I’m always so impressed by detransitioners like Richie: they’re putting themselves out there and often getting so much grief from TRAs and so little support from their supposed ‘community’.
His suit will be HUGE. He's born for it. Wonderful young man, who, because of his intelligence and ability to communicate, is perfectly placed to be a real force for good. Terrible that he was predated upon, but he has turned his suffering into triumph. Thank you Ritchie.
Totally agree...he is such a smart and articulate young man, and he explains the detail of this abusive movement with great clarity. You can hear that he really wants to help vulnerable people through his story. Nothing but love - thank you Richie, you have so many people behind you
It’s so good to see Ritchie so motivated and determined not to let what’s happened take the wind out of his sails. He’s canny, curious, witty, good faith and a looker - that sounds like a bright future to me! I wish him all the very best for his case and in general.
Yeah he’s a great kid but did you see his twitter thread? He’s pretty much disabled and incontinent for the rest of his life because of the surgery. Not a happy situation for him. I’m sure his life isn’t a bed of roses unfortunately :( some things just can’t be reversed.
What a superb, articulate young man. I wish him all the best, going forward in his life, and with his case. Every detransitioner we’ve had the privilege to hear explain their story, has shown how highly intelligent, sensitive and empathetic people are exploited by this ideology.
Hi Glinner, just wanted you to know that I’ve just bought a box set of Father Ted. In mine and husband’s opinion, one of the last genuinely funny sitcoms to grace this earth. Very best wishes to you Txxx
Brilliant interview. Thank you. Richie comes across really well and considering all he’s been through, that’s a huge feat in itself, for him and many young people today, taking into account all the absolute shit they’re exposed to via social fucking media. And fantastic to see Graham getting his big lovely face around and about again. This man should be an absolute institution considering the credit he’s been to U.K. comedy. His work is woven into the fabric of the country yet he’s been treated like a fucking dog. Shame on those that attempted to destroy him. I hope he’s got another gem inside, waiting to be written. Peace and Love
It's amazing how Ritchie has forensicly gone through everything that happened to him over the years medically and in the online community and identified the patterns that led to the perfect storm. I feel like we are at the tipping point where people are articulating these patterns so a light is now being shone on them. It's a critical part of making change. The forces that got us to this point are not simple, there are a bunch of different players with different motives and it's pretty complicated and neuonced to unpick.
Ritchie, I knew you'd be good, but you impressed me so much. You are a fantastic speaker. You make a very complex subject so clear. We're with you all the way! Let us know if there's anything we can do! Ongoing thanks and support to Glinner too! ♥
I could listen to Ritchie all day. He is incredible articulate and rational, and spiritual too. Brave, for sure. Thank you for sharing, Graham, and Ritchie
Yes Benjamin Boyces interviews are great Graham but you need to take some credit for bringing us such a wide range of angles on the gender identity topic, over the years you’ve introduced me to so many fascinating interviews with people with their own take on this issue. Even when you have someone on that I’ve seen interviewed elsewhere previously you always bring out something new. Thank you
Great to see you speak Ritchie and I'll be looking up the Boyce interview now. What an interesting eloquent interview, I think you have some thought provoking insights informed by your experience. Very much enjoyed you and Graham chatting here. Good luck for the future Ritchie you have a great determination and humour about you which will help you through and help you stand up against all this.
I look at the comments on Facebook about Ritchie suing the NHS and they point out that it's the taxpayer and not the individuals involved in his surgery that will be paying for his compensation if he wins the case. I really think that's wrong, it should be all the individuals involved in getting him to the point where he permanently removed his genitals that should be held financially accountable.
I feel like talking to creepy men online was a right of passage almost for our generation (I'm around the same age as Ritchie so I was there for the chatrooms and msn/AOL era, which died out remarkably quickly in retrospect). At least I was a girl so I was warned that groomers online would try to get photos of you and stalk you etc, but sounds like boys didn't always get the memo? Why on earth our parents let us do it I do not know - probably had no idea since it was such a foreign thing they probably thought it was like a pen pal. I'd love to know the ratio if kids to middle aged men.
So impressed with this young man!! Poised, smart & funny. Legal cases are so important because it's the only language the captured medical community understand.....ca$h & the threat of compensation. It was only Keira Bell & Maya Forstater that have really changed anything & have started reducing the harms authoritarian & extreme gender ideology have wrought us.
Wow! That was one of the best interviews I have seen on this topic. Richie, you seem like a lovely, sensitive and insightful person, sorry you've been through all of this. I worked in a digital arts college about 20 years ago. There was a lecture on Anime, which was fairly new back then. There were so many examples of highly sadistic porn anime, which turned my stomach. The lecturer hinted at child porn anime too and they discussed the ethics of it. "If no-one is getting hurt in the making of the images, does that make it ok?" etc. So it has been around for a long time. In one video I watched about Japanese Anime, it said that in Japan porn was illegal (?) or showing the genitals was illegal (?) so the animators got around this law by producing sex acts using octopuses and trees, which is why it gets so twisted and weird. It is definately a well paid industry and seems to have created a community of people who seem to get increasingly demented the more they watch this stuff. Thanks for the interview Richie!
