How The Media Promotes Transphobia
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A video about transphobia, the British media’s obsession with the so-called “trans debate” and What is a Woman? by Matt Walsh and The Daily Wire.
Written, directed and presented by Tom Nicholas.
Editing and music by Neil Farrell.
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00:00 Introduction: Transphobia in the Media
01:14 1. What is a Woman?
13:22 CuriosityStream & Nebula
16:09 2. The "Trans Debate" in the UK
29:38 3. How to Make Hate Sound Respectable
43:16 4. Re-Humanising the Trans Debate
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The so-called “trans debate” has come to dominate the news media.
In America, right-wing provocateurs at outlets such as Fox News and The Daily Wire release constant attacks on trans women, trans men and non-binary people. In the UK, this trend is even more widespread, with many outlets which describe themselves as “impartial” or even “liberal” similarly filling airtime and column inches with spurious “debates” about trans rights and healthcare.
But, how does the more openly cruel and hateful transphobia that is more prevalent in the US compare with the supposedly more “polite”, “respectable” transphobia which cloaks the anti-trans moral panic in the UK?
In this month’s video, we take a look at a bunch of interviews which have been conducted by mainstream journalists with senior British politicians over the past 18 months and compare them with excerpts from What is a Woman?, the provocative transphobic pseudo-documentary presented by Matt Walsh and released by The Daily Wire earlier this year.
In doing so, hopefully we can uncover something about the dangers of the so-called “trans debate” and what journalists and right-wing politicians are really trying to achieve with this current obsession with questions about the definition of womanhood.
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Just tried to watch Jessie Genders video that pushes back against Matt Walshes anti trans hatred. Finished watching it on patreon instead of on youtube because the vid was literally taken down a few hours ago. Typical... She didn't break ANY rules but whatever youtube... Typical trans hate. Thought you should know about this considering the video you just now uploaded. Keep up the good work Tom!
Genuinely, I need to sign up for this! That's the price for a YEAR!
Cheers on the partnership with Nebula, Tom!
When i tried to sign up i was told it is 51,79 USD a year for nebula and curiostiystream why ?
RUclips took down Jessie genders video on Matt Walsh but they have been promoting and advertising his b******* all the time on RUclips
4:50 the weird thing is I am this is what I'm getting is there's probably a lot of clever edits so an interview that probably was maybe three or four hours they edited it down to make it sound like they were probably saying some stuff that they didn't actually say.
It’s always “what is a woman” but never “how is a woman” ☹️
I got one better for you: why is a woman
Based comment
Or why is a woman?
WHERE IS A WOMAN
*_when is a woman?_*
british government: “forget casual transphobia, we’re going competitive”
Based British Government honestly
@@gigachadstudios5353 ?
@@gigachadstudios5353 Fucking KEK
"Hold my lager."
@The Floppa show - SUBSCRIBE! and you have floppa in your name with SUBSCRIBE! Are you sure anyone is going to take you seriously?
I love the contrast between matt walsh in "what is a woman" and matt walsh in real life.
matt walsh in WIAM: "I'm just here to ask questions"
matt walsh in real life: "To have a trans child is a fate worse than death"
He's straight up like "I would rather die than have that happen to my child" Okay. Then die. I'm not here to debate the lived reality of millions of people around the world. This isnt mock UN.
He is pretending to be reasonable and patient in his documentary, but in really he's a douchebag
What's wrong in what he said
@@fieryfirevivin The fact it reaches people like you
@@greatsword6365 there are only two genders pal. And men who pretend to be women are just fooling themselves
I often think that the "Trans debate" has worrying similarity to "The Jewish question". When humans rights become a debate rather than, y'know, people, then something has gone very wrong.
that did not escape my attention either. And the fact that trans people themselves are invariably excluded from this "debate" (in the mainstream at least) is analogous to the way that Jews were excluded from the discourse around "the Jewish question" (which is a significant explanation for how it later became "the Jewish problem" with a "final solution"):
@@BrennanYoung Not really. It's easy to pretend and compare the two, but Jewish influence in the German economy was far more significant than transgenderism nowadays in every day life. Besides, trans people are guaranteed human rights under the Geneva convention. But trans rights are not human rights, they're an extension of what some (trans) people think they should also be afforded. There are plenty of people with specials needs, for example those suffering from eating disorders, that are not allowed the same kinds of support trans people are receiving. I wish I could receive treatment and undergo surgery to remove parts of my body to better deal with my body image issues stemming from my eating disorders, but my insurance doesn't cover it, and I can not afford it.
@@Biru_to Sorry to hear about that. I have intimate experience with both trans and eating disorders. Nobody chooses either of these conditions. Pitting one group of sufferers against another is exactly what the elites want.
This need not be a zero sum game. *Everyone* deserves healthcare free at the point of use. We need to stop the gatekeeping. Everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect. The mind and the body are interconnected.
@@Biru_to Jewish influence in the German economy was certainly not as significant as the Nazi party ever made it out to be. During the Kristallnacht, the places targeted by anti-semitic rioters were predominantly small shops and businesses, because that was the social position most Jews in Germany occupied. The economy was dominated by german industrialists who supported Hitler during the war as they profited from the war effort (See Deutsche Bank, IG Farben, Siemens).
This point is important because we also see modern right-wing media outlets making the presence and influence of transgender people in politics and general society bigger than it actually is. I think drawing historical parallels is not objective information of anything but it serves as a warning sign, if nothing else.
@Biru_to yes, it's definitely a different situation. Whilst reactionary righties are gonna reaction, plenty of gender critical people don't see trans people as inherently 'less than' ,are on the left and just highlight the concerns some females have about the blurring of boundaries between males and females in law and certain spaces like prisons, crisis centres, sports etc, and the issues involving young children
I can't express how terrifyingly dehumanising this anti trans moral panic feels from the perspective of someone who's actually trans.
@@bobbun4369 Why do you care what gender I am?
@@bobbun4369 I never said that either. You're the one asking about it, and I'm wondering why it matters to you. Your question is very out of nowhere and personal.
@@bobbun4369 probably because she feels horrible, caused by the incongruency of living in a body that neither fits nor expresses her mind. its really not that complicated.
@@bobbun4369 you sound like the kind of person who tells his clinically depressed friend something like "dude, everyone gets sad sometimes."
@@bobbun4369 Dude, you know nothing about what you're talking about. Trans people's validity is recognized by every major medical institution on the planet.
The only way to explain this is 1) trans people are actually valid and you've misunderstood something or 2) every medical institution is part of some grand conspiracy to make people trans or something. And the second option is, frankly, idiotic.
Like, I get that life is complicated and you're scared of things that are new to you, but Jesus Christ, don't make it our problem. Leave her alone.
Jessie Gender just had a 4hr video discussing Matt Walsh's "documentary" *removed* by RUclips for "nudity and sexualisation" when there was absolutely none of it on her video. Anyone that can, please her her to fight this, she worked very hard on this video and she does youtube full-time, so this video being removed for absolutely nothing really hurts her.
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@@alpacacomentadora413 no
it's a algorithm that have flagged it so "all" she have to do is to object the removal so an actual human at YT will look at the video to see that the algorithm made a mistake.
Average RUclips moment. I hate this platform more with every passing day
@@Henrik_Holst not necessarily. RUclips is famous for not giving a sh*t about creators, especially smaller ones
My least favourite thing is that whenever I, as a trans person, dare to make a comment under one of these kinds of videos stating my opinion, I get hateful comments invalidating my identity and seeking to debate me on MY IDENTITY. It’s not a debate to me. It’s my life.
W transphobia
Ywnbaw
@@bitshox1215 NPC spotted.
@@dariocarraresi1823 NPCs support big pharma and trans rights
@@bitshox1215 "Support big pharma" HOW, exactly? By acknowledging that doctors get paid for their job? By looking at the evidence and the cost/benefit analysis to determine whether or not a certain medical treatment is effective?
Also, what's wrong with trans rights? I never saw any trans person claiming that they can change chromosomes.
I was half expecting Matt in that fishing monologue to just say " am I woman? Holy shit that might be it" and then the documentary just ends and Matt Walsh comes out as Cindy Walsh the next day. Unfortunately. She is not yet out of the closet
this actually made me laugh xd
It’s okay Cindy come on out
nah she's a cynthia
Have you ever consensually touched a woman in your life?
you are delusional
to quote tumblr user fipindustries, "being trans should have been an anthropological curiosity, not a political movement, it should have been a quirk of humanity, not a fight for survival, it should have been like being colorblind, or having six fingers, it should have been something science teachers taught their students excitedly because it was this interesting bit of trivia, it should have been no more exciting than being a furry or being born with edietic memory. it should have been this little vibrant community whose only care in the world was to share tips about how to customize your presentation it should have been an off hand remark while hanging at a bar to the tune of “hey, isnt joan of accounting trans? crazy stuff my cousin tom changed too and now is nora”"
the truest words ive ever heard. jesus christ.
Having six fingers or being a furry wasn't always seen as a "quirk of humanity". In fact, to this day most people think furries proper are likely to be sexual predators of some kind.
@@KyrieFortune how did you come up with the topic of furries? i didn't mention them
@@oinkymomo "it should have been no more exciting than being a furry" you literally did lol
@@user-io5qz7lj4q nevermind i missed that
I remember a news outlet mocking a transgender American soldier… like this woman literally volunteered to serve your country
I would be mocking her US soldierness, not her gender( am a tranarchist)
@@chunstermunster6619 Inshallah
@@Ignaciofinger MashMakhno🚩🏴🙏
@@chunstermunster6619 I am not a anarchist but I have great respect for them, left unity
@@Ignaciofinger Well, often I'm not for left unity, because it often sucks for us. Bolsheviks fucked us over more times than I can count. But I respect a fellow landlord hater
The bit about the gender studies guy explaining stuff for a long time got me chuckling, because... It just shows he's very literate and passionate on the subject.
I mean, as an archaeologist, I could spend an extended amount of time explaining what a FORK is, so something as complicated as gender definitely deserves a long explanation when you ask someone who made it their speciality.
If they actually included the full explanation, they might have actually educated people on the topic, but hey, that wasn't their intention to begin with.
The issue is that these people want something as sex as gender and biology to be so simple it is described with less than 5 words. They refuse the mere notion that the world could be complex and not black and white like they feel and act like the simplicity is fact. They act like things they didn't cover in 5th grade biology which spends mere hours to cover the whole field doesn't exist.
They're people afraid of not living in a two pixel world.
And what is a fork? Archeology sounds really cool so if you have the time, I'd love to read a long explanation on how archeologists view forks. Hearing people talk about something they're passionate about is just so lovely!
@@RojeliJeremyWebber Well, basically there's two ways to see it : either the fork is defined by the function of using a tool to stab your food with a small tool, in which case, tons of tools can be considered forks (for example, during the medieval era, most people have a meat pick and not a "fork" per se. It's used for just about the same purpose, so can it be considered to be a fork, even when it doesn't have the typical shape with two or more teeth ?). In that case, you could consider forks have been around for absolute ages, with countless variations in shape, material, etc.
On the other hand, there's the usual definition of two or more teeth. In that case, there is still a lot of variation on shape and material. Most forks can only stab, but there are examples that can also cut slightly, is that still a fork, or is it a knife with extra steps ? A wooden fork will generally not have the same shape as a metal fork, and will be used slightly differently (a wooden fork is harder to keep sharp, so you might use it to press on your food to keep it in place, cut it with your knife and then use the knife to stab it and eat it), is it still considered to be the same tool ? Some, although rare, have crooked teeth, so you definitely use those differently, is it still even a fork then ? It still serves the same general function, and is relatively similar, but the variation in use is certain. But if this is not a fork, then your blunt wooden fork isn't one either, although it definitely *does* have the expected shape.
And just like that, you reach a point where there is no definite consensus on what a fork even is. There are general ideas, and you generally know it when you find a fork, but the exact definition of one (aside from the dictionary definition, which is a guideline in this context and not much more) is almost impossible to pin down without redefining a lot of stuff that we currently consider forks to not actually be forks, or in reverse to include some tools that are not called forks in the definition.
So, yeah ; my original point stands, as it's exactly the same situation as the "what is a woman" question.
@@nessa-parmentier Wow, and I thought I understood forks. I will be using this point as soon as the opportunity arrives, hope you don't mind if i steal it ;P Thanks so much for the explanation!
@@RojeliJeremyWebber the truth is there are only 2 genders and trans is not one of them. It's male and female , so trans people are just sexually confused crossdressers and cosplayers that's all .
I hate how we’re discussed as if we’re not people as if we’re just some freaks who belong in a mental asylum or we don’t exist but that’s just not true we’re people, human beings with goals and aspirations, family and friends, loved ones, jobs and hobby’s, and aren’t just a debate topic or some confused insane freaks and the way that the majority of other people speak about us just disgusts me and I wish they could see us for who we are, gender dysphoric but still human
i think the media likes to confuse you into believing this is true.
its just more new and undefined so people want to talk about it and define it so that they can understand it and accept it, but you gotta talk about it and define it first to get there.
I know plenty of people with some kind of disorder, but just because I like them, and they're my friends and family, does not mean they do not suffer from a disorder. Gender dysphoria is one of these things, a mental disorder. It doesn't sound nice, but at the end of the day it is that. Several of my friends suffer from autism, also a mental disorder, but they're still great people.
lol
Many have a bad take, they just see an 'ideology' and not a person, it is the way things have been framed, by those with influence and the biggest platforms, trans women especially have been so dehumanized by those who wish them not to exist openly in public.
