1 00:00:04,704 --> 00:00:12,645 ♪ ♪ 2 00:00:12,712 --> 00:00:24,023 ♪ ♪ 3 00:00:24,090 --> 00:00:31,331 ♪ ♪ 4 00:00:31,398 --> 00:00:32,298 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 5 00:00:32,365 --> 00:00:32,899 >> John: WELCOME TO LAST WEEK 6 00:00:32,966 --> 00:00:33,366 TONIGHT. 7 00:00:33,433 --> 00:00:34,067 I'M JOHN OLIVER, THANKS SO MUCH 8 00:00:34,134 --> 00:00:35,135 FOR JOINING US. 9 00:00:35,201 --> 00:00:36,936 IT'S BEEN A BUSY WEEK. 10 00:00:37,003 --> 00:00:38,605 THE JANUARY 6TH PANEL VOTED TO 11 00:00:38,671 --> 00:00:40,106 SUBPOENA DONALD TRUMP, ALEX 12 00:00:40,173 --> 00:00:41,408 JONES CONTINUED HIS LOSING 13 00:00:41,474 --> 00:00:43,376 RECORD IN THE LEGAL INFO WARS, 14 00:00:43,443 --> 00:00:44,477 AND A VIRTUAL MARK ZUCKERBERG 15 00:00:44,544 --> 00:00:45,945 ANNOUNCED THAT "LEGS ARE COMING 16 00:00:46,012 --> 00:00:46,646 SOON! 17 00:00:46,713 --> 00:00:48,515 ARE YOU EXCITED?" 18 00:00:48,581 --> 00:00:49,983 WHICH SOUNDS LESS LIKE AN UPDATE 19 00:00:50,049 --> 00:00:50,950 TO A MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR 20 00:00:51,017 --> 00:00:51,718 METAVERSE AND MORE LIKE A NEW 21 00:00:51,785 --> 00:00:54,354 SECTION ON WIKIFEET. 22 00:00:54,421 --> 00:00:56,022 BUT WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN WITH 23 00:00:56,089 --> 00:00:57,223 THE WAR IN UKRAINE, WHICH HAS 24 00:00:57,290 --> 00:00:58,858 SEEN A SIGNIFICANT ESCALATION. 25 00:00:58,925 --> 00:01:00,226 >> RUSSIA'S PUNISHING MISSILE 26 00:01:00,293 --> 00:01:02,729 BARRAGE THIS WEEK CAPTURED ON 27 00:01:02,796 --> 00:01:04,497 DASH CAMS AND OTHER CAMERAS 28 00:01:04,564 --> 00:01:06,399 ACROSS THE COUNTRY. 29 00:01:06,466 --> 00:01:09,436 THE BRUTAL RETALIATION FOR THE 30 00:01:09,502 --> 00:01:11,771 BLAST ON THE BRIDGE CONNECTING 31 00:01:11,838 --> 00:01:13,373 RUSSIA TO CRIMEA DIRECTED BY 32 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:14,207 HARD-LINE COMMANDER SERGEI 33 00:01:14,274 --> 00:01:15,809 SUROVIKIN. 34 00:01:15,875 --> 00:01:17,310 >> John: IT'S TRUE: SUROVIKIN'S 35 00:01:17,377 --> 00:01:18,611 APPOINTMENT WAS ANNOUNCED JUST 36 00:01:18,678 --> 00:01:19,712 HOURS AFTER THE BRIDGE 37 00:01:19,779 --> 00:01:20,980 EXPLOSION, WHICH SENDS A REAL 38 00:01:21,047 --> 00:01:21,915 MESSAGE. 39 00:01:21,981 --> 00:01:23,349 BECAUSE HE'S NOT ONLY KNOWN FOR 40 00:01:23,416 --> 00:01:25,118 HIS BRUTAL TACTICS IN SYRIA, 41 00:01:25,185 --> 00:01:25,752 HE'S BEEN NICKNAMED "GENERAL 42 00:01:25,819 --> 00:01:27,487 ARMAGEDDON." 43 00:01:27,554 --> 00:01:29,088 AND NO ONE BRINGS IN A GUY NAMED 44 00:01:29,155 --> 00:01:31,124 "GENERAL ARMAGEDDON' TO DO 45 00:01:31,191 --> 00:01:32,692 "FEWER" WAR CRIMES. 46 00:01:32,759 --> 00:01:34,060 LOOK AT HIM! 47 00:01:34,127 --> 00:01:35,128 HE'S SOMEHOW TERRIFYING, WHILE 48 00:01:35,195 --> 00:01:36,329 ALSO LOOKING LIKE AN ANGRY BABY 49 00:01:36,396 --> 00:01:38,832 FORCED INTO A FUN OUTFIT. 50 00:01:38,898 --> 00:01:40,433 NOW, THE SCALE OF THE 51 00:01:40,500 --> 00:01:46,339 RETALIATION THIS WEEK MAY SEEM 52 00:01:46,406 --> 00:01:46,906 EXTREME, BUT 53 00:01:46,973 --> 00:01:47,507 THAT BRIDGE WAS A BIG DEAL TO 54 00:01:47,574 --> 00:01:48,408 PUTIN. 55 00:01:48,475 --> 00:01:49,242 RUSSIA BEGAN BUILDING IT RIGHT 56 00:01:49,309 --> 00:01:50,109 AFTER ANNEXING CRIMEA IN 2014, 57 00:01:50,176 --> 00:01:51,010 AND PUTIN CELEBRATED ITS OPENING 58 00:01:51,077 --> 00:01:52,078 BY PROUDLY DRIVING ACROSS IT 59 00:01:52,145 --> 00:01:53,413 HIMSELF. 60 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:55,515 THE RUSSIAN STATE EVEN FUNDED A 61 00:01:55,582 --> 00:01:57,450 ROM-COM SET DURING THE BRIDGE'S 62 00:01:57,517 --> 00:01:58,785 CONSTRUCTION, CALLED "THE 63 00:01:58,852 --> 00:02:01,020 CRIMEAN BRIDGE: MADE WITH LOVE!" 64 00:02:01,087 --> 00:02:02,121 IT'S BASICALLY A BRIDGE-BASED 65 00:02:02,188 --> 00:02:06,292 "LOVE ACTUALLY." 66 00:02:06,359 --> 00:02:09,262 JUST TO TAKE A QUICK LOOK AT THE 67 00:02:09,329 --> 00:02:09,496 TRAILER. 68 00:02:09,562 --> 00:02:17,070 ♪ ♪ 69 00:02:17,136 --> 00:02:25,311 ♪ ♪ 70 00:02:25,378 --> 00:02:26,713 >> WELCOME TO THE KRYMSKIY 71 00:02:26,779 --> 00:02:27,413 BRIDGE, THE BIGGEST BRIDGE IN 72 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:29,315 RUSSIA! 73 00:02:29,382 --> 00:02:30,483 >> John: LISTEN TO ME: THIS 74 00:02:30,550 --> 00:02:31,951 MOVIE IS ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT. 75 00:02:32,018 --> 00:02:33,152 DID I WATCH ALL 100 MINUTES OF 76 00:02:33,219 --> 00:02:33,887 IT ON YOUTUBE? 77 00:02:33,953 --> 00:02:35,054 YES. 78 00:02:35,121 --> 00:02:35,922 AM I GOING TO TELL YOU ALL ABOUT 79 00:02:35,989 --> 00:02:37,390 IT? 80 00:02:37,457 --> 00:02:38,892 I AM. 81 00:02:38,958 --> 00:02:40,059 BASICALLY, A BUNCH OF CHARACTERS 82 00:02:40,126 --> 00:02:41,261 MEET AND FALL IN LOVE SOMEWHERE 83 00:02:41,327 --> 00:02:41,861 NEAR THE CONSTRUCTION SITE OF 84 00:02:41,928 --> 00:02:43,329 THE CRIMEAN BRIDGE. 85 00:02:43,396 --> 00:02:44,364 THIS IS VARYA, A YOUNG 86 00:02:44,430 --> 00:02:45,365 ARCHAEOLOGIST WHO IS DOING 87 00:02:45,431 --> 00:02:46,432 ARCHEOLOGY AT THE BEACH ALL THE 88 00:02:46,499 --> 00:02:48,401 TIME. 89 00:02:48,468 --> 00:02:49,402 SHE'S ROMANTICALLY PURSUED BY 90 00:02:49,469 --> 00:02:50,637 VIKTOR, THE SLICK P-R MAN, AND 91 00:02:50,703 --> 00:02:51,971 DIMA, THE YOUNG, BEEFY 92 00:02:52,038 --> 00:02:54,073 CONSTRUCTION WORKER. 93 00:02:54,140 --> 00:02:55,375 DURING THE MOVIE, DIMA IS, A, 94 00:02:55,441 --> 00:02:56,409 ACCUSED OF ARSON NEAR THE 95 00:02:56,476 --> 00:02:57,544 CRIMEAN BRIDGE, B, SAVES A 96 00:02:57,610 --> 00:02:58,678 FELLOW CONSTRUCTION WORKER WHO 97 00:02:58,745 --> 00:03:00,179 FALLS OFF THE CRIMEAN BRIDGE, 98 00:03:00,246 --> 00:03:01,681 AND C, TAKES CONTROL OF A 99 00:03:01,748 --> 00:03:02,815 CRASHING PLANE AND LANDS IT 100 00:03:02,882 --> 00:03:03,816 SAFELY ON-- YOU GUESSED IT-- THE 101 00:03:03,883 --> 00:03:08,388 CRIMEAN BRIDGE. 102 00:03:08,454 --> 00:03:09,055 MEANWHILE, A 103 00:03:09,122 --> 00:03:09,822 JOURNALIST NAMED TIKHON ARRIVES 104 00:03:09,889 --> 00:03:10,757 TO WRITE AN ARTICLE ABOUT THE 105 00:03:10,823 --> 00:03:11,424 BRIDGE'S HISTORY, AND FALLS IN 106 00:03:11,491 --> 00:03:12,458 LOVE WITH ALYA, WHO'S THE 107 00:03:12,525 --> 00:03:14,093 CLASSIC ROMCOM ARCHETYPE OF 108 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:15,995 "BEAUTIFUL, SHY FISHMONGER." 109 00:03:16,062 --> 00:03:17,697 ALYA, WE LEARN, WAS ACTUALLY 110 00:03:17,764 --> 00:03:18,798 ORPHANED WHEN HER DAD DOZED OFF 111 00:03:18,865 --> 00:03:20,300 BEHIND THE WHEEL AFTER SPENDING 112 00:03:20,366 --> 00:03:21,401 HOURS IN TRAFFIC THAT WOULDN'T 113 00:03:21,467 --> 00:03:24,337 HAVE EXISTED IF THERE HAD ONLY 114 00:03:24,404 --> 00:03:25,338 BEEN A -- SAY IT WITH ME -- 115 00:03:25,405 --> 00:03:27,607 CRIMEAN BRIDGE. 116 00:03:27,674 --> 00:03:28,441 THE MOVIE ENDS WITH THE NEW 117 00:03:28,508 --> 00:03:29,742 BRIDGE COMPLETED, THE CHARACTERS 118 00:03:29,809 --> 00:03:30,743 PAIRING OFF, AND EVERYONE 119 00:03:30,810 --> 00:03:33,079 MARCHING ACROSS IT INTO 120 00:03:33,146 --> 00:03:34,113 ILLEGALLY ANNEXED TERRITORY. 121 00:03:34,180 --> 00:03:36,115 THIS MOVIE IS MY WHOLE BRAIN 122 00:03:36,182 --> 00:03:37,183 NOW. 123 00:03:37,250 --> 00:03:37,951 DO NOT WATCH IT OR IT WILL TAKE 124 00:03:38,017 --> 00:03:40,086 OVER YOUR LIFE. 125 00:03:40,153 --> 00:03:41,187 THE POINT IS, PUTIN'S CLEARLY 126 00:03:41,254 --> 00:03:42,288 VERY ANGRY HIS BRIDGE GOT BLOWN 127 00:03:42,355 --> 00:03:43,323 UP. 128 00:03:43,389 --> 00:03:44,090 BUT HIS WAR EFFORT IS NOTABLY 129 00:03:44,157 --> 00:03:45,258 STRUGGLING. 130 00:03:45,325 --> 00:03:46,059 THERE'VE BEEN REPORTS OF 131 00:03:46,125 --> 00:03:47,060 THOUSANDS OF RUSSIAN MEN LEAVING 132 00:03:47,126 --> 00:03:49,429 THE COUNTRY TO ESCAPE THE DRAFT, 133 00:03:49,495 --> 00:03:50,663 AND STORIES LIKE THIS ONE, ABOUT 134 00:03:50,730 --> 00:03:52,231 A MAN SHELTERING IN GEORGIA. 135 00:03:52,298 --> 00:03:53,499 >> ALEKSEI TAKES US TO 136 00:03:53,566 --> 00:03:54,734 THESHELTER HE NOW CALLS HOME 137 00:03:54,801 --> 00:03:56,235 AFTERDRIVING SEVEN DAYS FROM 138 00:03:56,302 --> 00:04:02,375 MOSCOW, WITH LITTLE MORE THAN 139 00:04:02,442 --> 00:04:04,611 HIS GUITAR. 140 00:04:04,677 --> 00:04:05,144 >> GHOSTBUSTERS! 141 00:04:05,211 --> 00:04:05,912 >> GHOSTBUSTERS? 142 00:04:05,979 --> 00:04:09,248 >> GHOSTBUSTERS. 143 00:04:09,315 --> 00:04:10,350 ♪ ♪ 144 00:04:10,416 --> 00:04:10,984 >> BETTER THAT THAN A RIFLE, HE 145 00:04:11,050 --> 00:04:12,118 SAYS. 146 00:04:12,185 --> 00:04:13,152 >> WHO YOU GONNA CALL? 147 00:04:13,219 --> 00:04:17,056 GHOSTBUSTERS! 148 00:04:17,123 --> 00:04:17,323 [LAUGHTER] 149 00:04:17,390 --> 00:04:18,257 >> John: NOW LOOK, IF YOU TOLD 150 00:04:18,324 --> 00:04:19,425 ME "A RUSSIAN MAN TRAVELED SEVEN 151 00:04:19,492 --> 00:04:20,793 STRAIGHT DAYS TO CROSS THE 152 00:04:20,860 --> 00:04:21,494 BORDER WITH ALMOST NOTHING BUT 153 00:04:21,561 --> 00:04:22,462 HIS GUITAR AND NOW HE'S GOING TO 154 00:04:22,528 --> 00:04:23,396 PLAY YOU A LITTLE SOMETHING" MY 155 00:04:23,463 --> 00:04:25,732 GUESS AS TO WHAT THAT SOMETHING 156 00:04:25,798 --> 00:04:27,233 WAS WOULD HAVE BEEN, IN ORDER: 157 00:04:27,300 --> 00:04:28,835 SAD RUSSIAN FOLK SONG HIS MOTHER 158 00:04:28,901 --> 00:04:29,936 USED TO PLAY AT NIGHT; SAD 159 00:04:30,003 --> 00:04:30,837 RUSSIAN FOLK SONG HIS MOTHER 160 00:04:30,903 --> 00:04:31,537 USED TO PLAY IN THE MORNING; AND 161 00:04:31,604 --> 00:04:34,641 WONDERWALL. 