Great interview (I much prefer your interviews to Benjamin Boyce’s). It’s a matter of individual taste. All the best to Ritchie and his case against Tavistock. Lovely men you both are !
Ritchie is an incredibly smart, incredibly articulate, incredibly present man who I am able to learn something from each time. Not even about detrans/trans issues either. I get something each listen and I hope he writes a book.... about anything. Because I just enjoy listening to him. He's the kind of person you just wish was in your friend group. Absolutely lovely individual and quick as a whip.
Informed consent used to be the benchmark of ALL physical interventions. It wasn't just important, it was essential, a legal requirement, and it required that ALL of the indications, (and in cases like this, the dangers, disadvantages and pitfalls, including probability of a fatal outcome) were FULLY understood by the patient (except for cases when immediate surgery was required and the patient incapable of giving it). In elective surgery, which is what we're talking about here, only the patient can give consent. Parents/guardians or even courts have no standing, and it is particularly concerning that dysphoric children, often apparently on the autistic spectrum, are being targeted by the acolytes of this new religion, and yes it is a religion - if it walks like a duck ... (Like Ritchie I was baptised and brought up as a Catholic, attending Catholic primary and Grammar school, and I used to believe it all, so I know the feel and the smell of it), but now apparently, in this Brave New World, such nonsense as informed consent has been dispensed with (well, probably not as some stupid psychologists/psychiatrists/ surgeons are going to find out to their cost - because it will be they up before their relevant governing bodies, and when the court gives its judgement, any capture of those organisations will wither, but unfortunately it will cause enormous reputational damage to the NHS as well as the financial loss. Ich habe nur Befehle befolgt didn't work at Nuremberg and it won't work in this instance either). A cynical part of me could see this as a ploy by the Tories to sell off the NHS when the shit hits the fan, but logic tells me that this is a self inflicted, possibly fatal, wound
I really wish Ritchie was suing individual practitioners rather than the NHS, the service is already in the shit and the doubtless coming lawsuits will place a heavy burden on it. Individuals within the service pushing this nonsense should be made to pay.
No it’s important institutions are pulled up - the scale and impact of this scandal has been embedded and accelerated by institutional capture. It’ll go on for generations if things like the nhs aren’t pulled into line.
Got to say one last thing about elliot page. He is so invested in the whole "protect trans kids" fight but at the same time he is not pursuing hormone treatment himself. Why does he write about it as if kids without puberty blockers and teens without HRT would immediately drop dead but he has no intention to go on testosterone even though he is trans. Why does nobody want kids to let them make their own experiences eg struggles. If they get depressed, get therapy, yes. But eliminating your whole puberty so that you have no fight at all and no gender dysphoria that can even develop so that you can not actually get a diagnosis and stay a child.. What the f are they all thinking. And this is coming from trans people themselves who didn't drop dead because of puberty but they don't even notice that. They all think they have to prevent this because puberty was horrible.. But it was necessary to feel horrible and struggle to even know wtf is your own problem.. If you are gay or Trans or if you have a problem with society and gender roles or whatever it is. But just blocking your brain from developing can't be the solution.
44:50 "All anime creators seem to be male, too". It's DEFINITELY true that anime has some weird, incomprehensible grip on the minds of a huge number of young people, very often linked with fetishism and weird sexual stuff. But there's a huge number of female anime artists/writers- Often of very sexual stuff. In fact, what is pretty undeniably THE most overtly trans anime series, "Ranma 1/2" that was one of the most popular titles in the late the 80s/early 90s, was by a woman- A kind of "screwball comedy" story about an awkward, teenage boy, who gets zapped by a magical spell, so that every time he gets wet (by water, say if it rains, or he falls in a pond, or whatever), he magically transforms into a busty young woman. It was aimed at young teens ("shonen"; Boys around 12 to 16), but (like many anime) is MUCH more sexual than any Western cartoon, for that age group. (Think of a magical, cartoon version of "Porky's" or "Animal House", or similar 80s sex comedies) There are whole genres (several that are notorious for their questionable ethics, in regard to sex) written for and by young Japanese women. (I think "Doujinshi" is one of the most popular). Not to deny that male artists, and Japanese men generally, don't write some DEEPLY messed-up stuff, and have their own issues, but it certainly isn't even close to being limited to one sex.
