrinologist, they'll take, you know, 2 hour meeting, Assess medical history, talk about the benefits and risks and so on and so forth, present these suicide statistics.
And Reuters found that 7 of these 18 clinics, would after, After they were made sure there was no obvious red flags or comorbidities and that the child and parents were in agreement, which is I think is interesting. The child that would be in agreement to this, equally with the parents, then most than out of these 7 clinics, they are comfortable after this 2 hour meeting, after a first meeting to make a gender dysphoria diagnosis and prescribe these powerful pharmaceuticals. Any idea what percentage of
Speaker 1: the families were single parent female headed? I don't know that. It's a good question. It's hard to imagine too many dads going along with this, but
Speaker 0: But in California recently, there was legislation that can effectively take custody away from, let's say, a dad who objects to the gender affirmation of their kid? Yeah. Well, that's just stealing your child. And to what end? For
Speaker 1: It's just interesting. I mean, you know it's a passive Passive country that nobody's resorted to violence. I mean, in a normal culture, if someone said, we're going to take your child away and castrate him, I mean, you know, you would die before you let that happen.
Speaker 0: Yeah. I mean, Again, I think that so much of this has to be viewed in parallel with the radicalization that happens at the primary school level and university school level. Frankly, Elon Musk has talked about this his own experience with this, at an elite private school in Los Angeles where, he, his daughter or son rather, became kind of politically radicalized and then trans transitioned. And and You'll find I think that, the political radicalization and the gender radicalization are both coming from the universities and they both have the same end goals, which is to Break down the foundations of our country and of our civilization as we have, have established for millennia, to replace it with something new in their image. And it is a kind of playing God, and it's a kind of cultural revolution, that I think, even has some, some, parallels to the China's Cultural Revolution.
Yeah. Which seems a little bit less absurd than this, just saying. Oh, in many ways.
Speaker 1: Chris, thank you for all of this.
Speaker 0: Thank you.
Speaker 1: All of the research you did and so Clearly explaining it. Thanks. Appreciate it. Thank you.
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The left is waking up to the reality of BLM and soon will realize the truth about Queer+ activism. GLSEN, backed by billions, has infiltrated schools. Queer Theory's architects and gender theory are equally concerning. This isn't by chance; it's a calculated revolution. Dissent is labeled as bigotry, but it's forced upon us. Society must acknowledge the greater story and the evil within this Trojan Horse. Our culture and children are being manipulated against our will. Everything about this is wrong.
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A whole lot of people on the left have been smacked out of their little moralizing coma and back to reality re what BLM is and was always about. Now I look forward to when they do the same with Queer+ activism. Wait til you see what you find under those rocks!
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Start high-level with GLSEN. 👇 The multi-billion supported conglomerate that has pervaded all of our schools with the specific mission of "queering" kids, and it's tentacles that stretch from the Fortune 500, to the Obama White House, to George Soros. https://theojordan.substack.com/p/what-is-glsen
What is GLSEN?
The curious case of Kevin Jennings
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And then take a close look at Queer Theory's architects. 👇 Oh, it gets so much worse. Everything he states here is factual. It's their own words! Receipts. Hard to hold back such wicked lust. Why does our Intellegensia worship and champion these figures?
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The speaker discusses the connection between anarchism and pedophilia, but is interrupted and asked to talk about something relevant. They then play a game called Queer Theory Pedophilia Jeopardy, where they mention influential figures in queer theory who have supported the eradication of age of consent laws. They also mention an article that defends pedophilia and compare it to a preference for spicy food. The speaker talks about the author Pat Califia and quotes from their book, highlighting their views on children's sexual activity. They mention Judith Butler's controversial views on incest and conclude that no queer theorist has spoken out against pedophilia.
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Speaker 0: There is a long correlation between anarchism and pedophilia and support for pedophilia. The Oh, wait wait wait wait wait wait wait, that's a beautiful line. Thank you so much for asking how about something relevant. I've been talking about rape culture all day and pedophilia and the support of pedophilia is not rape culture. Actually actually, it seems if you're acting like this is a spurious connection, so we're gonna play Jeopardy.
This is we're gonna play Queer theory we're gonna play Queer Theory, Pedophilia, Jeopardy! Okay, answer. Commonly called the godfather of queer theory. Okay. 100 points.
Foucault, another way to ask this is, who argued? No, I guess the answer would be argued for the eradication patient of age of consent laws as in down to infants.
Speaker 1: Who is to a co? Thank
Speaker 0: Next one. The author of the the author of the, founding documents of queer theory.
Speaker 1: Who is Gail Rubin?
Speaker 0: Who is Gail Rubin? What percentage? Don't know the answer is 50%. Question is?
Speaker 1: Amount in that article that was a defensive pedophilia specifically, quote, boy lovers. So they just talk boys. Oh.
Speaker 0: And since you're not believing me, quote quote, this is in the founding document of Queer Theory. White communists and homosexuals in 19 fifties, boy lovers are so stigmatized that it is difficult to find defenders of their civil liberties, let alone for their erotic orientation. In the founding document of career theory. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm using facts.
Speaker 1: A thousand, a thousand apologies.
Speaker 0: One must never let facts in a way. Oh, she also compared by the way, she compared pedophilia she compared pedophilia 2, a preference for spicy food. The thing is I have never heard of anyone who has to have years therapy because they ate
Speaker 1: hot and sour soup.
