Science, the Transgender Phenomenon, and the Young | Abigail Shrier
Abigail Shrier
Author, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
This speech was given at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar in Franklin, TN.
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Those who opine that Abigail Shrier's analysis is "hate speech" my retort is: "Truth sounds like hate only to those who hate truth."
Very true.... they try to shut down truth by such accusations. I am transsexual myself and what Abigail has said is 100% accurate.
Privileged people always see equality as oppression
@@biancawilloughby9980 her research comes from doctors and patients...how is it skewed?
@@biancawilloughby9980 I repeat: "Truth sounds like hate to those who hate truth."
@@biancawilloughby9980 Guess we agree to disagree about what is "truth" and what is "not truth." Personal biases have a great deal to do with our perception of the "truth."
I have a 20-year old ASD daughter who claimed to be pansexual all through high school. Never really quite fit in at school. I continuously taught her how your gender is how you pee and which dr you go to (gynecologist or urologist) and that everything else is your personality. I told her how i was a tomboy growing up but that didn’t mean i should identify as a boy. I taught her about all the power and beauty in being female and to be proud of it. Trust me....It was a lot of work! I was also very brutally honest about the side effects of these treatments and how they can affect fertility. She recently announced she’s not pansexual anymore and she thanked me for sticking with the truth even when she hated me for it.
Good mom 👏👏
I hope more parents have the patience to deal with their kids the way you do instead of confirm the child while the child is still confused
Thank God that you are a mom, instead of a "friend."
Pansexual is a sexual orientation, being attracted to all genders, not a gender identity??
As a therapist, the state of California has taken away our right to help children process gender dysphoria! Now we can lose our license if we try to help children discover their identity, True identity of who they are instead of pushing an agenda on them!! 😡 It’s a sad case and state of mind that we are living in this world that wants to push this on our children, and destroying their lives, without allowing them to grow into adulthood and make this decision🥲💔! I truly appreciate this discussion you guys are having their at Hillsdale college allowing her to come and speak and help us to understand what is happening to these people who are just trying to figure out who they are. God bless you and God bless her for her boldness as a journalist to come forth with truth 🙏❤️🙏
I grew up a tomboy. I was a pitcher on a boys' baseball team. The beauty of it was I was a great pitcher, and no one told me that I had "gender dysphoria"... Thanks Dad 👍
On a personal level i never had a problem with that 'girl'. I think i kinda liked it actually, as im curious and not exactly middle of the road myself. However, im 62 now and what ive learned is that those seemingly little things, can have a rather big effect on society as a whole. So i think that in order to keep society healthy, there has to be some pressure to conform to social rules and customs. But again, me personally, i wouldnt be good in doing so, bc im too 'soft'. Which is most likely also a result of 'feminism' (which is not a good force in society at all)
pitching over hand is better i never understood why in school they made girls pitch under hand so some friends and i pitched over hand rules out the window 🙂
Thanks to my dad I wanted to be a boy bcus he wanted a son 😂 this is completely crazy
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@@2009jadeorchid Probably bc most girls dont have a decent eye hand coordination when it comes to balls. ;p You have to start somewhere, so they generalise based on that, but im sure if you can do it, its no problem. Didnt use to be when i was young anyway. So if you have to start, its better to start underhand for several reasons. One is coordination learning, another is that if u arent physically fit, overhead puts a lot more strain on your back and can then easily lead to injuries. I played volleyball for some 25 years, mostly males, but we had females too at times. Most served under hand. Quite some men did too. Most can also place better when doing underhand, as opposed to overhead serving.
What shocks me is that this speech was 2 years ago and it seems the world has learnt very little of this wisdom. And it IS great wisdom. If only everyone listened and I mean really listened to this articulate , intelligent and brave woman.
This is an eye opener
@@lorrainesingh8024 .. what about kids and parents living this predicament ? forget ideology, opinion, religion, politics and media
They got to my daughter and it was only after "top surgery" that she realized that she'd been a female all along and had just let a "friend" convince her otherwise. Like in so many of these cases, her friends, doctors and councilors warned her not to talk to her parents about it because we wouldn't have her best interests in mind. Now that she's done what she can to de-transition, those people who said they only cared about what was best for her are nowhere to be found.
Satan is the most cunning of deceivers. And he never takes responsibility for the trouble he causes.
I apologise about your daughter friend, I pray God helps her keep her head up despite the burdens of the future.
Unbelievable
@@JokieXWilsonArt Why so harsh?
I'm so sorry for you and your daughter. I hope that she is recovering fully.
I was a total tomboy. My Asian parents wanted a son, that didn’t help either. I hated my body. But my parents always said, life is unfair - make the best of it, never be a victim. Today, I’m a successful doctor, mother & wife. Began to wear high heels in my 40s. Loving it. Who knew.
I can relate and I'm very happy things worked out well for you.
I so wanted to be a boy when I was about 10. I loved my cousins model cars, train sets, and building toys. I’m glad I didn’t have the option to change from female to male back then. When I hit about 12 or 13, I became interested in boys and the rest is history as I sit here at 62 with 3 grown kids and grandkids.❤️ Thank you my Heavenly Father 🙏❤️
God knew❤
Thank you Jesus
For the "mutilation" aspect, It's a double standard how they said trans people are mutilating their bodies when they clearly wouldn't say that about someone who needed an amputation, or removed their breasts because they had to, or even those who get plastic surgery trans surgeries aren't a choice. Having top surgery for example as a trans man isn't a choice, he didn't choose to have dysphoria and he didn't choose to be trans. The treatment for dysphoria is to transition, and depending on the person that transition may be just social or it may be medical/surgical. But that's the same as how treatment for anxiety may be therapy, but it may also be medication. The patient doesn't choose which one they do, it's whichever one alleviates their anxiety the best. In the same way, a person doesn't choose if they only need social transition; if that's not enough, then they need to have top surgery.
I think the transgender movement enforces the gender stereotypes we tried so hard to get away from!
I couldn’t say it better…
@@jazzminpadilla8715 Thank you!
Very true. It is like masked chauvinism
100%
That's one of the stranger things about gender ideology. They will simultaneously say traditional gender traits are all totally socially created with nothing to do with biology, yet when it comes to trans and nonbinary people, they rely on them.
It's worth to mention that a conservative binary society pushes people to feel uncomfortable in our own skin. As a feminine boy people constantly said I wasn't acting my gender. I suffered bullying, psychological and physical abuse in order to "man up", and of course this was cause of MUCH confusion. The "boys will be boys" and "girls will be girls" discourse boxes people to terrible extremes. So much in our society would be fixed by just letting people be people and embrace the beauty in diversity. It took me a lifetime to become comfortable in my own body.
As a fellow feminine guy, THANK YOU for this comment! This is exactly the reason why I hate the modern push for kids to think about/question their “gender identity;” it just reinforces outdated gender stereotypes and is actually REgressive, not progressive.
There's certainly cause for concern, here, and this should be mentionned far more often. Thank you for reminding us.
This. Detrans girls constantly complain about internalized misogyny
@@winter2716 Omg you both are so right on this. I know it's a rough situation sometimes to challenge gender roles and attitudes, but never stop being feminine if you feel so. You're perfectly fine as men and I hope society becomes flexible enough to accept feminine men and masculine women so that the coexistence of that supposed 'duality' isn't something to be ashamed of. I'm a straight woman and have always been a bit more masculine for some reason. At the age of 3 I was asking my parents why I didn't have a penis, I was convinced I ought to have it. I would hate skirts, loved the idea of driving cars and motorcycles, wanted to engage in playful physical fights with other kids and that sort of stuff. But I also liked playing with baby dolls lol. Sometimes I wished I was a man because it seemed they had it easier, less worried about having to fit beauty bodily standards.Thankfully my parents weren't worried and allowed me to play with whatever I wanted and dress and act according to my likes. As an adult now, I'm happy with the sex I was born, balanced between with my feminine and masculine side, but fully aware of society's norms and stupid prejudices.
Modern society was on its way to move past those gender stereotypes. I grew up in an environment where the message was to let people be who they are, and it was working, we were moving in that direction, slowly but surely. Now it's all been undone by this gender identity cult. They brough back the most ridiculously regressive gender stereotypes, and on the basis of this are mutilating kids.
It was Voltaire who said "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities".
Like religion?
It's not about religion . It's having faith , a belief in a God . A God of ones choice . Why is there a war on Christianity ? Why would someone want one to be a non-believer ? Is believing in God or a Higher power such a bad thing ? I think not . Look around you . Look at your family . Your home . Look at who you are as an individual . Now tell me there isn't a God .
@@realitycheck8944🤣🤣🤣🤣 Look at the trees. Now go and look at a children's cancer ward. 😞
@@realitycheck8944 Why is torture, blood sacrifice, the consumption of flesh and blood, and possession holy when it's in the name of Christianity but evil when it's Satanism? Can you not see that it is the EXACT same thing?
Cynthia . Wouldn't know the first thing about that . Not a church gower . My relationship with the almighty is on a personal basis . Believe , drink and devour as you see fit . See you on the other side .
When I was a young girl, I totally thought anything “girly” was lame (still do for the most part) and I also hated my body (I’m happy with my body now.). I also thought being child free would be wonderful so if someone told me that being g sterile was a risk from puberty blockers, that would have been just fine with me. I fear I would have totally been taken in by this trans movement had I been born today and that would have been a shame. I’m happily married with two wonderful kids and I love being a woman.
Thank you ❤❤
You know what everything you just commented just said to me? That you were completely normal. We have to help our children through these phases and allow them to have their own process w any phase they are going through. But this gender thing is absurd, such a tiny percentage of children transition or even want to transition.
Word for word my story, I'm happily married too and I feel great in my own skin
Thank God this wasn’t around when I was a Tom boy. I hit puberty and became girly girl. What would have happened to me?
You're right, exposing people to transgender ideology will further confuse them and will make them doubt themselves enough to take serious action, the more you expose people to it the more people will decide to label themselves as something they're not and the more normal that cultural change becomes, the more those numbers of "trans" people will increase. Edit: I changed trans to "trans" because I'm talking about those people who get influenced by ideology and think they're trans when they're completely healthy with no gender dysphoria but that want to change their sex anyway.
So refreshing to hear the truth of what is going on in our society today. Thank you
Obviously the illuminati is behind this...implanting DNA/gene editing tools microscopically into the food and drugs....dont believe me?....you had better pick up a science journal friend..you're about 25 years behind the times....remember,they cloned a sheep DECADES ago...they've been bio-engineering living organisms forever now...like,Sucralose: fake sugar...the popular sugar substitute...DAMAGES DNA....like...what?.....just came out in the news...2023... how long did they know?.....like i said...they have ways of breaking down our DNA and rebuilding it how they want...I suspect they want us all transgender so we could all feel incapable of respecting God's laws on homosexuality....also unisex dollars are EQUAL dollars...not having to market to TWO seperate groups is good for business....what I have just described is clearly the most evil thing ever perpetrated by man...the illuminati are neo-pagan witches on the high levels, and satanists on the highest levels....as the one world currency draws nearer, its becoming more and more impossible to deny the book of revelation and the word of God....