Having gender dysphoria is indeed an indication someone is trans, but it is not requisite for being one. Not all trans people experience gender dysphoria and that distinction is important to keep in mind.
"Give my son a BB gun and that's about all the emotional support he needs."
Later: "Do I have four daughters? Do I need to pay for four weddings now?"
The guy isn't even just a transphobe. This is good old fashioned sexism right here.. Excellent parenting. For Fs sake.. 🙄
Lmao he is somehow, mentally, a dilapidated old man with next to no grip on the fact that society evolves
I don't think you know what sexism is as a matter based on your comment it's obvious you don't
@@cassiericks1 is “men don’t have emotional problems” and “woman must marry a man” not classical sexism?
@@thilton67 No, that's just being *based* and trolling the libs
Holy shit you ppl really aren't aware of the existence of jokes...
>Matt Walsh: "Won't somebody think of the childrens!?"
>Also Matt Walsh: "...15-16yos are the most fertile and the age of consent is just a modern invention."
Bigotry, racism, transphobia, hypocrisy... Matt likes to cover them all.
I really feel sorry for the guy. If his faith proves true (and I believe it will) Jesus will turn him away for the damage he's done and the hearts he's turned away from God.
As Jesus said, 'They honor me with their lips but their hearts are far away.'
The same people who called matt walsh a creep for saying that are perfectly fine giving kids hormone blockers.
@@teeveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Oh, no. Matt Walsh is far far worse than a creep. He is a terrorist.
He weaponizes lies for his own gain. He wants to alter society through social manipulation and violence. He has no evidence, just a few people who agree with his ideology.
This whole narrative was used against gays in the 1990s and "retards" in the 1980 and blacks in the 1950s and women in the early 1900s.
I'm also fine with giving kids insulin, vaxxines and education... and you're saying that's no better because Matt Walsh just wants to fuck children?
Weird flex but ok groomer XD
This isn't actually the case.
Pregnancy in adolescents and children causes significantly greater risks to the parent and potential child.
Ideal ages for having children are typically between 20-30.
The concept of humans having children earlier is a misconception and often deception created by religious groups such as christianity, which claims that women are adults at 13 years of age.
The reason early pregnancy was often pushed on people was due to a lack of understanding, as well as religious pressure and high infant mortality rate.
Around 2-3 out of 12 children would survive into adulthood pre-modern medicine, and while experience wasn't as accurate people knew that older people struggled to get pregnant...
...as such it was pushed for people to have as many children as possible as young as possible.
Walsh and other nazis play to this religious extremism because of the white replacement myth, so they also try to pressure people into sex with children as they believe children are the most fertile.
Possessing the highest quantity of viable eggs doesn't mean a 13yo's underdeveloped body is the best thing to fuck a baby into.
>15yos are over 3x a likely to suffer infant mortality during pregnancy as 20yos, and over 4x as likely as a 30yo.
We were forced to watch the “what is a woman?” Documentary in school for a project and I nearly went brain dead from a stupidity overdose.
What was the project?
my condolences
Yeah, I would have walked out and taken that zero.
U couldn't handle it because u don't have open mindedness... So who is really brain dead lol. Why did watching it affect u if ur actually a smart person? I actually enjoy debating ppl and learning things I disagree with at first. It's not good evidence acting like y'all do
@@wintergray1221 why? Because u misunderstood the teaching? U wanted the video to lie to u? These words we use have purpose and the less u try to understand these definitions the smaller ur world view becomes.... Ur just an ignorant child who has barely experienced stuff.... Even sense a jit I was chasing experience. U wanted the video to just say "a woman is whoever identifies as a woman".... I'm sorry but ur not an authority on this subject and u need to be more honest and open minded with urself... Yall don't even know how ur own identity and egos work yet so pls just start making better and stronger choices.... All identities eventually shall face the test of hardship and time, and many of these identities die in the process....
I don’t think people realise how monumental support for trans people can be. Even the smallest amount of support can save a life.
@@transtender161
I just said unconditional support can be dangerous if you’re doing something dumb.
@@transtender161
“Mom I want to lose an arm and get a cool wacky robot arm!”
Are you unconditionally supporting this fucker?
@@transtender161in red dead redemption ii there is a character named micah bell. this man unconditionally supports the leader of the gang, to the point that he becomes a yes man. eventually this leads to most of the gang dying and the whole gang falling apart in the last mission of the game
@@nunziopuzo9210That’s a video game. I think they were asking for a real life example.
@@mr.cup6yearsago211i agree a video game example is not what the other person was asking for but i think an example is not necessary to know that unconditional support can be bad. i don’t really understand what thr person who originally said unconditional support is dangerous was trying to get at but they are sort of right you know you shouldn’t encourage and support everything without a second thought sorry if my message is too long or hard to read i’m not very literate lol
I will never forget the first time I had transphobic whiplash in real life.
I was part of a training course for a large international company. A girl showed up and all the students were chatting. No questions, no answers, she was just a chick who liked skateboarding and Overwatch. Every type of social class and race was down.
Until.
3 weeks into the training course we had a replacement teacher who started questioning her about intimate matters. Almost immediately students started blocking his questions.
Good on ‘em. Solidarity, my mans.
I find myself saying this alot as a trans woman. But it's kinda sickening how sexual harassment against us is considered okay
@@slowburgundyy574
I am still absolutely fucking vexed that some people think they can just go around asking about genitals like that’s a thing we do
Those are the real homies
@@shahsadsaadu5817 fuck transphobia
All my homies love trans people
Can a girl not like video game or basketball, or drink at the bar or do certain things because conservative want to push conformity where you can only be what want you be and anything out of line should be punished also this vtuber Kiara was playing GTA and she into car now and sometimes Calli song say things like make the afraid, and IRyS got addicted to Gundam women can like things they want and not be have them be brand as guy stuff because conservative want put stupid gender roles on everything
Even as someone who's cis, it was hard to watch the debaters, politicians, and journalists treat trans people just as a "debate topic" to argue about. It's dehumanizing. Thank you for the video
They didn’t do that though. It wasn’t dehumanizing.
@@AnaLucia-wy2ii It is.
@@AnaLucia-wy2ii You're subscribed to white supremacists, nobody cares what you think
@@DeoMachina he’s also subbed to Childish Gambino so if we’re calling somebody racist based on their sub feed I think that has to be taken into account
@@thebigragu9952 Comparing a popstar to somebody that advocates for the slaughter of ethnic minorities is laying it on a little thick imo
We are people not a political debate ✊🏽
Stop trying to groom children
@@Subzearo dude
trans people arent popes
ok?
@@SubzearoWho's grooming children other than conservatives?
The left and right does not care. You are simply a tool but at least you seem to see past it. Break free, become functional.
@@benny7682what does become functional mean?
As a historian it is hard not to notice the similarities in the manner in which "the trans debate" is referenced to that of "the Jewish Question." Just as there was never really a question so much as an unwavering determination to spread horrific hatred in the 1930s, I don't really believe there is any actual trans debate to be had.
Wow....did you really compare men pretending to be women to the holocaust. That's a new fucking level of antisemitism.
Reported to the brittish police.
You can just call me hitler, you don't need to go through all of this trouble trying to justify it.
Well if thinking an evil Jewish cabal is running the world and thus wanting to destroy them. Is in any way similar to thinking a dude shouldn't be able to get into a ring with a chick. Yeah, call me Hitler.
@@BoliceOcciferthis isn’t about calling anyone Hitler
If the Trans community wages an organized civil war against their country while prostituting 8 year old girls then the comparison will be accurate. Until that moment happens, however, the crux of the comparison falls flat.
"It's perfectly normal" is actually the sex ed book me and my brothers were given by our parents to approach the topic of sexuality.
It was actually a pretty decent book and explains the biological process of pregnancy, menstruation and puberty..
The best page to me was the one showing illustrated figures of naked people, it included people of all sizes, colors, ages, sexualities and genders, it even featured people with disabilities, it was meant to show how different people can look but that all of those ways of existing are normal and valid.
So although there was no explicit mention of trans people in the book there were illustrations that showed gay couples and people where their genitals didn't match the rest of their appearance (which of course you can freely interpret but I interpreted it as trans people at the time).
I actually did grow up with a trans parent (my dad came out when I was 11 so Christmas that year we were given this book to aid in our understanding of gender, sex and our own development), growing up with a trans parent was never a problem for me and I never found it to be abnormal but it didn't take long for others to point out how 'bizarre' our family was.
At 15 years old I even featured in a documentary tv show in my country about the subject of having a trans parent, this was 14 years ago before all of the trans panic, at the time there were mostly positive reactions to the episode and it was repeatedly aired for years to come.. I mostly talked about my personal feelings around my parent's transition (which was; yes some parts might be a bit odd to others but to me it's totally normal and I accept it fully) but I also actively highlighted the harassment and even abuse I had faced from my peers and our community as a whole. I went on that show in the hopes of educating people, I never found out if I helped anyone with talking about it on TV but I hope that there were at least some people that found acceptance or the courage to come out because of my episode.
So to then see this 'trans panic' and anti-trans rhetoric becoming mainstream in more recent years has been tough for me, at least in the past people were only negative out of ignorance but nowadays there is a large group of people with a strong hatred for trans people and will go out of their way to dehumanize them.
Ew
I mean, if it didn't cause you any problems, absent parents freaking out, that you needed to take care of, and ending in you having to be the perhaps only adult in the family way too soon, in addition to dealing with a childhood steeped in very adult sexual questions you were probably not equipped to deal with --- good on you! Perhaps you were doing better than some, for all I know. A lot of parents are horrendous, after all.
But not entirely sure how indulging your parents very private issues before you're an adult is somehow great and fantastic -- just because it's about transgender-issues.
@@inhuman_human6790 Why eww?
Your parents sound like emotionally healthy & mature, well rounded Homo sapiens . The people who raise their kids to give people who differ from whatever they consider to be the _norm_ are not. People are born as mostly blank slates and must be socialized as they are raised. Children don’t naturally judge others who are different because they must be taught that different is bad. People who judge different as bad are immature, insecure, selfish people who want to control others in the hopes of keeping others down so that they might have an easier time riding their privilege to “success.” I wish I’d known this as a neurodivergent 6th grader. The real bullies the parents of my bullies who taught them to behave in such a way as to take their issues out on others instead of taking accountability and the teachers who seemed to believe I should just start “being normal.”
I wish people would just be kind and live and let live. Why put others down for being their authentic selves? If no one is hurting anyone else and decisions are mutual & consensual, why bother others ?
I’ll never understand feeling good about making others feel bad. It’s the worst part of humans.
@@kabalder Bless your heart!You seem to be laboring under the misapprehension that the vast majority of trans people are emotionally unstable, have no boundaries and share details about their openly kinky, fetishistic sex lives with their own children which, which… 😬🫣 tells us way more about the real _you_ than you likely realize. 🤭
You also seem to be confusing trans parents with alcoholic parents. I’ve never heard of the children of trans parents being forced to grow up too soon bc they are forced to parent their own parents. Why would this be the case?
You’re projecting all of these irrational prejudices while trying to seem unbiased.
Either you have an agenda and are dishonestly trying to subtly push your own personal values on to others or you simply need a bit of re-education on a topic about which you have been wildly misinformed.
I earnestly offer this advice: consider working on yourself and figuring out why you have these prejudices and what purpose they actually serve you. Perhaps it would be better to focus your energy on something more worthwhile and productive than worrying about complete strangers who don’t happen to share your own exact life experiences and values.
Take what you will and do with it as you wish. After all, in the end, it’s just like… _my opinion,_ man. ✌️🫶
I think, for me, its interesting that its always 'real women' vs trans women whenever there is a debate around trans rights or just them existing. They clearly reduce women to their bodyparts to serve their anti-trans agenda but it offhandedly, or not, also dehumanises cis women. I don't define my womanhood as my bodyparts and it seems rather radically unfeminist to do so.
It's also very interesting how the debate about trans men seems pretty much non-existent in media. It's really starting to feel like a bunch of cishet dudes feeling threatened by the idea that the next girl they might go on a date with will have a penis and a bunch of pseudofeminist pick-mes propping them up because they're afraid of the same or that they might be replaced somehow? I know this is very reductive but it's telling how this "debate" is centred mostly around feelings of cishet men and cis lesbian women.
Yesss it’s always been my experience that Trans Excluding Radical Feminists cannot be feminists because by definition they think of women as being XX, fertile, walking uterus’s just like any misogynist does.
What is a woman? That’s a complicated question, we invented the concept and have reinvented it so much.
It’s a person, people are fluid.
I 100% agree with everything you said. It feels so dehumanizing and degrading to reduce womanhood to anatomy.
To me what's really funny is when people say biology is irrelevant and gender is only a construct, then goes ahead and says, they need gender "corrective" surgeries.
If body parts aren't important in determining gender then why do they need to be "corrected" through barbaric surgeries?
Well we are not the ones call women “menstruators” or “chest feeders” or “birthing people”. Also men can’t be women period.