Interesting. Something to think about for me. In one way, I always knew I was a "bad" Catholic in that the Church IS the people that comprise Her. And I had zero interest in "belonging to the community." On the other hand, I was very much a believer, one who read Aquinas for fun at 14 & who would have absolutely become a priest ...if I were male. And hadn't subsequently discovered lesbian love. 😉 Epistemology: reason & faith being two very clearly different methods of gaining (different sorts of) Truth was very much a part of my 13 yrs of Catholic schooling. Laws of the natural world & absolute reliance on the Scientific method: ditto. All that to set up that i never for one second bought into Gender identity ideology. I started speaking against what I was seeing happening in San Francisco in the 1990s & the credulity of so many since then has just left me ever more bewildered. It made no sense! None of it. But I have to remember that my own experience of/needs met by religion do not reflect everyone's ...or maybe even most people's. 🤔 Genderism as religion? Eh. I think cult, very distinct from religion, is more apt.
Such a good looking boy. Terrible what’s happened but he’s clearly capable of handling it. That wizard guy (wizard from final fantasy avatar) did a deep dive into anime & transitioning, & I think the major culprit is a specific anime genre - lesbian school girls or something? I watch classic anime bc I enjoy the style of story telling but Glinner has a good point, Japan is a very repressed culture which kinda justifies the extreme storylines, sexuality, ideation somewhat. Obviously the perception is different if members of “liberalised nations” watch that content, as it’s not made for us.
Here's a thought about your comment, "What's it going to take". Years ago, when the BBC was OK i watched an OU programme about Catastrophe theory, where a system being stressed (this is a really half arsed explanation but I hope you'll get the gist) will give, and give and give, and then very quickly flip into a completely different mode. The example given was that of an old fashioned tumbler light switch, where, as the knob (apparently the correct technical term) is gradually moved from one position to the other - it will suddenly flip over, and from being in the off position it is now on or vice versa. The point at which it flips is known as the cusp (I'm sure all details will be online and you'll probably discover that I'm talking out of my arse) The theory is particularly valid when considering climate change. Dealing with dental phobic patients, I saw a parallel with how they were led to address those fears, when as they were introduced gradually to particular procedures they might suddenly flip, having survived the procedure with only the emotional 'pain but not the physical pain or discomfort they were expecting, and thereafter, might experience what might be called normal anxiety when having treatment, rather than the crippling anxiety which had prevented it before. I have no evidence for this approach as I never tried to carry out a study of whether or not it had any validity, but it seems apposite in the discussion you're having now and the one I watched yesterday. Once they flip they will truly see the light and just how they've been gaslighted
I don't need to tell anyone here how important language is and immutable definitions are. We know. One of the terms that has a chance of rehabilitation is MTF and the inverse FTM. TRAs will say male to female. To combat this we can say masculine to feminine and retain the acronym. I believe this is one small way to reclaim lost language and hijacked concepts. Also, I just want to say that Ritchie is a delight. I wish I could have been a real life friend to him in a time that made a difference.
Thanks for this - Richie seems to have so much insight about 'transing' now - all best in suing the begenders out of Tavi n Co. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Yes, there are anime and manga for adults that's inappropriate. Actually in Japan they have 1.different consent age, 2. they believe that better for perverts to have anime character than real girl. However I don't think it should be banned or whatever. I think this issue can be only redirected. Those who indulge themselves in these fantasies need another place to give their energy, where they can trust the aliiance. It can be charity help, knowledge, something positive. That's why I actually appreciate youtube because it gives more serious vibe AND opportunity for people to express ideas. I hope they eventually understand it and remove shorts. I would like to add about anime and underage grooming - I think we must not overestimate modern society as progressive. Actually many morality norms should be analysed.
47:17 It's the Overton Patio Door that only opens a little bit at a time. Well it is if it's anything like mine, I have to do warm up exercise before attempting to open the thing just to let a bit of air in...
Copycat suicide is a real danger also known as the werther effect (Goethe did it first). That's why usually if any article reports about a suicide they have to follow guidelines. They shouldn't report as if something made someone commit suicide as if this was a legitimate reason and there was no other option like they were forced to do it. For journalism about trans this is completely missing. Everyone talks casually about suicide as if this couldn't potentially hurt anyone.
Saying that "GamerGate was an attempt to drive women out of gaming" is abour as honest/accurate/unbiased as saying that "Gender Critical is an attempt to extcrminate trans people". (I wasn't even "pro-gamer gate"; I was a bemused fence-sitter, back when I was still one foot in the "woke" left. But in hindsight, GG was basically like a small-scale dry run, for the tactics that would be used to establish men as "women", and normalize "gender" nonsense, 5 or so years later. -The mainstream media's blatant bias, and "good guys vs evil" narrative ("kind, tolerant trans allies, vs evil, hateful transphobes"/"kind folx who just want inclusion, vs basement-dwelling, misogynistic incels"). The shamelessly dishonest smearing of the "bad guys", in ways that are easily disproved, but still almost-universally accepted, by casual observers/supporters of the "good guys". The blatant censorship and deplatforming of "the bad guys". The way that the often FAR WORSE behaviour of "the good guys" is swept under the rug, while every tiny thing that can possibly be linked to the "bad guys" is linked to specific figures (with no real evidence), blown out of proportion, and treated as gospel. Personally, I thought all the big players on EITHER side of GamerGate were 90% cancerous narcissists; I never cared about video game politics. I was just fascinated by this train-wreck of mutual obnoxiousness. But the parallels in people's attitudes/tactica, and the media bias and dishonesty, between the two issues, is undeniable IMO
Ritchie, If my teen daughter start mainlining T, I'll link. In the meantime, the drangonfly nose stud, the identity metamorphisis, will end in a woman. (Dadhope) An adult female human. The outcome relies on the choices of a teenage girl. The father must act on her choice.