It's far from truth and already debunked as there's tons of misinformation
What can I say...? Brilliant doesn't even begin to cover it! Well constructed, well thought out, well argued...
And so we’ll researched for sure
But facts don't align with my feelings!
I would call her an incredible moron, but you're entitled to your own opinion
Grew up a tomboy. So many times in my life I said “I should have born a man.” That’s not really what I wanted, I just wanted to feel like not being a “girly-girl” (which is a beautiful thing) and being a tomboy (which is a beautiful thing) was perfectly alright.
nicely stated :)
And that would solve so many things in my humble opinion, if women who feel rather masculine and men who feel feminine were allowed to just be that way, whatever that might entail (behavior, clothes, hobbies, sexual preferences etc). Just as we've accepted in industrialized countries that woman can wear trousers, short hair etc, and still be women, we could accept men wearing dresses, long hair, heels, and still be men. It wouldn't be so weird, it has happened before in history. And there would be a small minority of people who would feel an irresistible urge to go through surgery and hormones once they are adults, but most people would probably be ok with just adopting whatever features they want from their own sex or the opposite one.
To label a person a tomboys* or "girly-girl" should be stopped. We should not be labeling people. if you do not want to wear dresses, like go to outside and fix things rather then be inside baking cookies, wearing dresses does not make one a tomboy. It makes them a girl with their own special wants, desires, and cares. Same with a girl who likes to be fancy, dress up or whatever does not make them a girly-girl, it makes them a girl who likes to be fancy. just live life.
Personally I would call you a strong woman.
Me too. Oh dear goodness! I’m so pleased to read this. At 14 I was a Tomboy because I felt boys had more choice than girl. I didn’t want to change my sex. I’m not a girly-girl still.
I was a unhappy teenager, sexuality and gender roles confused me. It wasn't until I gave birth and breastfeed that I understood how amazing being female was. I am now 54 and I have lived a amazing life. I weld, do construction, art, music. I have a beautiful capable grown daughter. I am grateful for being female.
Bless you and raise your children to be HONEST TO ALL MEN! MEN as in all mankind, male or female!
@@richardbland9079 aacyber
@@richardbland9079 0pcyber
@@richardlininger6224 Do you have a problem with being HONEST to others?
@wjoweston1533 Awesome. I wish you, your family the best. This insanity is utterly beyond insane.
She is incredible . It’s about time to hear an intelligent woman , speak the truth. We need more like her. She is my hero thank you
Everyone should listen to this. Thank you for being the voice of reason in a world that has gone mad.
It will have zero affect on the average college student. Zealots aren't interested in changing their mind.
"Where is the money?" and "Who is benefiting from this?" are excellent questions that no one is asking.
The pharmaceutical companies. And the Elite.
it really is more of an agenda for kaos as the slave master elite cook up new ways to divide and conquer
Social control. Corporate capitalism which corruption power breaks and ruin totally any market law aspect of capitalism. Globalism. Farmaceutical industry. Geopolitics. I'm from Brazil, we are also fighting this hybrid war against our sovereignity like the Americans and Europeans, but we have to see clearly: money and power to financy these hybrid war evel army against us come not only from China and Russia. It comes from Europe and US too. Big American Corporations are examples of that. They wanna be the almighty capital power in the new world. Gender issues come along with Critical Race Theory, Xenofobic claims all around the world, all kind of identity ideological motivations, and so on ... Split and conquer, as simple as that ! For the whole western world, US is the last D-fence. Be brave.
It's not about money. It's about creating chaos in society. Same thing with right against left, and racism....it's about creating chaos and when it gets bad enough we'll let them do anything they want. No more freedom.
It's the big Lebowski
I have two transgender adult friends who both had suicidal thoughts before transition and still do 3 years in (they transitioned around the same time). Both said at first it was exciting to go on hormones and make changes to their bodies, but after all of the excitement wore off, it turned out they are still the same person on the inside. It reminds me of people who have extreme weight loss without therapy. You have to do the inner work.
People love to use the suicide card! I was always slim, mother was slim. Gained weight, so I exercise 7 days a week to maintain, watch my diet. In my head I'm still very very slim, 😂.
@@bjwilliams I feel this! Lol
In Canada one must go trough a long and hard core screening for over 1 year and must be of legal age, likely 18/19 depending on the Province or Territory
Exactly this! You have to fix the underlying issues to heal.
>but after all of the excitement wore off, it turned out they are still the same person on the inside. Humans are mind/body unities. There is no mind/body split, contra religion and transgenderism.
As a teen who grew up with this phenomenon, I can tell you how it goes. 1st step: be a weird kid who doesn’t fit in and has mental issues, trauma, ugly, etc, or have nerdy and unpopular interests such as anime, furry fandoms, folk punk and certain books. Second step: befriend other weird people, and build a community. You feel appreciated and affirmed with your weirdness and build an identity out of it. 3rd step: one friend falls into the trend of being trans because of its popularity right now (insta, tiktok, twitter). You see other weird kids being LGBT. 4th step: you dress odd to affirm an identity that is “main character” and bright to create your own character out of yourself that is fantasy to match your interests. You change your pronouns. You feel new and appreciated. A new identity away from the weirdo. 5th step: the rest of the group follows because they’re weird too and they have a strong knit community of victimhood and main character syndrome if they’re all trans. 6th step: their community grows and combined with others like a contaigen. They become the new cool popular kids and they’re appreciated while making false identities and they feel wanted. 7th step: attentions starts running out so you make more fuss and might even transition sexually.
Good summary of the process. You might just want to correct to *contagion:)
It's all about belonging, isn't it?
so basically narcissism developing as a coping mechanism through feeling inadequate and cast-out
Well said, Brigel!
YOU DIDN'T SAY ONE. WORD ABOUT JESUS..WHICH DESTROIES YOUR THEAROY
Growing up in the 50's & 60's, anytime I asked my mom for permission to follow my friends into something stupid, she would ask me, "If your friends jumped off a cliff, would you?" The response then and now was/is a resounding, "NO WAY!" especially regarding this trans-cliff.
ha ....i dont remember saying this to my son but not long ago he told me this exact words that i asked him ..and he remember them ...and answer as your daughter ,,,and he became a very good boy and man now.....
You are blessed that you have a mom that you trust to ask for permission. I would never have asked my parents for permission to do something. I would have done it secretly and not told her a thing. I never trust my mother to make any decisions or give any advice for me.
At least some cliffs you can climb back out of. You can never get your genitals back once they are cut off, you can never get your body back after hormones. How do we make this stop 😫
The cliff analogy crosses continents, my mother told me same)
Sad to say, but children these days would probably jump off a cliff for a TikTok challenge. The dopamine high they receive from views and likes on social media are quite addictive. Our overlords knew of this before they strategically deployed those websites.
Not so long ago there was a great outcry about female castration in Africa and religions around the world People stood up and said it was so wrong, to take action to stop it. Know we advocate doing worse to our children. We need more courageous people like this lady in positions to be heard and to speak out.
Yes! And this castration still kept her birth canal intact, albeit is a high risk of infection and 100% unnecessary procedure to take away a womans desire and ability to climax. It is primitive and horrific...but yet this one society of African trube(s) were not trying to force their traditions on the world, but everyone knows that its autonomy for me, but not for thee when it comes to certain groups of people. The trans community agenda of today is spreading faster than cognitive dissonance.
The pandemic opened people's eyes and minds to what teachers were teaching our children! As a parent, it has been the parents pushing back against all of the extra non class materials being taught! Some of the principles didn't even know things were being taught that weren't part of their curriculums and teachers just did it anyway! It's honestly disappointing when on KZhead there's teachers saying how they're going to teach this stuff regardless of consequences! It's like some of them just don't care as long as they can get this message out they've won in their minds! Crt , transgender things, along with many of the things pertaining to LGBTQwxyz! Kids are so far behind because of forced stay home's!
@Elizabeth Whitehouse I agree with most of what you said, but I feel it's 100% the parents' responsibilities to teach their children the things schools don't teach them like manners, respectfulness, judging people on their character and not their skin color, about racism and finally to treat others the same way you'd expect to be treated. Once children are out of grade school and in high school, there are some other things that can be taught! I do feel a lot of children don't have the best parents, and some parents are still learning themselves! But some parents are horrible and it's likely their children will follow their parents' footsteps! Children learn by examples and often mirror the ones set by their parents ! Ignorant parents Ignorant kid's! What's the other stuff you feel that should be taught in school ?
You are so right! That was a huge movement that was fought very hard to bring to an end. I don't think they'll ever completely stop having these girls castrated. It's awful. It's sick. It's evil.
@@scottmcauley5781 I believe that was the whole point, to the lock down. It was a trial on how well they could control the population. But there was a flaw in their plan. This is one of the flaws. I'm sure there are more to come.
Im a gay man, and when I was young before really understanding what gay was, I thought I may have been 'in the wrong body' and always felt more feminine. In my teens I didn't really wish to be masculine or feminine, but i knew I was gay. It wasn't until in my 20s I felt comfortable being male and having masculine traits. I feel like if I was a youth now days and told anyone I didn't feel male back then, I would have potentially been pushed down the the trans route. I feel like the trans agenda is being pushed like a trend and a quick fix.
I have the same story and that’s why this subject is important to me
I have a female friend who has the same story (except she is not gay and married to a man). As someone who was very very pro-trans, her story and Abigail's book plus these new statistics (like with ROGD) gave me pause.
I think you are 100% right about the trans agenda. It's the latest thing. SMH. Crazy.
You wouldn't have "pushed down the trans route", that's not how it works. You would have to first talk to multiple doctors and therapists that actually specialize in this topic, (unlike the speaker in this video) have a conversation about blockers, take blockers, and then if you have the money (most trans kids don't) you can then fully transition after you become a legal adult. I'm not saying you are not a man, I'm just saying wouldn't be "pushed into" being trans... that's not how it works.
@@lovelylimbo3484 It kind of is. It's more along the subtle bombardment of what everyone thinks trans is, and have that coupled with social media and teenage mentality, it's very easy for a teen to think they are trans, and it's not something a doctor is gonna be able to pick up on easily, if the kid thinks they're trans, and regurgitates the same stuff they hear from the trans community, the doctor is gonna think nothing of it than procedure.
Every teacher, principal, school administrator, doctor, counsellor and parent NEEDS to hear this. I personally will send it to all the school principals in our district. They are promoting this, and it is destroying our kids. God bless you for speaking out and so clearly.
As a transgender person, I would say, we need to go back to the protocol of old times when I tried to get a sex change. I was denied cause i have type-one Diabetes. But I also think that many of the claims are lies done for political gain. Only God and scientists know whether the latter is true ior not. We don't.