I grew up with It's Perfectly Normal and it was a great way to teach a kid about puberty and sex ed and teached ideas of safe sex. But it taught me nothing about transgender issues. I had only met 1 trans person before I myself came out as trans and it was just a passing experience. I found I was trans only because I realized that what being trans was was what I felt my whole life. I didn't feel pushed to be trans I just didn't know that I was trans because it was so stigmatized when I was growing up and I got very transphobic ideas pushed on me by my stepmom. 3 years later, and I just want to live my life, and even with a very smooth transition in a very liberal area, I have had a lot of hardship, but no amount of hardship will ever make me detransition. I just want to see people allowed to live their lives and be able to be referred to however they want and have bodily autonomy. The honest question for transphobes is why does it matter who someone is? Is it that crazy that pronouns and "gendered" terms might be something someone may be similar to someone's name and they may find something aside from what's assigned to them? That's my appeal to leaving trans people alone. And to the people who say that trans people are against feminism, most trans people would say that men and women shouldn't feel so divided in the first place. I urge people who want to learn more to find trans people in their community and have an open, honest conversation.
Good for you not being corrupted by your stepmum
Dysphoria is a state of deep unease or dissatisfaction that is the opposite of euphoria. It is not a mental health diagnosis, but a symptom associated with many mental illnesses, including depression, anxiety, stress, and substance use disorders. Euphoria is what someone feels from true self love and improvement, ur only fooling thyself.....
It is always really fun to have other people decide over your head if you exist and if you should have rights
Women, Natives, POCs and gays have all experienced (and most still do) what trans people are still going through. We all need to be our biggest allies in this fight.
@@07Flash11MRC men too
@@marvin2678in what way have white, cisgender, heterosexual men had their human rights questioned or been discriminated against on a systemic level by the government in any way?
@@leopardsunfirst guys include lesbians , bis ,pans and other sexualities .
Second there has been a long recorded history of discrimination against gay men . There are alot of media new and old that portray gay men or trans women as villainous or pedophilic.
Like the weird uncle stereotype that has been always a way to say that all gay men are pedophiles .
While yes lesbians, bis ,pans and other sexual orientations have been also portrayed badly by media and they have their own negative stereotypes. Gay men and trans women have been the biggest target out all of this ,and they have always been used a prime example of how " bad" the LGBTQ+ community is .
Heck out of all the sexual orientation, gay men have been the least accepted out of them all . Lesbians are more twice as likely to accepted compare to gay men .
Also the government systematically discriminates against all the LGBTQ+ ,gay men aren't excluded .
Lastly not say that other members of the LGBTQ+ don't have it as bad as gay men or have it better off ,because even if lesbians are more accepted by society, most of it is just sexualizing of w/w relationships and many would drop them in favour of a heteronormative couple .
@@leopardsun My guess is that they’re so used to being privileged that they view equality as oppression. As a cisgender, heterosexual, white man, I recognize my privilege. I don’t have to worry about my very existence being invalidated due to the opinions of those who don’t understand what my identity is. Because of that, I fight so that everyone can experience that luxury. To not have to worry whether a lawmaker will wipe out their livelihood tomorrow. To live without a care about what others may do to them because of who they are. That is the world I want, and even though it may be unattainable, I sure as hell would want to make it the closest it can be.
fun fact, woman does not come from wife-man. Wif simply meant "female", and was added onto Man (which at the time ONLY referred broadly to a human gender neutrally, which we still often use) and created "female-human", while Wif (which also meant wife at the time) basically stayed the same and kept that meaning. The male equivalent was Wer btw, which is still seen in things like Werewolf! It's not sexism, it's just etymology! :D
Was looking through to find a comment saying this, thanks!
wow this is really interesting thank you
Doubleplusungood, golem. You'll be canceled
you will not believe the mind blow i got learning that werewolf literally just means "man wolf"
Isn't wer an umbrella term for humans like "man" is? After all, female werewolves are still called werewolves, not wifwolves because it sounds ridiculous
I always found it so frustrating that nobody ever ASKS us this shit. I'm an almost 20 year old trans dude who came out at school at age 13. No the school didn't make me do it, no nobody encouraged me to do it, no it's not because I don't want to be a woman. It's that simple, I'm just a dude, and want to have everyone else see me the way I do. That's it
World won't listen- the Smiths same old story, those that matter understand those who don't want to can get lost - trying to please everyone is the secret to failure and frustration.
Anyone deemed "non-normative" is automatically seen as an unreliable narrator of their own story. Same thing happens with disabled folks! We're spoken about but we're never spoken TO.
Why do you like children?
@@mayosmayo4738 excuse me? I don't, like,,, at all
You don't get to dictate how other people see you. Only narcissists insist on that. It might be frustrating that people can still see you are a woman posing as a man but there's little you can do about it, although some governments are certainly moving in the direction of pandering to your narcissism.
I’m so tired of all these debates. All us trans people wanna do is live our lives. We’re like everyone else, we just happen to have a different outlook on ONE thing of our entire existences compared to everyone else. And some people are actually decent and respect that, while others will actively target and harass us simply because they don’t understand us and can’t comprehend our existence to be natural and completely harmless. The only thing causing harm here is everyone else debating over us and often intentionally causing rifts between each other because there can only be two choices. It’s a really complicated matter that I obviously can’t delve into with a single comment, but it’s so tiring… I don’t think anyone, whether trans, an ally, transphobic or unbothered, wants to partake in this horrible social battle.
But what exactly is this gonna do? The only way that people can actually be seen as natural is removing the support. No one will see it as normal if parades are needed to uphold it. Its a bit of a paradox. But the only way to be seen as normal is if all support is gone. cause normal natural things dont need external support. I as a person feel that the need for external support is over stated. The reason that trans peoples will never be seen as completly normal is that their identity is in the hands of other people. You cant force another person to conform to your identity as they themselves are their own person. Simply put when your emotional well being is based off of ther people. Its never will be accepted. The only way it would be seen as normal if people did not know you were not. the truth is there will never be a time where this group of people will be accepted. As it goes against beliefs and sciences that have existed for millions of years. You cant expect people to belive things as gender/=sex when that has not been true for thousands of years.
This comment is gonna change nothing. its just talking without action
@@Suinset Your logic is just flawed. Should disabled people not have support ? They are being natural.
Despite that - the real issue is that there's no such thing as 'trans'
@@user-ds9bl7yx5l Disabled people need support to live comfortably from a physical standpoint. Thats the difference. their day to day lives are affected far greater cause you cant exactly live normally without functioning legs if you dont have a wheel chair.
@@user-ds9bl7yx5l also i dont have anything against you I see your point completely. It just does not make sense for a person to hinge their "identity" on another person then complain when not everyone supports them.
Even if I didn't care one bit about trans people, this what is a woman questioning makes me immensely uncomfortable. I know women with hysterectomies, women who were born without a uterus, women who have had to have their cervix removed, women who have finished their childbearing years, women who go through early menopause etc ad nauseum. And this tying womanhood to our physical attributes is so violently anti-feminist that I feel it sets women back decades. This constant threat of having to define myself, when I don't know what my chromosomes are, or what my exact levels of testosterone are, or my fertility status, makes me so tired of the trans debate. This gatekeeping of womanhood to trans women also gatekeeps womanhood to cis women and it pisses me off. It's so reminiscent of Gilead shit that it's tiring and scary
What you've said doesn't really make sense.
What 'gatekeeping'? 'Gatekeeping' assumes that you can enter into something, and someone can stop you. You can't enter into being a woman: you are one or you aren't. It's that simple.
@@WalterKhayyam those are all biological conditions being listed, so i recommend to search them up if you're not sure
@@i_am_a_toast_of_french they may be, but the conclusion(s) drawn don't have a logical flow; hence I said: "What you've said doesn't really make sense."
@@WalterKhayyam it's just saying that the definition of women is way too restrictive and doesn't account for many common cases : some women can't produce eggs or bear children, some women have naturally high testosterone levels, some women may not have traditional xx chromosomes, etc
tldr; the definition of women isn't cut and dry as whether or not they have female reproductive organs, and the questioning is simplifying a lot of these issues and leaving many women behind
Really nice of jowling kowling to do another big transphobia to help promote the video lmao
*sigh*
What happened?
"jowling kowling" lmao
Jowling rowling 😂
@@airplanes_aren.t_real during a twitter argument with a musician who was agreeing with a tv show host who said media should interview trans kids and their parents instead of amplifying the views of anti-trans celebrities, she equated that to death and SA threats. she also responded to a comment asking her how she sleeps at night knowing that her actions caused her to lose large portions of her fanbase by talking about how rich she is which i cannot stop thinking about. supervillain behaviour
That's a genuinely fascinating point that I never thought of- that the trans debate is simply being used as a political tool because it's easy to get that "gotcha" moment. It's not about equality, it's about making your political opponents look stupid.
You're absolutely right and I never looked at it from that angle before.
Quote " it's about making your political opponents look stupid." These people make themselves look stupid, and just to clarrify, the people in particular I am talking about are the university professor and the blue haired idiot.
Now apply that to both sides. The people who are saying 100% of trans claims are true, and the people saying that 0% of trans claims are true, are the same amount of wrong. They're taking several different groups of people, with vastly different causes for claiming to be the opposite gender, and lumping them all together into a single category. Of course you can say all the claims are true/false if you dismiss all the people whose behavior disproves your point.
@@AlexReynard but.. trans opposition are wrong.
let me unpack this..
people who speak out against trans people are wrong.
no. just no.
let that sink in sweetie.
@@AlexReynard
It’s been shown that most of the people who detransition do so from societal pressure and hate. Most detransitioners also either resume transition eventually or simply transition differently, rather than flat out stop.
Trying to use a tiny few cases of detransition to argue against a person’s right to the autonomy of their body is absurd. Especially so when only adults are getting permanent transition treatments. That’s right, trans children may use perfectly reversible hormone blockers and simply get puberty later. It’s entirely safe. Not to mention the enormous majority of trans care so early in life is societal. Using the name the person feels best represents them. The terms that best represent them.
It’s simply about respecting a person’s right to association and body autonomy. If the social role imposed on you based on your sex(for whatever reason) doesn’t suit you, or your sex characteristics themselves don’t suit what you need from your life you’re a whole conscious mind, not a robot, you can choose your life, your roles, your form.
Trans folk have existed since the Stone Age. Google Two Spirit. Stone Age peoples indigenous to the Americas had and still have a third gender called two-spirit. They fill a more ceremonial, medicinal, and official role in society than men who feed and women who create. Today the term applies to any indigenous trans person who wants it. In hyenas and lions when there is a lack of males in the pride they will take a more male form and fill the masculine role, in hyenas they even grow a mane.
Trans folk are natural, have been vital to our societies, and are human. The argument that we should restrict our rights so much because we’re scared it’ll mean a change in social quo is absurd. It’s fascist.
@@beans1557 "It’s been shown that most of the people who detransition do so from societal pressure and hate. "
I know the study you mean, and it's using old, obsoleted data. It's describing ACTUAL trans people detransitioning out of social pressure, and does not describe the unprecedented spike in transtrenders that have multiplied in recent years after gender ideologues started insisting that gender and sex are not tied to biology. The more current research shows that people with gender dysphoria are detransitioning because they realized they were never trans at all, and simply having common adolescent anxieties about their bodies.
The rest of your reply is just copy+pasted horseshit. "It's simply about respect!" *NO, YOU FUCKING LIAR.* And I'm sorry I'm being a lot ruder to you than I would be otherwise, but I listened to Chloe Cole last night, talking about how she was rushed into drugs and surgery, and now will spend the rest of her life with sexual dysfunction. They did that to a KID.
So yeah, I'll respect what someone asks me to call them. But it is MORALLY CORRECT for "gender affirming care" to be made illegal. Because you don't get to lie to kids and then cry, 'You can't stop it because some of us will feel bad!' The one thing that's stood out most to me as I've talked to people in the trans community is their *overwhelming selfishness.* You want what you want, and you won't even hear about the negative consequences from when the policies you install allow predators and exploiters to act unchecked. Your side asked for unregulated access to transition drugs and surgery, based only on self-diagnosis, without parental consent or awareness, and the result has been profit-hungry doctors telling kids, "Plastic surgery will make you love yourself!" *NO.*
Your side needs to wise up and realize that you are NOT asking for equal rights. You are asking for special privileges that NO ONE has EVER been given before in all of history. When the gay rights struggle was a success, it was because they didn't make unreasonable demands. Your side wants unrestricted access to prescription drugs and surgeries, paid for by taxpayers, for anyone who feels like they want them. Medicine has NEVER worked like that. You want people to lie and say that trans men are men and trans women are women; ignoring the reality that, no, a trans man is a trans man, because they have a female body and a male brain, and that difference MATTERS. You want us to accept EVERY trans claim as true, no matter how clear it is from behavior that someone is misled by peer pressure, hating their own gender like an anorexic hates their weight, or dressing as the opposite sex for a kink.
I'm fucking DONE with your side asking for more than you deserve, and acting like I'm a bigot for saying no. I 100% believe trans is a real medical condition, but I also believe 100% that the vast majority of people claiming to be trans are faking it, because they're liars or they've been lied to. I am NEVER going to concede to someone who tells me to ignore good evidence and believe ideology and insistence. Once again, to everything you just said: *"NO."*
Gotta love how the people who speak the loudest about free speech, freedom, small government, all that, are the ones who want to restrict the way people want to live their lives the most. Never fails.
