Woman who can't define woman hears case about gender (12-04-2024--Hour3)

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[00:00:28] Email is pete at thepetekalinershow.com. Talked with Nick Searcy in the first hour. Went over the Supreme Court oral arguments today in the Tennessee state law that was challenged all the way to the Supreme Court on banning puberty blockers and surgeries on minors for transgender surgeries and stuff. And no, it's not gender affirming care.

[00:00:56] It's not gender affirmation. It's gender denying. That's what that is. I knew nothing about this topic until HB2. And over the last 10 years, I've done a lot of reading on it, interviewed a lot of people on it.

[00:01:16] And I don't believe the left on this. I just don't. I don't believe the left. And that's where this is coming from. And it has, you know, it's a social, my view on this is it's a social contagion.

[00:01:34] This kind of contagion has afflicted people for millennia. It's the same thing that drove the Salem witch trials, the same kind of social contagion. It's not new.

[00:01:50] What about the, remember there was one where all of the, the girls were getting pregnant in a school. Remember that one? Social contagion. And females are more susceptible to this than males, which is why I would submit we've seen an explosion of female to male transing.

[00:02:06] Whereas historically it was always a very, very tiny percentage of male to female. Why then do all of a sudden these, all of these girls now have gender dysphoria?

[00:02:19] Well, how does that happen? They've always been trans. Well, that can't be the case either, because what we've been told is that people, while they were trans, they just, you know, they just were forced to live these lives in their, you know, their sex assigned at birth, as they say, which no one is assigning you sex.

[00:02:41] It's what you are. That's just the genetic code you got. There's no assignment to buy anybody to you. Okay. So if all of a sudden everybody is now free to be trans, then we should see a decline in suicides.

[00:03:02] Because that's always been the argument that you have to do all of the, the puberty blockers in the hormones and the surgeries or else they're going to kill themselves.

[00:03:13] Although Chase Strangio from the ACLU argued today that, you know, completed suicides are very, very, very rare. So I, so they're just talking about suicidal ideation.

[00:03:24] So there's your buzzword. It's sort of like the asylum seekers. If they just say, I'm afraid to go back to my home country or I'll be killed. Ding, ding, ding. You know, there you go. You gain entrance.

[00:03:34] Same thing here. If you just say, oh, I'm having suicidal thoughts, ding, ding, ding. Now you get access.

[00:03:40] So if everybody was, who was trans, you know, a hundred years ago and the, there hasn't been this growth in new trans cases, if they've always been there, then shouldn't we have seen a decline in suicides?

[00:03:58] Shouldn't we see fewer suicides now than a hundred years ago? Because affirmation is way more prevalent now than it was a hundred years ago.

[00:04:10] We haven't. In fact, according to Chase Strangio, we see more ideation, more people reporting suicidal thoughts, right?

[00:04:21] Well, why? That, that seems to be counter to your assertion.

[00:04:30] Uh, let me go and get, uh, David on the program. Hello, David. Welcome to the show.

[00:04:36] Hey, Pete, I really enjoy your show. Thanks, sir.

[00:04:38] Thanks so much for doing all the hard work you do. I got a question for you. Shouldn't, um, uh, Jumanji Brown, uh, excuse herself because she's not Jumanji.

[00:04:49] Hang on. It's not Jumanji. It's, it's Ketanji Brown Jackson. KBJ.

[00:04:54] I know it's not.

[00:04:56] Oh, okay. All right.

[00:04:58] Shouldn't she have to recuse herself because by her own admission, she doesn't know what the heck a woman is.

[00:05:06] That's true. Yeah. How can you even decide this case?

[00:05:09] Absolutely true.

[00:05:11] Right. Yeah. She doesn't know what a woman is. As we learned in her confirmation hearing, she was still confirmed, even though she doesn't know what a woman is.

[00:05:18] And, uh, now she's being asked to decide these things based on what a woman is and what a woman is not.

[00:05:24] And I did not hear the very beginning of the oral arguments today. Maybe they opened up with sort of a rundown of definitions.

[00:05:31] You know, I, you know, okay, everybody, just so we know what we're talking about. Here is what a woman is. Here's what a man is. Here's a boy. Here's a girl.

