Has the trans insanity spell been broken? (02-06-2025--Hour3)

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[00:00:28] Last hour talked about the executive order that Donald Trump signed limiting girls and women's sports to only girls and women. And went over the AP story on that. And there was a reference in that story to this also from the AP.

[00:00:48] See, Trump order aims to end federal support for gender transitions for those under the age of 19. President Trump signed the EO aimed at cutting federal support for gender transitions for people under age 19. His latest move to rollback protections for transgender people across the country. Not a protection.

[00:01:09] See, this is the way the Associated Press and they're look. I don't mean to pick on the AP only because all the media outlets do this, but the AP is the source for most media operations. There's a thing called the AP style book. And that AP style book tells all these media outlets what the AP uses when they describe certain things.

[00:01:37] And they talk about like they say, this is the way you're supposed to refer to this thing. And, you know, formatics like when referring to, you know, a congressperson, you know, you see the little parentheses after their name and it'll say R dash NC. Like that's all they that all comes from the style books. So there's a uniform way that the AP writes all of their stuff because the AP is all over the globe.

[00:02:04] And they would send in stories and stuff. And so they wanted all of their stuff to look the same. And so they made their style book for themselves, for the AP writers all around the world. And then they would give those style books to all of their affiliates. So like if we were any, we, and WBT used to be plugged into the AP network. And so we would get the wires, we would get the AP wires. You had to pay them for that service. And so you would see they were always written in the AP style.

[00:02:33] But what that means is that they then dictate what words to use. So when they changed, no longer using, for example, illegal alien. When they said, we're not going to call them illegal aliens anymore, we're going to, I forget what the original change was. It may have been undocumented immigrant. And then somewhere along the line, it turned into migrant, right? That's where this stuff comes from.

[00:02:55] The activists push this stuff. And as soon as it gets purchased in the AP, then it gets disseminated throughout all of their affiliated news operations. And virtually every news operation is affiliated still with the AP or Reuters or both. President Trump, so when he signs this thing, the AP says it rolls back protections because that's the way the AP frames this.

[00:03:22] But it's not a protection for a kid that is going through a mental health crisis, usually because there's some other underlying trauma or mental health issue. And then they are like, I'm I don't think I'm really a girl. I don't think I'm really a boy or whatever. And then they kind of get fast tracked with the puberty blockers and the hormone treatments and then into the surgery track. And. You're not protecting that kid.

[00:03:53] That's not a protection. If it was, then how do you explain people who have the regrets and try to detransition after they've been on these blockers? Which, by the way, you know, this is sterilization. And this is the stuff that the AP never talks about. They never just like with the abortion issue. They never talk about what actually is occurring.

[00:04:17] When you describe what actually occurs in these procedures or the results of these, quote, treatments. People become repulsed. People recoil from the information. And the AP knows this. The activist crowd knows this. And that's why they don't talk about that. That's why they don't.

[00:04:41] Why do you think David Daleiden got so much guff when he got the undercover videos of the Planned Parenthood operations that were trafficking in the baby body parts? Right. Why do you think they came down on him? So Kamala Harris, I would point out at the time, state attorney general. Why do you think. That they came down so hard on that. It's because they don't want people to know what actually occurs.

[00:05:04] They don't they just want it to be this this euphemism of choice or this euphemism of gender affirming care, GAC, or as I like to refer to it, GAC. It is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist or support the so-called, quote, transition of a child from one sex to another. And it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life altering procedures, according to the executive order.

[00:05:31] The order directs that federally run insurance programs, including TRICARE for military families and Medicaid. The order directs them to exclude coverage for such, quote, care. No, find a better word, AP. It's not care. By the way, something I learned yesterday.

[00:05:55] Did you know that the puberty blockers, the way they are used for these types of experiments, that's off-label? Did you know that? They're off-label. Doctors are prescribing these things for off-label use, which means what? Not what they were intended for.

[00:06:18] And people became very aware of this during COVID, when drugs like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, which have been found through studies and decades of experience, to fight respiratory viruses. And that was considered to be off-label.

[00:06:40] And then they clamped down on that because it wasn't specifically for the COVID-19 virus, which is a SARS virus, which those two drugs can help with. It is the policy that—oh, I already read that. Sorry. The order directs that you're not going to get the federal funds, and that's a big deal for these hospital systems. Medicaid programs in some states cover gender-affirming care, but apparently not all states.

[00:07:08] The new order suggests the practice could end and targets hospitals and universities that receive federal money and provide the care. The language in the executive order, using words like maiming, sterilizing, and mutilation. Well, that's what it is. That is what it is. I challenge you to look at the photos of what these procedures do to people.