The administrators are Freemasons. They know what they are doing. No way are they going to stop the LGBT propaganda. Freemasons take a vow of silence. What happens to mafia defectors? Now imagine defecting from a worldwide organization that has members in top-brass positions within government, corporations and academia. Albert Mackey told us in his books that Masons are to be killed for revealing the secrets of Freemasonry to the uninitiated "profane" and "vulgar" masses. You may find videos of Dr. Fauci making the 'master of the second veil' Masonic hand gesture during a televised press conference. You will also find most world leaders, including Stalin and Hitler making those hand signs in old photos and videos. The world is indeed a stage.
I am seventy years old and all I can say is that this world is getting nuttier and nuttier. When I was young it was all about working hard and making a good life for family and yourself.
Totally agree
And Jim Crow, woman's right, civil rights, assassinations, the cold war, and so on and so forth. Any period in time is going to have "nutty" things going on.
@@isaiahrowley9830 Now more so, look at the open corruption in our leadership.I never thought I would see the day when our federal agencies would politically be weaponized. It`s over if we don`t get rid off this corrupt regime.
@@isaiahrowley9830 Not to the degree we see today.
@@Woozler554 every generation says that. Its the ol' back in my day rant. But to each their own, 2 cents and whatnot.
As a young boy being sexually assaulted by family members i was highly confused. I was confused because i got "love" from people, but only as a secret. I thought id be loved all the time if i had been a girl. I struggled for years with sexuality, my own emotions and the ability to process affection and understand abuse. I am glad i wasnt born today because like many others, i think they would've taken every opportunity to destroy me even more. Im glad i am who i am today, all the pain ive had, made me exactly who i am and i wouldnt change that for anything.
I am so sorry for what you have gone through. The shame I felt from being assaulted has really been hard to overcome. I will pray for you, Josh Hill, to continue to see how wonderful God made you and use your experience to help others.
I am so sorry your childhood was harmful. Praying you found/continue to find healing. I just said a prayer for you
@@JKshandle thankyou for that! I very rarely pray for myself, and while ive come to understand and appreciate matthew 11:28-29 more the less angry ive come to be with the world, and while i understand he went to zacharias house, ive always struggled to feel ill ever deserve that kind of relationship, and therefore i just wish it more and more for others.
@@rachellepierce3004 thankyou! I completely understand. Its hard even after maturing to know how i should interact with my significant other, and what i should and shouldnt feel guilty for. Growing up with unnatural relationships and people around can really make natural relationships difficult. Edit to say, im sorry that youve also lacked the protection a child deserves, i hope life blesses you in every way possible.
I snuck right past the fade because after being repeatedly molested by my female cousin I am sure in todays schools I would be fuuuuuuucked. So confused and misled. My sister guided me and helped me work through my feelings and I love her so much for being rational and reasonable.
Stop giving kids what they demand from you. You're the adult, the caregiver. Give them what they NEED. Guidance, reassurance & health.
DCFS can step in and take them in California though I think, if you don’t support the transition. It’s shocking!
We’ll said
@@annieclark8476 Social services will also step in in Australia if the parents don't want to go along with it.. Seems like the teachers and guidance counselors are a significant source of the problem.. Its trendy and woke to support transitioning.. I was a slender and non typical guy when I was younger and I might have been pushed in this direction as many people in my life including friends and coworkers thought I was gay when I was younger.. After enough people make an assumption about your sexual preference its impossible for a human to avoid having their doubts and searching their soul to find out what you really want.. This took many years of life experiences before I found out who I wanted to be. As an adult I will say that all of my girlfriends laughed when I say that people used to think I was gay and all the women I have dated have agreed that I am most definitely not gay.. Perception is irrelevant.. Do what you like and be who you want to be.. I just believe that choice ought to be removed from impressionable children who are going through a confused and challenging time in their lives and don't fully understand what it is they would be giving up.
@@annieclark8476 And the demoralized police will be there to make sure the kids are removed from the home. We are screwed. Adding to the list of demoralized professions: school teachers and healthcare workers. I knew we were in trouble when it became trendy for police officers to get tattoos. It used to be just the criminals with tattoos. Now the cops sporting them, too. Meanwhile I had to cover my one small tat when I worked for a security company.
Janice Clark-Espinoza 0 seconds ago My daughter falls into this category of girls. As her mother, I know for a fact that she does not have gender dysphoria. She was a girlie girl up until she was 15. What no one is talking about is how this phenomenon is affecting the parents and families of these children. As her mom, I am devastated by the choices she has made for herself at such a young age and angry with the whole system that has supported her in these decisions. I am desperate to save her but helpless in doing so. I am crying and so sad as I write this. She is all I see and think about.😔
I am a mother of a now "trans-boy". I was blind-sided by all of what happened just as many are. Schools, councilors, media and even the govenment back this abuse of our children. I was alone and not powerful enough in my voice to help my daughter. Janice keep watching videos. For my "child" it is already too late I expect in the future I will hear a lot of tears as she realizes that it wasn't a proper choice for her.. But as this brilliant Albigail Shier says the families are torn apart. My daughter/child is no longer speaking to me and even though I try i am held "impotent" in my desire to help her. I personally speak my mind in Public now. I wish I could remember some of the excellent videos i have watched. What I recal is a women who did NOT accept it and made her daughter know it. She saved her child... I did not. My "prayers" go out to all of us that have been traumatized and affected by this. My apologies Janice, I feel your pain...
You fight for your child. Move if it is necessary. There has been family that fight together and been able to help their child
@@onestarfillednighttheres an interview on the KZhead channel called @thedailysignal about a woman in California who helped her daughter de-transition. Perhaps that’s what you are referring to.
@@onestarfillednightwell it’s clear from your comment why your child doesn’t trust you.
You should have her read reports of people who have actually undergone hormone therapy for an extended period of time make sure she knows how many people express extreme suffering and regret and describe a missing sense of being whole.. sadly its very trendy to transition and it generates a ton of attention for a young person.. I hope the pendulum swings the other way before too much damage is done to young people. The world has truly gone to a dark place where we let kids make a decision to alter their sexuality before they have fully flowered and experienced what it is like to enjoy your natural gender. I fear we are sending a young generation of victims of the modern for profit medical industry out into the world.. Its simply fucked up that the choice is being given to minors and taken away from the parents.
Thank you SO much for doing this speech! ❤
I love how the retired neurosurgeon pointed out that "the science" is not science. Every time I hear "the science" it makes my skin crawl.
It's like the old motto of trust in god has been replaced by trust in the science. Genesis: Science says in the beginning there was nothing and then came the big bang where the universe came into existence..,
Do you wear a mask? Are you foaming at the mouth about get the vax? Do you believe fouci? We don't have science, we have new mysticism
@@collegestuff9595 -Fauci is just a mediocre snake oil salesman, but he’s financed by the beasts of the NWO
They speak about “the science” like those aliens in Toy Story 2. Instead of , “The claawww,” just think, “The sciennccee!”
'All in the name of science' is the evilest words I have ever bared witness to.
My very young son wore nail polish , makeup and a tutu while playing make believe with his older sister and her friends. By the time he was a pre -teen he had his own friends and developed into a perfectly normal heterosexual boy who has grown into a wonderful adult man with beautiful wife.
My husband admitted to me he used to shave his legs with his sister amongst other "girly things". I find it adorable kids doing silly stuff with their siblings
If the behavior ended by the time he was a pre-teen, he would not have been in danger of transitioning in today's climate, as the vast majority of jurisdictions do not allow HRT until around 16 or older. The truth is, any kid who doesn't have some variety of developmental condition will have settled into their gender by that point, while autistic kids should (and are) treated differently.
My good friends had two grandsons who were taken care of by a babysitter (coastal California, university community). The younger one was constantly indoctrinated by the babysitter to wear dresses and act like a girl. My friends were uncomfortable but passive. Eventually, the child refused to comply and they found a new daycare. Problem solved - by the child.
The only reason that these are "girly thibgs" is because we as adults label them as "girly things". To kids, they're just.... things. Things to do. Ways you connect with their parents or siblings or friends. It's adults who are gendering the activity 😮💨
Heterosexual male here, had the exact same experience. This is what I’ve been saying. Especially all the people who tell everyone to be more accepting were the ones who called me a fag everyday.
Your speech brings me to tears. Thank you.
110% Abigail Shrier. Thank you so much.
No. Thank you.
Most girls feel awkward during puberty. It's a weird, uncomfortable part of life. It's disgusting that there are people who use that insecurity to coerce girls into mutilating their bodies.
+CarpeCupcake Yes, trying to turn their uteruses into eminent domain of the theofascist state is even beyond disgusting.
All to get a sticker of acceptance on their scavenger list.
@@highroller-jq3ix in some ways, I guess we all have ways we feel the other is telling one to do what they say. Follow the science is vague on purpose as is claiming only oneself represents it.
@@bakerfresh Well, it's purposely vague for those who don't know the science or deny the science when it's inconvenient. There's a reason that only about 6% of scientists are Republicans and that fundamentalism is strongly associated with conservative politics and a lack of education. Religious indoctrination is a form of mental and emotional abuse and could mutilate a person for life. This hysterical, apocalyptic claim is the same one that raging fundies made about Rock and Roll 60 years ago. There's always a new group to demonize and a new armageddon on the horizon.
@@highroller-jq3ix normally I'd deny science, until I heard those numbers of 6 percent of doctors are Republicans and thought.. Wow, wheel make round car go good. I'm assuming the renowned neurosurgeon is part of that 6 percent. How much of that percent were the eugenicists wet dream NotC scientist we snuck over to help continue the awesome rush of killing civilians softly that aren't considered the mostestedest bestest? Do you have any posts where you don't try to sneak in how smart you thinks youbee? Love ur big words. You look them up before posting or just copy and paste like much of your dialogue. Puff Puff...thanks for the shiny shilling.
It should not be considered a “conservative issue”. I am a liberal and I consider it to be a medical issue and am thankful for any conservative or liberal who wants to help people through the medical system rather than through the social and political system.
Absolutely. This is across the political board - and many leftists and centrists feel politically homeless now, because the only political side that appears to have withstood the capture by gender ideology is the right wing/conservatives.
Yes. Thank you.
Yes!
We should all strive to be politically homeless. Don't let other people tell you what to believe, decide for yourself. I automatically distrust the positions of anyone who claims to be a liberal or a conservative because they probably didn't decide then on their own.
Yes.... but those that "self declare" will not submit themselves to proper psychoanalysis to make sure that they are not deluded before they do anything irreversible. That is foolish and has resulted in the many trying to change back again afterwards (not really possible 100%). My own appointments with a psychologist were such a relief. I was not that fussy which sex I was, as long as I felt OK in it. The sense of self identity for gender is a matter or brain structure (well proved decades ago) and we can't change that so do what we can to make the body fit the mind a bit better.It's not perfect of course, but it does make life better. I am almost 79 now and never had one second's regret about transitioning, and every one that I know that regrets it did not go through all the filters beforehand. As Abigail says, real gender dysphoria (transsexuality) is very rare in those born male and ten times more rare in someone born female.....so it does beg the question "why the sudden flush of young women wanting to be men?".... yes it's a fad, and the lawsuits later on will be colossal when most of them find out that they were deluded about their self identity.