162 00:04:34,707 --> 00:04:34,907 [LAUGHTER] 163 00:04:34,974 --> 00:04:35,775 BUT IT WOULD HAVE TAKEN ME 164 00:04:35,842 --> 00:04:36,509 INFINITY GUESSES TO GET TO 165 00:04:36,576 --> 00:04:39,545 "ACOUSTIC GHOSTBUSTERS." 166 00:04:39,612 --> 00:04:40,713 THE WORRY IS THAT, IN PUTIN'S 167 00:04:40,780 --> 00:04:42,081 DESPERATION, HE MAY RESORT TO 168 00:04:42,148 --> 00:04:43,249 NUCLEAR WEAPONS -- A WORRY NOT 169 00:04:43,316 --> 00:04:44,784 ASSUAGED BY SIGHTS LIKE THIS 170 00:04:44,851 --> 00:04:46,019 PARADE OF PRO-KREMLIN SUPPORTERS 171 00:04:46,085 --> 00:04:47,153 IN MOSCOW, FEATURING A NUCLEAR 172 00:04:47,220 --> 00:04:48,688 MISSILE MASCOT WALKING DOWN THE 173 00:04:48,755 --> 00:04:50,356 STREET. 174 00:04:50,423 --> 00:04:52,025 SO IT'S NO WONDER UKRAINE IS 175 00:04:52,091 --> 00:04:53,059 STEPPING UP ITS CALLS FOR 176 00:04:53,126 --> 00:04:54,460 OUTSIDE HELP. 177 00:04:54,527 --> 00:04:55,862 ZELENSKY ADDRESSED THE G-7 THIS 178 00:04:55,928 --> 00:04:57,130 WEEK, AND UKRAINE'S DEFENSE 179 00:04:57,196 --> 00:04:58,931 MINISTRY'S TWITTER ACCOUNT 180 00:04:58,998 --> 00:05:00,099 POSTED THIS VIDEO, THANKING 181 00:05:00,166 --> 00:05:01,434 FRANCE FOR SUPPLYING IT WITH 182 00:05:01,501 --> 00:05:02,168 ARTILLERY -- AND ASKING FOR 183 00:05:02,235 --> 00:05:05,038 MORE. 184 00:05:05,104 --> 00:05:18,584 ♪ ♪ 185 00:05:18,651 --> 00:05:34,333 ♪ ♪ 186 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:35,034 >> John: WHAT A WEIRD TIME TO BE 187 00:05:35,101 --> 00:05:37,170 ALIVE. 188 00:05:37,236 --> 00:05:38,638 THAT'S AN APPEAL FOR MILITARY 189 00:05:38,705 --> 00:05:40,339 AID, SET TO SERGE GAINSBOURG'S 190 00:05:40,406 --> 00:05:42,041 "JE T'AIME", AND FEATURING THE 191 00:05:42,108 --> 00:05:42,842 VISUALS OF AN E-CARD FROM 192 00:05:42,909 --> 00:05:44,110 JIBJAB. 193 00:05:44,177 --> 00:05:46,446 AND THE FACT THAT CAME FROM THE 194 00:05:46,512 --> 00:05:47,647 DEFENSE MINISTRY MEANS SOMEONE 195 00:05:47,714 --> 00:05:48,781 IN UKRAINE GOT A MILITARY ORDER 196 00:05:48,848 --> 00:05:50,850 OF "GO BE HORNY ON TWITTER" AND 197 00:05:50,917 --> 00:05:53,720 THEY ANSWERED THAT CALL. 198 00:05:53,786 --> 00:05:55,021 LOOK: EIGHT MONTHS IN, THINGS IN 199 00:05:55,088 --> 00:05:56,355 UKRAINE ARE STILL EXTREMELY 200 00:05:56,422 --> 00:05:59,292 SERIOUS, AND THE ONLY THING WE 201 00:05:59,358 --> 00:06:00,226 CAN SAY WITH RELATIVE CERTAINTY 202 00:06:00,293 --> 00:06:01,728 RIGHT NOW IS THAT WHATEVER PUTIN 203 00:06:01,794 --> 00:06:03,730 DOES NEXT WILL BE MUCH LIKE "THE 204 00:06:03,796 --> 00:06:05,298 CRIMEAN BRIDGE: MADE WITH 205 00:06:05,364 --> 00:06:07,300 LOVE!": ILL-ADVISED, MESSY, AND 206 00:06:07,366 --> 00:06:10,036 SOMETHING ABSOLUTELY NOBODY BUT 207 00:06:10,103 --> 00:06:11,304 HIM WANTED. 208 00:06:11,370 --> 00:06:17,777 AND NOW, THIS. 209 00:06:17,844 --> 00:06:20,246 >> AND NOW, MORE ELECTRIFYING 210 00:06:20,313 --> 00:06:23,616 SMALL TALK FROM SAN ANTONIO'S 211 00:06:23,683 --> 00:06:25,118 DAYTIME WITH KIMBERLY AND ESTHER 212 00:06:25,184 --> 00:06:25,318 BAN. 213 00:06:25,384 --> 00:06:27,954 >> DAYTIME WITH KIMBERLY AND 214 00:06:28,020 --> 00:06:28,488 ESTHER BOND STARTS NOW. 215 00:06:28,554 --> 00:06:32,158 >> HAPPY THURSDAY. 216 00:06:32,225 --> 00:06:37,230 >> HELLO. 217 00:06:37,296 --> 00:06:37,530 >> ITS ECHO. 218 00:06:37,597 --> 00:06:42,735 >> HAPPY TUESDAY. 219 00:06:42,802 --> 00:06:44,103 >> WHERE'S MY TACOS? 220 00:06:44,170 --> 00:06:46,272 >> WE ARE HAPPY YOU ARE CHOOSING 221 00:06:46,339 --> 00:06:48,241 TO START YOUR WEEK WITH US. 222 00:06:48,307 --> 00:06:50,376 IT'S A WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY. 223 00:06:50,443 --> 00:06:55,348 >> TRUE STORY. 224 00:06:55,414 --> 00:06:56,616 >> TRUE STORY. 225 00:06:56,682 --> 00:06:58,918 >> SPRING BREAK IS STILL GOING 226 00:06:58,985 --> 00:07:00,052 ON. 227 00:07:00,119 --> 00:07:01,220 >> TRUE STORY. 228 00:07:01,287 --> 00:07:03,055 >> IT'S A GOOD DAY. 229 00:07:03,122 --> 00:07:05,525 >> YOU ALWAYS PUT A LITTLE FLAIR 230 00:07:05,591 --> 00:07:06,159 ON IT. 231 00:07:06,225 --> 00:07:12,098 >> TEXAS IS MY HOME COUNTRY >> 232 00:07:12,165 --> 00:07:12,899 TRUE STORY. 233 00:07:12,965 --> 00:07:14,667 >> WELCOME TO DAYTIME, HAPPY 234 00:07:14,734 --> 00:07:19,138 FRIDAY WE ARE SO HAPPY YOU ARE 235 00:07:19,205 --> 00:07:19,539 HANGING WITH US. 236 00:07:19,605 --> 00:07:23,509 >> TRUE STORY. 237 00:07:23,576 --> 00:07:24,443 >> OUR MAIN STORY TONIGHT 238 00:07:24,510 --> 00:07:25,077 CONCERNS LGBTQ RIGHTS, SOMETHING 239 00:07:25,144 --> 00:07:25,845 WE'VE ACTUALLY GOTTEN BETTER AT 240 00:07:25,912 --> 00:07:26,813 DISCUSSING, GIVEN THAT THIS IS 241 00:07:26,879 --> 00:07:28,381 HOW CBS NEWS COVERED THE 242 00:07:28,447 --> 00:07:32,151 EXISTENCE OF GAY PEOPLE IN 1967. 243 00:07:32,218 --> 00:07:33,719 >> THE HOMOSEXUALS, WITH CBS 244 00:07:33,786 --> 00:07:35,354 NEWS CORRESPONDENT MIKE WALLACE. 245 00:07:35,421 --> 00:07:36,756 >> THERE IS A GROWING CONCERN 246 00:07:36,823 --> 00:07:38,057 ABOUT HOMOSEXUALS IN SOCIETY, 247 00:07:38,124 --> 00:07:38,958 ABOUT THEIR INCREASING 248 00:07:39,025 --> 00:07:41,227 VISIBILITY. 249 00:07:41,294 --> 00:07:42,628 THIS MAN IS 27, COLLEGE 250 00:07:42,695 --> 00:07:43,796 EDUCATED. 251 00:07:43,863 --> 00:07:45,031 HE WAS UNABLE TO HOLD A JOB 252 00:07:45,097 --> 00:07:45,765 BECAUSE OF HIS INABILITY TO 253 00:07:45,832 --> 00:07:46,632 CONTAIN HIS HOMOSEXUAL 254 00:07:46,699 --> 00:07:50,770 INCLINATIONS. 255 00:07:50,837 --> 00:07:51,737 >> John: OKAY, THAT'S A BIG 256 00:07:51,804 --> 00:07:52,305 "YIKES" FROM ME -- FROM THE 257 00:07:52,371 --> 00:07:53,072 WILDLY HOMOPHOBIC LANGUAGE; TO 258 00:07:53,139 --> 00:07:54,707 THE FACT THIS MAN'S IDENTITY WAS 259 00:07:54,774 --> 00:07:55,975 CONCEALED BY PLACING HIM BEHIND 260 00:07:56,042 --> 00:07:58,411 A PLANT, TO THE TITLE "THE 261 00:07:58,477 --> 00:08:01,314 HOMOSEXUALS" WHICH SOUNDS LESS 262 00:08:01,380 --> 00:08:03,115 LIKE THE NAME OF A NEWS REPORT 263 00:08:03,182 --> 00:08:04,016 AND MORE LIKE HOW YOUR GRANDPA 264 00:08:04,083 --> 00:08:06,452 REFERS TO THE FAB FIVE. 265 00:08:06,519 --> 00:08:07,386 SPECIFICALLY, WE'RE GOING TO 266 00:08:07,453 --> 00:08:09,288 TALK ABOUT TRANSGENDER RIGHTS. 267 00:08:09,355 --> 00:08:10,189 WE ACTUALLY FIRST TALKED ABOUT 268 00:08:10,256 --> 00:08:12,225 THIS SEVEN YEARS AGO, AND THE 269 00:08:12,291 --> 00:08:13,492 GOOD NEWS IS, SINCE THEN, MORE 270 00:08:13,559 --> 00:08:14,493 PEOPLE DO SEEM COMFORTABLE 271 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:15,394 COMING OUT AS TRANS AND GENDER 272 00:08:15,461 --> 00:08:16,429 NONCONFORMING. 273 00:08:16,495 --> 00:08:17,430 WHICH IS GREAT! 274 00:08:17,496 --> 00:08:19,599 BUT AS YOU'VE UNDOUBTEDLY 275 00:08:19,665 --> 00:08:21,033 NOTICED, IN THE PAST FEW YEARS 276 00:08:21,100 --> 00:08:22,034 SOME ON THE RIGHT HAVE TRULY 277 00:08:22,101 --> 00:08:23,469 LOST THEIR MINDS ABOUT TRANS 278 00:08:23,536 --> 00:08:25,137 RIGHTS, PERHAPS BEST 279 00:08:25,204 --> 00:08:27,106 ENCAPSULATED BY THEIR NEW 280 00:08:27,173 --> 00:08:28,574 FAVORITE JOKE. 281 00:08:28,641 --> 00:08:30,376 >> MY NAME IS J.R. 282 00:08:30,443 --> 00:08:31,711 MAJEWSKI, AND MY PRONOUNS ARE 283 00:08:31,777 --> 00:08:34,380 PATRIOT AND ASS KICKER. 284 00:08:34,447 --> 00:08:35,348 >> MY PRONOUNS? 285 00:08:35,414 --> 00:08:38,317 CONSERVATIVE. 286 00:08:38,384 --> 00:08:41,020 PATRIOT. 287 00:08:41,087 --> 00:08:42,054 >> I'D LIKE TO DECLARE SOMETHING 288 00:08:42,121 --> 00:08:42,455 RIGHT NOW. 289 00:08:42,521 --> 00:08:46,192 MY PRONOUNS ARE U-S-A. 290 00:08:46,259 --> 00:08:47,360 HOW BOUT IT. 291 00:08:47,426 --> 00:08:53,065 >> I'M TED CRUZ, AND MY PRONOUN 292 00:08:53,132 --> 00:08:53,633 IS "KISS MY ASS." 293 00:08:53,699 --> 00:08:54,533 >> John: I DO NOT LIKE THAT MAN 294 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:54,800 TED CRUZ. 295 00:08:54,867 --> 00:08:55,568 I DO NOT LIKE HIS SHITTY VIEWS. 296 00:08:55,635 --> 00:08:56,769 I DO NOT LIKE HIM SAYING "ASS," 297 00:08:56,836 --> 00:08:58,971 DO NOT LIKE HIM SERVING SASS. 298 00:08:59,038 --> 00:09:00,339 I DO NOT LIKE HIM IN A SEAT, DO 299 00:09:00,406 --> 00:09:01,274 NOT LIKE HIM HOLDING MEAT. 300 00:09:01,340 --> 00:09:02,842 I DO NOT LIKE HIM WHEN HE'S 301 00:09:02,909 --> 00:09:03,709 SMOOCHIN', I DO NOT LIKE HIM 302 00:09:03,776 --> 00:09:05,778 WITH MNUCHIN. 303 00:09:05,845 --> 00:09:07,046 HATE HIS STUPID PRONOUN BIT. 304 00:09:07,113 --> 00:09:08,681 THAT MAN TED CRUZ IS FULL OF 305 00:09:08,748 --> 00:09:11,350 SHIT. 306 00:09:11,417 --> 00:09:12,585 BUT IT'S CLEARLY MORE THAN JUST 307 00:09:12,652 --> 00:09:14,186 BAD JOKES -- THIS YEAR ALONE, 308 00:09:14,253 --> 00:09:15,721 OVER 100 ANTI TRANS BILLS HAVE 309 00:09:15,788 --> 00:09:17,089 BEEN INTRODUCED IN STATE HOUSES, 310 00:09:17,156 --> 00:09:18,391 AND 12 STATES HAVE SIGNED OR 311 00:09:18,457 --> 00:09:19,659 ENACTED THEM, WITH ALL OF THIS 312 00:09:19,725 --> 00:09:21,594 HAPPENING AGAINST A BACKDROP OF 313 00:09:21,661 --> 00:09:23,029 VIOLENCE AND THREATS, INCLUDING 314 00:09:23,095 --> 00:09:24,497 ATTACKS AND HARASSMENT AIMED AT 315 00:09:24,563 --> 00:09:25,731 HOSPITALS PROVIDING GENDER 316 00:09:25,798 --> 00:09:28,267 AFFIRMING CARE TO YOUTH. 317 00:09:28,334 --> 00:09:29,635 AND FRUSTRATINGLY, THERE ARE 318 00:09:29,702 --> 00:09:30,636 MANY ON THE LEFT WHO SEEM AT 319 00:09:30,703 --> 00:09:32,204 BEST RELUCTANT TO ENGAGE ON THIS 320 00:09:32,271 --> 00:09:37,243 ISSUE, AND AT WORST OUTRIGHT 321 00:09:37,310 --> 00:09:38,210 HOSTILE TO IT, EITHER 322 00:09:38,277 --> 00:09:39,078 COMPLAINING ABOUT "PRONOUN 323 00:09:39,145 --> 00:09:39,946 POLICE", OR ARGUING THAT THIS 324 00:09:40,012 --> 00:09:40,579 ISSUE WILL COST DEMOCRATS 325 00:09:40,646 --> 00:09:41,681 ELECTIONS. 