[00:07:34] I challenge you to look at those photos and defend them as something other than maiming. When you remove an appendage from a person, you are maiming them. Whether they want it removed or not, they are maimed. They are no longer able to use that thing. Right? Sterilization. Yep. That's what happens.

[00:08:04] But a 13-year-old kid is going to understand what that means. They all have no idea what that means. And mutilation. I don't want to get too graphic here, but have you seen how they create the male organ? Do you know where they get all that extra flesh from? It's your own body. It's your forearm.

[00:08:25] They cut a sleeve of muscle and fat and tissue off of your forearm. From your elbow almost to your wrist. It never grows back. And so it kind of looks like your hand kind of looks like it's the end of a Q-tip. Because now your arm is super thin. Because there's like nothing left on except the bone and some ligaments and stuff. And they cut it out. And they like peel off this cuff.

[00:08:57] And then they wrap it all up and graft maybe some skin on it and whatnot. And it never looks the same. It can't. It never is anything other than what it's going to be. You can't build up the muscles there anymore. There aren't any muscles. They're being used for something else. But they're not actually getting used. Because it's not functional. You know? Because it's not a sex organ. It's a forearm muscle. Again, not trying to be graphic.

[00:09:25] But I challenge you to look at those photos and tell me that that is not quote unquote mutilation. All right. I hope you had a happy holiday season. But tell me if something like this happened at your house. Your family and friends are gathered around. Maybe y'all are in the living room. You're laughing, swapping stories, reminiscing. And then somebody says, hey dad, remember those old VHS tapes? Did you ever get them transferred? And then the room gets all quiet.

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[00:10:44] the podcast, I mean, and even before then, when I was doing the HB2 stuff, you should be aware of Abigail Schreier. She was at the forefront of the opposition to this transgender social contagion and standing up and saying, stop. Like, this is not really happening.

[00:11:13] This is not a real thing. This is a social contagion, particularly the rapid onset gender dysphoria. And that is like, when you see those stories, and she wrote a book. Her first book was called Irreversible Damage, the transgender craze seducing our daughters. That was in 2020. And it was targeted for a ban by the ACLU of all organizations, which should tell you everything

[00:11:42] you need to know about where the ACLU stands now on actual civil liberties. Her second book was called Bad Therapy, Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up. And that deals not just with affirmative therapy, but the therapization of all of life for young people in America. And people then begin identifying themselves as their ailments, as their afflictions, as their mental health issue.

[00:12:12] Like, hi, I'm Pete. I am boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Like all these different mental health problems. And that's how they see themselves. And that's not how you get past those types of burdens, by the way. You don't get better by believing that you're constantly the victim of this thing. You get better by addressing it. In a mental health scenario, that's how you get better is through. You go through it.

[00:12:39] You face the fear, you face the issue, and you go through it. For the record, I am not a clinical psychologist, psychiatrist, nor do I have any training whatsoever, but I did know some crazy people. So when the history of 21st century gender mania is written, she says it should include this entry, this signal entry. In 2020, there was a website called GoFundMe, usually a place to find disaster relief appeals and charities for starving kids.

[00:13:05] And it contained more than 30,000 urgent appeals from young women wanting to remove their perfectly healthy breasts. In 2020, 30,000 GoFundMes. Another entry. June 2020, the New England Journal of Medicine, America's platinum medical publication, published

[00:13:29] a piece explaining that biological sex is actually assigned at birth by a doctor and is not a verifiable fact based on our gametes stamped into every one of our chromosomes. No, no. The New England Journal of Medicine tells us it's a doctor's decision and the doctor is assigning you at birth. Public schools began asking elementary schools whether they might, students, whether they

[00:13:56] might like to identify as genderqueer or non-binary. And any dissent from this gender movement was met with suppression. The American Civil Liberties Union most prominent lawyer, Chase Strangio, that's his name, or her name, announced his or her intention to suppress her book, Irreversible Damage, saying, quote, stopping the circulation of this book and these ideas is 100% a hill I will die on.

[00:14:24] A couple weeks later, Amazon deleted from its store, from its website, a book by Ryan Anderson that criticized the transgender medical industry. Right? This was censorship. And she says, If it seems odd that this spell of pediatric gender medicine should have ended by politicians and not physicians, like a politician like Trump of all people. Right?

[00:14:53] Consider that in America, politics is how this began, she says. And specifically, it began with Obamacare. Section 1557, to be precise, of the Affordable Care Act, President Obama's signature legislation incentivized and coerced private insurers to offer their products on the government exchanges. Right? Well, when the websites finally got working again.