As someone who is a progressive liberal I agree 100% with what Abigail said and ALL of my progressive friends and colleagues feel the same I work in a university and we are bombarded with this trans agenda. And I can attest that behind closed doors we are all in agreement but cannot speak out. This trans agenda is complete insanity and dangerous
There is nothing liberal about liberals anymore Renee. Forget those terms. The right is evil too and they are fully on board with the agenda, both sides. There is no such as 'progression' wrt this. Things always change, doesnt matter which direction you walk. Heck, even if you stand still. Life is change. But 'progressives' use the term with an inherent value, being good, That is nonsense. What is good is subjective. When you make it objective, it no longer needs a term progressive or conservative. So it is false use of words (progressive) I was far left once, in the 80ies. I didnt change much, but im now alledgedly extreme right. It all doesnt mean anything anymore. Back then, left was critical of capitalism. That was all really. All those political parties were BOUGHT in ~1990. They are effectively working for the richest in the west. I was IN politics back then; left in 91 i think, bc i did not like what i saw. It doesnt matter if you are left or right anymore. If it ever did. What matters is if you want to be (are) a good human being, intelligent, honest and fair.
You can speak out and must. Courage!
please for the love of god speak out. there’s strength in numbers. They can’t fire all of you. you need to be strong together and push back against this insanity.
I'm fairly hard Right/Conservative. WE need to hear MORE PEOPLE LIKE YOU from the Left. "Them, the Globalists who control national governments and manipulate us all, "they" make us all FIGHT. We are SET TO FIGHT EACH OTHER. Our ONLY WAY OUT is to recognize the common enemy dividing us and STAND UNITED. PLEASE pass on this sentiment from the Right wing. WE MUST STAND UNITED. We do not have to do "their" bidding, we DO NOT HAVE TO KEEP TEARING EACH OTHER DOWN. It's time to take out the pack of parasitic predators destroying our children.
The only thing evil needs to succeed is for good people to do nothing. Your silence as an educator is allowing this invasive ideology to spread.
Thank you, Abigail for your courage in bringing this to our attention! What a fantastic talk you have given us! Liz from Ontario, Canada
As a teenager, I did not like being so tall. I did not feel comfortable being tall. I felt I should be a short person. And guess what, overtime I became comfortable with my height and discovered the many benefits, like being able to reach things and help shorter people at the grocery store, etc. It's all about accepting and embracing yourself and being the best human being you can be! And feelings are changeable, so don't put much stock in how you feel at any given moment because those feelings can change. Making permanent life changes on "feelings" is very risky indeed and may end up causing more problems and unhappiness.
It is risky to just make life-changing decisions over mere feelings. This is why trans people want anyone who's feeling like they're transgender to give through therapy before making any decisions to change their body. We want to make sure that someone is indeed transgender and feeling gender dysphoria because of identity, not because of body issues or not being a gender stereotypes. It's why even though many of my friends are happy as tomboys, I chose to come out as nonbinary. It's not because I didn't fit gender roles, I just never saw myself as a man or a woman from as early as I can remember looking in the mirror as a child. I always saw a nonbinary person staring back at me. I find it quite beautiful actually, I'm just a nonbinary me.
exactly! i used to think i was too tall for a girl at 5 ' 9'' that stopped after age 17 school sometimes is annoying when many girls are shorter oh yuck school lol!
That's funny. I am a woman that wanted to be a boy. During my teen years I thought it advantageous to be a boy. Did I feel like a boy? I didn't even consider such a thing. I just wanted to be taller, stronger and I also noted boys were listened to quickly. As a short girl at the time I felt ignored. Now I took the time to consider that I would not be taller, I would not be much stronger as a boy so it was unrealistic to even pursue. I don't know what it feels like to be a woman inside, I'm just me. And I've never found anyone that could tell me....well other than the terrible mood swings of my younger years and the horrific monthly pain for at least 1 week every month. That's the only noticeable difference I see.
Say that to some of these 'affirming' Doctors and they may cut a few inches off your legs
@@julianaragan7955I’m happy u didn’t take drugs or ruin your body. Perhaps as time goes on, God will settle this for you and u will love whomGod made you.
Thanks Abigail, I’ve been trying to warn the people around me about this for years now. My wife thought I was overly obsessed. I’ve worked at an adolescent psych facility for a decade and a half. Maybe five years ago I started noticing a huge spike in white, higher functioning teenage girls saying they were trans. Prior to that we’d get maybe one MtF teenage patient a year but now we were inundated. We were told to ONLY affirm. We weren’t allowed to explore WHY they felt this way about their bodies, or what we could do to make them feel more comfortable with themselves. ONLY affirm and go along with it.
omg that's horrible
Is so scary because any other non-reality thought we would never affirm in behavioral health before transgender individuals feelings.
@@sloanefrances1189 EXACTLY!! Why are we suddenly supposed to affirm this craziness? We don't affirm anorexiants' belief they are too fat; we don't affirm schizophrenics they are being stalked by aliens....
@@jillsy2815 yes! And it breaks my heart for people who do suffer with gender confusion and are getting no help to sort it out for themselves. In stead we are gas lighting them, while they gas light us.
@@sloanefrances1189 🙏🏽
Love Abigail, I also studied philosophy for my undergraduate and philosophy certainly gives you a deeper insight into things that others may not see.
May the Almighty God bless the speaker. We need more people like you to save our daughters from transitioning coz of social contagion
Funny story, my 14 year old suddenly thought it was cool because a group of her friends claimed to be Trans, so..she claimed that she was Trans. So my aunt, shockingly said, “Well, I must be Trans too.” and did everything that her daughter did to the horror of my cousin who actively began telling her, “YOU’RE NOT TRANS!!!” ….What did my aunt do? She used every single argument that my cousin used to claim that SHE was Trans for her own. My cousin was absolutely flabbergasted. She would fight with her mother everyday telling her that she was not Trans. My aunt said, “If you are, I must be too.” My aunt even went farther than that and called the other mothers and they too all claimed to be Trans…again to the horror of the girls. In the end, the girls convinced themselves by trying to convince their moms to stop dressing like men and putting on fake moustaches that they weren’t Trans either. They were impressed with themselves that they cured their moms of this nonsense. It’s a bit extreme for the moms to go that far, but, it worked and 7 young girls didn’t ruin their lives. I think that it was a very brave thing to do, especially to go out in public dressing as a man… she got all kinds of stares and the school didn’t like it and called it mocking of the children. My aunt replied with. “How dare you dismiss my gender identity?!!!” They suit their pieholes and never said another word. The girls are all girls, and the moms are all moms, as it should be.
Wow. Just wow. What a story. Thank you so much for sharing. I feel like this might have been in the UK. Sounds like British mums...
Wow .this is amazing 👏 🙌 🙌
Love it !!! 😂
Paradox is sometimes the best way to deal with irrational ideas.
@@garysweeten5196 Hm. Thanks for that.
No one ever uses the term “tomboy” anymore..... That is a red flag.
I was a tomboy growing up and still am into my 30s. Im happy in jeans and men’s T-shirt’s and have been described as androgynous in the way I dress, as well as the way I walk and talk. Seems today that it’s no longer acceptable to be a masculine female or a feminine male. What’s so wrong with that?
@@lahamh Nothing. Girls and women can still do all those things. That's not the same thing as being trans.
@@falsum2701 I know, it’s not the same. Just sad that those who might’ve just been tomboys or effeminate boys may in some medical instances transition when they didn’t need to, but the medical industry at large doesn’t seem to have many peoples best interests at heart anymore
My girlfriend when I was young liked to climb trees.
Yeh it makes me wonder how many tomboy hetero girls...or even more androgynous female lesbians...think that they are trans. Kinda super shitty that traditionally butch lesbians may be ending up sterile, and with a manly force. I feel for em =/. We do not allow many surgeries in teens. So why this? I hope to see studies how ROGD, and this contagion ended up effecting the medical field so strongly. Feels like lobotomies...how the procedure spread like rapid fire contagion itself! I wonder what other health issues could be rushed...or other ways true science and legitimate studies could be pushed out of medicine.
Abigail Shrier is a voice of reason. There should be more men and women like her. And more people should wake up to protect children, the family and society against the activism that's threatening to undermine the whole country.
WOW!!! AT LAST!!! Someone with common sense and intelligence, examining and presenting this hot topic rationally, with facts and statistics. What a fascinating and eye-opening presentation. This lecture adds an entirely new perspective to the explosion of transgenderism in our society. American society is under attack as never before. I hope we wake up and act before it's too late. Thank you for having the courage to air this valuable presentation.
I suppose it doesn't really matter to you that a lot of the "facts" and "statistics" are made up/wrongly interpretated?
Not “at last”. Feminists have been yelling all this since ~2016. We’ve had zero coverage until recently thanks to authors like Abigail, Kathleen stock, helen Joyce, Hannah Barnes
@@sleepyjessie ok woketard zealot
@legendarygriffin you're not a centrist, you're a woketard
@@legendarygriffin At least provide evidence of manipulation. You have the floor.
I had gastric bypass surgery as an ADULT. Prior to that surgery, I had to go to a THERAPIST. I had to go to classes to make sure I learned about effective weight reduction exercises. I had to take classes in nutrition. All of this at the age of 27 and prior to weight reduction surgery. But a CHILD can make this life altering decision?!? Something is really, really wrong!
Elizabeth, not sure what you are trying to say.....might be a Freudian slip as you state "a child can "not" make life altering decisions. Just because you say surgery is not performed before 16 does NOT make it right. Science states the human brain is not fully developed until you are in your 20s. If a person is 16 years and ONE day, they cannot buy cigarettes, they cannot buy alcohol, they cannot join the armed services, they cannot get a tattoo, they couldn't get gastric bypass surgery, they cannot get married, they cannot drop out of school (all legally, of course!)! But, you are saying THIS is okaY? Educate YOURSELF!!
@Elizabeth Whitehouse Oh, and Elizabeth, research Vanderbilt . They WERE performing surgery on kids younger than 16 years old!
@Elizabeth Whitehouse I do believe you are possibly being deliberately obtuse. Of course everyone of your ilk knows of Vanderbilt Medical Center and Dr. Shayne Taylor who bragged about the huge amount of money the surgeries were bringing in, not the huge amount of difference they were making in these kids' lives. .Of course, those surgeries have now been suspended and of course, they state all "minors under the age of 18". They are not going to admit this was performed on younger patients, but, again, NO child, minor, of that age can make life altering decisions. If you had a kid who wanted to get married, they would need your okay to do so. But what would you think if the government told your kid "NAH, DON''T listen to your mom. she doesn't REALLY know you/UNDERSTAND you, only YOU know yourself. SHHHH, we will go ahead and marry you anyway. BTW, you ARE 16 and 1 day old, right?" WOW!! Only difference is, marriage can be absolved, this surgery cannot be!! WAKE UP!!