Wahh wahhh I cant groom children im being restricted wahh
i find it weird that people who want to be accepted/tolerated by others, dont accept or tolerate people who dont believe what they believe. _- you cant be tolerated if you yourself are intolerant _-
@@Coelophysis-yv9lj you don't even know what that word means 😂
I find it strange that there's such a focus on the question "What is a woman," rather than "What is gender." It's almost as if Conservatives want to enforce strict gender roles (which actually works against their purposes since they supposedly think gender and sex are the same thing) where women are subservient to men and are treated as second-class citizens.
Well, a person that is conservative is a person that, according to google, is "a person who is averse to change and holds traditional values" or "a person favouring free enterprise, private ownership, and socially traditional ideas". Conservatives want to conserve the definitions of the words woman and man, which is very reasonable. A lot of conservatives also disagree on what gender is with the trans community, but you don´t have to. It makes more sense to ask "what is a woman", because thats the questions that unites conservatives. Asking what a woman is also doesn´t just debate the existence of gender and how it functions. Someone that says that trans women are women wouldn´t just have to explain gender. They would also have to justify why the words woman and man should be defined by it as opposed to leaving the definitions of man and woman alone and inventing new words that are based on gender. That way there would be less confusion, conservatives would be less of an issue and the trans community wouldn´t be stuck with the binary of woman and man and their associations.
@@Am-uj6qn I don't know if I understand your point correctly. It seems like you don't have an issue with people identifying as trans, but using the words man and woman is confusing to you since men and women are referring to sex, not gender. From what I can tell, men and women are gendered words, as opposed to male and female, which are not.
@@fnafboy0555 You´ve summed it up pretty well, but i think it is worth pointing out that i don´t object to the proposal that the words man and woman should be defined by gender, because i find it confusing. I do find it confusing and it probably plays a roll in my objection, but i also find it very unintuitive to say "her penis" yet i would be willing to do that when refering to a trans womans dick (atleast if that trans woman transitioned and looks like a woman).
My main reason for why i´m against redefining the words woman and man is that it is inefficient:
People associate the words woman and man with biological sex and not with the brain and self perception. Just go on social media and tell people that women belong in the kitchen. I think you´ll get more people saying that you are a sexist than people who say that you discriminate against people with a certain self perception. There are also a lot of people on the pro trans side that use the word man and woman to refer to sex accidentally. Jammie Dodger for example once implyed that being male and being manly is the same thing (ruclips.net/user/shortsAW-7SRBNKqs).
The words woman and man are binary. We have husband and wife, brother and sister, girlfriend and boyfriend, mother and father, son and daughter,... . It is absolutely stupid to argue that something that isn´t binary should define binary words. Gender is often presented as a spectrum. Sex is pretty binary. There are two gametes. The trans community is somewhat trying to fix this by redefining words such as lesbian from "a woman that loves women" to "a non man that loves non men".
There is an obvious and easy solution for all of this which is to just invent words for gender and leaving the words woman and man alone, but the pro gender-based-definitions people don´t really do that (atleast no successfully). The only somewhat well known new gender is non binary and that doesn´t say what it is, but rather what it is not (man and woman). The pro gender-based-definitions people also don´t try to make subcategories for man and woman (atleast not that i know of). I doubt Andrew Tate and James Charles have the exact same self perception, but they are both male.
I personally think that the whole debate is just a big texas shooter fallacy. Trans women want to be women and trans men want to be men so they go and look for arguments that support their claims. If it happened the other way arrount (the way it should be) i don´t see how they wouldn´t come to the conclusion that they should invent new words.
It's a loaded question for them to mentally jack off pretty much.
Transphobic narcissists: "Ha GoT eM" *derpy voice*.
Dysphoria is a state of deep unease or dissatisfaction that is the opposite of euphoria. It is not a mental health diagnosis, but a symptom associated with many mental illnesses, including depression, anxiety, stress, and substance use disorders. Euphoria is what someone feels from true self love and improvement, ur only fooling thyself.....
If you want a quick and based answer to "what is a woman" while avoiding a long-winded introduction to what a social construct is, etc:
"In my day-to-day, the people who identify as a woman are the ones I'm calling women. It's not that important to me"
This is just a longer way to say "A woman is someone who identifies as a woman", lol
@@The_Greipist because the question is pedantic bullshit, and thus is only worthy of an equally pedantic answer.
anyone who asks that question trying for a ''gotcha'' needs to be punched
is that what happens when you think with your genitals?
@@The_Greipist Which is how most people navigate the world in their day-to-day. What do you do? Insist that every person you meet, however briefly, provide a gamete sample for you to personally inspect? No, you see how people present, and take it from there.
Same online. I say I'm a man. That's how I identify. So, do you accept that or are you completely holding off using pronouns with me until I get your address via DM and mail you some spunk?
@@HABLA_GUIRRRI I don't base gender on genitals, because human physiology varies bimodally.
it's crazy how they demonized "It's perfectly normal" bc even my very transphobic mom read that to me as a kid.
Normality is conformity though
@@mr.x2567 True but to a child, being told they're normal is comforting. Their world at that point is usually that of "weird = bad" because of societal attitudes, so it's helpful to a larger amount of kids.
@@jellifygirl love how the book has to define normality to justify their lgbtqias' abnormality.
@@amoththatthinks except it isn't abnormal if you picked up a book or did a Google search
You can’t change sex and every one who tells you otherwise is lying. You’re the one who will deal with permanent consequences.
What do these kinds of people think about intersex individuals?? I feel like they just ignore their existence. I have met a woman who was born with a vagina but non descended testicles. With like,, 30 variations I don’t think “what is a woman” is a question that matters or is even informed by life
Great video btw
As a right wing I believe they should identify as whichever sex they fit most. But only intersex people as they are only ones who aren't 100% biologically male or female
According to matt walsh.... He has said nothing on the subject and ignores it cause it's a massive weakpoint.
yea im also really curious about that. like, they say that anyone born female is a woman, no matter what, but then intersex women are born female, and they don't experience periods and some of them even, have genital structures which resemble male penises (resemble not are) and have internal testes and a lot of typically male things, does that make them still women? can an intersex woman honestly call herself a woman if her biology links more to male biology internally? a lot of people say 'well, they're just intersex'. but if thats the case, if they are just intersex, does that make intersex it's own sex? there are more than 2 sexes? and if sex is the same as gender (like matt walsh and conservatives think) does that make intersex a gender? bc they clearly don't have the bodies of male or females, does that make their more than 2 genders? these are honest questions i have and ive literally never heard a conservative answer any of them.
I think about transitions more rationally than u ... Just be urself. Not some figment of imagination. If u intersex don't try to change urself for others. And if u "cis" just stay cis lol that's life nothing about gender fluidity implies changer ur appearance, it's about changing ur qualities as a person
To all the trans people that are reading this, i want to say that it will get better. There are people who love you and will support you. Maybe these people aren't here yet but i am sure that there will be some in the future.
Yes, it will get better. For the rest of society. If they continue behaving like degenerates and keep bullying everyone around them, people will have enough, eventually.
@@PatPatych”oh no, they’re bullying me. All I did was call them degenerates and say they should be exterminated”
You’re the problem with society and the people that think you and your disgusting view of humanity is normal.
It will sadly not going to revert to the good old times, where the only option was being either a man or a woman, although i will continue to only accept the truth (there are only 2 genders, man and woman) as facts.
@@PatPatych??? Literally what?
To all the trans people that are reading this, stop telling lies. The problem ends when men stop falsely claiming they're women.
34:20 is so good because someone just explains the whole thing to him and he has to censor their answer to continue his narrative.
Yeah, it’s very “this bit is a load of nonsense, just trust us”.
"Well he can't outsmart me, because I'm a moron." -Matt Walsh getting clowned on by famous drag queen marketed to children Bugs Bunny.
I felt so bad for him, the prof seemed like a really nice guy who was genuinely trying to explain it as nicely as he could to spite how purposefully obtuse Mat was
@@morganblack2619 i want the full uncut interview so bad
@@mammoneymelon Me too! I tried to find videos of him here on RUclips and he had an interesting talk 2 years ago, and of course the anti-trans bigots are harassing him there!
For anyone who isn't familiar with the British media zeitgeist, we like to do this every few years but with a different marginalized group which then leads to this bizarre idea that said marginalized group existing in a place or space is "political" and therefore, divisive and boring. The reality is that Britain is a conservative country by it's DNA and is frightened of change and the powers that be will use that lazy prejudice to maintain power indefinitely.
Like the world is on fire - literally in some places - and our country is distracting us with wanting to check the pants of women who have defined jawlines or short hair so they can use a ceramic piss bowl at a Sainsbury's.
I am just exhausted at this point.
What do you think of young people who may make the wrong decision about gender and go through surgery only to regret it later on?
@@boosie5501 Nothing. They are adults. We regret things sometimes. It can be expensive to be undone but its also expensive to be done. Also, you shouldn't ask me because I am not trans, detrans or a doctor.
@@anoldsmellyunusedaccount they are not adults though they are starting them down this road before puberty hence puberty blockers being used, that is who I meant by young people not adults that choose to do this
@@boosie5501 I suggest you do the proper research and ask trans people who have an experience of gender reassignment surgery and of hormone treatment earnestly and politely with a view to obtaining the necessary knowledge and wisdom because I cannot give it to you. You shouldn't be having this conversation with me - someone who doesn't have this experience and identifies with the sex assigned at birth.
What I can tell you is that kids are not having sex changes and gender reassignment surgery. The point of puberty blockers is that having hormonal treatments is like going through a figurative second puberty so it's a time-saver to cut out hormone growth that you don't want.
I personally think a large problem with this issue is that transgender kids are viewed upon with the same lense as teenagers who are exploring and experimenting with their sexuality but identifying with another gender is not like that at all - on top of a moral panic concerning the supposed welfare of children as a gateway to govern the sexuality of children and teenagers.
But this conversation ends here - you need to ask trans people these questions if you really want to know and not flame and spark hatred.
@@boosie5501 Puberty blockers are actually widely prescribed and have been used since the 70s, which is when they were made. Kids with precocious puberty and menopausal people go on puberty blockers because they block unwanted hormones. What sucks is that these two categories of people can easily access them with little oversight or intervention, whereas a trans kid who risks life-long poor mental health without them is met with immense roadblocks and may even have to pay immense sums of money for something that is free to people in other cases.
all these people questioning wether trans people are human remind me of a certain... ideoligy made prominent by an angry mustacio'd austrian.
Nah, it's probably just a coincidence, just like every other time they did the same thing with other minorities.
Yeah.
Angry short mustache man also was NOTORIOUS for murdering every gay person he could find. The holocaust was not only jews, which is sth often forgotten
Although I know this comment won’t be very popular because of how this video is 11 months old as I’m commenting this- Transgender people’s life’s aren’t a conversation.
I hate to see when someone’s life’s is up to debate or just an point or opinion to a politician’s speech of condemning said person’s life. The media should never have this power of shifting the public’s view of someone’s gender, sexuality or their lives in general. I hate to see that a lot of transgender’s people’s opinions, acts or even if they didn’t do anything at all, being used as a talking point to condemn them. One individual in the sea of a community won’t matter, there’s bad apples of a community and there’s always a golden apple in a community. The media just likes to highlight the bad ones and exaggerate it to the point where it’s unrealistic and yet- people believe it.
I will always stand by this. Transgender people are more than just a conversation, they’re people. People with real lives, families, a job. What their gender is won’t matter to you, but what matters is that they’re human just like the rest of us. And them being transgender won’t change that fact.
This is really easy to forget with political arguments, well done.
Y'know I used to wish that trans awareness was more wide-spread, but these days I wish for the opposite. In-person discussions were so much more rational, back when people made their opinions based on the person they saw in front of them rather than the image that hate-mongering media outlets manufactured to get clicks. I wonder if we'll ever catch back up.
We will. It's not going to be like this forever. It is going to be a long and difficult struggle though, it seems. Hang in there.
I don't think the anti-trans position has changed at all, there just wasn't an internet to speak it on.
no conversation was had about trans people before because the stigma couldn't be called out without you losing everything and becoming a social outcast.
I get wanting to not be seen by bigots, to be under constant attack simply for existing. but not knowing means not fighting for. living in the ignorance that once was means that the norm of transphobia will not be challenged at all
@@thatcityboy73 There were definitely people who had basically no opinion and could quickly be persuaded to empathize before. Now, there isn't anyone who has no opinion. That doesn't mean you're not right overall but it's been a very quick shift over about 15 years and it is quite unnerving that everyone suddenly has a take about you and your existence.
We’re fighting now for generations in the future to not have to, and as hard and soul crushing as it can be because it is becoming so main stream it will eventually be understood by most. Now we have to be louder and more levelheaded than we should have to be, but we’re getting there. We will get there, even if I don’t get to see it I am hopeful my kids will.
I'm mentally ill and I think most of those hateful people are just refusing medical treatment for their psychosis. In other words, I blame capitalism for making jobs a higher priority than healthcare. People work, get on voter's lists because they pay taxes, and then refuse to listen to seek medical advice because they would lose their jobs and home if they were diagnosed with. being mentally ill. Interpersonal solutions are proper when the problem is personal. But human rights, that is a political/economic issue.
How come no one ever frames the conversation around what defines a man?
Because they're coopting feminism to push their ultra conservative agenda. Shaun released a video today on the subject.