326 00:09:41,747 --> 00:09:44,483 >> IF YOU GO TO THE MIDDLE OF 327 00:09:44,550 --> 00:09:46,018 THE COUNTY, PEOPLE WOULD SAY IF 328 00:09:46,085 --> 00:09:47,553 YOUR CONVERSATION DURING A 329 00:09:47,620 --> 00:09:48,754 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IS ABOUT 330 00:09:48,821 --> 00:09:50,389 SOME GUY WEARING A DRESS AND 331 00:09:50,456 --> 00:09:52,658 WHETHER HE, SHE, OR IT CAN GO 332 00:09:52,725 --> 00:09:54,260 TO-AND-AND GO TO THE LOCKER ROOM 333 00:09:54,327 --> 00:09:55,294 WITH THEIR DAUGHTER, THAT'S NOT 334 00:09:55,361 --> 00:09:57,430 A WINNING FORMULA FOR MOST 335 00:09:57,496 --> 00:09:57,997 PEOPLE. 336 00:09:58,064 --> 00:09:59,031 >> John: WOW. 337 00:09:59,098 --> 00:10:00,166 "IT"? 338 00:10:00,232 --> 00:10:01,434 MICHAEL BLOOMBERG CAN FUCK ALL 339 00:10:01,500 --> 00:10:05,371 THE WAY OFF. 340 00:10:05,438 --> 00:10:06,138 ALSO WHILE THIS FUN-SIZED 341 00:10:06,205 --> 00:10:07,506 BILLIONAIRE IS CLEARLY GOOD AT A 342 00:10:07,573 --> 00:10:09,175 LOT OF THINGS -- LIKE MAKING 343 00:10:09,241 --> 00:10:10,076 MONEY, AND END OF LIST -- MAYBE 344 00:10:10,142 --> 00:10:11,143 DON'T TAKE ADVICE ON A "WINNING 345 00:10:11,210 --> 00:10:12,345 FORMULA" FOR ELECTIONS FROM A 346 00:10:12,411 --> 00:10:13,813 MAN WHO SPENT OVER OVER A 347 00:10:13,879 --> 00:10:14,947 BILLION DOLLARS OF HIS OWN MONEY 348 00:10:15,014 --> 00:10:16,515 TO LOSE A PRESIDENTIAL BID IN 349 00:10:16,582 --> 00:10:19,318 JUST 14 WEEKS. 350 00:10:19,385 --> 00:10:20,753 BUT SET ASIDE THE NOTION THAT 351 00:10:20,820 --> 00:10:22,288 IT'S WORTH SACRIFICING 352 00:10:22,355 --> 00:10:23,556 PROTECTIONS FOR A VULNERABLE 353 00:10:23,622 --> 00:10:24,390 GROUP, TO CHASE A "WINNING 354 00:10:24,457 --> 00:10:25,825 FORMULA." 355 00:10:25,891 --> 00:10:27,326 LET'S ALSO REMEMBER THAT IT'S 356 00:10:27,393 --> 00:10:28,661 NOT ACTUALLY "THE LEFT" TALKING 357 00:10:28,728 --> 00:10:30,563 ABOUT TRANS RIGHTS NON-STOP -- 358 00:10:30,629 --> 00:10:31,764 IT'S REPUBLICANS, WHO SEE AN 359 00:10:31,831 --> 00:10:37,903 ADVANTAGE IN DEMAGOGUING THIS 360 00:10:37,970 --> 00:10:38,971 ISSUE. 361 00:10:39,038 --> 00:10:39,839 AND TO IGNORE THAT IS TO ALLOW 362 00:10:39,905 --> 00:10:40,639 THEM TO HAVE REAL, CALAMITOUS 363 00:10:40,706 --> 00:10:41,841 IMPACTS ON PEOPLE'S LIVES. 364 00:10:41,907 --> 00:10:44,010 A FEW YEARS AGO, VICE PROFILED A 365 00:10:44,076 --> 00:10:44,977 GIRL NAMED KAI SHAPPLEY. 366 00:10:45,044 --> 00:10:46,178 AND JUST WATCH HOW HAPPY SHE IS, 367 00:10:46,245 --> 00:10:47,013 TALKING ABOUT HER HOPES FOR HER 368 00:10:47,079 --> 00:10:48,080 FUTURE, UNTIL SHE REMEMBERS 369 00:10:48,147 --> 00:10:51,150 SOMETHING THAT CHANGES HER MOOD. 370 00:10:51,217 --> 00:10:51,951 >> MAMA SAYS I MIGHT GROW UP TO 371 00:10:52,018 --> 00:10:54,220 BE PRESIDENT." 372 00:10:54,286 --> 00:10:54,954 >> YEAH? 373 00:10:55,021 --> 00:10:55,554 >> MM-HM. 374 00:10:55,621 --> 00:10:56,288 >> WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE ABOUT 375 00:10:56,355 --> 00:10:58,657 THE WORLD IF YOU WERE PRESIDENT? 376 00:10:58,724 --> 00:11:01,327 >> LET TRANS PEOPLE BE FREE AND 377 00:11:01,394 --> 00:11:02,228 GO TO THE BATHROOM THEY WANT TO 378 00:11:02,294 --> 00:11:04,497 GO TO. 379 00:11:04,563 --> 00:11:05,297 >> ARE YOU ABLE TO USE THE 380 00:11:05,364 --> 00:11:08,834 GIRLS' BATHROOM AT SCHOOL? 381 00:11:08,901 --> 00:11:10,036 >> NO, AND NOW THEY JUST PUT 382 00:11:10,102 --> 00:11:13,339 SECURITY GUARDS UP FOR THE 383 00:11:13,406 --> 00:11:17,643 BATHROOM SECURITY OR WHATEVER. 384 00:11:17,710 --> 00:11:19,912 OH, I HATE THAT. 385 00:11:19,979 --> 00:11:21,480 >> John: THAT'S BRUTAL. 386 00:11:21,547 --> 00:11:22,114 IT'S SO DARK THAT IT'S GENUINELY 387 00:11:22,181 --> 00:11:23,049 HARD TO WATCH. 388 00:11:23,115 --> 00:11:24,617 WHICH WOULD ALSO COINCIDENTALLY, 389 00:11:24,683 --> 00:11:26,118 BE A PRETTY ACCURATE TAGLINE FOR 390 00:11:26,185 --> 00:11:28,587 "HOUSE OF THE DRAGON." 391 00:11:28,654 --> 00:11:30,456 BUT THE POINT IS, GIVEN WHAT'S 392 00:11:30,523 --> 00:11:31,991 AT STAKE HERE, TONIGHT, LET'S 393 00:11:32,058 --> 00:11:33,692 TALK ABOUT THIS LATEST ROUND OF 394 00:11:33,759 --> 00:11:34,427 ATTACKS ON TRANS RIGHTS, WHERE 395 00:11:34,493 --> 00:11:35,461 IT'S COMING FROM, AND WHAT IT'S 396 00:11:35,528 --> 00:11:36,796 DOING. 397 00:11:36,862 --> 00:11:37,797 AND BEFORE WE BEGIN: WE'RE GOING 398 00:11:37,863 --> 00:11:39,098 TO BE TAKING THE ARGUMENTS 399 00:11:39,165 --> 00:11:40,099 BEHIND A LOT OF THESE ANTI-TRANS 400 00:11:40,166 --> 00:11:42,568 BILLS SERIOUSLY, BECAUSE OF WHAT 401 00:11:42,635 --> 00:11:43,169 THEY'RE DOING, BUT NOT 402 00:11:43,235 --> 00:11:45,004 SINCERELY, BECAUSE SO OFTEN, 403 00:11:45,071 --> 00:11:46,839 THEY SEEM TO BE BASED MORE ON 404 00:11:46,906 --> 00:11:48,040 POLITICAL CALCULATION THAN ON 405 00:11:48,107 --> 00:11:49,708 WHAT'S ACTUALLY HAPPENING. 406 00:11:49,775 --> 00:11:51,143 A GOOD EXAMPLE IS THAT IN RECENT 407 00:11:51,210 --> 00:11:52,144 YEARS, 18 STATES HAVE PASSED 408 00:11:52,211 --> 00:11:54,713 LAWS AIMED AT "PROTECTING YOUTH 409 00:11:54,780 --> 00:11:56,082 SPORTS", AND SOUTH DAKOTA 410 00:11:56,148 --> 00:11:57,316 GOVERNOR KRISTI NOEM EVEN MADE 411 00:11:57,383 --> 00:11:58,117 HER STATE'S BILL A CENTERPIECE 412 00:11:58,184 --> 00:12:00,486 OF A CAMPAIGN AD. 413 00:12:00,553 --> 00:12:01,687 >> IN SOUTH DAKOTA, ONLY GIRLS 414 00:12:01,754 --> 00:12:03,489 PLAY GIRLS' SPORTS. 415 00:12:03,556 --> 00:12:04,723 WHY? 416 00:12:04,790 --> 00:12:06,692 BECAUSE OF GOVERNOR KRISTI 417 00:12:06,759 --> 00:12:07,693 NOEM'S LEADERSHIP. 418 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:08,861 NOEM HAS BEEN PROTECTING GIRLS' 419 00:12:08,928 --> 00:12:10,096 SPORTS FOR YEARS AND NEVER 420 00:12:10,162 --> 00:12:11,497 BACKED DOWN. 421 00:12:11,564 --> 00:12:13,332 >> NOW, GOVERNOR NOEM HAS A BILL 422 00:12:13,399 --> 00:12:14,567 THAT WILL GIVE SOUTH DAKOTA THE 423 00:12:14,633 --> 00:12:16,469 STRONGEST LAW IN THE NATION 424 00:12:16,535 --> 00:12:18,571 PROTECTING FEMALE SPORTS. 425 00:12:18,637 --> 00:12:19,338 DOING THE WORK, DELIVERING 426 00:12:19,405 --> 00:12:20,473 RESULTS. 427 00:12:20,539 --> 00:12:22,508 GOVERNOR KRISTI NOEM. 428 00:12:22,575 --> 00:12:24,777 >> John: IF YOU'D TIME TRAVELLED 429 00:12:24,844 --> 00:12:26,112 HERE FROM THE PAST AND THE FIRST 430 00:12:26,178 --> 00:12:27,046 THING YOU SAW WAS THIS AD, YOU'D 431 00:12:27,113 --> 00:12:28,347 THINK TWO THINGS. 432 00:12:28,414 --> 00:12:29,849 ONE: WOW, THE CAMPAIGN CENTERS 433 00:12:29,915 --> 00:12:31,717 AROUND YOUTH SPORTS, I GUESS 434 00:12:31,784 --> 00:12:33,285 LITERALLY EVERY OTHER PROBLEM IN 435 00:12:33,352 --> 00:12:34,453 AMERICA HAS BEEN SOLVED. 436 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:35,588 AND TWO: SHE IS "NOT" PULLING 437 00:12:35,654 --> 00:12:37,556 OFF THAT COWBOY HAT. 438 00:12:37,623 --> 00:12:38,791 AND YOU'D BE RIGHT -- ABOUT THE 439 00:12:38,858 --> 00:12:40,192 HAT PART. 440 00:12:40,259 --> 00:12:42,695 PEOPLE LIKE NOEM LOVE STOKING 441 00:12:42,761 --> 00:12:43,629 FEAR OVER THE SPECTER OF TRANS 442 00:12:43,696 --> 00:12:44,830 ATHLETES -- GIRLS, SPECIFICALLY 443 00:12:44,897 --> 00:12:46,065 -- HAVING AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE, 444 00:12:46,132 --> 00:12:46,832 AND TAKING AWAY SCHOLARSHIP 445 00:12:46,899 --> 00:12:48,134 OPPORTUNITIES. 446 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:49,568 BUT THERE ARE VANISHINGLY FEW 447 00:12:49,635 --> 00:12:51,270 EXAMPLES NATIONWIDE OF TRANS 448 00:12:51,337 --> 00:12:52,004 ATHLETES ATTEMPTING TO COMPETE 449 00:12:52,071 --> 00:12:58,878 AT ALL. 450 00:12:58,944 --> 00:12:59,612 IN NOEM'S STATE SPECIFICALLY, 451 00:12:59,678 --> 00:13:00,579 THE HEAD OF THEIR HIGH SCHOOL 452 00:13:00,646 --> 00:13:01,480 SPORTS ASSOCIATION COULD NAME 453 00:13:01,547 --> 00:13:02,448 EXACTLY ONE TRANSGENDER FEMALE 454 00:13:02,515 --> 00:13:03,282 ATHLETE WHO'D COMPETED, AND WHO 455 00:13:03,349 --> 00:13:04,350 GRADUATED SEVERAL YEARS AGO. 456 00:13:04,416 --> 00:13:06,418 SO THERE ARE MORE ATHLETES "IN 457 00:13:06,485 --> 00:13:08,954 THIS SHOT" FROM NOEM'S AD, THEN 458 00:13:09,021 --> 00:13:10,256 THERE ARE TRANS GIRLS KNOWN TO 459 00:13:10,322 --> 00:13:10,856 HAVE COMPETED IN SOUTH DAKOTA 460 00:13:10,923 --> 00:13:12,525 SCHOOLS. 461 00:13:12,591 --> 00:13:13,359 BUT EVEN IF THERE WERE MORE, 462 00:13:13,425 --> 00:13:14,360 DISCRIMINATING AGAINST THEM 463 00:13:14,426 --> 00:13:15,394 WOULD STILL, OBVIOUSLY, BE 464 00:13:15,461 --> 00:13:17,897 WRONG. 465 00:13:17,963 --> 00:13:18,731 AND IT'D STILL BE WEIRD THAT 466 00:13:18,797 --> 00:13:19,532 STATE LEGISLATURES WERE GETTING 467 00:13:19,598 --> 00:13:20,366 INVOLVED IN DECISIONS USUALLY 468 00:13:20,432 --> 00:13:21,333 MADE BY ORGANIZATIONS GOVERNING 469 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:23,269 THE SPORTS IN QUESTION. 470 00:13:23,335 --> 00:13:25,704 AND IT'S WORTH KNOWING: EVEN AT 471 00:13:25,771 --> 00:13:26,839 THE ELITE LEVEL, CONVERSATIONS 472 00:13:26,906 --> 00:13:28,941 AROUND THIS AREN'T BEING HANDLED 473 00:13:29,008 --> 00:13:34,346 WITH FLAT-OUT BANS. 474 00:13:34,413 --> 00:13:35,114 THE I-O-C HAS ANNOUNCED IT'LL 475 00:13:35,181 --> 00:13:35,948 SET RULES ON A SPORT-BY-SPORT 476 00:13:36,015 --> 00:13:36,782 BASIS, BUT WORKING ON THE 477 00:13:36,849 --> 00:13:37,716 GENERAL PRINCIPLE THAT "NO 478 00:13:37,783 --> 00:13:38,918 ATHLETE SHOULD BE EXCLUDED FROM 479 00:13:38,984 --> 00:13:39,919 COMPETITION ON THE ASSUMPTION OF 480 00:13:39,985 --> 00:13:41,086 AN ADVANTAGE DUE TO THEIR 481 00:13:41,153 --> 00:13:42,321 GENDER." 