@Elizabeth Whitehouse let me know if that source is good enough for you
@Elizabeth Whitehouse Why is it that one cannot have a conversation/debate/discussion without you people either threatening someone or calling them names or insulting their intelligence by telling them to educate themselves?
As a trans-person that suffers deeply everyday from the pain ,it is a curse that no one would wish on their worst enemy .I support this lady and views .save the children.
Exactly, hate that this is a trendy thing when some people really suffer
Same. I'm horrified by the number of children I see being pushed into this with no understanding of the consequences. And many of them obviously not trans either, just going through puberty, trying to fit in and fueled by social media. I've stopped associating with the movements, and think the growing number of people who want it to be just LGB without the T are perfectly reasonable, because the T activist movement has gone off the rails and started hunting youth. You can not convince me that all these children are transgender. And they can't convince me either since they can only parrot information about the pain and dysphoria vs describe how it feels. Back when I started, I never met an individual that had been truly thrilled by the realization they were trans. Relieved to have a name for it. Possibly excited to do something to reduce the pain and struggle, excited or maybe feel whole or fully yourself, but these kids are just elated to be transgender. It just seems fuckin nuts to me.
Lmfao 🤣🤣🤣
Jesus can set you free from this. Reach out to him for only he can deliver you.
Jesus and i are very good friends.but thanks for the advice
This is the first time i hear about this lady, and i have always been against the transgender agenda because of their ideology that doesn't really care about the children or teenagers. I totally agree with what Mrs. Shrier spoke about. She was very eloquent and used nothing but facts and not once she mentioned politics or her own ideas, she was very objective and concise in her speech. I will now read anything she has written. It is so refreshing to see a journalist being the voice of logic abs using facts to prove a point. God bless her and her family.
This should be a MUST video in all schools, Military installations, hospitals...
The outstanding applause at the end made me so emotional. There are so much more of us than them! Remember that they try to make us feel alone but we are the majority!
Yeah, but an organized minority will always be more subversive than a disorganized collective group. We see it time and time again. Everywhere. In politics, in our culture, everywhere. If not, then how do you explain their progression? Their considerable influence? And how do you explain our complete apathy? Our total lack of any standing/reaction? Being a majority is not enough, having structural power is way more important.
Amen, It's literally a battle for future & this generation,we need to stand against the activists & voices
One of the biggest issues is that we are mostly not hateful. The trans-activist bullies attempt to make people believe that you are though. I do not stand for it anymore. I actually LIKE diversity. I am, like many others now, just losing my rag with this nonsense: "Hate speech!"... "transphobic!"... "Blah blah blah". Even if it IS a minority of people, if they are such horrific bullies, no one should tolerate them.
But how many people speak up? We can be the majority but if we sit idly by and say nothing, we are being cowards and we are helping to build a culture that is mentally ill.
Look at yourself declaring sides; us and them. Get a life.
I can't believe this came out a year ago and I'm just now seeing it. How many others haven't come across it yet? Continue to share this very important information. I wish I could get my sister to watch this.
Same
They are out there, but being suppressed by the overall algorithms. And they are not being reported by the mainstream media. This is the science. Follow the science. Trust in the science. Politicians cherry pick the science for their own agendas.
Me too
I’m seeing it for the first time too I shared it with well over a dozen person already. This shii is real🙄
This fight has been going on for a while now ... I'm finding videos 4 and 5 years old ... I see clips of jazz Jennings being called a trans kid and he is 22 now ... Started his "transition" at 3 years old ... Was even on the Oprah show ... Now he is still suffering from depression and other mental issues as well as obesity and the inability to engage in sex or have an orgasm.. he can't have children of his own and it's all documented for the world to see ... How humiliating even if he wanted to go back to living life as the man he is how could he ... He's stuck now so to speak.. he can't get his penis back he can't reverse all the mental and physical harm that was done to him simply because he liked playing with "girl" toys and wear girls clothes... Nevermind he had an older sister he idolize and tried to mimic...
"Dripping on lies", perfect quote of this subject and many others. Thanks for being an investor of information.
The voice of decency and COMMON SENSE 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
I was a hardcore tomboy. So much so that I literally wanted to be a boy. With every fiber of my being. Thank God I didn't have parents who jumped in to give me hormones and tell me that I COULD be a boy. Puberty hit, and the tomboy, (for the most part), was gone. I still preferred typical male activities, but I discovered boys were my thing😍. Married for 29 years and raised two beautiful children.
Lol trans people aren’t given hormones by parents. Trans people often have to struggle to obtain the correct hormones after intense struggle from reluctant providers. Disinformation and misunderstanding is rife in this comment section
You know that sexual orientation is separate from gender right???? does being asexual make me neither male nor female? Are all gay men women or lesbians men? I don't know your specific situation but this is blatant misunderstanding of the subject and whether intetional or not you posted a message with 111 likes that misinforms people. no shame for not knowing, just asking for understanding of the topic before you confidently tell everyone you know how it works.
Some Turkish bricklayers were working on my property when I was renovating the house and were surprised how much work I was doing and how I knew to do things. Than one of them asked whether I had brothers and when I said I didn't than they smiled and said it was like their friend who had daughters and taught them to do thing as if they were boys.
They do not jump into giving hormones. The process takes years of counseling and the first step is hormone blockers. And you wanted to be a boy but never said you were a boy, that's different.
Do an autism test plz and let us know if that's the correlation between boyish girls/gender confusion and autism is correct.
I was a tomboy. I wished I was a boy. But I also was a kid. 4-12. Because I saw my brother got to do things I couldn't. Run faster, play football, etc. I'm glad that parents and teachers didn't help me" transition." When I became a teenager, I loved being a female and I still love being a female. Just leave the kids alone and let them be kids.
Yes, I was fine with being a girl (in the 80s toys weren't so divided into pink/blue) but I wanted to grow up to be a man and not a woman. Why? Because the women I saw were too stressed and busy to play, always cooking and staying inside, and the men were laughing with friends and joking around and always ready to wrestle with the kids. Well, turns out I did become a woman, a stay at home mom to three kids no less, and I unfortunately do spend more time cooking and staying indoors than I'd prefer. However, I also joke around and wrestle with the kids (my husband didn't grow up with rough housing and didn't do that with our kids, and I'm like, "somebody's got to dangle them upsidedown and chase them" so I do it and it's really fun, no wonder my dad and uncles were always playing like that!) And I spend time with my friends, my life isn't as dedicated to making a "perfect home" the way my mom's generation was pressured to be. (It's more relaxing these days, I think. It always seemed like she was in a competition over dusting and such, even with her friends. I don't feel that pressure, or rather, I feel it but it's easier to ignore. So I'm not as good as my sister-in-law at keeping a clean house... It's fine, I'm okay with that, I'm good at other things. My mom was also more creative rather than fastidious, but instead of shrugging and doing her thing, she felt ashamed and tried harder.) So, turns out being a woman isn't as bad as I thought, plus I get to stay home with the children without people looking at me sideways! 👍
A lot of young people growing up in the seventies and eighties well I mean it's girls a lot of us were tomboys. I remember I preferred playing with my male cousins baseball dating fishing hooks with a worms digging around in the dirt. I hate addresses and makeup. I still don't like dresses I still prefer jeans and t-shirts but yet I like makeup now. I hate heels I prefer tennis shoes or sandals or boots. And what I was told growing up my older brother he liked playing with my older sister's dolls and Barbies. And he grew up to be a man's man. He's still married his wife has two daughters. I do believe there's people out there with body dysmorphia who needs severe psychological help not to be padded on the back and be like so you believe you're something else I know I'll help you. They don't want to help the people they want the people to get all these operations or money more money more money for them.
Me too!!!!
@@willowb1527 yes! I resonate with you! I graduated high school in '87 and grew up in the country. I was free to roam, I played with boys and girls, and I liked girl and boy things. I thought wearing make-up was a role I had to play to have friends. I dyed my bangs blonde in 83. Everyone made fun of me, my mom told me "you're dyeing that back" I said "no, I'm not". The following week, 8 other people in my small high school did it too. We are so impressionable as teens- mine was MTV. Teens will follow along with whatever is trending!
@@Silentsister Rock on. ✌️👍
Thank you for speaking out against medical transition!! how many people will be harmed before we stop the madness ! How many de transitioners will have to fight against this ? What happened to going through why people are hurting and help them through therapy and dealing with mental health instead of medicalizing them ? I grew up not very well developed and a tomboy. at 6 I was told I should pretend to be a prince during play cause I was more masculine. All my life being a girl was hard for me I went through gender dysphoria from 20-23 because no one would accept my tomboy side , all growing up I was disenfranchised for not being a girly girl and ostracized for: liking power tools , mma and being 5'9" thin and guys liked me like a guy friend and girls hated me for it. Thank God being a tomboy became quirky and cool around 2015 ! I am so glad I became comfortable in my body at 23 after I got married. I grew out of my insecurities because of body positivity . Now we are going the opposite direction of the 90s -girls can have any job and be super women and the 2015 women come in all shapes sizes and interests, to know - if your masculine you're a dude and a man with a penis who looks masculine should be allowed into the bathroom with us . its thinly veiled misogyny !
I'm from across The Pond, but the problems are worldwide. What I find terrifying is that people who should know better - the judges, the legislators, the most senior of academics, are in thrall to this ideology and instead of speaking up and protecting ordinary people, they are more likely to crush anyone who dares to speak the truth as, it seems, already happens in Canada. When even those who should know better, and are in positions to do something about it, abandon their responsibilities, what hope is there left for the human race?
There's always room for hope ☺️.
God and Jesus are the hope for everything.....Obviously the illuminati is behind this...implanting DNA/gene editing tools microscopically into the food and drugs....dont believe me?....you had better pick up a science journal friend..you're about 25 years behind the times....remember,they cloned a sheep DECADES ago...they've been bio-engineering living organisms forever now...like,Sucralose: fake sugar...the popular sugar substitute...DAMAGES DNA....like...what?.....just came out in the news...2023... how long did they know?.....like i said...they have ways of breaking down our DNA and rebuilding it how they want...I suspect they want us all transgender so we could all feel incapable of respecting God's laws on homosexuality....also unisex dollars are EQUAL dollars...not having to market to TWO seperate groups is good for business....what I have just described is clearly the most evil thing ever perpetrated by man...the illuminati are neo-pagan witches on the high levels, and satanists on the highest levels....as the one world currency draws nearer, its becoming more and more impossible to deny the book of revelation and the word of God....
Whenever someone says, "I feel I have the wrong body", how do you know it's the body that's wrong? Maybe you have the wrong feeling? Maybe it's the feeling that needs altering? And historically we all know this feeling will change at different stages in life.