[00:15:22] Then they were, it forced insurers, you have to offer these coverages. It prohibited the companies from discriminating on the basis of sex. And in May of 2016, six years after the bill was enacted, after the Affordable Care Act passed, the Obama administration's Department of Health and Human Services added this fateful qualification

[00:15:46] that discrimination on the basis of sex was to include discrimination on the basis of gender identity. You have heard me say for years, for, well, since 2016, I have been making this joke. It is in mockery of this, which is at the same time the leftists are telling us that sex and gender are different,

[00:16:13] they also say it is the same for purposes of this particular thing I'm trying to do. Right? Sex and gender are totally different, unless the law says sex, in which case then I think it also means gender identity. Right? They want it both ways, which really does sum up the whole issue. Billy, when you think about it. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina, just a quick drive up the mountain?

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[00:17:55] And she talks about the origin of this transgender fever that spread throughout America and much of the West. But she tracks it to Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act. Obama effectively, and she has a quote here from healthcare executive and gender medicine researcher

[00:18:22] Zenya Abruzzese, who said, Obama effectively wrote into law through healthcare that gender identity is a protected class. That opened a huge new source of funding for these treatments. Because once these insurers feel like they have to cover it in order to get access to the Obamacare exchanges, right, to offer their plans for sale, that's it. You turned on the engine.

[00:18:52] If an insurer covers testosterone to treat a man who was deficient in testosterone, then, according to gender ideology's cracked logic, that insurer would also need to cover testosterone for a woman identifying as a man. If a procedure to remove a man's unwanted breast tissue was covered, then a similar procedure for a woman identifying as a man must also be covered. Denying those claims could subject the insurance companies

[00:19:21] to federal enforcement action, so they fell into line. As I mentioned, puberty blockers have never received FDA approval to treat gender dysphoria in youth. Doctors could prescribe them off-label as long as they had reason to believe they would be helpful to patients. And everywhere the physicians looked, activists and medical accrediting organizations, increasingly one and the same,

[00:19:46] and every news outlet of legacy media all assured them, as if with one voice, that these were life-saving treatments. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health, or WPATH, an activist organization styled as a medical one, issued guidelines used as the standards of care by all major insurers and Medicaid to justify the provision of and reimbursement for gender transition services.

[00:20:16] WPATH represented their guidelines as evidence-based. But court-ordered discovery in a 2022 lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice that was trying to overturn Alabama's ban on gender treatments for minors. In the discovery phase, they found that WPATH's guidelines actually did not have evidentiary basis. And the leadership at WPATH knew it.

[00:20:46] The organization suppressed publication of systematic reviews of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and surgeries that were undertaken by Johns Hopkins University. That research would almost certainly have revealed, as so many systematic reviews have now done, that while the risk of sterility, cardiac events, osteoporosis, and bone fracture

[00:21:09] were very high, any alleged mental health benefits of the WPATH-approved puberty blockers to cross-sex hormones protocol, any benefits there remained unproven. But the Biden administration pressed onward, suing any state that enacted bans on medical transition for minors. Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine, a trans adult,

[00:21:36] pressured WPATH successfully to get rid of the minimum age requirements for gender medical treatments and surgeries. This was September 2022. I covered it at that time. Rachel Levine, man, right, dressed up as a woman, thinks he's a woman, in charge of all of this in the Biden administration's HHS.

[00:22:04] Rachel Levine said, do not publish that these protocols are for adults only. Because if you put an age on it, then it could increase problems for the kids, and it basically says that this shouldn't be done on kids. And so they removed it. The Department of Health and Human Services published a fact sheet then,

[00:22:32] claiming that gender-affirming treatments for youth were crucial to overall health and well-being. The Obama and Biden administrations worked in tandem with activist organizations and federal funds poured into tainted research. She then goes through one of these, or two studies rather, by a gender physician, Joanna Olson Kennedy. She did two different groups, two studies, to see the effects of puberty blockers on one group of kids

[00:23:01] and cross-sex hormones on another group of kids. All right, so puberty blockers for one, cross-sex hormones for the other, and she only released one, one of those studies, which, by the way, found two of her 315 subjects had committed suicide. But the one on the puberty blockers, the nine-year study on puberty blockers, she refused to release the results.

[00:23:28] This was a publicly funded study, and she refused to release it. She said the findings might fuel political attacks that have led to bans on the youth gender treatments. In other words, it would prove that those states banning the treatments are on solid scientific footing. And so she has refused to publish the results. Cut off from WPATH's evidence laundering,

[00:23:57] insurers will now be forced to evaluate gender medical evidence and issue policies on their own. It'll be up to the insurance companies whether they want to cover this stuff or not. It'll be their call. Systematic reviews and investigations already undertaken overseas in England and Finland and Sweden indicate it's not likely that they're going to find any evidence for medically transitioning kids to be terribly impressive.