482 00:13:42,388 --> 00:13:43,689 AND IT'S PRETTY REMARKABLE THAT 483 00:13:43,756 --> 00:13:44,924 A TRANS ATHLETE COULD 484 00:13:44,990 --> 00:13:46,725 THEORETICALLY COMPETE IN THE 485 00:13:46,792 --> 00:13:47,960 OLYMPICS, BUT NOT SOUTH DAKOTA 486 00:13:48,027 --> 00:13:50,930 UNDER-12 SOCCER. 487 00:13:50,996 --> 00:13:52,565 A SPORT THAT GENUINELY ONLY 488 00:13:52,631 --> 00:13:54,366 EXISTS TO OBLITERATE PARENTS' 489 00:13:54,433 --> 00:13:56,135 WEEKENDS. 490 00:13:56,202 --> 00:13:59,405 STATES' BLUNT-FORCE APPROACH HAS 491 00:13:59,471 --> 00:14:00,239 LED TO ABSURD SITUATIONS LIKE 492 00:14:00,306 --> 00:14:01,507 THAT OF MACK BEGGS, WHO AS A 493 00:14:01,574 --> 00:14:02,474 TEXAS HIGH SCHOOLER WANTED TO 494 00:14:02,541 --> 00:14:04,543 WRESTLE BOYS, BUT WAS FORCED BY 495 00:14:04,610 --> 00:14:06,278 STATE RULES TO WRESTLE GIRLS. 496 00:14:06,345 --> 00:14:07,413 WHEN HE WON A STATE 497 00:14:07,479 --> 00:14:09,181 CHAMPIONSHIP, LAWMAKERS TRIED TO 498 00:14:09,248 --> 00:14:10,182 PASS A LAW THAT WOULD'VE MADE IT 499 00:14:10,249 --> 00:14:11,383 IMPOSSIBLE FOR ATHLETES LIKE HIM 500 00:14:11,450 --> 00:14:14,286 TO COMPETE, PERIOD. 501 00:14:14,353 --> 00:14:15,454 WHICH IS ABSURD, BECAUSE AS ONE 502 00:14:15,521 --> 00:14:17,356 OF THE WRESTLERS MACK ACTUALLY 503 00:14:17,423 --> 00:14:18,824 DEFEATED POINTED OUT, NONE OF 504 00:14:18,891 --> 00:14:19,725 THESE PEOPLE SEEMED TO THINK 505 00:14:19,792 --> 00:14:20,593 THROUGH THE REALITY OF MACK'S 506 00:14:20,659 --> 00:14:21,961 SITUATION. 507 00:14:22,027 --> 00:14:24,129 >> DO YOU REALLY HONESTLY THINK 508 00:14:24,196 --> 00:14:25,564 SOMEONE WOULD CHANGE THEIR 509 00:14:25,631 --> 00:14:26,599 ENTIRE GENDER JUST SO THEY WOULD 510 00:14:26,665 --> 00:14:30,502 WIN STATE? 511 00:14:30,569 --> 00:14:33,272 NO, THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS. 512 00:14:33,339 --> 00:14:34,173 >> John: RIGHT, THIS OBVIOUSLY 513 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:35,941 WASN'T AN EFFORT TO CHEAT. 514 00:14:36,008 --> 00:14:37,643 KIDS AREN'T PLOTTING BIG, 515 00:14:37,710 --> 00:14:39,078 DECEITFUL SCHOOL SPORTS-RELATED 516 00:14:39,144 --> 00:14:40,879 CHEATING SCHEMES JUST TO GET 517 00:14:40,946 --> 00:14:41,914 WHAT THEY WANT -- YOU'RE 518 00:14:41,981 --> 00:14:46,952 THINKING OF LORI LOUGHLIN. 519 00:14:47,019 --> 00:14:48,320 THAT'S WHO YOU'RE THINKING OF 520 00:14:48,387 --> 00:14:50,556 HERE, YOU ARE CONFUSED. 521 00:14:50,623 --> 00:14:51,290 SO MUCH OF THE CONVERSATION 522 00:14:51,357 --> 00:14:52,057 AROUND ANTI-TRANS LAWS INVOLVES 523 00:14:52,124 --> 00:14:52,858 MASSIVELY OVERHEATED RHETORIC 524 00:14:52,925 --> 00:14:53,726 THAT DOESN'T MATCH THE REALITY 525 00:14:53,792 --> 00:14:54,793 OF KIDS' ACTUAL SITUATIONS. 526 00:14:54,860 --> 00:14:55,961 AND INTERESTINGLY, A LOT OF IT'S 527 00:14:56,028 --> 00:14:57,863 BEEN FUELED BY SOME OF THE SAME 528 00:14:57,930 --> 00:14:59,932 PLAYERS BEHIND THE CRITICAL RACE 529 00:14:59,999 --> 00:15:01,233 THEORY PANIC, WHO, AS WE 530 00:15:01,300 --> 00:15:02,568 DISCUSSED IN FEBRUARY, WERE 531 00:15:02,635 --> 00:15:03,902 USING IT AS A WEDGE ISSUE TO 532 00:15:03,969 --> 00:15:05,070 PROMOTE SCHOOL CHOICE. 533 00:15:05,137 --> 00:15:06,939 IN FACT, ONE KEY ARCHITECT OF 534 00:15:07,006 --> 00:15:08,440 THE C-R-T PANIC, CHRISTOPHER 535 00:15:08,507 --> 00:15:14,046 RUFO, RECENTLY PIVOTED TO 536 00:15:14,113 --> 00:15:14,847 ATTACKING TRANS RIGHTS, AND HAS 537 00:15:14,913 --> 00:15:15,748 OPENLY DISCUSSED THE STRATEGY 538 00:15:15,814 --> 00:15:16,248 BEHIND THAT. 539 00:15:16,315 --> 00:15:17,383 >> WHAT I'M LOOKING AT AND IT'S 540 00:15:17,449 --> 00:15:19,051 JUST KIND OF AN ONGOING SERIES, 541 00:15:19,118 --> 00:15:21,320 I JUST STARTED IT, IS TO TAKE 542 00:15:21,387 --> 00:15:22,321 THAT SAME SYSTEM OF REPORTING, 543 00:15:22,388 --> 00:15:23,088 THAT SAME STYLE OF REPORTING AS 544 00:15:23,155 --> 00:15:25,324 I DID WITH CRITICAL RACE THEORY. 545 00:15:25,391 --> 00:15:25,958 BUT NOW TAKING A LOOK AT GENDER 546 00:15:26,025 --> 00:15:27,226 IDEOLOGY. 547 00:15:27,293 --> 00:15:28,594 WHAT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IS, 548 00:15:28,661 --> 00:15:31,297 PARENTS ARE FEELING THAT, 549 00:15:31,363 --> 00:15:32,231 THEY'RE FEELING THE OOF THIS IS 550 00:15:32,298 --> 00:15:33,399 KIND OF WEIRD, I'M KIND OF 551 00:15:33,465 --> 00:15:34,166 UNCOMFORTABLE WITH THIS, BUT I'M 552 00:15:34,233 --> 00:15:35,734 SCARED TO SPEAK OUT. 553 00:15:35,801 --> 00:15:37,803 AND SO WHAT WE HAVE TO DO IS WE 554 00:15:37,870 --> 00:15:41,206 HAVE TO GIVE THEM THE KIND OF 555 00:15:41,273 --> 00:15:42,608 MEDIA NARRATIVE KIND OF A 556 00:15:42,675 --> 00:15:43,609 JUSTIFICATION OR VALIDATION OR 557 00:15:43,676 --> 00:15:45,544 SUBSTANTIATION OF THEIR CONCERNS 558 00:15:45,611 --> 00:15:46,245 TO SAY, "HEY, THIS IS THE KIND 559 00:15:46,312 --> 00:15:47,813 OF THING THEY'RE TEACHING IN 560 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:48,881 SCHOOLS.' AND THEN WE HAVE TO 561 00:15:48,947 --> 00:15:50,282 GIVE THEM THE LANGUAGE WHERE 562 00:15:50,349 --> 00:15:54,086 THEY CAN SPEAK ABOUT IT WITH 563 00:15:54,153 --> 00:15:55,020 CONFIDENCE. 564 00:15:55,087 --> 00:15:56,822 THEY CAN SPEAK ABOUT IT DIRECTLY 565 00:15:56,889 --> 00:15:57,456 AND THEY CAN SPEAK ABOUT IT WITH 566 00:15:57,523 --> 00:15:59,391 THE REQUISITE LEVEL OF 567 00:15:59,458 --> 00:16:01,493 AGGRESSIVENESS THAT IT'S GOING 568 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:03,862 TO TAKE TO SAY, "HEY, WAIT A 569 00:16:03,929 --> 00:16:06,432 MINUTE, WE HAVE TO STOP THIS.' 570 00:16:06,498 --> 00:16:07,032 >> John: YEAH, HE'S BASICALLY 571 00:16:07,099 --> 00:16:07,566 GIVING PEOPLE A SCRIPT TO 572 00:16:07,633 --> 00:16:08,367 REPEAT. 573 00:16:08,434 --> 00:16:09,101 SAY WHAT YOU WANT ABOUT CHRIS 574 00:16:09,168 --> 00:16:10,069 RUFO -- LIKE, FOR INSTANCE, THAT 575 00:16:10,135 --> 00:16:11,670 HE'S A FEAR-MONGERING TROLL WHO 576 00:16:11,737 --> 00:16:12,671 LOOKS LIKE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF 577 00:16:12,738 --> 00:16:13,472 SOMEONE MADE THE RECIPE FOR RYAN 578 00:16:13,539 --> 00:16:14,340 GOSLING, BUT FORGOT TO ADD THE 579 00:16:14,406 --> 00:16:17,343 HOTNESS -- HE IS VERY DELIBERATE 580 00:16:17,409 --> 00:16:19,778 IN HOW HE TRIES TO INFLUENCE 581 00:16:19,845 --> 00:16:20,612 PUBLIC OPINION. 582 00:16:20,679 --> 00:16:23,482 RUFO'S SUGGESTED BRANDING THE 583 00:16:23,549 --> 00:16:24,683 DISCUSSION OF TRANS ISSUES UNDER 584 00:16:24,750 --> 00:16:26,652 THE UMBRELLA OF "RADICAL GENDER 585 00:16:26,719 --> 00:16:28,721 THEORY", AND TWEETED OUT THAT 586 00:16:28,787 --> 00:16:32,124 "CONSERVATIVES SHOULD START 587 00:16:32,191 --> 00:16:33,258 USING THE PHRASE "TRANS 588 00:16:33,325 --> 00:16:34,026 STRIPPER" IN LIEU OF "DRAG 589 00:16:34,093 --> 00:16:34,993 QUEEN." 590 00:16:35,060 --> 00:16:36,929 IT HAS A MORE LURID SET OF 591 00:16:36,995 --> 00:16:37,496 CONNOTATIONS AND SHIFTS THE 592 00:16:37,563 --> 00:16:38,764 DEBATE TO SEXUALIZATION." 593 00:16:38,831 --> 00:16:39,398 AND SURE -- ANYTHING CAN HAVE A 594 00:16:39,465 --> 00:16:40,299 MORE LURID AND SEXUAL SET OF 595 00:16:40,366 --> 00:16:41,333 CONNOTATIONS IF YOU JUST RENAME 596 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:42,368 IT. 597 00:16:42,434 --> 00:16:43,202 I'LL SHOW YOU: RAIN? 598 00:16:43,268 --> 00:16:44,903 "SKY JIZZ." 599 00:16:44,970 --> 00:16:45,337 MUCH WORSE. 600 00:16:45,404 --> 00:16:45,938 IMMERSION BLENDER? 601 00:16:46,004 --> 00:16:46,705 "SOUP VIBRATOR." 602 00:16:46,772 --> 00:16:47,339 SPAGHETTI SAUCE? 603 00:16:47,406 --> 00:16:48,374 "NOODLE LUBE." 604 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:50,175 SEE, IT WORKS ON ANYTHING! 605 00:16:50,242 --> 00:16:54,146 BUT IN THE CONSERVATIVE 606 00:16:54,213 --> 00:16:54,813 PLAYBOOK, THAT TACTIC IS A BIG 607 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:55,948 ONE -- -- LINKING DISCUSSION OF 608 00:16:56,014 --> 00:16:56,482 GENDER IDENTITY TO SEXUAL 609 00:16:56,548 --> 00:16:56,982 PREDATION AND TEACHERS 610 00:16:57,049 --> 00:16:58,584 "GROOMING" STUDENTS. 611 00:16:58,650 --> 00:16:59,852 A RELATED TACTIC IS ARGUING THAT 612 00:16:59,918 --> 00:17:01,220 THE RISE IN KIDS IDENTIFYING AS 613 00:17:01,286 --> 00:17:03,455 TRANS IS DUE TO A "SOCIAL 614 00:17:03,522 --> 00:17:04,390 CONTAGION" -- THAT IT'S JUST A 615 00:17:04,456 --> 00:17:05,591 MASS DELUSION, A TRENDY FAD 616 00:17:05,657 --> 00:17:07,025 THAT'S RAPIDLY SPREADING AMONG 617 00:17:07,092 --> 00:17:08,727 YOUNG PEOPLE. 618 00:17:08,794 --> 00:17:11,063 JUST LISTEN TO ABIGAIL SHRIER, A 619 00:17:11,130 --> 00:17:12,498 VOCAL PROPONENT OF THAT THEORY, 620 00:17:12,564 --> 00:17:14,466 LAYING IT ALL OUT. 621 00:17:14,533 --> 00:17:16,101 >> IF YOU WANT TO SEE BRAINWASH, 622 00:17:16,168 --> 00:17:17,569 CHECK OUT THESE YOUNG TEENAGERS 623 00:17:17,636 --> 00:17:18,837 WHO SUDDENLY DECIDE THEY'RE 624 00:17:18,904 --> 00:17:20,305 TRANSGENDER THEY IMMEDIATELY CUT 625 00:17:20,372 --> 00:17:21,407 OFF THEIR FAMILIES. 626 00:17:21,473 --> 00:17:22,107 THEY VERY OFTEN DROP OUT OF 627 00:17:22,174 --> 00:17:23,041 SCHOOL. 628 00:17:23,108 --> 00:17:24,376 THEY ARE VERY OFTEN START 629 00:17:24,443 --> 00:17:27,513 TATTOOING THEMSELVES AND USING 630 00:17:27,579 --> 00:17:28,747 DRUGS AND THEY ARE CREATING A-A 631 00:17:28,814 --> 00:17:30,115 WORLD FOR THEMSELVES THAT IS SO 632 00:17:30,182 --> 00:17:31,683 HEALTHY, SO BUILT AROUND 633 00:17:31,750 --> 00:17:33,085 SEXUALITY, AND THE-THEY LOSE ALL 634 00:17:33,152 --> 00:17:33,652 THEIR HOBBIES. 