This depends on whether or not said person is experiencing a fleeting feeling or has other underlying issues, or if they're truly suffering from gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria will not go away over time
This is actually a very astute comment ! Feelings aren’t facts , that’s for sure !
yes, and just how would / could they know they "have the wrong body" if they had never experienced the other body ! total nonsense, great video
@@robmoore8393 explain it as if you were explaining it to God.
@@JJ-cg9rj I thought she said that some people grow out of it once they go through puberty
So glad I came across this video. Great work Abigail Shrier.
This should be broadcast on all major channels simultaneously across the West. I think the overwhelming majority of people are totally and utterly sick of this dangerous nonsense.
BULLSHIT!!
Absolutely sick of it
Obviously the illuminati is behind this...implanting DNA/gene editing tools microscopically into the food and drugs....dont believe me?....you had better pick up a science journal friend..you're about 25 years behind the times....remember,they cloned a sheep DECADES ago...they've been bio-engineering living organisms forever now...like,Sucralose: fake sugar...the popular sugar substitute...DAMAGES DNA....like...what?.....just came out in the news...2023... how long did they know?.....like i said...they have ways of breaking down our DNA and rebuilding it how they want...I suspect they want us all transgender so we could all feel incapable of respecting God's laws on homosexuality....also unisex dollars are EQUAL dollars...not having to market to TWO seperate groups is good for business....what I have just described is clearly the most evil thing ever perpetrated by man...the illuminati are neo-pagan witches on the high levels, and satanists on the highest levels....as the one world currency draws nearer, its becoming more and more impossible to deny the book of revelation and the word of God....
Agreed!!
Massive thanks, Abigail, on behalf of the dads of impressionable daughters!
You're racist
@@bastardbill9480 Will you elaborate or allow me to diagnose you as being under the influence of substances? Otherwise, anything that comes from "Bastard Bill" is of little or no significance.
@@uldisozolants9886 you are white there for you are racist. Do better bigot Ps all drugs have been decriminalized in my state so me being under the influence or not is irrelevant .
Yeh it makes me wonder how many tomboy girls...or even more androgynous female lesbians...think that they are trans. Kinda super shitty that traditionally butch lesbians may be ending up sterile, and with a manly force. I feel for em =/. We do not allow many surgeries in teens. So why this? I hope to see studies how ROGD, and this contagion ended up effecting the medical field so strongly. Feels like lobotomies...how the procedure spread like rapid fire contagion itself! I wonder what other health issues could be rushed...or other ways true science and legitimate studies could be pushed out of medicine.
@@bastardbill9480 With drugs out of the equation, you end up even worse off: 'dumb' is smth I would not want to ever be. Poor bastard, you wanted me to stop being white. I live aboard a sailboat currently in French Polynesia - so suntan is working in the desired direction, thank you.
I spoke out against transitioning kids and someone investigated me and emailed my boss to get me fired. Luckily, I am the boss.
@Flora L..lol GOOD for you!! What has happened to the world we live in today? It’s *such* a *sad* state of affairs when our *children* are being treated and encouraged in this way! Thank goodness my daughter is 20 years old so I didn’t have to worry about her being given hormones to stop her body’s natural progression into puberty including her period. I myself remember being *quite* *naturally* afraid & embarrassed of my body’s changes..at 11, 12 & 13 years old. But like everyone else I was in school with, we learned about it, accepted it and moved forward in our *young* lives. I know for certain that when/if the time comes to send my grandchildren to school, I will *definitely* tell my daughter to send them to a private school. And if she’s unable to afford private school herself, I will do everything in my power, including offering to pay for it to her because we all live in CA and will remain living here And I *refuse* to let my grandchildren be subjected to this evil garbage!
Gee Whizz that's bad,lucky you are the boss!
Yeah, sure, that really happened.
This is the kind of story that happens so often that it represents the kind of thuggish behavior that is intended to bully people into silence. Fortunately, the scam has been rumbled and now the vast majority of otherwise inert people are awakening to this dangerous evil.
lucky, its so sick how kids are now taught to lie and manipulate people around them, compulsively pushing their issues onto others instead of developing healthy coping mechanisms that dont involve ruining peoples lives
"The goal of Gender Ideology is to stop the formation of stable families, the building blocks of American life" Thank you, Abigail, for your amazing speach!!! ❤️👍
Not just the building block of u s a, but all stable democracies!!! This seems to be a leftiemarxist or eorldgovernment!!!
That's not the goal at all. In fact there barely is any goal. I'm sorry that you feel attacked by people living their own lives. No one is trying to stop the formation of stable families. Please wake up.
Hats off to you Hillsfale College for inviting Abigail Shrier to talk on this topic. Please come to Australian National University and help us save our young adults who being brainwashed by the LQBTQ group inside the campass… Dear Almighty God send ur angels to save our child from such snares of the world
When Abigail said, “the moment you hear that….get your kid out of that school.” OMG…YES!!!!! 100% agree! (At the end during Q&A)
YES. If not they could be taken from your custody against your will if you even slightly push back or question. DANGEROUS PATH AHEAD IF YOU DONT REMOVE ASAP. Warning do not tell the school why, nor your children why. Just quietly, friendly do so. Do not put a target on your back.
Get out of that church ❗️Reality!
@Holly Bartlett all that should be discussed is the fact that some men love men, some women love women, some women love men, some men love women and some love both. There is only an LGB not the rest of that nonsense
Unfortunately, most parents are not married or both parents are working and are using the school as free childcare. The government has the American families or undocumented families to relay on the state to support us than to have vigor and good family values.
@@joaniebar And it seems like the best treatment is to leave it be.
Transgenderism remains an incoherent and inconsistent worldview. Every time I ask a trans person or trans advocate how they "know" they're the opposite gender, they inevitably confuse the inclination/disinclination to adhere to gender roles and norms with gender itself. That, or they say something like "I just feel like a woman". But this is incoherent also, since none of us have a basis for comparison. We've all only been just the one gender, so we'd have no way of knowing the difference between "feeling like" a man vs. "feeling like" a woman. Indeed, that's if such a feeling even exists at all. And it's also an inconsistent worldview, as none of these people would be willing to call a white man black if he identified as such. Even though that's literally the only thing supposedly obligating me to call a man a woman.
It's a similar epistemic postion to CRT. The 'oppressed' subject is supposed to have unique epistemc insight through their 'lived experience'; everyone else is caught up (epistemically) in the oppressive ideology/hegemony. Hence both CRT and this Critical (Trans) Gender stuff is able to reject any need for independent scientific verification of its claims. Any right thinking person should be very dubious of all this stuff.
Vic 2.0, thank you! Good stuff. P.S. 2 days later . . . I was told yesterday that 15 yrs old is the optimum time to start the transition. It is being touted to be easier all the way around at this age. What kid of that age is emotionally or mentally mature enough to make this staggering life-changing decision? Someone, anyone?
Google takes your channel away if you say that kind of stuff too much. I've asked "what is it about the |other| gender that you identify with?" and then I get called a garbage person who's 'making trans people justify themselves'. I was genuinely curious. "I always hated dresses" just sounds like an insane reason to mutilate yourself.
To ask the question, is the shatter the concept of gender. Within this allows the physical apperance to basically be fashion statement completely. Gender does not exist anymore and a lot of people do not accept it. They do not do such because they NEED a problem. Gender is a problem they need when really gender as they define it is simply actions and actions aren't really gendered, infact they're not. A man putting on heels and getting implants doesn't remove what they want to call themselves "a man". Like a tomboyish girl working on machines and working out doesn't mean she isn't "a woman". Which is ironic, the people that want to "remove" gender enable it more by pigeonholing actions and fashion as gender when they've say none of that is gender. Basically the preached themselves out of the job if everybody goes sure "gender doesn't exist just live how ever you wish" They can no long exploit these people's emotions. What is valid is birth sex due to physical illnesses typical between the binary. Everything else is fashion and livestyle. I figured this out years ago and people thought I was "crazy" or a "bigot" yet look at world now I'm vindcated. Since people are now making the questions and finding the answers I've made almost a decade ago.
@@ExeErdna I think we agree but I may be misunderstanding you. I will say though definitively, that gender in and of itself hasn't and won't ever be a problem; it's what people attach to the fact of biological gender that causes problems (e.g., irrational or strictly held gender roles and norms).
Been reading several stories of some that say they had this and reading their stories, most i noticed similar feeling kids i grew up with and from what i got from the stories, trauma came up most with them they believe that triggered it. None of them changed, but live normal as adult. When you are a kid you are going thru all kinds of things that make you feel different. YOU GROW OUT OF IT when your mind gains reasoning and higher level of critical thinking. Dont destroy your life, just hold on, find support groups before mutilation.
Not true of most of us. Read my book, At Last! Free to be Me by Robbie Dee Ewens
@@missrobbiedee6146 I don't have a problem with anyone being whatever they want, but when people try and restructure society entirely for a fraction of population that's a problem. And introducing sexuality and mutilation into children's lives, that's just sick. Do what you want as an adult, children can be manipulated to do anything, so leave them alone to grow up and decide when they have rational thought.
Good for you! 🎉 every woman deserves to have the same experience. God bless you!
I was a hardcore tomboy growing up. I played sports, hated dresses, climbed trees and all of that. I’m so thankful that my parents allowed me to be me growing up and didn’t try to force me to turn into something else. I was a happy, well adjusted tomboy. I wasn’t a boy trapped in a girls body. Now, my closet is full of skirts, heels and dresses. Lipstick is a staple item. And I’m so happy that my parents allow me to really be me with all the frills and strength of femininity. They never tried to force me to fit into a box. I was able to create my own box. And it’s all so beautiful.
I'm not female,but I hate dresses,make up,and artificial things like make up ,fake nails. So if I had a daughter,I would treat them like a tomboy (I like tomboys anyway)
@@sasukekuniski1959 I'm not female, male, or shemale, but I hate dressings and artificial intelligence, like nine inch nails. So if I had a dog I would treat him like an illegal immigrant.
EXACTLY !! Same here !! I even remember going through years having trouble in my relationships with men, and always having to hear the suggestion I should try dating a woman. So subliminal, but I felt in my gutt something BIGGER was to come, I just didn't know what my intuition was telling me back then, but here we are now, affirming my intuition 20+ years ago !! But dare we type of women speak against any of this !!
It would have most likely been the school that would have forced you to change without your parents consent or knowledge.
@@dianem6951 You’re right. Very true. It’s such a shame that today, one of the most dangerous places for a child to be is in school. SMH.
The greatest years have ended.. and I am so glad I lived my youth 30 years ago when society was more organic. I feel so sorry for the youth and the coming generations 😪
Totally with you.
Totally agree !!! If someone told me back then where we would be today. I would have thought they were crazy. But here we are .
its called being a hypocrite, dictating to others sanctioning them if they don't do as their told. now America is all over Africa threatening them with no aid if they don't change their laws against homosexuality meanwhile in the west look what has happened since they did.
The best decision I ever made was not to have kids.
That might, very well, be true. It certainly is starting to feel like it. However, I would like to point out, that is the same thing that, literally, every generation has said since the beggining of time.