Obviously they think encroaching on manhood is more sacred than encroaching on womanhood
cause we know what defines a man. it's "don't act like what is our idea of woman" 🤣
it's funny how same people who would say trans-people dont exist are the ones saying sh1t like "if a man likes dancing he's not a real man"
Most of the time, the right uses defending women as a scapegoatfor many issues: trans rights, immigration, heck, sometimes even women’s rights. In their mind, not all men are good and women should be treated like an overprotective parent
It's perfectly reasonable within a very conservative framework. If you don't acknowledge the existence of transgender people, then transgender men are women and women cannot be taken seriously, unless they're rigid upholders of patriarchy. Even if most people don't hold this view, it's very common for the ultraconservative to be the ones that set the framework/starting point for any social debate.
Despite being a progressive voter and the RUclips algorithm being aware of that, I’m getting a whole heap of anti-trans content in my feed. It’s almost as if this stuff is being privately sponsored.
Quite frankly, I couldn’t care less how people live their lives, so long as they are not bringing harm to others.
it isnt being sponsored exactly, transphobia is promoted by algorithms on all social media unfortunately because its divisive, it makes people angry or upset, regardless of who, both trans people and transphobes, which creates engagement through the arguments that ensue, transphobes will rally and often trans people will bite back(which in my experience is sadly most commonly a fools errand, hard to convince someone you deserve rights when they wont even perceive you as a person)
No such thing as transphobia. We are not afraid of you. We just don't agree with you.
@@gdwe1831 no you are just bigoted and hate those different then you, disagreement doesnt include the removal of someones rights and ability to exist, you disagreeing with people being trans is like if i told you your favorite color is wrong and actually you must like my favorite color or you don't get healthcare, but it is probably true you arent scared, you are just willingly an asshole, which id say is much worse
@@gdwe1831transphobia is a thing it just doesn't mean being scared of it also means to repel (example hydrophobia) and you still can act like a normal human person even if you don't agree
@@gdwe1831we don't need to get into the semantics of it the comment is trying to make a point far beyond that
It scares me very much how much my identity has become a political debate as if we are just a tool
In a way, I believe that all identities are turned into political tools, so it's no wonder that fringed minorities are even more so. It doesn't make it right, it's just how it is sadly.
@@Lucas-hb7qv give me a single quote in any religion where it says anything about trans people 🤨
@@Lucas-hb7qv and also trans people have been around for forever it’s just now it’s a problem cause people can’t let people be themselves, every transphobe is a grifter the only debate is people can’t let change happen cause they’re in there little bubble circle jerks, it’s not a political thing whatsoever
@@Lucas-hb7qv "For untold millennia"? From a religion barley 2 millennia old? But you expect to be taken seriously?
@@Lucas-hb7qv I think it’s completely contrary to all mammals.
If someone is trans, I think something has gone “wrong” with their development.
petition to call all daily wire hosts “the weird little dudes” from now on
yeah.. and demonise and dehumanise and ''other'' the dirty little bigoted facscist fkkrs cuz we all fkn hate them ... upss ... did i say 'hate'... oh dear.. pass the scourge..
Alternatively, you can also call them "weird little online freaks" if the first option isn't poignant enough! :D
@Soldier of Allah cool :D
love going into this comment section and sorting by new so i can find unhinged transphobes with no argument at all
you do not pass
@@azaabazha660why do we have to
@@tbhtoni4583 Did the transphobes get tired of winding up on accidental ally and come up with this now?
For anyone thinking/saying that it's all about how you're raised:
My parents are extremely catholic and transphobic and I still support trans folks. No excuses. People are people.
Supporting something doesn't make u not ignorant some ppl need to learn false identity only leads to depression..... Stop the escapism 😂 y'all filling the pockets of doctors BECAUSE YALL THINK U NEED WHAT THEY HAVE. Not everything someone wants is whats best for them😂😂😂😂 yall average ppl watch this type of content without actually THINKING FOR URSELF yall just regurgitate the same bs logic points cuz yall have no actual debate😂
Real life is much different than media and, your one perspective
Once u learn about thinking for urself u will see just how backwards society thinks ... A biproduct of escapism is something that no smart man supports with an open heart.... But that doesn't mean we are rude to TS folk. Y'all think so backwards y'all conflate the 2 all the time😂 there's a difference between being hateful and being honest
its crazy how people can say that when statistics show we are often kick out of our homes for being lgbt in general
@@FemboyKaiSaku maybe cuz u need to have an identity crisis to grow up.... A real one.... One that makes u let go of all the false identity and all that is left is you..... Y'all live in a backwards society that tries to argue that it's healthy to want to mutilate urself because u want escape truth.... And y'all are so delusional y'all think us telling u the negative effects of this behavior is hate because y'all can't think of an legitimate argument other than the stuff u regurgitate
@@FemboyKaiSaku funny how all the keywords to use against TS folks have been banned and u spared of hearing someone who can actually debate instead of thinking everything is hate.... This comment section is a echo chamber... All I'm gonna say is the issue is society, materialism, escapism, and faking virtu. Literally y'all support ppl for mutilating themselves and trying to be weak minded? Y'all think that leads to good strong evolution? Or u just think about the here in now like the rest of these sheep. See I'm not hateful but I'm not gonna be dishonest just to make someone fit in ....
"Give my son a BB gun and that's just about all the emotional support he needs"
"LOL, yeah, I also hate my kids."
I literally laughed out loud to that one, such beautiful comedic timing and tone. Well done.
The toxic masculinity idea in that single piece was also massive...that whole thing of "Boys are tough and don't need talks about feelings!!!" was so clear there...(Along with what I felt was the undertone of "I'll let the wife in my family handle that, I'm a man after all".)
And then the dad gets super pissed off and destroys something the son likes because he had a moment of weakness-
A lot of assumptions going around with no facts or evidence. Words out of context aren’t evidence
He will grow up to be a REAL man and buy multiple semi automatics 😂
I did have a slight giggle about how Rachel Reeves immediately talked about trans women even though who has a cervix has nothing to do with trans women. It shows how little awareness politicians actually have about trans people. She was just on autopilot
I think a lot of conservatives and centrists mostly think about transwomen, since that's the group that most of the classic harmful stereotypes about trans people are about, preying on women in bathrooms and tricking men and such. TERFs, on the other hand, think a lot more about transmen because they see it as losing women to delusion. It's pretty common for terfs to talk about transmen and then for the rest of the media to use those same talking points with transwomen.
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@@Chestyfriend RUclips auto translated your comment to "poop", pretty fitting for how much of a POS you are
Trans "women".
Women, a female human being, who has xx chromosomes. End of story. A man can hallucinate he is a woman, but it won't change his dna.
@@Chestyfriend ismpitcd
The phrase "the Trans Debate," reads identically to me as, "the Jewish Question," which for anybody familiar with 20th Century history, is deeply disturbing.
Dehumanisation 101: When a minority is presented as a agenda or ideology, or something equally abstract, it makes it much easier to rally people against them
@@breadstick4458 key phrases copy pasted from another of my replies:3
Woke, gender ideology, groomer, child mutilation, psuedoscience, propaganda, elite, typical, normal, deviatant, brain-wash, CRT, gender studies, superior, abortion killing babies, school shootings, "irreversible" puberty blockers, de-transition, confused, left, liberal, marxist, communist, agenda
Do you feel the same about pedophiles ? Should they be protected and celebrated ?
@@breadstick4458 Now define Delusion 101
@@user-ds9bl7yx5l no, obviously not, their totally unrelated in every ways
They have to say "debate" because they know what using the word "question" would look like.
Becuase if the question was as simple as "do trans people exist" they'd have to say "yes"
@@logickedmazimoon6001 Did you miss the historical reference?
@@veramitchell3134 probably 🤷♀️, references are lost on me, spell it out
@@logickedmazimoon6001 No worries, i wasn't trying to mock you. That was a genuine question. I couldn't tell if you genuinely missed it or not. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_question
All good, lol. I've only heard of it as The Final Solution. Had no Idea that was only part of the concept@@veramitchell3134
Don’t forget that Matt Walsh is a fan of child- marriage and pregnancy. VERY interesting that people like him call LGBT people groomers
We all knew it was projecting
Reminds me of that "Christians are mad at trans people because they had dominated the child grooming scene for years and don't want to lose their niche" meme
its even weirder if you think about how definitions are oh so important to wet mulch, yet, the people he calls that, do not fit that definition at all.
Proof?
@@aki0562 Have you not heard of the infamous audio leaks in regards to Walsh literally endorsing child marriage and arranged marriage? It’s been all over the internet lately
i always appreciate when a cis youtuber is willing to make videos like this. sometimes it gets so exhausting and dehumanizing just existing as a trans person. the fact that nowadays we tend to be so grateful that any cis person is willing to stand up for us is very telling, imo.
I mean, privilege can(and should) be used for good.
I stand up for trans people, not just because I'm an empathetic and accepting human being (or try to be), but because I know that the people who want me--a straight white cis man--to work myself up into apoplectic fits over the existence of queer people, don't actually give a fuck about me or people like me who aren't their rich friends.
I comment about this on pretty much every video I watch related to the "trans debate", the ongoing persecution of trans people in the shitty parts of the US, and the whole "culture war" in general. I'll say it again:
All of this is fundamentally part of an astroturf campaign, mostly to privatize all education in the US. The same goes for "critical race theory". "Moms for Liberty" is just another dark money-funded "concerned citizens" group, in the vein of the Tea Party or any other undercover billionaire's surrogate.
In general, the whole moral panic is not just about their hate; I mean it largely is, don't get me wrong, but it's also very much about the shared Tory and GOP goal of distracting us plebes from their hoarding of wealth and corporate greed.
TL;DR: I stand up for trans and LGBTQ people as a proud ally, and as someone who understands exactly why right wing demagogues are using this as a wedge issue.
He looks gay
You see? These are just not cis-people, brainsashed to use these terms just to suit someones feelings
We have always been here and despite the increased “war” against us being waged, we will not be disappeared by their hate and falsehoods. 💜🏳️⚧️ #TransRightsAreHumanRights
As a transwoman myself I've nothing to add but THANKS. 🙏
youre a man that thinks hes a woman. get help.
@@zephyrus3554nah, get your facts get checked first
@@zephyrus3554 go play in traffic
@@MrRandomOtaku stop affirming delusions
@@zephyrus3554 the only delusion is that cis opinions on trans issues matter.
There shouldn't be a "trans debate" no one wants or needs to debate about their own existence or other people's existence
the "debate" isn't about existence. It's about clashing rights. These issues need to be sorted otherwise otherwise this will be a never ending media circus.
@@spacedebris566people should be able to live how they want if it’s not harming anyone else. There, sorted for you.
@@theroyaltrashXX people should not be allowed in men’s restrooms, and XY people should not be allowed in women’s restrooms.
@@orvos1459 Why? What role do chromosomes play in peeing?
@@orvos1459 Just make restrooms unisex stalls
That scene where Matt Walsh stands in the doorway watching girls in all pink and fairy wings in a group beside boys in all blue holding a skateboard really shows his belief of what a woman is. A woman is pretty, soft, obnoxious, and naive. A woman's purpose is to stand as a decoration beside the big strong men who take on all of the challenges and do brave, adventurous things like skateboarding.
So you like social constructs only when those explain why a man should get a vaginoplastic?
It's a dull stereotype from the 50s. Then again, where are women in construction, army, police, agriculture, etc?
I think you’re delusional.
@@cucumber_999
Fun thing about the original comment is that it tells a lot more about the person writing it than the scene it mentions does of Matt Walsh.
@@Biru_to The last 3 interactions I've had with police officers have been women. Half the people at the washing machine factory I work at are women. They're everywhere if you care to leave your bedroom and look for them.
This whole thing has really made me realise that precise definitions of really common and widely recognised things are really not easy almost ever. Ask someone to define something like a dog and see how they do. The reality is that for almost everything we interact with, there are some combination of objective descriptors with a lot of "I know it when I see it".
define woman
Give pop quizzes on any topic to unprepared people and you're nearly guaranteed to get awkward, stammering answers. Reminds me of the Billy on the Streets clip where he asked someone to simply "Name a woman" and couldn't get a response haha
@@seeyouallintherapy did you understand what the comment was saying?
@@rorycannon7295 yes and i disagree with it. there are clear definitions for most things and even if you cannot define something outright, you can differentiate between it and something else. it is silly to say "well some dogs dont have tails, so i guess we will never be able to tell if a characteristic of a dog is having a tail".
Yes. Our perspectives and thoughts are formed out of observation ... Sure.
But say we're talking about One who's NEVER seen a dog. said observation itself is nothing but an "analogy" of sorts that one's mind creates to sorta process this new creature.. "its like a cat but a bit bigger... Has four legs like a chair, etc etc"
I suppose this is how the mind works right? In that sense, isn't language itself a HUGE "analogy" .. (in the sense described above)..
So it's really silly for us to be picking on the way individuals process data/stimuli/observations/etc...to support an agenda/idea/concept that is NOT individual at all.
("What's a woman")
And im pretty sure the ones doing it? They know this. That they're using the kinks in our minds to make their own voices louder.
But they also know that 99% of their audience(s) won't have time to think it through, cos everyone's busy surviving on a daily basis right? So said audience will just take on what's on the surface...which are designed to trigger them..
It's a bit like watching a bunch of 5 yr olds put on boxing gloves and are like ... Play fighting with each other in the ring.
but then the whole world has like got everything important to them hanging on the outcome of said "boxing match" ...