635 00:17:33,719 --> 00:17:34,253 THEIR ONLY HOBBY IS BEING 636 00:17:34,319 --> 00:17:37,122 TRANSGENDER. 637 00:17:37,189 --> 00:17:38,490 >> John: OKAY, SO THERE'S A LOT 638 00:17:38,557 --> 00:17:39,224 THERE, BUT LET ME JUST ADDRESS 639 00:17:39,291 --> 00:17:40,492 THE CLAIM THAT TRANS KIDS LOSE 640 00:17:40,559 --> 00:17:41,527 ALL THEIR HOBBIES. 641 00:17:41,593 --> 00:17:42,995 I'LL POINT OUT THAT WHEN THEY 642 00:17:43,061 --> 00:17:44,163 TRY TO HAVE SOME -- LIKE, I 643 00:17:44,229 --> 00:17:46,064 DUNNO, SCHOOL SPORTS, FOR 644 00:17:46,131 --> 00:17:47,366 EXAMPLE -- A BUNCH OF ASSHOLE 645 00:17:47,433 --> 00:17:49,868 ADULTS TRY TO KEEP THEM FROM IT. 646 00:17:49,935 --> 00:17:51,003 SHRIER SOMETIMES DRESSES HER 647 00:17:51,069 --> 00:17:52,204 ARGUMENT UP BY USING THE TERM 648 00:17:52,271 --> 00:17:54,640 "RAPID-ONSET GENDER DYSPHORIA", 649 00:17:54,706 --> 00:17:57,109 WHICH IS TOTAL HORSESHIT. 650 00:17:57,176 --> 00:17:58,377 IT COMES FROM A STUDY PUBLISHED 651 00:17:58,444 --> 00:18:01,013 BY A RESEARCHER IN 2018, 652 00:18:01,079 --> 00:18:01,680 HYPOTHESIZING THAT SOME KIDS 653 00:18:01,747 --> 00:18:02,648 IDENTIFY AS TRANS DUE TO PEER 654 00:18:02,714 --> 00:18:04,049 PRESSURE. 655 00:18:04,116 --> 00:18:05,784 BUT IT IS WORTH KNOWING: THAT 656 00:18:05,851 --> 00:18:07,085 STUDY WAS BASED ON A SURVEY OF 657 00:18:07,152 --> 00:18:09,788 PARENTS, NOT ACTUAL TRANS KIDS, 658 00:18:09,855 --> 00:18:11,089 AND IT TARGETED PARENTS FROM 659 00:18:11,156 --> 00:18:13,725 ORGANIZATIONS DEDICATED TO 660 00:18:13,792 --> 00:18:16,695 OPPOSING TRANS IDEOLOGY. 661 00:18:16,762 --> 00:18:17,329 WHICH IS INSTANTLY 662 00:18:17,396 --> 00:18:18,230 DISQUALIFYING. 663 00:18:18,297 --> 00:18:19,164 IT'S LIKE CITING A STUDY 664 00:18:19,231 --> 00:18:20,732 CLAIMING THAT ALL POSTAL WORKERS 665 00:18:20,799 --> 00:18:21,834 ARE TERRIFYING HELL-DEMONS SENT 666 00:18:21,900 --> 00:18:23,168 TO ATTACK YOUR FAMILY, BUT THEN 667 00:18:23,235 --> 00:18:24,870 LEARNING THAT THE RESEARCHERS 668 00:18:24,937 --> 00:18:26,104 ONLY SURVEYED A COLLECTION OF 669 00:18:26,171 --> 00:18:28,073 ANXIOUS DOGS -- THAT'S SOME 670 00:18:28,140 --> 00:18:30,676 HEAVY SAMPLING BIAS THAT CLEARLY 671 00:18:30,742 --> 00:18:32,845 SKEWED YOUR RESULTS. 672 00:18:32,911 --> 00:18:36,582 AND TO BE VERY CLEAR, THERE'S 673 00:18:36,648 --> 00:18:37,483 AMPLE EVIDENCE OF GENDER 674 00:18:37,549 --> 00:18:38,317 VARIANCE THROUGHOUT HUMAN 675 00:18:38,383 --> 00:18:39,218 HISTORY, AND AS FAR BACK AS 676 00:18:39,284 --> 00:18:40,085 HISTORIANS HAVE FOUND EVIDENCE 677 00:18:40,152 --> 00:18:41,153 OF TRANS PEOPLE, THEY'VE FOUND 678 00:18:41,220 --> 00:18:43,455 TRANS CHILDREN. 679 00:18:43,522 --> 00:18:44,923 AS FOR THE "RAPID RISE" IN KIDS 680 00:18:44,990 --> 00:18:47,192 IDENTIFYING AS TRANS, AS THE 681 00:18:47,259 --> 00:18:48,760 WRITER JULIA SERANO HAS POINTED 682 00:18:48,827 --> 00:18:50,429 OUT, WHEN YOU LOOK AT A CHART OF 683 00:18:50,496 --> 00:18:52,397 LEFT-HANDEDNESS AMONG AMERICANS 684 00:18:52,464 --> 00:18:53,732 OVER THE 20TH CENTURY, YOU SEE A 685 00:18:53,799 --> 00:18:54,867 MASSIVE SPIKE WHEN WE STOPPED 686 00:18:54,933 --> 00:18:57,503 FORCING KIDS TO WRITE WITH THEIR 687 00:18:57,569 --> 00:18:59,271 RIGHT HAND, AND THEN A PLATEAU 688 00:18:59,338 --> 00:19:01,273 -- THAT DOESN'T MEAN EVERYONE 689 00:19:01,340 --> 00:19:03,775 BECAME LEFT-HANDED OR THERE WAS 690 00:19:03,842 --> 00:19:06,078 A "RAPID ONSET SOUTHPAW 691 00:19:06,144 --> 00:19:07,246 DYSPHORIA", IT MEANS PEOPLE WERE 692 00:19:07,312 --> 00:19:08,146 FREE TO BE WHO THEY FUCKING 693 00:19:08,213 --> 00:19:11,383 WERE. 694 00:19:11,450 --> 00:19:12,150 AND TO THE EXTENT THAT SOME 695 00:19:12,217 --> 00:19:13,018 YOUNG PEOPLE ARE JUST EXPLORING 696 00:19:13,085 --> 00:19:13,619 THEIR GENDER IDENTITY, HOW IS 697 00:19:13,685 --> 00:19:16,188 THAT A BAD THING? 698 00:19:16,255 --> 00:19:18,457 WHO THE FUCK ARE THEY HURTING? 699 00:19:18,524 --> 00:19:19,591 WATCHING THE CONVERSATION AROUND 700 00:19:19,658 --> 00:19:21,727 THIS, IT'S HARD NOT TO FEEL 701 00:19:21,793 --> 00:19:23,362 LIKE, TO THE EXTENT THERE IS ANY 702 00:19:23,428 --> 00:19:25,264 "SOCIAL CONTAGION" HERE, IT'S 703 00:19:25,330 --> 00:19:27,432 AMONG ADULTS, WHO'VE WHIPPED 704 00:19:27,499 --> 00:19:29,601 THEMSELVES INTO SUCH A FRENZY 705 00:19:29,668 --> 00:19:30,469 THAT THEY CAN FIND THEMSELVES 706 00:19:30,536 --> 00:19:31,103 REPEATING SOME HUMILIATING 707 00:19:31,169 --> 00:19:33,071 NONSENSE. 708 00:19:33,138 --> 00:19:34,306 PERHAPS THE STUPIDEST OF WHICH 709 00:19:34,373 --> 00:19:35,307 IS A NEW TALKING POINT ABOUT 710 00:19:35,374 --> 00:19:36,508 WHAT ACCOMMODATING CHILDREN'S 711 00:19:36,575 --> 00:19:38,577 GENDER IDENTITY HAS LED TO. 712 00:19:38,644 --> 00:19:41,146 >> I EVEN HEARD FROM ONE PERSON 713 00:19:41,213 --> 00:19:42,214 WHO RECENTLY SAID THAT A 714 00:19:42,281 --> 00:19:48,053 THAT-THAT A STUDENT IDENTIFIED 715 00:19:48,120 --> 00:19:51,490 AS A CAT AND WANTED A LITTER 716 00:19:51,557 --> 00:19:52,190 BOX. 717 00:19:52,257 --> 00:19:52,925 >> THEY THINK THEY'RE A CAT, A 718 00:19:52,991 --> 00:19:54,359 CAT. 719 00:19:54,426 --> 00:19:56,461 THEY PUT TAILS ON AND THEY 720 00:19:56,528 --> 00:19:57,462 DEMAND THAT THEY HAVE A LITTER 721 00:19:57,529 --> 00:19:58,997 BOX IN THE SCHOOL. 722 00:19:59,064 --> 00:20:00,532 >> WE'VE LITERALLY GOT KIDS WHO 723 00:20:00,599 --> 00:20:02,367 THINK THEY'RE CATS AND DOGS 724 00:20:02,434 --> 00:20:03,201 USING LITTER BOXES IN 725 00:20:03,268 --> 00:20:07,539 CLASSROOMS. 726 00:20:07,606 --> 00:20:08,173 >> I'M STILL HEARING FROM 727 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:08,941 STUDENTS AND PARENTS. 728 00:20:09,007 --> 00:20:09,741 THEY BELIEVE THERE IS A LITTER 729 00:20:09,808 --> 00:20:11,109 BOX IN THAT SCHOOL. 730 00:20:11,176 --> 00:20:12,611 AND WHEN EVERYBODY WILL TURN THE 731 00:20:12,678 --> 00:20:14,379 OTHER CHEEK TO ALLEGATIONS. 732 00:20:14,446 --> 00:20:16,048 A RUMOR IS JUST A RUMOR UNTIL IT 733 00:20:16,114 --> 00:20:18,650 BECOMES TRUE. 734 00:20:18,717 --> 00:20:20,018 >> John: THE FACT YOU SEEM TO 735 00:20:20,085 --> 00:20:21,119 GENUINELY THINK THAT'S HAPPENING 736 00:20:21,186 --> 00:20:23,455 IS JUST HEARTBREAKINGLY STUPID. 737 00:20:23,522 --> 00:20:25,424 BECAUSE WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT 738 00:20:25,490 --> 00:20:26,291 FOR LITERALLY TWO SECONDS, THE 739 00:20:26,358 --> 00:20:27,826 WHOLE THING FALLS APART. 740 00:20:27,893 --> 00:20:31,330 FOR ONE, IF KIDS WERE USING 741 00:20:31,396 --> 00:20:33,231 LITTER BOXES IN CLASS, A STATE 742 00:20:33,298 --> 00:20:34,399 REPRESENTATIVE FROM MINNESOTA 743 00:20:34,466 --> 00:20:35,534 WOULDN'T BE THE ONE BREAKING 744 00:20:35,601 --> 00:20:36,501 THAT NEWS TO YOU. 745 00:20:36,568 --> 00:20:37,302 YOU WOULD HAVE FUCKING HEARD 746 00:20:37,369 --> 00:20:38,670 ABOUT IT. 747 00:20:38,737 --> 00:20:41,139 IF A KID SHAT IN A LITTERBOX IN 748 00:20:41,206 --> 00:20:42,207 FIRST PERIOD, IT WOULD BE THE 749 00:20:42,274 --> 00:20:43,408 ONLY THING ANYONE IN THAT STATE 750 00:20:43,475 --> 00:20:45,677 WAS TALKING ABOUT BY LUNCH. 751 00:20:45,744 --> 00:20:48,347 MINNESOTA WOULD CHANGE ITS STATE 752 00:20:48,413 --> 00:20:49,948 MOTTO TO "MINNESOTA -- Y'KNOW, 753 00:20:50,015 --> 00:20:50,983 THE STATE WHERE THAT KID SHIT IN 754 00:20:51,049 --> 00:20:54,953 A LITTERBOX." 755 00:20:55,020 --> 00:20:56,021 AND NOTABLY, YOUNG PEOPLE ARE 756 00:20:56,088 --> 00:20:57,322 SHOWING UP IN PUBLIC FORUMS 757 00:20:57,389 --> 00:20:59,291 WHERE ADULTS ARE FEARMONGERING 758 00:20:59,358 --> 00:21:00,525 ABOUT LETTING TRANS KIDS INTO 759 00:21:00,592 --> 00:21:01,994 YOUTH SPORTS AND BATHROOMS, AND 760 00:21:02,060 --> 00:21:02,928 TRYING TO TALK SOME SENSE INTO 761 00:21:02,995 --> 00:21:04,630 THEM. 762 00:21:04,696 --> 00:21:06,565 >> I WILL NOT LET A BOARD FULL 763 00:21:06,632 --> 00:21:07,633 OF PEOPLE WHO BARELY REPRESENT 764 00:21:07,699 --> 00:21:09,234 ME TELL ME WHO I AM AND WHAT I 765 00:21:09,301 --> 00:21:11,336 CAN DO. 766 00:21:11,403 --> 00:21:13,572 GROW UP AND FIX YOUR BEHAVIOR. 767 00:21:13,639 --> 00:21:14,673 >> I'M NOT WORRIED ABOUT A TRANS 768 00:21:14,740 --> 00:21:15,907 PERSON HARASSING ME, I'M WORRIED 769 00:21:15,974 --> 00:21:16,942 ABOUT IF I'M GONNA FAIL SPANISH 770 00:21:17,009 --> 00:21:18,210 IN MY NEXT CLASS. 771 00:21:18,276 --> 00:21:20,479 >> I HAVE USED THESE BATHROOMS 772 00:21:20,545 --> 00:21:21,647 REPEATEDLY ALONGSIDE TRANS 773 00:21:21,713 --> 00:21:22,981 PEOPLE AND HAVE NEVER ONCE FELT 774 00:21:23,048 --> 00:21:24,983 THREATENED. 775 00:21:25,050 --> 00:21:25,884 YOU KNOW WHO I HAVE FELT 776 00:21:25,951 --> 00:21:27,185 THREATENED BY? 777 00:21:27,252 --> 00:21:28,320 THE ACTIONS OF THIS SCHOOL 778 00:21:28,387 --> 00:21:29,755 BOARD. 779 00:21:29,821 --> 00:21:31,356 >> YOU'VE EMBARRASSED 780 00:21:31,423 --> 00:21:32,257 YOURSELVES, GARDNER, AND THE 781 00:21:32,324 --> 00:21:33,158 STATE OF KANSAS, FOR YOUR LACK 782 00:21:33,225 --> 00:21:33,992 OF KNOWLEDGE IN SEX AND GENDER 783 00:21:34,059 --> 00:21:35,160 STUDIES. 784 00:21:35,227 --> 00:21:36,795 YOU'VE ALSO HIGHLIGHTED THE 785 00:21:36,862 --> 00:21:37,896 SEVERELY INADEQUATE SEX 786 00:21:37,963 --> 00:21:40,132 EDUCATION WE GIVE OUR STUDENTS 787 00:21:40,198 --> 00:21:41,800 TODAY. 