[00:05:39] And maybe they gave definitions. It, that would be unusual. I've never heard of such a thing before, but maybe they did today.

[00:05:46] I doubt it. All right. Thanks, Pete.

[00:05:48] Yeah, Dave, I appreciate the call. I think it's a fair question.

[00:05:51] And this is why you asked the question.

[00:05:55] It is to illuminate the fact that they are attempting to rewrite language and they haven't thought it all the way through.

[00:06:05] And it creates this paralysis. And that is by design. There is a paralysis.

[00:06:11] People are afraid to speak in the vocabulary that we all used to share.

[00:06:18] Gender affirming care. Molly Hemingway over at the Federalist.

[00:06:22] She, she tweeted out about an hour ago.

[00:06:26] She said, gender affirming care is a vile, evil, dangerous propaganda term.

[00:06:32] It is a euphemism to describe the genital mutilation and sterilization of children.

[00:06:37] No one, no one should use it. It's awful.

[00:06:42] Don't use horrific euphemisms in defense of harming children ever.

[00:06:50] Gender affirming care. That's one.

[00:06:53] Sex assigned at birth or gender assigned at birth, I guess would be.

[00:06:58] Yeah. Sex assigned at birth.

[00:07:00] Sex is different than gender. Gender identity is what you perceive yourself as.

[00:07:05] No, that's that's just your personality.

[00:07:08] We use we already have a word to describe, for example, tomboys.

[00:07:14] Right. That word exists. What does it mean?

[00:07:17] It means a girl, usually a young pre preteen adolescent.

[00:07:22] Right. Who seems to exhibit a lot of the preferences and likes and affinity for things that boys also like to do.

[00:07:36] Climb trees, you know, catch frogs.

[00:07:42] I don't know. Put magnifying glass over ants or something.

[00:07:46] I don't know.

[00:07:47] Right. Like.

[00:07:48] There are words for that.

[00:07:50] You are feminine.

[00:07:52] You are masculine.

[00:07:54] Right.

[00:07:54] These words have a generally accepted common definition.

[00:08:01] And that doesn't mean that some people exhibit different tendencies inside of that, dare I call it, spectrum.

[00:08:08] There are effeminate males.

[00:08:10] That doesn't make them a woman.

[00:08:13] By the way, you remember all of the outrage over the gay conversion therapy?

[00:08:19] Remember all of that?

[00:08:21] Oh, that's scare where they're going to send.

[00:08:25] Trump's going to send everybody to gay camps.

[00:08:28] And a lot of the gays that that that I follow on Twitter and that I know they were like, gay camp, sign me up.

[00:08:35] That's kidding.

[00:08:36] I'm just kidding.

[00:08:37] It's.

[00:08:40] Oh.

[00:08:42] This conversion therapy, pray the gay away.

[00:08:45] And although, oh, my gosh, they they're trying to turn us into something that we are not.

[00:08:48] Remember all of that?

[00:08:50] You know, a lot of these kids.

[00:08:53] That are going through these.

[00:08:56] These surgeries and getting the blockers also.

[00:09:00] They could just be gay.

[00:09:02] So what are you doing when someone says, like, I'm a boy, but I am attracted to boys rather than just being gay.

[00:09:10] You're going to mutilate your body.

[00:09:15] Literally create an orifice in your pelvis that will, for the rest of your life, be trying to close up.

[00:09:24] You know that?

[00:09:25] Did you know that?

[00:09:25] That's what happens.

[00:09:27] Like I said, I've done a lot of reading on this topic.

[00:09:29] It is very disturbing.

[00:09:32] Very, very disturbing.

[00:09:34] And this idea that it's reversible.

[00:09:36] Oh, you could just put those those boobs right back in.

[00:09:39] Don't worry about it.

[00:09:42] Really?

[00:09:44] So.

[00:09:46] You're going to remove healthy parts of your body.

[00:09:51] Because your your brain is telling you.

[00:09:53] And again, I try to always point this out.

[00:09:56] I do believe gender dysphoria is real.

[00:09:59] I cannot imagine what it must be like for people to be having thoughts in their brain that are telling them that their body is not, quote, correct.

[00:10:10] And shame on anybody that that tells another person that you're born in the wrong body and that your body is not correct.