Imagine how Mike Tyson or Bruce Lee would feel, if they were watching this.. "match" 🥲🥲🥲
Biology, Anthropology, and Psychology all agree that Gender and Sex is a complex spectrum with definitions that are subject to change as we learn and discover more. Sex, Gender, and Orientation are NOT clearly defined binaries. When someone says “trans goes against biology,” they admit to having, at best, a very rudimentary understanding of oversimplified biology courses taught to children being introduced to the topic for the first time. It’s frightening. Biology 101 in any college/uni will quickly dissuade anyone of such simplistic and bigoted notions-unless they truly find the topic far too difficult to comprehend. If that’s the case, they shouldn’t be discussing it.
To all trans people reading this: DO NOT scroll down further in the "Newest"-tab. It WILL ruin your mood.
Yeah, we know
Its not a form of self-harm i swear
idk i've on;ly see positivity
@@G-manFan1 Were we lookint at the same comment section?
Those will be deleted soon.
@@RichardDuncan-ju1xk by whom? Nobody cares except bored leftists like myself who want to argue and annoyingly smug rightists
It's a uniquely nasty form of prejudice in that it's saying these people don't exist, can't exist, and should never be allowed to exist. It's not "We have our differences but I'll put up with you", it's "I don't want you around in my life or anyone else's life, ever"
Lol trans people protest to get conservatives “out of their city”.
Only thé most ardent TERF think like that.
What most people wanna know is what place in société this whole rethoric need to have.
And what âge is it acceptable to push this rethoric.
@Phil Davidson so we can exist materially by permission of others. still eugenics imo (not attacking you buddy
@Phil Davidson I'm not so sure about that. Living in Texas, I've definitely run into plenty of people whose opinion on trans rights is that "nobody can just decide they're a different gender, that's stupid".
@Phil Davidson for being "very few if any" i seem to have met an inordinate amount of them
It's really telling how the entire debate basically just revolves around Transwomen.
because conservatives see transmen as women, and they dont care about women? 😂
No fr these people don't ask/don't get asked "what is a man" rather they get asked "what is a woman". This is not to say there isn't discrimination against trans men, it's that the "discussion" really just feels like an expansion of misogyny.
Its because transwomen impeding upon women's sports and women's restrooms is much more of a problem than transman going into men's sports or men's restrooms.
Funny enough, the people asking "What is a woman" doesn't care about women, at all.
Im sorry, but kids at my school literally get beat for being trans or gay sometimes like wtf does walsh mean, trans kids are so heavily bullied even today 😭
He wants people to be scared and he wants trans people to get hurt because of it. That’s all .
Honestly, even as a cis woman - hearing the media constantly asking, talking and debating about our our biology disgusts me. Womanhood is not only defined by biology! For example, I actually a feel a lot of connection to womanhood due to psychological stereotypes (e.g. "feminine" personality traits, being openly emotional, loving cute stuff), and I believe this side of womanhood matters just as much as biology does!
Also, it excludes many cis women who don't have perfect biology and functioning from the definition of women (E.g. women who can't get pregnant)! Under the biology-based definition transphobes use, women who can't get pregnant, or can't have periods, or have undergone surgery to change their chest size, are men! Or heck, if you dive deeper into the transphobia rabbit hole, you find people accusing women of "actually being men" because their feet are a bit too wide, they're a bit too tall, they stand "like a man", or even they have a bit "too much" hair. Perfectly normal things!
And it makes me feel awful and self-conscious seeing all this unfold, because not only am I "ugly" for having wide feet and what I think is noticeable hair on my arms, but I'm also "not a true woman" for these traits! Despite me being born a woman!
Also, it seems like obvious misogyny, with how the conversation is _only_ pointed in the direction of women. Why is it never asked what a man is? Why aren't people constantly talking about and debating about male biology? Why aren't people excluding cis men with less-than-perfect biology (e.g. deep voice, a bit too short) as "actually being women"?
Psychologial stereotypes don't define what women are because they are literally just stereotypes. Men can like cute stuff and be sensitive. Using your logic, liking these stuff is a woman thing which doesn't make any sense and is literally sexist. So no, biology is the only thing that matters.
Stop using the old excuse: "oh, so women who can't do these, these and these are not real women?". Real women are the ones who are biologically born women. If you are biologically a man you'll never be a real woman. So it doesn't matter if you are 6 ft and have a deep voice, you are still a woman because you were biologocally born a woman. The conversation is pointed just at trans women because the majority of men agree that trans men are not men and will never be men. The feminists are the one who push this whole trans narrative. So men generally don't accept trans men as men.
@@sting0262 I heavily disagree with the "just stereotypes" part of your comment. Part of womanhood is our experiences - and that includes the stereotypes which we've been taught to follow. It's not sexist to say that the values women have been brought up to value are "feminine" and the values men have been brought up to value are "masculine". Men created this system of "masculine values" and "feminine values" hundreds of years ago, then when femininity started to become an acceptable thing (not used as an excuse to persecute), they call women "sexist" for continuing to identify with the values and experiences which were forced onto us for all these years.
Acknowledging that femininity exists is not a bad or "sexist" thing -- Trying to remove and demonise femininity and our experiences, and claiming that being a woman is just a biological distinction and other than that there are no differences between us, is the sexist thing. When you force certain expectations on a certain gender, don't be surprised when they identify with these expectations and how they were brought up to follow them, even making them part of their gender!
My experience with womanhood is not only my biology - my womanhood is also the dresses I've worn as a kid and the dress I'll likely have to wear to future weddings, the experience of not being able to have male friends without being asked whether I'm dating them, the history of women and our fight for the right to vote and education and the unique appreciation for the suffragettes giving me the freedoms I have now, the horrible knowledge that my own gender is still persecuted in other countries such as the Middle East, my sweet nostalgia for GirlsGoGames and girls' games in general... There are unique psychological experiences - and yes, typically even traits. And they matter just as much as biology. They're the main ways I identify with womanhood -- womanhood is _mostly_ a psychological experience for me.
I'm not a sexist because I acknowledge that men and women are fundamentally different in all areas - Men aren't just their biology, and us women aren't just our biology - but I believe that both genders are equally as valuable and our differences are valid. We shouldn't be trying to remove/ignore our differences and demonising them as well as anyone who acknowledges them, we should be accepting of them and use them to our advantage as a species by working together.
With the whole "stop using your own excuse" tangent - _tell transphobes that, not me!_ Tell them all exactly what you said there! They're the ones that should be aimed at!
but when you have people state "an amab stargender person is not male, that person is stargender, and has a stargender body. stargender testicles. science supports this. also, some lizards are transgender
@Ocean waves I look at it from a broader perspective. At it's heart the concept of 'woman' and 'man' makes sense for every sexually reproductive species. It makes sense to divide a species that reproduces sexually into 2 categories, men and women. Their should be nothing political about that.
You may or may not identify with traits you call feminine, but that shouldn't be used as a basis of the definition of a woman. Because it has nothing to do with biology, and can't be generalized across species lines like a biological definition can.
Instead of advocating for the introduction of entirely new categories, why not just accept the biological definition and campaign against stereotypes associated with both men and women?
Why not campaign for seperating the stereotypes from the biological definition? That a woman can behave in a way that is not considered feminine and still be valid, for example.
With women and men being fundamentally different in other areas than the defining biology it's simply statistics. The thing is that you have normal distributions overlapping in the tails. Men are on average stronger, but the strongest women are stronger than the weakest men. Women may be more into make up on average, but not all are. Those that are on tails ends of whatever distribution relating to non biological traits are still just what they are based on biology.
I may be Dutch and identify with Tulips, but if I don't like Tulips it doesn't make me non Dutch. A coptic Christian Egyptian doesn't identify with Islam like 90% of Egyptians, but he's still Egyptian.
its objectively worse to reduce womanhood to "how you feel inside"
Yesterday I found out that my sister who had ghosted me after I came out years ago really did it because I am trans. It may seem obvious but I so desperately wanted to avoid sounding paranoid (because that is how we are portrayed, like paranoid angry poeple who see transphobia everywhere) that I was making every other hypothesis under the sun to justify that coincidence. Well, no, she is a transphobe and doesn't want to have any sort of relationship with me anymore because of my transition, turns out it is in fact as simple as that. So when you premised your video by saying "maybe sit this one out if your'e not in the right headspace", I hesitated, but watched anyway. It didn't hurt me, because I am already very aware of the subject. The one thought that keeps coming back to me is why do they care? It doesn't affect them in any way, why do they care so much?
The really sad part is that they don’t. Transphobia is a phobia that has been engendered in large swathes of the population as a political tool. If anybody actually believed a single word of what they were spouting they would track down and kill every trans person immediately. They don’t, which reveals the real thing that they care about: using fear to maintain power. Transphobes are the output of a machine designed to turn people into abusers that see themselves as victims.
@@Toberumono you're right of course.
@@blumeshullman8002 Sorry if what I said was obvious. I wasn’t sure if you were asking a question, but figured it wouldn’t hurt to answer
@@Toberumono no no i wasnt mad or anything. i just meant yeah you're right.
Shes literally your sister thats why. I don’t care if random strangers decide to ruin there lives and become freaks. Well thats not true I would advise them not to become freaks but its not my business. My sister is very much my business. I would not be accepting of freakish behaviour from her.
"I believe a virgin gave birth to a divine being who was resurrected after three days, but men turning into women? Man, that's crazy talk!"
Imagine actually making jokes about an allegory to discredit transphobes. Spoiler alert: most transphobes aren’t even Christians, worldwide.
@@francescoparisi1081 oh, it's an allegory now? I must have missed a few encyclicals, then. And yes, I can absolutely imagine making jokes about an allegory to discredit transphobes. Call me when the dogma of virgin birth and that of resurrection turn into allegories, and I will be happy to.
@@arnautarnautsen2564
True, shouldn’t call it an allegory. Believers retain it to be true. I call it that because I donne believe it myself.
@@arnautarnautsen2564
But either way, Jesus Christ is accepted as being born from a virgin because he literally was God’s son and incarnation on Earth. I don’t think God sent on the lose these many incarnations in the form of purple-haired leftist who can’t define what a woman is.
@@arnautarnautsen2564
Let it be clear that for allegory I meant to say the representation of God’s invincible power and will that transcends whatever boundaries he auspicably put for the world standing to basic logic and interpretation of the Bible.
as someone from the uk I can confirm it is extremely bad overhear for us trans folk. I mean most days I can't even step outside without someone shouting insults at me! its getting scary how this is allowed in our modern Society.
Yes, you being allowed is pretty scary. Don't worry we're working on it.
@@PatPatychdon’t worry, we’re working on a special medicine for you to take, it’s called “shut up you hateful piece of garbage” and you only need to take one tablespoon a day :)
You’re such a big strong person, so I know you can do it!
@@firytwig Damn you sound extremely hateful here.
@@PatPatych so do you :) maybe don’t expect politeness if you don’t show it either
@@firytwig There is a difference between not being polite and being hateful - and you are clearly the latter. What a hypocrite, LMAO.
One of the things that always confuses me about those 'only women have cervixes' questions is that everyone in the conversation seems to think that they're talking about trans women, when to me the question seems much more oriented at trans men and afab non binary people. Like, they're saying, only women have cervixes, so a trans man is actually a woman. It kind of speaks to the way that the media has protrayed trans people up to this point that when people hear any kind of devisive question like that, they immediately think of trans women - it makes sense given how much they have been demonised by the media.
Great video by the way. As a trans person in the uk, this whole 'conversation' in the media is honestly really scary. I'm glad that people are talking about it. Transphobia just seems to have been given so much legitamacy here. All these outwardly respectable and well spoken people and news outlets. My parents even brought up some of these things to me, like that stupid essay by she who shall not be named. My mum thought it was well thought out and brought up some important points (for context she has an english lit phd and so should in theory be good at analysing text critically). It just seems so much more sinister when authors and journalists otherwise well respected spout this nonsense as if trans rights are a legitimate ethical concern for society. And when the decision for who next leads our entire country ends up turning into a who can transphobia the most contest, honestly it feels like nothing is safe and the entire world is out to get you.
Also, why is the media so obsessed with this now, when there are so many more pressing issues. Like the cost of living crisis, or the aftermath of the pandemic, a possible upcoming recession, war in Ukraine. Why are so many people obsessed with whether a trans woman's cervix makes her a man?
well yes but fortunately (or unfortunately, depends on the topic and standpoint), people dont care as much about trans men because in their eyes, they are still women and women are irrelevant.
Because these economic and geopolitical issues that appear more pressing will only get worse if we continue to be, as a generation, socially atomized mentally ill people (myself included at different points in my life, I am Gen Z) preoccupied with our narcissistic identity fixation with no inclination to sacrifice for a partner, children, or community. I believe that trans people exist in stable numbers, and gender dysphoria experienced from a very young age must be an extremely difficult experience, but the significant spike in adolescents presenting gender dysphoric and particularly young women expressing severe discomfort in their womanhood, predominantly physically, but also generally en masse is a sign that there are severe problems with our social institutions right now. And discussions of this particular demographic trend are typically included in the broader discussion of trans issues that this video suggests we should stop having in the media.