788 00:21:41,867 --> 00:21:42,934 >> John: YEAH, THE ADULTS IN 789 00:21:43,001 --> 00:21:45,103 THOSE ROOMS JUST GOT HUMILIATED 790 00:21:45,170 --> 00:21:46,371 BY TEENAGERS -- AS WE ALL KNOW, 791 00:21:46,438 --> 00:21:47,105 THE MOST BRUTAL FORM OF 792 00:21:47,172 --> 00:21:49,141 HUMILIATION THERE IS. 793 00:21:49,207 --> 00:21:50,509 AND CREDIT TO THOSE TEENAGERS 794 00:21:50,575 --> 00:21:51,810 FOR SHOWING UP, AND SKIPPING 795 00:21:51,877 --> 00:21:53,045 WHATEVER YOUNG PEOPLE ARE DOING 796 00:21:53,111 --> 00:21:54,713 THESE DAYS, LIKE HANGING OUT AT 797 00:21:54,780 --> 00:21:55,681 THE VAPE TOK STORE OR WHATEVER 798 00:21:55,747 --> 00:21:56,782 -- I DON'T KNOW, I'LL BE DEAD 799 00:21:56,848 --> 00:21:59,951 SOON. 800 00:22:00,018 --> 00:22:01,653 SO MUCH OF THE FEAR OF AND 801 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:03,088 ARGUMENTS AGAINST TRANSGENDER 802 00:22:03,155 --> 00:22:04,089 PEOPLE SEEMS TO FLOW FROM 803 00:22:04,156 --> 00:22:04,690 MISINFORMATION AND 804 00:22:04,756 --> 00:22:05,824 MISUNDERSTANDING. 805 00:22:05,891 --> 00:22:06,925 AND MAYBE THE BIGGEST AND MOST 806 00:22:06,992 --> 00:22:08,427 DANGEROUS AREA OF IGNORANCE 807 00:22:08,493 --> 00:22:09,094 SURROUNDS THE CONCEPT OF 808 00:22:09,161 --> 00:22:11,196 "GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE." 809 00:22:11,263 --> 00:22:13,131 IN RECENT YEARS, FOUR STATES 810 00:22:13,198 --> 00:22:14,399 HAVE ENACTED BANS OR 811 00:22:14,466 --> 00:22:15,467 RESTRICTIONS ON YOUTH ACCESS TO 812 00:22:15,534 --> 00:22:16,468 IT, AND OVER A DOZEN MORE HAVE 813 00:22:16,535 --> 00:22:17,602 CONSIDERED SIMILAR LEGISLATION 814 00:22:17,669 --> 00:22:19,471 THIS YEAR ALONE. 815 00:22:19,538 --> 00:22:21,606 AND THEY'VE BEEN FUELED BY A 816 00:22:21,673 --> 00:22:23,141 LACK OF BASIC KNOWLEDGE AROUND 817 00:22:23,208 --> 00:22:24,342 WHAT GENDER AFFIRMING CARE 818 00:22:24,409 --> 00:22:26,712 ACTUALLY CONSISTS OF, SUMMED UP 819 00:22:26,778 --> 00:22:28,814 BY COMMENTS LIKE THIS: 820 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:30,348 >> IF A CHILD WALKED INTO A 821 00:22:30,415 --> 00:22:30,982 DOCTOR'S OFFICE AND SAID, "DOC, 822 00:22:31,049 --> 00:22:32,718 I WANT YOU TO CUT MY FINGERS 823 00:22:32,784 --> 00:22:34,152 OFF.' THE DOC WOULD SAY, "YOU'VE 824 00:22:34,219 --> 00:22:34,920 GOT SOME PROBLEMS, KID. 825 00:22:34,986 --> 00:22:39,524 WE NEED TO REFER YOU TO A 826 00:22:39,591 --> 00:22:40,492 PSYCHIATRIST.' 827 00:22:40,559 --> 00:22:41,460 IF THE SAME CHILD WALKS INTO 828 00:22:41,526 --> 00:22:42,060 THAT DOCTOR'S OFFICE AND SAYS, 829 00:22:42,127 --> 00:22:42,861 "DOC, I WANT YOU TO CUT MY 830 00:22:42,928 --> 00:22:43,895 UTERUS OUT,' THE DOCTOR WOULD 831 00:22:43,962 --> 00:22:44,663 SAY-THAT DOCTOR WOULD SAY, "OH, 832 00:22:44,730 --> 00:22:45,831 WELL, YOU'RE A WONDERFUL, BRAVE 833 00:22:45,897 --> 00:22:47,566 PERSON. 834 00:22:47,632 --> 00:22:48,867 YOU'RE SO RIGHT. 835 00:22:48,934 --> 00:22:50,368 WE DO NEED TO CUT YOUR UTERUS 836 00:22:50,435 --> 00:22:51,703 OUT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. 837 00:22:51,770 --> 00:22:53,038 LET'S GET THIS YOUNG LADY OVER 838 00:22:53,105 --> 00:22:59,711 TO THE OPERATING ROOM. 839 00:22:59,778 --> 00:23:02,914 >> WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? 840 00:23:02,981 --> 00:23:04,883 EVERY BIT OF THAT IS UNREALISTIC 841 00:23:04,950 --> 00:23:06,818 STARTING WITH NO ONE IN THIS 842 00:23:06,885 --> 00:23:12,057 COUNTRY HAS BEEN ABLE TO HAVE A 843 00:23:12,124 --> 00:23:14,126 CONVERSATION WITH THE DOCTOR 844 00:23:14,192 --> 00:23:14,860 WITHOUT FIRST DISCUSSING 845 00:23:14,926 --> 00:23:15,127 INSURANCE 846 00:23:15,193 --> 00:23:15,727 TO THE NOTION OF A YOUNG CHILD 847 00:23:15,794 --> 00:23:16,194 USING THE TERM "DOC." 848 00:23:16,261 --> 00:23:16,795 WHY IS THE FICTIONAL CHILD IN 849 00:23:16,862 --> 00:23:17,763 THIS BULLSHIT SCENARIO USING THE 850 00:23:17,829 --> 00:23:18,830 SAME VOCABULARY AS A CHAOTIC 851 00:23:18,897 --> 00:23:19,464 RABBIT FROM THE NINETEEN 852 00:23:19,531 --> 00:23:20,298 FORTIES? 853 00:23:20,365 --> 00:23:21,266 NONE OF THIS MAKES SENSE. 854 00:23:21,333 --> 00:23:22,167 BUT TO HEAR SOME TELL IT, AS 855 00:23:22,234 --> 00:23:23,001 SOON AS A CHILD DECLARES 856 00:23:23,068 --> 00:23:23,835 THEMSELVES TRANS, THERE IS AN 857 00:23:23,902 --> 00:23:24,836 IMMEDIATE, IRREVERSIBLE, 858 00:23:24,903 --> 00:23:31,443 SURGICAL DECISION UNDERTAKEN. 859 00:23:31,510 --> 00:23:32,277 AND THERE JUST ISN'T! 860 00:23:32,344 --> 00:23:33,078 SO LET'S BREAK DOWN EXACTLY WHAT 861 00:23:33,145 --> 00:23:33,712 "GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE" CONSISTS 862 00:23:33,779 --> 00:23:34,246 OF. 863 00:23:34,312 --> 00:23:35,080 BECAUSE, IN YOUNGER CHILDREN, IT 864 00:23:35,147 --> 00:23:35,814 CAN MEAN NOTHING MORE THAN A 865 00:23:35,881 --> 00:23:36,848 SOCIAL TRANSITION -- LIKE 866 00:23:36,915 --> 00:23:38,016 CALLING THEM BY A NEW NAME, OR 867 00:23:38,083 --> 00:23:39,017 GIVING THEM A NEW HAIRCUT OR 868 00:23:39,084 --> 00:23:40,118 CLOTHING -- OR PROVIDING THEM 869 00:23:40,185 --> 00:23:40,952 WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL OR BEHAVIORAL 870 00:23:41,019 --> 00:23:42,387 SUPPORTS. 871 00:23:42,454 --> 00:23:43,588 BECAUSE, TO BE CLEAR: 872 00:23:43,655 --> 00:23:44,623 PRE-PUBESCENT CHILDREN ARE NOT 873 00:23:44,689 --> 00:23:45,490 ELIGIBLE FOR MEDICAL 874 00:23:45,557 --> 00:23:48,393 INTERVENTIONS. 875 00:23:48,460 --> 00:23:50,862 NOW, AT THE ONSET OF PUBERTY, AN 876 00:23:50,929 --> 00:23:51,530 ADOLESCENT AND THEIR FAMILY 877 00:23:51,596 --> 00:23:53,431 MIGHT CONSIDER PUBERTY BLOCKERS 878 00:23:53,498 --> 00:23:55,500 -- HORMONES THAT DELAY PUBERTY. 879 00:23:55,567 --> 00:23:57,435 AND IMPORTANTLY, IF THAT 880 00:23:57,502 --> 00:23:58,637 TREATMENT IS SUSPENDED, THEN 881 00:23:58,703 --> 00:23:59,871 PUBERTY WILL RESUME, MEANING 882 00:23:59,938 --> 00:24:01,406 THIS IS "REVERSIBLE." 883 00:24:01,473 --> 00:24:02,974 THINK OF IT LIKE A PAUSE BUTTON 884 00:24:03,041 --> 00:24:04,109 -- THE THING THAT YOU CAN'T DO 885 00:24:04,176 --> 00:24:07,746 EASILY ON THE H-B-O MAX APP. 886 00:24:07,813 --> 00:24:09,147 NOW, THE NEXT POTENTIAL MEDICAL 887 00:24:09,214 --> 00:24:10,315 INTERVENTION IS USUALLY HORMONE 888 00:24:10,382 --> 00:24:11,616 THERAPY, WHICH BOOSTS LEVELS OF 889 00:24:11,683 --> 00:24:13,618 TESTOSTERONE OR ESSSTROGEN. 890 00:24:13,685 --> 00:24:15,020 OPPONENTS OF GENDER-AFFIRMING 891 00:24:15,086 --> 00:24:16,254 CARE MAKE A LOT OF ALARMIST 892 00:24:16,321 --> 00:24:17,589 CLAIMS ABOUT HORMONE THERAPY -- 893 00:24:17,656 --> 00:24:18,757 FROM SAYING IT'S EXPERIMENTAL, 894 00:24:18,824 --> 00:24:20,458 WHICH IT'S NOT, TO ARGUING THAT 895 00:24:20,525 --> 00:24:21,960 IT STERILIZES PEOPLE. 896 00:24:22,027 --> 00:24:23,995 AND LOOK: FOR SOME, IN SPECIFIC 897 00:24:24,062 --> 00:24:25,230 SITUATIONS, THERE CAN BE RISKS 898 00:24:25,297 --> 00:24:26,832 TO FERTILITY. 899 00:24:26,898 --> 00:24:29,568 BUT FOR OTHERS, THE EFFECT IS 900 00:24:29,634 --> 00:24:30,435 ANTICIPATED TO BE REVERSIBLE, IF 901 00:24:30,502 --> 00:24:31,736 THE MEDICATION IS DISCONTINUED. 902 00:24:31,803 --> 00:24:32,771 BUT THERE IS DEFINITELY AN 903 00:24:32,838 --> 00:24:34,539 INFORMED DECISION TO BE MADE 904 00:24:34,606 --> 00:24:37,576 THERE. 905 00:24:37,642 --> 00:24:38,510 AND YOU'LL NOTICE THAT NONE OF 906 00:24:38,577 --> 00:24:39,711 WHAT I'VE MENTIONED SO FAR IS 907 00:24:39,778 --> 00:24:40,612 SURGERY. 908 00:24:40,679 --> 00:24:42,013 BUT WHEN IT DOES COME TO THAT, 909 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:42,914 SOME TEENS MAY BE ELIGIBLE, FOR 910 00:24:42,981 --> 00:24:43,882 INSTANCE, FOR "TOP SURGERY", OR 911 00:24:43,949 --> 00:24:45,183 CHEST MASCULINIZATION. 912 00:24:45,250 --> 00:24:46,484 BUT YOU SHOULD KNOW: NOT ONLY IS 913 00:24:46,551 --> 00:24:48,253 THAT PRETTY RARE, IT -- LIKE ALL 914 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,288 OF THIS -- WOULD ONLY HAPPEN 915 00:24:50,355 --> 00:24:52,691 AFTER A TEAM OF MEDICAL 916 00:24:52,757 --> 00:24:55,994 PROFESSIONALS DISCUSSED ALL ITS 917 00:24:56,061 --> 00:24:57,629 RISKS AND BENEFITS WITH THEIR 918 00:24:57,696 --> 00:24:58,430 PATIENT AND THEIR PATIENT'S 919 00:24:58,496 --> 00:24:59,831 PARENT OR GUARDIAN, ALL OF WHOM 920 00:24:59,898 --> 00:25:01,099 WOULD HAVE TO SIGN OFF. 921 00:25:01,166 --> 00:25:02,601 IT'S A LONG, INVOLVED PROCESS, 922 00:25:02,667 --> 00:25:04,936 EVEN BEFORE YOU GET TO THE FACT 923 00:25:05,003 --> 00:25:06,338 THAT IT'S INCREDIBLY EXPENSIVE, 924 00:25:06,404 --> 00:25:07,339 WHICH IS WHY WORKING-CLASS 925 00:25:07,405 --> 00:25:08,273 FAMILIES, FAMILIES OF COLOR AND 926 00:25:08,340 --> 00:25:09,274 PEOPLE WITH LESS RESOURCES ARE 927 00:25:09,341 --> 00:25:11,176 WAY LESS ABLE TO ACCESS IT. 928 00:25:11,243 --> 00:25:12,244 BASICALLY, NO KID IS CASUALLY 929 00:25:12,310 --> 00:25:13,311 DROPPING INTO AN OPERATING ROOM 930 00:25:13,378 --> 00:25:14,312 BECAUSE THEY JUST DECIDED TO GET 931 00:25:14,379 --> 00:25:15,280 THEIR UTERUS REMOVED WITH THE 932 00:25:15,347 --> 00:25:17,883 IMPULSIVE RECKLESSNESS NORMALLY 933 00:25:17,949 --> 00:25:26,625 ASSOCIATED WITH GETTING BANGS. 934 00:25:26,691 --> 00:25:27,092 THAT HAS AN ABSOLUTELY 935 00:25:27,158 --> 00:25:27,359 RIDICULOUS 936 00:25:27,425 --> 00:25:27,959 AND THE NOTION THAT THE STATE 937 00:25:28,026 --> 00:25:28,293 THING TO SAY. 938 00:25:28,360 --> 00:25:29,127 WOULD SUDDENLY INTERFERE IN ANY 939 00:25:29,194 --> 00:25:29,928 OF THIS IS UNDERSTANDABLY 940 00:25:29,995 --> 00:25:30,829 INFURIATING FOR BOTH TRANS KIDS 941 00:25:30,896 --> 00:25:32,764 AND THEIR PARENTS. 