[00:10:20] Like, you are made in the image and likeness of God.

[00:10:25] God created you.

[00:10:27] You are perfect as a creation of God.

[00:10:30] God.

[00:11:00] God.

[00:11:03] God.

[00:11:06] God.

[00:11:09] God.

[00:11:10] God.

[00:11:10] God.

[00:11:12] God.

[00:11:13] That believe that they should not have eyesight.

[00:11:17] And so there have been cases where they have blinded themselves.

[00:11:21] Do we want medical professionals to encourage that kind of behavior?

[00:11:27] This is all new.

[00:11:28] What the American Psychiatry Association or whatever, or Academy,

[00:11:33] like these people have completely been corrupted by this.

[00:11:37] And I suspect that there will be a preference cascade against this.

[00:11:42] And as soon as there is a permission structure in place where people are allowed to now come out and say,

[00:11:49] no, I don't agree with this anymore, you will see more and more people do so.

[00:11:54] But a lot of people are living in fear.

[00:11:55] Again, I've said this for years.

[00:11:57] Everybody thinks that they're the family that would hide Anne Frank and her family in their attic from the Nazis.

[00:12:03] When in fact most people would be the neighbor that rats them out.

[00:12:08] Because the fear of government, the fear of ostracization, the fear of being othered,

[00:12:16] the fear of social pariah status, so great in the human psyche.

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[00:13:27] Email to Pete at thepetecalendarshow.com from Jay.

[00:13:32] At age 8, my neighbor's daughter thought she wanted to be a boy and be gay.

[00:13:41] Now she is 15 and has a boyfriend.

[00:13:45] Let the kids grow up for Pete's sake, or for my sake.

[00:13:50] She wanted to be a boy and be gay.

[00:13:52] So she liked boys.

[00:13:56] So where would she get it in her head that she wanted to be a boy?

[00:14:00] Some of these thoughts and this confusion is completely natural.

[00:14:05] When kids start going through puberty and the hormones start getting produced

[00:14:11] and released and you have no idea what's going on,

[00:14:15] I think that's why the teenagers yell at their parents all the time.

[00:14:20] I think that's why that happens.

[00:14:22] But anyway, I think you give them time and they grow out of it.

[00:14:27] The vast majority of kids will.

[00:14:31] So why would you put them through these, quote, therapies?

[00:14:36] Why would you put them through this stuff

[00:14:39] when you know they've got a really good shot at coming out of it on the other end?

[00:14:44] Perfectly fine.

[00:14:52] So this just popped up on the OANN feed.

[00:14:57] LPGA tour revises gender eligibility policy to exclude players assigned male at birth.

[00:15:04] Oh my gosh.

[00:15:05] Assigned male at birth.

[00:15:06] So in other words, the LPGA, the Ladies Professional Golf Association, will just be for the ladies.

[00:15:16] This is the preference cascade, I believe.

[00:15:19] I think we're starting to see it break.

[00:15:23] I was watching an interview.

[00:15:25] There's a podcast I've mentioned before, Triggernometry.

[00:15:29] I really should start trying to get some of these guys to come on the show.

[00:15:32] I bet they would.

[00:15:34] Francis and Constantine.

[00:15:37] Anyway, they were interviewing James Lindsay.

[00:15:38] I've talked about James Lindsay before.

[00:15:40] I have attempted to get him on the show.

[00:15:42] We went back and forth, and then it just kind of fell apart.

[00:15:45] His schedule's crazy.

[00:15:46] Anyway, James Lindsay, new discourses.

[00:15:49] And he was talking about how he voted for Trump.

[00:15:53] And he said that he couldn't...

[00:15:57] I'm trying to remember how he said it,

[00:15:59] but essentially it was that his wife said she was voting for Trump.

[00:16:02] And that gave him this sort of permission to go vote for Trump, too.

[00:16:10] That is a real thing.

[00:16:11] That's the preference cascade happening.

[00:16:13] You get a permission structure in place,

[00:16:16] just like a permission structure that says,

[00:16:20] oh, you're confused about your sexuality at age 12, age 13.

[00:16:25] Okay, why don't you go chop off your breasts?

[00:16:27] Like, that's a permission structure, too.