I believe this is all a reaction to society valuing and orienting itself less and less toward committed monogamous partnerships and starting families, which require care and sacrifice to do well, and promote a host of other positive selfless / ego suppressing character traits. The further we stray from the ideal mode of social organization, family oriented monogamous partnerships, the longer this chain reaction will continue. Rates of misogyny in men who can't find partners will continue to increase, which will continue to compound into internalized misogyny and self hatred in some women (spike in adolescent girls transitioning), or distrust of men, or both, which will then compound in more men becoming misogynistic as they can't find partners, which will lead to further decay in relations between men and women. We're already a few generations into this chain reaction, so it manifests in a variety of ways. It's not necessarily only teenage boys and young men (peers) that are more misogynistic but a lot of Millennial and Gen Z children have been born into broken families with unstable parents who also have pessimistic views about family and monogamous partnerships, or the opposite sex. As a our values decay, our role models are also of lower quality, and a childhood that is less structured and consistent in the experiences and values one is exposed to is likely, leading to more confusion down the road.
Polyamorous / polygamous societies usually evolve into men having multiple partners (polygyny), which exacerbates a host of social problems in society, most being related to the creation of a lower social class of men that must compete for the remaining potential partners. Monogamy and the nuclear family is the most progressive and socially harmonious social institution we've ever created, and that's why it was socially constructed. Polygamy is the true archaic and inegalitarian mode of social organization. Polygamy and anti-natalism being propped up as progressive social values will be our downfall.
It's all an incentive equation. The decisions of individuals decide the fate of a society. The more people that are unhappy and unsatisfied, and the less social incentives there are to be individuals of good character, the more tyrannical behaviour will manifest in our peers, political leaders, economic leaders, etc. Everything is connected. Discussing purely economic and geopolitical issues in our media misses the larger picture imo. Hopefully this answers your question. I don't mind expanding more on anything confusing if it didn't.
@@chaboychit monogamous relationships only work when both partners want to be monogamous, otherwise they cheat and argue with other and generally get frustrated while distancing themselves from a family they regret starting. i think it is fair to say there is a lack of a sense of community in modern society but attempting to reinstate "traditional family values", as some people refer to it as, is probably not gonna help. i think people have become more focused on themselves because it is the thing they have most control over and due to higher population and generally undemocratic governing systems we feel increasingly powerless and unwanted. capitalism has also brought about the focus on consumption and you can certainly make more profit by discouraging sharing and encouraging everyone to buy stuff for themselves, which further encourages islolation. people in power are also more powerful when people are isolated and unable to cooperate in such a way that could go against that power ("divide and conquer" or think about how corporations hate unions).
As a trans man, I noticed that too. It's a different type of transphobia. Trans women are seen as predators, non-binary people are met with confusion and are disbelieved, and trans men are infantalized or just forgotten about entirely.
@@chaboychit im sorry but a ton of what you just said was objectively false. "Polyamorous / polygamous societies usually evolve into men having multiple partners (polygyny), which exacerbates a host of social problems in society". thats assuming a patriarchy.
" Monogamy and the nuclear family is the most progressive and socially harmonious social institution we've ever created, and that's why it was socially constructed."
is also objectively false. you are just straight up making assumptions about peoples preferences, choices and lifestyles.
Actually... while there wasn't a word for husband-person, there *was* still the word wermann, or man-person. And yes, that's the same were- as in werewolf. Basically, English underwent a similar shift to Latin, where we lost our old word for "man" and turned our old word for "person" into a new word for man
Was Werman used as anything other than a surname? Because I thought that the progression went: wif & wer, wifman & man, wimman & man, woman & man.
It's kinda weird that English speakers got rid of their unique gendered words because the way it is now is so much more confusing. Not to be a prescriptivist but wif and wer are way better
Also wifmann didn't actually mean "wife-person", it meant "female-person", the term "wif" (woman, female) later evolved to become the word wife
i used to be a werewolf but i'm alright naaaaoooooooowwwww
So disagreeing is transphobic, having arguments is transphobic, everything is transphobic.
Its unfortunate. People just assume youre as smart as they are.
I'd like to have a nice long conversation with whoever decided it was a good idea to debate whether or not a marginalized group of people exist 💀💀
I have, when someone says, that someone is pushing young people to transition. I live in extremely homophobic and transphobic country, but even though people say, that queer people are sick and not normal, I'm still non binary, and I've got a few trans friends. And nobody could possibly push us to identify this way.
Trans ideology is misogyny and homophobia. You can’t change you’re sex
@@AlphaNumeric123 What's the part you can't change?
@@DeoMachina can you change your age, race, species, or mortality? Why is race immutable but sex is immutable? What part--every part. It's incredible how much harm you do by convincing them of something impossible.
@@AlphaNumeric123 That's nice, can you answer my question? Specifically, what is the part that can't be changed?
@@DeoMachina Every part, you can never be a woman and you can't read either apparently. From genetics to bone structure and every bit in between.
Now quit dodging, how is is race different? Or do you think putting on black face and making people call you black ACTUALLY makes you black?
Sorry, you can tuck your dangly penis and shave your beard, but that will never make you a women. Stay tf out of women's spaces and stop causing harm.
As an Irishmen, every time I see Graham Linehan I cringe in embarrassment
As an Irish-American, I had the same feeling about Bill O'Reilly until he was finally sued so many times he had to leave.
Look at the bright side, at least y'all aren't Canadian, and stuck with everyone from Jordan Peterson to Stephan Molynieux as sourced from your backyard xD
@@qiae as an irishman i found out to great embarrassment that Molyneux was born in Ireland.
Look on the bright side, at least you're not English :)
Not Irish in the slightest, but also disappointed in Graham Linehan. I loved his work and his transphobic antics made me feel ashamed for enjoying them openly. Avoiding Harry Potter is a breeze, but the IT Crowd and Father Ted? That stings!
its always nice to see youtubers talk about important topics regardless of how controlveral and likely to get negative feedback they are instead of safe topics they know people will just agree with
The biggest thing that i think has legitimised the “trans debate” is media corporations giving platforms to both trans ppl and “gender critical” ppl as tho their opinions hold equal weight. The trans person is being brought on to justify whether they really exist, why they should be allowed to exist, and whether their existence harms cis people. The gender critical person doesnt have the same stake in the situation as the trans person at all. This is an opinion they hold about *other* people. They’re not being asked to justify their existence, they’re being asked to justify the beliefs they hold. And that is not the same thing at all.
I fucking love the sheer dishonesty of the term 'gender critical' to describe someone whose views on gender are completely conservative. Imagine if during the BLM protests they had a black person and a 'race critical' white person discuss whether black people were more predisposed to crime.
@@scrungybungingi5171 there is a definite link between "gender critical" ideology and so-called "race realism"/racial psuedoscience.
the way sex and gender are percieved in west is tied to white supremacy in some ways.
@@someoneontheinternet6940So you know a stranger’s biology better than they do?
I’m a cis woman and i don’t have a cervix. Absolutism helps no one
@@nietkees6906 The statement is still medically false, even if we ignore trans people. Intersex people exist. People with a natal phallus and scrotum can have internal ovaries, and yes, an internal cervix, possibly due to having ambiguous genitals and having them surgically altered without a removal of the cervix as a newborn.
So like, transphobia aside, cause mind you, it's still transphobic as fuck, uhhh, yeah, no. Not only women can have a cervix.
Exactly. But transphobes don’t care about people who don’t support their “facts”
But do you have other biological markers that imply you're a woman? XX chromosomes, a female reproductive system (even if you had parts removed) etc, then people who say gender=sex are still making a valid point 🤷🏽♀️
I read that puberty book as a kid and it made very weird topics that I could not even begin to grasp with my little brain something that was digestable and approachable. I love that book and seeing the illustrations took me back
Ngl i wish people would just shut up and look in the mirror and ask "what the Hell happened to common decency?" Because I hate how people are still being debating about people's identity and all, it's like UGH! Why can't we just get over it? Not everyone is the same, it's basic knowledge, we spend all this time debating over things that should never have even been a debate, we should never have been debating over it because "it" is a person's identity, imagine if we said that a person doesn't have the right to say they're from one place because they were born in another? It sounds rather silly to put people in boxes and limit what they can call themselves, right? It seems rather cruel to tell people who they are instead of letting them decide it themselves? I wouldn't like it if people deliberately misidentified me and claimed that I didn't have the right to call myself who I am because it's different to who I was in the past, times change, people change, the sooner we all accept it the better! (I would like to apologize if I said anything that comes across as mean or ill-intentioned, that's not my intent, I just want us all to accept eachother)
Exactly! The only reason that people would want to hate trans people is to feel special. It is sad that people waste their time in transphobic talk shows
No way guys basic human empathy exists real!!11!!!
Seriously. We are at an all time deficit of empathy, y'know, one of the _selling points of our species_ .
@@The21stGamer it seems to be honest that empathy nowadays is learnt than inherent, I see so many people being so cruel to eachother for not fitting their views, it's really tragic, it's like at this point a person's "opposition" is less of a person to one and more of an obstacle, it's really sad, I've literally seen people tear apart relationships about "issues" that shouldn't be issues, it's just ugh, why can't we all just exist and not hate eachother's guts and all?
@@kojinaoftheinvertedeye810 Absolutely
wow..ur right! my pp grew 10 inches and now i get all the bitches from reading this comment. carry on and god bless!
Massive respect person at 2:13 who says "If you are not here for women, we ask you to leave" like a grand wizard's declaration
Also i would have thought "What is a Woman" was just really odd satire if i didn't know otherwise. It was... an odd experience
Also; to add, a very sizeable portion of "What is a Woman" could be spliced out of context and used as an intro to a car ad without looking out of place
You’re in a cult. Your beliefs are misogynist and homophobic and you can’t win by silencing women forever
You can't claim to be for women if you don't know what is a woman bro.
@@werrkowalski2985 Matt Walsh don’t know you little bro let us trans ppl vibe and fuck off :)
Matt Walsh seems to think upward camera angles of him walking around makes him look like a serious person
It's a bit Philomena Cunk
All that does is highlight how weird his beard looks. It looks like it’s made out of manure in those angles.
"10 and up" being negative for a book about sex, puberty, and gender is stupid- 10+ also know as when people hit puberty and need to know wtf is going on because it's an uncomfortable time for all
I agree. Children as young as 8 can reach puberty. A book that explains these things to children in an age appropriate manner is fine. Shielding children from these topics can leave them confused and scared and can also open them to sexual abuse.
@@whatzittooyah9182 Aren't all of the cases of such early puberty treated with hormone blockers though?
@@maka6000 They may be, but in my experience 8 is considered the low of normalcy.
Matt Walsh: "I'm mad people don't accept my propaganda."
"Just asking questions" is commonly known as JAQ-ing off for a good reason.
@UCGpJDd175OpRgVQvSyGO_bA There's a difference between questioning your worldview by rigorously vetting *your* beliefs and the beliefs others are trying to convince you of.
And trying to tear down other people's beliefs because they contradict your own.
One is rational, the other is cognitive dissonance wrapped in a blanket of "skepticism"
@@mccormack570 the comment you're responding to has been deleted.
@@cortexavery1324 That's hilarious, I think my comment is still pretty coherent by itself regardless though.
@UCGpJDd175OpRgVQvSyGO_bA It's not a matter of "asking questions", it is a matter of personal autonomy, privacy and treating others with respect.
The very reason you are even "asking questions" in the first place is because this issue is being cynically used by right-wing "influencers" as something to divide and distract us from the far more important issues that beset our modern society. You are basically being told to care about this issue by these people.
YOU are being "the good obedient slave" by parroting these hyped up concerns about something that is basically none of your business, because it has NOTHING to do with you.
What "critical thinking" do you imagine you are applying to this issue when all you are doing is being a dupe?
Why don't you ask yourself why you even care what someone else is doing in the first place? How is a trans person hurting you or anyone else in any way just because they are being trans? They aren't...so if you don't like them being trans then keep it to yourself and either treat them with civility or avoid their company.
If you are so concerned about dictatorships and fascists (which you certainly should be) then learn some history about how they work. They work by creating groups to hate and regard as less than human...as scapegoats to pile scorn and blame for all the things that the fascists are actually doing. Sound familiar?
YOU are being one of the NAZI enablers here.
@@mccormack570 True, just wanted to notify you.
"The big debate" has definitely been weighing on my mind - likely every trans person's mind. Videos like this and outspoken people like you are a pressure valve that releases my build up of fear and hopelessness - The fact that there's someone, anyone, looking out for us keeps me going. 💙
Living in TX, there's a constant cloud of anxiety like "one day they're going to make a law that forces me to detransition..." and I've barely left my house in three years for fear of other people. It kills me to hear talking heads tout how dangerous we are while I'm simply cowering in fear, desperately minding my own business, while my fate rests in the hands of people who don't see me as fully human and say I'm trying to take over the world. It's maddening. I'm not a religious man, but I almost feel an urge to pray for my community. I feel so powerless I can do nothing but cry out to the void. Stay safe family.
That sounds awful, wishing the best of luck for y'all.
I live in Texas too, it's a highly oppressive environment and the government. The most we can do is use the power of our vote. Beto is a good candidate for LGBTQIA+ rights.
Trans solidarity, sibling. Hang in there.
@@sqrt7956 Beto's polling surprisingly close to Abbot. Not enough that I think he has a chance, but it's at least encouraging to see that maybe in the next decade or so there might be change.
@@RyanTosh we can hope for the best, Texas is definitely one of the most archaic places in the U.S. right now
Still laughing at Matt Walsh renting out a basement in order to infiltrate a school.