Graham, Osteoporosis is overwhelming a female condition resulting from loss of oestrogen, either due to lack of fat percentage (diet or sport) or due to menopause. The hormones don't have these effects on males.
If we wait til puberty to warn kids about accidental pregnancy, it's too late. Pregnancy and abuse prevention must begin BEFORE puberty, otherwise it's pointless. "Sex Ed" should not deal with anything other than that.
Serotonin levels are NOT involved. All studies looking to demonstrate depression, and other mental health issues, are linked to serotonin levels have failed.
No one needs religion. The vast majority of trans come from religious backgrounds. Religious sexual repression and sexist stereotypes are at the CORE of trans ideology.
@@tallard666 already replied to this 💩 someone did not like my reply. The vast majority of trans comes from liberal ideology and the liberal sexual freedoms of porn. Having no boundaries is what makes this movement alive and kicking. Let’s see if this gets deleted now.
Aaaand Richie is still talking to middle aged men 🤣. Spoiler: There's about 3 minutes of his case against the NHS here, right at the end, the rest is about gay male culture.
Graham, those other guys are wrong, "Gender" bs doesn't come from the "absence of religion", it comes DIRECTLY from the religious themselves! Sheesh! Try some doing some statistics on who is trans: compare between people raised without faith and those raised with faith (whether or not they kept it)
@@K_F_P you don't have to be an expert to see the Church of England pushing gender ideology (the same institution that still struggles to condone same-sex marriage and women bishops).
As one commentor has said it's not religion but cult. Religious communities are groups of people with the same beliefs but people can come and go as their beliefs and needs change. Cults on the other hand are controlling and you have to toe the line or you will be kicked out and loose all the community...oh and they cut you off from your family. Religion does not do that.
I’m always so impressed by detransitioners like Richie: they’re putting themselves out there and often getting so much grief from TRAs and so little support from their supposed ‘community’.
They are fighting the good fight for future generations. It is noble.
His suit will be HUGE. He's born for it. Wonderful young man, who, because of his intelligence and ability to communicate, is perfectly placed to be a real force for good. Terrible that he was predated upon, but he has turned his suffering into triumph. Thank you Ritchie.
He's brilliant, right? Go Ritchie!
Totally agree...he is such a smart and articulate young man, and he explains the detail of this abusive movement with great clarity. You can hear that he really wants to help vulnerable people through his story. Nothing but love - thank you Richie, you have so many people behind you
More of this please, let's hear the other side of this Cult. You can't help love this guy. What a role model.
Love him too. He is very special ❤
@@barbaralynch1035 He's so inteligent and articulate, it shows how much they messed with his mind when they ambushed him.
It’s so good to see Ritchie so motivated and determined not to let what’s happened take the wind out of his sails. He’s canny, curious, witty, good faith and a looker - that sounds like a bright future to me! I wish him all the very best for his case and in general.
Yeah he’s a great kid but did you see his twitter thread? He’s pretty much disabled and incontinent for the rest of his life because of the surgery. Not a happy situation for him. I’m sure his life isn’t a bed of roses unfortunately :( some things just can’t be reversed.
What a superb, articulate young man. I wish him all the best, going forward in his life, and with his case. Every detransitioner we’ve had the privilege to hear explain their story, has shown how highly intelligent, sensitive and empathetic people are exploited by this ideology.
Hi Glinner, just wanted you to know that I’ve just bought a box set of Father Ted. In mine and husband’s opinion, one of the last genuinely funny sitcoms to grace this earth. Very best wishes to you Txxx
Thank you for having him on. If he wins his suit it will be the beginning of the end for this madness.
Oh Lord! Let's hope so.
Brilliant interview. Thank you.
Richie comes across really well and considering all he’s been through, that’s a huge feat in itself, for him and many young people today, taking into account all the absolute shit they’re exposed to via social fucking media. And fantastic to see Graham getting his big lovely face around and about again. This man should be an absolute institution considering the credit he’s been to U.K. comedy. His work is woven into the fabric of the country yet he’s been treated like a fucking dog. Shame on those that attempted to destroy him. I hope he’s got another gem inside, waiting to be written.
Peace and Love
It's amazing how Ritchie has forensicly gone through everything that happened to him over the years medically and in the online community and identified the patterns that led to the perfect storm. I feel like we are at the tipping point where people are articulating these patterns so a light is now being shone on them. It's a critical part of making change. The forces that got us to this point are not simple, there are a bunch of different players with different motives and it's pretty complicated and neuonced to unpick.