[00:16:31] What is it that the society that we want to allow kids to do?

[00:16:37] And Tennessee has said,

[00:16:39] we do not want to allow this kind of thing on minors.

[00:16:44] And the U.S. government, the Biden administration is saying,

[00:16:48] no, you can't do that.

[00:16:51] That's discrimination.

[00:16:54] And they're trying to say it's sex discrimination,

[00:16:57] not gender discrimination.

[00:17:01] Unless it has to be.

[00:17:02] If that's going to convince the Supreme Court,

[00:17:05] then they'll go with that, too.

[00:17:06] It doesn't matter to them.

[00:17:07] Just whatever we...

[00:17:08] Let's just pretend that we have said the thing that we need to say

[00:17:11] in order to persuade you.

[00:17:13] And then just rule for us.

[00:17:14] How about that?

[00:17:15] All right.

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[00:17:46] Email is Pete at the Pete Calendar Show dot com.

[00:17:49] Here is an email.

[00:17:52] It's a Pete mail from Kevin who says,

[00:17:55] Hey, Pete.

[00:17:56] Hey, Kevin.

[00:17:57] My oldest son wanted me to buy him a chainsaw for about a month when he was 11.

[00:18:07] Hilarity ensues.

[00:18:08] No.

[00:18:08] It was my job to think logically and keep him safe.

[00:18:14] So you didn't buy him the chainsaw?

[00:18:16] What are you telling me, Kevin?

[00:18:17] You did not buy your 11 year old a chainsaw?

[00:18:21] Gosh.

[00:18:22] Terrible parent.

[00:18:24] These parents letting their children have sex changes should be doing the same.

[00:18:28] Part of it is the parents failing their kids.

[00:18:30] Part of it is also the health care system pushing this ideology from what they learned

[00:18:34] at the college of the that the doctor went to.

[00:18:37] Right.

[00:18:37] This this.

[00:18:39] Neo Marxism, this intersectionality, CRT, DEI, like all of this stuff, it's all of the same

[00:18:46] poisoned tree.

[00:18:48] And.

[00:18:50] They are taught it in the education schools.

[00:18:53] It's infected the medical colleges and such.

[00:18:57] It's infected law schools.

[00:18:58] It's it's.

[00:18:59] I mean, the institutional rot is widespread.

[00:19:04] So, yeah, this is what I saw a video.

[00:19:06] Do you see this video making the rounds on the Twitter machine and on social media?

[00:19:10] This girl, probably about nine, maybe 10 years old.

[00:19:15] And she's in a Walmart and she's just taking stuff off the shelves and just smashing them

[00:19:24] on the floor.

[00:19:25] Bottles of.

[00:19:27] Wine or something.

[00:19:28] I don't know.

[00:19:28] But bottles of, you know, liquid and just smashing them, just throwing stuff on the ground

[00:19:35] and stepping on them and breaking in and all this stuff.

[00:19:37] And.

[00:19:39] And everybody's standing there.

[00:19:41] These adults are standing there.

[00:19:42] And when one guy walks over and tries to stop her.

[00:19:47] Some other adult female comes over and stops him.

[00:19:52] No, we don't know what she's going through right now.

[00:19:55] I don't care what she's going through.

[00:19:56] She's about to go through a whole case of the.

[00:20:00] Of the grape juice there.

[00:20:01] No.

[00:20:04] Like this, this permissiveness is out of control.

[00:20:10] Like it used to be laughable.

[00:20:12] We made fun of like these parents remember on The Simpsons where they were like beatniks,

[00:20:17] you know, you don't believe in rules, man.

[00:20:20] You know, you're not being a good parent.

[00:20:24] And I can say that as one who has no children.

[00:20:26] I have the best parenting advice.

[00:20:30] I.

[00:20:32] But I can tell like that's not that's not good.

[00:20:36] Same thing with like training dogs.

[00:20:39] Now, don't do that.

[00:20:41] Now, Rover, don't do that.

[00:20:44] Your dog doesn't understand what you're saying.

[00:20:46] The dog is not going to stop doing what you're telling it to stop doing when you say it like that.

[00:20:51] You got to be firm.

[00:20:52] You are the pack leader.