Thank you, Abagail, for all the effort, research making this known.❤
I wish medical community would focus equally passionately on womens health as they do for transitioning
How are they ignoring women's health?
As a 17 year old biological girl who hates make up, dresses and traditional girly stuff and loves sports, baggy and sporty clothes, anime, video games, action movies and responsibilities...I am very very very proud to be girl who will soon be an Adult Woman... btw I am Christian who lives a pretty fulfilling life
and Jesus saves........your money too!
Some time ago I saw a video, a female in leather riding a motorcycle. She said "this is women's clothing because a woman is wearing them!" Unfortunately I dont remember where to find it.
nah the christian thing is only imagination.
@@o8livion yeah, self important bs
@@o8livion halfwit
So refreshing to hear an obviously educated person speaking so well on this disturbing subject. Thank you.
@Elizabeth Whitehouse Are you trans...? I know you hate the zealous right. Buuuut.... identity politics and sexual orientation is the religion of the left. It's communism. Don't become what you hate so much. You're being used. Like everyone else.
@Elizabeth Whitehouse you are truly blind to the world around you if you believe that
Thabk you, you speak the truth and im literally crying and begging God to make society better for everyone with harming each other.
Mentions she did an interview with Dr.J.Peterson… Immediately runs to his channel to listen
You can clearly see she was moved and got emotional when they clapped when she finished her speech and she said “this is the first audience that didn’t want to throw things at me.”
A very brave woman.
@@amartin9293 I really admire the heck out of her. Women like her have given me the courage to speak out and to no longer stay silent regarding this issue when it has come up at my university (to essentially out myself as a "TERF" in a room full of the sort of people who probably think such views are tantamount to bigotry). As I'm a STEM student, I'm no longer involved with the humanities department (thank God 😆), but wish me luck I don't get kicked out (lol)!
@@somni2246 Good luck! The bad change came from universities, and the good change will come from students like you. Remember that for hundreds of years Universities where the place where young minds debated new ideas - and that's the only thing that ever propelled humanity forward! Insist on your right to continue this simple yet magnificent tradition. You owe it to yourself - and to humanity.
@@amirabiri2 thanks kindly! and I couldn't agree more. While I'm finishing school, I'm going to do my best to insist on upholding the classical liberal values that universities were originally in service to; correspondence theory and enlightenment rationalism, free market and free exchange of ideas etc. I still believe in these ideas, and I'm starting to see other students and teachers do and who are pushing back as well.
Almost like most audiences know she's just a hateful bigot.
I don't understand how she is accused on hating trans people?? She shows a lot of compassion.. both for those who truly do benefit from transition AND those who could be harmed by it.
my thoughts entirely
Cancel culture
Because, people have been conditioned to believe that when someone disagrees with you, they must hate you.
I was thinking the same thing.
There are so-called "influencers" having their group of devout and blind followers. One of these followers actually sent me one of those people's videos, claiming he "debunked Abigail Shrier". I was curious, went to watch it and all I got was basically a beyond all sanity radicalized gamma male calling her transphobic for 15 minutes straight.
This woman, like Helen Joyce, is calm and reasonable in her presentation of this complex issue.
EXCELLENT talk Abigale. Thank you 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
I wanted to be a boy until I was about 13. Not because I was trapped in the wrong body but because in my day boys didn't do household chores and got to go out later with their mates. I thank heaven that I born at a time when I was simply considered a tomboy and allowed to 'outgrow' this phase. I dread to think how many young people today have hidden ulterior reasons for wanting to change bodies!
you know people go to therapy to understand the reasons they want to transition. they don't just blindly trust the kid that they understand themselves without asking them about it. before you say they can do it without parent permission, I would ask how many kids have the funds to go on puberty blockers or get surgery without parental permission
@@coolperson5668 Not enough have therapy. You've apparently never heard of the Tavistock Institute in England, where staff whistle-blowers reported, among other issues, bad practice where prescription of puberty blockers to minors was concerned. So intent was the institute in pushing a trans agenda, that it had lost sight of its original mission - to support and care for children with gender dysphoria.
So true.
@@coolperson5668 Planned Parenthood dispenses steroids without parental consent and based on income. That pretty much means they're being handed out for free.
@clout chaser Hi, I was only commenting on my own experience and showing support for more in depth care for any under 16 who wants to transition. That there have always been gays and trannies is common knowledge. In my day, very sadly and disgustingly, they were given a dreadful time. I campaigned and signed petitions for the repeal of the gay laws that deemed gay love was a criminal act. At Uni we accepted everyone and our motto was viva la difference!
In 1989 I was the middleweight female bodybuilding champion in Canada and competed in international competitions. I am also the mother of four children two of which are twins. Some people have a middle balance of female and male tendencies. I have always lived as a female but I know how it feels to be somewhat on the male side. I tended toward male activities and also am an accomplished artist and can crochet up a storm. I am 74 years old and the grandmother of 21 people. Left in peace and accepted by others it is very possible to live in the middle of gender tendency. And to be productive and happy, acceptance is what is needed.
You weren't on the male side. Females also enjoy the activities you described.
@Elizabeth Whitehouse we need to care. It starts with calling little Johnny Susan. Next they're carving him up and pumping him full of drugs.
Very informative, wish every therapist was like her
This is excellent. I’ve had genuine trans friends (went through surgery, etc.) but true gender dysphoric people are VERY rare. I fully believe that the majority of the influx of transgendered NOW in 2023 have other issues going on. Letting young kids make life altering medical decisions is not okay. Let them get to age 18 and then decide.
As a gay man who grew up "throwing a ball like a girl," I am soooo glad I was not manipulated into thinking I must be "a girl inside." If we could just learn to love and accept each other AS SOULS, not as body parts or skin colors, we'd be much better off and much less susceptible to manipulation by others. In order for harmony, love, and decency to exist, there must be less "me, me, me" and more listening. But under no circumstances is a child who is not mature enough to drink alcohol miraculously mature enough to identify as a different gender. How on earth would a child know what it feels like to be some other gender inside? Is the child psychic? And what does that mean, anyway? Does every woman feel the same inside? Does every man feel the same inside? Of course, not.
I used to feel like I was the wrong gender. Then I transitioned. It was the best decision of my life, becoming the woman God intended me to be. HRT and transitioning saved my life and helped me find happiness and get beyond the drugs. This is why we need strong education about transgender issues in schools, so transgender children like me don't have to suffer from a lack of understanding who we are. Plus strong education prevents people from learning about gender dysphoria from the internet, and can instead learn it from a trained professional. Before you say this confuses kids, learning about being transgender isn't going to make your kids transgender any more than learning about being cisgender DID NOT MAKE ME STRAIGHT AND A GUY. I was always born a transgender woman. I just wish more Americans could recognize this and stop hating and judging others and just live their own lives. If you don't want to transition, good for you, don't do it, but don't attack those who need to do it. That's not freedom, that's hatred.
@@trikkinikki970 Hello Trikki. Did you start the process as a child or an adult? I have nothing against people making the decision to transition medically for themselves... as adults. More power to you. I think a lot of the problems would be alleviated, though, if we just taught all kids to reject narrow cultural definitions and to respect each child's uniqueness until the individual is old enough to make the decision for himself/herself without someone's opinion tipping the scale. If a biological boy wants to dress in a feminine manner, classmates should be expected to accept and even befriend that person. However, there is WAY too much room for manipulation of children going on when it comes to the chemical, hormonal and medical aspect. The decision was ultimately right for you, but it isn't for those who realized too late that they had made the wrong decision. That's not hatred, that's freedom (and kindness).
Good point sir.
@@timward3116 I really wish the options would have been there to understand myself in my youth. Trans education in middle school would have saved me from a life of struggling with drugs, I just didn't understand myself. The only manipulation of children comes from religious indoctrination and kicking people out for being queer. No where in the LGBTQ community do people insist that they can tell the gender of someone else, the common theme is each person needs to decide for themselves who they are and to be the person they are meant to be. How is that dangerous to teach to children? My brain wasn't functioning right until I got on estrogen, are you saying I deserved to suffer all those years from 10-25 because I didn't deserve the medical care because you feel you have a better understanding of how my brain and body functions? That just seems completely unfair for other people to decide that.
@@Tennesseehillbillie
I thought I was a boy growing up. I felt uncomfortable wearing girl's clothes. I hated my breast and when I get my first period at 12 I wanted to die LOL. It turns out It was a phase because I wanted to be like my male cousins. I am a proud mother a 3.LOL
Good for you! It would have been horrible had you fallen into the clutches of the gender mutilators. But why do you append "LOL" to a couple of your sentences? There is nothing laughable about them, they are simply your statements of fact. Wanting to die at 12 is nothing to laugh out loud about.
Periods suck for anyone (except fetishists).
@@lh2435 There was a trangender person I read about who made tea with the stolen, bloody tampons of it's female roommates.
How many women have said they hate getting their monthly & how many have said they hate their big breast? Too many to count but the short list is the actual trans people!! So the point I’m getting at is your come t is laughable!!
@@garynewcomb8649 Isn't the usual number of breasts two?
Bless you Abigail Shrier, a voice in the Wilderness. 🙏
That was brilliant and so helpful - strength to her pen.
When I was 5 I swore up and down I was a boy. I wanted to be a boy and no one could change my mind. Thank GOD I was allowed to outgrow what would last 6 months.
Happened in my family too, we let it be and it all worked out!!
We need more people like Abegail Shier. I’m not a transphobic but all I can say is masterpiece takes time. I hated my puberty stage, I thought it was disgusting, horrific and embarrassing. On my 30’s is when I started celebrating my womanhood, my skin, my perception I life and the goddess in me.