What an impressive young person Ritchie Herron is. Thanks so much for letting us overhear this talk. Good luck to him twice over.
Ritchie, I knew you'd be good, but you impressed me so much. You are a fantastic speaker. You make a very complex subject so clear. We're with you all the way! Let us know if there's anything we can do! Ongoing thanks and support to Glinner too! ♥
The LGB Community was just fine until the T destroyed it starting around 2015.
Thanks Graham for all that you do supporting women and girls. Thanks Richie for sharing your story, great interview.
Thank you Ritchie. You are a fantastic communicator about this important issue.
Please consider donating to LGB Alliance on Crowd Justice - Mermaids is involved in trying to remove charitable status.
I think Mermaids will be the ones getting their charitable status removed. 🤔
Thanks for having Ritchie on! He's a force to be reckoned with! 🤩
Great to see Ritchie looking so well, and yourself as well
I commend this man for speaking out and I'm horrified by the damage done by this twisted ideology.
Thank you for all you do Graham 🥰🥰🥰
Ritchie should start his own RUclips channel - I could listen to him all day!
I could listen to Ritchie all day. He is incredible articulate and rational, and spiritual too. Brave, for sure. Thank you for sharing, Graham, and Ritchie
Yes Benjamin Boyces interviews are great Graham but you need to take some credit for bringing us such a wide range of angles on the gender identity topic, over the years you’ve introduced me to so many fascinating interviews with people with their own take on this issue. Even when you have someone on that I’ve seen interviewed elsewhere previously you always bring out something new.
Thank you
The kids went from cutting their arms and legs to a different kind of cutting
Sending luck Ritchie’s way. Lovely man.
Followed his tweets and posts but it’s the first time I’ve watched Ritchie. Wow! What an amazing young person. Actually gives you hope for the future!
Huge propers to you, sir Graham and young Ritchie.
Great to see you speak Ritchie and I'll be looking up the Boyce interview now. What an interesting eloquent interview, I think you have some thought provoking insights informed by your experience. Very much enjoyed you and Graham chatting here. Good luck for the future Ritchie you have a great determination and humour about you which will help you through and help you stand up against all this.
Thank you Graham and Ritchie!
'Death cult' analysis is apt.
Yes, please have Ritchie back! Facinating, but terrifying interview in terms of what's gone and going on.. 😢
Richie is an impressive young man, speaks very eloquently & explains the detransition side of things very well!!
Honestly never get tired of listening to Ritchie and how he refers to himself as "us" 💕💕
I look at the comments on Facebook about Ritchie suing the NHS and they point out that it's the taxpayer and not the individuals involved in his surgery that will be paying for his compensation if he wins the case. I really think that's wrong, it should be all the individuals involved in getting him to the point where he permanently removed his genitals that should be held financially accountable.
Those are the ones that should be criminally charged.
Well, if that's what it takes to stop this madness.
I feel like talking to creepy men online was a right of passage almost for our generation (I'm around the same age as Ritchie so I was there for the chatrooms and msn/AOL era, which died out remarkably quickly in retrospect). At least I was a girl so I was warned that groomers online would try to get photos of you and stalk you etc, but sounds like boys didn't always get the memo? Why on earth our parents let us do it I do not know - probably had no idea since it was such a foreign thing they probably thought it was like a pen pal. I'd love to know the ratio if kids to middle aged men.
Richie's bravery and his measured and reflective insight is just awe inspiring
So impressed with this young man!! Poised, smart & funny. Legal cases are so important because it's the only language the captured medical community understand.....ca$h & the threat of compensation. It was only Keira Bell & Maya Forstater that have really changed anything & have started reducing the harms authoritarian & extreme gender ideology have wrought us.
What a lovely guy. Everyone should listen to him, it's heartbreaking but we need to hear him
Wow! That was one of the best interviews I have seen on this topic. Richie, you seem like a lovely, sensitive and insightful person, sorry you've been through all of this.
I worked in a digital arts college about 20 years ago. There was a lecture on Anime, which was fairly new back then. There were so many examples of highly sadistic porn anime, which turned my stomach. The lecturer hinted at child porn anime too and they discussed the ethics of it. "If no-one is getting hurt in the making of the images, does that make it ok?" etc. So it has been around for a long time.
In one video I watched about Japanese Anime, it said that in Japan porn was illegal (?) or showing the genitals was illegal (?) so the animators got around this law by producing sex acts using octopuses and trees, which is why it gets so twisted and weird.
It is definately a well paid industry and seems to have created a community of people who seem to get increasingly demented the more they watch this stuff.
Thanks for the interview Richie!
Oh my god! This is amazing and very informative
Great interview (I much prefer your interviews to Benjamin Boyce’s). It’s a matter of individual taste. All the best to Ritchie and his case against Tavistock. Lovely men you both are !
“The Internet has this weird effect. It has changed the world, not for the better.”