942 00:25:32,831 --> 00:25:33,999 JUST WATCH THIS MOM, IN ARKANSAS 943 00:25:34,065 --> 00:25:35,033 -- WHERE LEGISLATORS WERE 944 00:25:35,100 --> 00:25:36,134 BANNING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, 945 00:25:36,201 --> 00:25:38,103 HORMONE THERAPY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE 946 00:25:38,169 --> 00:25:39,437 -- DESCRIBE WHAT IT DID FOR HER 947 00:25:39,504 --> 00:25:41,373 SON, WHO SUFFERED FROM SEVERE 948 00:25:41,439 --> 00:25:43,708 DEPRESSION BEFORE TRANSITIONING. 949 00:25:43,775 --> 00:25:45,810 >> I'D SAY LIKE A MONTH TO TWO 950 00:25:45,877 --> 00:25:46,611 MONTHS IN, I STARTED SEEING THAT 951 00:25:46,678 --> 00:25:47,913 KID COME BACK, COME OUT OF HIS 952 00:25:47,979 --> 00:25:50,382 SHELL, TALK TO US MORE, LAUGH. 953 00:25:50,448 --> 00:25:51,016 >> WHAT DID THAT FEEL LIKE AS A 954 00:25:51,082 --> 00:25:52,050 MOM? 955 00:25:52,117 --> 00:25:53,852 >> IT WAS LIKE, THAT'S IT. 956 00:25:53,919 --> 00:25:54,920 THIS HAS-THIS HAS BEEN THE 957 00:25:54,986 --> 00:25:57,355 ANSWER ALL ALONG. 958 00:25:57,422 --> 00:25:58,023 WHY WOULD ANYBODY WANT TO TAKE 959 00:25:58,089 --> 00:25:59,024 THAT AWAY FROM THEM? 960 00:25:59,090 --> 00:26:02,460 THERE'S NO REASON WHY YOU SHOULD 961 00:26:02,527 --> 00:26:04,562 BE BUTTING INTO MY CARE FOR MY 962 00:26:04,629 --> 00:26:06,431 CHILD. 963 00:26:06,498 --> 00:26:07,032 >> WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SAY TO 964 00:26:07,098 --> 00:26:08,400 THESE LEGISLATORS? 965 00:26:08,466 --> 00:26:09,668 >> FUCK YOU. 966 00:26:09,734 --> 00:26:11,169 >> John: RIGHT. 967 00:26:11,236 --> 00:26:14,172 BECAUSE TRANSITIONING ISN'T 968 00:26:14,239 --> 00:26:15,473 TAKING YOUR KID AWAY FROM YOU -- 969 00:26:15,540 --> 00:26:18,810 IN SOME CASES, IT CAN BE GIVING 970 00:26:18,877 --> 00:26:19,210 YOU YOUR KID BACK. 971 00:26:19,277 --> 00:26:20,478 THIS IS NOT ONE OF THOSE 972 00:26:20,545 --> 00:26:21,513 INSTANCES WHERE IT'S OKAY TO 973 00:26:21,579 --> 00:26:22,547 BUTT INTO SOMEONE'S CARE FOR 974 00:26:22,614 --> 00:26:23,548 THEIR CHILD. 975 00:26:23,615 --> 00:26:25,650 THIS ISN'T PIG-PEN. 976 00:26:25,717 --> 00:26:27,852 DO YOU NEED HELP, PIG-PEN? 977 00:26:27,919 --> 00:26:29,788 BLINK YOUR FILTHY EYES IF YOU 978 00:26:29,854 --> 00:26:33,425 NEED HELP, PIG-PEN. 979 00:26:33,491 --> 00:26:37,862 THE BENEFITS OF PROVIDING CARE 980 00:26:37,929 --> 00:26:38,463 ARE IMMENSE, AND THE RISKS OF 981 00:26:38,530 --> 00:26:39,431 WITHHOLDING IT ARE DIRE. 982 00:26:39,497 --> 00:26:40,332 A SURVEY OF AROUND 28,000 TRANS 983 00:26:40,398 --> 00:26:41,166 PEOPLE FOUND THAT, OF THOSE WHO 984 00:26:41,232 --> 00:26:42,567 WANTED HORMONE THERAPY AND 985 00:26:42,634 --> 00:26:44,436 DIDN'T RECEIVE IT 58% REPORTED 986 00:26:44,502 --> 00:26:45,470 SUICIDAL THOUGHTS IN A GIVEN 987 00:26:45,537 --> 00:26:46,938 YEAR. 988 00:26:47,005 --> 00:26:49,140 WHICH IS WHY THE THREE MAJOR 989 00:26:49,207 --> 00:26:50,375 PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS OF 990 00:26:50,442 --> 00:26:51,776 CHILD AND ADOLESCENT DOCTORS, 991 00:26:51,843 --> 00:26:53,445 PSYCHOLOGISTS, AND PSYCHIATRISTS 992 00:26:53,511 --> 00:26:55,547 HAVE ENDORSED GENDER-AFFIRMING 993 00:26:55,613 --> 00:26:56,815 CARE AND CONDEMNED EFFORTS TO 994 00:26:56,881 --> 00:26:59,150 DENY IT. 995 00:26:59,217 --> 00:27:00,652 AND YOU MAY'VE SEEN OR HEARD 996 00:27:00,719 --> 00:27:01,486 FROM A SMALL SUBSET OF PEOPLE 997 00:27:01,553 --> 00:27:02,620 WHO "DETRANSITIONED." 998 00:27:02,687 --> 00:27:03,922 BUT IT'S WORTH KNOWING, SUCH 999 00:27:03,989 --> 00:27:05,023 CASES ARE RARE AND HIGHLY 1000 00:27:05,090 --> 00:27:07,058 INDIVIDUALIZED. 1001 00:27:07,125 --> 00:27:08,159 STUDIES SHOW AN AVERAGE OF JUST 1002 00:27:08,226 --> 00:27:10,595 TWO PERCENT OF PEOPLE WHO 1003 00:27:10,662 --> 00:27:12,163 TRANSITION EXPRESS REGRET, AND 1004 00:27:12,230 --> 00:27:13,565 THAT THE VAST MAJORITY OF THOSE 1005 00:27:13,631 --> 00:27:14,933 WHO HAVE OPTED TO DETRANSITION, 1006 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:16,634 DID SO NOT BECAUSE OF CHANGES IN 1007 00:27:16,701 --> 00:27:18,770 THEIR GENDER IDENTITY, BUT DUE 1008 00:27:18,837 --> 00:27:20,138 TO EXTERNAL FACTORS, SUCH AS 1009 00:27:20,205 --> 00:27:21,139 STIGMA AND LACK OF SOCIAL 1010 00:27:21,206 --> 00:27:22,874 SUPPORT. 1011 00:27:22,941 --> 00:27:24,576 AND LOOK -- I COULD KEEP READING 1012 00:27:24,642 --> 00:27:26,845 YOU STATS AND STUDIES -- I "DO" 1013 00:27:26,911 --> 00:27:28,413 LOVE DOING THAT. 1014 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:29,547 OR I COULD JUST LET YOU WATCH 1015 00:27:29,614 --> 00:27:31,049 THIS BOY TALK ABOUT WHAT IT FELT 1016 00:27:31,116 --> 00:27:31,850 LIKE TO HAVE SOMEONE ACTUALLY 1017 00:27:31,916 --> 00:27:33,885 SEE HIM FOR WHO HE WAS. 1018 00:27:33,952 --> 00:27:34,853 >> DYLAN EXPLAINED HOW AS EARLY 1019 00:27:34,919 --> 00:27:36,221 AS FOURTH GRADE, HE'D HAD 1020 00:27:36,287 --> 00:27:37,655 CONFUSING FEELINGS THAT 1021 00:27:37,722 --> 00:27:39,090 STRETCHED ON UNTIL HIS TEENAGE 1022 00:27:39,157 --> 00:27:41,826 YEARS. 1023 00:27:41,893 --> 00:27:43,128 >> I REALLY WANTED TO CUT MY 1024 00:27:43,194 --> 00:27:44,329 HAIR, LIKE, REALLY BAD. 1025 00:27:44,396 --> 00:27:45,597 AND SO WHEN I DID THAT, THAT 1026 00:27:45,663 --> 00:27:47,899 FELT REALLY GOOD. 1027 00:27:47,966 --> 00:27:48,767 AND THEN I HELD THE DOOR FOR 1028 00:27:48,833 --> 00:27:50,101 SOMEBODY AND THEY SAID THANK 1029 00:27:50,168 --> 00:27:52,203 YOU, SIR, AND I WAS, LIKE, "OH, 1030 00:27:52,270 --> 00:27:56,341 YEAH. 1031 00:27:56,408 --> 00:27:59,010 THAT-YEAH, THAT.' 1032 00:27:59,077 --> 00:27:59,911 >> JUST LITTLE THINGS- 1033 00:27:59,978 --> 00:28:00,378 >> LITTLE THINGS. 1034 00:28:00,445 --> 00:28:01,212 THAT "SIR' PUT WORDS TO HOW I 1035 00:28:01,279 --> 00:28:04,049 WAS FEELING. 1036 00:28:04,115 --> 00:28:04,716 AND I WAS LIKE, "OH, YEAH, 1037 00:28:04,783 --> 00:28:05,250 THAT-THAT FELT NICE.' 1038 00:28:05,316 --> 00:28:06,017 >> John: YEAH, THAT'S 1039 00:28:06,084 --> 00:28:06,618 INCREDIBLE. 1040 00:28:06,684 --> 00:28:07,419 FOR SOME, A HAIRCUT IS JUST A 1041 00:28:07,485 --> 00:28:08,119 ROUTINE ACTIVITY WHERE YOU GO TO 1042 00:28:08,186 --> 00:28:09,254 YOUR BARBER, ASK FOR THE 1043 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:10,455 "BUSINESS IN THE FRONT, BUSINESS 1044 00:28:10,522 --> 00:28:11,556 IN THE BACK," AND LEAVE. 1045 00:28:11,623 --> 00:28:13,191 BUT FOR A TRANS KID, IT CAN BE A 1046 00:28:13,258 --> 00:28:14,059 LIFE-CHANGING EXPERIENCE. 1047 00:28:14,125 --> 00:28:15,660 THAT BOY IS CURRENTLY SUING HIS 1048 00:28:15,727 --> 00:28:16,795 STATE'S A-G, IN A TRIAL THAT 1049 00:28:16,861 --> 00:28:18,363 STARTS TOMORROW. 1050 00:28:18,430 --> 00:28:20,131 AND HE'S NOT THE ONLY TRANS KID 1051 00:28:20,198 --> 00:28:20,932 WHO'S FOUND HIMSELF FORCED TO 1052 00:28:20,999 --> 00:28:23,001 BECOME AN ACTIVIST. 1053 00:28:23,068 --> 00:28:24,869 KAI, FROM EARLIER? 1054 00:28:24,936 --> 00:28:27,705 SHE'S NOW 11, AND WENT TO THE 1055 00:28:27,772 --> 00:28:29,407 TEXAS STATE LEGISLATURE LAST 1056 00:28:29,474 --> 00:28:30,442 YEAR, TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST BILLS 1057 00:28:30,508 --> 00:28:31,376 THAT WOULD BAN DOCTORS AND 1058 00:28:31,443 --> 00:28:32,377 PARENTS FROM PROVIDING GENDER 1059 00:28:32,444 --> 00:28:33,778 AFFIRMING CARE TO YOUNG PEOPLE. 1060 00:28:33,845 --> 00:28:36,214 AND SHE FUCKING CRUSHED IT. 1061 00:28:36,281 --> 00:28:37,515 >> HELLO, MY NAME IS KAI 1062 00:28:37,582 --> 00:28:39,150 SHAPPLEY. 1063 00:28:39,217 --> 00:28:40,718 I LOVE BALLET, MATH, SCIENCE, 1064 00:28:40,785 --> 00:28:42,921 AND GEOLOGY. 1065 00:28:42,987 --> 00:28:44,656 I SPEND MY FREE TIME WITH MY 1066 00:28:44,722 --> 00:28:46,191 CATS, CHICKENS, FACETIMING MY 1067 00:28:46,257 --> 00:28:47,926 FRIENDS, AND DREAMING OF WHEN I 1068 00:28:47,992 --> 00:28:51,896 WILL FINALLY MEET DOLLY PARTON. 1069 00:28:51,963 --> 00:28:53,565 I DO NOT LIKE SPENDING MY FREE 1070 00:28:53,631 --> 00:28:54,766 TIME ASKING ADULTS TO MAKE GOOD 1071 00:28:54,833 --> 00:28:59,270 CHOICES. 1072 00:28:59,337 --> 00:29:00,238 IT JUST-IT MAKES ME SAD THAT 1073 00:29:00,305 --> 00:29:02,941 SOME POLITICIANS USE TRANS KIDS 1074 00:29:03,007 --> 00:29:03,908 LIKE ME TO GET VOTES FROM PEOPLE 1075 00:29:03,975 --> 00:29:06,544 WHO HATE ME JUST BECAUSE I 1076 00:29:06,611 --> 00:29:08,546 EXIST. 1077 00:29:08,613 --> 00:29:10,915 GOD MADE ME. 1078 00:29:10,982 --> 00:29:12,016 GOD LOVES ME FOR WHO I AM AND 1079 00:29:12,083 --> 00:29:13,885 GOD DOES NOT MAKE MISTAKES. 1080 00:29:13,952 --> 00:29:20,425 SHE IS AWESOME. 1081 00:29:20,492 --> 00:29:21,025 I WHOLE-HEARTEDLY AGREE WITH 1082 00:29:21,092 --> 00:29:21,893 ALMOST EVERYTHING SHE SAYS 1083 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:22,393 THERE. 1084 00:29:22,460 --> 00:29:23,228 THOUGH IN THE INTEREST OF 1085 00:29:23,294 --> 00:29:24,162 FAIRNESS GOD "DOES" MAKE 1086 00:29:24,229 --> 00:29:24,963 MISTAKES, IF HE DIDN'T, HOW 1087 00:29:25,029 --> 00:29:25,897 WOULD YOU EXPLAIN GOBLIN SHARKS. 1088 00:29:25,964 --> 00:29:26,898 LOOK AT THIS FUCKIN' GUY. 1089 00:29:26,965 --> 00:29:27,799 HE LOOKS LIKE AN EEL WEARING A 1090 00:29:27,866 --> 00:29:28,700 SHARK COSTUME THAT DOESN'T QUITE 1091 00:29:28,766 --> 00:29:29,801 FIT. 1092 00:29:29,868 --> 00:29:32,937 A "SICK" EEL. 1093 00:29:33,004 --> 00:29:33,571 "ERRGH." 1094 00:29:33,638 --> 00:29:34,405 LOOK AT THIS MESS, IT LOOKS LIKE 1095 00:29:34,472 --> 00:29:35,840 HE'S GOIN' "ERRGH." 