Speaker 0: Okay, short for 200. Now it is, now it is now it is pedophilia and queer theory for 300, that would be author of, Macho Sluts. Author of Macho Sluts and Public Sex. Pat Phillipia. Wait, wait, wait.
What was it somebody said? Stay relevant.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk
Speaker 0: let's talk about, Pat Califia Okay. Here's something from 1 of, Pat Philippius books You know, it's really interesting. It's really interesting that when I actually start talking about the relationship relationship between queer theory and anarchism and pedophilia that, it becomes they they really want to shut me up now. So here's Pat Califia. They want to
Speaker 1: get coffee. You're a host host.
Speaker 0: Pat Califia.
Speaker 1: Oh, wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Just a second.
Just a second.
Speaker 0: I was accused of homophobia because I am against pedophilia.
Speaker 1: Yes. Right. Who is it who actually makes the connections? Could you not?
Speaker 0: Okay. Here's something by Pat Califia. Pat Califia has written, any child old enough to decide whether or not she or he wants to eat spinach, play with trucks, or wear shoes is old enough to decide whether or not she wants to run around naked in the sun, masturbate, sit in someone's lap, engagement in sexual activity by which she does not mean play doctors. She means with adults. She's very clear about that because she also says that, pedophile should be more and not less, invested in children's lives.
Okay. So we're at 300. 400 is, the most famous, queer theorist of today. Answer Judith. No.
It is not Judith Butler. It's who is judge Judith Butler? Okay, Judith Butler is the most famous queer theorist of the day
Speaker 1: incest is
Speaker 0: a violation suggesting I think there may be occasions, which it's not. Why would I talk that way? Well, I do think that there are probably forms of incest that are not necessarily traumatic and which or which gain their traumatic character by virtue of the conscious of social saying produce. Yeah. That's true.
That's one of that's one of the queer heroes. Okay. Now now we have we have, for 500, we have, the last 1 in the Queer Theory and Pedophilia. The answer is queer theorist who has spoken out strongly against pedophilia
Speaker 1: 0. 0. Who is no one?
Speaker 0: Who is no one? Not a single one. Because the entire thing is based on transgressing. Yeah. I know, dear fucking god.
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Do you think things look any better in the arena of gender theory? Understand, these don't live alone. Think of them as a hydra; multiple dragon heads of the same singular beast. Here are those architects. 👇 You may want to finish your breakfast first. https://x.com/Theo_TJ_Jordan/status/1533848596008902658?s=20
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This isn't happening by chance (been underway for decades) and is of a specific design and for a specific objective. A revolutionary objective. Aha! 💡 This talk contains a treasure trove of information for understanding this all. https://x.com/Theo_TJ_Jordan/status/1657015219133071360?s=20
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And of course all dissent to this (even logical scrutiny) gets painted as bigotry. But those good people above working so hard against it? ☝️ That's the LGB United. Are they bigots too? No, our people have been subjected to systematic propaganda (Hatecraft) to force this on us.
@Theo_TJ_Jordan - Theo Jordan
Now, there is a greater societal story here too. I'm not submitting that everything in this pot is pedophilia. I describe that greater story below. But just like radical death-cult activism rode in under BLM, yes, true evil rides within this Trojan Horse.
@Theo_TJ_Jordan - Theo Jordan
Nathan skipped some important pages here. All gender theory ever was, is the need of some to legitimatize their own variance off gender norms. "I'm not an effeminate man, I'm actually a woman." No, you're actually not. You're just a guy who is feminine. And because that is off…
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And instead of us addressing it, we're painted as Monsters for even mentioning it. Yet, this activism is consuming our culture and being forced down the throats of our children against our wishes! Everything about this is wrong. 👇 https://x.com/Theo_TJ_Jordan/status/1712531196264006069?s=20
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Speaker 0, known as the "beautiful vegan Messiah," talks about their name and their dad. They mention liberating pigs from small cages and criticize their mom. They also claim to have a high score on Hot or Not. Speaker 1 interrupts and tries to calm Speaker 0 down, but Speaker 0 continues with offensive language. Speaker 1 calls for security to remove Speaker 0 and apologizes to the audience for the behavior.
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Speaker 0: I am the beautiful vegan, Messiah. It's a song. I didn't say I was and she knows it. I was just like my dad. Okay.
10 luxury cars. My dad told me I had the same your name is him until I legally changed it. My mom did not bail me out, gentlemen, she knew I was innocent. I'm liberating over 70,000,000,000 Pigs in cages so small they cannot move for years. Okay.
I work, my mom's a sociopathic piece of. I have the highest score in Hot or Not history. I got 9.9 out of 10 after 327 women raided me. Let's see your talent. Let's see your talent, you ugly piece of.
Speaker 1: Okay. Stop. Hey. Hey. Look at me.
Speaker 0: Let's get this out.
Speaker 1: No. Hey. Hey. Hey. No.
You need to look at me.
Speaker 0: I don't have to do
Speaker 1: Okay. Take him out. Security, get him out of here.
Speaker 0: Thank god. Thank god.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna come out here and use that kind of language in front of my audience. And audience, I apologize. That is childish and immature behavior.
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Every element is there ☝️ in 1min 11secs. This is a loser of our society's natural order. One riddled from his own daddy issues. And all gender ideology and Queer+ activism have done is artificially elevate and empower him and praise him for being broken. https://theojordan.substack.com/p/unscripted-4-11-23#details
Unscripted 4-11-23
Listen now | A rant about the madness of elevating gender dysphoria, and the damaging impact of mainstreaming gender theory on both the individual and society as a whole
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