Ritchie is an incredibly smart, incredibly articulate, incredibly present man who I am able to learn something from each time. Not even about detrans/trans issues either. I get something each listen and I hope he writes a book.... about anything. Because I just enjoy listening to him.
He's the kind of person you just wish was in your friend group. Absolutely lovely individual and quick as a whip.
Informed consent used to be the benchmark of ALL physical interventions. It wasn't just important, it was essential, a legal requirement, and it required that ALL of the indications, (and in cases like this, the dangers, disadvantages and pitfalls, including probability of a fatal outcome) were FULLY understood by the patient (except for cases when immediate surgery was required and the patient incapable of giving it). In elective surgery, which is what we're talking about here, only the patient can give consent. Parents/guardians or even courts have no standing, and it is particularly concerning that dysphoric children, often apparently on the autistic spectrum, are being targeted by the acolytes of this new religion, and yes it is a religion - if it walks like a duck ... (Like Ritchie I was baptised and brought up as a Catholic, attending Catholic primary and Grammar school, and I used to believe it all, so I know the feel and the smell of it), but now apparently, in this Brave New World, such nonsense as informed consent has been dispensed with (well, probably not as some stupid psychologists/psychiatrists/ surgeons are going to find out to their cost - because it will be they up before their relevant governing bodies, and when the court gives its judgement, any capture of those organisations will wither, but unfortunately it will cause enormous reputational damage to the NHS as well as the financial loss. Ich habe nur Befehle befolgt didn't work at Nuremberg and it won't work in this instance either). A cynical part of me could see this as a ploy by the Tories to sell off the NHS when the shit hits the fan, but logic tells me that this is a self inflicted, possibly fatal, wound
You're a hero Ritchie. 👏
Back in the day if we wanted an 'identity' we became a Mod or a Rocker
People replaced offline mutual hobbies with online ones and I think that is the culprit instead of religion.
Thank you for your work.
I really wish Ritchie was suing individual practitioners rather than the NHS, the service is already in the shit and the doubtless coming lawsuits will place a heavy burden on it. Individuals within the service pushing this nonsense should be made to pay.
No it’s important institutions are pulled up - the scale and impact of this scandal has been embedded and accelerated by institutional capture. It’ll go on for generations if things like the nhs aren’t pulled into line.
Thank you 🙏
Got to say one last thing about elliot page. He is so invested in the whole "protect trans kids" fight but at the same time he is not pursuing hormone treatment himself. Why does he write about it as if kids without puberty blockers and teens without HRT would immediately drop dead but he has no intention to go on testosterone even though he is trans. Why does nobody want kids to let them make their own experiences eg struggles. If they get depressed, get therapy, yes. But eliminating your whole puberty so that you have no fight at all and no gender dysphoria that can even develop so that you can not actually get a diagnosis and stay a child.. What the f are they all thinking. And this is coming from trans people themselves who didn't drop dead because of puberty but they don't even notice that. They all think they have to prevent this because puberty was horrible.. But it was necessary to feel horrible and struggle to even know wtf is your own problem.. If you are gay or Trans or if you have a problem with society and gender roles or whatever it is. But just blocking your brain from developing can't be the solution.
44:50 "All anime creators seem to be male, too".
It's DEFINITELY true that anime has some weird, incomprehensible grip on the minds of a huge number of young people, very often linked with fetishism and weird sexual stuff. But there's a huge number of female anime artists/writers- Often of very sexual stuff.
In fact, what is pretty undeniably THE most overtly trans anime series, "Ranma 1/2" that was one of the most popular titles in the late the 80s/early 90s, was by a woman- A kind of "screwball comedy" story about an awkward, teenage boy, who gets zapped by a magical spell, so that every time he gets wet (by water, say if it rains, or he falls in a pond, or whatever), he magically transforms into a busty young woman.
It was aimed at young teens ("shonen"; Boys around 12 to 16), but (like many anime) is MUCH more sexual than any Western cartoon, for that age group. (Think of a magical, cartoon version of "Porky's" or "Animal House", or similar 80s sex comedies)
There are whole genres (several that are notorious for their questionable ethics, in regard to sex) written for and by young Japanese women. (I think "Doujinshi" is one of the most popular).
Not to deny that male artists, and Japanese men generally, don't write some DEEPLY messed-up stuff, and have their own issues, but it certainly isn't even close to being limited to one sex.
Do come back, Ritchie - you're very wise and articulate.
Interesting. Something to think about for me.
In one way, I always knew I was a "bad" Catholic in that the Church IS the people that comprise Her. And I had zero interest in "belonging to the community." On the other hand, I was very much a believer, one who read Aquinas for fun at 14 & who would have absolutely become a priest ...if I were male. And hadn't subsequently discovered lesbian love. 😉 Epistemology: reason & faith being two very clearly different methods of gaining (different sorts of) Truth was very much a part of my 13 yrs of Catholic schooling. Laws of the natural world & absolute reliance on the Scientific method: ditto.