Still cringing every time I read that. He needs to get some self control.
full disclosure, I read the title as "How the media promotes transplants" and I was thinking 'Well what's wrong with that?' As to trans people, my opinion as a white middle class cis male is that my opinion isn't important, and even if my opinion was transphobic, it wouldn't give me the right to legislate about anyone else''s rights. Too many people worried about what's going on next door when it doesn't concern them anyway. I was lucky enough to grow up in an artist's household and so from childhood I was aware that peoples sexuality or any other aspect of their lives was variable and not that important from the point of view of social interaction.
i dont get why so many care so much about trans people. Like who cares? People being trans does not affect you in anyway let people do what they want. Most of the people who say they dont like trans people always advocate for freedom of speech and expression anyway but when someone expresses themselves in a way they dont like it becomes bad.
The worst thing is : bigots will always find something to defend. We say "trans existence deosn't affect you" - but they will find something. "Oh, we only defend the CHILDREN, the WESTERN CULTURE, the JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUES, the CHRISTIAN VALUES, the LIBERTY, or GOD HIMSELF", when in reality, all they want is the patriarchy to get back, so that less people are equal to the privileged, so that privileged are at the top of power-hierarchy again. That's all it is - it was always about the greed of power, but they won't tell you that. They are always these "warriors for X", while tearing apart human rights of marginalised groups...
THIS ‼️
My dad sent me the interview at 4:54 and I literally sobbed because of how gross the interview made me feel about myself. My dad even supports my transition. When conservatives put this type of stuff into the world and brand it as them telling the truth about the situation I don’t think they realize how easy it is for even people who support trans people who just don’t understand the gross intent behind the interviews to see that content and form hurtful opinions. Literally all trans people want is for people to LEAVE US ALONE AND TREAT US NORMALITY! Is that so hard for people to do
No, they know exactly what they're doing. Conservatism is a pathologically evil ideology, that's why it's so important to accept wins like Tom's video and Jon Stewart's recent episode on trans people.
I'm so sorry your family is struggling so much with this
@@Don_tHack They’ve definitely gotten better than when I first told them. It’s mostly teaching them what’s respectful and what’s hurtful now
Yes, it’s hard for people to do. The entire Conservative media machine relies on fearmongering who we are. It’s no coincidence that trans people are now synonymous with “groomer”. It’s also no coincidence that gay people were synonymous with “groomer”when gay marriage was an issue. It’s also no coincidence that interracial couples were synonymous with “communism”. It’s also no coincidence that black people were synonymous with “inferior”. And now that trans rights are taking a backseat again because of how much anti-trans legislation has been passed, they’re going back to labeling anyone remotely queer as “groomers” again. We can’t ever give them an inch.
@@tylerthompson7461
Good luck from Canada!!
This one’s a really hard watch for me, I can’t stand these people trying to “simply debate” whether I deserve to exist.
Nobody has done that.
@@chrisbfreelance Multiple people are doing it in this very comment section.
@@chrisbfreelance Denial is not a river in Egypt..
@@emil_rainbow When people want to unalive you because you're trans the other aspects of you don't matter to them. That's what we're talking about here. People who want trans people dead, whether they have to make us dead or whether they can get us to do their dirty work for them. I'm not sure if you're playing dumb or of you really are dumb, but frankly with right wingers like you it's most likely both.
@@chrisbfreelance that’s literally what the trans debate is about
This Tom is the second best British person named Tom, behind Tom Scott
Like in terms of being a trans ally? Or in terms of their content?
'Cause if yer talkin' about the former, Tom Scott actually failed at it. I'd point to EssenceOfThought's cover on this, _How Tom Scott Failed the Trans Community | RE: Jill Bearup_
Transgender people may have it bad, but at least I'm not one of Matt Walsh's four kids.
Or one of the kids he's had with his kids.
When Americans and sometimes others rant on about lefties, it's as if they don't realise they're talking about USA capitalism. I looked into what they say those things promote, and all of it goes back to the USA. One of the things was an internet talk of child transsexuals, and they said the left cause it. Yet most of the cases where children are encouraged to change gender are in the USA.
Often you get those who say the word lefty as an insult towards multiculturalism. Yet how multicultural is Communist China compared to the USA? How multicultural is ex Communist east Europe compared to the USA? How many transgender children are there in Communist or ex Communist and left wing countries compared to capitalist countries? Not that I'm saying there's anything wrong with multiculturalism, but that's what Americans say is the left wing or even communist, when the USA is the most multicultural country and they all rant against Communists. USA prides itself on being a melting pot culture.
Those people also don't realise the National Health Service is a lefty idea, and Americans who insult the left wing also insult the NHS and free university that most of north Europe (Apart from England and Wales) and Scandinavia have. Coincidentally, the anti EU Tory government of England is the most multicultural we ever had.
Most of the time, most socialist countries such as those in Scandinavia and other north European culture countries, main left wing policies are a free health service or free and cheap university.
@@charlottelee3727 Contrary to what leading intellectual lights of your movement, like Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, and Matt Walsh might insist, using more words does not not make you more correct. Everything you just said is so wrong that it's not even close enough to reality to qualify as being wrong.
His kids will grow up far more mentally healthy than the average leftioid "progressive". There are even studies that show progressives/leftists are far more neurotic, anxious and depressed.
@@tjenadonn6158 Yeah it's not Matt Walsh who is a pedo. Those are all those drag queens you people are letting get close to your kids.
It’s cathartic to hear these thoughts I’ve had for so long taken seriously. Thank you. I was always surprised by how much transphobic propaganda self-proclaimed progressive Democratic adults I meet casually believe, but considering their only knowledge of trans experience comes from media outlets rather than knowing us in real life, I can’t blame them. It’s hard to have meaningful conversations when it’s so obvious they’re already conditioned to see us as a spectacle of debate. Being trans might not be easy but I’m so grateful to know what it’s really like, because for now the media at large sure doesn’t
Well, it would help if trans people did not try to convince the public of things that are clearly wrong. It is like saying that most people don't actually believe that the earth is flat after they said you are right, to get you to shut up.
the great great majority of trans people don't pass, not even casually (none pass naked). But progressives will try to be polite about it. But people know they come from the body of a woman, a female human. They understand humans cannot change sex
Also, most people are not happy about the idea that a child can make the choice to sterilise him/herself. Have you followed Keira Bell trial? What the testimonies of the staff said about there being children not old enough to know what sex was asked whether they were okay to take puberty blockers?
Oh, and also the male rapists in female prison issue. Not a great look to rally behind rapists, child molesters, and pedo apologists (hello Mermaids!).
Also most people understand men will be faster and stronger than women. Most men would be proud of winning against a woman in weightlifting; only certain men would. We would call them cheaters
It is mostly also very important to point out to those people that their viewpoints are often regurgitated garbage that was once used during the rise of the gay-movement.
The same arguments of "They are grooming our children!" or "You should not be showing that so much on television, I'm afraid it'll turn my child gay" and especially the whole thing of it being a choice has come back just as well: people who are against trans people say that it's a choice (Something to which my gender therapist once said: "It is, but not in the way those people think I think it is." and explained how "It would be a choice to actively ignore those feelings and put them away. If we know anything in mental healthcare, in general, it's that that type of coping mechanism comes back like a boomerang. Maybe not quick, it might take a good amount of years, but it will backfire bad."
@@Dutch3DMaster We all have to ignore our feelings in this society, that's what makes civilization work. If we did not ignore it everything would be rape, murder, and mayhem all the time. Being civilized means mastering our lower nature, to not do so makes us animals. Sure, it's very unhealthy, but what is the alternative? Anarchy and chaos? People making these arguments seem to have forgotten that at our core we're the most dangerous animal to ever walk the Earth. Many often think that the values imbued upon them by civilization are natural and exist independent of culture and civilization, when in reality this is not the case. You and I are not good empathetic creatures by nature, in nature the concept of good doesn't even exist, and in nature we'd eat something while it's still alive without a second thought. Our thoughts and emotions are learned, and this learning helps us all supress our animal instincts for the greater good of all. It's not a perfect system, but it's better than nothing.
@@daniel4647 Do you think we can't tell you're concealing transphobia behind "oh but we have to actively ignore our desire to rape and murder people"? Like do you hear yourself? Those aren't instinct that normal people have to control. And even if they were, that's completely different from trying to ignore gender dysphoria. Gender affirmation does not hurt anyone, except potentially the person being affirmed if they decide later in life that it was a mistake. This is polar opposite to rape and murder, which actively harms other people. Like how are you comparing them???
I’m sorry you know what it means to be so; can’t imagine how it feels to be this one particular minority in these years
As someone who's thought a LOT about this, this is my stance:
Male and female: biological terms, scientific terms, looking at genes and chromosomes to differentiate beings in a species.
Man and woman: Social roles made to classify different identities of people in a society, which may not typically match the biological sex of someone.
Yeah I know I have XY chromosomes and that I can't change my DNA, but I don't feel like a MAN. I've tried it, and it didn't feel right to me.
Funniest thing is when someone has an intersex mutation without any visual deformities or a doctor chopped them up after birth and didn't say anything about it (but obviously genital mutilation is baaad). They're still trying to say all this shit about chromosomes as if they know the amount of discovered daily intersex people purely due to how expensive is chromosome test.
Great video. I particularly liked the ending about re-humanising the debate. I think Labour should develop a good answer to question around 1) the dictionary definitions which show both biological and cultural aspects and 2) the lives of real trans people that will hit home and show the questioner to be heartless and thoughtless.
Thank you for this very informative video. Recently, on German youtube, there was a video published by a channel that is funded by public service broadcasters (aka taxes) which was supposed to be a debate between a transwoman and a right wing politician. The moderator had made a lot of rather good videos for his show before, so it was very surprising to see how absolutely outrageous this video turned out to be.
The right wing politician literally started off saying he doesn't actually know much about trans issues, except for things he saw popping up in media, which makes you wonder why the hell he was invited to an episode about said trans issues in the first place), but got a lot more speaking time than the trans woman, insulted her, spread outward misinformation, purposefully misrepresented her arguments, and kept making things up, and all the moderator did was to be "well I don't really know about these things myself but it's probably something in the middle!"
The only attempt at clearing up misinformation was to sometimes have little text boxes appear.
Then, in the end, when the trans woman got upset, because that politician kept insulting her and putting words in her mouth, she was shushed and interrupted by the moderator, who then made it seem like she was overreacting and told her she shouldn't interrupt people.
Honestly, I was surprised she could stay so calm and collected for so long, I wouldn't have lasted half the time she did.
But if you look into the comments, you have people applauding the moderator for being so neutral and giving both sides a chance to speak.
Let me spell this out for you.
This is a woman who has experienced a lot of hatred and cruelty aimed at her that simply wants to live and have rights, against a politician of a party that isn't called "the nazi party" by Germans for no reason, insulting her and denying her those rights. As you said in the video, THIS SHOULD NOT, EVER, BE DEBATABLE.
But this video made it out to be, you know, we're just asking questions.
These kind of discussions where the issue doesn’t affect all the sides are really infuriating; because it’s easy for one side to don’t give valid arguments and just attack the other(s) side (without being outright offensive) to make the affected side look like “hysterical”, “driven by emotions” and “irrational” (because we are teached that emotions and reason are polar opposites, and showing emotions is being irrational, regardless of the context).
I so hope someone one day just takes off their transmitter and leaves. Yes it will show like you can't take criticism, but when someone from the start actively said to be practically clueless on the subject, the moderator should have immediately asked "So, what makes you think you are entitled to speak on behalf of trans people, or against them?"
Fry those people, put them on the spot for showing ignorance and don't back down, as a moderator it's also your job to lead a debate, and not have one side dominate the other just because you seemingly have more sympathy for their viewpoint.
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Leeroy straight up verkackt 😭
Ah yes. Good old AfD🤢. Actually, I have not watched that video/documentary, but from what you said, I have no desire to do so😒.
I hate how even in Germany this became such a big matter. Like, the country that claims to be oh so good and progressive. Bullshit. I'm really glad that the "Selbstbestimmungsgesetzt" is finally becoming a thing, but with how things are currently going, I feel a bit pressured into changing my name, despite not being ready to do so yet, in fear that it might be gone after a while again. Kind of a "get it done as long as you're still able to" thing
I'm trans, and I despise seeing my identity and rights questioned everyday and there's nothing that I can do about it.
@@Envision_ we aren't N@z!s, we're people, sorry for the confusion 👍
@@Envision_ menstruators*
If your a dude stay the hell out of my washroom
What rights are questioned everyday?
@@arma2976 Gender-affirming health care, same-sex marriage, transgender youth in athletics, same-sex adoption, ID accuracy, extrajudicial killing, anti-bullying legislation to protect LGBT children at school, anti-discrimination laws in employment, housing, education, public accommodations, sodomy laws, etc.
Just clicking on this video I got a transphobic ad brooooo
What did you get lol
@@Vixen703 I forget what kind of company or group or whoever was behind the ad but it was saying the usual sort of "TRANSGENDER TREND" and "ALL THE KIDS ARE TURNING TRANS" stuff. I skipped it pretty fast so who knows what else it got into lmao
@@MrMarxy oh god 😭
I can't wait for Matt's kids to grow up and right biographies on how he abused them 🤠
Continues to break my heart that trans friends of mine are just regularly getting shit on 24/7 by mainstream media. They're just people trying to live man it fucking sucks.