Oh ehm, wait, you are not transphobic yet you actively decide to stand by someone's viciously transphobic beliefs by blatantly believing everything that comes out of their mouth? That's almost the equivalent of: I can't be transphobic, I have friends who are transgender! Also, stop trying to assume that because trans people experience a horrible puberty is why we seek transition: that's not how gender identity works, not in transgirls and not in transboys, and it's not how gender clinics work. You also make the stupid mistake of suggesting that if you were to have grown up now, you would've fallen victim to hospitals/gender clinics in particular having lost all their ability to control their treatment by listening to their patients who, at the slightest hint of doubts about treatment either see treatment getting halted temporarily or permanently, or maybe not see start of it in the first place (for instance, if during or near the onset of puberty children bring forward that they are not sure, and puberty blockers are not administered, but instead the child is monitored for the next 3-6 months while puberty has it's way. If the child's mental health deteriorates due to the anxiety involved with the effects it notices about puberty and the child is actively stating to not be happy with the changes it's noticing, treatment is started. You suggest the intake at a gender clinic is a one-way ticket of which there is no way out of, and that all the people working in a gender clinic are moronic assholes just waiting to forcefully push children into their treatment program, and forcefully administer puberty blocking medication or hormones whether those children want to or not. If you would've had an intake at a gender clinic because, as you suggest, your puberty was horrible and transboys use transitioning as a "quick and easy fix to get out of that", the gender clinic would've interviewed you, your parents, you and your parents together, you and your parents probably would've had to fill out tons of questionnaires, and the talks you'd have with a psychologist would basically be like someone trying to dissect your brain while you are still alive to try and find out what the reason for you seeking treatment actually is. Because the psychologists there will typically border more on the side of "We do not believe you unless you provide us with enough proof that you are 10.000% sure that this is the right path for you" instead of "Here you go, here's the referral to the endocrinologist, we can make the appointment for surgery right now if you want" after the first talk (because, after all, Abigail Shrier is wrongfully shouting "that it's way to easy these days", while it's exactly the opposite. In your case the psychologist would probably diagnose you with something along the lines of: "Observed: patient with a non-persistent wish of changing gender-roles, changing sex, name or preferred pronouns, all signs of distress shown have been indicated to not be based on gender dysphoria. Mental distress observed probably caused by the onset of puberty. No comorbidity with other mental health problems has been observed, diagnosed or witnessed during interviews or cross-referencing the questionnaires against common mental health problems usually seen in teens aged [lower age limit - upper age limit] ". Results of questionnaires for signs of gender dysphoria: negative. Results of interviews conducted with patient and parent(s) and/or legal guardian: negative indication for gender dysphoria. Signs of gender incongruent behavior due to gender dysphoria: negative. Patient has actively stated not wanting to transition and change sex, falling in line with the examination of said patient in all earlier mentioned forms of triage. Patient is not eligible for further treatment at our ward but is advised to seek mental guidance and help outside of our facilities. Patient can request a direct referral if deemed necessary." When I turned 14, boy puberty started for me, I had been feeling "off" for quite some time already, and started to feel incredibly uncomfortable when boy puberty started: feeling ashamed of my body, scared of what it was doing that I seemingly had little to no control over. I felt like I had turned crazy, after all: what boy thinks he should be a girl? From the moment boy puberty had started to when I was 30 years old (which is when I started hormones), I felt like I tried to play a part in a big play that everyone around me had gotten the script of. Pretty soon after starting hormones, my body started changing (obviously) and for the first time in my life especially since boy puberty, I actually was at peace looking at my body, because it was finally looking a whole lot more what my mind had always pictured it to be.
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Disagreeing with trans is not transphobic. Sure, you don't believe what they believe, but you don't go around harassing them etc right? That ain't transphobic. Just because you disagree with some groups of people doesn't makes you 'phobic', especially if you have proper facts to back your opinion. I don't believe that trans man are man/male and vice versa.
I’m glad you don’t struggle with gender dysphoria! Not everyone is that lucky and some people need support (including gender-reaffirming measures).
@@Dutch3DMaster How do you know you won't regret this a few years down that line, as many people do?
This all started with this phrase: "We're going to fundamentally change America"...
Clear, science based treatise of a subject that used to be obvious to most of us!
This is being pushed so hard in our public schools. We should all be concerned!
You must be fighting it hard, not just simply concerned.
Yes it must be fought with everything we have,... I fear for my grandchildren..... and I am transsexual myself.... one of the real ones...
@@KathrynLiz1 Blair white fan?
@@rakshitragav3747 Who is Blair White?
@@KathrynLiz1 she doesn't agree with this woke ideology in the lgbt community too
Every single cell with a nucleus in the body has the chromosomes for male, if one is a boy or female, if one is a girl. Female cells work with hormones in a specific way throughout development. Some scientists think that blocking estrogen might interfere with that proper development and that even if it is restarted, a key developmental period may have been skipped over. It could affect every system in the body: blood vessels, skeletal, nerve cells, etc. What really floors me is that physicians could have treated these children without knowing ALL the potential effects. They have done monstrous things.
Yes. It is so wrong to do this to kids or even adults under 30 who may rather need positive counseling. See Benjamin Boyce's interview with Dr. William Malone. kzhead.info/sun/rZiLidBvbKyagJE/bejne.html
The Germans dealt with these same problems in the Weimar Republic, it’s part of what made the Nazis such hardliners. Some of the “researchers” were able to escape though, and bring their ideas on child sexuality on transgenderism to the US. They were given jobs in academia by their kin.
I sense lots of lawsuits in the future from these kids who were given “affirmative care.”
It's all just a social construct now. everything can be twisted out of shape. Genuine concerns are hate
There is no evidence of any lasting harm for puberty blockers. Sure, it's technically possible that they could do damage. But so could putting a kid in a car, or taking them skiing, or feeding them fast food.
This is a very good speech that she gave here, well worth the time to watch it.
She presents some of the most level headed and well reasoned arguments on this topic. I think I’ll read her book because I’m eager to hear more of what she has to say.
This speech is a lot better phrased than her book (even if still not ideal). Her book is heavily negative and biased towards anti-trans rhetoric with no middle ground discussion. She uses faulty arguments and examples to make her points and not once ever consults an actual trans person in her "research"
@@inkygoat4315 Oh, buy YOU know the magical truth of 'transgender,' right? 🤡 😅😅😅
@@inkygoat4315 Anti-trans, lol! What an interesting was of saying transphobe. God you liberals are insufferable!
I’m happy that the custody issue was mentioned. As the father of 3 daughters ages 12, 13, and 16 I recently lost custody after 4 1/2 years. Their mother walked away from her faith and became active in the BLM/Transgender movements and, with the help of our local school district, convinced my two youngest daughters that they are boys. Custody was taken from me for all 3 of my girls because of my refusal to refer to the my 12 and 13 year old girls as boys with boy names. I no longer hear from my daughters but I pray for them constantly. They now live in a very unsafe environment rather than the stable, Christian home that I and my new wife provided. These activists are truly after our children and out to destroy families.
God that's horrible 😞
❤️ and prayers for you and your family. And may you find the peace that passeth all understanding.
@@darrylg3861 Thank you. I’ve learned to never underestimate the power of prayer.
Oh, I’m so sorry, Fight This with every fiber of your being! We ARE here behind you, The white guilt craze has truly taken hold of many middle America and Suburban MOTHERS. Tell your girls they are so wonderfully and beautifully made, and at. SOUL level it’s not truth. Fight fight fight. Keep fighting if not in the courts fight your daughters. Prayer. Prayer works.. and remember it’s not them that are the enemy it’s THE ENEMY that is.
@@Mrs.CGraves Thank you. It's very true that it's the enemy that is at work here and that it is not the fault of the children. My girls will always know that their dad loves them whether they want to admit it or not. In the meantime I pray for them constantly and do the best that I can to show them the love and respect that they deserve.
Fantastic! As a young girl and tomboy who struggled with the bodily changes of puberty, to cope with my attraction to girls, I had a male alter ego that I imagined in fantasies dating the girls I liked. As I grew up I cast him aside and accepted myself. If I'd grown up in today's world who knows how much harm I would have undergone to actually be that male alter. The push of this trans movement has actually done something positive for me though. It pushed me to examine the sex abuse that caused my attraction to women and leave it behind, and it sent me running fast and far from leftism.
Yeah for you!!! This was my favorite comment today!!! I was also attracted to women, but I can't imagine any scenario in my childhood where I would've been given a cell phone; my mother was such a tightwad. That got me to get a job, buy the musical instrument I wanted and pay for my own lessons, and I was able to put myself through college with my dad only paying for one semester. Even though the neglect/ ridicule type abuse had long-lasting effects, I'm so glad I got away.
Yes, just look at Jazz Jennings! This poor "girl" got everything she wanted as a child and as a teen. She was given puberty blockers early, testosterone, and later had surgeries to give her female-like genitalia. Now in college, even "her" excellent brain and scholastic abilities can't keep her from being grossly overweight, socially ill-fitted, and depressed. She seems still to be a suicide risk for issues which HAVE NOT been solved. SAD!
Glad you were able to overcome the difficulties you faced; you're the strong one!
Smart to change from the far left grasp! Am I wrong to say that you're now a lesbian, and if so, did that explain your attraction to women? It seemed as though when you were younger, you had an embarrassment because of your attraction to women, so if you were a guy, it would've been acceptable ? Either way, it seems as though you're much happier now, plus you're glad you didn't make that switch! I can only wonder how many other women are in your shoes, and all the uncertainties, being embarrassed will make this switch, not understanding that there's nothing wrong with them! It was just that their attractions were for women and are lesbians and not transgender women! But at least if these women figure themselves out, then make a decision will be better for themselves! Especiall at these young ages of 4, 5, and under 18, make their plans when they're adults and can make decisions that they'll be happier with!
As a boy, instead of the usual mental role play during self-arousal, I would often imagine the pleasure of a woman making out with me etc. I mentally enjoyed playing her role loving me. It felt great. I never considered any alternative gender attribution from this. I’m sure it was simply my high level of empathy and curiosity to see and feel the world through others. But I can imagine how a modern gender counselor might convince me otherwise if I were that young boy going through some new gender theory seminar. Yikes.
A brilliant presentation
Growing up in the 60’s I was very much a Tom boy I’ve so very blessed that I wasn’t born during this time. That’s right my parents just let us be kids and as we grew up we figured it out. We were never stressed about sex or gender we were busy being kids,those topics weren’t even talked about until we reached puberty. I truly feel sad for the younger generation, if left alone I’m sure they could figure it out just like we did. God bless everyone 🙏
I always thought deep down it was just me and a few people I spoke too. Glad more and more people/programs/podcast/documentaries e.t.c. are talking more about this.
Tv, movies, it's Those blockers blocking decency between all our brains !! Decency Honesty opens everyone's potential Blessings
No darling it's not just you. this is so sad and twisted I feel so sorry for this generation
Don't worry, the amount of people who believe in miss Shrier's blatantly wrong rherotic is still small, but worryingly growing however...which shows just how effective misinformation is when you bring it like she does... What she is talking about is not happening, yes there is a rise in transboys seeking treatment, but she fails to talk about the persistence rate: children who see through with treatment and actually get on puberty blockers, hormones and maybe have SRS performed. In transgirls not all children who show having doubts about their sexual identity will see through with treatment just as well. She also likes to mention that getting hormones is way to easy, which is also a misinformed point she likes to make because it, ehm, well, it sounds scary and suggests society is incapable of self-correcting itself either through media or the gender clinics (which is suggesting that everyone working there is happily making sure their scrutiny by all kinds of medical health and safety boards would get increased for medical malpractice, and at the same time suggests that psychologists and endocrinologists are dirt stupid people). I'm afraid you've been trapped in the rabbit-hole all big social media companies have created: you get shown exactly what you always thought was happening which reinforces any ideas of scary problems in society you might have already had, and unfortunately, by universities and other organisations allowing Abigail Shrier to speak on a subject she in no way should be considered an expert about, nor as someone who is actively seeking the truth surrounding the subject, it shows that misinformation is capable of reaching far and has real-world effects.
Yeah, I feel the same as a minor
So you’re saying you haven’t heard all the outrage? Where have you been?