All that to set up that i never for one second bought into Gender identity ideology. I started speaking against what I was seeing happening in San Francisco in the 1990s & the credulity of so many since then has just left me ever more bewildered. It made no sense! None of it.
But I have to remember that my own experience of/needs met by religion do not reflect everyone's ...or maybe even most people's. 🤔
Genderism as religion? Eh. I think cult, very distinct from religion, is more apt.
I'm more acutely focused on an imo unrecognized epidemic of Cluster B personality disorders.
Lovely guy. I follow him on Twitter.
Such a good looking boy. Terrible what’s happened but he’s clearly capable of handling it. That wizard guy (wizard from final fantasy avatar) did a deep dive into anime & transitioning, & I think the major culprit is a specific anime genre - lesbian school girls or something? I watch classic anime bc I enjoy the style of story telling but Glinner has a good point, Japan is a very repressed culture which kinda justifies the extreme storylines, sexuality, ideation somewhat. Obviously the perception is different if members of “liberalised nations” watch that content, as it’s not made for us.
Here's a thought about your comment, "What's it going to take". Years ago, when the BBC was OK i watched an OU programme about Catastrophe theory, where a system being stressed (this is a really half arsed explanation but I hope you'll get the gist) will give, and give and give, and then very quickly flip into a completely different mode. The example given was that of an old fashioned tumbler light switch, where, as the knob (apparently the correct technical term) is gradually moved from one position to the other - it will suddenly flip over, and from being in the off position it is now on or vice versa. The point at which it flips is known as the cusp (I'm sure all details will be online and you'll probably discover that I'm talking out of my arse) The theory is particularly valid when considering climate change. Dealing with dental phobic patients, I saw a parallel with how they were led to address those fears, when as they were introduced gradually to particular procedures they might suddenly flip, having survived the procedure with only the emotional 'pain but not the physical pain or discomfort they were expecting, and thereafter, might experience what might be called normal anxiety when having treatment, rather than the crippling anxiety which had prevented it before. I have no evidence for this approach as I never tried to carry out a study of whether or not it had any validity, but it seems apposite in the discussion you're having now and the one I watched yesterday. Once they flip they will truly see the light and just how they've been gaslighted
I don't need to tell anyone here how important language is and immutable definitions are. We know. One of the terms that has a chance of rehabilitation is MTF and the inverse FTM. TRAs will say male to female. To combat this we can say masculine to feminine and retain the acronym. I believe this is one small way to reclaim lost language and hijacked concepts. Also, I just want to say that Ritchie is a delight. I wish I could have been a real life friend to him in a time that made a difference.
Thanks for this - Richie seems to have so much insight about 'transing' now - all best in suing the begenders out of Tavi n Co. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Yes, there are anime and manga for adults that's inappropriate. Actually in Japan they have 1.different consent age, 2. they believe that better for perverts to have anime character than real girl.
However I don't think it should be banned or whatever. I think this issue can be only redirected. Those who indulge themselves in these fantasies need another place to give their energy, where they can trust the aliiance. It can be charity help, knowledge, something positive. That's why I actually appreciate youtube because it gives more serious vibe AND opportunity for people to express ideas. I hope they eventually understand it and remove shorts.
I would like to add about anime and underage grooming - I think we must not overestimate modern society as progressive. Actually many morality norms should be analysed.
Actually, Graham, this is a MUCH better interview with the wonderful Ritchie than the Benjamin Boyce interview. Far more coherent and focused.
47:17 It's the Overton Patio Door that only opens a little bit at a time. Well it is if it's anything like mine, I have to do warm up exercise before attempting to open the thing just to let a bit of air in...
Aaron didn’t *try* to derail the conversation, he succeeded!
I’m not saying I would have behaved any better, but he reeled you all in in like a pro. 🎣
Part two please
Copycat suicide is a real danger also known as the werther effect (Goethe did it first). That's why usually if any article reports about a suicide they have to follow guidelines. They shouldn't report as if something made someone commit suicide as if this was a legitimate reason and there was no other option like they were forced to do it. For journalism about trans this is completely missing. Everyone talks casually about suicide as if this couldn't potentially hurt anyone.
Yes, Graham, shame on our generation....
So much easier to work through these issues by reading, e.g., Cybele & Attis, rather than having the bits off. ;(
"Gamergate was an attempt to drive woman out of the gaming space" Graham Linenan 2022
12:06 your right, very well articulated.
Saying that "GamerGate was an attempt to drive women out of gaming" is abour as honest/accurate/unbiased as saying that "Gender Critical is an attempt to extcrminate trans people".
(I wasn't even "pro-gamer gate"; I was a bemused fence-sitter, back when I was still one foot in the "woke" left.
But in hindsight, GG was basically like a small-scale dry run, for the tactics that would be used to establish men as "women", and normalize "gender" nonsense, 5 or so years later.