1096 00:29:35,907 --> 00:29:36,808 IF GOD DOESN'T MAKE MISTAKES, 1097 00:29:36,875 --> 00:29:38,276 HOW DO YOU JUSTIFY THE EXISTENCE 1098 00:29:38,343 --> 00:29:39,711 OF THIS STUPID CREEP THAT LOOKS 1099 00:29:39,777 --> 00:29:40,745 LIKE A CHILD TRIED TO DRAW A 1100 00:29:40,812 --> 00:29:43,948 XENOMORPH FROM MEMORY? 1101 00:29:44,015 --> 00:29:46,251 AGAIN, I SUPPORT KAI WITH MY 1102 00:29:46,317 --> 00:29:47,185 WHOLE HEART, BUT TO SAY GOD 1103 00:29:47,252 --> 00:29:48,119 DOESN'T MAKE MISTAKES IS JUST 1104 00:29:48,186 --> 00:29:48,920 NOT TRUE. 1105 00:29:48,987 --> 00:29:50,054 HE DOES, AND THEY LOOK LIKE 1106 00:29:50,121 --> 00:29:53,258 THIS. 1107 00:29:53,324 --> 00:29:54,292 AND LOOK: I'M GLAD KAI'S 1108 00:29:54,359 --> 00:29:57,495 ADVOCATING FOR HERSELF. 1109 00:29:57,562 --> 00:29:58,763 BUT IF A CHILD HAS TO BE AN 1110 00:29:58,830 --> 00:30:03,401 ACTIVIST, WE HAVE ALREADY FAILED 1111 00:30:03,468 --> 00:30:03,701 THAT CHILD. 1112 00:30:03,768 --> 00:30:04,469 BECAUSE SHE SHOULD JUST GET TO 1113 00:30:04,536 --> 00:30:06,037 BE A KID AND ENJOY HER LIFE. 1114 00:30:06,104 --> 00:30:07,372 AND I'M ACTUALLY GLAD YOU GOT TO 1115 00:30:07,438 --> 00:30:09,073 HEAR HER TALK ABOUT BALLET AND 1116 00:30:09,140 --> 00:30:10,175 FACETIME AND DOLLY PARTON, 1117 00:30:10,241 --> 00:30:10,942 BECAUSE THERE'S SOMETHING THAT, 1118 00:30:11,009 --> 00:30:11,976 TOO OFTEN, GETS LEFT OUT OF 1119 00:30:12,043 --> 00:30:13,211 THESE STORIES, AND THAT'S JOY. 1120 00:30:13,278 --> 00:30:16,047 WHILE OPPONENTS OF TRANS RIGHTS 1121 00:30:16,114 --> 00:30:18,516 WILL SAY THESE KIDS ARE EITHER A 1122 00:30:18,583 --> 00:30:19,551 MENACE OR BRAINWASHED, THEIR 1123 00:30:19,617 --> 00:30:20,618 DEFENDERS WILL OFTEN GRAVITATE 1124 00:30:20,685 --> 00:30:21,452 TOWARD THE SAME SAD STATISTICS 1125 00:30:21,519 --> 00:30:24,088 I'VE SHOWN YOU TONIGHT, OF 1126 00:30:24,155 --> 00:30:26,057 DEPRESSION AND SUICIDE. 1127 00:30:26,124 --> 00:30:28,793 AND WHILE THAT'S UNDERSTANDABLE 1128 00:30:28,860 --> 00:30:32,597 ON ONE LEVEL -- IT'S THE MOST 1129 00:30:32,664 --> 00:30:34,532 DEVASTATING HARM THAT CAN BE 1130 00:30:34,599 --> 00:30:35,767 INFLICTED BY THESE BILLS -- 1131 00:30:35,833 --> 00:30:36,834 -IT'S NOT THE WHOLE STORY, WHICH 1132 00:30:36,901 --> 00:30:37,969 IS THAT, WHEN SUPPORTED, TRANS 1133 00:30:38,036 --> 00:30:38,636 KIDS CAN EXPERIENCE FULL, 1134 00:30:38,703 --> 00:30:39,971 VIBRANT LIVES. 1135 00:30:40,038 --> 00:30:41,072 BECAUSE TRANS PEOPLE ARE NOT BY 1136 00:30:41,139 --> 00:30:42,473 DEFAULT UNHAPPIER OR MORE PRONE 1137 00:30:42,540 --> 00:30:44,342 TO SUFFERING THAN EVERYONE ELSE. 1138 00:30:44,409 --> 00:30:45,610 THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE 1139 00:30:45,677 --> 00:30:48,546 PUTTING ON THEM. 1140 00:30:48,613 --> 00:30:52,383 YOU JUST SAW, WHO'S SUING HIS 1141 00:30:52,450 --> 00:30:54,285 STATE A-G, WILL POINT OUT -- 1142 00:30:54,352 --> 00:30:55,153 HE'S GOT OTHER, TEENAGE-BOY 1143 00:30:55,220 --> 00:30:55,587 STUFF GOING ON, TOO. 1144 00:30:55,653 --> 00:30:56,554 >> I'M 15. 1145 00:30:56,621 --> 00:30:57,956 I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO DO THIS. 1146 00:30:58,022 --> 00:30:59,390 I HAVE-SHOULDN'T HAVE TO SUE THE 1147 00:30:59,457 --> 00:31:01,292 STATE OF ARKANSAS BECAUSE THEY 1148 00:31:01,359 --> 00:31:03,895 ARE TRYING TO TELL ME HOW I CAN 1149 00:31:03,962 --> 00:31:05,096 AND CAN'T LIVE. 1150 00:31:05,163 --> 00:31:06,497 AND MY COLLECTION OF HATS AND MY 1151 00:31:06,564 --> 00:31:07,632 TRANS FLAG THAT I GOT FOR 1152 00:31:07,699 --> 00:31:09,467 CHRISTMAS. 1153 00:31:09,534 --> 00:31:12,403 >> THIS SOFT-SPOKEN TEENAGER IS 1154 00:31:12,470 --> 00:31:16,874 MORE COMFORTABLE IN HIS 1155 00:31:16,941 --> 00:31:17,408 >> HE'S A BEARDED DRAGON. 1156 00:31:17,475 --> 00:31:18,610 COME HERE. 1157 00:31:18,676 --> 00:31:19,310 >> -SURROUNDED BY HIS FISH AND 1158 00:31:19,377 --> 00:31:19,877 BEARDED DRAGON LIZARDS. 1159 00:31:19,944 --> 00:31:20,612 >> AND SO HE'S GOT A MISSING 1160 00:31:20,678 --> 00:31:21,546 FOOT AND A CROOKED TAIL. 1161 00:31:21,613 --> 00:31:23,414 AND, YOU KNOW, HE'S JUST-HE 1162 00:31:23,481 --> 00:31:25,850 NEEDED AN EXTRA BIT OF LOVE. 1163 00:31:25,917 --> 00:31:29,621 >> John: YEAH, DYLAN SHOULD GET 1164 00:31:29,687 --> 00:31:30,455 TO BE A KID. 1165 00:31:30,521 --> 00:31:31,289 AND SPEND HIS TIME WITH HIS 1166 00:31:31,356 --> 00:31:32,590 COLLECTION OF HATS AND FEEDING 1167 00:31:32,657 --> 00:31:33,858 HIS BEARDED DRAGONS. 1168 00:31:33,925 --> 00:31:34,993 WHATEVER IT IS THAT BEARDED 1169 00:31:35,059 --> 00:31:35,994 DRAGONS EAT. 1170 00:31:36,060 --> 00:31:36,961 I WOULDN'T KNOW. 1171 00:31:37,028 --> 00:31:38,029 I'VE NEVER OWNED A BEARDED 1172 00:31:38,096 --> 00:31:39,030 DRAGON. 1173 00:31:39,097 --> 00:31:39,764 ALTHOUGH I'D PROBABLY GET ALONG 1174 00:31:39,831 --> 00:31:40,798 GREAT WITH THAT ONE BECAUSE I, 1175 00:31:40,865 --> 00:31:41,733 TOO, AM A LOVE-STARVED PALE 1176 00:31:41,799 --> 00:31:44,535 CREATURE WITH A LOPSIDED ASS. 1177 00:31:44,602 --> 00:31:46,571 ALL THE KIDS WE'VE SEEN TONIGHT 1178 00:31:46,638 --> 00:31:47,639 SHOULDN'T NEED TO BE ACTIVISTS 1179 00:31:47,705 --> 00:31:50,074 -- THEY SHOULD GET TO DRESS HOW 1180 00:31:50,141 --> 00:31:51,709 THEY WANT, GO TO THE RIGHT 1181 00:31:51,776 --> 00:31:52,910 BATHROOM FOR THEM AND PLAY THE 1182 00:31:52,977 --> 00:31:59,884 SPORTS THEY WANT TO PLAY. 1183 00:31:59,951 --> 00:32:00,451 REMEMBER MACK? 1184 00:32:00,518 --> 00:32:01,152 WHEN HE GOT TO COLLEGE, HE WAS 1185 00:32:01,219 --> 00:32:01,753 PLACED ON THE MEN'S WRESTLING 1186 00:32:01,819 --> 00:32:02,654 TEAM, AND LOOK HOW HAPPY THAT 1187 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:03,354 MADE HIM: 1188 00:32:03,421 --> 00:32:04,789 >> ALL I EVER WANTED TO DO WAS 1189 00:32:04,856 --> 00:32:08,793 WRESTLE MEN, AND NOW THAT I AM, 1190 00:32:08,860 --> 00:32:11,562 IT'S FREAKIN' DOPE. 1191 00:32:11,629 --> 00:32:13,498 IT'S FREAKIN' DOPE. 1192 00:32:13,564 --> 00:32:14,565 >> John: YEAH. 1193 00:32:14,632 --> 00:32:15,800 IT IS FREAKIN' DOPE. 1194 00:32:15,867 --> 00:32:17,969 DO YOU SEE THAT JOY? 1195 00:32:18,036 --> 00:32:18,903 HOLD IT IN YOUR MIND GOING 1196 00:32:18,970 --> 00:32:20,505 FORWARD. 1197 00:32:20,571 --> 00:32:21,939 NOT BECAUSE THE ROAD AHEAD ISN'T 1198 00:32:22,006 --> 00:32:23,541 ROUGH, BUT BECAUSE, AS THE TRANS 1199 00:32:23,608 --> 00:32:25,310 ACTRESS MICHAELA JAE RODRIGUEZ 1200 00:32:25,376 --> 00:32:26,511 POINTS OUT, IT'S IMPORTANT NOT 1201 00:32:26,577 --> 00:32:27,245 TO LOSE SIGHT OF WHAT'S AT THE 1202 00:32:27,312 --> 00:32:28,613 END OF IT. 1203 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:30,682 >> WHEN IT COMES TO LEGISLATIVES 1204 00:32:30,748 --> 00:32:32,850 AND-AND LAWS BEING PASSED, WE 1205 00:32:32,917 --> 00:32:33,951 HAVE TO CONSTANTLY STAY DILIGENT 1206 00:32:34,018 --> 00:32:35,253 AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY DON'T 1207 00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:36,854 GET PASSED AND CALL UP AS MUCH 1208 00:32:36,921 --> 00:32:38,890 AS WE CAN, BUT I THINK ALSO 1209 00:32:38,956 --> 00:32:39,891 WHILE DOING SO WE HAVE TO LIVE 1210 00:32:39,957 --> 00:32:40,992 OUR LIVES, AND SHOW PEOPLE HOW 1211 00:32:41,059 --> 00:32:42,660 HAPPY WE ARE. 1212 00:32:42,727 --> 00:32:44,329 WE CAN'T LIVE IN THE SORROW, 1213 00:32:44,395 --> 00:32:44,962 THOUGH THERE'S MANY STRUGGLES 1214 00:32:45,029 --> 00:32:47,465 WHEN IT COMES TO US. 1215 00:32:47,532 --> 00:32:49,734 IN THE TIMES OF ADVERSITY AND IN 1216 00:32:49,801 --> 00:32:51,102 THE TIMES OF DESPAIR, I CHOOSE 1217 00:32:51,169 --> 00:32:53,204 HOPE AND JOY, AND I LET THOSE 1218 00:32:53,271 --> 00:32:55,039 SHOWER ALL OVER THOSE HATERS AND 1219 00:32:55,106 --> 00:32:56,140 PEOPLE WHO DON'T SEE IT FIT FOR 1220 00:32:56,207 --> 00:32:57,508 US. 1221 00:32:57,575 --> 00:32:59,110 AND IT USUALLY WINS. 1222 00:32:59,177 --> 00:33:03,881 IT HAS WON. 1223 00:33:03,948 --> 00:33:04,482 >> John: EXACTLY. 1224 00:33:04,549 --> 00:33:05,283 HOPE AND JOY ARE CRUCIAL. 1225 00:33:05,350 --> 00:33:06,551 THEY'RE THE FUEL THAT POWERS THE 1226 00:33:06,617 --> 00:33:07,919 ONGOING FIGHT FOR EQUALITY. 1227 00:33:07,985 --> 00:33:11,823 AND WHILE THERE'S A LOT OF FEAR 1228 00:33:11,889 --> 00:33:13,191 AND UNCERTAINTY RIGHT NOW, IT'S 1229 00:33:13,257 --> 00:33:14,058 WORTH REMEMBERING THAT PROGRESS 1230 00:33:14,125 --> 00:33:15,093 -- WHILE NOT ALWAYS LINEAR -- IS 1231 00:33:15,159 --> 00:33:16,027 ALWAYS POSSIBLE. 1232 00:33:16,094 --> 00:33:17,595 BECAUSE WE'RE WORKING TOWARD THE 1233 00:33:17,662 --> 00:33:18,763 GOAL OF EVERY TRANS KID KNOWING 1234 00:33:18,830 --> 00:33:19,864 THEY ARE LOVED, VALUED, AND 1235 00:33:19,931 --> 00:33:20,898 INDISPENSABLE, AS 1236 00:33:20,965 --> 00:33:22,200 DOLLY-PARTON-LOVING, 1237 00:33:22,266 --> 00:33:24,635 WEIRD-PET-OWNING, FREAKING DOPE 1238 00:33:24,702 --> 00:33:26,904 INDIVIDUALS, AND NEVER GOING 1239 00:33:26,971 --> 00:33:28,873 BACK TO A POINT WHERE ANYONE 1240 00:33:28,940 --> 00:33:30,842 FEELS THAT, IF THEY APPEAR ON 1241 00:33:30,908 --> 00:33:32,543 T-V, THEY HAVE TO HIDE BEHIND A 1242 00:33:32,610 --> 00:33:34,445 FUCKING PLANT. 1243 00:33:34,512 --> 00:33:35,813 THAT'S OUR SHOW. 1244 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:40,051 THANKS SO MUCH FOR WATCHING. 1245 00:33:40,118 --> 00:33:42,687 WE ARE OFF NEXT WEEK. 1246 00:33:42,754 --> 00:33:44,756 BACK OCTOBER 30TH. 1247 00:33:44,822 --> 00:33:45,156 GOOD NIGHT. 1248 00:33:45,223 --> 00:33:45,623 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 1249 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