[00:20:54] They're looking to you for leadership, for guardrails.

[00:20:57] Kids need guardrails.

[00:20:59] Your entire job as a parent is to socialize your kid so they don't go through life alone, miserable, friendless, loveless.

[00:21:10] Right.

[00:21:10] That's your job to make them a productive member of the society, because if they are not productive in whatever sense that that that is, if they're not productive.

[00:21:21] They're going to be miserable.

[00:21:23] Why would you do that to your kid except for the fact that you think that this is going to be your best friend?

[00:21:28] Like, oh, I've had this child and now this child will be my de facto best friend.

[00:21:32] Not your best friend.

[00:21:33] Maybe later in life they'll be your best friend.

[00:21:36] Don't get me wrong.

[00:21:37] Got a great bond going.

[00:21:38] That's all fantastic.

[00:21:39] But no, you need to be the disciplinarian in that relationship because the kid literally doesn't know.

[00:21:45] The brain hasn't even fully formed yet.

[00:21:49] They have no idea.

[00:21:53] I'm old enough to remember when the biggest knock on homeschoolers was that they weren't being socialized.

[00:21:58] Just remember that.

[00:22:01] They don't they're not going to know how to act around kids and other people and all this.

[00:22:05] Well, that's your job right now is to make sure your kid doesn't go into a Walmart and start smashing stuff.

[00:22:11] And then the parents and these adults that are standing around like I'm glad I wasn't in there.

[00:22:15] I'm glad I wasn't in there for many reasons, actually.

[00:22:18] But I'm glad I wasn't in there.

[00:22:21] Because I would have ended up on that viral video.

[00:22:24] I would have been.

[00:22:25] Oh, and then they would have made it a race because the kid was she was black and me being white like they would have made it like a racial thing to a sexist, racist, oppressor, oppressor kind of a narrative.

[00:22:37] Thank you, progressives.

[00:22:40] Like that's what that would have been cast as.

[00:22:43] But there were there are Walmart employees.

[00:22:46] There are like six of them standing around adults just watching her do this.

[00:22:52] It's nuts.

[00:22:58] Let me see here.

[00:23:00] Jan says this isn't just for adolescence.

[00:23:03] I am almost 60 and I know a lot of guys around my age who are confused about sexuality.

[00:23:09] Of course.

[00:23:11] Their confusion tends to revolve.

[00:23:15] Between redheads or blondes.

[00:23:17] That's that's fair.

[00:23:18] I mean, yeah, we never really do figure it out.

[00:23:21] It's just a joke.

[00:23:28] David says, I had no idea the entire Siberian orchestra were true.

[00:23:32] That's all jokes aside.

[00:23:37] David says, I enjoy your show and appreciate the information you provide.

[00:23:40] Also, if you ever need a good certified arborist to evaluate your trees, if you have any, I'd be more than happy to help.

[00:23:49] Oh, OK.

[00:23:49] He's a certified arborist.

[00:23:51] Well, there you go.

[00:23:52] Good to know.

[00:23:53] Thank you.

[00:23:53] I will put a bookmark in this and thank you for not sending me a link.

[00:23:57] Apparently, the little girl in the Walmart was chucking down bottles of the Welch's sparkling grape juice, you know.

[00:24:05] Just busting them and glass and liquid everywhere.

[00:24:09] Just.

[00:24:10] And everyone's like, no, no, just let her let her work it out.

[00:24:14] Oh, what's the matter, sweetie?

[00:24:16] How have we failed you?

[00:24:18] Oh, my gosh.

[00:24:19] You just smack that kid.

[00:24:21] No, I'm kidding.

[00:24:21] I'm not.

[00:24:23] Well.

[00:24:25] Look, I'm who am I to judge parenting like skills on that?

[00:24:28] Oh, I mean, I am.

[00:24:29] I do actually a lot.

[00:24:31] OK, never mind.

[00:24:32] So let's just move on before I get accused of something I've not said.

[00:24:36] The Supreme Court.

[00:24:38] This is a piece by John Birch at National Review.

[00:24:41] The Supreme Court should affirm that young people deserve love and support, not dangerous, life altering and unnecessary drugs and surgeries.

[00:24:51] There is a dangerous trend sweeping through America, especially among susceptible teenagers.