-The mainstream media's blatant bias, and "good guys vs evil" narrative ("kind, tolerant trans allies, vs evil, hateful transphobes"/"kind folx who just want inclusion, vs basement-dwelling, misogynistic incels"). The shamelessly dishonest smearing of the "bad guys", in ways that are easily disproved, but still almost-universally accepted, by casual observers/supporters of the "good guys". The blatant censorship and deplatforming of "the bad guys". The way that the often FAR WORSE behaviour of "the good guys" is swept under the rug, while every tiny thing that can possibly be linked to the "bad guys" is linked to specific figures (with no real evidence), blown out of proportion, and treated as gospel.
Personally, I thought all the big players on EITHER side of GamerGate were 90% cancerous narcissists; I never cared about video game politics. I was just fascinated by this train-wreck of mutual obnoxiousness. But the parallels in people's attitudes/tactica, and the media bias and dishonesty, between the two issues, is undeniable IMO
47:56 Ritchie is BASED! 😂❤
Pasolini's 'Salo' was a warning not a guidebook.
Kings 👑
32:00 If I were that woman, that thought would keep me awake at night.
Geordie love
Ritchie, If my teen daughter start mainlining T, I'll link. In the meantime, the drangonfly nose stud, the identity metamorphisis, will end in a woman. (Dadhope) An adult female human.
The outcome relies on the choices of a teenage girl.
The father must act on her choice.
Graham, Osteoporosis is overwhelming a female condition resulting from loss of oestrogen, either due to lack of fat percentage (diet or sport) or due to menopause. The hormones don't have these effects on males.
Are you a doctor?
@@Jenny-nz8fb I'm a biologist in physiology/endocrinology. Are you one of those people people who say Kellie-Jay doesn't know dog cuz she's not a vet?
Osteoporosis is happening to children who are put on puberty blockers.
@@somenuanceplease Female children. Are you still erasing females, I thought that was out of fashion in these spaces?
@@tallard666 Puberty blockers don't discriminate between sexes. They affect bone density in both.
If we wait til puberty to warn kids about accidental pregnancy, it's too late. Pregnancy and abuse prevention must begin BEFORE puberty, otherwise it's pointless. "Sex Ed" should not deal with anything other than that.
Serotonin levels are NOT involved. All studies looking to demonstrate depression, and other mental health issues, are linked to serotonin levels have failed.
Ah sure I'll read these studies myself anyway - sources please.
Yet anti depressant based on serotonin uptake inhibitors work? So how does sertraline work, or fluoxetine? Cannot be a placebo.
@@rensha8635 They've been posting nonsense all over the channel.
2:28...me a protestant 😑...ha! Love my catholic brethren ❤
People do need religion. It’s part of human nature taking it away has left a void filled by other things that offer nothing deep.
No one needs religion. The vast majority of trans come from religious backgrounds. Religious sexual repression and sexist stereotypes are at the CORE of trans ideology.
@@tallard666 already replied to this 💩 someone did not like my reply. The vast majority of trans comes from liberal ideology and the liberal sexual freedoms of porn. Having no boundaries is what makes this movement alive and kicking.
Let’s see if this gets deleted now.
Music is my religion
I don't like the term "dead name". It's just my old name. Why be overly dramatic about it.
I wonder if in the past, some of these "trans kids" would have become priests, monks or nuns instead.
True. At least they’re now only harming themselves instead of a whole congregation.
@@TheCurlyclub Did keep them off Twitter tho!
He was 26 when he had surgery, he wasnt some dumb kid
Has anyone heard about nuns at Magdalen Laundries using binder type things on girls?
Tidal Lives Matter? What did they say?
Aaaand Richie is still talking to middle aged men 🤣. Spoiler: There's about 3 minutes of his case against the NHS here, right at the end, the rest is about gay male culture.
Is Jennifer Bilek Jewish btw or was the controversial thing she said a mock up?
Graham, those other guys are wrong, "Gender" bs doesn't come from the "absence of religion", it comes DIRECTLY from the religious themselves! Sheesh! Try some doing some statistics on who is trans: compare between people raised without faith and those raised with faith (whether or not they kept it)
We are so lucky to have you a Doctor, Researcher, and Sociologist in the comment section.
Not to mention a theologian
@@daraorourke5798 Have you read the short article 'A New Religion' by Colfer? So interesting.
@@K_F_P you don't have to be an expert to see the Church of England pushing gender ideology (the same institution that still struggles to condone same-sex marriage and women bishops).
As one commentor has said it's not religion but cult. Religious communities are groups of people with the same beliefs but people can come and go as their beliefs and needs change. Cults on the other hand are controlling and you have to toe the line or you will be kicked out and loose all the community...oh and they cut you off from your family. Religion does not do that.
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All those techniques are narcissistic techniques Graham all those things they do to bring down their opponents that's narcissism
Who is the famous trans man that Graham mentions?
Did you find out who she is?
Ellen/ Elliot Page - Hollywood actor