[00:24:21] Activist researchers into gender medicine might soon see their federal grants dry up. And that's why they're fighting like this is an existential threat to their model. Because it is. All right. If you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events. And I know you do too. And you've probably heard me say, get your news from multiple sources. Why? Well, because it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed with Ground News.

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[00:25:44] risks losing contracts with Medicare and Medicaid if they continue to provide pediatric gender transitions. Now, thanks to Trump's executive order. Now, the order does not abolish pediatric gender medicine. Boutique practices that do not rely on federal funding can still offer the top surgery. This is mastectomies. Right? Like, right.

[00:26:10] The removal of breasts from teenagers. There will surely be litigation to challenge the reach of this order, but the order does break the spell. That's what Abigail Schreier says. It breaks the spell. The spell was always our biggest problem. She said parents, like a lot of parents that went down this path with their kids. She said, and she has interviewed many, many, many parents for her research in these books.

[00:26:40] She says, many of these parents are conscientious and loving and afraid if a little naive. They believed medical science was above politics and beyond question. They had wandered into a Truman Show. You know the old movie, The Truman Show? An all-consuming simulacrum designed to convince them to abandon their protective instincts.

[00:27:04] If the parents still weren't convinced, therapists coerced them into allowing their daughters to undergo gender transition with the thinly veiled threat, would you rather have a live son or a dead daughter? Can't tell you how many times I heard that as an argument. If it seems suddenly that only a fool would fall for this, then it is worth pointing out that millions of us were fools for a while.

[00:27:32] The social contagion spread far beyond teenage girls. It touched corporate executives who rushed to put pronouns in their profiles. I still see those. But what's interesting now is you see a lot of people, they have removed them. AOC removed the pronouns from her Twitter profile. They're now coming off. All of the PR pitches that I would get from these PR firms and stuff, hey, do you want to talk to this guest?

[00:28:00] Or comms people that worked for large health institutions and stuff, and they all had pronouns in their signatures. It touched corporate executives, they did this. Pastors who raised the transgender pride flag at their churches. School administrators that actively deceived parents about the new gender identities that they had selected for the parents' children.

[00:28:27] And then hid that from parents. That's the thing about a social contagion. The similarities between what we have witnessed here and the Salem witch trials are not few. Okay? There are very similar dynamics at work in both of those social contagions or panics.

[00:28:57] A lot of similarities from the people that are most likely to spread them. Specifically younger females. But there is, like, the chances of an entire clique of girls at a school, they're all friends. The chances of all of them being transgender are, like, impossibly near zero. Right? And yet we see it.

[00:29:28] That is not a naturally occurring thing. And when Abigail Schreier wrote her first book, Irreversible Damage, and she highlighted this rapid onset gender dysphoria contagion, and identified it as that, she was savaged for it.

[00:29:47] She says a lot of bad actors, pediatricians, surgeons, endocrinologists, therapists, teachers, clergy, took full advantage. She says the medical risks were as plain to the experts then as they are today. You only needed to take an interest. You only needed to observe it.

[00:30:15] In fact, remember, like, one of the leaders in transgender medicine at Johns Hopkins University. I forgot his name now. But he got blacklisted. Because even though he had been doing this stuff, he was a psychiatrist. And even though he had been, like, at the forefront of this, of treating trans kids and adults, he was blacklisted.

[00:30:40] Because he said, no, this isn't, like, we shouldn't be going down the puberty blocker hormone therapies and surgeries for kids. Like, a lot of this stuff will correct itself after they get through puberty. They're just gender confused. This is natural. But it'll sort itself out. Just give them, you know, give them a couple years. And he was pilloried for it. Again, this was a leader in that area. That was his specialty. She goes on to say,

[00:31:06] Harmonizing one's views with the powerful reflects the oldest social survival instinct. We are engineered to stay within the herd and get along. She says, Disagreeable contrarians who resisted gender fever are the real oddballs. Some combination of personality quirk and conviction that occasionally makes us obnoxious employees and intolerable cocktail party guests. But it also inoculated us against gender madness. But we served a vital function.

[00:31:35] Together, a ragtag crew of truculent journalists and outcast researchers stopped the entire herd from running off the cliff. None of us ever expected to be welcomed back into the same elite circles that only recently had cheered or looked away as a generation of tormented girls took themselves apart. We are going to see lawsuits on this stuff for the rest of our lives. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening.

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