[00:24:58] Thanks to social media and peer influencers, teenagers and even adolescents are pumping their bodies with chemicals.

[00:25:04] The secret is often kept from their parents until it's too late.

[00:25:09] I am talking, of course, about energy drinks.

[00:25:12] Last year, Senator Chuck Schumer warned that one brand's 200 milligrams of caffeine, quote, could endanger the health of children, causing them to be moody and suffer headaches.

[00:25:24] He demanded that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration investigate the drinks manufacturer.

[00:25:29] That's pretty rich, considering that Schumer fully supports giving children hormones and even performing experimental surgeries on them, what he calls gender affirming health care, to make those children look more like the opposite sex.

[00:25:42] In Schumer's world, the federal government should intervene when a young girl consumes caffeine equivalent to about two cups of coffee.

[00:25:51] But cheer her on if she takes enough testosterone to make her infertile, increase her risk of heart attacks and strokes and irreversibly alter her body.

[00:26:01] But this is all of a piece with the Biden-Harris administration's position on this important issue.

[00:26:09] He says, President Joe Biden appointed Dr. Rachel Levine as Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the second highest position in our nation's largest health agency.

[00:26:21] Levine, a male who identifies and presents as a woman, pressured the World Professional Association of Transgender Health, or WPATH.

[00:26:31] Maybe you've seen that acronym or heard of it.

[00:26:35] Levine pressured WPATH to remove age limits in its standards of care for life-altering procedures used on kids experiencing gender dysphoria.

[00:26:47] From puberty blockers to cross-sex hormones to invasive surgeries that remove healthy body parts.

[00:26:55] WPATH had a recommendation that there be age limits on these types of prescriptions and procedures.

[00:27:06] And the administration pressured WPATH to remove them.

[00:27:11] As the New York Times reported, this pressure was not based on science, but on worries that age limits would increase political opposition to these, quote, treatments.

[00:27:22] So much for the science and data.

[00:27:27] The mantra that we heard so many times during COVID.

[00:27:32] In the branch-COVIDian religious rituals, we had to bow to the science and data.

[00:27:41] And how dare you deny these things?

[00:27:44] You're not a real believer in the science.

[00:27:47] The Biden-Harris administration joined the ACLU in urging the Supreme Court to strike down the Tennessee law so these harmful medical interventions on kids can continue.

[00:27:58] The primary question facing the Supreme Court is whether Tennessee's law violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

[00:28:05] As Alliance Defending Freedom, where the author here served as senior counsel and vice president of appellate advocacy, the Alliance Defending Freedom explains in the Friend of the Court brief supporting Tennessee,

[00:28:17] the law does not regulate who seeks the procedures.

[00:28:20] The law protects kids from irreversible damage caused by the risks and benefits of the treatments requested.

[00:28:26] For example, puberty blockers can be used to help a child experiencing what's called precocious puberty to develop a healthy body.

[00:28:36] But when used to avoid puberty for the purpose of gender affirmation,

[00:28:41] the same drugs prevent healthy development and may cause infertility and developmental problems.

[00:28:46] And that is why the British National Health Service recently directed clinics in the UK to stop using puberty blockers to treat gender dysphoria.

[00:28:58] WPATH at one point commissioned Johns Hopkins University,

[00:29:05] which for years was like the leading institute here for transgender stuff.

[00:29:12] I forget the guy's name, who was like the lead doctor, lead expert guy.

[00:29:17] And he has been like, whoa, whoa, whoa.

[00:29:19] You guys have gone crazy with this stuff.

[00:29:21] Johns Hopkins was commissioned by WPATH to review the science.

[00:29:26] And Johns Hopkins found, quote, little to no evidence that the experimental treatments benefited children.

[00:29:34] And rather than disclose this fact, WPATH hid it.

[00:29:40] They hid it.

[00:29:41] But like I said, the dam is breaking on this.

[00:29:46] The preference cascade has begun, in my opinion.

[00:29:49] Like what I am witnessing, it looks like the preference cascade has begun.

[00:29:53] The permission structure now exists.

[00:29:56] People need to they need to join in.

[00:29:59] They need to say me too.

[00:30:01] All right.

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